The Petra Zone

jejac77 wrote:Mine has got to be "Friends (All in the Family of God)" from Petra Praise - The Rock Cries Out. SOOOO out of character - I can't quite see Petra as Doo Wop - ya know?

OMG, Can I change mine to this song? Gracious. I forgot all of it.

Mine Field...too over-the-top arena rock-ish.

This looks to be an Italian label. Aren't these bands just being distributed by this label, but recording for an American label? Stryper is signed to Big3. I don't know about John E and Mastedon. I think at one time he had a solo record in the works with an Italian label. Maybe this is that album f...

Legendary Bands that I though never would come back has signed with this label, why not Petra ?!??!? Winger will release a new album this month. Mastedon (John Elefante) will release next month. Giant will release one next year Stryper has released one album in August. :roll: All Frontier does is l...

When we saw them, that bone-head manager of theirs was mixing, blowing up the opening band's PA. We would have been happy just to hang out. Since we are dreaming, and since it WAS a farewell tour, they should have played a three hour show, had all the players from all of the incarnations cycle throu...

I've noticed that Edward has a tendency to assume things that haven't been said so he can tell people how wrong they are. Perhaps an effort to show us that he knows more than anyone else does. I don't know. Perhaps he's compensating for some personal insecurities. I replied to Shawnpfan who stated ...

Say what you will about Bob, but if it wasn't for him, we'd all be listening to Bill Gaither. :roll: No way. Bob did not invent Christian rock. Elvis was rocking the Christian tunes long before Petra. He exposed the world to Christian groups and featured them as preshow events. Then we have all of ...

Ok, for starters, the band did not suck during that period. Some of us appreciate the music from that time very much. On top of that, those guys were still with the band when they made Come and Join Us in 1977 with Greg X Volz as a guest vocalist. I am not exactly sure why the guys didn't stay with...

I had a completely different experience. Listen to Tait's CD. Beautiful Day was a tune he covered. If you listen to Tait's solo stuff or could have seen him in concert, or even experienced DC Talk live, you would think differently. Tait has a very rock voice and does a rock oriented show well. He is...

The rerecorded and remastered version is only available over-seas. Sorry.

I get the whole thing about them being fallen men and all that, but do we always have to nitpick every single mistake they make? I mean God forbid Bob ever misses a cord, or John sings a single note off key, stuff like that always seems to overshadow the entire concert, or song that they do, FOUR y...

I do support them. I'll drop Bob an encouraging email once in awhile. I purchase their merchandise and include them in my prayers. For some reason, we're afraid to discuss critically the band and their music. I guess intelligent conversation is not welcome. It's because they are Gods to some people...

Brent says, "Thanks for your kind words and support."

We should not expect more Petra reunions? This was not a Petra reunion. This was four guys from Petra with Dan playing Petra songs for a church whose staff are long time friends of Petra. Even though high school class members reunite at "reunions" for one evening to catch up and have a good time, t...

executioner wrote:Who was playing drums?

Dan, John's son-in-law.

It looks like Bob's great solo days are behind him. He pretty much just solo'd through Judas' Kiss like he solo'd on Farewell.