European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                White heart not your everyday rockers by Rosemary Sawyer stall writer it s not every Day a Rock band warns of the dangers of mtg most groups Are Loo Busy dreaming of the Day when one of their tapes airs on the 24-hour music video station. But then White heart is not your everyday Rock group its six members my and speak about some pretty heavy and unpopular messages. A a mtg is a huge problem that s not talked about at All Quot says Billy Smiley guitarist and Singer Tor the 8-year old Christian band. Smiley teels the video Channel tends to Breed Madonna Quot Wanna bes Quot who miss out on reality and set themselves up for disappointment. Through their Rock medium White heart tries to Tell today s youth Thal there s More out there than copying the stars about 300 people heard the message Sulu Day in Kaiserslautern West Germany during White heart s third concert of a two week european tour a Lwft a re not saying that to is evil or something like  says Lead Singer Rick Florian who s been known 1o Iune into the music Channel. Quot it s just something Thal we be lost responsibility about Quot with television serving As the nation s Babysitter. Quot we Are a country that is a victim a captive of our own  says Mark Gersmehl White heart founder and keyboardist Quot those Little blurbs on to or mtg or whatever your particular image is that s what we live Tor Quot Florian says the band members Are careful not to encourage Young people to Start idolizing them Quot we go out to the audience alter the concerts to hang with the kids Quot he says. Quot gelling Down Oft the Slage. As Small As that May seem Breaks Down a lot of those stereotypical barriers that we re these superstar kind of Guys they find out i m really just 5 9&Quot and not 7 feel tall Quot like other groups. While heart has climbed aboard a amps Lynda Dav Dion White heart Singer Rick Roden the anti drug bandwagon but with a different approach. Today s Wanna bes and drug addicted youths Are simply showing symptoms of deeper problems Florian says. While heart sings that there is a void in Many Young people s lives that can Only be fitted through commitment to Jesus Christ. Quot we have a lot of people out there who Are in Elm abandoned who Are feeling lonely and they la do whatever it takes including abusing themselves either physically with drugs or alcohol or food to try to fill that sense of emptiness Quot Gersmehl says. White heart is about Halfway through its Quot Freedom Quot tour with concerts scheduled through Spring in the United states and Australia. The band s Freedom album produced by Brown Bannister for Sparrow records has fared Well on the contemporary Christian charts since its release last year. White heart is currently Between recording contracts. Although the group might return to Sparrow the band members say they re checking All the options. They Don t aspire to Cross Over to a secular Label however As Christian Singer Amy Grant has Dona Quot we Don t Ever have any desire to be in a secular Field strictly to be in a secular Field Quot Gersmehl says a a lot of us have done things in the secular music Field end there s nothing wrong with that at All. But we re out there doing what to do because we believe in what we re  besides Gersmehl says with a chuckle christianity with its message of love your brother As yourself Quot is not an Overly popular theme in society  Quot of doubt whether they la Ever to flocking to us in droves with secular labels Quot to adds while Henri Powloff Norfi to dwt do Heim my Hrew Chru Illaff of 9 and in wine Den sladtha1le feb is few 1-Ckbltnc�Mtmn Ceil vouch Wiir. A Milton at 02143056 t have never understood the dynamics of a cold. We Ell know it carries with it chills fever nausea a Runny nose coughing and headache not la mention the ability to spread germs. But it carries with it another Side effect that is rarely mentioned a cold makes you social. I be seen recluses who have not been out of their Homes in 10 years. The moment they gel a cold the first thing they do is to drag them Servos out of bed get dressed and go to a crowded theater. Agnostics and Al resists grab their Coats and go to mass daily until their colds Are Over the office worker who has such a record of absenteeism that she puts her car in visitor parking shows up Early and stays late. That s Why colds Are considered the gift that keeps giving at a supermarket the other Day 1 not Al a Friend of mine hanging Over her cart. Her eyes were puffy and red her Cheeks were flushed she dabbed at her nose and her voice was barely audible through her parched lips Quot what Are you doing Here Quot i asked. She coughed on my cauliflower. Quot if 1 stayed Home i d think about dying Quot she said Quot i might As Well be on my  it seems the most cruel and inhumane advice a doctor can give to a cold sufferer is. Quot go to bed and drink lots of  Tell a person with a cold that she needs surgery and she won t bal an Eye. Tell her to sleep in and drink Orange juice and she freaks out. F can just hear her responding Quot let me gel this straight. You want me to Strelch out on a Nice warm bed and sleep and watch to All Day and not spread germs to the entire City you quack. I m getting a second opinion. This is my life we re talking about Quot the tendency to walk a cold to death on j to entertain it at parties concerts lectures and rest uranus has to be a part of the disease. Why else would the schools be full of children who would skip school if they slept on their hair Quot funny Quot but not if they had walking pneumonia7 i be seen men and women on the soaps struggle through love scenes sneezing and hacking that s unnatural there s an adage Quot you can Load a cold to a bed. But you can i make it lie in a i Quot or something like Thal. There s Lille Hope that we can get rid of this Side effect until we find a cure for the common cold. Scientists thought they had found a Vaccino Hal caused rabbits to develop antibodies in their immune system then someone remembered rabbits Don t get colds anyway. 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