Keyboard Solo

johnathan · Post by **johnathan** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:38 am

If you were at the taping you would have seen one heck of a solo! they cut his synthguitar solo with John and Paul putting on quit a solo. It really rocked! And as far as the Jesus Loves You! Man that was just classic,that is what everyone remembers and loves.I personally liked hearing him do that again!

PetraFan007 · Post by **PetraFan007** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 11:37 am

I'm hoping the DVD contains everything.

AlwaysJohnLawryFan · Post by **AlwaysJohnLawryFan** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 5:32 pm

Anything with John Lawry rocks totally.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 11:30 pm

The solo on Farewell is just kind of...meh. It could have been left off. It's kind of a nice little memory lane trip for us Petheads (with one listen). I was playing Farewell in my car for a friend of mine who had never heard Petra. He loved it all. Except for that solo when he inquired, "What the crap?"

brothertom · Post by **brothertom** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 6:38 pm

Listening to Farewell, the "keytar" solo did not have the impact it did when I heard it live. Being a creature who had never heard the CIT[A]S version (note the compromise acronym where the A is optional as depicted by its enclosure in brackets

), or seen the video, I thought it was quite entertaining while watching John playing it in Franklin. Familiarity takes the edge off the effect of the solo. When I played it for Teri, she looked at me kinda funny, too, wondering how it was done. I give John points for coming up with something that clever and innovative, even if the innovation was several years ago.

Tom

Mountain Man · Post by **Mountain Man** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 12:31 pm

My chief complaint is that John Lawry's solo was far too short on the CD. They should have given it another minute at least.

Kirkman · Post by **Kirkman** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 12:34 pm

John's solo stuff was *way* truncated on the CD. If the DVD restores all the suff he did live, you'll all be very pleased.

--Josh

greenchili · Post by **greenchili** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 11:00 pm

I must be missing something. The "jesus loves you" solo on the farewell cd was not even close to the original CITAS version. In fact a good part of it was not even in the same key. Everything about it to me just seemed "off".

I heard he had technical difficulties that night, so maybe that had something to do with it.

I also noticed on "Beyond Belief" the drummer skipped alot of fills during the bridge. Kinda took the edge out of the song for me.

AlwaysJohnLawryFan · Post by **AlwaysJohnLawryFan** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:53 am

John Lawry should have played longer. It was too short but I probably the only one who think he did ok.

spottacus · Post by **spottacus** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:09 am

I spent years dreaming of the day that Petra would drop keyboards altogether and play real rock and roll, so although it was nice to have Lawry back for nostalgia's sake, I think he played long enough.

Frankly, I thought that Beyond Belief would have sounded better without the extra noise.

SamScales · Post by **SamScales** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:01 pm

Well I FINALLY got the Farewell CD.....sheesh.

I thought too that the keyboard solo was way too short, so I'm really looking forward to the DVD, as many of you mentioned that it really rocked live.

AlwaysJohnLawryFan · Post by **AlwaysJohnLawryFan** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:14 pm

Petra just don't sound quit right without keyboards. I just don't picture it. Well, I won't repeat myself. Everyone knows where I stand.

SamScales · Post by **SamScales** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 11:41 am

Yeah, I've missed the keys too! I really like keyboards, to me it just adds a lot.

unlost · Post by **unlost** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:14 pm

On Farewell, the keyboard solo offered nothing new to comment on. I think it was just for nastolgia because him & Volz were too much part of Petra to be left out. Too bad Louie wasn't there.

greenchili · Post by **greenchili** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:31 am

Well my take on keyboards. I've never really considered myself much a purist when it comes to music style. Personally the more "pure" a song is usually the less I like it. Although I would consider myself a die hard rocker in a sense.

I prefer it when groups "mix it up", and that includes synthesizers. It should come as no surprise when I say two of my fav albums are "Time" by ELO and Beat The System by petra.

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