On Wednesday of last week me and my family drove to Plain City, OH (4 hours, 200 mi. one way), to hear Voice of Praise on their Reunion tour.
It was good to see my buddies Glen, Ben, and Josh, and the others. In fact, I also met Paul for the first time, it turns out he’s an ITF constituent from way back!
All their former members were with them on tour, save one. Joshua B. Good (Paul’s brother) couldn’t make it, so there were nine men on stage.
It was a great program. They had a fantastic blend, you’d have to look far and wide to find a men’s ensemble that could match it.
I was surprised and pleased to hear them sing Walt Harrah’s arrangement of “God be With You Till We Meet Again.” Very sweet, and they knocked the tag out of the park. (Hopefully they don’t mind me using the term “tag!”)
AHQ did this song many years ago, and we could never pull it off live because the last chord called for five (as I recall) different notes. But they sounded great.
Seeing that this is yet another song they covered that AHQ has recorded, AHQ’s influence on them is more apparent all the time.
Ok, since probably only about 5% of my constituents got that terrible joke, I’ll just come out and say, that was a really lame joke! But it was funny to me and probably Konrad, so I put it in.
They recorded an album to go along with the tour, and it’s well worth buying. You really should get yourself a copy. Remind me to do a separate post on it.
3 Responses
July 25th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
I thought it was funny….
My wife thought it was funny….
I must admit, however, that your brain must be a little fried from all the ice tea you have consumed . Why else would you drive such a distance as that. I must admit it was an honor to have you in the audience.
July 25th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
We heard them next door at Hephzibah, and I had a cousin drive five hours to hear them that night…….but I agree–it was well worth it!
I’m prejudiced though. I have two cousins, a long time friend, and other new friends in the group, so I would’ve driven a ways to hear them if I’d had to. Their new album IS good, I agree on that as well.
July 25th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Wish I could’a’ been there! Do a separate post on it.