Michael Tait - with the Newsboys!?

Taq · Post by **Taq** » Fri May 22, 2009 3:56 pm

I saw Tait with the Newsboys on a Christian music site, and Danielle Abigail Maxwell just reminded me about this in her post in the TobyMac topic. Wikipedia tells me this switch just occurred 2 months ago in March.

What does everyone think?

Shadowfax · Post by **Shadowfax** » Fri May 22, 2009 3:59 pm

I'm so devastated, man! At least Peter Furler is still doing the CD's, though.

But the question that has been haunting me for two months: Why did they pick Tait?

Termite · Post by **Termite** » Fri May 22, 2009 4:53 pm

Peter picked him. Here's his personal reason for it.

And a man at my church (whose wife worked with the local radio station) didn't think Peter was doing CDs. It says so on JFH, but I'm not quite sure anymore...

redrose · Post by **redrose** » Fri May 22, 2009 8:32 pm

I can't imagine what it will be like with Tait. Peter Furler was only going to do In the Hands of God and make surprise appearances concerts. After that Tait will be the lead singer for everything.
At least that was what I heard.

LizzieG · Post by **LizzieG** » Fri May 22, 2009 11:36 pm

My family (sans me) went to a Newsboys concert right after they'd made the switch. With all of them being long-time Newsboys fans, they were a bit wary about the change, but by the end of the night they decided that Michael Tait had pulled it off well. He apparently had a lot of on-stage charisma in his favor, if I'm remembering correctly...

As far as my opinion, it does seem like an unusual match, but the jury's still out until I hear the new music featuring Tait.

Elrohir · Post by **Elrohir** » Sat May 23, 2009 8:06 am

I was pretty sure that Peter was still producing. I'm curious as to why they didn't get one of the other band members to "step up to the microphone", but I still wanna hear what they sound like when they start recording with Tait.

Termite · Post by **Termite** » Sat May 23, 2009 8:31 am

Eh. I heard him (Tait) singing to an acoustic version of "Something Beautiful", and it sounded... wrong.

BBB and KrisAnna didn't like hearing him live, also, so...

The Top Crusader · Post by **The Top Crusader** » Sat May 23, 2009 9:18 pm

I was never really a Newsboys fan... but I am a huge DC Talk fan and I always liked Tait the best of their solo projects... so this is cool for me at least. $\:D/$

BrokenButBeautiful · Post by **BrokenButBeautiful** » Sun May 24, 2009 4:44 pm

Sergeant Schultz wrote:Eh. I heard him (Tait) singing to an acoustic version of "Something Beautiful", and it sounded... wrong. BBB and KrisAnna didn't like hearing him live, also, so...

Yeah, Newsboys were at Aquire the Fire shortly after Tait joined and me and KrisAnna were there.

I'm not going to say it was bad, it was just really strange...

BBB