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Living Sound IV in the USSR, 1978 - COME BEFORE WINTER

Living Sound Team IV, 1978, 7m42s version. (Jun. 8-12, 1978). “COME BEFORE WINTER” Tallinn, Estonia concerts at Oleviste Kirik (9th) and Metodista Kirik (11th) • JON KARNER, HERBERT MURD, TERRY LAW, MICHAEL MCKIBBEN, co-executive producers • JON and ANNE KARNER, “Sela”, aka Living Sound Team V, director • TERRY LAW, president, preacher • MICHAEL MCKIBBEN, European director • JERRY DIXON, cinematographer • TOM IVY, film editor • OLAV PÄRNAMETS, pastor, Eesti Metodisti Kirik, Tallinn • ÜLO MERILOO, pastor, Oleviste Kirik, Tallinn • MAE BATES (née Tamm, Roos), TANI ROOS, ULLE POPE (née Tamm, Kopli), TÖNU KOPLI, Estonian logistics • SHAWN ALEXANDER, team leader, preacher • RANDY INNES, road manager, vocals, acoustic guitar • TED JEANS, vocals, acoustic guitar • SANDY CASS (née Barnard), vocals • KAREN STEWART (née Barton), vocals • ROGER FRIEND, drums • NICK NEWMAN, bass guitar, trumpet • WAYNE KENT, keyboards, trombone • DAVID MORRISON, music director, lead guitar, vocals • BRIAN FELTY, sax, flute • TOM STEWART, trumpet • CRAIG WATSON, sound engineer • DIANA NEWMAN (née Weathers), photographer, secretary • NANCY MCKIBBEN (née Hoovler), Living Sound International Report journalist and print editor

Publisher: Living Sound International.

“Their sound has gone out to all the earth, and their word to the ends of the world.”
Romans 10:18b.

On Aug. 23, 1989, 11 years after this first Living Sound visit, a choir of two million citizens of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, young and old, formed a human chain that spanned from Tallinn to Vilnius. This was a watershed event in "The Singing Revolution" in the Baltics. The name was coined by a Heinz Valik article following a spontaneous Jun. 10-11, 1988 mass evening singing demonstration at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds. Estonian leaders say that Living Sound's visits a decade earlier were an inspiration for the bloodless “Singing Revolution” in Estonia. They say Living Sound had inspired young and old alike to have courage and step out into their totalitarian darkness, armed with love, light, hope and the power of Gospel music to heal souls and inspire a nation. Facing down Estonia’s choirs, Mikhail Gorbachev ordered his tanks to leave the country. https://aim4truth.org/wp-content/uplo...

Living Sound Team IV returned to the USSR in 1979 and 1980. Some of the original 1978 members returned each time. In 1979, they traveled over 6,000 miles from the Ukraine to Georgia, Armenia and Russia (the authorities cancelled the planned visit to Tallinn). Team IV experienced much difficulty with the local police and Intourist because they were reaching out to local musicians to do "jam sessions," and they were contacting local Christians wherever they went. Then remarkably, after having the rest of the tour cancelled after arriving in Moscow, on Nov. 2-3, 1979, they were invited to jam all night with two well-known then underground bands Time Machine (rock) and Arsenal (jazz). Supreme Soviet member Alexandra Pakhmutova attended the second session, invited by Alexander Gratsky. She had just been appointed official composer for the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics. She asked Living Sound to rearranged her famous song Нам не жить друг без друга (We Can't Live Without Each Other). This documentary video picks up the story from there:    • "We Can't Live Without Each Other" by A. P...   Here is Нам не жить друг без друга (We Can't Live Without Each Other) just recently reposted by Google!    • Нам не жить друг без друга  

In 1980, Pakhmutova included two Living Sound songs on the official 1980 Summer Olympics film seen here. Note her artwork for the EP Living Sound record that accompanied the distribution of the film: sunlight bursting through dark clouds:    • Oh Sport! You Are Peace! 1980 Moscow Summe...  

Then, in 1981, Living Sound was invited to perform at an unprecedented Yerevan Rock Music festival in Armenia organized by Soviet rocker Stas Namin who had been introduced to Michael McKibben and Don Moen by Pakhmutova during the Olympic film debut. At the last minute, the invitation was withdrawn inexplicably. “A casualty of the Cold War” wrote Stas Namin years later in his blog. Time magazine covered it: “Soviet Union: Tired? Nyet!” http://content.time.com/time/subscrib... The Living Sound musicians jumped into the end of a Sheena Easton London studio session and recorded one of the songs prepared for the festival:    • Living Sound - 1981.mov   David Morrison, lead guitarist from the Living Sound 1978, was there!

Written by Michael McKibben, Living Sound European Director (1977-82), trombonist (Team II, 1973-76), assisted by Cathy Casto, Jerry Dixon, Randy Innes, Wayne Kent, Nancy McKibben, David Morrison and Ulle Pope.