Welcome to the official website of the All Saved Freak Band®, musical pioneers present at the birth of Contemporary Christian Music. Started in 1968 by co-founders Larry Hill and Joe Markko, the group recorded four albums now recognized as classic examples of the earliest "Jesus" music. Prior to global news, instant communications or the Internet the band was unaware that anyone else was recording CCM until they heard Larry Norman's first album in 1969. In fact, the liner notes from ASFB's first album, My Poor Generation, read:

"In the beginning, God gave music. Joe Markko was a drug user fresh out of the street and Larry Hill was a Pastor of a church made up of social outcasts, former dopers, hustlers, revolutionaries, outlaws, etc. Both had put their former association with rock music completely out of their lives for a walk with God. For one, it had been fourteen years; for the other, three months. And then the Word was revealed and a new kind of music was being created. The first Jesus-rock group in the nation was born, the All Saved Freak Band."

Though history has proven the last statement inaccurate it was, at the time, the nearest thing to truth band members knew.

We apologize for the quality of the photographs on this site. Excluding current photos of former band members, all pictures were reproduced from the Freedom Bell newspapers published and distributed by the band and its home church more than 30 years ago. For students of Contemporary Christian music and the All Saved Freak Band in particular, this website does not trace the sad history and tragic events birthed by their church's leadership. That story is best left for those historians whose focus is different from our own. Please see our disclaimer.

If Larry Norman is the "father" of Contemporary Christian Music, then ASFB are its dysfunctional aunts and uncles, the kind people prefer to keep locked in their rooms. Brothers of Misfortune, three band members lost their lives in their attempt to forward the long Unaccepted Message in a then unacceptable medium. This site remembers those pioneers and victims of Contemporary Christian Music who mortgaged their futures in their attempt to change the world, one person at a time. Would that our passionless age might burn again with such selfless fires.