Early Trinity Concert

There were a group of us at the Arizona State University Catholic Newman Center who used to go to daily Mass at 4:45.  Believe it or not, it was very popular at that time for the kids at the center to go to Mass daily.  We would have a very short Mass, and then we would all go to eat somewhere.  A few of us would play music for the service.  Then it grew to a number of us.  Pretty soon we had a nice little group going.  Someone asked us once if we would do a concert.  So we started writing songs and put an official “band” together.  

Trinity First Christmas Card

We played quite a bit around the Phoenix area.  We played for Sunday youth groups meetings, church festivals, Youth conferences, etc. We played a few concerts in California for the National Youth Conferences as well. The personnel changed frequently. But the core of the group (the Trinity) was Paul Hillenbrand, Tim Smith and David Burba. We always had 2 or 3 of the most beautiful girls in the band.  This way, no matter how we sounded, we looked great! I guess one of our highlights was being asked to warm up for Pat Boone at a concert in Sun-city.  Pat Boone said we were “Magnificent”.  But he was backstage when we played… so I am not sure how he knew.  

Trinity after a concert in Flagstaff

We did 2 recordings.  And we were selected to be on the All-Arizona Christian Compilation called “Songs in the Key of Jesus”.