What would Petra have been like?

[St_Augustines_Pears]

Oh, no, not the "why did Louie get fired" discussion again. I guess some things just never go away.

It will never go away...until we get a straight answer of why they fired a guy who played with them for over 20 years.

[drcoolguy]

Oh, no, not the "why did Louie get fired" discussion again. I guess some things just never go away.

It will never go away...until we get a straight answer of why they fired a guy who played with them for over 20 years.

I agree. I don't have any hard feelings towards anyone involved, and I guess ultimately we can always be told "it's none of your business," although obviously we feel differently. All I remember from the time is that Louie's statement named John and his agent specifically. I never saw a mention of Bob one way or another. Obviously he went along with it, but I always found that curious.

And no, I'm not trying to drum up more controversy. My point in the first place was a great admiration for Paul's work!

(Oh, and sorry about that terrible, unintentional "drum" pun.)

[Jonathan]

I guess some things just never go away.

Like the "dream team" topic. I figured we were all at consensus by now.

[I helped Petra]

The way I see it, is that Bob is allowing God to bless people and giving people a chance to get their name out there, so by changing the line up because band members feel that they are being led into other areas that God is showing them, allows other people to become apart of Petra. I feel that there is no BEST LINE UP! As this is Gods ministry and that this is Gods band not Bob's or John's this belongs to God. Bob has blessed
many people to being apart of Petra and either being apart of Petra through playing on stage or allowing people to work with Rock Stars such as
Petra... There is also no song better than the other, God is using all those songs to bless someone or to help someone. Even some of their less
popular songs have blessed thousands.

So to say that this band member or that band member is better is not right, I believe that its wrong to say that. God has blessed other band members to play onstage with rock stars. Who are we too say hey this is better than that, God is using everything that Petra does and everyone
that works with Petra. I work with Petra, I have been a long time fan and it was a dream of mine 13yrs ago to work with Petra and I was able to
design the grey tour shirt with the picture of the band on the backside of the t-shirt. I felt great, I felt like I had the chance to work with Rock Stars... So lets just say that God has a reason for each band member and each person that has some correlation with the band. It does not matter
who is better what matters is the message. No band member is better than the other, they all played a huge part in God's ministry.... Its Gods message that is important not who or what is better...

edit: this topic is from 2006..

[rexreed]

Oh, no, not the "why did Louie get fired" discussion again. I guess some things just never go away.

It will never go away...until we get a straight answer of why they fired a guy who played with them for over 20 years.

Here's a new theory- maybe Peter Furler is responsible for Louie being fired. Think about it- does anyone remember a stable lineup of The Newsboys? 3 lead singers, 3 lead guitars, I cant even count the bass players anymore (well they don't have a true bass now). It's like they rearranged the lineup for every album. Maybe some of that rubbed off on Petra when they were heading back to the studio with a Newsboy?

J/k I realize it's retarded but so is constantly bringing up the Louie firing. I'd like to know why too, but I have a feeling the real answer is extremely disappointing.