from the:
Richmond Times Dispatch
Feb.16.1997
| ... Richmond Guitarist Harry Gore, formerly of the Good guys, has
won acclaim and a large local following with his Christian music
project, the Measles. The band is named after a garage band Joe Walsh was in before the Eagles. "I didn't want a real obvious Christian name like Methuselah – and Scurvy was definitely out of the question," Gore said. "C.S. Lewis once said something like, 'The gospel's a good infection.'" The Measles began in 1988, recently releasing its first album, "Subtlety Goes Out the Window," on Richmond-based Frozen Rope Records. While the album is definitely Christian, it is not overtly so. "I'm trying to express the gospel in a creative way so people don't feel like they're being preached to or hit over the head with it," Gore said. "It has to have relevance to the outside world." The song "Playing with Matches" is based on a true account of how one of Gore's friends got caught up in the accoult. "Praying for Madonna" asks the infamous female rock start to examine her ways. "It's a bluesy, rock 'n' roll, three-chord-bash kind of song," Gore said. "It has some humor, but it's serious too." In the early days of Christian rock there was definitely a evangelical thrust. Now it's become more personal. I'd like to see it become as much accepted as other music, but it still hasn't been readily received because of it's Christian message – that's not something, as Christians, we should be suprised about." |