The Petra Zone

OK... BIG development in the CITS petition last night! I'll have to explain a few things first. CITS was released on Star Song records; Star Song is now owned by mainstream media giant EMI Records. After I mailed off the initial letter a month ago, I found out that the guy I THOUGHT was still in charge of the Christian division at EMI in fact is not. The guy currently in charge of EMI Christian Division is a guy named Bill Hearn... extra points for Petheads who recognize the name. (He's not a part of Petra history, but his dad is!) BUT: there is a "new" (this year) position that was just created, head of EMI Christian PUBLISHING. The person that position was created for is none other than Eddie DeGarmo of DeGarmo & Key fame! My letters never came back, but I don't know for a fact that they reached Eddie or Bill. I also sent emails to their email addresses (which I guessed at based on the one I had for Mark Dunn). Mark's email bounced back to me a month ago, but the ones I sent to addresses for Eddie and Bill never did, so I guess we can assume they got there.

So, last night Cat and I were at the Tulsa performance of !Hero The Rock Opera. I knew the whole !Hero thing is Eddie's baby, and I also knew that he had been spotted at a number of shows, so on the off-chance that we might get to see him, I printed another copy of the initial letter and brought it along. Well... WE SAW HIM! We got his autograph, and I told him about the petition and gave him the letter. He didn't show any enthusiasm about the idea especially, but he didn't blow it out of the water either-so I guess we'll just see what happens. So keep praying, and we'll see what happens!

He didn't chew it uo and spit it out,, has to be GOOD news

Hehe MJ, you guys don't waste any time do you? LOL!

Well let's look at the secular industry....The Beatles, you can still get all their albums and all their movies. hmmm. What does the Christian industry have? PETRA, you can get most if not all of their albums and one or two of their videos. And that's without going to ebay to see if someone is just selling an extra copy.

I think that the record company will be greatly surprised if they would take a chance and release all those videos again on DVD.

Hey, they made the Ultimate Video Collection for Wierd Al on DVD, they can do it with Petra!! LOL!!