JOB'S BLUES - Mark Laurent

This was recorded in Christchurch, NZ, for the series Danny's Cafe in mid 1989. Job was an Old Testament character who went through the proverbial mill, and as I was having a pretty challenging time myself during that period I guess I related to his story at a fairly visceral level. Thanks to TVNZ for permission to use this clip.
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[CurtisMateer]

You sounded a bit like Cockburn on guitar and some seventies rock singer combined in one...guess it was the era of fusion...Nice discovering your channel today. Quality stuff there...Lived in NZ for quite a while and heard your name but never got the opportunity to see you play there for some reason...heard Wishart, Lind, Bell etc...guessing you didn't live in Auckland. I like the stuff another Christchurch muso does you may know: Grant Hinden Miller. Peace on you!

[LaurentMark]

@CurtisMateer Thanks for that. Yeah I did like Cockburn and a '70s rock singer would peg me quite well. :-) Lind, Wishart, Bell etc are all friehnds and yeah I was in Auckland too - must've been laying low that year. I don't know the Christchruch guy though, but did you know Steve Apirana? - he's a Chch lad as well. Peace to you as well, Mark

[CurtisMateer]

@LaurentMark Well here are a few interesting facts for you. Lind was my high school art teacher (Edgewater College) and Steve Apirana has come to my work to perform a few times. I teach in Central Queensland in Gladstone. Grant has made a couple of albums produced by the person Derek has used. He is a folky and a Baha'i. Derek taught me God loves all races equally and about Christianity but I just went one step further and embraced the oneness of God, religion and humanity. University :)

[LaurentMark]

@CurtisMateer It's a small world eh? Have you sen Steve A since his car accident? He's still playing as well ass ever but he sits down most of the time3 to do it now. I haven't actually seen any of those guys for a while since we're living on the Coromandel, but we all used to hang out together - a kind of house church someone called the Wednesday Cynics (cynic mostly in th positive sense of the word). God loves us all, that's for sure - I still think Jesus shows that best.

[CurtisMateer]

@LaurentMark Naturally, love was the central virtue of Christ's Dispensation. A Divine message for sure. I cannot understand one interpretation of His message made by some people who claim to follow His teachings though: Would a loving father burn his child for having a different understanding than he about a religious matter? Many think this crime is an unfortunate but necessary part of the Divine Plan. Are you sure these people's comprehension is right?

Pete

[LaurentMark]

@CurtisMateer Jesus talked about people burning, it's true, but never because of any religious misunderstanding, and not because of any action by God. The place Jesus used as an allegory was Gehenna, the rubbish tip outside Jerusalem, and the inference was always that people ended up there because of choices that rejected the work of love in their lives - self-inflicted separation from God. These days we'd say "that person trashed themselves". It breaks God's heart to see his kids suffer.

[CurtisMateer]

@LaurentMark Seen him play around a year and a half back. Maybe he was seated...A memory of Aaron Neville seated while performing with the Neville Bros in late 80s/early 90s is coming back more insistently though. The best gig I've been to.

[LaurentMark]

Thanx for taking the time to watch it. Go well, Mark :-)

[LaurentMark]

Yeah, what is it they say - "The child is father to the man" - ?!

:-)