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yes, i did… and a little petra for good measure (Please, Don’t let your heart be hardened)… though i have a friend who CURRENTLY sells hard core acid CHRISTIAN rock… and apparently, eventually… the rhythm really is going to get you.

No I didn’t -

Petra? Yes. Stryper? No.

I bought a Stryper cassette tape at a thrift store a few years ago. That tape alone made me wish I had grown up in the 80s. (I’m a 90s kid)

Actually, I haven’t heard this group yet. I have heard and do have Petra. Great band!

Nope – I was too young to have any Stryper. Carman, dc Talk, and Petra, sure, but not Stryper! =o)

I was there for the Stryper reunion at Carowinds in…’97…’98?

Too young for that! I’m with Bethany… Carman, DC Talk, Petra… and later on bands like Pillar.

But I did buy an alternative trend-setters CD on super-extra-discount around the turn of the century. I loved the Swirling Eddies!

Stryper
Barren Cross
White Cross
Neon Cross
(probably several other (blank) Cross bands I can’t remember)
Bride
Bloodgood
Deliverance

…I could go on and on. I had them all.

You have no idea how big a Stryper fan I was. I wore a yellow and black sweatsuit to school.

I actually saw them about 2 years ago. Still a pretty good show.

someone needs to write a blog about petra (“this means war!”)

I still own all their records and have some on cassette and CD. I guess I’m admitting that I am still a fan… and perhaps kinda old for having the “records”.

When I was a freshman in college in ’87, my friends and I did an air band performance to a Stryper song. We donned black spandex, wrapped yellow tape around it — good times. I still have the black and yellow broom that I used as a guitar.

BAH HA HA!!! Classic!

P.S. I just found this site through a friend and I see many laughs ahead.

Owned? Still do, bought the last album in 2005 when it came out, AND caught their live concert when they came through St. Louis!. I have to admit, in their 40s, they can still rock the paint off the bumper of many a truck, and I was amazed by how much better they sound live than they did on the last record. Yeah, record, I said it.

My conversion was mercifully timed that I missed that boat…

I think I was too young as well. Although there was a poster of them up in the youth room at my church. Who knows how long that thing has been there? We had to take it down because heh, nobody knew who they were.

I still do!

I own both Petra AND Stryper and PROUD OF IT!

Oh man! I had a Stryper cassette during college (early-mid 80s). It was my first “Christian Rock” tape. I had worn it out.

I let my little brother borrow it, and someone stole it from his VW Bug. I was so upset!

I was a groomsman in my friend’s wedding on Cape Cod 2 summers ago, and guess who the wedding singer was (for the actual wedding, not the rececption)…yes, Stryper’s own Michael Sweet.

I am going to step it up a notch with a Smith’s cover band, The Sweet and Tender Hooligans.

Are you kidding?! I am charter member #10 of the original Stryper fan club. Tim Gaines offered me his Stryper Corvette. He didn’t know I was 16 and no license. I just wish they would play concerts at places where you don’t have to be 21 to get in. My son now loves them. Petra is the same for me. I went to their farewell concert with my 13 year old Son. SO LOVED IT ! Bob Hartman is an amazing guitarist.

No, but my ex-boyfriend did.

That’s why he’s my ex.

FUNNY!! Stryper was the first-ever concert I went to back in the mid-80s, just as I was getting into Christian music. I remember it being so LOUD and having my fingers in my ears for most of the time. I bought the casette tape (‘To Hell With the Devil’) and could actually hear and understand it without getting a migraine….

Stryper is probably one of the most influential bands in the Christian music genre. They were ground breaking…and they were and still are awesome. Rob Sweet(drums)is one of the nicest people i've ever had the pleasure to meet…he played drums on the album "Waking Up The Dead" by a Canadian band called "BLISSED" the lead singer of BLISSED is my brother. If you are or were a fan of Stryper, or any other harder rock music, check out new Blissed material at http://www.myspace.com/blissedrocks

apparently I'm too young to know who they are since their first album was created 3 years before me, but also apparently, they're still in concert… and have still been releasing ever since 2003. Some of their new sounds seem similar to Newsboys or other more contemporary artists… but they still have the classic electric sound.

"Against The Law" was in my opinion their best album.

PS, didn't some of the guys have guest roles in "Bee Movie"?

We totally had their albums. (I still remember having a crush on the drummer…he was HOT!)

Its easy to admit the stryper thing but Carman! Oh man I actually saw animated dancing vegs as he did a halloween special with 4 young men in their bright glitter outfits I guess a Version of the Baptist street Boys? Man and to think the first Dove reward for Rap went to him just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside then you throw up..

well, i didn't know who Stryper were…until now!! They are having a comeback tour as a result…
but i wasn't here in the early 80's i am a 90's kid too

Another Christian knock off! Why can't Christian groups and artists be the groundbreakers in music like the Christian Boys!! Amen!!

Stryper rules! I think people are turned off because – let's face it – the 80's were weird, especially visually… (Can anyone say "Aqua Net and spandex"?) But I think you'd have to look really hard to find a more talented group of musicians. I'm only 19, and therefore, was not alive in the 80's, but I love Stryper. Best band EVER.

i love it! that's awesome. Between Whitecross, Petra, and Stryper I thought we had it pretty good.

Yeah, I had that poster in your picture on my wall as a teenager. Oh, my, this little post made me smile:)

Stryper was sandwiched between KISS and some other crazy hair band underneath OUR RECORD PLAYER/8-TRACK/CASETTE combo.

I hated Stryper and everything Christian during the 80s and 90s. I listened to death metal and wore upside down crosses and teased the Stryper crowd. Those days are closed. I have been redeemed. My Lord is Jesus Christ and the record says I am saved. I listen to different Christian music, from Chris Tomlin to Skillet and saw Stryper has a new album at the Christian bookstore. I might just listen to it. Interesting. I came to this site because I heard on Chris Fabry Live, online actually.

our youth group actually had a "Stryper is the Anti-christ" ""Bible study" Huh?

After watching a television documentary about Stryper and other Christian metal bands, my brother considered that God could turn people's lives around and he started to come back to church meetings again. He also started to come to a Christian youth group I invited him to.
After a while he became a Christian.

Ah Stryper! I remember thinking my friend's older brother was cool 'cause he went to all their concerts and had drum sticks and other musical stuf the band would throw out to the audience. I also remember having a bible study on the evils of supposed Christian rock bands….Funny since I married a man who had been in a "christian" rock band in the mid 90's

I didn't, and this website isn't clever or satirical. At best it's a cheap rip off of things white people like.

I was an 80's kid and loved Stryper as well. I still have a white vinyl edition of their first album. I also thought it was cool that MTV started to show their music videos. I never got to attend a live concert, but a friend of mine did and he showed me his New Testament Bible he caught that they threw out into the crowd. They were also featured on one of the Dove Awards programs and I remember when Pat Boone came out afterwards in a black leather outfit with chains and spiked collar on. I think half the crowd fainted! HA!

Am I the only one who's never heard of Stryper? We listened to P.O.D. before they made it big, though. I remember listening to them like 10 years before Youth of a Nation came out.

"Bibles dressed in spandex pants… if you can get the girl to dance… she'll follow you, all the way to heaven" – Swirling Eddies

Uh, they're still touring…bless their hearts.

haha Sadly, my dad has an entire live DVD of them… actually i think we have two DVDs that he watches.
One where the drummer wears this hat and it falls over his eyes, but he's still drumming,
that's our favorite one to replay 15,000 times a day. haha

Great blog btw !=)

I still have all of Stryper's music on cassette tape and most of it now on CD's. I also have cassettes and CD's of Bride, Deliverance, Vengence (Vengence Rising), Believer, Holy Soldier, Saint, Bloodgood, White Cross and Barren Cross. All good Christian rockbands from the 80's.

I didn’t listen to Stryper in the 80′s. But Ive started listening to them a couple of months ago and I really like them. I wish I paid attention to them in the 80′s. These guys are great! And they sing about something worth listening to. I hope they tour the USA again. I will be sure to see them.