PETRA - BEAT THE SYSTEM (*New-Vinyl) ROYAL PURPLE w/POSTER, GIRDER RECORDS, LIMITED RUN

  ROYAL PURPLE VINYL 2021 Girder Records  Included Full Color 2 Sided Sleeve with Printed Lyrics, Band Photo Includes 12x18" Poster with Vinyl Originally Release in 1984 Remastered by Rob Colwell (Bombworks Sound)   BEAT THE SYSTEM  Petra’s Grammy nominated 1985 album, Beat The System, is certainly one of Petra's most transitional works. It is also one that, despite being thoroughly a product of its time, manages to sound surprisingly relevant today.Due to the departure of keyboardist John Slick, the preponderance of the album’s mountain of synthesizer tracks were actually performed by studio musician Carl Marsh or Rhett Lawrence, a young producer and musician who, in future years, would produce albums and write songs for artists like Mariah Carey, Kelly Clarkson, Black Eyed Peas, and Whitney Houston. When Lawrence was working on Beat The System he was also working as a programmer for artists Michael Jackson and Van Halen, which gave the album a polished, mainstream sound. There’s