Petra and Christmas

[petrabandca]

Why do you think Petra never did any Christmas music? I understand all the garbage commercial songs, but what about all those great traditional songs. Not to mention that Bob I'm sure could have written one killer song that would have captured the true meaning of Christmas.

Hey Sue...do you think John and Bob would ever put something together or would John on his own?

I've always wondered why...I guess if they choose not to as a form of protest than I can respect that totally!

What do you guy's think?
James

[jmatd]

That could be a great Idea for II Guyz.... Classic Christmas Songs singing in unppluged version.... special christmas concerts on Dec...

Respect to Petra I thing that the only interest in that would be the really petheads.... no the public in general ... could be?

The songs that I always dreamed with Petra was classics hymns like "Onward Christans Soldiers" but more of them in one of the Praise Albums...

Blessings

PS: Just 4 days to them together again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sue d.]

From what I remember, it just wasn't something that was high on the priority list.

I know John wouldn't have minded doing one... though he's said an EASTER album would be even more impacting than Christmas. How many artists have EASTER albums?

And really - without Easter, Christmas means nothing.
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins."

I too would love to hear a full album of classic hymns, done Bob-style.

jmatd, you are making everyone jealous - including me! - by counting down the days until you see Petra!

I book this show, for all practical purposes I'm acting manager of Petra for this show, and I don't get to go. I think I'll go whine... anyone have cheese?

[jmatd]

Sorry for repeat that many times.. but we are so exciting... I saw them once... in the No Doubt Tour.. 2 years ago I couldn�t go to Buenos Aires because my wife had my daugther at that time.... To have the oportunity again is a gift from the Lord

Now.. she is waiting the third... She will have him on Dec 20th... so I will travel with my son and she, who traveled with me in 1995, will be wating the record that I will do with my little girl....

Just only 69,5 hours... and counting...

I dont know if will be an official record of the event but I will do my best to share it with you .... Trodlan... prepare petrafiles!...

[Michael]

Why do you think Petra never did any Christmas music? I understand all the garbage commercial songs, but what about all those great traditional songs. Not to mention that Bob I'm sure could have written one killer song that would have captured the true meaning of Christmas.

This comes up every once in a while (for example: Christmas 2004 and Christmas 2005). The most commonly-stated reason is that Bob Hartman himself doesn't want to do a Christmas album. I think it would be cool... I'm a big Christmas music fan with dozens of Christmas CDs (870 tracks in my "Christmas" mp3 playlist and adding more every year!) I do think that at this particular point, it would not be a particularly wise move. A Christmas album seems to generally be done only when an artist is sort of... well, well-known. John Schlitt and II Guys are both somewhat under the radar at the moment. If the II Guys CD blows up when it's in general distribution next year, or if John's CD hits hard and he gets a single on the radio or something, then would be a better time for a Christmas recording. Unless it was just sort of done as a fanzy thing for us die-hards.

[WR1U]

Yea me too. I jove christmas music. We're listening to it right now here in the dispatch center it really brightens the mood since you deal with all negative stuff all day. I would love to hear John sing O Holy Night and songs like that that would be so cool.

[trodLAN]

At least Greg X Volz is doin' Christmas albums
http://www.gregxvolz.com/default.tpl?ac ... datarq=103

[Michael]

Don't forget "Mary's Song" from Washes Whiter Than. Not a Bob song (it's by Rob Frazier), but definitely recorded by Petra!