- John Slick
John Milo Slick (born
September 28 ,1953 inFort Wayne, Indiana ) was aChristian rock musician from the legendaryChristian rock band Petra. Slick is currently retired from music and works in thecomputer industry.Biography
Slick received many years of classical piano training, studied at
Indiana University andBelmont College and earned the B.A. Music, in 1981.In
1981 , Slick joined Petra and played on their albums "Never Say Die", "More Power To Ya", and "Not of This World". After leaving the band in 1983, he worked in theNashville music industry, composingmusicals , transcribing piano-vocalsongbooks , and playing on various recording projects.Eventually, Slick left the music industry in favor of software engineering. Slick worked five years as a product specialist for New England Digital, the manufacturer of the renowned
Synclavier digital recording system. Slick's responsibilities included supporting the technical needs of N.E.D. customers including Miami Sound Machine, CNN, Barbra Streisand, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Frank Zappa, Sting, Paul Simon, Pat Metheny, and many prominent sound studios in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York.Slick spent a month in
Miami, Florida , working as a Synclavier specialist on theMiami Sound Machine album,Cuts Both Ways . Slick received an album credit for his "Synclavier chops".A fortuitous encounter at the Las Vegas
COMDEX trade show led Slick to a software engineering job withAware, Inc. , located in the heart of theM.I.T. engineering community inCambridge, Massachusetts . He attended graduate courses incomputer science atHarvard University and participated in the development of a real-time audio decompression application, "Speed of Sound" reviewed by New Media magazine.Slick later joined
Nortel Networks as a software engineer specializing in multi-platform CD-ROM's for technical product documentation. Slick continues to design and develop software applications in Java and C#. He is presently a senior software engineer and systems architect with Computer Sciences Corp, working on General Dynamics in-theater military support systems for the U.S. Department of Defense.Slick recently renewed a hobby interest in music, and subsequently bought a 1963
Hammond B3 organ for the study of jazz organ trio stylings.Trivia
* Slick has an artistically gifted son named Marlon, who also goes by the name of "Cafei" (Caffee-i).
* Slick resides on the tranquil shores ofOld Hickory Lake , inHendersonville, Tennessee .External links
* [http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/ip/sigs/arts/music/christian/artist/petra.a Petra FAQ]
* [http://www.petramerchandise.com/ Petra Merchandise official site]
* [http://www.thepetrazone.net/ The Petra Zone]
* [http://www.petraband.ca/ PetraBand.ca (Canada)]
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