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#5170 From: "Rod Cleaves" <rod@...>
Date: Mon May 25, 2009 8:56 pm
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I haven’t seen a posting to this group for over a week including my own. Everything okay?

 

rod


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#5171 From: "goldie" <Goldie@...>
Date: Mon May 25, 2009 9:45 pm
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Hi Rod,
 
   All's good up here !  Been a little busier than usual with our new granddaughter with me for the weekend, while her dad and grandfather are away on a fishing trip. In one of your most recent posts you had mentioned Don's rendition of " The Lords Prayer".  I love this song and it's arrangement too. The tone and the timing do make it so soothing and therefore a truly "prayerful" song.
 
     It still amazes me how God's word can reach the very deepest parts of us...............times and places we rarely visit. I learned the Lord's Prayer as a young girl while sitting in church with my dad.  He and my mom had divorced and he took to picking me and my younger sister up on Sunday mornings and taking us to church.   I don't remember much but peppermint lifesaver candies and having heard this recited so often at the end of each service that it became rote memory.   I am happy to say that it means soooo much more to me now, but I am so thankful for that beginning.
 
   Rod , on a somewhat personal note...........how is life after your banding ?  Or was is bypass?  One of my sisters was here today and had mentioned one of our siblings is considering bypass surg.  Would you do it again ?  Would there be anything you would change?  Where there things you learned "after the fact" ?
 
   And lastly, but surely not least, Carol, I was so very sorry to here about the loss of your brother in law. Please know that we are all surrounding you and your family in prayer and that you are not alone in this, to any degree.   
 
 
                                                  Loads of Love, Marybeth
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I haven’t seen a posting to this group for over a week including my own. Everything okay?

rod


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#5172 From: "mike@..." <mike@...>
Date: Mon May 25, 2009 10:26 pm
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Hi all,
Writing from the car as Don, Wendy & I are coming home from a great weekend playing in Kansas City.  Going through a big thunderstorm right now, but otherwise, we're fine. We had an awesome time singing at Dennis & Denise Capra's church.

Blessings to all, Mike (of the B variety).

Typed by my big thumb on my little iPhone. Typo's don't count.

Mike

On May 25, 2009, at 4:45 PM, "goldie" <Goldie@...> wrote:

Hi Rod,
 
   All's good up here !  Been a little busier than usual with our new granddaughter with me for the weekend, while her dad and grandfather are away on a fishing trip. In one of your most recent posts you had mentioned Don's rendition of " The Lords Prayer".  I love this song and it's arrangement too. The tone and the timing do make it so soothing and therefore a truly "prayerful" song.
 
     It still amazes me how God's word can reach the very deepest parts of us...............times and places we rarely visit. I learned the Lord's Prayer as a young girl while sitting in church with my dad.  He and my mom had divorced and he took to picking me and my younger sister up on Sunday mornings and taking us to church.   I don't remember much but peppermint lifesaver candies and having heard this recited so often at the end of each service that it became rote memory.   I am happy to say that it means soooo much more to me now, but I am so thankful for that beginning.
 
   Rod , on a somewhat personal note...........how is life after your banding ?  Or was is bypass?  One of my sisters was here today and had mentioned one of our siblings is considering bypass surg.  Would you do it again ?  Would there be anything you would change?  Where there things you learned "after the fact" ?
 
   And lastly, but surely not least, Carol, I was so very sorry to here about the loss of your brother in law. Please know that we are all surrounding you and your family in prayer and that you are not alone in this, to any degree.   
 
 
                               

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#5173 From: "bty316535" <beegracious@...>
Date: Wed May 27, 2009 3:24 pm
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Hi All,



It's been an age and a half since I've posted...Mike, you are too funny!  Glad

you all had a great weekend with Dennis and Denise!  It's murky over this side

of The Pond; we must be getting the US storms of the passed week or so.



Deb xxx



--- In don-francisco-fans@yahoogroups.com, "mike@..." <mike@...> wrote:

>

> Hi all,

> Writing from the car as Don, Wendy & I are coming home from a great

> weekend playing in Kansas City.  Going through a big thunderstorm

> right now, but otherwise, we're fine. We had an awesome time singing

> at Dennis & Denise Capra's church.

>

> Blessings to all, Mike (of the B variety).

>

> Typed by my big thumb on my little iPhone. Typo's don't count.

>

> Mike

>

> > >


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#5177 From: "geologist_tim" <geologist_tim@...>
Date: Sat May 30, 2009 5:00 pm
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Rod,  I seem to run into that same problem occasionally...seems that posts don't

'post' in a timely manner.

Oops, I forgot to say hi to everyone....hi everyone.  I have been here, but have

not posted in a while.



Mike, I was tempted to crash the party in KC, but was just too busy all weekend

to get that far out of town.  Glad you guys had an awesome time in the KC area.

Do you guys have any plans for a mid-US concert tour anytime soon?



Grace on grace,

Tim





  "--- In don-francisco-fans@yahoogroups.com, "mike@..." <mike@...> wrote:

>

> Hi all,

> Writing from the car as Don, Wendy & I are coming home from a great

> weekend playing in Kansas City.  Going through a big thunderstorm

> right now, but otherwise, we're fine. We had an awesome time singing

> at Dennis & Denise Capra's church.

>

> Blessings to all, Mike (of the B variety).

>

> Typed by my big thumb on my little iPhone. Typo's don't count.

>

> Mike

>

> On May 25, 2009, at 4:45 PM, "goldie" <Goldie@...> wrote:

>

> >

> >

> > Hi Rod,

> >

> >    All's good up here !  Been a little busier than usual with our

> > new granddaughter with me for the weekend, while her dad and

> > grandfather are away on a fishing trip. In one of your most recent

> > posts you had mentioned Don's rendition of " The Lords Prayer".  I

> > love this song and it's arrangement too. The tone and the timing do

> > make it so soothing and therefore a truly "prayerful" song.

> >

> >      It still amazes me how God's word can reach the very deepest

> > parts of us...............times and places we rarely visit. I

> > learned the Lord's Prayer as a young girl while sitting in church

> > with my dad.  He and my mom had divorced and he took to picking me

> > and my younger sister up on Sunday mornings and taking us to

> > church.   I don't remember much but peppermint lifesaver candies and

> > having heard this recited so often at the end of each service that

> > it became rote memory.   I am happy to say that it means soooo much

> > more to me now, but I am so thankful for that beginning.

> >

> >    Rod , on a somewhat personal note...........how is life after

> > your banding ?  Or was is bypass?  One of my sisters was here today

> > and had mentioned one of our siblings is considering bypass surg.

> > Would you do it again ?  Would there be anything you would change?

> > Where there things you learned "after the fact" ?

> >

> >    And lastly, but surely not least, Carol, I was so very sorry to

> > here about the loss of your brother in law. Please know that we are

> > all surrounding you and your family in prayer and that you are not

> > alone in this, to any degree.

> >

> >

> >

>


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#5174 From: <dan76@...>
Date: Thu May 28, 2009 12:15 am
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Hi all,

 

With the advances in the free you tube service with the high quality button selection.  I’ve decided to upload all of the Johnstown videos and then go on to some of the other churches that I filmed on the second tour I was on.  I might even go back and re-do some of the concerts from the first tour I filmed.

 

I did have a hard drive crash and lost all the work I did on the Johnstown PA concert before I could save it out to dvd, so I have spent the last 3 days uploading it to my computer from my camera and re-doing all of the editing from the entire concert.  All the videos I post will be of much higher quality than anything that I posted on Don and Wendy’s site as each song is between 800 and 1000 megabytes that I upload to you tube for their encoder to take it from and they are all coming off the original masters for all concerts.

 

For those that haven’t heard from me for a while, I’ve been a Bible study teacher at a local church and also have filmed their special event choir services.  I did lose the ability to film with two of the three professional cameras I used at Don and Wendy’s concerts.  There was a defect in the first two cameras that I purchased that Sony honored for 2 years on a free send in for repair service.  However, the cameras had to show the defect before they would fix them and two of my cameras went bad during the filming of the last Easter service at my church and the free repair service is no longer honored by Sony.  The cost for repair of both of them will come to about 1000 dollars and so I’m been pretty down on that but did think that I better get all of the usable tour footage edited and posted before my final camera goes on me.

 

After I get every single song posted from Johnstown, I’ll go on to Canton, and two or three other churches from that tour.  It’s pretty much the same songs over and over again with the same comments on the songs, but that is what a tour is like as not much new material is played on tour from one church to the next and the majority of the songs are those that Don has song for the last 30 years.  I’ve got some very good footage from Mary Beth’s church in Main with the exception of some focusing problems with some of my cameras.  The humidity was very high when I filmed that even caused all of the floors to become all wet and it caused my cameras not to focus as well.  Anyway it’s all free to post to you tube so I’ll post everything I’ve got eventually good and bad.  It might get a little repetitive after a while but again it’s free and you all can choose to watch them or not.  The only work involved is coming from my side on this and I really need some busy work to keep me occupied after I lost the friendship of my best friend and Christian sister recently.  I'm actually starting to really relate to some of the very old quotes by C.S. Lewis:

 

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”
 
“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.”
 
"[Pain] removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul."
 
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world”

 

All of the videos will be posted at the below link when I get them uploaded.

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/DanMelius

 

Dan

 

I also have had a page up on you tube for a very long time dedicated to Gary Cooper with some of his very old 1930’s movies that are not available to purchase and some extremely rare Grand Old Opry footage of Jim Reeves in pristine quality.  The Grand Old Opry footage and the last two Gary Cooper movies Desire and If I Had A Million were uploaded in the new high quality settings of youtube and simply look incredible for such old material.

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/coopfan76

 

Below are some more C.S. Lewis quotes.  He was really quite a quotable person after all:

 

"Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst."

 

"History is a story written by the finger of God."

 

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."
 
"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."
 
"In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are."
 
"We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness..."
 
“You will never know how much you believe something until it is a matter of life and death.” “If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it’s not so bad.”
 
"All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."
 
"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."
 
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

"[God] is not proud...He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him."

"God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love."
 
"There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails...If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft."
 
"Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask."
 
"Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control."
 
"Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is..."
 
"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God."
 
"It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth."
 
"Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness."
 
"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."
 
"We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it."
 
"When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy."
 
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
 
"Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger."
 
"Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves."
 
"Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?"
 
"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
 
"There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight."
- C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
 
Chief demon Screwtape to his nephew apprentice Wormwood
 
"I wonder you should ask me whether it is essential to keep the patient in ignorance of your own existence. That question, at least for the present phase of the struggle, has been answered for us by the High Command. Our policy, for the moment, is to conceal ourselves. Of course this has not always been so. We are really faced with a cruel dilemma. When the humans disbelieve in our existence we lose all the pleasing results of direct terrorism, and we make no magicians. On the other hand, when they believe in us, we cannot make them materialists and sceptics. At least, not yet. I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise and mythologise their science to such an extent that what is, in effect. a belief in us (though not under that name) will creep in while the human mind remains closed to belief in the enemy. The “Life Force,” the worship of sex, and some aspects of Psychoanalysis may here prove useful. If once we can produce our perfect work—the Materialist Magician, the man, not using, but veritably worshipping, what he vaguely calls “Forces” while denying the existence of “spirits”—then the end of the war will be in sight. But in the meantime we must obey our orders. I do not think you will have much difficulty in keeping the patient in the dark. The fact that “devils” are predominantly comic figures in the modern imagination will help you. If any faint suspicion of your existence begins to arise in his mind, suggest to him a picture of something in red tights, and persuade him that since he cannot believe in that (it is an old textbook method of confusing them) he therefore cannot believe in you."
The Screwtape Letters 1941
 
"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to." – Mere Christianity, pages 40-41.
"Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it already."
 
"God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man."
 
"Another possible objection is this.  Why is God landing in this enemy-occupied world in disguise and starting a sort of secret society to undermine the devil? Why is He not landing in force, invading it? Is it that He is not strong enough?  Well Christians think He is going to land in force; we do not know when.  But we can guess why He is delaying.  He wants to give us the chance of joining His side freely.  I do not suppose you and I would have thought much of a Frenchman who waited till the Allies were marching into Germany and then announced he was on our side.  God will invade.  But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and irectly in our world quite realise what it will be like when He does.  When that happens, it is the end of the world.  When the author walks on to the stage the play is over.  God is going to invade, all right: but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else-something it never entered your head to conceive-comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left?  For this time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature.  It will be too late then to choose your side.  There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.  That will not be the time for choosing; it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realised it or not.  Now, today, this moment, is our chance to coose the right side.  God is holding back to give us that chance.  It will not last for ever.  We must take it or leave it. -Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
 
"Christians, then, believe that an evil power has made himself for the present the Prince of this World. And, of course, that raises problems. Is this state of affairs in accordance with God's will or not? If it is, He is a strange God, you will say: and if it is not, how can anything happen contrary to the will of a being with absolute power?

But anyone who has been in authority knows how a thing can be in accordance with your will in one way and not in another. It may be quite sensible for a mother to say to the children, "I'm not going to go and make you tidy the schoolroom every night. You've got to learn to keep it tidy on your own." Then she goes up one night and finds the Teddy bear and the ink and the French Grammar all lying in the grate. That is against her will. She would prefer the children to be tidy. But on the other hand, it is her will which has left the children free to be untidy. The same thing arises in any regiment, or trade union, or school. You make a thing voluntary and then half the people do not do it. That is not what you willed, but your will made it possible." Mere Christianity

"Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk. Perhaps we feel inclined to disagree with Him. But there is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and He wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on. If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings--then we make take it it is worth paying. " Mere Christianity

"I have heard some people complain that if Jesus was God as well as man, then His sufferings and death lose all value in their eyes, "because it must have been so easy for him." Others may (very rightly) rebuke the ingratitude and ungraciousness of this objection; what staggers me is the misunderstanding it betrays. In one sense, of course, those who make it are right. They have even understated their own case. The perfect submission, the perfect suffering, the perfect death were not only easier to Jesus because He was God, but were possible only because He was God. But surely that is a very odd reason for not accepting them? The teacher is able to for the letters for the child because the teacher is grown-up and knows how to write. That, of course, makes it easier for the teacher; and only because it is easier for him can he help the child. If it rejected him because "it's easy for grown-ups" and waited to learn writing from another child who could not write itself (and so had no "unfair" advantage), it would not get on very quickly. If I am drowning in a rapid river, a man who still has one foot on the bank may give me a hand which saves my life. Ought I to shout back (between my gasps) "No, its not fair!" You have an advantage! You're keeping one foot on the bank"? That advantage--call it "unfair" if you like--is the only reason why he can be of any use to me. To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself? " Mere Christianity

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Hey Dan

 

Great job on the video of “We Will Ride” – looking forward to more as they come.

 

Just one itty-bitty challenge – in your brief description on YouTube you say it is of Wendy’s performance on 7-10-09.  But no matter how you present a date, that is still quite sometime in the future by my reckoning!

 

But please keep up the great work and plans.

 

Tony

 

When all you have is God, you have all you need!

 

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Hi all,

 

With the advances in the free you tube service with the high quality button selection.  I’ve decided to upload all of the Johnstown videos and then go on to some of the other churches that I filmed on the second tour I was on.  I might even go back and re-do some of the concerts from the first tour I filmed.

 

I did have a hard drive crash and lost all the work I did on the Johnstown PA concert before I could save it out to dvd, so I have spent the last 3 days uploading it to my computer from my camera and re-doing all of the editing from the entire concert.  All the videos I post will be of much higher quality than anything that I posted on Don and Wendy’s site as each song is between 800 and 1000 megabytes that I upload to you tube for their encoder to take it from and they are all coming off the original masters for all concerts.

 

For those that haven’t heard from me for a while, I’ve been a Bible study teacher at a local church and also have filmed their special event choir services.  I did lose the ability to film with two of the three professional cameras I used at Don and Wendy’s concerts.  There was a defect in the first two cameras that I purchased that Sony honored for 2 years on a free send in for repair service.  However, the cameras had to show the defect before they would fix them and two of my cameras went bad during the filming of the last Easter service at my church and the free repair service is no longer honored by Sony.  The cost for repair of both of them will come to about 1000 dollars and so I’m been pretty down on that but did think that I better get all of the usable tour footage edited and posted before my final camera goes on me.

 

After I get every single song posted from Johnstown, I’ll go on to Canton, and two or three other churches from that tour.  It’s pretty much the same songs over and over again with the same comments on the songs, but that is what a tour is like as not much new material is played on tour from one church to the next and the majority of the songs are those that Don has song for the last 30 years.  I’ve got some very good footage from Mary Beth’s church in Main with the exception of some focusing problems with some of my cameras.  The humidity was very high when I filmed that even caused all of the floors to become all wet and it caused my cameras not to focus as well.  Anyway it’s all free to post to you tube so I’ll post everything I’ve got eventually good and bad.  It might get a little repetitive after a while but again it’s free and you all can choose to watch them or not.  The only work involved is coming from my side on this and I really need some busy work to keep me occupied after I lost the friendship of my best friend and Christian sister recently.  I'm actually starting to really relate to some of the very old quotes by C.S. Lewis:

 

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”

 

“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.”

 

"[Pain] removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul."

 

“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world”

 

All of the videos will be posted at the below link when I get them uploaded.

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/DanMelius

 

Dan

 

I also have had a page up on you tube for a very long time dedicated to Gary Cooper with some of his very old 1930’s movies that are not available to purchase and some extremely rare Grand Old Opry footage of Jim Reeves in pristine quality.  The Grand Old Opry footage and the last two Gary Cooper movies Desire and If I Had A Million were uploaded in the new high quality settings of youtube and simply look incredible for such old material.

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/coopfan76

 

Below are some more C.S. Lewis quotes.  He was really quite a quotable person after all:

 

"Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst."

 

"History is a story written by the finger of God."

 

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."

 

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."

 

"In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are."

 

"We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness..."

 

“You will never know how much you believe something until it is a matter of life and death.” “If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it’s not so bad.”

 

"All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."

 

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."

 

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."


"[God] is not proud...He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him."


"God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love."

 

"There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails...If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft."

 

"Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask."

 

"Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control."

 

"Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is..."

 

"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God."

 

"It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth."

 

"Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness."

 

"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."

 

"We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it."

 

"When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy."

 

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

 

"Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger."

 

"Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves."

 

"Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?"

 

"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

 

"There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight."
- C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

 

Chief demon Screwtape to his nephew apprentice Wormwood

 

"I wonder you should ask me whether it is essential to keep the patient in ignorance of your own existence. That question, at least for the present phase of the struggle, has been answered for us by the High Command. Our policy, for the moment, is to conceal ourselves. Of course this has not always been so. We are really faced with a cruel dilemma. When the humans disbelieve in our existence we lose all the pleasing results of direct terrorism, and we make no magicians. On the other hand, when they believe in us, we cannot make them materialists and sceptics. At least, not yet. I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise and mythologise their science to such an extent that what is, in effect. a belief in us (though not under that name) will creep in while the human mind remains closed to belief in the enemy. The “Life Force,” the worship of sex, and some aspects of Psychoanalysis may here prove useful. If once we can produce our perfect work—the Materialist Magician, the man, not using, but veritably worshipping, what he vaguely calls “Forces” while denying the existence of “spirits”—then the end of the war will be in sight. But in the meantime we must obey our orders. I do not think you will have much difficulty in keeping the patient in the dark. The fact that “devils” are predominantly comic figures in the modern imagination will help you. If any faint suspicion of your existence begins to arise in his mind, suggest to him a picture of something in red tights, and persuade him that since he cannot believe in that (it is an old textbook method of confusing them) he therefore cannot believe in you."

The Screwtape Letters 1941

 

"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to." – Mere Christianity, pages 40-41.

"Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it already."

 

"God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man."

 

"Another possible objection is this.  Why is God landing in this enemy-occupied world in disguise and starting a sort of secret society to undermine the devil? Why is He not landing in force, invading it? Is it that He is not strong enough?  Well Christians think He is going to land in force; we do not know when.  But we can guess why He is delaying.  He wants to give us the chance of joining His side freely.  I do not suppose you and I would have thought much of a Frenchman who waited till the Allies were marching into Germany and then announced he was on our side.  God will invade.  But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and irectly in our world quite realise what it will be like when He does.  When that happens, it is the end of the world.  When the author walks on to the stage the play is over.  God is going to invade, all right: but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else-something it never entered your head to conceive-comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left?  For this time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature.  It will be too late then to choose your side.  There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.  That will not be the time for choosing; it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realised it or not.  Now, today, this moment, is our chance to coose the right side.  God is holding back to give us that chance.  It will not last for ever.  We must take it or leave it. -Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis

 

"Christians, then, believe that an evil power has made himself for the present the Prince of this World. And, of course, that raises problems. Is this state of affairs in accordance with God's will or not? If it is, He is a strange God, you will say: and if it is not, how can anything happen contrary to the will of a being with absolute power?

But anyone who has been in authority knows how a thing can be in accordance with your will in one way and not in another. It may be quite sensible for a mother to say to the children, "I'm not going to go and make you tidy the schoolroom every night. You've got to learn to keep it tidy on your own." Then she goes up one night and finds the Teddy bear and the ink and the French Grammar all lying in the grate. That is against her will. She would prefer the children to be tidy. But on the other hand, it is her will which has left the children free to be untidy. The same thing arises in any regiment, or trade union, or school. You make a thing voluntary and then half the people do not do it. That is not what you willed, but your will made it possible." Mere Christianity

"Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk. Perhaps we feel inclined to disagree with Him. But there is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and He wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on. If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings--then we make take it it is worth paying. " Mere Christianity

"I have heard some people complain that if Jesus was God as well as man, then His sufferings and death lose all value in their eyes, "because it must have been so easy for him." Others may (very rightly) rebuke the ingratitude and ungraciousness of this objection; what staggers me is the misunderstanding it betrays. In one sense, of course, those who make it are right. They have even understated their own case. The perfect submission, the perfect suffering, the perfect death were not only easier to Jesus because He was God, but were possible only because He was God. But surely that is a very odd reason for not accepting them? The teacher is able to for the letters for the child because the teacher is grown-up and knows how to write. That, of course, makes it easier for the teacher; and only because it is easier for him can he help the child. If it rejected him because "it's easy for grown-ups" and waited to learn writing from another child who could not write itself (and so had no "unfair" advantage), it would not get on very quickly. If I am drowning in a rapid river, a man who still has one foot on the bank may give me a hand which saves my life. Ought I to shout back (between my gasps) "No, its not fair!" You have an advantage! You're keeping one foot on the bank"? That advantage--call it "unfair" if you like--is the only reason why he can be of any use to me. To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself? " Mere Christianity


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Sorry, I should also included my thanks for the great range of quotes from that “Most Reluctant Christian”, C.S.Lewis, arguably the best of which was:

 

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

 

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Hey Dan

Great job on the video of “We Will Ride” – looking forward to more as they come.

Just one itty-bitty challenge – in your brief description on YouTube you say it is of Wendy’s performance on 7-10-09.  But no matter how you present a date, that is still quite sometime in the future by my reckoning!

But please keep up the great work and plans.

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Hi all,

With the advances in the free you tube service with the high quality button selection.  I’ve decided to upload all of the Johnstown videos and then go on to some of the other churches that I filmed on the second tour I was on.  I might even go back and re-do some of the concerts from the first tour I filmed.

I did have a hard drive crash and lost all the work I did on the Johnstown PA concert before I could save it out to dvd, so I have spent the last 3 days uploading it to my computer from my camera and re-doing all of the editing from the entire concert.  All the videos I post will be of much higher quality than anything that I posted on Don and Wendy’s site as each song is between 800 and 1000 megabytes that I upload to you tube for their encoder to take it from and they are all coming off the original masters for all concerts.

For those that haven’t heard from me for a while, I’ve been a Bible study teacher at a local church and also have filmed their special event choir services.  I did lose the ability to film with two of the three professional cameras I used at Don and Wendy’s concerts.  There was a defect in the first two cameras that I purchased that Sony honored for 2 years on a free send in for repair service.  However, the cameras had to show the defect before they would fix them and two of my cameras went bad during the filming of the last Easter service at my church and the free repair service is no longer honored by Sony.  The cost for repair of both of them will come to about 1000 dollars and so I’m been pretty down on that but did think that I better get all of the usable tour footage edited and posted before my final camera goes on me.

After I get every single song posted from Johnstown, I’ll go on to Canton, and two or three other churches from that tour.  It’s pretty much the same songs over and over again with the same comments on the songs, but that is what a tour is like as not much new material is played on tour from one church to the next and the majority of the songs are those that Don has song for the last 30 years.  I’ve got some very good footage from Mary Beth’s church in Main with the exception of some focusing problems with some of my cameras.  The humidity was very high when I filmed that even caused all of the floors to become all wet and it caused my cameras not to focus as well.  Anyway it’s all free to post to you tube so I’ll post everything I’ve got eventually good and bad.  It might get a little repetitive after a while but again it’s free and you all can choose to watch them or not.  The only work involved is coming from my side on this and I really need some busy work to keep me occupied after I lost the friendship of my best friend and Christian sister recently.  I'm actually starting to really relate to some of the very old quotes by C.S. Lewis:

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”

“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.”

"[Pain] removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul."

“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world”

All of the videos will be posted at the below link when I get them uploaded.

http://www.youtube.com/user/DanMelius

Dan

I also have had a page up on you tube for a very long time dedicated to Gary Cooper with some of his very old 1930’s movies that are not available to purchase and some extremely rare Grand Old Opry footage of Jim Reeves in pristine quality.  The Grand Old Opry footage and the last two Gary Cooper movies Desire and If I Had A Million were uploaded in the new high quality settings of youtube and simply look incredible for such old material.

http://www.youtube.com/user/coopfan76

Below are some more C.S. Lewis quotes.  He was really quite a quotable person after all:

"Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst."

"History is a story written by the finger of God."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."

"In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are."

"We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness..."

“You will never know how much you believe something until it is a matter of life and death.” “If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it’s not so bad.”

"All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."


"[God] is not proud...He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him."


"God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love."

"There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails...If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft."

"Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask."

"Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control."

"Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is..."

"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God."

"It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth."

"Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness."

"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."

"We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it."

"When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy."

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

"Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger."

"Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves."

"Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?"

"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

"There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight."
- C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

Chief demon Screwtape to his nephew apprentice Wormwood

"I wonder you should ask me whether it is essential to keep the patient in ignorance of your own existence. That question, at least for the present phase of the struggle, has been answered for us by the High Command. Our policy, for the moment, is to conceal ourselves. Of course this has not always been so. We are really faced with a cruel dilemma. When the humans disbelieve in our existence we lose all the pleasing results of direct terrorism, and we make no magicians. On the other hand, when they believe in us, we cannot make them materialists and sceptics. At least, not yet. I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise and mythologise their science to such an extent that what is, in effect. a belief in us (though not under that name) will creep in while the human mind remains closed to belief in the enemy. The “Life Force,” the worship of sex, and some aspects of Psychoanalysis may here prove useful. If once we can produce our perfect work—the Materialist Magician, the man, not using, but veritably worshipping, what he vaguely calls “Forces” while denying the existence of “spirits”—then the end of the war will be in sight. But in the meantime we must obey our orders. I do not think you will have much difficulty in keeping the patient in the dark. The fact that “devils” are predominantly comic figures in the modern imagination will help you. If any faint suspicion of your existence begins to arise in his mind, suggest to him a picture of something in red tights, and persuade him that since he cannot believe in that (it is an old textbook method of confusing them) he therefore cannot believe in you."

The Screwtape Letters 1941

"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to." – Mere Christianity, pages 40-41.

"Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it already."

"God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man."

"Another possible objection is this.  Why is God landing in this enemy-occupied world in disguise and starting a sort of secret society to undermine the devil? Why is He not landing in force, invading it? Is it that He is not strong enough?  Well Christians think He is going to land in force; we do not know when.  But we can guess why He is delaying.  He wants to give us the chance of joining His side freely.  I do not suppose you and I would have thought much of a Frenchman who waited till the Allies were marching into Germany and then announced he was on our side.  God will invade.  But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and irectly in our world quite realise what it will be like when He does.  When that happens, it is the end of the world.  When the author walks on to the stage the play is over.  God is going to invade, all right: but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else-something it never entered your head to conceive-comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left?  For this time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature.  It will be too late then to choose your side.  There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.  That will not be the time for choosing; it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realised it or not.  Now, today, this moment, is our chance to coose the right side.  God is holding back to give us that chance.  It will not last for ever.  We must take it or leave it. -Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis

"Christians, then, believe that an evil power has made himself for the present the Prince of this World. And, of course, that raises problems. Is this state of affairs in accordance with God's will or not? If it is, He is a strange God, you will say: and if it is not, how can anything happen contrary to the will of a being with absolute power?

But anyone who has been in authority knows how a thing can be in accordance with your will in one way and not in another. It may be quite sensible for a mother to say to the children, "I'm not going to go and make you tidy the schoolroom every night. You've got to learn to keep it tidy on your own." Then she goes up one night and finds the Teddy bear and the ink and the French Grammar all lying in the grate. That is against her will. She would prefer the children to be tidy. But on the other hand, it is her will which has left the children free to be untidy. The same thing arises in any regiment, or trade union, or school. You make a thing voluntary and then half the people do not do it. That is not what you willed, but your will made it possible." Mere Christianity

"Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk. Perhaps we feel inclined to disagree with Him. But there is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and He wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on. If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings--then we make take it it is worth paying. " Mere Christianity

"I have heard some people complain that if Jesus was God as well as man, then His sufferings and death lose all value in their eyes, "because it must have been so easy for him." Others may (very rightly) rebuke the ingratitude and ungraciousness of this objection; what staggers me is the misunderstanding it betrays. In one sense, of course, those who make it are right. They have even understated their own case. The perfect submission, the perfect suffering, the perfect death were not only easier to Jesus because He was God, but were possible only because He was God. But surely that is a very odd reason for not accepting them? The teacher is able to for the letters for the child because the teacher is grown-up and knows how to write. That, of course, makes it easier for the teacher; and only because it is easier for him can he help the child. If it rejected him because "it's easy for grown-ups" and waited to learn writing from another child who could not write itself (and so had no "unfair" advantage), it would not get on very quickly. If I am drowning in a rapid river, a man who still has one foot on the bank may give me a hand which saves my life. Ought I to shout back (between my gasps) "No, its not fair!" You have an advantage! You're keeping one foot on the bank"? That advantage--call it "unfair" if you like--is the only reason why he can be of any use to me. To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself? " Mere Christianity


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Hi All,
 
I just wanted everyone to know that the entire Johnstown concert 21 clips is now posted on you tube in super high quality on my page.  Just make sure that the HQ button is selected for best quality viewing.  I'm moving on to the Main concert next from the 06 tour.  I will make a playlist of all 21 songs from Johnstown, so that they can be played back to back in 2 hour concert fashion.  I should have that done by tomorrow because I had to re-upload the first 10 songs yesterday and still have three songs to go in I'll Never Let Go of Your Hand, and He's Alive with backup sound track and without.  I am taking those one's down today but will have them back up on line as soon as they get uploaded.  I originally had the audio at 356 kbps and had to switch to 192 kbps as I was getting lip sync problems and the quality that you tube uses to re-encode the videos with actually sounded better at the lower 192 setting than it did at 356 for some reason.
 
thanks with much love and blessings,
Dan Melius
 
 
Also, Wendy has a new song posted their site that is very good "GoD And DoG"
 
 
 

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Hey Dan

 

Thanks so much for the fantastic job of posting all these vids to YouTube!  Just one little query – Part 10 seems to be missing at this point.  Is that an intentional omission or merely an accidental one?

 

Meanwhile, keep up the outstanding work, pal – I have been totally blessed by it all!

 

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Hi All,

 

I just wanted everyone to know that the entire Johnstown concert 21 clips is now posted on you tube in super high quality on my page.  Just make sure that the HQ button is selected for best quality viewing.  I'm moving on to the Main concert next from the 06 tour.  I will make a playlist of all 21 songs from Johnstown, so that they can be played back to back in 2 hour concert fashion.  I should have that done by tomorrow because I had to re-upload the first 10 songs yesterday and still have three songs to go in I'll Never Let Go of Your Hand, and He's Alive with backup sound track and without.  I am taking those one's down today but will have them back up on line as soon as they get uploaded.  I originally had the audio at 356 kbps and had to switch to 192 kbps as I was getting lip sync problems and the quality that you tube uses to re-encode the videos with actually sounded better at the lower 192 setting than it did at 356 for some reason.

 

thanks with much love and blessings,

Dan Melius

 

 

Also, Wendy has a new song posted their site that is very good "GoD And DoG"

 

 

 


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Hi Tony,
 
No it is a I don't know how to make a playlist under the new you tube guidelines omission.  You will find that part 10 along with Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 have all been deleted accidently and need to spend all day again re-uploading them.  I was trying to figure out how to get them in order and I decided to just delete the playlist and start over.  Well I didn't delete the playlist but the actual songs themselves.  I'm not sure If I'll be able to get a playlist together or not.  It use to be easy to make them but You tube has done some changing around and I can't seem to figure out how to get them in the correct order sequence.
 
Dan
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Hey Dan

Thanks so much for the fantastic job of posting all these vids to YouTube!  Just one little query – Part 10 seems to be missing at this point.  Is that an intentional omission or merely an accidental one?

Meanwhile, keep up the outstanding work, pal – I have been totally blessed by it all!

Tony

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Hi All,

I just wanted everyone to know that the entire Johnstown concert 21 clips is now posted on you tube in super high quality on my page.  Just make sure that the HQ button is selected for best quality viewing.  I'm moving on to the Main concert next from the 06 tour.  I will make a playlist of all 21 songs from Johnstown, so that they can be played back to back in 2 hour concert fashion.  I should have that done by tomorrow because I had to re-upload the first 10 songs yesterday and still have three songs to go in I'll Never Let Go of Your Hand, and He's Alive with backup sound track and without.  I am taking those one's down today but will have them back up on line as soon as they get uploaded.  I originally had the audio at 356 kbps and had to switch to 192 kbps as I was getting lip sync problems and the quality that you tube uses to re-encode the videos with actually sounded better at the lower 192 setting than it did at 356 for some reason.

thanks with much love and blessings,

Dan Melius

Also, Wendy has a new song posted their site that is very good "GoD And DoG"


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#5181 From: "Tony Jessup" <tjessup@...>
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Hi Dan

 

If it is any help to you, at least for distribution to the group members, I have a host of my own which is presently very underused, and I would be happy to make a considerable part of it available to you for this purpose.  By all means come back to me directly on tjessup@... if you would like to explore this possibility further.

 

In Our Lord’s Blessed Name,

 

Tony

 

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Hi Tony,

 

No it is a I don't know how to make a playlist under the new you tube guidelines omission.  You will find that part 10 along with Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 have all been deleted accidently and need to spend all day again re-uploading them.  I was trying to figure out how to get them in order and I decided to just delete the playlist and start over.  Well I didn't delete the playlist but the actual songs themselves.  I'm not sure If I'll be able to get a playlist together or not.  It use to be easy to make them but You tube has done some changing around and I can't seem to figure out how to get them in the correct order sequence.

 

Dan

----- Original Message -----

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Hey Dan

Thanks so much for the fantastic job of posting all these vids to YouTube!  Just one little query – Part 10 seems to be missing at this point.  Is that an intentional omission or merely an accidental one?

Meanwhile, keep up the outstanding work, pal – I have been totally blessed by it all!

Tony

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Hi All,

I just wanted everyone to know that the entire Johnstown concert 21 clips is now posted on you tube in super high quality on my page.  Just make sure that the HQ button is selected for best quality viewing.  I'm moving on to the Main concert next from the 06 tour.  I will make a playlist of all 21 songs from Johnstown, so that they can be played back to back in 2 hour concert fashion.  I should have that done by tomorrow because I had to re-upload the first 10 songs yesterday and still have three songs to go in I'll Never Let Go of Your Hand, and He's Alive with backup sound track and without.  I am taking those one's down today but will have them back up on line as soon as they get uploaded.  I originally had the audio at 356 kbps and had to switch to 192 kbps as I was getting lip sync problems and the quality that you tube uses to re-encode the videos with actually sounded better at the lower 192 setting than it did at 356 for some reason.

thanks with much love and blessings,

Dan Melius

Also, Wendy has a new song posted their site that is very good "GoD And DoG"


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Hey Tony,
 
I did get the screen for playlists that I am use to seeing  where I can orgainze them in whatever order I want, but to late now to save the videos I deleted off of you tube by mistake.  Hopefully tonight when I get home from work the videos will be re-uploaded and I can make up that playlist for them all.
 
Much Blessings,
Dan
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Hey Dan

Thanks so much for the fantastic job of posting all these vids to YouTube!  Just one little query – Part 10 seems to be missing at this point.  Is that an intentional omission or merely an accidental one?

Meanwhile, keep up the outstanding work, pal – I have been totally blessed by it all!

Tony

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Hi All,

I just wanted everyone to know that the entire Johnstown concert 21 clips is now posted on you tube in super high quality on my page.  Just make sure that the HQ button is selected for best quality viewing.  I'm moving on to the Main concert next from the 06 tour.  I will make a playlist of all 21 songs from Johnstown, so that they can be played back to back in 2 hour concert fashion.  I should have that done by tomorrow because I had to re-upload the first 10 songs yesterday and still have three songs to go in I'll Never Let Go of Your Hand, and He's Alive with backup sound track and without.  I am taking those one's down today but will have them back up on line as soon as they get uploaded.  I originally had the audio at 356 kbps and had to switch to 192 kbps as I was getting lip sync problems and the quality that you tube uses to re-encode the videos with actually sounded better at the lower 192 setting than it did at 356 for some reason.

thanks with much love and blessings,

Dan Melius

Also, Wendy has a new song posted their site that is very good "GoD And DoG"


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Hi Tony,
 
Thanks for the offer, but I think for right now I am going to go the You Tube rout with them because of all the world attention You Tube recieves,  and I would like to get maximum exposure to Don and Wendy's music to not only belivers and fans but non-believers and non-fans as well.  There would be nothing that would please me more than to see someone accidently stumble on one of Don and Wendy's videos on You Tube that is not a Christian and have their life changed as a result.  You Tube has increased the resolution and quality of their videos in the HQ mode now that greatly surpasses what I was able to do with them 3 years ago for Don and Wendy on their site.  They are almost DVD quality now on You Tube in HQ mode and as far as I know there is no limit to just how many videos I can post.  I guess I will find out if there is a limit to them eventually as I still have a whole bunch of videos to post from other concerts.  The quality issue is what many people do not know about you tube's new HQ settings.  For the greatest benifit, one must encode the videos to 100 mega bytes in full resolution so that You Tube's encoder has the greatest available picture to work with when they re-encode it.  Does anyone know just how long it takes to upload a 100 mega byte file?  It is around 4 to 5 hours on my cable connection for one song.  For the sound, all videos should never exceed -3 db for volume with 0 db being the highest point.  I did some research on it and you tube's new encoder has a tendacy to clip and distort volume that exceeds -3 db.  This is why my videos might not sound as loud as others but I was looking for maximum benifit for both Video and sound.  The audio still does not sound as good as what I have here at home, but I just don't think You tube's audio encoder for their videos is as good as what it should be.
 
Blessings,
Dan
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Hi Dan

If it is any help to you, at least for distribution to the group members, I have a host of my own which is presently very underused, and I would be happy to make a considerable part of it available to you for this purpose.  By all means come back to me directly on tjessup@bigpond.com if you would like to explore this possibility further.

In Our Lord’s Blessed Name,

Tony

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Hi Tony,

No it is a I don't know how to make a playlist under the new you tube guidelines omission.  You will find that part 10 along with Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 have all been deleted accidently and need to spend all day again re-uploading them.  I was trying to figure out how to get them in order and I decided to just delete the playlist and start over.  Well I didn't delete the playlist but the actual songs themselves.  I'm not sure If I'll be able to get a playlist together or not.  It use to be easy to make them but You tube has done some changing around and I can't seem to figure out how to get them in the correct order sequence.

Dan

----- Original Message -----

From: Tony Jessup

Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 11:42 AM

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Hey Dan

Thanks so much for the fantastic job of posting all these vids to YouTube!  Just one little query – Part 10 seems to be missing at this point.  Is that an intentional omission or merely an accidental one?

Meanwhile, keep up the outstanding work, pal – I have been totally blessed by it all!

Tony

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Hi All,

I just wanted everyone to know that the entire Johnstown concert 21 clips is now posted on you tube in super high quality on my page.  Just make sure that the HQ button is selected for best quality viewing.  I'm moving on to the Main concert next from the 06 tour.  I will make a playlist of all 21 songs from Johnstown, so that they can be played back to back in 2 hour concert fashion.  I should have that done by tomorrow because I had to re-upload the first 10 songs yesterday and still have three songs to go in I'll Never Let Go of Your Hand, and He's Alive with backup sound track and without.  I am taking those one's down today but will have them back up on line as soon as they get uploaded.  I originally had the audio at 356 kbps and had to switch to 192 kbps as I was getting lip sync problems and the quality that you tube uses to re-encode the videos with actually sounded better at the lower 192 setting than it did at 356 for some reason.

thanks with much love and blessings,

Dan Melius

Also, Wendy has a new song posted their site that is very good "GoD And DoG"


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Hi Dan

 

It did occur to me that part of your purpose might well be the possibility of connecting with non-believers, so I can fully understand your preference for the YouTube approach.

 

I’m happy with that, and also happy to leave my offer on the table as an additional possibility for you at some time in the future.  I plan to proceed with the DVD production, and will run the finished product past you before submitting it to Don & Wendy for their approval.

 

Please remember, if I can be of any help to you at any stage in the realisation of your plans, you only have to ask.

 

Meanwhile, I am sure Our Lord will continue to bless your endeavours as you seek to fulfill His goals for you!

 

Tony

 

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Hi Tony,

 

Thanks for the offer, but I think for right now I am going to go the You Tube rout with them because of all the world attention You Tube recieves,  and I would like to get maximum exposure to Don and Wendy's music to not only belivers and fans but non-believers and non-fans as well.  There would be nothing that would please me more than to see someone accidently stumble on one of Don and Wendy's videos on You Tube that is not a Christian and have their life changed as a result.  You Tube has increased the resolution and quality of their videos in the HQ mode now that greatly surpasses what I was able to do with them 3 years ago for Don and Wendy on their site.  They are almost DVD quality now on You Tube in HQ mode and as far as I know there is no limit to just how many videos I can post.  I guess I will find out if there is a limit to them eventually as I still have a whole bunch of videos to post from other concerts.  The quality issue is what many people do not know about you tube's new HQ settings.  For the greatest benifit, one must encode the videos to 100 mega bytes in full resolution so that You Tube's encoder has the greatest available picture to work with when they re-encode it.  Does anyone know just how long it takes to upload a 100 mega byte file?  It is around 4 to 5 hours on my cable connection for one song.  For the sound, all videos should never exceed -3 db for volume with 0 db being the highest point.  I did some research on it and you tube's new encoder has a tendacy to clip and distort volume that exceeds -3 db.  This is why my videos might not sound as loud as others but I was looking for maximum benifit for both Video and sound.  The audio still does not sound as good as what I have here at home, but I just don't think You tube's audio encoder for their videos is as good as what it should be.

 

Blessings,

Dan

----- Original Message -----

From: Tony Jessup

Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 12:04 PM

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Hi Dan

If it is any help to you, at least for distribution to the group members, I have a host of my own which is presently very underused, and I would be happy to make a considerable part of it available to you for this purpose.  By all means come back to me directly on tjessup@bigpond.com if you would like to explore this possibility further.

In Our Lord’s Blessed Name,

Tony

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Hi Tony,

No it is a I don't know how to make a playlist under the new you tube guidelines omission.  You will find that part 10 along with Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 have all been deleted accidently and need to spend all day again re-uploading them.  I was trying to figure out how to get them in order and I decided to just delete the playlist and start over.  Well I didn't delete the playlist but the actual songs themselves.  I'm not sure If I'll be able to get a playlist together or not.  It use to be easy to make them but You tube has done some changing around and I can't seem to figure out how to get them in the correct order sequence.

Dan

----- Original Message -----

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Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 11:42 AM

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Hey Dan

Thanks so much for the fantastic job of posting all these vids to YouTube!  Just one little query – Part 10 seems to be missing at this point.  Is that an intentional omission or merely an accidental one?

Meanwhile, keep up the outstanding work, pal – I have been totally blessed by it all!

Tony

When all you have is God, you have all you need!

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Hi All,

I just wanted everyone to know that the entire Johnstown concert 21 clips is now posted on you tube in super high quality on my page.  Just make sure that the HQ button is selected for best quality viewing.  I'm moving on to the Main concert next from the 06 tour.  I will make a playlist of all 21 songs from Johnstown, so that they can be played back to back in 2 hour concert fashion.  I should have that done by tomorrow because I had to re-upload the first 10 songs yesterday and still have three songs to go in I'll Never Let Go of Your Hand, and He's Alive with backup sound track and without.  I am taking those one's down today but will have them back up on line as soon as they get uploaded.  I originally had the audio at 356 kbps and had to switch to 192 kbps as I was getting lip sync problems and the quality that you tube uses to re-encode the videos with actually sounded better at the lower 192 setting than it did at 356 for some reason.

thanks with much love and blessings,

Dan Melius

Also, Wendy has a new song posted their site that is very good "GoD And DoG"


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Flying by the Seat of your pants from Maine 06 is now posted on my You tube channel:
 
 
 

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Hey Dan,
   Watching these videos is SO wonderful !  What a treat it was to get to meet you while you were in Maine with Don, Wendy & Mike.
 
    Thank you so much for your dedication in producing all of these and placing them on the web for all to see. You, your gifts and talents are a blessing to us all .     Loads of Love , Your Mainer Friends, Bob & Marybeth 
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Flying by the Seat of your pants from Maine 06 is now posted on my You tube channel:
 
 
 


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Hi Bob and Marybeth. 
 
It was an honor to meet you all and all the other super nice Christians way up north.  I am sorry to be so late in posting these videos but I lost some direction a while back and sort of lost my walk for a while with Jesus.  I do know he never left my side but I sort of backed off and tried to go my own way, which ended up leading to no happiness and no purpose in life for a couple of years.  Actually, I still studied the word and never stopped believing but I just lost the whole having Jesus as the center of my heart and leading me and directing me in all things and got side tracked in unimportant stuff.  I guess I was sort of running from Him and He finally caught up with me and got me more centered on Him again and not myself.
 
I hope to get most of the songs posted from your concert over the next week or two.  The last two songs Balaam and Brother of the Son I don't think have good enough audio as I only have the audiance microphone from those songs as my notebook computer stopped recording for some reason and the tape ran out.
 
Hopefully I corrected the color on the camera for Don as my camera recorded him with ultra warm red colors and I tried to color correct it with the other cameras the best I could.  Actually I couldn't really do it very well and just couldn't do it as my program is one of those color combination circles that you move a smaller circle around inside of it until it is the right color.  So I closed my eyes and asked the Lord to move the slider to the correct color combination and from what I heard from a friend they stated it looks very close in colors to the other two cameras.  I am red/green color blind so I pretty much have to rely on my cameras to get the colors right.  To me the original camera 1 shot just looks like Don has a nice warm color to him but others have stated he is on the extreme red side.  I do see red but not as strong as others do so I can never go with my own view on colors.  I'm glad the Lord was able to help me as I was on that color correction program for two days straight trying to get it right using my own efforts.
 
Much Love,
Dan
 
 

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Sorry Marybeth as I forgot that this yahoogroups didn't allow photo attachments.
 
This goes along with the end of my last posting:
 
 
 
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Hey Dan,
   Watching these videos is SO wonderful !  What a treat it was to get to meet you while you were in Maine with Don, Wendy & Mike.
 
    Thank you so much for your dedication in producing all of these and placing them on the web for all to see. You, your gifts and talents are a blessing to us all .     Loads of Love , Your Mainer Friends, Bob & Marybeth 
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Flying by the Seat of your pants from Maine 06 is now posted on my You tube channel:
 
 
 


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Also MaryBeth,
 
If you send me your address to the below email I will send you an entire dvd of your concert including the lesser audio for Balaam and Brother of the Son when I get the entire concert finished for your memories of that night.
 
 
Much Love and Blessings,
Dan
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Hey Dan,
   Watching these videos is SO wonderful !  What a treat it was to get to meet you while you were in Maine with Don, Wendy & Mike.
 
    Thank you so much for your dedication in producing all of these and placing them on the web for all to see. You, your gifts and talents are a blessing to us all .     Loads of Love , Your Mainer Friends, Bob & Marybeth 
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Flying by the Seat of your pants from Maine 06 is now posted on my You tube channel:
 
 
 


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Hi All,
 
I had some trouble with audio and video sync problems for the New Gloucester Maine 06 East Coast Tour videos on Youtube but nothing that a 200 dollar upgrade from Sony Vegas 5 to Sony Vegas 9 proffessional couldn't solve.  I have 13 videos uploaded with 12 more to go.  The entire concert except for the last 2 songs by request will be posted.  I do have good video for the last two songs Balaam and Brother of the Son but not very good audio at all as it is only from my audiance microphone.  Even without those two songs, the concert is still over 2 and half hours long. Don speaks for longer segments betweeen the songs that I had to include as seperate videos and Too Small A Price is also split much like it was originally split when it was first released on two different records.  I had to split it as it is over the 10 minute limit for youtube videos so the natural place to do it was right after Don sings "but it was still too small a price to be allowed to hear those words and to die beside the Christ".  Mike Banta's guitar solo follows at the beginning of the second video for that song.   There will be a couple songs on this concert that I have included, which I have never posted before since Don did not write them but liked the way they came out so they will be included as well in Here I Am To Worship and Open the Eyes of My Heart.  With the new upgrade of Vegas 9, I may have to re-encode and re-post the Johnstown videos as I think the audio is sounding better now on Youtube using the new Vegas encoder and plugins for .wmv files.  They should all be uploaded by Monday morning or afternoon.
 
I've also decided to take the plunge into High Definition cameras as I just ordered a new High Def Sony camera along with a BHPhoto kit of extra supplies for 4000 dollars.  I know some people spend this kind of money on cars and such but I drive around in old beat up 20 year old GMC Jimmy and buy 4000 dollar cameras instead.  It's just what I am into.
 
 
Also,  I don't know how many others here are as into these videos as I am, so I will just post a link to all the videos on my video page that you can all bookmark and check from time to time instead of me posting here each and every time I make up some more videos.  Also, the videos are not only for your enjoyment and ministry but mine as well.  I am 42 years old now and have never been married.  I don't have no girlfriends or many friends for that matter and working on the videos is something that gives me something to do that I enjoy doing.  I also film stuff at my local church and am lining up some weddings to film next year.  So video work is a very big part of my life.  I do think it is the way that God intended it for me.  If I were married, I probably wouldn't have time to work on this stuff in my off time from work or even be able to afford this expensive hobby.  Others have families and all kinds of other obligations.  I just do my 8 hour job at work each day and work on my computer video stuff the rest of the time.  In my younger days, I use to go out all the time and go on vacations and all that but it just isn't all that fun going out and seeing things by yourself and it actually can be quite depressing sometimes.  I was suppose to go out to a big motercycle Thunder in the Valley event in Johnstown yesterday and meet some friends from work there.  It did not work out at all as I could not locate them and just wandered around all by myself.  I didn't actually cheer up until I was able to get back to my house and back on my old computer to load some more videos from the Maine concert.  I guess I am just a computer junkie these days. 
 
I don't know if Don and Wendy will ever need any more concerts filmed but I am a ready and willing participant if they ever do and am now even in the midst of upgrading to the High Definition video cameras which are twice the resolution on all the videos I have posted on them so far.  I do have many more concerts to post but won't bother you all here on this egroup about it.  If you are interested, just bookmark the below link or become a subscriber to my youtube page.
 
 
Love and Blessings,
Dan
 
 
 
 

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Hi MayBeth,
 
I should have the concert I filmed of yours done on dvd in another day or two.  All of the concert videos except for the last two encore songs are now posted on my youtube channel along with all of the songs from the Johnstown concert.  RI is next and am already doing the beginning stages of recording each camera from that concert on to my hard drive for future editing. 
 
I received a High Def Sony camera HDR-FX1000 today. I can not believe just how much bigger it is than the cameras I filmed these concerts with -- three Sony VX2100's.  The lens alone of the FX1000 looks to be twice as big as my other cameras.  I sent two of my Sony VX2100's off today to a person in North Carilna to get repaired who had a posting on ebay.  Please keep it in your prayers that he is an honest ebayer and sends my cameras back to me after he fixes them. If I get those back, I will have a total of 3 standard definition professional cameras and one High Definintion camera. I'm hoping to get enough money saved up to buy one more HD Sony HDR-FX1000 camera and a better microphone.  I think I need a microphone that is at least in the 2000-3000 dollar range before I film any more of Don and Wendy's concerts or begin filming weddings next year.  I'm not happy at all with the 600 dollar audiance microphone I used for all of these concerts.
 
Love and Blessings,
Dan
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Also MaryBeth,
 
If you send me your address to the below email I will send you an entire dvd of your concert including the lesser audio for Balaam and Brother of the Son when I get the entire concert finished for your memories of that night.
 
 
Much Love and Blessings,
Dan
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Hey Dan,
   Watching these videos is SO wonderful !  What a treat it was to get to meet you while you were in Maine with Don, Wendy & Mike.
 
    Thank you so much for your dedication in producing all of these and placing them on the web for all to see. You, your gifts and talents are a blessing to us all .     Loads of Love , Your Mainer Friends, Bob & Marybeth 
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Flying by the Seat of your pants from Maine 06 is now posted on my You tube channel:
 
 
 


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Hi Dan,
 
   WOW !  I thought it would be weeks before you would be able to get the New Gloucester concert onto a dvd format . We have been enjoying all your fine work on your youtube page.
 
    Your new camera sure sounds nice. We don't even own a video camera, unless you count the teeney capability my cell phone has for a 15 second video recording...............and you thought your audio was bad : )  .....ha!     How's the weather been where you are ?  It feels more like what I would  imagine Seattle or London would be like here in Maine.  We have had weeks of rain.  Bob's business  has been affected by this, his being a contractor / painter....... but we have been able to do some work at the Shakers....Have you ever heard of them?   I think the last living Shaker lives right here in New Gloucester....I'm not sure if she is the last one in the world  or just the U.S.        I don't know alot of their history, but what I have gleaned has been interesting, although as a whole, their founder and her beliefs are a misrepresentation of the grace we now have.  ( whacky rules and stringent protocol ) pointless.
 
   I hope you get your cameras back from repair in a timely manner. Were you able to speak to the man who'll be working on them?  Did he have good feedback on his ebay page?   I'm going to close this letter here..................Deadliest Catch is on, this is the one show Bob and I watch together every Tuesday night.   Take good care of yourself and thanks for all you do !    Bob and Marybeth Dunham
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Hi MayBeth,
 
I should have the concert I filmed of yours done on dvd in another day or two.  All of the concert videos except for the last two encore songs are now posted on my youtube channel along with all of the songs from the Johnstown concert.  RI is next and am already doing the beginning stages of recording each camera from that concert on to my hard drive for future editing. 
 
I received a High Def Sony camera HDR-FX1000 today. I can not believe just how much bigger it is than the cameras I filmed these concerts with -- three Sony VX2100's.  The lens alone of the FX1000 looks to be twice as big as my other cameras.  I sent two of my Sony VX2100's off today to a person in North Carilna to get repaired who had a posting on ebay.  Please keep it in your prayers that he is an honest ebayer and sends my cameras back to me after he fixes them. If I get those back, I will have a total of 3 standard definition professional cameras and one High Definintion camera. I'm hoping to get enough money saved up to buy one more HD Sony HDR-FX1000 camera and a better microphone.  I think I need a microphone that is at least in the 2000-3000 dollar range before I film any more of Don and Wendy's concerts or begin filming weddings next year.  I'm not happy at all with the 600 dollar audiance microphone I used for all of these concerts.
 
Love and Blessings,
Dan
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Also MaryBeth,
 
If you send me your address to the below email I will send you an entire dvd of your concert including the lesser audio for Balaam and Brother of the Son when I get the entire concert finished for your memories of that night.
 
 
Much Love and Blessings,
Dan
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Hey Dan,
   Watching these videos is SO wonderful !  What a treat it was to get to meet you while you were in Maine with Don, Wendy & Mike.
 
    Thank you so much for your dedication in producing all of these and placing them on the web for all to see. You, your gifts and talents are a blessing to us all .     Loads of Love , Your Mainer Friends, Bob & Marybeth 
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Flying by the Seat of your pants from Maine 06 is now posted on my You tube channel:
 
 
 


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Date: Wed Jul 1, 2009 3:20 am
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Hi Bob and MaryBeth,
 
Well the guy had 100 percent feedback with like 2500 feedback.  He use to run a repair shop but decided to go the internet rout.   He gave me his phone number but I think and hope he will be alright.  It should cost at most 400 each to fix both cameras.  It was actually a defect on the cameras that Sony honored for two years on a free send in and fix but the cameras had to exhibit the defect before you could send them in.  Two of mine developed it on Easter six months after the offer expired.  One shows all red when I try to record and the other one is all Green.  The 3 CCD's on the camera for red, green and Blue need replaced.  My third camera I got a year after the first two and the problem was fixed by Sony before it was sent to me.
 
Below is my dream microphone in the U87AI Neauman:
 
 
It's a little steep though for one mono mic at 3,249.00, so I probably end up going with the below stereo matched pair by the same company for only 2,449.00 for two Neauman mics.
 
 
They are both known for their extreme warm rich sound.  My audience microphone right now is so poor that I won't even share the last two songs from your concert on youtube or on the dvd.  I pretty much want a pair of microphones that are on equal terms to what I get when I hook up to Don's sound board directly for voice clarity.  I don't want there to be any drop off in the way the voices sound.  I think I will post Balaam just for the heck of it on youtube, just so you can see how awful the voice quality was on it.  It is just dreadful.  I'm pretty much limited in using it now at the end of the songs for clapping.  It may actually be broke as I think it use to record better than it is now.
 
Yes I know all about the Shakers having a pretty good knowledge of the history of the Pentecostal movement.  We've got Quakers in Pennsylvania.  After reading the description just now on the internet, I'm sure that people might accuse me at times of being a Shaker.
 
"The name "Shakers," originally pejorative, was derived from the term "Shaking Quakers" and was applied as a mocking description of their rituals of trembling, shouting, dancing, shaking, singing, and speaking in tongues (speaking in strange and unknown languages)."
 
I can tell you that the very first church I went to in Minot North Dakota for three years from 1987-1989 would have really been accused of being shakers as it was a Church of God in Christ Black Gospel church and the description above fits that church to a tee.
 
Love and Blessings,
Dan
 
 
 
 
From: goldie
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: [don-francisco-fans] No posts

Hi Dan,
 
   WOW !  I thought it would be weeks before you would be able to get the New Gloucester concert onto a dvd format . We have been enjoying all your fine work on your youtube page.
 
    Your new camera sure sounds nice. We don't even own a video camera, unless you count the teeney capability my cell phone has for a 15 second video recording...............and you thought your audio was bad : )  .....ha!     How's the weather been where you are ?  It feels more like what I would  imagine Seattle or London would be like here in Maine.  We have had weeks of rain.  Bob's business  has been affected by this, his being a contractor / painter....... but we have been able to do some work at the Shakers....Have you ever heard of them?   I think the last living Shaker lives right here in New Gloucester....I'm not sure if she is the last one in the world  or just the U.S.        I don't know alot of their history, but what I have gleaned has been interesting, although as a whole, their founder and her beliefs are a misrepresentation of the grace we now have.  ( whacky rules and stringent protocol ) pointless.
 
   I hope you get your cameras back from repair in a timely manner. Were you able to speak to the man who'll be working on them?  Did he have good feedback on his ebay page?   I'm going to close this letter here..................Deadliest Catch is on, this is the one show Bob and I watch together every Tuesday night.   Take good care of yourself and thanks for all you do !    Bob and Marybeth Dunham
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Hi MayBeth,
 
I should have the concert I filmed of yours done on dvd in another day or two.  All of the concert videos except for the last two encore songs are now posted on my youtube channel along with all of the songs from the Johnstown concert.  RI is next and am already doing the beginning stages of recording each camera from that concert on to my hard drive for future editing. 
 
I received a High Def Sony camera HDR-FX1000 today. I can not believe just how much bigger it is than the cameras I filmed these concerts with -- three Sony VX2100's.  The lens alone of the FX1000 looks to be twice as big as my other cameras.  I sent two of my Sony VX2100's off today to a person in North Carilna to get repaired who had a posting on ebay.  Please keep it in your prayers that he is an honest ebayer and sends my cameras back to me after he fixes them. If I get those back, I will have a total of 3 standard definition professional cameras and one High Definintion camera. I'm hoping to get enough money saved up to buy one more HD Sony HDR-FX1000 camera and a better microphone.  I think I need a microphone that is at least in the 2000-3000 dollar range before I film any more of Don and Wendy's concerts or begin filming weddings next year.  I'm not happy at all with the 600 dollar audiance microphone I used for all of these concerts.
 
Love and Blessings,
Dan
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: [don-francisco-fans] No posts

Also MaryBeth,
 
If you send me your address to the below email I will send you an entire dvd of your concert including the lesser audio for Balaam and Brother of the Son when I get the entire concert finished for your memories of that night.
 
 
Much Love and Blessings,
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: goldie
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: [don-francisco-fans] No posts

Hey Dan,
   Watching these videos is SO wonderful !  What a treat it was to get to meet you while you were in Maine with Don, Wendy & Mike.
 
    Thank you so much for your dedication in producing all of these and placing them on the web for all to see. You, your gifts and talents are a blessing to us all .     Loads of Love , Your Mainer Friends, Bob & Marybeth 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: [don-francisco-fans] No posts

Flying by the Seat of your pants from Maine 06 is now posted on my You tube channel:
 
 
 


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#5198 From: <dan76@...>
Date: Wed Jul 1, 2009 3:57 am
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Actually after writing that last post, I listened to the Warwick RI footage from my audiance microphone and I take it all back.  My microphone recorded exceptional for that concert.  I'm thinking about trying a  50/50 mix of my microphone and Don's sound board for that concert.  It's just exceptional quality for that concert hall.  I may even just go with just the audiance microphone for the whole concert.  I think alot has to depend on the accoustics of the hall for recording live sound.  Some places just record better than others.  I'm really looking forward to posting on youtube one of my favorites that Don performed there in "There is No Better Place" from the High Praises album.  It's also a very good concert for studio lighting.  I put way to much contrast in the 04 Warwick footage.  This video footage is exceptional for video quality.  All the cameras were in perfect focus with very warm lighting and it was a really good concert to boot.  I will not need to add any reverb to this one as voices sound exceptional from the audiance microphone.
 
Dan

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