Open Skies Worship
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Last night at Pepperdine we had the Open Skies Worship. I was reluctant to attend at first and 10% of the reason I went was out of obligation for my campus ministry there. The other reasons included: I wanted to worship in a beautiful place like Pepperdine. I wanted to see my friends there. I wanted to witness the wonderful event that will become a reoccuring event at Pepperdine. I wanted to get a taste of how Troy leads worship... out of all the times I've played drums with him, I've actually never seen him lead worship.
The night was kinda humid and eventually got a little chilly, but Troy led a good set. Despite some technical issues, I think the point was presented very smoothly. One of the best prayer and worship integration I've seen live. The presentation of the worship set was a bit akward for me... as Troy's style of leading is kinda different. Slow song >> Fast Song >> Slow song >> Fast Song >> Slow song >> Fast Song >> and so forth. Not used to that. And in my opinion, it can become a bit overbearing in terms of my emotions... I was a bit wary of getting too "into" the faster tempo songs, cos I knew that the slow song would come up and I would be taken into this tidal wave of emotional singing backed by a lot of synth.
Nonetheless, I was pretty surprised at how good Troy sings and how aware he is of his vocal qualities. Out of all the years I've known him, he's never rubbed off to me as someone who is so intimately involved with God... but his worship showed that. Usually, our relationship is mostly slapstick humor as opposed to uplifting encouragement towards each other and God. It was nice to see that side of him.
I know for a fact that this is what Cecil wanted the night to be like. He once presented Paul with a CD of a Prayer/Worship session... where the prayer director and the worship leader played off each other and came into this "sync" of leading a whole congregation into prayer... a singing kind of prayer. They accomplished that last night, in my opinion.
On a "guitar-geek's" side note, I was very pleased with the Electric guitar tone that PP got out of his MIM Fender Strat. Playing through a Princeton 45 with nothing more than a Ibanez TS9 and a volume pedal in the signal path. The swells that the TS9 produced were really nice... very "Brian Thessin/Vineyard".
I am now in search for a TS9 to add to my rig. Guitar-Geek side note over.
By the way, PP is Paul Park... who's only 17 years old. He was my older brother's (Paul Yoo) student at SAT class. Weird... small world.
The night was kinda humid and eventually got a little chilly, but Troy led a good set. Despite some technical issues, I think the point was presented very smoothly. One of the best prayer and worship integration I've seen live. The presentation of the worship set was a bit akward for me... as Troy's style of leading is kinda different. Slow song >> Fast Song >> Slow song >> Fast Song >> Slow song >> Fast Song >> and so forth. Not used to that. And in my opinion, it can become a bit overbearing in terms of my emotions... I was a bit wary of getting too "into" the faster tempo songs, cos I knew that the slow song would come up and I would be taken into this tidal wave of emotional singing backed by a lot of synth.
Nonetheless, I was pretty surprised at how good Troy sings and how aware he is of his vocal qualities. Out of all the years I've known him, he's never rubbed off to me as someone who is so intimately involved with God... but his worship showed that. Usually, our relationship is mostly slapstick humor as opposed to uplifting encouragement towards each other and God. It was nice to see that side of him.
I know for a fact that this is what Cecil wanted the night to be like. He once presented Paul with a CD of a Prayer/Worship session... where the prayer director and the worship leader played off each other and came into this "sync" of leading a whole congregation into prayer... a singing kind of prayer. They accomplished that last night, in my opinion.
On a "guitar-geek's" side note, I was very pleased with the Electric guitar tone that PP got out of his MIM Fender Strat. Playing through a Princeton 45 with nothing more than a Ibanez TS9 and a volume pedal in the signal path. The swells that the TS9 produced were really nice... very "Brian Thessin/Vineyard".
I am now in search for a TS9 to add to my rig. Guitar-Geek side note over.
By the way, PP is Paul Park... who's only 17 years old. He was my older brother's (Paul Yoo) student at SAT class. Weird... small world.
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