Doxologist ContentMatt Johnson Bio
Matt Johnson is a Native Seattleite. Born in the early seventies to music teacher parents, he spent most of his pre-teen years ceremoniously pilfering his older brother’s classic rock records and scanning the radio airwaves until 1985 when he discovered punk.
Matt started playing drums in grade school after a near-religious experience listening to the band Rush but didn’t really learn to play his instrument until he joined the high school jazz band.
Throughout the nineties and the early ought years, Matt took The Vow of Poverty for the sake of touring the North American Continent in unknown bands including Roadside Monument, Blenderhead and Ninety Pound Wuss. He has also served as a for-hire drummer and has performed on roughly twenty nationally distributed compact disc recordings.
Matt wed the love of his life, Roseanne, six years ago and they played together in Team Strike Force, at Mars Hill Church, for nearly ten years. Their new project, titled Sons of Thunder, is tentatively slated to debut in the fall of ‘07. Matt also occasionally writes music criticism fueled with the fetching conviction that leisurely listening is best spent on Black Sabbath over the Beatles nine times out of ten.
…but all other kinds of listening should be spent on the Beatles 11 times out of 10!
Beatles, Schmeatles
Beatles Schmeatles Peatles. Over-rated, over exposed, over the rainbow, over? Chuckle. Okay, they are legends, and leisure is as personal as the magazine rack, but something between Billie Holiday or Tool preferable.
Legends, schmlegends.
I’ve snuck outside Matt’s house and heard Sons of Thunder practice…really diggin’ those Luther Vandross tribute melodies.
Niiice Multop! Huh, you musta been hearing that hippie jam band from across the street ‘cos we don’t practice at my house.. :)
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i heard about MH through spin mag where i saw matt johnson on the inside and said “man, thats matt johnson from RM”! i thought this has to be a cool church. I looked up the church, listened to mark preach the vintage jesus series and fell in love with jesus all over agin. Now my wife and i are trying to move up to seattle from baton rouge louisiana just to be a part of MH.
Cool! I must have missed that one. Which Spin magazine? Do you mean “Blender”?
It was blender.
holy crap. matt johnson. i didnt know if you read this thing or not. man, ive been trying to email the church about coming to visit. my wife and i are taking our vacation to come up to seattle to look at some condo’s and take some job interviews. but mostly to see and visit the church. im hoping we can move up there by next year. it’s just kinda scary though, we’ve never moved before. we’re just kids.
but it’s exciting going with God. i’ll shut up now. hope to see you up there matt. been a big fan.
josh
Joshua-The-Reformer. Check your email.
Excellent call on Sabbath bro!
I still dig RM, Blenderhead, etc after all these years! Plus one really can’t overlook that brilliant TSF!
I’ve been really impressed with Sons of Thunder. I live in CA and check out the website and listen to what’s happening up there in Seattle. I am digging it. Cannot wait to hear more. I’d love to coincide a visit to Seattle and Marshill when Sons of Thunder are playing… Are you scheduled to play again?
Thanks Matthew! I will check the band schedule and add another post soon to let you know when we play next.
The next couple times we play:
1/31 Ballard PM services
2/3 Ballard AM
2/17 Ballard AM