Chagall Guevara
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Background information
Origin Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Genres Rock, alternative
Years active 1989–1993
Labels MCA Records
Past members
Steve Taylor
Dave Perkins
Lynn Nichols
Wade Jaynes
Mike Mead

Chagall Guevara was an American rock band formed in 1989 by solo artist Steve Taylor, guitarists Dave Perkins and Lynn Nichols (from the 1970s Phil Keaggy band), bassist Wade Jaynes, and drummer Mike Mead.

The band was named after Communist revolutionary Che Guevara and painter Marc Chagall to imply the meaning "revolutionary art." 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 festivals Greenbelt and Cornerstone, and had their music (albeit against their wishes) distributed through Christian bookstores. The group formed in 1989 and broke up in early 1993.

The band first appeared on the soundtrack to the motion picture Pump Up the Volume with a song called '"Tale O' The Twister." The band's only album, the self titled Chagall Guevara, was released on MCA Records in 1991. The band's only music video, for the song "Violent Blue," received a few plays on MTV.

Several CD and LP singles were released off the album, including a UK release of "Violent Blue" with an unreleased B-side track titled "Still Know Your Number By Heart." Several songs from the band's 1991 performance at the Greenbelt Festival in England appeared on the official video "Four Days in Summer."

Work on a second album began, but the group broke up while attempting to be released from their contract with MCA Records.[1] Several tracks for the second album were recorded, including "Halcyon Days" and "A Bullet's Worth A Thousand Words." These songs, along with a November 15, 1991 concert recording, remain unreleased.

Chagall Guevara reunited twice. In 1994, a track titled "Treasure of the Broken Land" appeared on the Mark Heard tribute album Strong Hand of Love and the Orphans of God double-CD, which were sold mainly through Christian bookstores and similar outlets. The band reunited again in Nashville at a private industry party in October, 2005. There were no future plans for the group, however.[1]

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  1. ^ a b https://www.sockheaven.net/press/interviews/nc_20060616/

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Chagall Guevara (album)

Chagall Guevara is the title of the only full-length album by the band Chagall Guevara, released in 1991, on MCA Records.

Track listing

All songs written by Nichols, Perkins and Taylor.

  • "Murder In The Big House"
  • "Escher's World"
  • "Play God"
  • "Monkey Grinder"
  • "Can't You Feel The Chains?"
  • "Violent Blue"
  • "Love Is A Dead Language"
  • "Take Me Back To Love Canal"
  • "The Wrong George"
  • "Candy Guru"
  • "I Need Somebody"
  • "The Rub Of Love"
  • "If It All Comes True"

    • Chagall Guevara is

  • Steve Taylor: Vocals.
  • Dave Perkins: Guitars, Vocals.
  • L. Arthur Nichols: Guitar, Vocals.
  • Wade Jaynes: Bass.
  • Mike Mead: Drums.

    • Additional musicians

  • The Blind Willy Boner Brass, featuring Reno Caruso on trumpet, Waco Caruso on Harmonica and Junior on Trombone: Horns on "Play God."

    • Production notes

  • Produced by Matt Wallace and Chagall Gueavara.
  • Engineered by David Bryson.
  • Assisted by Mike Corbett, Roy Gamble, Shawn McLean and Ulrich Wild.
  • Recorded at The Bennett House, Franklin, Tennessee.
  • Additional Recording at The Tube at Dave's house.
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    Tale O' The Twister

    by: Chagall Guevara

    She was a cool blue redhead
    she was a virgin vixen
    she had the eyes of Lassie
    she had the lips of Nixon
    lips like Tricia Nixon
    I stole a sideways glance at her continental shelf
    and I know she was the devil himself
    It's a barstool yawn to a stuttered come-on
    it's a dirt road rut,
    she said, "Button up, mister"
    I shook as she took another look
    "Have you ever been hooked," she said,
    "by the tail of the twister?"
    And with a brain like Einstein
    and with a form like sin
    up on the roof of Trump Tower
    she said, "It's yours on a trade-in"
    (think about it)
    She was drawn to blood like a lean loan shark
    a tornado to a trailer park
    It's a long black car
    it's power like a czar
    it's temporary bliss
    it's like kissing your sister
    big wheels and you're feeling real fine
    it's a temporary ride
    on the tail of the twister
    Big, big wheels
    and you're sitting real high
    it's a temporary ride
    on the tail of the twister
    Cars and girls
    it's the details of design
    another bait and switch game
    that hooks me everytime
    (and it's payday)
    After sleeping with the devil you'd love to close the
    book
    but you gotta wonder how the baby's gonna look
    It's a wide-eyed steal
    it's another New Deal
    it's the whore before the cart
    my head's starting to blister
    she said, "You could be the envy
    of everyone you envy"
    it's the tail...
    It's a long black car
    it's power like a czar
    it's temporary bliss
    my head's starting to blister
    I got took as she took another look
    "Have you even been hooked," she said




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