Re: A Conversation with John Slick
Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2016 10:42 pm
I guessed it was meat
I came to listen to this album late (probably late 90's, or maybe early 2000's) but it has become one of my favorites. Easily on my Top 5. I think the "Visions" doxology serves as a perfect bookend to it, and I love the way the music flows from it into the title track, and from "Godpleaser" into the closing reprise. Great album.BriGuyPEI wrote:Getting back to the questions for John (what am I thinking, trying to get a thread back on track) I have a couple regarding NOTW. I wasn't a Petra fan yet when the album came out, but I imagine people may have been taken aback with their first listen. Coming on the heels of MPTY, people probably thought they had accidentally bought a Vangelis album.
John, was it a tough sell to get Visions included on the album? Especially as the lead track? I love it by the way. Like a said, very Vangelis. Like nothing ever heard on a Petra album - before or since.
Then following that song is the Pink Floyd-sounding Not of This World. For any Petheads who were listening back then, what were your reactions to this album upon first listen?
Hey, John. I'm still curious about your set list during the NSD days. Did you guys play anything other than NSD songs on that Servant tour?jmslick wrote:No, I mean to tell you that there are only 3 Petra records, that I know of.dihigo wrote:John, I saw you wrote this on another thread...
You mean to tell us that during your time in the band, especially when you guys were opening for Servant in 1982, you guys weren't playing anything off the first three Petra records?jmslick wrote:Whadayamean, top 5, bottom 5 Petra albums?
I never heard of any other Petra albums but these three...
1 MPTY
2 NOTW
3 NSD
All others, purported to be Petra, were probably made by some guy with a four-track cassette machine doing lots of overdubs.
You are far to generous with the unsolicited compliments, but thank you.a.porr wrote:John,
Let me say like everyone else has said, your work on those three Petra albums was nothing short of inspiring. It is some of my favorite keyboard work Christian or secular!
My question is, and I'm sorry if this has already been asked and I just missed it, but who were some of your influences in synth and hammond playing around the time that you worked on the three Petra albums? I can hear what I think is inspiration from some other players, but your playing stands on it's own merit so I'm not really sure.
1) Thanks for the kind words about Not By Sight. I'm glad to know that it was encouraging for you. Maybe my years with Petra actually did some good for others, more than just for us. Thank you.Natebor wrote:A couple months late to the party, but just wanted to say: MPTA and NOTW have been in constant rotation, never leaving my car since I got wheels in 87 or so. (Can't say that about much CCM from 83 time frame) Love both albums in their entirety, but in the last couple years, Not By Sight has gone from being another tune on a great album to one of my favorites that really encouraged me in a rough spot.
I'm also floored that Ive never heard he doxology in the MPTY bridge. I joke those two albums would NOT be on my "desert island" list to make room for others, since I felt like after making all the instruments out of bamboo and coconuts, I could probably "learn" the parts from memory, even for the instruments I don't already play.