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"Music To Raise The Dead" cassette/album

Chicago, IL
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??/??/1974
Resurrection Band, aka, Rez Band
Set 1Down Baby
I Can't Help Myself
Crimson River
There Will Be Fire
We Can See
Better Way
Growin' Stronger
The Man I Used to Be
Quite Enough
Set 2Band members

Glenn Kaiser - Lead vocals, guitars
Wendi Kaiser - Lead vocals
Stu Heiss - Lead guitar, piano
Jim Denton - Bass guitar, backing vocals
John Herrin - drums
Tom Cameron - Harmonica
Comment"Music To Raise The Dead" (1974)was released as a cassette, featuring the kind of hard rock for which Resurrection Band would eventually become known. It was recorded not long after the Jesus People USA community had moved from Minneapolis to Chicago, but before they found a permanent home in Uptown. The record was created in the basement of friend Gary Rotta entirely on headphones, so as not to wake Rotta's wife, who was asleep when the band recorded. However, the mixing board had been used many years previously to record one of Elvis Presley's number-one hits.

The tape was recorded in the same period as "All Your Life", both of which were given away at their concerts. "All Your Life" was an independent set of acoustic numbers, a reflection of folk-oriented sets that were played at conservative venues, like nursing homes and churches, whose audiences would otherwise be unreceptive to the borderline heavy metal that Resurrection Band otherwise played and which were contained in the rock set Music To Raise the Dead. The "Music To Raise The Dead" cassette was re-released in a limited number of copies by the band's own label, "Grrr Records", in 1992. It is considered a collector's item and is extremely hard to find.

The song "Quite Enough" was re-recorded in a live version on the 1984 album Live Bootleg.
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