Volts From The Underground

Recommended If You Like: A Novel By Adam Voith Little Engines Book The coolest eight people in the world were in Best Video the other night. What made them cool was they — and only they, nobody else — were listening to a series of old cassette recordings that might have been lost to time. Even when the recordings were new, few people heard about them. An Indianapolis teen named Andy Humphrey recorded the cassettes, then sent them to people who made copies and passed them around. He titled the series “The Christian Humper.” Twenty-one of those cassettes were homemade then passed along an underground circuit back in the 1990s. Twenty of the cassettes survived. The cassettes documented his plunge into the world of Christian rock and metal from within the confines of a fundamentalist Christian upbringing; then his gradual emergence from that world into a budding career as a metal music agent.

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