Canonical Bands

Okay, this really appeals to my warped sense of humor! From the Twitter feed #CannonicalBands - A mixing of Bible characters with names of pop & rock bands. Funny stuff!

Corinthian Clearwater Revival
Second Peter, Paul and Mary
The Rolled-Away Stones
Hebrews Springsteen
Malachicago
Matthuey Lewis and the News, one of the Fore! gospel bands
Simon and Peterfunkel
Hosea and the Blowfish
Frankie Valli & the 2 Samuels
Lazarus and the Grateful Dead.
Emerson, Luke and Pauline
The Deuteronobie Brothers
Second Kings of Leon
Guns and Romans
The Jonah Brothers
Earth, Wind, and Sheol
3 wise night
Pearl James
Philemonatwork
U2 Timothy
MaccaBee Gees
Habakuk Street Boys
Metallicanaan
Cold Pray

And the best of all:

Led Zephaniah

Some Saturday Links

Some links from my internet wanderings:

A World Without the King James Version

A Short History of Christian Rock Music

God is more interesting than stealth helicopters

Pauline Christology: Implications for Understanding Synoptic Christology

Ben Witherington Reviews the Movie "Thor"  
 (Nothing spiritual about it, but a good action flick for a comic and sci-fi buff like me!)

PETRA - Reunion Of Original Band Members Set For 2010

Fans of early Christian rock music from the 1970's certainly remember Petra, probably the first "hard rock" Christina band.  If that is you, you will be overjoyed to hear about the Reunion Of Original Petra Band Members in 2010, including original lead vocalist Greg X. Volz.

"With a new album and the Back To The Rock worldwide tour set to launch this Autumn, the official website of the reunited classic line-up of Petra has now gone live.

Bringing together Bob Hartman (guitars), Louie Weaver (drums), John Lawry (Keys), Mark Kelly (Bass) and Greg X Volz (vocals), the reunion of the classic Petra line-up is certain to the music event of 2010-2011, as the band returns to perform legendary tracks like ‘Bema Seat’, ‘Judas Kiss’, ‘Second Wind’, ‘More Power To Ya’ and many, many more.

The band will also head to the studio this summer for a new album in conjuction with the Back To The Rock tour.

As multi-platinum pioneers of CCM, Petra has released 24 albums, picking up numerous GRAMMY and Dove Awards and induction into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.

dPulse Recordings/2DOT2 Music and Ovrtone Music Group are proud to count Petra frontman Greg X Volz among of family of artists. A complete catalog of Greg’s solo albums and singles, including The River Is Rising, God Only Knows and many others are available at iTunes and all other major digital music retailers.

For more info, keep it here or visit the Classic Petra Official Site."

Jerry Lets It All Hang Out

If you are a lover of rock music (or pop, or R&B, or Gospel) you will love the new book by my good friend Jerry Masters - Hanging From a Tree By My Knees.

Jerry toured and recorded with Ronny and the Daytonas and The Hombres back in the sixties. He worked as a sound engineer at the famous Muscle Shoals, Alabama, recording studio. He mixed music for Lynard Skynard, Bob Segar, Paul Simon, Jerry Lee Lewis, Boz Scaggs, Wilson Pickett, Rita Cooldidge and many of the greatest acts of rock, as well as Black Gospel. Along the way he was also a professional dirt bike racer.

And then one day, he also found Jesus Christ, who turned his life around.

Jerry's life story is fascinating reading. Like the title of his hit song with the Daytonas, he lets it all hang out in this book. I am pleased and proud to call Jerry my friend, and to highly recommend his book.

I should also mention that Jerry's publisher is Crossover Publications, founded by another friend of mine, Randall Mooney. I am blessed to have such friends.

The Music of Your Youth

Interesting discussion on the connections between memory and music at Discussion: Re-Evaluating the Music of Your Youth « Country Universe, quoting from the NY Times Domestic Disturbances.

It’s a funny thing I’ve noticed lately, listening to the “classic rock” stations that are now — unbelievably — broadcasting the soundtrack of my life: bad music sounds so good once it becomes the music of your youth. All the songs you hated, all the bands you mocked, all the pop clichés you spurned because you were so much cooler than all that now sound so soulful, so very real.

I listened to some cheesy stuff in the seventies that sound good to me now. I also listened to some great stuff in the seventies that has stood the test of time and still sounds great. My personal theory is that everyone thinks the music from their high school years was the best pop music of all time.

What will the kids of today think of today's music thirty years from now? Probably the same as my generation thinks if the music from our youth.

How about you?