The Petra Zone

Hey Petheads and friends.

I know I haven't been posting very much lately on the zone. So much has been going on in my life - and then internet problems - that I just have a hard time posting these days. But I haven't forgotten about you guys! Besides, some of us will get together in Sheboygan, WI for the 3 "Pethead Convention" on Dec. 31st. Looking forward to seeing some of you!

Well, I got some great news and I NEED YOUR HELP!!!!!

I'm excited to announce that I've been nominated for Artist Of The Year, IndieHeaven Momentum Awards 2007.

My nomination is in the following categories: Song Of The Year (Blessed), Female Vocalist Of The Year, Rock Artist Of The Year, Worship Artist Of The Year.

Here's the link for the Awards Voting Page:
http://www.indieheaven.com/go.idh?section=mawards.
You can vote only for one artist per category. I'd like to suggest my friend "Tawana" for the Contemporary Artist Category and "David Michael Carrillo" for Male Vocalist Of The Year. I support both these artist's ministries and they are awesome!

This is really important and counts for me this year and I would so appreciate your votes and support during the voting month of December. Last day to vote will be December 31st before midnight.)
You can vote only once per IP address, so be sure to go through all the categories. You may even find an additional artist you want to vote for in another category.
There will be 5 finalists per category and I would be very thankful just to make it to those final 5! So please go to the page and vote and tell all your friends, family and co-workers about it!!
I would love to have 200-300 people voting..........the more the better my chances!

Also Warren has a song up on IndieHeaven Radio. The song's name is called "Cry Out" and is listed under my name 'Sam Scales' due to the fact that I'm the one that has the page up on IndieHeaven.
To vote, please go to this link:
http://www.indieheaven.com/go.idh?section=radiochart, for the Radio Chart Voting Page.

Here are some instructions for that: Once the IndieHeaven Radio Page comes up, scroll down to find Warren's song (my name and Cry Out), click on it and that brings it to the beginning of the Charts and you should hear the song playing also. Go back up to where the chart page starts, you should see my picture there, the name of the song and some grey stars. Highlight them all yellow with your mouse, and then click, that sets the vote. You can vote as often as you like, every day. Let's make it NUMBER ONE!!!

Again, thank you so much everyone for your support, votes and prayers!!

Blessings,

Sam

I voted at home and at work!

Sam I went to the site to vote and checked out some of your tunes is audio supposed to be that fast it's like playing 2X to fast or is that the way it is supposed to be ?

awesome! ill go vote.. i need to get on there with my music someday.. I know James Moore who is on there. But... id like to give Viktor best new artist for 06! my tunes are found at www.soundclick.com/michaeldkoehler

Daniel,

So I sound like a chipmunk??? HAHAHA

Well, it's not supposed to be that way.

Ooooh, my gosh........HAHAHA, I DO sound like a chipmunk!!! Well, guess I better e-mail Keith and let him know what's up with that! Eeek.

THANK YOU for saying something.

Sam

Thank you guys for voting. I really appreciate it so much.

If anyone is curious about our ministry, you can check us out at http://www.SamScales.com before you vote.

I so appreciate everyone's support!

Bless you,

Sam

Michael,

Your picture stuck out to me as I'm going through the posts and I remembered that I approved you on MySpace on John's and Bob's websites! So I'm listening to your music right now on MySpace. I didn't want to sign up for yet another website to listen to your music on soundclick......

MY GOSH!!! THAT's BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!! I got chills....I'm listening to 'You Are The One'.

So you are a keyboardist?? You really need to be on IndieHeaven. Just e-mail Keith at [email protected] and tell him I sent you.....

Now.....Praise Him......that's a cool tune.....awww.....

I tried to add you to my own MySpace Friend list, but you don't accept band add requests......... I would love to have you as a friend if it's ok.

I'm at http://www.myspace.com/psalm100ministries

My husband Warren's is: http://www.myspace.com/jazzman1962

If you went to the radiochart one to vote for the song "Cry Out" then you heard HIS stuff.

I really dig "Your love shines through". Cool stuff! And of course "Frosty The Snowman" is very appropriate right now, hehe.

Way to go Michael. May the Lord use you to bless thousands!

Sam

Sam, Thanks a bunch for listening and the nice comments! Ill go add yall. I didnt know my thing was set to not add bands.. ill have to change that.. myspace takes on itself at times i think.. Yea, i play keyboard and some guitar. Id like to be on indie heaven.. mabe ill sign up at the beginning of the new year. There are several Internet radio stations playing my tunes.. one of them is The Right Place. I just sent off a few of my songs to some place in TN that submits songs to movie , tv, advertisement by request of them. Thats not a direction i was wanting to go.. but i think they are probalby intersted in pitching the song You are the One to them. And that i can hear in a movie. Thanks again for your comments ill go now and add u both to my space.. God Bless you! www.myspace.com/mdkstudios

ok added.. if you do go to my soundclick.. there is a bluesy type tune.. I wrote , called Save this Sinner, Warren mite like. I dont think u have to sign up to listen at soundclick do ya? im not sure since ive been on there for 2 yrs now. if ya do.. i can email just the link to it... thanks..

Hey Michael,

Thanks so much for adding us! Yeah, I think MySpace has a mind of it's own sometimes. Working with Bob and John's sites, it gets interesting at times......I get the "unexpected error" message at times and I'm like: "What unexpected error??? All I did is hit 'APPROVE'" HAHAHA.

I defininetly can hear that piano tune in a movie. I could just listen to that over and over and over again. I would love to have you put some piano parts to my songs..........but first things first. Copyright is first, then funds for all the other stuff......

With Soundclick, yeah, you gotta sign up first before you get to listen to any of your stuff. That's why I was so disappointed, because I'm not going to sign up for one more site and another password to remember.

Warren has been looking for new music to play his saxophone with, because he plays with tracks when he does his jazz music........we'd sure like to take a listen.

My e-mail is: [email protected]. Would you be ok with maybe sending me an mp3 clip of the tune you are talking about??

By the way. Are you coming to Sheboygan, WI for John and Bob's gig with Sue??

Done. I will go to some friends houes and vote again.

ok i will email that mp3 blues song ... No, i dont plan on going to WI for the show. thanks. chek your email . Peace!

Michael,

Got your blues song! Thanks for sending it. It's very cool! We enjoyed listening to it.

Just a quick reminder. Last couple days for voting on my IndieHeaven Momentum Awards Nomination........

Please go to http://www.SamScales.com for instructions on the home page on where to go and voting guide.

Thanks for all your support!

Sam

Thanks Sam! Glad ya liked it! God Bless! Mike