The Petra Zone

A few days ago I managed to get hold of an original LP copy of the album Xavier. As many of you know it's an album from 1982 with Greg X. Volz on lead vocals, under the name of Xavier.
I've updated the page on my website about this album and I've added the lyrics of the songs. Hopefully I'll have the music available on .mp3 within a month or two. But don't expect anything spectacular. It's rather mellow, with some rocky tunes. The lyrics are not very original. But still, it's Greg X. Volz on vocals. And we all love that, don't we?

Xavier: http://home.filternet.nl/~p.th.vanwinge ... avier.html

Xavier lyrics: http://home.filternet.nl/~p.th.vanwinge ... yrics.html

Wow! How in the world did you manage to get THAT album? It is very rare....

I can't wait to hear some of the sound.... please post here when you get those up, OK?

btw, I haven't forgotten about your Halo request.... gotta dig out those cassettes!

Stay tuned, cause these tracks will soon be released digitally. Jonathan Fitzwilliam has given me permission to release digital files of the LP along with scans of the artwork.

Thanks for making this hard-to-find-album available for us, I am currently working with your old vinyl to bring out some good quality mp3-files for all to download. Stay tuned for further updates!

http://www.petrafiles.com/xavier.htm

I have now added the first 6 files to the Xavier album.
Enjoy, I think it's a very nice album.

http://www.petrafiles.com/xavier.htm

Good work, the files sound fantastic. Thanks this is great.

I have now added the last trax' to the Xavier-download page.
Hope you are satisfied with my vinyl-job.

Sounds great. Thank you!

Does anyone have a LP of Washed Whiter Than? It would be nice to get this kind of quality on the 2 tracks missing from the CD.

80's guitar rock fronted by Greg Volz? Yes please! Too bad only a thousand copies were pressed, because from the little I've heard so far, this thing could have made it big if it had been given a wider release (it reminds me a lot of Chicago).

By the way, outstanding quality of the MP3 conversion.

It's kinda like Washes Whiter Than part Deux, except for the lyrics. It's pretty weird hearing Greg sing lyrics like:

There's too much waitin'
And not enough lovin'
For me to be hangin' around
And there's too many ladies
For me to be wastin' my time
On your merry-go-round

It kind of reminds me of when I heard Head East for the first time and hearing John sing Love Me Tonight. But of course, he wasn't a Christian then.