SEX, GOD & ROCK-AND-ROLL; David Koresh needed a drummer. David Thibodeau needed someone to believe in. The rest was tragedy. From: The Washington Post | Date: September 26, 1999| Author: Richard Leiby | Copyright 1999 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Back then he was just another drummer with huge hair who was heavily into metal. He dug Judas Priest, not Jesus Christ. Then one day in 1991 a guy in an L.A. guitar store handed him a business card- -"Messiah Productions," it said--and before long David Thibodeau was jamming at a commune on the windswept Texas prairie with a band of true believers whose T-shirts proclaimed, "David Koresh: God Rocks."

Ranch Apocalypse, some called it. Thibodeau knew it as Mount Carmel and he was there w...

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