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TIM 'RIPPER' OWENS On KK'S PRIEST: 'When People Watch The Concerts, They're Amazed'

In a new interview with Australia's Metal Mal, former JUDAS PRIEST singer Tim "Ripper" Owens spoke about his involvement with KK'S PRIEST, the band led by another ex-PRIEST member, guitarist Kenneth "K.K." Downing. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET):  "It's really great 'cause the...
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Ripper about the setlist:

This last record we just put out, I just absolutely love it. It's been great. The shows are really good. I'll tell you what's great about is I think that the band's so good and the sound's so good and the shows are so good. We did 'Before The Dawn', and PRIEST never played that, ever. Ken said he's 100 percent sure they never played it live ever. Yeah, we did some changes. Earlier in the year, we did 'Beyond Realm Of Death' and 'Victim Of Changes', and this time we did 'Diamonds And Rust', the version that I did with the band, that version with the high notes at the end. And 'Sinner'. So we did it a little bit different. I would like to play more songs PRIEST has never performed live. The problem is we kind of split it half and half. The biggest complaint we actually get is that we don't do more songs of my era of PRIEST. We do one song, 'Burn In Hell'. So that's actually what we get the most, is how come we're not doing more of the material I recorded with PRIEST. But it's a hard thing. The problem is we're not an old, established band. We get together and we learn these songs. We have the screens that go to it in the background. You just can't change your setlist and learn new songs while you're on the road and doing it. Other bands can. Like JUDAS PRIEST, they've been touring with that lineup for — what? — 12 years now. So they have all these songs that they can kind of rehash and just throw in the setlist. But it's a good setlist we have.

Can't change songs with the screens?? Well, what will they do with the 3rd album, probably released in the next couple of years (I guess)...
 
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