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I voted "Life As We Know It" also. I'm surprised, I thought it would be more popular given its excellent blend of distortion guitar sound. This reminds me of 80s rock/classic rock that I grew up with. As for solos in the songs; I remember reading about Phil Keaggy whom tried to make inroads with his 220 album. It's all instrumental guitar in which he admits was not well received by the Christian community. I sometimes think Christians just don't understand instrumental guitar, except only if it is accoustic.executioner wrote:Life As We Know It got my vote; what a song and what an album. The song and album both are in my top 5 rankings for Petra. Some think the album is short but it is about 1 song short time wise; most Petra albums have come at or under the 40 minute mark. Over the years I've heard a lot of people complain because the lack of guitar solos on the album and I've discuss this with Bob at a couple meet/greet and he has always maintained that he NEVERS puts a solo in a song where it doesn't belong or just to put it in there(his quote) and he felt like none of the songs for this album should have one. Bob likes his solos to flow with and be in trenched with the song and not to be just thrown in just to have a solo; If he doesn't feel it, it won't happen.
musicwithharry wrote:You know, that brings up a good point. I am a musician myself and mostly release instrumental albums.
How does one classify themselves a Christian artist in their music if it is instrumental? I am a Christian but again release mostly instrumental music. Of course, some of my albums have very obvious song titles that are Christian. But what about the other artists who have song names that are not overtly Christian, but they are Christian artists?
I love the acoustic album Beyond Nature from Phil Keaggy. Great acoustic stylings and I really love it. I also like Satch and Eric Johnson and so many others.
Since I am a keyboardist, my main influences are Yanni, John Tesh, Jonathan Cain (Journey), and of course, Michael W. Smith. All are fantastic and accomplished musicians, but not all of them are Christians. Does this make their music less relevant?
Not all Christian music needs to be acoustic or slow and stuff. It can rock too![]()
Not all of us are lead signers and such and praise God with our hands.
I think that I may be getting off topic, so I will close for now... Maybe we can open up another topic about this very subject.
Grace,
Harry
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