If you love 80s music and
love the Lord Jesus Christ, there is a new rock band that might be just what you
have been looking for.
Gnaw Bone, a Christian rock
band dually named for the tiny Indiana town where the band’s keytarist Jake
Patton hails and because “sin just seems to gnaw away at your bones until finding
salvation” according to bassist Mike Williams, has just released their first
album, a self-titled collection of 80s classics with the lyrics altered to
praise God.
The band felt the reason
Christian rock has not been very popular with mainstream audiences is not for
its religious message, but because the music artists use generally sucks. “Most
contemporary Christian music is terrible, including rock,” said lead vocalist
Dan Smith, whose brother Adam is the band’s drummer, “The beats and lyrics are
putrid. I plan on being a minister someday and I can barely stomach most of
it. We wanted to put together music that really rocks, that people will like.
That is why we decided to focus on tried and true 80s classics to spread the
message of Jesus.”
Gnaw Bone exhibits a wide
musical range with Christian adaptations of Bon Jovi’s Livin’ on a Prayer,
Rockwell’s Somebody’s Watching Me, Run-DMC’s King of Rock, and ZZ
Top’s Gimme All Your Lovin’. A sample of the band’s lyrics, adapted from
Gary Numan’s classic hit Cars, comes from the song God:
Here is my God
I feel safest of all
I can lock all my doors
It's the only way to live
with God
Here with my God
I can only receive
I can listen to Him
He keeps me stable for days
with God
Another song Gnaw Bone expects to be a huge
hit is based on Bananarama’s Venus, titled Jesus:
God is on the mountain top
Burning like a silver flame
The summit of beauty and love
And Jesus was His name
CHORUS:
He's got it
Yeah, baby, He's got it
I'm your Jesus, I'm your fire
Forget your desire
Well, I'm your Jesus, I'm your fire
Forget your desire
Gnaw Bone
is available in music stores nationwide. The band will begin touring the U.S.
this summer. To check up coming tour dates, check out the band’s website at
www.gnawbone.com.
