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Posted on 01/17/2019 5:03:47 PM PST by fatima
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Howdy, EGC! (((hugs)))
All is well here. We’ve had warm weather for the past couple of days, but the wild West Texas wind is supposed to start up tomorrow.
How are things up there? Hope you and Gizmo had fun at the lake today. Was it windy there already? Will you be getting snow from “Harper”, the snowflake blizzard? What a silly name for a storm. LOL!
This is a fast moving system so it may be just a one day cold thing.
Giz found a bag of fishing bait and a bottle of water on the ground at Chisolm Trail Park yesterday. We'll see what happens today.
h !!Thanks, unique, for the music guys!
MrEdd.....#50!!
Southside_Chicago_Republican.....#100!!
Always liked Rod’s version but Sheryl’s version is like Warren Zevon’s Knocking on Heaven’s Door. She owns it.
Open the Door, Richard—The Three Flames
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He preached that on a Sunday morning 2 days after a bunch of us went to a Mylon Lefevre and Broken Heart concert at our youth pastor's urging but against the head pastor's wishes. :)
Petra isn't the first Christian rock band. Credit should go to either Larry Norman or Mylon Lefevre for creating the first Christian rock album, depending on your opinion of if Norman's album had a Christian enough message to be called Christian. But Petra is the one that bore the heavy criticism from churches and stayed with it long enough to make Christian rock acceptable. In short, they're probably the first Christian rock band that could quit their day jobs.
And if you like good Bible teaching with a classic rock sound (i.e. pre-rhythm guitar like Eagles or Kansas) it's hard to beat early 1980's Petra. I'd be rich if I had a dollar for every time the past few decades I was in a Sunday school class / small group and was able to answer a question about a Bible verse just by remembering a line from one of their songs.
When I'm in the mood for all flavors of rock n roll I can put all of Petra's albums in a playlist and play it by random. Some songs will have a hippie sound from their mid 70's while some songs will have an arena rock sound from late 80's early 90's. Some of their post-retirement recordings have the classic rock sound but with modern recording technology and techniques. It's really good stuff and always encouraging you to stick to Jesus like glue with a no-matter-what, no-matter-who kind of attitude.
From 1971. It should have been a hit,.
So what was the book really called? (You're Gonna Burn probably isn't it.)
I'm about as old as the AA band members
I wasn't sure how old that was, so I went to Wikipedia to see. I'm more or less the same age as the original member. OK, a little more.
if you like good Bible teaching with a classic rock sound ... it's hard to beat early 1980's Petra. I'd be rich if I had a dollar for every time the past few decades I was in a Sunday school class / small group and was able to answer a question about a Bible verse just by remembering a line from one of their songs.
Unfortunately, I spent my formative years listening to Def Leppard and Iron Maiden, so I would be far less wealthy at the rate of one dollar per answer my music gave me. In the 90s I really gave up almost all secular music except a little bit of Rush, U2, Dire Straits and Steely Dan, but I really didn't start liking Christian rock until a friend gave me a CD with Dive and Live Out Loud by Steven Curtis Chapman.
I will dig around YouTube and find some Petra.
If you like southern rock it's tough to beat David & the Giants from the past 30 years. They switch up to a blues-ish sound, then next song can sound almost like backwoods white Pentecostal church, then back southern hard rock sound.
When I was young Stryper was good, not great. But about 10 years ago they came out of retirement and I like most of the albums they've put out with songs like Reborn, When Did I See You Cry, Passion, Jesus Is Alright, Revelation, and No More Hell To Pay.
RUSCHA was a one-album band that had a keyboard rock sound I like.
Beginning in the mid to late 1980's White Heart started having a good off-the-beaten-path kind of pop/rock sound. Imagine Eurythmics singing for Jesus with a little bit more rock than them. I like their Heroes, Powerhouse, Nailed Down, Fashion Fades, Let the Kingdom Come, Over Me, Messiah, Heaven of My Heart, Dr. Jekyll Mr. Christian, & Beat of a Different Drum.
These bands didn't put out "worship" albums except for a few. So you won't hear any way too repeated lines with overly predictable crescendos, etc. :) But if you like some of that, I guess my favorite is Sonic Flood's first album with Holy One (nice dual rhythm guitar piece).
Last but not least would be Mastedon (letter "e" not "o" after the "t"). That's John Elefante who was the singer/song writer for Kansas after Livgren left. He wound up leaving the band and focusing on writing songs for various Christian rock bands (most notably after Petra's lead singer left around 1985 and picked up a new singer who could do more of the arena rock sound, but Petra's songwriter didn't know how to write that stuff at first). Every 10 or so years Elefante puts out an album under the band name Mastedon that's nothing but a hodgepodge of band members from bands he wrote songs for the past 5 or 10 years. It has very much a Kansas or Eagles type sound. I like Nowhere Without Your Love, One Day Down By the Lake, Living For You, Life on the Line, & Run to the Water.
My Petra favorites I like from their pre-arena rock days: Morning Star, Angel of Light, Stand Up, Second Wind, Judas Kiss (warning, probably the most convicting song I know :) ), Disciple, Grave Robber, Godpleaser, Clean, and Adonai.
Then once they started having an arena rock sound I like: Shakin the House, Thankful Heart, This Means War, You Are My Rock, All the Kings Horses, All Fired Up, Hit You Where You Live, Minefield, I Love the Lord, I Am on the Rock, Creed, Beyond Belief, Destiny, Who's on the Lord's Side, Dance, Sight Unseen, Midnight Oil, Praying Man, Underneath the Blood, Enter In, Think Twice, St. Augustine's Pears (probably doesn't mean much unless you know how much St. Augustine's book Confessions shaped the church over 1,500 years ago), Jekyll and Hyde, All About Who You Know, Stand, Test of Time, & Sacred Trust.
Then I like just about everything on their Back to the Rock album that they did around 2010 or so when they re-recorded some classics with new techniques. A new song on that album Too Big To Fail has a good Irish rock sound.
There. If you don't have enough music to help you meditate on the Lord it ain't my fault. :)
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