One of America’s earliest, Christian Rock groups, the All Saved Freak Band, will move their site from its longtime web address of http://www.AllSavedFreakBand.com to the pages of Home Before Midnight, LLC. As the publisher and distributor of the ASFB recordings, their music and legacy will continue here. For information about the band, its former members or music, please use the Contact Form on this site.
“Artists like [Larry] Norman, Love Song and the All Saved Freak Band never intended to start a Christian music industry but one grew up around them after secular labels and performance venues shut them out.” [Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture, Daniel Radosh]
“Several other groups active in the late-1960’s are still remembered today. These bands were far cries from the clean-cut, church-sponsored productions that Hearn and Carmichael had created. What the likes of the All Saved Freak Band lacked in polish, they made up for in sheer intensity and weirdness – qualities that many of the best secular bands of the late 1960s displayed.” [The Billboard Guide to Contemporary Christian Music, Barry Alfonso]
“To many churches and religious leaders, the Jesus Movement was a threat. As soon as the first, few bands – All Saved Freak Band, Agape and Love Song, along with solo artists such as Larry Norman and Randy Stonehill – hit the scene, preachers rose up to call them twisted.” [Raised By Wolves: The Story of Christian Rock & Roll, John J. Thompson and Dinah K. Kotthoff]
“While the Beatles communed with the Maharishi and practiced TM, radio stations adopted Jesus rock formats featuring groups such as Love Song, Agape and the All Saved Freak Band.” [American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon, Stephen R. Prothero]
“Larry Norman, the All Saved Freak Band and the Resurrection Band were three of the most important of the early Jesus Music bands.” [From the entry for Christian Rock at Conservapedia.com, 3/13/09]
“There is an extraordinary urgency to the All Saved Freak Band. At a time when the growing industry of CCM was making its saccharine pact with the pop devil their music crackled with apocalyptic power and the desire to use the rock song as a vehicle of total transformation. Though it may be hard to square the All Saved Freak Band with the slick, suburban profile of CCM, they remain formative figures in the genre, with their messianic intensity providing the essential rock ‘n’ roll element of risk.” [The freaky origins of Christian rock by Erik Davis, Slate Magazine, 7/31/07]
“One of the most highly regarded bands in the whole Jesus music era.” [Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms U.K.]
“One of America’s greatest hippie, Christian bands. While bands like Petra and Resurrection Band spent the ’70s perfecting a heavy rock’n’roll, ASFB plowed a blusier furrow. One joy is the fact that they wrote songs that were simple in their message, songs to get people to think about the Gospel, an art that seems missing in modern Christian music.” [Mike Rimmer, Cross Rhythms Online Magazine, U.K., 3/13/09]
“One of the most fascinating and controversial aggregations in the whole development of Christian music, the All Saved Freak Band were a pivotal group as the Church sought to come to terms with the ’60s and ’70s musical culture to develop Jesus music…..an unexpected and ongoing musical legacy.” [All Saved Freak Band: Jesus Music Pioneers, Cross Rhythms Online Magazine U.K., Tony Cummings]
“The Jesus Movement looked to already existing forms of communication. Alternative Christian newspapers became popular. Dance, drama, mime and other media were used. And, in perhaps the most lasting development, the Jesus movement turned to rock music. Modern Jesus music was invented and artists such as Agape and the All Saved Freak Band burst on the scene.” [The Liturgical Renewal Movement, John W. Riggs]
“Truth be told, Jesus music was best served weird and the All Saved Freak Band had this down to a science. It was surprisingly good —part folk, part garage, part psychedelic, part blues and part who-knows-what.” [Rachel Khong, Yale Herald]
“Man, these guys were just so good! Wailing away one minute – folk mood, jazz lightness the next. Seems impossible on paper, but with ASFB it works. Showing maturity in sound and lyric, all their albums are treasures with layers of interest both musically and lyrically.” [Bob Felberg, New Creation Radio, WVOF and co-author of The Archivist]
“This is a tough band to figure out. With some of the best Christian 70s rock by anyone anywhere their music is stunningly powerful with a dark, creeping psychrock menace achieved via songwriting and guitar/organ arrangements that spell big league all the way. So much variety here, too – it never gets boring.” [Ken Scott, Archivist – Vintage Vinyl Jesus Music]
Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, Joe Walsh of the Eagles and Glenn Schwartz of the All Saved Freak Band covering the ASFB tune, “Daughter of Zion” from their 1973 album, “My Poor Generation.”
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