Former memebrs of the band Joshua include such Christian notables as Jeff Fenholt, Rob Rock, and Ken Tamplin.
Classic rockers who have also appeared on Joshua Perahia albums: Alex Ligertwood of Santana, Jason Scheff of Chicago, Rick Baker of Santana, Mugs Cain of Sammy Hagar's group
Influences:
Neal Schon, David Gilmour, Duane Allman
Sounds Like:
Whitesnake, Boston, Journey, Michael Schenker, Deep Purple
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Discography
Intense Defense: Live in the Studio DVD (2008)
The entire album "Intense Defense" performed live in the studio. Features Rob Rock on vocals. The DVD will also include live footage from various appearances with guests Paul Shortino (Rough Cutt), Neal Grusky (Takara), and Jeff Fenholt.
Something to Say (2001)
Winner of "Hard Rock Album of the Year" on many of the world's better known hard rock / heavy metal magazines. This album showcases some of the most mature and emotional songs Joshua has ever written. Absoultely brilliant. Top notch production by Keith Olsen (Santana, Heart, Fleetwood Mac) and features special guest performances by members of Santana, Chicago, and Sammy Hagar's band.
1. Remembering You
2. Something to Say
3. I Can Feel Again
4. Precious Love
5. The First and The Last
6. Let Your Love Shine Down
7. Guiding Light
8. It Hasn't been Easy
9. Tears of Joy
10. One Night is Not Enough
11. Steady Weapon
12. Remembering You (Acoustic Version)
Produced by Keith Olsen
Featured Players:
Joshua Perahia
Jerry Gabriel
Joey Rochrich
Eric Stoskopf
Chapter One (1998)
A more commercial friendly album but still displaying the intensity and fiery brand of guitar playing Joshua fans love and admire. Features the hits "Tears of Joy" and "One Night is Not Enough"
Track Listing:
1. Concrete Jungle
2. You Want It All
3. Steady Weapon
4. One Night is Not Enough
5. Long Way to Heaven
6. Dark days
7. It Must Be Love
8. Tears of joy
9. Walk Into the Light
10. Devil's River
11. Right on Target
Non-LP track recorded during sessions available as download only: Bad Man
Produced by Joshua Perahia and Denis Degher
Featured Players:
Joshua Perahia
Joey Rochrich
Eric Stoskopf
Michael O'Mara
Liz Vandall
Diane Arens
Intense Defense (1988)
Many magazines, including Kerrang, HM Magazine, Aardshok, and Metal Forces have called "Intense Dfense" the best melodic hard rock album ever made. An outstanding release showcasing Joshua's worldclass guitar playing and songwriting skills enhanced by the amazing vocals of Rob Rock.
Track Listing:
1. Reach Up
2. I've Been Waiting
3. Only Yesterday
4. Crying Out for Love
5. Living on the Edge
6. Tearing at My Heart
7. Remembering You
8. Look to the Sky
9. Don't You Know
10. Stand Alone
Produced by Dieter Dierks
Featured Players:
Joshua Perahia
Rob Rock
Greg Shultz
Emil Lech
Tim Gehrt
Surrender (1985)
A classic release! Features the amazing lead vocal talent Jeff Fenholt. Ken Tamplin is also a featured player. Another example of Joshua's mindblowing fretboard dexterity.
Track Listing:
1. Surrender
2. Heart Full of Soul
3. Your Love is Gone
4. Stay Alive (Go on Believing)
5. Rockin' the World
6. Back to the Rock
7. Hold On
8. Show Me the Way
9. Loveshock
10. Rockin' the World (Reprise)
Produced by Joshua Perahia
Featured players:
Joshua Perahia
Jeff Fenholt
Ken Tamplin
Eric Norlander
Robert Basauri
Larry Cox
Eric Tuttobene
Ken Price
Bryan Fleming
Craig Otsbo
Joe Galletta
Joe Tafoya
Loren Robinson
Patrick Bradley
The Hand is Quicker Than the Eye (1983)
The band's debut album. Features "November is Going Away" which was a #1 hit in Japan and earned Joshua the "Guitarist of the Year" award in Kerrang Magazine.
Track Listing:
1. Falling Again
2. November is Going Away
3. Sweet 'Lil Hurricane
4. A Song For Lisa
5. Let's Breakaway
6. Broken Dream
7. Flying High
8. Portrait of a Woman
Produced by Joshua Perahia and Denis Degher
Featured Players:
Joshua Perahia
Stephen Fontaine
Donnie Gougeon
Mahlon Hawk
Tony Zaccaglin
Joshua Perahia (pronounced Pûr-i-yä) is pioneer in Christian rock. Before there was a Stryper, before Barren Cross appeared on the scene, there stood alone one band, and that was JOSHUA. Through his faith and desire to share his love of God, Joshua made it his life's mission to realize his musical vision and the band JOSHUA was born.
BURRN!! Magazine has called him The Fastest Guitarist in the World. Magazines such as Kerrang!, Metal Forces, and Aardshok hail his RCA release "Intense Defense" as the best AOR hard rock album ever. His albums are graced by a who's who of some of the finest Christian musicians in the world including Jeff Fenholt (TBN, JC in the original Broadway cast of "Jesus Christ Superstar"), Rob Rock (Impelliteri), Ken Tamplin (Shout), as well as such classic rock notables like Alex Ligertwood (Santana), Rick Baker (Santana), Jason Scheff (Chicago), Mugs Cain (Sammy Hagar), Jizzy Pearl (Ratt). He has shared the stage with the likes of Dokken, Stryper, Pat Travers, Michael Schenker, Ozzy Osbourne, Great White, Ratt, and countless other notable bands.
A guitarist's guitarist, a true virtuoso, a world-class songwriter, but most of all a devoted servant to our Lord..............his name is Joshua Perahia.
Please read the complete biography in the blog section!
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3/25/2008 - 1:45 AM
BiographyJoshua Perahia (pronounced Pûr-i-yä) is pioneer in Christian rock. Before there was a Stryper, before Barren Cross appeared on the scene, there stood alone one band, and that was JOSHUA. Through his faith and desire to share his love of God,...
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Popping in to wish you a happy day filled with all that makes your face smile and your heart sing for joy!
BECAUSE YOU SAY SO!!!!
THE GRASS WITHERS AND FLOWER FALLS BUT THE WORD OF GOD STANDS FOREVER!!! TRUST HIM!!!
Jesus was down by the lake of Gennesaret one day ministering the word of God to the multitudes when they, eager to hear His words, became so great that they were pressing in against Him. Therefore, looking for a better why to speak to the people, Jesus saw two boats and the fishermen from those boats near by cleaning their nets. So He got into the boat belonging to Simon Peter and asks him to push off a little ways from shore so He could sit down and teach the people more effectively.
When Jesus finished speaking to the people, He spoke directly to Peter! He said to Him go out into the deeper water and let down your nets for a catch. Jesus a carpenter instructs this experienced fishermen, who had been fishing all night with out so much as a fish being caught in the nets. Peter considered himself to be quite knowledgeable about how to catch fish. And he wanted Jesus to understand that this was his field of expertise and that His advice made no sense to a skillful practicing fisherman who had fished in this very lake exhaustively all night with absolutely no success. However, in spite of what he knew to be true about fishing, he said, "BECAUSE YOU SAY SO, I will let down the nets again!" Because Peter was willing to forego his experience and knowledge of fishing and responded actively to Jesus instructions he experienced miraculous supernatural results. Results exceedingly abundantly more than he could even think to ask for. From this one act of obedience to God's word Peter had to call for help, and even with the help of another boat and crew they were still beginning to sink under the abundance of God's blessing. God is God of more than enough!
Next, I have met two wonderful artists right here on Shoutlife, Michael Robert and Liz Clarke Please drop my site, listen to their music, and then you can go to their site and become their friend too.
Finally, I have a new blog that addresses an element of songwriting--Imagry. Check it out and let me know what you think.
glitter-graphics.comPsalms121:1-2 I look up to the hills,but where does my help come from?My help comes from the Lord,who made heaven and earth.1st Peter5:7 Cast your cares on him,for he cares for you.Isaiah51:11 The people the Lord has freed will return and enter Jerusalem with joy.Their happiness will last forever.They will have joy and gladness,and all sorrow and sadness will be gone far away.
SENDING YOU A MESSAGE OF DEVOTED LOVE TO ENHANCE YOUR DAY! If you are thirsty God is a fountain of love flowing with all that makes your heart sing. He is a rock immovable solid and sure protecting your way. A lamp of illumination that will direct you in the way that you should go, so that each step you take will keep you from destruction. And lead you away from the trouble that is constantly encroaching upon your predetermined future. God has a plan for your life, a wonderful purpose for you to fulfill, and He is the glorious radiance that shines brightly upon the path that will lead you to your ultimate destiny and divine purpose. Love is the only power from which human success can be derived. ~Neglect it not~
May God's love be expelled with each beat of your heart. And may the vividness of His closeness always drive the darkness away!
God's love can be rejected but never will He refuse those who seek to love Him. All His promises are as sure and necessary to those who have chosen Him, as is breath to keep you physically alive. Believe and receive! Copyright Sylvia F. Liani 2009
Praying for you a perfectly beautiful day!
Sylvia xoxoxo
New Blog "STONES OF ENTHUSIASTIC INVOLVEMENT" Please read it and be blessed! My absence explained in blog "HELLO MY BEAUTIFUL FRIENDS"
PS: Please continue to remember my grandson Francesco in your prayers!
YOU ARE AWESOME, WONDERFULLY MADE, EMPOWERED AND ENDOWED!!!!
Don't be a fence sitter!
Mass confusion, mob uproar - in Decision Valley! I call Heaven and Earth to witness against you today: I place before you Life and Death, Blessing and Curse. Choose life so that you and your children will live. Joel 3:14 Deuteronomy 30:19 The Message
I pray that every decision you make is a God-directed decision of Life, leading to His blessings for you.
Blessings,
Susan
He saved us from all that. It was all his doing; we had nothing to do with it. He gave us a good bath, and we came out of it new people, washed inside and out by the Holy Spirit. Titus 3:5 The Message
I pray that you see yourself cleansed, Joshua - not by your own efforts, but by the grace of your Loving Abba Daddy.
Blessings,
Susan
Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength. Nehemiah 8:10 NKJ
I pray that no matter what you are facing, going through, or helping others through, your joy will remain strong, allowing God's strength to be mighty in you!
Blessings,
Susan
Would you like to tell all your friends about our Prayer Team? We have a Prayer Team group where you can post your Prayer Requests and pray for others.
Just copy and paste this link into your private messages, bulletins and blogs:
Would you like to join a Prayer Team? We have a Prayer Team group where you can post your Prayer Requests (for free, ofcourse!) and pray for others. Just click this link to go to our page: www.shoutlife.com/prayerteam
If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. John 7:37 NKJ
I pray that you drink deeply of the goodness of God, of His love for you, and of His truth that will set you free. Drink deeply and drink often, Joshua.
Blessings,
Susan
Have a blessed week Joshua.... "Christos Annesti" I'll try to remember that. In Cherokee the closest to that would be "s-gv-no-dv" which is He's alive...
Hi Joshua,
Just stopped by to say hello...
Really like your sound... you rock brother...!!!
Nice vocals and lyrics...
Have a glorious Easter... He Is Risen!!!
Happy Easter! May we all have a greater revelation of His love for us on the cross. Praying you have a wonderful time with family and friends.
Blessings,
Susan