The Petra Zone

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All I got acomplished on my Saturday was to mow the yard



I actually think That that is the same amount of time roughly it takes to listen to Wagner's entire Ring Cycle.


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Hey Petrabandca - Listen, I don't really don't understand the posts you've made. However it might be more productive to PM Shell and Sue.d with your complaints rather than to throw around insults to fellow Christians, on a Christian based site. You are advertising Petra, John and Bob in your signatu...

Moving on: I can't speak for all the members, but I have been on the phone and emailing with Roger Wood, the music director, and yes, HE is a Christian. As far as the band 'taking an active roll,' I'm not sure what that all would entail, but since this is a band playing for a soloist, and not a "wh...

I know my post seemed a bit leading, but I am genuinly curious. I have never heard of a "band-4-hire" before. I know there are a lot of musician's for hire, but I think it's cool that this band stays together. I bet they are very tight! And I don't have any problem with them having played for secula...

Back to topic: Looking forward to road updates from John. I pray that seeds are planted and lives are touched. I was looking through the bio of the band StoneJava. I noticed they have a very diverse music background and have played with a lot of big names. I wondered though, as I didn't see many Chr...

It's obviously a mondegreen. Just because a lot of people heard Jimi Hendrix sing "'scuse me while I kiss this guy" doesn't mean he did. I never knew the real name of the third basemen for the Cubs in the late 80's because Harry Carry couldn't say Vance Law. It always came out Van Slaw....I though ...

2 things I noticed: How is Petra the ONLY so-called Christian band mentioned ... I mean if THEY notice Petra why can't the rest of the world?!?! How did they come up with ALL of that for Petra, and Def Lepard (the band who gave out the backstage sex passes) only got mentioned for having one song (Ph...

I am a lifelong military brat. I am very happy for the cadet! Remember: - the Army instituted this policy at least at the beginning of the season, maybe sooner. The cadet is taking advangtage of a policy already set in place. He isn't asking for a special permission to do this. - the armed forces ar...

Petra was not even close at the shows I attended. There is no arguing that. I have to say, even a lot of the PP2 stuff was hard to recognize without the vocal. If you ever saw Petra live in the Beyond Belief Tour (the one that stands out the most to me) it was basically the cd live. I have to admit...

The first time I saw the Pete Orta was after a several year drought of having seen Petra live. I remember them going into Beyond Belief and like most of you guys, at Petra shows I usually recognize the song after about 2 bars, but I was like "ok what's this?" The famous double stop lick wasn't there...

Orta is an attitude player, meaning that he is not the cleanest player. I'd pass on him. Well I saw Bob live as early on as On Fire! and up through Unseen Power Never saw Lichens saw Pete Orta several times as well Then Bob again at the DVD taping. I LOVE Bob and he is a masterful guitarist who I d...

There was a larry Norman cd out a while back where a bunch of different artists covered his stuff, I would have loved to have seen Petra do one. I saw Petra with Gaurdian and Tammy Trent several years ago in Wise, Va. One of Guardians guitar players had to be with his family for some kind of emergen...

Well, I miss CCM magazine, but I have been missing it for YEARS now. I have long since cancelled my subscription. They just went to pure fluff, IMO. No in-depth articles, just lists and surface stuff. Yep. I used to read CCM magazine every month, but the quality kept sliding downwards. Call me pett...

Well, I miss CCM magazine, but I have been missing it for YEARS now. I have long since cancelled my subscription. They just went to pure fluff, IMO. No in-depth articles, just lists and surface stuff. I do like a good print magazine. Right now I read Worship Leader, it does a pretty good job writing...

If anyone deserves credit for blazing a trail for Contemporary Christian Music it's Larry. I discovered his music after Petra, but didn't take long to fall in love with it.

Did John or Bob, or Greg or any of the Petra members know Larry personally?