Judas Priest

BludBrutha said:
Yeah that co-headlining tour stiffed for some reason.

Let’s be honest, both acts have run themselves into the ground by consistently touring almost every year for decades.

Coop hasn’t done a great album since Brutal Planet and Dragontown 25 years ago and what passes for Priest these days is just Rob Halford & Friends.
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Ian Hill a founding member is still there and Scott Travis, a long time member since Painkiller is there too. Also Ritchie Faulkner has been there for almost 15 years and made three studio albums. So it's not really Halford and some "hired guns" like some other legacy bands out there.
 
MrKnickerbocker said:
I had no enthusiasm for the last Priest tour, I’d have even less for another tour in 6 months. These guys are overdoing it and are no longer exciting.
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I think the next tour could be exciting if they play a deep track from Defenders like Rock Hard Ride Free or Eat Me Alive and play some songs from Sad Wings and Turbo like Tyrant, Island of Domination, The Ripper, Genocide, Locked In, Out in the Cold and Reckless.
 
PieceofMind89 said:
Ian Hill a founding member is still there and Scott Travis, a long time member since Painkiller is there too. Also Ritchie Faulkner has been there for almost 15 years and made three studio albums. So it's not really Halford and some "hired guns" like some other legacy bands out there.
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15 years 3 albums.. but yes the others had been there for decades. But the 2 main guitar players are retired.
 
I thought they played really well on this past go-around, I just wish I could have had a full Shield of Pain setlist rather than a 14-song or so set. No shame in going to a smaller venue here like Rosemont Theatre or even go play the Aragon Ballroom.
 
PieceofMind89 said:
Ian Hill a founding member is still there and Scott Travis, a long time member since Painkiller is there too. Also Ritchie Faulkner has been there for almost 15 years and made three studio albums. So it's not really Halford and some "hired guns" like some other legacy bands out there.
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15 years is a longer time than the whole Dave Holland's and Les Binks' eras combined.
PieceofMind89 said:
I think the next tour could be exciting if they play a deep track from Defenders like Rock Hard Ride Free or Eat Me Alive and play some songs from Sad Wings and Turbo like Tyrant, Island of Domination, The Ripper, Genocide, Locked In, Out in the Cold and Reckless.
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Some of these tracks are pretty much guaranteed to be played in 2026. Defenders is a big question because they can play literally anything from the album, but I expect them to perform The Ripper, Tyrant and Genocide (all of them were played in 2018-2022). Out in the Cold is a no brainer if they really want to revisit Turbo.
 
PieceofMind89 said:
Ian Hill a founding member is still there and Scott Travis, a long time member since Painkiller is there too. Also Ritchie Faulkner has been there for almost 15 years and made three studio albums. So it's not really Halford and some "hired guns" like some other legacy bands out there.
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Yeah we all know that.

Ian Hill has never moved off the spot in fifty years and last did a good bassline in 1980. Total non entity. He’s barely even shown in the 80s videos like Priest Live! because he’s so unimportant. They don’t even show him at all until five minutes in, and then everyone remembers Judas Priest actually have a bass player.

And Scott Travis ruined Priest by putting obnoxious double kick drums all over everything. Just horrible. No one cares about either of them.

Judas Priest was Halford, KK and Glenn.

Now it’s Rob Halford & Friends.
 
BludBrutha said:
Yeah we all know that.

Ian Hill has never moved off the spot in fifty years and last did a good bassline in 1980. Total non entity. He’s barely even shown in the 80s videos like Priest Live! because he’s so unimportant. They don’t even show him at all until five minutes in, and then everyone remembers Judas Priest actually have a bass player.

And Scott Travis ruined Priest by putting obnoxious double kick drums all over everything. Just horrible. No one cares about either of them.

Judas Priest was Halford, KK and Glenn.

Now it’s Rob Halford & Friends.
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Man, I was so onboard with your Ian criticisms but then you went and slandered Scott Travis, which is bonkers.

Scott Travis is the best drummer Priest have ever had and he was exactly who they needed in 1990 and exactly who they need now.

I don’t care who is in the band as the issue isn’t the songwriting: it’s the endless and soulless touring
 
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