The Petra Zone

I've agreed with Preacher throughout this post because I see him taking & talking about the Godly view in this; the thing that I fail to understand is Brent's point of view on the "market because up until the last few posts he seems to leave God out of the equation all together. He made it seem tha...

Were people really saying that though or were they just saying that is part of why they are still around? I don't mean to say that means that God's hand wasn't on anyone who is not still around because those who are not still around may not be around for various reasons. I was responding to a state...

My only point was that it's absurd to say that Petra's success is due to "God's hand being on them", as if his hand was not also on the many other Christian acts that have fallen by the wayside over the years. Too many people mistake worldly success for God's approval.

Why has Petra kept going for so long? Simple...God's hand was/is on them. Implying that God's hand was not on the other acts named? I don't think that's a very fair thing to say. I think it's simply the fact that when Petra was big, they were really big, and they still have enough fans around who a...

executioner wrote:Am I the only one here that really is not all that impressed with the production of BTTR?

What don't you like about it?

brent wrote:The best thing that could happen would be for John Lawry to get everyone in to the studio and recreate everything from scratch, so that they all get some money out of it, instead of it going to EMI.

Which is basically Back to the Rock.

I see what you mean. I thought you were talking about completed songs that were "left on the studio floor", as the saying goes. Well, since the next album is going to feature new songs, I have a feeling Bob dug into his filing cabinet to pull out some gems that he never had a chance to record until ...

I happen to like it :lol: Hmmm.... this brings to mind an exchange I had with brent in another thread: It will not sound better. Remastered usually = removing all of the dynamic range by smashing the liven'-crap out of it with a limiter, and then EQ'ing it to put some top end and low end back into ...

Sounds like crap IMO. Bright, brittle, distorted....gawd! This is a textbook case of everything wrong with modern mastering "in the box" nowadays. PASS ON IT! The sad thing is, with some of the technology we have now, they could have removed some of the cheese reverb on the vocals, to make them sou...

Well I heard them live too, and I also got impressed by it. But that does not necessarily mean that it would be as impressive if you heard a recorded version of it. In a live situation there's a lot of things going on and it's hard to focus on details, and the show and the energy just keeps everyth...

We all have to also wonder how many songs that over the years never made it on any of the albums. I believe this question was put to Bob Hartman some time back, and as I recall he said that apart from an odd unfinished demo or two, everything Petra ever recorded is available commercially. And even ...

I really don't know why the powers that be didn't strike while the iron was hot and produce a live album and concert video during the "Beyond Belief" tour. It would have been a top seller easily.

Just as long as the Republicans don't blow it with another lackluster campaign.

pethead97 wrote: wasn't this discussed way back when J & H was first released?

Yeah, it was, and John Schlitt's reaction was basically, "Seriously, how stupid are you people?" though he's far to nice to have put it exactly like that.

sue d. wrote:Speaking of "God is Too Big," I was just thinking about this today. Why is it that no one 'mis-hears' "God is TOO BIG to fail?"

"Too big to fail" is a well-known catch phrase promoted by Obama during the bailout scam, so it's a lot harder to "mis-hear" it in the song.