Busy, Busy!

I have been so busy lately, I haven't even been able to blog...

Dove Awards, Turn Around Concerts, Recording and a bunch of other things have been consuming most of my time...

About a week ago I went to a Our hearts hero concert on a day I had some free time...They did great, along with opening acts Cassandra Manning, Haley McGuire, and Crashing Jericho...

All those bands did an awesome job, but Haley McGuire was phenomenal! Her and her band surly have a bright future ahead of them!...If you have never heard of her, you defiantly need to check her out. She is the next big thing in christian music! www.myspace.com/haleymcguire

For my birthday this year, I went to the Dove Awards in Nashville, TN...It was an honor and a huge privilege to be in a building with all of those musicians for a night, and to get to meet some of them too...

I know these musicians are just people, but they have influenced my life, not only in music, but the way I live my life and the way I strive to play every note of music for God. They have taught me how to do it right just by watching them...

I can't put very many words into the couple of days I was in Nashville, because you really just have to experience it for yourself to get the full effect.

I drove back from Nashville as soon as the Dove Awards were over and got home at 7am, got a few things, and left for Lincoln County High School. This is were the Break Free concert was held. I had to be there to set up and sound check and all that good stuff. It was a pretty crazy day, but was most defiantly worth it in the end...

All I can say is that if you weren't there, you missed out big time! It was an awesome experience for me to see over 40 people get saved in the 2 day time period, and so many others get set free from things, which was the main goal of Break Free.

If you did miss it, I really encourage you to come out next time...

This past Sunday, The Turn Around went into the studio to work on the new record with Dave Myers at Risen Son Studios in Beckly. It is huge privilege to get to work with and be friends with, someone as talented as Dave. We are about half way done with the record, and I love it! I really hope everyone who hears it, hears the passion and hard work that went into making it...

I think that's about it for now...many more blogs to come!

-Taylor

Random Turn Around Video...4/4,7/09

Thunderstorms

Thunderstorms are my favorite part of spring. Sure I love the flowers, and everything coming into bloom, but there is just something about thunderstorms that are peaceful.

The thunderstorms just kind of drown out all the other noise of the day and everything is calm.

Pre-Bday

Tomorrow is my 15th Birthday so tonight my youth group got me this cake and sang happy birthday to me!

They are the best!

This was at Taco Bell after youth before the cake got demolished by an army of sporks!...lol

The Car Ate My CDs!!

So...this car radio/cd player, ate 3 cds a few months ago, but we gave up on trying to get them out, and hadn't gotten around to getting a new one until today... We took the whole thing apart and only found one cd... How it happened that there was once 3, and now there is only one you ask? Well...your guess is as good as mine...lol

The car dashboard after we took out the radio/cd player

Us trying to install the new radio/cd player...Not working so well...

Dove Awards

I literally sat and stared at this for half an hour today...

For as long as I can remember, I have dreamed of going to the dove awards.

So this year for my birthday, my Mom is taking me. Its a dream come true to say the least...

"The Focus" Huntington, WV

Setting up for "The Focus" music venue in Huntington, WV

Andy being crazy before the show...

This was practice before the show started... It was a little room upstairs at the venue with one speaker and a small sound board... We didn't have any of our amps or pedals, we just ran through the sound board... It sounded really funny, you really just had to be there to get the full effect...haha

Someone gave us this bass because it was just sitting in their garage collecting dust, and they didn't have anything to do with it...

We think it is a bunch of fender parts put together, because their is no brand name on the head, but the body and other parts look like a fender...

We plugged it up, thinking the worst, but it actually didn't sound to bad...I guess that just goes to show one persons trash is someone Else's treasure.