In 1995,

The Music Production  Crew of 

Neal Bond and Dale Strength worked in conjunction  with the audio  recording department  at Hennepin Technical College  to help  their  "budding young studio engineers"  work on some seriously "top notch " professional quality material

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That was where this project started. 

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One of the students there suggested for something completely  different  the team put together a "gospel project" for them to work on . 

 

Dale and Neal had no experience working with that type of  material and originally blew off the idea.

 

But Neal remembered  how Andrew Lloyd Weber's  "Jesus Christ Superstar " really  brought those  old Sunday  school stories of his youth to life back in the 70's and all of a sudden the wheels started spinning that  it might be time to make a sequel.

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So it was on.

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Bond diligently went to the drawing board and decided to portray the  "Early Church Fathers"  exactly how  Lloyd Weber  would .....

 

And how they must have been viewed by their peers  in that structured ancient society .

 

As "OUTLAWS",  

"Gang Members"  

Or Just  "A ragtag group of misguided misfits

foolishly following the cursed one whom they believed died on the cross for them."

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THE STRAYS PROJECT WAS BORN

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The team tried to keep the tongue in cheek style that  Weber used to move the storyline along  but wanted to make sure that everything was accurately portrayed  so they went right back to the original source material , "The Book Of Acts"

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What started out as a lark turned into a full blown project that lasted well  beyond it's humble technical college beginnings and it took  four years to complete.

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Bond even confided that on many occasions he would be awaken by a voice  while  sleeping  saying  "Get up and write"

and it was almost like the "ideas were being dictated" from somewhere otherworldly.

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That's where the tagline "The Second Greatest Story Ever Told" came  from.

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Anyway here it is.  All these years later.

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The Minnesota Music History Channel believes you'll find these

songs , melodies and lyrics as fresh today as the day they were written.

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TRULY TIMELESS IDEAS AND IMAGES PUT TOGETHER INTO A BRILLIANT HOOK LADEN MUSICAL PRODUCTION...

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Enjoy...

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