In his introduction to the song "Guilty By Association" at Ichthus 1984, Steve said,

"Thank you.  Where's the rain?  Where is it?  It's sunny outside.  Right?  Right? What is this?  What is this?  Hey, I got here yesterday and I've heard all the bands, just about all the bands yesterday.  I'm gonna hear them all today.  I mean, the Jesus Rock thing is very happening, you understand.  But not everyone agrees with those of us that are here, you know.  I mean, it wasn't too long ago, I was going through my mail, I pull out this magazine, and I start reading, and it's got an article in it about a very big evangelist down...let's see...I don't want to name any states or anything.  But this guy had been the latest to jump on the bandwagon and say that all this so-called 'Jesus Rock and Roll' was of the devil.  Now, I want to know why they always have to pick on rock and roll, you know what I'm saying?  I mean, out of all those different kinds of music out there, why not some other kind of music for a change, you know?  I mean, you got polka music, you got bagpipe music, why not one of those?  I have seen a bagpipe up close.  Those guys don't have anything over on me.  I know what bagpipes are like.  First of all, they're made out of a goat skin.  They've got ten horns coming out of the side of this goat skin, looks like something out of the book of Revelation.  And the men who play bagpipes are dressed like women.  But no, no, no, they always gotta pick on rock and roll because they decide they don't like its connotations, they don't like the trappings of rock and roll, therefore it must be guilty by its associations.  So we took that example and two other examples of this kind of guilt by association mentality and we wrote a little reggae song called 'Guilty By Association'

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