In 1989 Steve Taylor put together Chagall Guevara with the goal of conquering the secular record charts. After a flurry of bass players they finally put out this their first album in 1991. It didn’t do great but I do remember the single “Violent Blue” getting some airplay in my market in Canada. Strangely the entry for the band in Wikipedia states “All of the band members had histories within the Christian music industry, but the band was an effort to depart from the CCM industry. Despite this, the band still performed at the exclusively Christian music festival Cornerstone, and had their music (albeit against their wishes) distributed through Christian bookstores.” This is absolutely and completely untrue. The band had signed a distribution deal with Sparrow records as well as MCA Records. Obviously they knew Sparrow would distribute it in Christian books stores as that’s the only place they distributed to. Even if Steve has encouraged this rumour it is a complete lie. This was the only album from the band and MCA obviously didn’t think the hassle of Steve Taylor was worth it. Personally I moderately like the album but I don’t think it’s very good luck to name your band after a murderous, Marxist, dictator wannabe, just saying.
Tracklist
1 – Murder In The Big House – 3:48
2 – Escher’s World – 4:14
3 – Play God – 3:43
4 – Monkey Grinder – 6:59
5 – Can’t You Feel The Chains? – 3:09
6 – Violent Blue – 4:01
7 – Love Is A Dead Language – 4:10
8 – Take Me Back To Love Canal – 3:18
9 – The Wrong George – 1:58
10 – Candy Guru – 4:07
11 – I Need Somebody – 3:33
12 – The Rub Of Love – 4:13
13 – If It All Comes True – 3:35
Credits
A&R – Paul Kremen, Teresa Ensenat
Art Direction, Design – Tim Stedman
Bass – Wade Jaynes
Drums – Mike Mead
Engineer [Additional Engineering By] – Matt Wallace
Engineer [Assisted By] – Mike Corbett, Roy Gamble, Shawn McLean, Ulrich Wild
Engineer [Engineered By] – David Bryson
Guitar, Vocals – Dave Perkins, L. Arthur Nichols
Management [Lookout Management] – Elliot Roberts, Frank Gironda
Mastered By – Bob Ludwig
Mixed By – David Bryson, Matt Wallace
Photography By – Michael Lavine
Producer [Produced By] – Chagall Guevara, Matt Wallace
Songwriter [All Songs Written By] – Dave Perkins, Lynn Nichols, Steve Taylor
Vocals – Steve Taylor
Words By, Music By – Dave Perkins, Lynn Nichols, Steve Taylor
Companies, etc.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – MCA Records, Inc.
Copyright © – MCA Records, Inc.
Manufactured By – Uni Distribution Corp.
Distributed By – Uni Distribution Corp.
Recorded At – The Bennett House
Recorded At – The Tube
Mixed At – Alpha & Omega Recording
Mastered At – Masterdisk
Designed At – Public Eye
Published By – MCA Music Publishing
Published By – GMMI, Inc.
Published By – Sadoshrimp
Made By – PDO, USA
