I'm sitting here singing Judas Priest to myself...

[RacerX]

You just love that gay camo doncha there zeegs?

[zeegler]

You just love that gay camo doncha there zeegs?

Yeah, I always did though. It's not like all these other trailer park douchebags who just started wearing camo because all their homies were, and you could buy it at walmart. I used to have to go to army surplus stores to find fatigue pants to cut down into shorts.

One day I'm going to paint my car in camo. :ROTF:

[Cleveland Metal]

Ugh, been listening to WAY too much Priest the last few. Probbaly joining a Priest tribute (unless I bail) and have to crash course a bunch of it. I have never really listened to them much and my other band only did a couple priest tunes.

Some good songs, but I see why I never "really" learned their solos verbatim, they're all messed up, erratic/disjointed and sloppy.

I'm just hoping after I get in, they ditch some of the really boring older tunes, and do more heavier new stuff.

[MartinBarre]

I'm just hoping after I get in, they ditch some of the really boring older tunes, and do more heavier new stuff.

Blasphemy!

[Cleveland Metal]

Haha... Yeah, sorta.

Ya gotta admit, some of that stuff is pretty boring tho...

At least they're gonna do Pain Killer and Burn in Hell, I guess the other guy couldn't do it. Those and Electric Eye will probably be the highlights of my night, haha... There's probably 10 or so tunes of theirs I actually like playing. After that... It's gonna be hard to focus.

[Endrik]

you are lucky Johnny, I could bare maybe 2 or 3 Priest songs

[Dreamland_Rebel]

I think I know what he means, they only know of the Painkiller song, and the rest of the cd is thrown aside.

WTF. how can you say that? that whole album is classic. every song is good. Hell Patrol, Nightcrawler, Touch of Evil, All Guns Blazing, Metal Meltdown... that album is responsable for almost every German powermetal band.

i suggest you go re-buy the album, put it in the car and drive fast as hell till the albums over, pull over and shoot yourself because you can live with the fact that you thought that album was a throwaway.

[Cleveland Metal]

you are lucky Johnny, I could bare maybe 2 or 3 Priest songs

The only cool thing about it is that I get paid.

And actually, I will be honing solo skills as a lot of those tunes, I just need to nail solo highlights and the misc stuff that they are struggling with erratic movements through I can sorta play my own thing.

Generally, the songs are well written and Halford rules. But, I saw Priest in the 80s and they were just terrible. Seen them recently and they were great. Some of their solos are still just erratic and I feel they are overplaying their ability.

Beyond the Realms of Death is a serious masturbation solo I can do what I want for the most part on at least, so even for a slow song, I have fun with it.

Just some of this stuff is seriously boring tho. I'm struggling with Pain and Pleasure and Bloodstone right now as the songs just aren't my bag.

[CharvelRocker]

I still think Priest;s best album was Sin After Sin. That set a standard in versatility and song writing I don't think they could hit again. That and Defenders of the Faith, though I go with Sin After Sin now as I can appreciate the softer, slower songs more (Last Rose of Summer). British Steel was also very solid. A lot of their CDs then turn into 3-4 track affairs. That said, I'll tolerate any of them all the way through on the CD player in the car, but then again unless it is a song of note, it tends to go in one ear and out the other.

As for some of their solo's being over their ability, I kind of agree that it started on Point of Entry, and got pretty bad on Screaming for Vengenance. I also think Turbo/Ram It Down were over the top, despite the fact Ram It Down kind of set the stage for Painkiller. The Ripper era songs all sucked save maybe Cathedral Spires (is that the title). I thought Angel of Retribution was a return to the vintage style Priest, albeit a bit heavier. Then they dropped Nostradamus on us