Solid Rock Records is the record label of Larry Norman. It was set up in 1975 to distribute his own work, after he had been dumped by Capitol Records. Solid Rock has a distribution deal with Word Records. Larry David Norman (born April 8, 1947 in Corpus Christi, Texas) was a member of the rock band People!. That band released its first album in 1968 and had a Top 20 hit with the song, I Love You (written by Chris White of The Zombies). ... Capitol record by Wingy Manone Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, founded in 1942. ... Word Records is a giant in Christian Music. ...
Besides releasing his own work, other artists like Randy Stonehill, Tom Howard, Mark Heard, Daniel Amos, Pantano & Salsbury (formerly known as the J.C. Power Outlet), and Salvation Air Force were signed to his label. Randy Stonehill is an American singer/songwriter from San Jose, California. ... Tom Howard is a musician and composer probably most famous as a bandmate of Larry Norman. ... John Mark Heard (1951-1992) was a record producer, singer, and songwriter originally from Macon, Georgia. ... Daniel Amos (aka D. A., Dä) is the American rock band formed in 1974, by Terry Scott Taylor on guitars and vocals, Marty Dieckmeyer on bass guitar, Steve Baxter on guitars and Jerry Chamberlain on lead guitars. ... Salvation Air Force - a 1970s-era Contemporary Christian rock band composed of brothers Michael and Donnie Gossett. ...
In February, 1992, he had a heart attack and Norman has limited the activities of Solid Rock since then, but work continues onr eleasing new albums.
Rock musicians have pioneered new studio recording techniques, such as multi-tracking—a process of recording different song segments at different times and layering them on top of one another—and digital sampling, the reproduction by a computer of the patterns of a particular sound.
Rock and roll was a combination of the R&B (rhythm-and-blues music) style known as jump blues, the gospel-influenced vocal-group style known as doo wop, the piano-blues style known as boogie-woogie (or barrelhouse), and the country-music style known as honky tonk.
Another important center of rock music in the 1960s was Los Angeles, where film student Jim Morrison formed the group the Doors and guitarist and composer Frank Zappa developed a unique blend of risqué humor and complex jazz-influenced compositional forms with his group the Mothers of Invention.
Artistically he cam into conflict with Capitol Records and MGM records because of his straightforward message and he has left several other labels in protest to their business treatment o f himself and other artists.
His music might have seemed to be too rock and roll for the Christians and too religious for the rock and rollers but he stood his ground.
He was unable to record a bona fide album from the time of his airplane accident in 1978 until, with the help of therapy and chemical treatment to increase electro-neuron b rain activity, he attempted to release the badly produced Home At Last.
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