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Anybody else get their Judas Priest tickets today?
New album and tour...
FIREPOWER
Snagged 4th row for Nassau, and 11th row for Jersey. Plenty of good tickets will be floating around for these big arena shows.
Quoted from Pinball-DOOD:Back when Metallica looked awesome. Wish I could have seen a show during Damaged Justice. Better yet! A cliff Burton show
Everybody looks awesome in their 20s.
Great fun at the signing yesterday. Glenn was there! He kept his head down when signing. Everybody kept saying how crummy he looked but I think he just didn't want to make eye contact and have to listen to 600 or so people say it sucks that he's sick and hope he feels better. Fingers crossed he shows up in Jersey tonight to play a few songs. We have a friend at Sony and she got us line jumps which was amazing - first up, saved us an hour of hanging out in the cold.
NYPD's bravest brought Priest to madison square park on a fire truck with sirens blazing, pretty cool!
Got my LP signed but totally beefed on the Firepower backglass I brought! Never done one of these before and I really should have just brought it up to the table with me and taken it out of the box instead of done it beforehand. Remember folks - to ask permission is to seek denial!
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Quoted from Gryszzz:I'm dying to know what you had to say to Mr. Halford.
“Thanks Rob!”
Was nice seeing Glenn on stage again last night.
Judas Priest / Deep Purple "co-headling" tour announced for sheds end of the summer.
Purple is going to get smoked every night.
Ok...just wrapped up 3 days at Wacken...and you didn’t! It was awesome. Food wasn’t even that bad for a fest. The Germans (and French) were way friendlier than I expected.
It was filthy, dusty, and generally disgusting but at least it didn’t rain. I also enjoyed driving on the autobahn where I got tailgated By an Audi while doing 110 mph. Yes, I got into the slow lane.
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Sermons of the Sinner.
Limited edition red vinyl, comes with a free cd copy.
KK is back with a Vengence, with Ripper on vocals.
Great album.
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Too bad Les Binks isn't involved, I was curious about that. I believe he played in the early incarnation of this project.
Surprised Priest isn't suing him over the band name, guess they didn't want to bother.
Quoted from branlon8:So I just picked up a cheap used copy of Judas Priest Painkiller. I’d read it’s such a great album, reinvented metal, etc., but to me it just sounds to me that they are just trying to play at full tilt without pause - but without hooks, cool rhythms or melodies - such a contrast to for instance stained class. What am I missing ?
You are missing that Painkiller is pretty much the perfect metal song. Wailing vocals, face-melting guitar solos (which are "hooks" as they ingrain themselves into your memory) and driving drums.
I don't think this album was really the time for "hooks," ever since British Steel they'd been spending way too much time trying to re-write Living After Midnight for every album, culminating with Turbo where every song was supposed to be a "hook." This was a different direction and by then it was really welcome. Most people thought this band was washed up.
Hell Patrol, Painkiller, Leather Rebel, All Guns Blazing....again, not sure what you are looking for in a metal album if you aren't finding it here. If you want "hooks" any Priest album from 1980-1988 should do it for you.
Quoted from branlon8:ok, but which album were they returning to? Painkiller seems to me to be a significant departure from their previous stuff.
THey were returning to making unabashed HEAVY FUCKIN metal after a few years of trying to be a pop metal band.
Painkiller has a lot more in common with their Les Binks albums - Killing Machine and Stained Class - than it does with Turbo or Ram it Down.
AND they pulled off something I don't think any of the other aging legacy acts from the early 70s did - update their sound successfully without sounding like ripoff artists. KK and especially Tipton really re-invented their playing in the late 80s and caught up with the young guns. I love Tony Iommi, but it's not like he suddenly showed up in 1990 doing sweep picking face melters like the guys in Priest did.
Since Gryzzzz is back, a little fun for the metal thread...
I helped set up Kerry King's games a couple months ago, as he and the missus just moved downtown.
Kerry was out of town for a Raiders game but the missus is very nice and she's really into the pinball collection.
They've got all premiums (ACDC, Metallica, and GOT) and also a Family Guy. And apparently a South Park that hasn't made the move yet.
Stars...they're just like us!
Quoted from gonzo73:Ram it Down is half a great album
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I recently got a Ram it Down LP, had never actually listened to the album. It's got some good things going for it, on side 1 at least. Side 2 is mostly unlistenable.
My biggest problem with it is the whole album - with the cheesy fake drums - sounds like a demo.
My second biggest problem is that it has some of the worst Priest songs ever recorded. I hereby nominate "Love Zone" for the stupidest, worst Priest song of all time.
On the plus side, Halford is singing his fucking ass off, probably his best vocals ever. And, Tipton made HUGE strides in his guitar playing - the solos wouldn't sound out of place on Painkiller, you can see where he was going.
It's just too bad the material/production is so shitty. The tour was fucking KILLER based on what I've seen on the youtube, everything played at a coked out tempo and stuff like Metal Gods getting crazy ass ripping shred solos like you don't believe, and Halford of course wailing like a banshee.
I know we are getting to Farewell time, but I'll still Priest when they come to town. Halford's still got it, and the material they are playing is still amazing. Great setlist at the Shows I saw in the Fall.
Quoted from Gryszzz:So I can ask him about your bullshit story
He's a season tickets holder in Vegas (where they just moved from), so I'm sure he will unless the game is in Indy. Indianapolis is not exactly a fuckin' destination city!!!
Quoted from gonzo73:Yep, I went to 4 Firepower shows, and the set lists were amazing.
Including Out In The Cold was a surprising highlight for me, but they stopped playing Saints in Hell before they hit Los Angeles.
Shit!!
Saints in Hell was fucking KILLER live...was pretty amazing to hear it!
Quoted from Gryszzz:Throw up a set list homie... enquiring minds wanna know ha
Ok I know I'm asking for it but here's my friend and I a little fucked up and rocking out to Exciter at the tour opener earlier this year in Reading, PA....this guy was right behind us taping all night hahahaha (I'm toward the left in the grey shirt)
another killer setlist...only disappointment was no Metal Gods (my favorite priest song probably) but I've heard them play that dozens of times probably already...
One Shot at Glory
Lightning Strike
You've Got Another Thing Comin'
Exciter
Turbo Lover
Hell Patrol
The Sentinel
A Touch of Evil
Rocka Rolla
Victim of Changes
Desert Plains
Blood Red Skies
Invader
Painkiller
Encore:
The Hellion
Electric Eye
Hell Bent for Leather
Breaking the Law
Living After Midnight
Quoted from Gryszzz:Right after I asked him I remembered that you were at the tour. You never disappoint my friend, grazie.
Desert Plains!
For a legacy act they do a fantastic job of switching up the setlist, even during tours. Every time they come to town they've got a bunch of "new" cuts in the set.
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