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Papa Bear · 10-14-2011, 06:14 PM

(10-14-2011 03:22 PM)captain_solo Wrote: http://mediastore.cedarville.edu/Sketch_...864C42.cfm

from this link it appears he was still speaking in 1996

Well, that's definitely later than the most recent appearance I'd heard of before.

Strangly Warmed · 11-20-2011, 12:13 AM

I remember him speaking at a youth rally. He played some song with a female artist. He said that her moaning was the simulation of over 80 orgasms! I couldn't believe he said that. Baptists weren't supposed to know what those were.

Harry Seaward · 03-15-2012, 10:16 PM

Sorry to knock the dust off this one, but I ran across this thread while searching for Sketch Erickson and wondering what ever happened to him.

I saw Sketch in Phoenix in late '84/early '85 when I attended Grace Christian School. They packed us 8th-graders in vans (someone might have gotten pregnant, so boys in one van, girls in another) and took us to another fundy church school 3 or 4 days in a row. By the end of the week, I was freaked out to even turn my radio on for fear that demons would come out of the speakers and take over my brain. My best friend and I swore off secular music "forever". We destroyed our Prince and Hall and Oats records and his parents even destroyed their entire secular music collection - Billy Joel, Michael McDonald, Fleetwood Mac and the like.

I ended up buying all three of Sketch's presentations on audio cassette at the end of the week. I ran across them a few years ago when I moved so I probably still have them around here somewhere, although being 30 years old, I'm sure they would never play anymore.

**Bill** · 03-20-2012, 08:29 AM

I sat through a presentation or two that sounds a lot like this when I grew up. I don't remember who did them, but one (I believe) happened at The Wilds.

I learned all sorts of things like the anapestic beat's evil roots in (evil) African tribal dances, KISS meant "Knights In Satan's Service" and AC/DC meant "Anti-Christ/Devil's Children".

I clearly recognize, as an independent, rational adult that most of it was made up nonsense designed to scare people into conformity with the norms of the sub-culture. At the time, it was soooo real.

**Sharon** · 03-20-2012, 08:36 AM

(03-20-2012 08:29 AM)Bill Wrote: I sat through a presentation or two that sounds a lot like this when I grew up. I don't remember who did them, but one (I believe) happened at The Wilds.

I learned all sorts of things like the anapestic beat's evil roots in (evil) African tribal dances, KISS meant "Knights In Satan's Service" and AC/DC meant "Anti-Christ/Devil's Children".

I clearly recognize, as an independent, rational adult that most of it was made up nonsense designed to scare people into conformity with the norms of the sub-culture. At the time, it was soooo real.

The Wilds is where I saw David Benoit give the anti-rock speech. You might have seen him. (I don't know if this Sketch guy ran in Wilds circles. I never heard of him before)

Papa Bear · 03-20-2012, 08:49 AM

(03-20-2012 08:29 AM)Bill Wrote: I learned all sorts of things like the anapestic beat's evil roots in (evil) African tribal dances, KISS meant "Knights In Satan's Service" and AC/DC meant "Anti-Christ/Devil's Children".

Apparently, enough people called Sketch out on this one. The last time I saw him, he said he couldn't find proof that KISS meant their name to stand for "Knights in Satan's Service" but they were kings in Satan's service as far has he was concerned. I'm pretty sure Sketch was also the one who claimed that AC/DC was code (IIRC, he said "Australian slang") for "bisexual".

(03-20-2012 08:29 AM)Bill Wrote: I clearly recognize, as an independent, rational adult that most of it was made up nonsense designed to scare people into conformity with the norms of the sub-culture. At the time, it was soooo real.

I feel the same way. But at the time, I believed it, too.

captain_solo · 03-20-2012, 03:23 PM

(03-20-2012 08:36 AM)Sharon Wrote:
(03-20-2012 08:29 AM)Bill Wrote: I sat through a presentation or two that sounds a lot like this when I grew up. I don't remember who did them, but one (I believe) happened at The Wilds.

I learned all sorts of things like the anapestic beat's evil roots in (evil) African tribal dances, KISS meant "Knights In Satan's Service" and AC/DC meant "Anti-Christ/Devil's Children".

I clearly recognize, as an independent, rational adult that most of it was made up nonsense designed to scare people into conformity with the norms of the sub-culture. At the time, it was soooo real.

The Wilds is where I saw David Benoit give the anti-rock speech. You might have seen him. (I don't know if this Sketch guy ran in Wilds circles. I never heard of him before)

I saw sketch live, and someone felt I needed all 65 hours of Benoit's stuff on Rock and Roll, and the Occult. Remember sitting through the VHS series at some institution or another. It was basically an exercise in not laughing, and not singing along with the music which of course all of us Christian school kids knew (well except for all the old out of date Classic Rock stuff that we didn't know, didn't listen to the Classics till I was a more discerning adult and left the Hair metal for actual music)

Tonx · 03-20-2012, 03:48 PM

(03-15-2012 10:16 PM)Harry Seaward Wrote: We destroyed our Prince and Hall and Oats records and his parents even destroyed their entire secular music collection - Billy Joel, Michael McDonald, Fleetwood Mac and the like.

OH LORD NOT BILLY JOEL!

**Bill** · (This post was last modified: 03-20-2012 06:56 PM by Bill.)

That was it! My folks bought the Benoit tape when he came to G'ville later on.
I remember repeatedly thinking "dude, no one listens to those bands anymore" and going to a music store to figure out who "Deo" was. I remember the occult sermons too...

(03-20-2012 08:36 AM)Sharon Wrote:
(03-20-2012 08:29 AM)Bill Wrote: I sat through a presentation or two that sounds a lot like this when I grew up. I don't remember who did them, but one (I believe) happened at The Wilds.

I learned all sorts of things like the anapestic beat's evil roots in (evil) African tribal dances, KISS meant "Knights In Satan's Service" and AC/DC meant "Anti-Christ/Devil's Children".

I clearly recognize, as an independent, rational adult that most of it was made up nonsense designed to scare people into conformity with the norms of the sub-culture. At the time, it was soooo real.

The Wilds is where I saw David Benoit give the anti-rock speech. You might have seen him. (I don't know if this Sketch guy ran in Wilds circles. I never heard of him before)