The latest from fortress.
08 is here and we are ready! We will be promoting our CD "closer" this year. We are ready to bring our ministry to you. If you want to book us for a show we can bring Rock and Worship to your event. Call or email us. Read on and you can find out more...
We have a huge line up of old and new songs that everyone can enjoy.
As of late,we still love to rock out to the originals Chris has written.
We are willing to do a worship concert or a rock concert.
Sometimes we do both and mix the sets up. Fortress has had the opportunity to open for some great bands like:
Guardian, Jacob's Trouble, Bride, Broken Yoke &
The Dennis Myers Electric Laser Light Show Orchestra.
If your interested in booking a show or would like to know
more about the band you can email Chris Adams at... thefortressband@hotmail.com or contact Chris at 419-238-2695. God Bless.
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***WANNA BUY A SONG? GO TO OUR SITE ON iTUNES or Rhapsody.
Here's a link you can use to buy our songs. Happy Listening..
www.tunecore.com/music/fortress
The new cd is excellent. The songs are well laid out and the quality is perfect. This one has great potential to be a great toold for God. Just wanted to let you know.. Robert "Wilber"
I would like to add my point of view on the subject at hand. When is to old to ROCK? "Never" Matter of fact, we are not even "closer" to be livin on "borrowed time" as long as "the son goes round." "Don't walk away" at the chance to pick up a guitar and just Rock! "Where do we go?" from here? Straight to my basement, where we will be having a "party rock yaw." "We rejoice" at thought of jamming. It's in our blood and I can't imagine not Rockin. JR, "he'll be there" and Scotty to. We will play for the Lord untill someone say's we can't. So the question I would like to ask is; "are you ready?"
As I contemplate life's great mysteries..(who invented Rice a Roni, Who invented the one-note guitar solo, Why do we park in driveways and not in parkways?), I realized...bam! I'm almost 40....eeeeek!
Wait a sec. I joined Fortress at 23. I was skinny and had a wild head of hair! Metallica dominated the airwaves and Guns and Roses was still around...only about 4 hours late!
What truly amazes me is how I feel like I'm 17...only with creaky hips and an achy- breaky back! (Sorry Billy Ray!)Just about the time I think my rocking days are over, givivng way to the "Blue Hairs and Wheel Chairs" tour, I realize hey, I ain't old yet.
My contribution to music isn't archives of old music. Heck, many of rap's masters are almost my age! As long as I have a point and as long as I'm willing to voice it, I am still valid.
A woman made a discouraging comment that rock is dead. Even Bon Jovi is country now. I believe that as long as there is Guitar Hero, rock will be alive in the hearts of the young and beat on until Jesus comes. .....besides, Peter means rock in Greek!
As promised...my treatise on the guitar solo. Here it is JR, man!
In the late 1940's, many wind instruments played solo parts in the jazz orchestra. Rhythm instruments did also, but the king of the solo instruments was the trumpet.
In the 1950's, rock music developed from the old blues and jazz ages. The saxophone and the guitar became the focal point...aside from the singer, of course.
The sixties and seventies saw the development of a new and exciting development for guitar... the twenty minute guitar solo!!! (Freebird, yeah!) Between Hendrix, Clapton, and Page, there were so many truly artistic guitarists. Then came Van Halen...a nuclear blast of sound and fury!
The years following in the eighties and early nineties, many more giants of guitar prowess gained the stage...Satriani, Vai, and Malmsteen to name three. No, I havent forgotten the others, I merely truncated to save myspace...(Haha!)
1992 saw the death knell of the guitar solo. Popular trends towards more emotion, less flash and fury. Many of us enjoyed the new rock, yes, but still mourned the loss of that beautiful cascading of notes between the second and third verses.
Years passed, the hip hop nation grew and assumed its place in popular culture. Yes, every generation has suffered it's own loss... jazz to rock, rock to metal, metal to rap.
In 2007, Fortress recorded "Closer". Its guitar rock hopefully takes you on a sonic journey on some beautiful, emotionally charged, yet technical solos. What truly matters is not the musical style or taste... Jesus is what truly matters. Pop trends will come and go like leg warmers, but Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever.
SEND YOUR MUSIC TO ME TO BE PLAYED ALL OVER THE WORLD!!!! -------------------------------------- Hey there!
Shawn of Migraines fame here. (I know. . ."yeah, right"! hehe)
Anyhoo, I need music from ya'll!!! I DON'T CARE WHAT STYLE!!!!!!!
DO NOT THINK YOU ARE TOO HEAVY!!!! I WILL BE PLAYING SOME SERIOUSLY HEAVY MUSIC!!!!
I am one of the on air personalities for Remedy.FM. Specifically, my show airs on Wednesday nights from 7-Midnight and covers independent artists. That means, local to Fort Wayne and across teh universe as long as you are either:
a) unsigned
or,
2) on an independent (not major) record label
Remedy. FM is a "positive radio" station, which primarily means Christian, but not limited to said "Christian" music. In other words, we'll be playing U2, Evanescence, Crud. . ., I mean, Creed, etc. You get the drill.
Sooooooooooo, as previously stated. . . I NEED YOUR MUSIC!!
Please send two cds to:
Shawn Browning c/o Remedy.FM P.O. Box 5051 Ft. Wayne, IN 46895
Then, log onto www.remedy.fm on Wednesday nights and maybe you'll hear yourself go across the planet on my show!!!
CD's! The first box has arrived! Thats great news considering we're having our cd release show in fountain park Saturday night. 7:30 is show time! Come on out and rock with us!
Okay, the opinion you've all been waiting for...the only one that really matters.
The new stuff is very nice, you guys have come a long way; that's awesome!
I like how each of the songs you have posted her give a different vibe from the others.
When I listen to The Son Goes Round I think of Reliant K. Nothing To Big and He'll Be There take me back to King's X (pre Dog Man)...which is a great sound. And then you mix it up a bit with a very Tom Petty like Sick and Tired.
Nice very nice. Toss in some screaming vocales and you're all set.
