The Petra Zone

Dan wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 28, 2025 10:33 pm

Maybe Kevin Max could step in...

He's not the pretty boy he used to be, is he?

Newsboys are an odd one. According to Wikipedia, they didn't have a stable lineup from 1985 when they started until 2008 when Michael Tait joined, but by then, every original member had left and the music style completely changed, so they were basically Newboys in name only at that point.

A while ago, one fellow who maintained a Petra fan site got permission from the producer to post a digital copy of the album to his website. I think it was guidetopetra.com, but the site is currently down with an undated notice saying it will be back soon. I got permission back in the day from the ...

A while ago, one fellow who maintained a Petra fan site got permission from the producer to post a digital copy of the album to his website. I think it was guidetopetra.com, but the site is currently down with an undated notice saying it will be back soon.

When a band has had as many members as Petra, it's hard to say which is the "real" band, but I will say the current touring lineup doesn't resonate with me emotionally like "Classic Petra" or "The Dream Team". Greg Bailey and Christian Bonero are fine musicians, and Bailey has been an official touri...

I wonder who's doing the censoring?

I own every Petra album minus the compilations, which I have no use for. Petra never had any unreleased songs or "deep cuts", so there was never any reason to buy the compilations if you already had the albums. Someone once asked Bob Hartman about unreleased material that might be hidden away, and h...

Ken's not lying, though. He was still singing, just not the lead part. I listened on a JBL soundbar and could easily tell when he sang harmony. His neck bulges differently when he is going to head voice. He has been using the same backing tracks forever. The other guys may be singing but aren't far...

I'm not sure you understand the technique Fil uses to compare audio tracks. It's pitch detection software, and in the case of Ken's live performance versus the studio track, it's a perfect match to the thousandth of a second which proves it's the same audio: Ken was lip syncing to a studio track dur...

Using AI to "demix" a song so it can be remixed is one thing, but using it to create an artificial minickry of a human performance, I don't like that at all. Autotune, pitch correction, and quantizing are bad enough.

AI "demixing" is becoming more accessible all the time. For instance, there's the website moises.ai where you can upload any music file you want, and AI algorithms will separate vocals and instruments into separate tracks. The results aren't perfect, certainly not as clean as the work Abby Road can ...

There was another Stryper album released this year that flew under my radar until recently: To Hell With The Amps . It's an acoustic cover album that is more traditional than Petra's (unfairly) maligned Double Take , where the songs are just straightforward acoustic covers. Many of the them work qui...

I actually like Double Take. I appreciate the new arrangements and consider it one of the better acoustic cover albums, but I recognize that this is not a popular opinion among Petra fans.

A remaster? Why? The original CD sounds fantastic.

Fil just posted a follow-up video in response to Ken's: https://youtu.be/FhM-wrP9PpQ?si=vcOYeG3y7VQbiZoY He doesn't have much new to say about Ken's lip syncing which was definitively covered in the first two videos, but he does point out that Ken has been deleting comments and videos from his own c...