What ever happened to Donna Godchaux?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

:shrug:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. She is the spokesperson, or at least was, last time I checked

of some semi-fundie church.

[ET Awful]

2. When she and Keith left the Dead, they formed a band

doing mostly gospele stuff called Keith and Donna. After Keith's death, she continued with it. She still performs. I saw her as the Donna Godchaux Band about 6 or 7 years ago I think it was.

She's still doing gospel stuff. And, now that she has good stage monitors, she's always on key :).

Little known fact: Before joining the Dead, she did back up vocals for Elvis.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

3. I knew that!

Is she an evangelical now?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. Oh yeah.

And then some.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

5. Oy!

:eyes:

[RamblingRose]

6. Interesting.

[Beware the Beast Man]

7. Here's an interview she did with David Gans a few years back:

http://www.levity.com/gans/Donna.980328.html

As for being semi-fundie: hardly. She's just found God, that's all. Here's a good quote from the interview:

DG: <laugh> You're not a moralistic, bible-thumping fundamentalist or anything?

Donna: Oh, you know, the way I look at it, Christianity never was meant to be a religion. It's life, and life flow, and that's how I choose to live my life. I want spirit and I want life. So much of the time, people's interpretation, especially these days, of a Christian is a right-wing, hate group , which is absolutely opposite of what it's supposed to be. And so it's real difficult even to make that kind of association, because of the misassociations and misapplications of what Christ was really all about.

DG: Well, like so many things in the popular culture, there are people who are quietly going about doing it, in their own way, who aren't calling huge amounts of attention to themselves, or giving it a bad name.

Donna: Yeah, it's real difficult when people are blowing up abortion clinics and it has the name "Christian" on it, or whatever. It just hurts. It's awful. It's something that makes someone who is identified with Christ in any way absolutely recoil. I want my life to be expressive of someone who loves and is full of life and joy and the good things that we know should be there when you call yourself spiritual. So, we're not religious, no. I don't even like the word! <laugh> But spiritual, yes.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

9. Nice! I was so disheartened when I thought she might have went fundie

hey - did you hear my songs?

[Beware the Beast Man]

10. Yeah, they were great!

Are you going for a trance-type thing? That's what I got out of them, especially "Spagetti Straps."
Oh, and to answer a question from you other thread, I'd love to collaborate with whoever actually thinks my stuff is "music."

Also, I think us DU musicians should get together for a compilation CD of sorts.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

11. Thats a great idea. I have a copy of the Barrack Obama speech that I want

to put in a song.

I am going for a hip-hop/trance kind of thing. I think it would be cool to send cds to eachother and do remix or collab type stuff.

I'll post more soon.

Please do the same!

[tigereye]

12. ooh I would be interested

and maybe husb. too. He makes a lot of interesting music on the computer. Me, I make music on acoustic drums... but I have written a few songs as well.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

13. sweet - we should exchange discs

What do ya think?

[tigereye]

14. sounds good

All my band stuff is on CD and vinyl but my husb. has put some of it on MP3, etc. I think his stuff is on MP3? Just have to get him to put it where I can find and send it in whatever format. Cool. I would love to have a place where I could check out other DUers music.

[Surf Cowboy]

8. I don't know,

but mercifully she is no longer ruining "Fire on the Mountain."