25/11/2009 by Roman Recordings.

Bernie Hahn - Robert Schwartz - Rick Roman
Rick started Raw Dog with the Lord’s help back in 1988 with a cassette tape called “Let God Arise“. Rick’s attitude was to see if there was anyone who would be spoken to thru the song’s the Lord gave him thru the years. The cassette tape was done in his home studio on a Fostex X-3 Multitracker cassette recorder and mixed down on a Panasonic stereo cassette deck 635. When Rick started that project, he had no idea that he was going to continue recording, he just had a desire to record something that day in a little space in the shed that Rick Jr. his son was recording in. Equipment being barely sufficient but adequate enough to satisfy his desire, he put together some chords and the song Let God Arise was born. When he was finished, he was blessed. That day a desire and a freedom was born in him to start recording all the material the Lord had previously given. After the first tape “Let God Arise”, two more brothers Bernie Hahn and Robert Schwartz had a desire to play and their addition just added more of a depth to what was being said and performed. The songs that they added just fit together to form more of a balanced expression of truth. ” Let God Be God” was recorded and from there it felt like a green light and a wonderful blessing of fellowship was born. Then came ” God War ” Raw Dog 3, which is raw dog spelled backward. An amazing observation by Robert Schwartz. During these days God knit their hearts together for a common purpose and expression. The last tape called ” Different Faces was recorded and was the last tape the boys did. Since then the tapes have been converted into CD’s and the band is now called “Christian Raw Dog”.
The little home studio was called Roman Recordings

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25/11/2009 by Roman Recordings.

Band History:

Rick started playing guitar when he was about sixteen, around 1966.
Back then it always seemed he was playing in some band playing
at schools and parties. Then he went to Chicago to go to Wilbur Wright College,

majored in music and joined a brass band, that was cool for a while
but Rick did not want to become a music teacher. So he came home
and married a beautiful girl, and formed a band, that was in
1968. Now he could work on his ambition to make it big somehow.
After that, it seemed like each band lasted about 8 or 9 months then he
was in another one.
Then Rick met Paul a drummer who had the same ambition as he,
they hit it off pretty good and they found Berry a bass player and
called themselves “AD”. They began to tape their music and write songs
as they gave it their all, but they just ended up playing bars and clubs.
At that time Rick started drinking and smoking allot of weed, yes this
was back in 1971. By the time 1972 came, all their hopes and dreams
just came to and end and Rick found himself becoming spiritually hungry.
By this time Rick’s life was falling apart because he was always high.
Music became meaningless and empty and no longer could Rick just play
for the therapy of his soul.
Rick had some friends who were heavy into drugs and they were all of a
sudden carrying bibles and talking about Jesus. Rick always thought
he had an open mind about things, so he would listen to what they
had to say. One of them told him that we all have an empty space inside
that is meant for God and we try to fill it up with everything else but Him.
So why don’t you give God a chance to prove Himself to you, go home and
start reading the Gospel of John, before you read, pray and ask God to show
Himself to you. Well, Rick did just that and to his surprise God began to speak
to him through the bible and to make a long story short, Rick gave himself to
Jesus Christ in 1972. Rick’s empty space inside became filled with the
Holy Spirit and he found that he know longer had a need for drinking and
smoking weed. Jesus began cleaning up his life and giving direction with His
power. After Rick was born again everything began to make sense and his
music began to take on a purpose. He felt like his music was no longer just
for selfish reasons, now he could tell people about his experiences with God
and the things God was speaking to him about. Rick says: I was dead but now I
am alive. He was still playing Rock but it was about the true Rock which is
Christ. He joined a band called ” Harvest ” a local group and played with them
from 1973 to about 1976 playing and giving testimony.
Then the Lord told him to lay it down for a while and learn to be a family man,
so he sold all of his equipment and got a job. Then somebody gave him an
acoustic guitar and he used it to write songs that he was impressed to write.
Then in 1988 he built a little home studio with his son Rick Jr.. Rick felt a
green light from the Lord to began recording the songs he wrote. The first CD
” Let God Arise ” under the name of Raw Dog was born. Two other brothers
Bernie Hahn and Robert Schwartz joined Rick after the first CD. During this
time the band “Raw Dog” which is now called “Christian Raw Dog” was the three
and they put out three more CD’s “Let God Be God”, “God War” and
“Different Faces” and the fellowship was great. Those days lasted until 1996
when winds and circumstances changed for the three and they went there
separate ways. Raw dog came to an end.
About this time something tragic happened. Rick’s daughter was killed in a
boating accident. He sold his guitar and some other stuff and did not play for
the rest of that year. Then on New Years night, Rick had a desire to go to prayer
and as he was praying in his little studio, spotted his son’s keyboard and went
over and started playing on it. He felt the Lord was giving him a peace that this
was what he was to do. Then Rick started a new project and called it “Rick Roman &
The Synthetic Music Machine”.

Hope you enjoy and are blessed.

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