Rebel for God by Eddie DeGarmo

Author:Eddie DeGarmo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Salem Books

TWENTY-THREE

Jesus Is Coming

I first met Dan Brock in 1979. I knew of him and his Nashville-based management and booking agency, called The Tame Agency, for a while before I met him. Dan was the manager of the Christian rock band Petra. Even though Petra formed the same year Dana and I formed our “Christian Band,” they got established much more quickly than we did. Their first album came out in 1974, four full years before This Time Thru. By 1978 they were on their third album and touring quite a bit. We felt like we were still just getting started.

I invited Dan to come see us perform in 1978. We were playing a concert in Memphis at our home church and I thought it would be good for Dan to see us in action. He said he’d come and I was excited to see what he thought of us. I was pretty sure we needed some additional partners in the music business to help us get to the next level, especially in terms of touring. Unfortunately, he stood us up that night.

I was determined to meet with him, though. I talked Dana into driving to Nashville, unannounced, to just show up on his agency’s doorstep. It was a brazen move, and could have backfired big-time, but I thought it was a risk worth taking. So that’s what we did. We drove to Music Row in Nashville and waltzed right through the front door of The Tame Agency. We asked the receptionist, Darlene, if we could see Dan Brock.

“Do you have an appointment?” she asked politely.

I told the truth. “No we don’t,” I said. “We were just driving through town and thought we’d drop in.”

Darlene, who later became Mrs. Dan Brock, got up from her chair, went into Dan’s office, and closed the door. A couple of seconds later his door opened and Dan came out. “Hello guys,” he said, inviting us in. “Glad you could drop by. Have a seat.”

Dan was a tall drink of water. He towered over us at six foot six inches, but we had him on the weight. One of my legs probably weighed more than him. He wore long dirty-blonde hair down past his shoulders parted down the middle and had a goatee about four inches long. He kind of looked like Greg Allman.

We’ve laughed about that meeting many times over the years. Dan once told me, “I figured I had better meet with you just to keep you from breaking down my door.”

He was right. I was one determined fella in those days. I guess it was hard to tell me “no.” Maybe I just have a hard time hearing that word. Dana was always less forward and aggressive about our business dealings. He was fine to let me take the lead in those areas. When it came to ministry work, however, he definitely grabbed the reigns. I was cool with that, too.

When we met with Dan Brock in Nashville that day, I must have asked him a thousand questions about how things worked with Petra.

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