The Petra Zone

Here is the pre-release demo of "Mechanism"

John Lawry's wife reprised her sampled voice duties (she is the voice sampled for the "Jesus Loves You" solo shtick. He and my boy Alex trade some keyboard licks. Greg lays the haunting vocals following John's intro and then sings the "Amen" break following the first verse. Greg Bailey is just groovy.

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Just noticed the files are not the most current, but you get the idea. Forgot to mention Louie is on there too.

I may get myself into trouble, but is this your official line up? Sounds good, I'm looking forward to it.

DUDE!!! This is seriously the bomb!! This song reminds me of a juiced up "AD" with copious amounts of Dream Theater thrown in for good measure, which is a huge compliment because I think "AD" was one of the more talented, underrated bands ever to grace CCM and Dream Theater is one of the best progressive mainstream bands playing today! Anyway, awesome work...and if you are ever playing and need an opening band similar sounding to King's X/ Galactic Cowboys get ahold of me!!

Mega kudos,

Eric

Thanks for the feedback. Glad you liked it and heard what we put in.

We love Yes (hence the reason for having Louie play the Alan White inspired patterns), Dream Theater, Rush, Qween, and anything else melodic and proggy. My guitar player, Marco Sfogli actually plays in James Labrie's band solo band. My keyboardist, Alex Argento is a friend of Jordan Rudess, who throws gigs his way. Both are clinicians and excellent musos.

This was one pig of a song, over one hundred tracks wide. It is the longest song on the record and it had the shortest, most casual, birth. Alan was in a hotel on business for a week. He was just noodling around. He emailed sent me four picked notes and one chord recorded on his little Digitech thing. About an hour or two later I returned an email of the first gen of this tune. We got on the phone and just started laughing in amazement at how this evolved into this. We had our buddy Brian Gresh from Tulsa come up and lay a couple of ideas. We kept two. We flew in the Petrazone's own Rocksoup (Jeremy Garretson) who layed an idea or two. We then peared it all done from over 14 minutes to around 10 without the intro, retracked the whole thing and tah-dah.

It's amazing how songs are birthed like that! Are you familiar with Spock's Beard, Neal Morse or Transatlantic? Sounds like you would enjoy them as well based on some of your influences?

Ohhhh yeah. We love all of that stuff.

Right on! They are some of my favorite bands...

Hey Brent,

I really like "Trust" Good tune.

Cool. Thanks for the feedback.