Agreed, and thanks for posting this. The H-S combination of a humbuc Show More Specs Dustin Kensrue Stingray Electric Guitar Specifications: Body Body shape: Double cutaway Body type: Solid body "So, the writing, recording and everything is all in that one place, and it's exciting, especially for recording our own music. The album opened at 142 on the Billboard 200 with 5,800 copies sold the first week. Because of this, I can relate, and find it even more devastating to see just how far down the deconstruction hole he has gotten. I love that, because it grants a sort of permission to rest with our questions, our big or small chunks of unbelief, and our inability to understand the infiniteness of God.God desires Dustin to be saved. I haven't been following, but am a fan of Kensrue and Thrice. They are very endearing and earnest in a way that seems like it shouldn't work, but he somehow makes it work. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, Around the 45 minute mark of this podcast. Is it unusual to acquire a special respect and affinity for the composer who reflects a personal conviction shared by the listener? God desires all of us to be saved. Probably not the best tactic on my end. I try to be respectful of the fact that Im in a band with people who disagree with me on some pretty major stuff, and so if theres something thats really making them uncomfortable I dont think its in any way wrong or selling out my convictions to be accommodating. Since you talk about it during your shows, how has the reaction been different than in the past? We don't know.I'm praying for Dustin in the same way that I hope all of us are praying that all people be saved. Driscoll and the MH situation was a whole mess which still causes harm to this day, since Driscoll is out doing his own thing at a new church and still being a yahoo. He and his wifeShadlie Ruby Smith have three daughters. where we have big conversations through the lens of the good, the true, & the beautiful. I had heard that then and I hadn't heard anything from them in a while, but then in 2003 I was in New York, and there used to be a gigantic Virgin Mega Store there and they had a bunch of listening stations there. [1] On January 23, 2007, Kensrue released a solo album titled Please Come Home on Equal Vision Records. Is this truly where he wants to go for inspiration? I was wondering about and I was like, 'Nada Surf? No, I didn't post this in the wrong sub. can you post a link to his denial of PSA? My wife and I listen to them a ton. Thanks for posting this. I haven't even purchased Thrice's new album; I can't bring myself to listen to the songs and lyrics he has written. "But, yeah, that record holds up, and I listen to it often. Featuring innovative design characteristics engineered specifically for Dustin's playing style, the Kensrue StingRay offers unique features and finishes that offers players a new look at one . He just crafts something very relevant and current from those ideas and stories that humans have contemplated for centuries.I can see how his spiritual change taints your experience of his music but I hope that you can still find meaning in it. Just because I got so into OK Computer and when I knew they had another record coming out, I was so excited. Download sheet music for Dustin Kensrue. Its not my band. Around the 45 minute mark of this podcast, his view on Scripture is troubling. What is it that has driven the band to change so much over the years? Kensrue intended to donate 5% of the proceeds from Please Come Home to a non-profit organization called To Write Love on Her Arms. I was lucky enough to have the singer Mathew [Caws] on my podcast (opens in new tab), and he's just amazing. "All Glory Be To Christ" was . He wrote some beautiful songs with challenging lyrics and really strengthened my faith. I just wish it wasn't Dustin setting the cautionary example. I was just telling my friend about Of Dust and Nations. Then some of the reformed stuff was going on when I wrote Beggars so you see that kind of reflected on that record, like in The Great Exchange.. Ive got so many songs by them that mean so much to meAt the Last, Of Dust and Nations, Words in the Water, man the list goes on forever. This Good Night Is Still Everywhere was released digitally through Vagrant Records on November 18. I can't even tell you why that was the one I started listening to, or maybe I was trying to listen to a couple, and that one caught on with me sooner. Singer, songwriter and guitarist DUSTIN KENSRUE will release his new album, CARRY THE FIRE, on Staple Records/Vagrant Records. I actually credit Thrice for expanding my music taste throughout the years. If your intention was to claim that good Christian music was _actually_ commonplace and routine, that was the opposite of what the structure of that sentence implied. Log in. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. I haven't been able to get into Thrice's newer stuff due to Dustin's theological changes in recent years. Did that darker time in your faith come out in any of the bands earlier albums? "So, my buddy Nate Burke, who is the bass player for a band called Frodus, got me into a lot of music but the huge thing he introduced me to and the whole band through that was the band Talk Talk, but specifically their last two records, Spirit Of Eden and Laughing Stock. I've read many an article talking about those who have fallen from the faith or have shown they never believed (depending on one's theological views) and they usually start with the feeble attempt to make it seem like they are writing this out of love, but one paragraph in to the article you can already tell they harbor some strong negative feelings towards whoever they are writing against and you see their article probably has very little to do with the 'speaking the truth in love' which they try to hold to at the beginning and more with their personal vendetta. Anybody can hit people over the head with accusations of bad theology and slap a Bible verse on it. Also, there are a lot of scholarly, devout Christians, who dont believe the Bible is inerrant, including one of Dustins idols, C.S. She still sees her doctors and shes on the Keto for Cancer diet, but she looks at it as a maintenance program. [19], In 2012, Kensrue formed the band The Modern Post at the Mars Hill Church in Orange County, California. Become a patron. Pretty sad read. But these two were pretty far along, and yeah, we decided to finish them up. I love his work on The Modern Post, some of the most encouraging to me as of late. Maybe he is already. Is this the true farewell tour or the semi-farewell tour? [21] The band also re-recorded the songs from Kensrue's solo project The Water & the Blood in a live setting, and released as The Water & the Blood (Acoustic Sessions). Did you just hit me over the head with accusations of bad theology and slap your own opinions on it? Amy Lee, Gotye, Chris Daughtry, and Julian Casablancas were also His acquaintances. Its hard to look back and dissect when I consciously started observing certain things about why I did things, but generally Ive always written that way. I grew up listening to tons of my parent's records, and a lot of that stuff was very very influential, but like, I always had it there. Dustin Michael Kensrue (pronounced KENZ-roo) is a musician, singer and songwriter. No matter how progressive our sanctified state, we can all relate. But I think the balance of all our personalities has been a key part of why the band has sounded the way it has and changed the way it has. Beliefnet is a lifestyle website providing feature editorial content around the topics of inspiration, spirituality, health, wellness, love and family, news and entertainment. Maybe somewhere else you explain your disagreements with these views, but this whole blog post just came across as incredibly arrogant, and your use of scripture in responding to another commenter here seemed weirdly aggressive and closed-minded. He basically says that if you are transformed at a deep level by whatever truth you believe then thats going to work itself out into your art. BA1 1UA. I was always very critical of my faith, making sure that it warranted belief and testing it, finding evidence for it or against it. So thank you! I feel like I know every little piece of it, every horn line, melody, it's just great. Excitement spread quickly throughout MySpace and the independent music community. Cho Kuk Edgar Berger James Cantor Christopher Nielsen Daniel David Era Natarasan Kim Hollingsworth Aidan Ryan Scott Rothbort His ways are not our own. Maybe God wants Dustin to keep seeking. He's also performed under the professional aliasUrsus Veritas as a solo recording artist. He and fellow Thrice member Teppei Teranishi performed in a band called Chapter 11 prior to starting Thrice. r/Reformed exists to be a place where reformed believers, in a broader understanding of the term, can come together, unified by a clear Gospel witness, to exhort one another, spur one another on intellectually in reformed theology, and discuss doctrine. The new album is the long anticipated follow-up to his 2007 solo debut, Please Come Home. Although still a depressing story, this was truly refreshing to read simply because of how you presented it. . Thrice are a band that refuses to be pigeonholed. One day I got in my car and those first four notes hit, and I was just like, oh my God, I get it. He has an essay called On Writing Childrens Stories and its really good, really helpful for I think any artist to read, not just someone of faith. We're talking about experimenting with smaller formats stuff EPs, and whatever". In a previous life, I worked in music retail, giving advice on all aspects of music creation, selling everything from digital pianos to electric guitars, entire PA systems to ukuleles. I pray for the man as I too believe that his lyricism and song writing talent is unmatched in his generation.I'm actually seeing Thrice for the first time, playing in Rochester NY this evening. Dustin Kensrue's Life Path Number is 2 as per numerology, it means he is motivated by community, harmony, and relationships. Not only did he get himself through a messy divorce, but he also spent time in jail after refusing to pay his court-ordered alimony. I think it's possible, but I don't want to lead you astray [laughs]". Just listen to "The Grey" and you can see his descent into postmodern idealism among other things. He had the opportunity to perform on the Late Show with David Letterman in 2007. Many of us obviously never expected that he would start traveling the same road of denying the authority of scripture and Christ as "the Way" as so many of those folks have. I'm also a fully qualified sound engineer with experience working in various venues in Scotland. @dustinkensrue. The Beatles, Zeppelin, the Stones, and stuff like that. "I'd say that this record is my favourite heavy music record of all time. https://twitter.com/dustinkensrue?lang=en. Im not familiar with the phrase process theology, but God does certainly change how he interacts with man, and his systems, laws, and covenant are evolving from Genesis to Revelation, though God himself is unchanging in His personality and nature. I have fun going back to the stuff I grew up listening to. Tragically, a deep snare had been laid, as brother Dustin would ultimately find himself in the midst of one of the swiftest descents in recent religious history. At certain points you are kind of guiding where it ends up and fine tuning it, but youre not starting out with this I need to get this idea across in this kind of song. Just letting it flow a little more naturally is really helpful. Seems to me Kensrue would be better served by CS Lewis, Chesterton, Augustine, maybe even Plato, than his current list. I think Horizons / East is the best-sounding thing we've ever done. Is he actually becoming theologically liberal or you just don't like his political leanings? MusicRadar is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. I went to Mars Hill until shortly before the implosion. 52 on Billboard 200, selling 7,000 copies in its first week.[13]. Dustin Kensrue will celebrate 43rd birthday on a Saturday 18th of November 2023. If I had to choose my favourite, I would say, Laughing Stock, probably because I like the production a little better the vocals are a little more natural sounding on it. [17], In October 2014, Kensrue resigned amid controversy surrounding pastor Mark Driscoll,[18] returning to California with his wife and three daughters. It's devastating. But, last night I finished it up and Teppei is finishing the mixes tonight. so sad. "She's doing great," he admitted to the . I think generally, just that weve stuck to our guns in valuing the art over the industry. I hope to see them when they come to Germany later this year, unless Corona has other plans "All of the woods already rotting, though you've made it gleam.You've painted every shortcut,Concealed each crooked seam.But every flaw will be revealed, Each imperfection shown.Oh I can hear the wind howlAnd the timber groan"Very sad and ironic indeed. The album lyrically exudes redemption, personal worth, love, acceptance, and hope. "[Laughs] What? Let this be a lesson. Kensrue poetically takes on the morally bankrupt ways of the political establishment while evoking deep Christian sentiments and imagery throughout the 11 track musical juggernaut. A good example of that is how all of Narnia came not from what people would assume; that he wanted to teach people certain things about Christianity and teach it to children so he wrote it in a certain form. Over a year later, we check in to see how the band are settling into their new digs. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The song on there, or maybe it's on their next record [2005's The Weight Is A Gift], Always Love, Hate Will Get You Every Time; it seems so trite, but in the context of the song it really works, and it feels like it matters and it's a real thing". To say that he NEVER EVEN WAS a believer and to cast him aside as such is just as tragic; and to make claims about the state of his salvation is, in the words of Thrice, "to play at God, play at God. [26] He has a tattoo of Proverbs 9:10a ("The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom") written in Hebrew on his left forearm.[27]. They're sensitive empaths, so they can pick up the emotions of others, and they're generally reserved and kindhearted. The fourth solo outing for Thrice frontman Dustin Kensrue, 2015's Carry the Fire finds the Christian singer/songwriter delivering more of his heartfelt and melodic faith-based rock. 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