The Petra Zone

Who would you like to see in a reunion concert together and why?

Mine would be Audio Adrenaline opening, dc Talk next, with Petra closing. It would be a high energy event from beginning to end!

Mine would be Petra playing one song from each album, with the same line-up who performed on the album... Not the "tour" line-up for No-Doubt etc, but who actually played on the album.

D & K and Whiteheart would be nice

I like Boray's concept the best, but I think it would be very unlikey anything like that would ever happen.



All Guitars- Robert Hartman
Keys - John Lawry
Bass - Mark Kelley
Vocals - John Schlitt
Drums - Paul Simmons(spelling could be incorrect)

Petra headlining, of course. The band would concentrate on the BEYOND BELIEF and ON FIRE! albums. It would be mandated that they would have to play "St. Augustine's Pears" from GOD FIXATION.

Whiteheart as second opener, concentrating on the TALES OF WONDER album.

DeGarmo & Key as first opener, concentrating on the STREETLIGHT, THE PLEDGE, and GO TO THE TOP albums.

Boray wrote:Mine would be Petra playing one song from each album, with the same line-up who performed on the album... Not the "tour" line-up for No-Doubt etc, but who actually played on the album.

In other words, no Louie!

Mexican Spud wrote:D & K and Whiteheart would be nice

This has happened. Members of Whiteheart have played. D&K did an anniversary reunion show.

I would like to see Servant again. This could only happen in heaven.

imc wrote:

Boray wrote:Mine would be Petra playing one song from each album, with the same line-up who performed on the album... Not the "tour" line-up for No-Doubt etc, but who actually played on the album.

In other words, no Louie!

I have heard rumors that the Elefante's wouldn't let Louie play on the albums (same thing with Karl Ney for Guardian), but I'm pretty sure he played on at least some of the albums during his time in Petra.

I have no idea, but I thought Louie played, and his drums were replaced with electronic samples.

GMan

Those were MIDI mapped and triggered and then Louie over-dubbed with cymbals, etc.

On later albums Louie played. JDB era stuff, Louie did not.

brent wrote:JDB era stuff, Louie did not.

So who played on "More power to ya" and "not of this world" then?

JDB used a session bass player and drummer on NSD, the same session drummer on MPTY, and I think Louie actually played on NOTW.

It's too early to recall the names. If you google deep enough you can find them. An email to the source as been sent. It may be Keith Edwards, but I am not 100% certain.

Louie wasn't a part of the band when Never Say Die was recorded.

brent wrote:Those were MIDI mapped and triggered and then Louie over-dubbed with cymbals, etc.

On later albums Louie played. JDB era stuff, Louie did not.

I have to say, it is the drums I hate the most on the Elephante records. If they'd used real drums, those records would sound far less dated now.

imc wrote:

brent wrote:Those were MIDI mapped and triggered and then Louie over-dubbed with cymbals, etc.

On later albums Louie played. JDB era stuff, Louie did not.

I have to say, it is the drums I hate the most on the Elephante records. If they'd used real drums, those records would sound far less dated now.

Exactly. There was a sheen on them that made those records hard for me to listen to. JDB made mixes that hold up today. Those are the ones that I enjoy listening to most.

If a band is organic sounding, doesn't do the modern hip-hop loops, heavy effects (like the gated reverbs on drums in the 80s), etc, then the music will have a better chance of being tolerable 20 years from now.