Firestream info for Obadiah

Obadiah was the band my buddy was in back in the late 80s. I contacted him recently and got his blessing to submit the following info to the Firestream website. He's been thru some really tough times in recent years and I know his band being immortalized on a Christian music encyclopedia site would really boost his mood a bit.

Anyways, this is what I wrote up and submitted to OldSchoolDoom Daryl to include.
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* I've attached their album art and Logo.

* The sound bytes on the album pages are NOT the same Obadiah band and should be removed - there are no sound bytes for the correct band unfortunately.

* And finally, a small write up on the band is below.
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Sound: Classic Rock in the vein of Bob Seger, Stones, The Wallflowers.

These Southern California rockers came together in the late 80s under Kenny Myers leadership as the band "Obadiah".
All members have incredible testimonies they shared at concerts and prison ministries where they would show the love of Jesus to all who they came in contact with. Many people came to faith at their concerts. Theirs was truly a ministry FIRST, and rock 'n roll second.

Tragedy came in 1991 as a car accident took Drummer Ruben Chavez away from us. Though he was finally with the Savior he loved and sang about, the rest of the band mourned him pretty hard, especially Ken.

The band Obadiah has since called it a day, but their love for Jesus and ministry has continued on.


"Obadiah" Self Titled (1st release) 1988:


Ken Myers- Guitar, Vox;
George Pizarro- Guitar;
Ray Savedra- Bass, Vox;
Robbie Schooler- Drums, vox;


"Got a Message" (2nd release) 1990:

Ken Myers- Guitar, Vox;
Stacy Wallisa- Bass, Vox;
Ruben Chavez- Drums, vox;
Ed Williams- Keyboards;


"Obadiah" 2000 recording (3rd official release. New songs + re-recorded classics from the early albums):

Ken Myers- Guitars, Bass, Vox;
David Hughes, Ruben Chavez, Gary Whiteside- Drums;
Phil Thomasson, Richard Morrison- Bass, vox;
Dennis Cristal, Pat Myers- BGV;
Dave Zierenberg- Guitar;
Kristian Denbow, Keith Henderson- Keyboard;
Dan Zrelak- Keyboard, Guitar;
Matt Cordi- Acoustic Guitar, BGV.

Has it been posted yet?

Oh I doubt it. I just emailed Daryl all the info and jpgs.

They posted the previous Firestream info that was put up years ago by someone I sent copies of their albums to (Brother Wes) - however, and here's the weird part, someone posted sound bites for a band called Obadiah that aren't the same band. The sound clips are not even CLOSE to the Obadiah sound. So I told him to please remove those sound bites... not that there are very many people are looking into this obscure band, but it means a lot to me as well as my old bud Kenny. He's never seen the Firestream page, but when they get it all fixed and updated, I'm gonna send Ken the link to it. I just know he will feel so uplifted to know his little hometown band made it onto a huge music encyclopedia.

Funny, I thought Obadiah wasn't a talky kinda guy.

 

Definitely one of Apo's sillier lyrics... sigh

Very cool!

Apparently they have an app within the Firestream system where Spotify adds the sound clips to certain bands, whether it's the right band or NOT. And the Mods have no control over it.

So ridiculous !  So my buddy's band has some Spotify sound clips from another band by the same name that sound NOTHING like the original band.... shame.

I'm just surprised there was more than one band named Obadiah.

There are actually 3 that I'm aware of ! Weird eh ? I don't even think the other 2 are Christian either !

Guilty/Forgiven wrote:

There are actually 3 that I'm aware of ! Weird eh ? I don't even think the other 2 are Christian either !

Ok, that's even crazier   

Guilty/Forgiven wrote:

Apparently they have an app within the Firestream system where Spotify adds the sound clips to certain bands, whether it's the right band or NOT. And the Mods have no control over it.

So ridiculous !  So my buddy's band has some Spotify sound clips from another band by the same name that sound NOTHING like the original band.... shame.

 
So, this indeed does happen with Firestream & Spotify. Spotify searches for the right music and connects to what it 'thinks' is right. Does Obadiah have music on Spotify? If so, The band should resubmit their music to Spotify with an ID3 tag. If they don't, then (the same thing) their music should be uploaded to Spotify with an ID3 tag. That should then solve the problem.

Because it is an app from Spotify, mods don't have access to change it. It is pretty much either Firestream can connect to Spotify or not. For the most part Firestream being able to connect to Spotify is a great thing. Unfortunately, this error occasionally happens. Bands resubmitting to Spotify with an ID3 tag should solve this problem.

Another "unfortunately" is that our local Obadiah that is on Firestream is just that: Local, hometown, garage-y, small... in fact their first 2 releases in '88 and '90 were cassette only. Ken spent some money and released his own songs redone and more polished in 2000, but still a small town band. The only thing they have on the internet at all is the 2000 CD for sale on CD Baby http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/obadiah
It's a shame they can't link the sound clips from CD Baby to Firestream.

You can get your music on Spotify through CD Baby.

Xid wrote:

You can get your music on Spotify through CD Baby.

Oh can you? That's a good idea! It's worth a try at least.....

Spotify is very good for those with paid subscriptions.

FYI, I have updated OBADIAH as much as I am able to on Firestream.

Another option to get people to hear what the (real) band sounds like is to link a YouTube of their song or songs onto their FS page.

oldschooldoom wrote:

FYI, I have updated OBADIAH as much as I am able to on Firestream.

Cool!