Hey STRYPER fans... ever seen this?

Bored today so I'm bummin' around Wikipedia reading up on some of my fave bands and their discographies. While lookin thru the entries on the various Stryper albums I came across something I'd never seen before:



This is a "special limited edition" of Stryper's AGAINST THE LAW album, which contains a 14-minute interview with the band as a bonus track (according to Wiki, the band uses the interview portion to "explain their radical change in appearance and musical direction" on the album). A.T.L. has been my favorite Stryper release for many years but I've never seen or even heard of this thing. Was it some kinda promotional pre-release version? Obviously it's gotta be a rarity. I notice Ult has two different versions of "A.T.L." on his site (the Enigma and Hollywood Records pressings) but not this one...I figured if anyone would've had it, he would!

Just idly curious...

I've seen this before. I believe Bill Bafford (Roxx) has it. I do not but if anyone cares to donate a copy to the cause...

ultmetal wrote:

I've seen this before. I believe Bill Bafford (Roxx) has it. I do not but if anyone cares to donate a copy to the cause...

If I ever stumble across one, I'll arm wrestle you for it. No, wait, maybe I won't.

At first as i was scrolling down it looks like it says "Against Stryper".

Troublezone wrote:

At first as i was scrolling down it looks like it says "Against Stryper".

Nah, "Against Stryper" would be this particular cassette tape I posted about awhile back:

http://www.heartofmetal.net/rip-f4/obscure-stryper-cassette-anyone-else-have-one-of-these-t1809.htm?highlight=obscure

I think Shawn Pelata was selling this here a while back.

I have this, but it's got an odd mark on the disc, which makes it skip on a couple of tracks . I believe it was a first press rather than a promo (I bought mine from a chain store in 1990). It does have the original Stryper triangle logo on the disc, though, rather than the new logo from ATL. The interview is about ten minutes long, and was also available on an Australian promo comp. called Scream Until You Like It, alongside bands like Skid Row, Megadeth and Winger.

I've seen it but I dont have it.It would be a cool little piece to have.I bet Bill does have it.He's got about everything Stryper.I Hate him.

It would seem to me that this an advance promo that might've been made available for sale....

I think I've seen this before.... been along time tho....

Fat Freddy wrote:

Troublezone wrote:

At first as i was scrolling down it looks like it says "Against Stryper".

Nah, "Against Stryper" would be this particular cassette tape I posted about awhile back:

http://www.heartofmetal.net/rip-f4/obscure-stryper-cassette-anyone-else-have-one-of-these-t1809.htm?highlight=obscure

I have that on cassette - actually, that looked like my scan you used in that post

I thought that particular tape wasn't really anti-Stryper. I thought it was actually fairly objective. I also have the "Why Knock Rock?" book & tape set, though I haven't been through it yet.

MetalFRO wrote:

I have that on cassette - actually, that looked like my scan you used in that post

I thought that particular tape wasn't really anti-Stryper. I thought it was actually fairly objective. I also have the "Why Knock Rock?" book & tape set, though I haven't been through it yet.

Nope, that scan's all mine brotha. It's crooked, the same way I scan everything. I'd like to say that's my trademark but it's actually cuz I'm a spaz when it comes to scanning things.

Maybe it wasn't totally anti-Stryper (keep in mind that I haven't listened to the tape in awhile) but I seem to remember the Peters Brothers pretty much picked on Stryper the whole way through it (jabbing at the "feminine" hair and clothes, etc.) and then at the very end, rather than saying one way or the other "Whose Side" they thought Stryper was on, they said that each individual listener should pray about it and decide for themselves. That always seemed like a major cop-out to me.

In the Firestream Vault this release is listed as a limited edition release. It came out at the same time as the regular release...

[quote="Fat Freddy"]

MetalFRO wrote:

That always seemed like a major cop-out to me.

True, though in the "era of the devil's music" of the 1980's, you have to remember the Peter Brothers were walking a VERY fine line w/ this kind of thing.

Dare I say without someone casting the first stone...

I have 2 copies of this limited edition release

All the comments above are right and it was a limited edition release.

It was difficult to find back then. I managed to find one and years later found another.

Ps now they show up on eBay from time to time

Last one I saw went for about 40 not that bad

PPS tonight starts strictly stryper!

BillRoxx wrote:

Dare I say without someone casting the first stone...

I have 2 copies of this limited edition release

All the comments above are right and it was a limited edition release.

It was difficult to find back then. I managed to find one and years later found another.

Where's my stone?

BillRoxx wrote:

Ps now they show up on eBay from time to time

Last one I saw went for about 40 not that bad

PPS tonight starts strictly stryper!

Bill will this be issued as a podcast? or is it a streaming only.... I'd like to see if I could obtain a copy 'for the vault'...

Streaming only right now! But you can catch it ALL month long.

The stations are airing it at the same time al week / every week through out September.

The first weekend in October, episode 2 will air and so on and so forth each month!

We are looking at streaming and an ipod download in the near future!

www.strictlystryper.com