Eddie DeGarmo interview - Features on Film [CCM Magazine] (6/26/18)

[@ralphbuschman3364]

I'm pleased to say you ministered to me and many others there in Southern California.

[@Lauricella71]

Degarmo & Key was a HUGE part of my youth and hold a special place in my heart. Growing up in an Assembly of God Church; we welcomed Christian Rock. I have so many fantastic memories with their music as well as Petra, White Heart, Stryper, And many others. Thank you for the music memories ❤️

[@tonygville2969]

I went to Mount Paran Church of God in Atlanta when Mylon was their janitor. Right before Broken Heart came out. He was a Rock Star janitor 👍 Here he is in 1971 kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqesaaV5gL-Gq8k

[@ralphbuschman3364]

I remember when DeGarmo and Key were doing concerts at C C C M on Saturday night. And at other places , they were inspirational.

[@Nikonik66]

Thank you for pioneering Christian music out of the dark ages of the church stoning it's own people. I'm sorry for what you had to go through but the world and Christian music has been revolutionized because of you and others like you.

[@douglaspenland1550]

First saw D&K in a church in Hampton VA. In about '92 or 93. Great time was had by all! Dana preached a little too.( Still miss him). Eddie did a solo album later that I thought was wonderful. Had a song on it called "picking up the pieces" I think. Awesome description of GOD working in our lives. Thanks Eddie for all you've done. May GOD continue to bless you all!😊

[@rubenluna6457]

The humbleness of Eddie D. in describing his godly musical career it's obvious, thanks Eddie. RIP. DK.

[@SteveCanoy]

I really enjoyed this interview. I saw D&K live before and Dana as a solo act. The love and admiration that Eddie shows towards his best friend is a testament to the faithfulness of God and Eddie’s faithfulness as a friend.

[@davidbusk2255]

Loved their song "Destined to win" listen to it every day

[@joyce4402]

Loved the late , great Jessy Dixon performing with them on Destined to Win. Continue Resting in Heavenly Peace Jessy and Dana.

[@sammy_vv6591]

holy smokes i feel old. Did not recognize him at all. Great pioneer in CCM

[@bettybeal6243]

DeGarmo and Key saved my life. I was goin thru such a horrible time. My husband was beating me with in an inch of my life, n my kids were all small, 4, 5, n 6 yrs old. I listening to D n K E-VER-Y DAY !!! I was 30yrs old then, im 69 yrs old now, n I'm still listening to yall to this day. God has, n is still is, using yall to be a source of joy, comfort, n strength in my life !!! Love yall so very much, Jeannie Beal. ❤❤❤❤❤, n thank you for obeying God because ""you realized your life was given just to sing a song of praise to Him !!!"" Ain't His revelations exciting (not a question)....... ¥;~}......

[@spuwho]

I met Eddie in 1978. Dana was his perfect straight man. We crossed paths every so often and he hasn't changed much. His memory of certain tours is pretty amazing as most bands don't know what city they are in half the time. I asked him once about this wild concert they did in 1979 and he recalled it verbatim. I wish I could tell him and Dana all the crap I had to put up with when I played them on non-Christian radio. I was there when the whole Flipside Records retail deal fell apart and the store managers threatened to quit if they had to display D&K in the stores. Those were the days! 😀

[@degarmoandkey]

If you're on Facebook we would love to have you join us on the DeGarmo & Key (Official) group. Eddie is on there as well as Greg. Your stories would be fascinating to hear more about!

[@spuwho]

@@degarmoandkey I am not a big user of Facebook but I will see what I can do. I have a funny Greg Morrow story too.

[@hipperken]

What a genuine genuine man. Eddie, you are wise and whimsical and I thank you for spreading the love of Christ and of music for nearly 50 years! God bless you brother!

[@ravendixon1099]

One of the best CCM groups. So sad that Dana past away. Their songs are so relevant especially today. Days are dark hearts are cold yet there's reason still to hope when we rest upon the promises he made, from the clouds from on high he will part the eastern sky and myriad of Angel's will proclaim Hallelujah Christ Is Coming!

[@5oranger]

Thank you for sharing your experience. I remember the first time I saw you in Albuquerque where KLYT radio promoted your music, you all were on the air waves nonstop. I am so grateful for your ministry and what God is still doing in your life. Your song "Casual Christian" is still powerful today.

[@GeorgeBratcherIII]

I was 15 in 1983 when a friend lent me "Mission Of Mercy" on cassette to listen to from Church. I had grown up with hymns and Southern Gospel Quartet Music, so I was blown away when I heard the album. I did not even know such music was possible and could be so GOOD! Later, when I was attending Trevecca Nazarene College as a Sophomore in 1988, I had begun working with Carl Carlson at Y-CAP in the spring of 1987 tutoring Juvenile Delinquents who had been given the opportunity to leave Juvenile Jail IF they entered the tutoring program, and by 1988 I had taken over as Campus Coordinator helping find students to volunteer their time to help tutor on Monday Nights at the YMCA and on Wednesday Nights at First Church of the Nazarene and helping coordinate rides if they needed them. One day, I tell Carl Carlon, the director who recruited me when he came to speak at Trevecca's Chapel looking for volunteers, giving his own testimony of reform being a former convicted felon who came to Jesus as his older brother was saved in prison. I tell Carl, I am going to the DeGarmo & Key concert for their "Rockumentary" that was being recorded highlighted in this video nonetheless. Carl then informs me that Eddie DeGarmo & Dana Key had given YCAP "FREE TICKETS" and asked me to chaperon our juvenile youth in the program to the concert, so I got David Benzing and Sue Senhousen from Trevecca, fellow students, to help me chaperone and picked the kids up in my van that I owned at First Church and took them to TPAC's Jackson Hall. On that video, at the end, you see Russell, one of our youth from Y-CAP going up to accept Jesus at the end of the concert. Afterwards, I drove all the kids home to where they lived in Nashville, TN. As Eddie, said, Dana was the frontman, up speaking and preaching, but it has been such a blessing since Dana went to be with Jesus in 2010, to learn of Eddie's role in helping lead his best friend to salvation, and all the great work they have done for Christ, being humble servant willing to do carpentry in the early days of their ministry to support it, before finding success within the music industry. Little is much when God is in it, Labor not for wealth or fame, says the classic Hymn, and I cannot think of the Hymn now without thinking of a dear Brother in Christ, named Eddie DeGarmo, who was a humble servant surrender to Jesus, and I am thankful for his and Dana's influence in my life through their music which I continue to listen to in rotation now on digital playlists just about every day of the week! In 2008, when I joined Facebook, reached out to Eddi who accepted my Friend Request and have loved his humble witness and testimony online! Love you Eddie, and Dana is now a treasure stored up in Heaven, and we shall see him again one day, never again to part along with the rest of the family of God!

[@charlieburns1385]

Love you guys🙏🎶♥️ Saw you back in late 80s , 90s Wonderful powerful , music n message

[@j.johnson5217]

I seen them in concert over in New Jersey in the early 80s, great band. Listen to their song, Ready or Not !

[@deeyoder]

I went to a DeGarmo and Key concert when DC Talk opened the show. A GREAT event!

[@saywhathey4837]

I became a Christian at 18 DeGarmo and Key was one of the first groups that I came across.. I wasn't raised in church so I wasn't groomed yet on how to believe, I came into my own with Christ. I went to see this group in Mount Union PA but because of heavy rain that year I never had the chance to see them in person. I can remember their bus pulling down past the main stage and turning around and leaving because the main stage was flooded

[@Stormcellar64]

Inspirational, I was saved in 1981 and it was only months before I found this cool music by DeGarmo & Key. Their music and message walked me all this time and I still am so thankful for it. I was just welling up during this interview at what God has done through this servant.

[@JWCFB]

Me too. Lord bless you.

[@michaelhutchins7793]

Love you guys you are a huge inspiration to me thanks

[@brentfarb]

Beautiful!

[@pamelanewman7764]

Larry Norman went through the same thing . We all were the Pioneers of Jesus Rock Music ❣️

[@cappdaddyu812]

I lived on the 1st Album STRAIGHT ON!

[@arciphera]

that's their second album. _This Time Thru_ is their first one.

[@cappdaddyu812]

@@arciphera Really meant both Cause I had the Live Album and I wore that thing OUT!

[@JWCFB]

I love Ed and Dana they meant so much to me and they still do. Rock Solid!

[@roncarlson7682]

It would have been interesting to hear about the effects other artists at the time - like Daniel Amos - may have had on the music D&K were doing. Good interview!

[@jimchumley6568]

Love the live rock play he wrote Hero.

[@cindylambert6333]

If anyone from the group is still living, please tell me what made you want to be on MTV? Why would a chritain want to be on there.

[@FlowersfromNan]

To reach the lost sheep of course!❤

[@ehrldawg]

The Bible says we have to earn our diner. The congregation is charged with providing the pastors with their diner;either through giving of a calf or financial scompensation via a salary. There is nothing wrong with a minister making money.

[@eurekasquared9853]

Yes

[@richardburton-777]

Odd to have the humanistic KZbin algorithm suggest this video. I was just going down memorie Lane watching a few D&G videos when lo and behold this popped on. As much as I absolutely abhor and I hate the cold mechanical side of "Christian" music & ministries, I appreciate those men & women that do the dirty job building & maintaining the infrastructure that allow us to enjoy the fruit of their labour. I absolutely Love to hear the inner workings of how it all actualy walks out in real life & shoe leather. I love history, I love God and HIS-STORY, The tuth of why certain styles become so popular, has to do with the soul of a culture & it's people as much as anything else. Worship is a necessity for any life to Grow. NO worship, leads to isolation, self-centered stagnation & death. God inhabits the praise of His people. The acceptance & progression of worship & praise songs, the grass root beginnings that have blossomed into the mega million industry, is all interesting to watch. Only Truth will endure. All the distraction & perversion that encroaches will erode all the good accomplished, unless those blessed to be a part of it all don't keep it Pure, Holy and set apart. Truth never changes or compromises, it LEAD's. We can be compassionate, helpful & Firm in our convictions at the same time. The good Samaritan did right. Christ example is perfect. God bless you all as we hold firmly the Hand of God and reach to the world He paid so much for to redeem. Thanks for the video.❤️🙏🛡️⚔️

[@FlowersfromNan]

❤

[@rickystokes891]

its easy to be a success when you sell out an.d those guys D and K sold out to God those bos where really good rockers and good ministers

[@tonygville2969]

Shoot, check out Mylon in 1971 doing Waymaker kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqesaaV5gL-Gq8k Can you say spandex Yikes 😲 Check out the sideburns 😁

[@danihensley]

Eddie, I'm going to be absolutely honest, and I mean to a point of not having a filter. Objectively, you are and always have been a VERY talented musician. When I look back over the last 40 years, and I match your lyrics against the events taking place in the world at each era of time when you guys released an album, I can't help but wonder if you were thinking ahead about how dangerous your lyrics were and continue to be. Honestly, Eddie, listening to this interview, I am objectively going to say you were intentionally being dishonest and deceptive. That is, I am calling you on the carpet for being completely full of shit. You were acting in this interview, being a showman. You were saying what you thought people wanted to hear. Your history shows us (the public) that you were the brains behind D & K, and that YOU crafted an image quite intentionally with the sole purpose of making a profit while advocating for making christian nationalism acceptable. YOU KNEW that christian nationalism has the sole purpose of stripping people of their civil rights across the board in favor of instituting a theocracy, instituting the bible as the law of the land, something that the bible never called for, and something this country was founded to avoid. All of this being said, how do you justify yourself? How do you justify using your place in the public light to write-off and ignore entire groups of people with differing beliefs and differing cultures?

[@JWCFB]

So how long have you been a Pharisee?

[@FlowersfromNan]

There is but one truth, and that is Jesus. Jesus stated that “He is the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except by Him.” So..if you have OTHER BELIEFS, than by what Jesus said, Your belief is wrong. You can repent and turn from your sin and follow Jesus. Read His WORD. ( The Bible)❤