Who was your favorite lead singer for Petra?

[Mountain Man]

By the way, are you the person who used to go by DarrenZ?

That's me.

[Mountain Man]

Bform wrote:

Listen to any of the recent live recordings of John and he is struggling to hold a tune

I've listened to live recordings... I've listened to live PERFORMANCES, and I've listened to a 'vocal-only' raw & untouched CD of the live performance at Club 3 Degrees (thank you, Schlittism33!) and I hear no signs of a "struggle."

Does he get rought at times? sure. Can he hit the stratospheric notes like he did 20 years ago? not always.

But "struggle?"

no.

It depends on the song, I think. On the "II Guys" CD, he nailed "Lord I Lift Your Name On High" and sounded as good as ever, but he did seem to have a harder time with "Judas' Kiss", a song which requires a more nuanced performance than John is capable of delivering. It's not a problem with his voice, simply a matter of trying to sing something that didn't suit his strengths.

[Preacherman777]

Preacherman777 wrote:
By the way, are you the person who used to go by DarrenZ?

That's me.

Cool. Not sure if you aware of it, but I'm the one who used to go by mmjsrtifft and ran the Jesus Rock Message Board years ago.

[Mountain Man]

Preacherman777 wrote:
By the way, are you the person who used to go by DarrenZ?

That's me.

Cool. Not sure if you aware of it, but I'm the one who used to go by mmjsrtifft and ran the Jesus Rock Message Board years ago.

Yep. I totally remember. I knew it was you, but there's no way I could have remembered that alphabet soup of a screenname.

Bob, his wife, BassMan... good times. We had a fun little group.

[Preacherman777]

Yeah, I still hear from Bob once in a while, but I haven't heard anything from Bassman in at least a couple years. There was Paul too, but I don't know what ever happened to him.