Mrs. McGinniss interrupted the conversation. “Excuse me,” she said, “but my son plays bass. You should invite him into your band.”

Mark Stuart and Barry Blair looked at each other, then at Mrs. McGinniss. She smiled like any proud mom. After all, her 18-year-old son had been playing a bass guitar for a whole month (it was his high school graduation present), and she was sure any band would want him.

“What’s his name, Ma’am?” Mark asked.

“Will McGinniss. You can find him over at Waters Hall.”

Mark and Barry looked Will up and asked him if he wanted to play bass guitar in a band they were putting together.

“Actually, I’m just learning,” Will admitted.

“That’s okay,” Barry said. “I’ll teach you how to play.”

Audio Adrenaline was first known as A-180

[  MORE ABOUT A-180 and their transition from "A-180" to "Audio Adrenaline"]

For the next four years, Mark, Barry and Will, along with another KCC student named Bob Herdman,  became fast friends and hung out with each other. Mark, whose father sang in a gospel quartet, began singing in church when he was 3 years old and had been in bands all through junior high and high school. At Kentucky Christian, he and his musical buddies formed and reformed new bands and messed around with writing songs. Just as they were about to graduate, Bob talked about forming a group called Audio Adrenaline, and they wrote and recorded a demo song called “My God,” which became a regional hit. Someone from ForeFront Records heard their song, and before you could say “We’re moving to Nashville,” Audio Adrenaline was signed to a recording contract.

“A lot of strange things like that have happened to us over the years,” Will says, “strange things that let us know that God has His hand over this band. The way we met each other and met some key people has shown us that God is working in our lives. We started the band 10 years ago, thinking it would be a cool ministry for one summer, but we’ve been amazed at how things have fallen into place since then."

 In 1998, After 14 years of friendship, touring and a deepened desire to impact the Christian music industry; Audio Adrenaline members Mark Stuart, Bob Herdman, and Will McGinniss began what is now known as FlickerRecords.com and on January 1st, 2000, Flicker Records was officially born as an independent record label.

After over a year of discussion and prayer, Bob Herdman decided to come off the road to run FlickerRecords.com. Bob is taking some time off from touring with Audio Adrenaline, but still remains a founding member and a writer of the group. Although he misses his time out on the road, his vision is for FlickerRecords.com.

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