Doppelgänger (Daniel Amos album)
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Doppelgänger is the title of a 1983 album by rock
band
Daniel Amos
, released on Alarma! Records.
Doppelgänger was a much darker, more haunting album than the album that preceded it, ¡Alarma!.
The album starts with the eerie backward sounds of "Hollow Man" (inspired by T. S. Eliot
's poem, The Hollow Men).
Taylor's lyrics to "I Didn't Build it For Me", "Autographs for the Sick", and "New Car" were sharp attacks on televangelists, that actually predate the Jimmy Swaggart
/Jim Bakker
/Robert Tilton
scandals by nearly a decade.
Doppelgänger was the second of a four part series
of albums by DA entitled The ¡Alarma! Chronicles
, which also included the albums ¡Alarma!, Vox Humana, and Fearful Symmetry
. The band raised eyebrows on the tour that followed each release, by presenting a full multimedia event complete with video screens synchronized to the music, something that was unusual in the early 1980s for any band. This album, along with the other three albums from the Alarma! Chronicles, was rereleased as part of the Alarma! Chronicles Book set in 2000. The Book Set included 3 CDs, over 200 pages of lyrics, photos, liner notes, essays, interviews and other information in a hardcover book.
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
band
Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...
Daniel Amos
Daniel Amos
Daniel Amos is a rock band formed in 1974 by Terry Scott Taylor on guitars and vocals, Marty Dieckmeyer on bass guitar, Steve Baxter on guitars and Jerry Chamberlain on lead guitars. Current members include bassist Tim Chandler, guitarist Greg Flesch and drummer Ed McTaggart...
, released on Alarma! Records.
Doppelgänger was a much darker, more haunting album than the album that preceded it, ¡Alarma!.
The album starts with the eerie backward sounds of "Hollow Man" (inspired by T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...
's poem, The Hollow Men).
Taylor's lyrics to "I Didn't Build it For Me", "Autographs for the Sick", and "New Car" were sharp attacks on televangelists, that actually predate the Jimmy Swaggart
Jimmy Swaggart
Jimmy Lee Swaggart is a Pentecostal American pastor, teacher, musician, television host, and televangelist. He has preached to crowds around the world through his weekly telecast...
/Jim Bakker
Jim Bakker
James Orsen "Jim" Bakker is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister, and a former host of The PTL Club, a popular evangelical Christian television program.A sex scandal led to his resignation from the ministry...
/Robert Tilton
Robert Tilton
Robert Tilton is an American televangelist who achieved notoriety in the 1980s and early 1990s through his infomercial-styled religious television program Success-N-Life, which at its peak in 1991 aired in all 235 American TV markets , brought in nearly $80 million per year, and was described as...
scandals by nearly a decade.
Doppelgänger was the second of a four part series
Tetralogy
A tetralogy is a compound work that is made up of four distinct works, just as a trilogy is made up of three works....
of albums by DA entitled The ¡Alarma! Chronicles
The ¡Alarma! Chronicles
The ¡Alarma! Chronicles is the name of a short story written by Terry Scott Taylor.The story was originally included in four albums released by the rock band Daniel Amos...
, which also included the albums ¡Alarma!, Vox Humana, and Fearful Symmetry
Fearful Symmetry (album)
Fearful Symmetry is a 1986 album by rock band Daniel Amos, released on Frontline Records.Fearful Symmetry is a lush, synthesizer driven pop album, lyrically wrapped in puzzles that the listener has to decipher...
. The band raised eyebrows on the tour that followed each release, by presenting a full multimedia event complete with video screens synchronized to the music, something that was unusual in the early 1980s for any band. This album, along with the other three albums from the Alarma! Chronicles, was rereleased as part of the Alarma! Chronicles Book set in 2000. The Book Set included 3 CDs, over 200 pages of lyrics, photos, liner notes, essays, interviews and other information in a hardcover book.
Side One
- "Hollow Man" (Taylor)
- "Mall (All Over The World)" (Taylor)
- "Real Girls" (Taylor, Chamberlain)
- "New Car!" (Taylor)
- "Do Big Boys Cry" (Taylor)
- "Youth With A Machine" (Taylor)
- "The Double" (Taylor)
- "Distance and Direction" (Taylor)
Side two
- "Memory Lane" (Taylor)
- "Angels Tuck You In" (Taylor)
- "Little Crosses" (Chamberlain)
- "Autographs for the Sick" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor, Chamberlain, Chandler)
- "I Didn't Build It For Me" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor, Chamberlain)
- "Here I Am" (Taylor)
- "Hollow Man (Reprise)" (Taylor)
Personnel
- Terry Scott TaylorTerry Scott TaylorTerry Scott Taylor is an American songwriter, record producer, writer and founding member of the bands Daniel Amos and The Swirling Eddies . Taylor is also a member of the roots and alternative music group, Lost Dogs. He is currently based in San Jose, California, USA.Taylor is highly regarded for...
– rhythm guitars and lead vocals. - Jerry ChamberlainJerry ChamberlainJerry Chamberlain , is a United States singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer, best known for his work with the rock bands Daniel Amos and The Swirling Eddies ....
– lead guitars, vocals, lead vocal on "Little Crosses", spoken lead vocal on "Autographs For The Sick". - Tim ChandlerTim ChandlerTim Chandler is a bass guitar player, best known for his work with the rock bands Daniel Amos, The Swirling Eddies and The Choir....
– bass guitar. - Ed McTaggartEd McTaggartEd McTaggart is an American drummer and artist. He is best known as the drummer of the rock band Daniel Amos.McTaggart joined DA in 1976, after years of playing with Bill Sprouse Jr.'s band The Road Home....
– drums.
Additional musicians
- Tom HowardTom Howard (musician)Tom Howard was an American pianist, musical arranger and orchestral conductor.In 1983, Howard helped the rock band Daniel Amos form the Alarma! Records label....
– Keyboards - Mark CookMark CookMark Cook is an American songwriter and keyboardist, best known for playing keyboards in the 1970s rock group Daniel Amos. Mark Cook later left the group to become a Calvary Chapel Pastor....
– Keyboards - Marty DieckmeyerMarty DieckmeyerMarty Dieckmeyer was the bass guitar player for the Christian rock band Daniel Amos from 1974 to 1981. Dieckmeyer sang the lead vocal on the song "Props" from the ¡Alarma! album in 1981...
– Keyboards - Jeff Lams – Keyboards
- Rob WatsonRob WatsonRobert D. Watson is a keyboard player, producer and composer best known for his work with the rock bands Daniel Amos and The Swirling Eddies...
– Keyboards. - Bill Colton – Saxophone
- Alex MacDougallAlex MacDougallAlex MacDougall is an American record producer, and percussionist. MacDougall is best known for being a member of the Christian rock band Daniel Amos in the late 1970s in addition to his production and recording session credits...
percussion. - Background vocals provided by Randy StonehillRandy StonehillRandall Evan "Randy" Stonehill is an American singer-songwriter from Stockton, California, best known as one of the so-called "fathers of contemporary Christian music". His music is primarily folk rock in the style of James Taylor, but he has assayed other styles, with various albums focused on...
, Tom Howard, Derri DaughertyDerri DaughertyDerri Daugherty is an American record producer, songwriter, guitarist and singer, best known as the lead singer and guitarist for band The Choir....
, Janet McTaggart, Dori Howard, Mark Cook, The Three Women from IstanbulIstanbulIstanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
, and Emilia Emulator.
Production Notes
- Engineered by Thom Roy.
- Second Engineer – Derri Daugherty.
- Recorded and Mixed at Whitefield Studios, Santa Ana, CaliforniaSanta Ana, CaliforniaSanta Ana is the county seat and second most populous city in Orange County, California, and with a population of 324,528 at the 2010 census, Santa Ana is the 57th-most populous city in the United States....
. - Mastered at MCA Whitney by Steve Hall.
- Rehearsals and Arrangements Recorded at the Rebel Base, Santa Ana.
- Album Art Concepts Terry Taylor, Derrill Bazzy and Phillip Mangano.
- Photography – Derrill Bazzy and Bonnie Ferguson.
- Art Direction – Derrill Bazzy.
- Keyboards arranged by Taylor/Chamberlain/Howard.
- 1992 CD Reissue Digitally Remastered by Doug Doyle.
- CD Repackaging by Tom GulottaTom GulottaTom Gulotta is best known as the head of the Stunt Records label, which was formed in 1990 with Daniel Amos frontman, Terry Scott Taylor....
and Court Patton, Patton Brothers Design. - Project Coordinator: Tom Gulotta