I remember an interviewer back in the 90s asked Rob when he decided to "come out." He said something like, "I thought with the black leather and spikes, it was pretty obvious." Classic!
*My buddy, Ric, figured out what was up with Rob way back in the 1970s bc he mentioned entering a tough bar on FIRE ISLAND in the song "Raw Deal". It wasn't formally confirmed for many years after that, though.*
My dad used to point that out. I'm like dad he's got a hot blonde on his Harley. Dad was right. Not like it matters. Rob is the Metal cat daddy and one of my biggest vocal inspirations. Seeing the Screaming tour as a 16 year old blew my mind.
10 years ago, I was wearing a recent Priest concert t-shirt in San Diego, and I passed a bald Brit that said "nice shirt". It was Rob, and I got a selfie with him. Nice dude. When we parted I yelled back "You're a Legend!" And he still is. Fav. Metal Song is probably Hit the Lights.
I got to see Def Leopard open up for Judas Preist,who opened up for Scorpions. Krocus opening for Iron Maiden.. I saw RR with Ozzy. As a guitar player myself,i was floored.What a great time for music. 😊❤ Thanks, Professor.
Glad to see you covered Judas Priest. Greatest metal band of all time. Rob Halford had an amazing voice-always seemed like an intelligent and thoughtful dude. Enjoyed seeing your interview of him.
And what a great Halford interview, sometimes lost is how positive and uplifting Priest songs are. You've Got Another Thing Coming is all about pursuing your dreams and not letting anybody or anything stop you.
Me being from San Antonio, JUDAS PREIST came on every tour so I ended up seeing a lot of them. 21 times on 21 tours, live in concert to be exact. The band loved TEXAS. It was A SCENE on concert night! San Antonio was a massive Heavy Metal town in the 80’s and all the bands knew we were a red hot market. We were industry famous, a lot of the bands mentioned this from the stage. It was always like another world Big Time! An Extremely LOUD world! My concert list is stupid ridiculous. EVERYONE toured here. JP is just ONE of the bands I saw numerous times each. It was my world. The local Rock radio dubbed S.A. The Heavy Metal Capital of the World. It really felt like that some times.
I saw JP in Austin, TX 1982. Rob first appeared 30 feet in the air standing on the PA. He was screaming his operatic voice off. One of the best shows I've ever seen. Glen and KK were so tight playing 5ths. They opened with The Hellion /Electric Eye
The phrase "Judas Preist" is older than the band (of course). It is one of the substitute curse words used to avoid taking the lord's name in vain. A friend of mine told me a story about his childhood in which his grand-dad said "Ju-das Preist" at the dinner table and it struck my friend as funny, so funny in fact that milk came his nose. From that day forward, I'd lay in wait for an opportunity to say "Ju-das Priest" right when he was drinking. I got him good a couple of times....and will do it again given the chance!
As you say, JP was a completely different thing in England, and in my native Sweden. With Sad Wings Of Destiny, everything in my life changed. I played in a band, even there everything changed. From hard rock to metal. And I am convinced that the Scandinavian success in metal music owes a lot to JP. Thanks for a great video!
😁 '02 - Me 40+ coworker 19.. 😮💨 after listening to Muzak all day, starting closing duties at the store. I put and crank my copy of Screaming.. on the PA.. could only tell how bad he wanted to kiss me.. 🤣
Thank you, professor, for covering this band. They are the reason we have Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, and a slew of other metal bands that were heavily influenced by Priest. They are the godfathers of metal because they did indeed bring metal to the masses. Halford is one of the greatest vocalist that ever sang. Their music will live forever. ❤❤❤
Got photo credentials for a Priest stop in Reading,Pa. Wore a Motorhead shirt and Rob came to the front of the stage and gave me a thumbs up pointing at my shirt. Good show and have seen them 9 times,with every show having a different setlist.
@@David-w9i7j we have drawn many bands to Reading,from the 60's to now. In the last few years I have seen,Blue Oyster Cult,Kansas, Judas Priest,Van Halen, Alice Cooper, Black Label Society,Saxon,Fozzy and Ted Nugent.
Saw Judas Priest in early 83 for the Screaming for Vengeance tour which was the first time they played here in Hawaii and they didn’t scaled down their stage show especially when Rob Halford drove his Harley on stage. Probably the most flawless and energized show I have ever seen🤘😎🤙
the first video I ever saw on MTV was Heading Out To The Highway. That song was also the first song we heard in my car after I installed a cassette player. When You've Got Another Thing Coming came out, all the kids at school were coming to me and asking about Judas Priest. I told them to get with the program... lol
Always loved when Rob was on headbanger's ball because he was such a great spokesman for metal and still is to this day. Great interview and episode. If you think that metal will die well you got another.....
yes a said to other viewer rob was tireless supporter of the genre 07 08 glasto highlights was commenting on bbc up and coming bands of the genre he liked very articulate well spoken as usual rave brit divas were big at the time but uk had a,thriving metal club scene also at the time a few got coveted slots on the second stage glasto a gahzillion fans there so had exposure to a wider audience maybe get a record deal
Was in Philly on business. Two cheerleaders from a local school asked me to go see the Hooters (a good pop/rock band) returning home after their first big tour. Said ok. Sex drugs and rock n roll in the big city. (Ftr they were legal. 😄) Then three teen guys that worked for me said “dude we got an extra ticket to see Priest! You wanna go?” Same night as the Hooters. Of course i chose Priest. Beautiful cheerleaders are everywhere but was my only chance to see JP since they already played my hometown Nashville. Rock on!🤘
@@marktait2371 Cool. Best shows are the ones that just pop up. Roomie and i sitting at home watching the news. They say still good seats available for the Nuge downtown Nashville. Hopped in car and got great seats night of show.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU!! This is something that is a pet peeve of mine...when they switched "think" for "thing" in that song. I brought this up on one of your previous shows and people gave me a hard time about it. So, THANK YOU for setting everyone straight!
Priest is much of the reason we had the "scene" of leather and dog-whistle vocals back then.....a crime it took so long to get into the hall of fame....this band was foundational to rock and metal becoming more mainstream and exposed to the masses, especially when MTV ruled.
When I first seen that I was a teenage metal head hanging with my best friend watching MTV and playing guitars. We spent hours afterwards figuring out how to play it. Good times! 😊
In , I believe 1978, I was living in Atlanta, and working at a club when Judas Priest and UFO came walking in. Being someone who was use to kicking with musicians, and being artistic myself, I was comfortable meeting the famous artists, never a groupie, but feeling like one of them, and often spending a lot of the time at such occasions, talking shop with the managers,(considering taking up that career myself). I happened to live across the street from the club, and invited both bands over to kick and catch a buzz, and they accepted. They actually stayed there, just chilling, for at least a couple of days, instead of going to their own hotel.😊 Wasn't any kind of wild party,no sex, just getting high and chilling. Although a few girls I worked with stopped by some, I did notice that Rob wasn't as flirty as the other guys. Wasn't sure why at the time, but it became clear the following night at the concert at the Fox Theater, and after hanging back stage, observing some groupies run in and out,then taking a seat in the middle of the second row... and really watching Rob in his black leather and studs, and thinking about how he reminded me of some of the gay guys at my favorite disco. My gaydar was going off, and I knew. Confirmed later,it just wasn't a thought about a metal rocker being a black leather wearing gay guy. But I totally understood and accepted Rob with the love and respect a true rock artist deserves... although I'm sure I could have hooked him up really fine with some of the guys I knew at my disco(not work club). Hahaha. But maybe it would have been kinda awkward for us both after all. I really enjoyed the simple,chilled, atmosphere there guys all had at my place. Cool, open, and not all stuck up like so many other artists. Really nice guys. Oh, the best part was actually after the concert, when we all went across the street from the Fox Theater, over to the Agora Ballroom after hours, and members of JP,UFO, and the popular band that had played at the Agora,all joined together for a jam session! Hell yeah, that was really cool and something special to hear. ✌️😎💜👍😜😉😊😎💜
Great episode with the Metal God himself. 1986 Priest was my band. I was 16 and dad dropped off me and my cousin at Brendon Byrne arena in NJ for the Turbo concert. First experience at a metal concert. I was shocked, in a good way!
Priest is a band who I heard on the radio as a teenager but have largely taken for granted. "You Got Another Thing Comin'" is this song I tried to play in a band from my time in Indianapolis that I have mentioned multiple times on this channel and didn't have a name or any gigs while I was one of them. That was in 2008. Cut ahead to Circa 2017. The subway based band that I played with called The Meetles occasionally worked with this bass player who I thought was a jazz cat but was actually a Metalhead. When I overheard that Priest was his favorite band, I titillated his ears during an appearance with the intro to this song.
Rob Halford's voice alone is a treasure. I used to listen to a lot of their other songs, like Bloodstone and (Take these) Chains. OMG his range, so phenomenal.
All your content takes me back to a kickass time and place, being a teenager and feeling like you owned the world and Judas Priest was absolutely right on with this song, thanks for so many memories and music that will never die, peace, love and rock on
"Grating the slaw Grating the SLAAAAW! Grab yourself a head of cabbage, And some mayonaise. Shred it then mix them together. And you've got slaw for days! Who invented it? i don't know, I haven't got a clue. But if you are hungry enough, You can make some cole slaw too!" -Judas Chef
I am 60, raised in a backwater town in Idaho. The only radio stations we got were country. I remember being envious of the other kids who had cable and would drone on and on about MTV. Life moved on and it wasnt till 1988 that a young co worker gave me a tape of the Judas Priest Live album, "because it gets you pumped!!". Mind blown, and 40 years later I still rock to the Metal God.
What I remember most about this video, and it’s great that you showed it at the end of your video, is the fade out at the end. Because that was so prevalent among those videos from the early 80’s on MTV. It’s always nostalgic for me. 🤘🏼
Loved Judas Priest since "Sad Wings of Destiny"! Touches my soul and brain and body! Great interview! I especially enjoyed hearing about your songwriting process! Rock Forever!
I met Rob Halford and KK Downings when I was working across the street from a concert venue in the mid/late 80s. It was totally random and a pretty surreal moment in my life.
During the Turbo ‘86 tour, I was 17yo. I made my way to the front row & my buddies got relegated to the back. My head was buzzed, kinda spikey and I had a goatee. Rob kept looking at me throughout the show pointing at my head…. One of his crew approached me and asked me to come back stage to meet Rob… I said, “Yeah” I have to get my buddies & he said “No! Just you!” I had a weird feeling & politely refused. 🥴
Seeing Judas Priest warm up for Kiss at the Springfield Civic Center in September 1979 and being in awe. "Where'd these guys come from?" When Screaming for Vengeance came out it was immediately in the rotation of WPLR New Haven and WCCC Hartford probably from people that saw that show and said you HAVE TO HEAR THESE GUYS. My dial always turned up when "You got another thing coming" came on, even today. Rob's voice and that riff, it's transcending.
Great interview with Rob Halford. “British Steel” remains one of my favorite albums, and it happens to be heavy metal. When i got my first ever stereo in 1981, that album was the first one I ever played. I’ll always remember “Breaking The Law” blasting out of the speakers, and I never was the same afterwards.
The very instant I laid ears on Rob I became a grateful victim of changes. One of my favorite memories was when I was 15 at a family pool party and my uncle put in his Joan Baez 8-track. I yelled, "Whoa! Quiet everyone! She's singing a Judas Priest song!" ... Uncle Wolf said, "Huh?"
If you can find it there is an interview on TH-cam with Rob Trujillo where he talks about hanging out with Lemmy for like 12 hours in L.A. and going to a show where the two of them saw Joan Baez, who Rob sort of knew. He introduced the two of them and she kept calling him "Lenny". Rob said he heard Lemmy doing his best to talk to Joan over the noise in the club and he was asking about chord changes in "Diamonds And Rust".
Both "judas priest" as an expletive and "you've got another thing coming" - with a g, not a k - go back at least to my parents' generation, the ones that grew up during the great depression and WWII, as I remember my mother using both when I was a kid in the 50s and 60s.
Thanks for putting this song into context. Being from another part of the world, I just literally learnt a piece of your history from that newspaper article. Boy they've got another thing comin'.
Rob Halford is so cool. I was there for the very beginning of MTV. I learned to spell as well as I do because I would sit for hours upon hours with MTV on, writing down the names of each artist and song on lined notebook paper. I was 6 when we got cable (1981), MTV shaped me from then on, for about 15 years. You and I would have some phenomenal conversations Adam.
To speak about MTV specifically, living in the Midwest it was huge in introducing me to bands that maybe didn't get on the radio here. Iron Maiden and Judas Priest for sure and MTV turned me on to those bands. I remember this video coming out and I was blown away. Not just the song and music but the image of the band. I wanted to BE Rob Halford. Unfortunately, I can not only not sing like Rob (no one can) but I can't sing at all! lol. But this started me on that path. I had a jean jacket and patches all over it, I got leather bracelets and wore leather boots. It changed me. Rob Halford changed my life and even though I have never met him, I love him for it.
I listened to Priest occasionally through the years. But it really wasn't until my friend had a roommate from Canada named Ron who was their number one fan. He was always playing their albums and playing their music on guitar. That really opened my eyes to how great they are
I bought that album when it was new (I was 18), and instantly learned "Screaming for Vengeance" and "You've Got Another Thing Coming" on guitar, because I knew I'd have to sing and play them in my band. What a fantastic album from start to finish. Finally, we were doing some metal live in a top 40 band! Admittedly, we had done "Breaking the Law" and "Living After Midnight", but it was time to break out the big guns with Judas Priest, Iron Maiden ("Number of the Beast"), and Blue Oyster Cult ("Burning For You"). What a grand time when the lines of genres were so blurred on the charts!
This is probably a story I shouldn't share but yolo. I had grabbed one of Glen's guitar picks at a show for the Defenders of the Faith tour and I really wanted to get one of KK's for a matching set. I was at a show during the Turbo tour when KK threw out several picks. They landed a few feet in front of me and the guy next to me saw them fall also. I knew he had reach on me (5'3' female) so he was going to snatch them first. So instead of going for the picks I stomped his hand with my boots, grabbed the picks, and ran like you know what to disappear into the crowd. Not my best moment but definitely my most metal moment.
Somewhere right now there is a guy telling the same story only his ends with: "So that, kids, is the story of how I went from being the youngest classical guitar prodigy ever admitted to Julliard to being the sketchy old hobo with a cart full of bottles who you keep seeing rooting through the dumpster at Taco Bell. Always remember, your dreams can be taken from you in an instant so always have a backup plan and wear protective gloves. Thanks for the pocket change and the scraps but this overpass is no place you kids need to be. Now move along. Get."
Rob seems to be riding the HELLION yet, hale, hearty, healthy, humorous. I've been saying it for years. I SCREAM, YOU SCREAM, WE ALL SCREAM FOR JUDAS PRIEST! DAMN I LOVE THAT GUY.
I was into other metal bands like Ozzy,Scorpions,Dio,Great White,Dokken early Def Leppard early Motley Crue . In 1982 I had just bought Screaming for Vengeance and when I got home I put the cassette in my stereo ,put on my headphones ,turned the volume up and they totally blew my mind. The power of the band and the one and only Rob Halford. What amazes me is their last 2 albums. Firepower and Invincible Shield are amazing.
On December 12th 1982 at the Mid-South Colliseum Judas Priest recorded a live video and i was there in the 3rd row. My 14 year old mind was BLOWN. The DVD is still in print and still one of the best live shows ive ever attended and I've been to countless shows
I watch this DVD all the time! Went to kindergarten in Memphis and my dad went to college at Memphis State (University of Memphis today of course). Whenever I drive through Memphis today it still feels nostalgic. Other night I watched the Tom Cruise movie “The Firm” from the 90s, actually shot in Memphis!
I was more into punk back then than metal but I always loved Maiden,Motörhead and Judas Priest! Rob Halford is bad ass and has an amazing voice! Love Judas Priest!
Thank you Mr Halford and company ! My big brother introduced to to Judas Priest before MTV,and i fell in love. Priest and Sabbath were my go to before Metallica !
You mentioned the MTV British Invasion synth bands and then JP with its metal. As a classic rock fan, I learned to appreciate metal for the guitar work and driving rhythm. Thanks Adam!
Loved the head-exploding shot on the Video. For me was like a revenge on those holding you back or the trouble they caused you. Started listening to Priest in 1977, Got to see them Live in Warner theater, early 80s in DC. Loved when Halford brought his motorcycle out on stage. had the shorter blond hair and leather attire then.
I have been a metal fan since the 1970s, having loved exciting, dramatic music since I was in grade school. Screaming For Vengeance is my favorite Judas Priest album. These days I really appreciate how prescient "Electric Eye" was. I have fond memories of "You've Got Another Thing Coming" and "Breaking the Law" playing on the radio frequently. Defenders of the Faith is another great album.
My stepbrother, who was quite a bit older than me, had Screaming for Vengeance on a cassette. When he went back to Oklahoma, he left it. There were a few other he left, but Screaming was my favorite. It didn't come out of my tape deck for months.The only tape that came close was a 38 Special tape (it might have been a greatest hits album - it was dubbed). This was my first real venture into metal. I knew I found a genre I connected with. In a few years, my buddy Barry introduced me to Anthrax and Metallica. I still love all of those old metal albums.
1982 definitely was a great year especially here in Oklahoma with MTV watching all of the great music videos of different genres of music from hard rock, new wave and the other types of music. great interview with Rob Halford and covering the 80's especially MTV, America's Top 10 and American Bandstand especially here in rural Oklahoma thanks again for the memories of music especially the 80's thanks Professor.🎶🎶📺📻🎶🎶
I always thought ya'll kinda got robbed with the license plates that read "Oklahoma Is OK". Having been through there a few times I can definitely say that it's a lot more than just o.k., it's actually a beautiful state. I like "Native America" better.
I'm a little late at this party. Rob Halford seems like a really nice guy. One of my favorite albums from him was his Christmas album 3 Winter Songs. His version of O Holy Night will put chills down your back. That's not from the winter weather.
I didn't even discover this song until the mid 90's, when it was on one of my Time-Life rock collection CDs. I loved it the first time I heard it. As a top 40 person, I would've discovered it earlier, but as you said, it fell short. I don't ever remember hearing it on the radio.
Oh man.... Memories. Huge JP fan. I dated a girl whose family was a wee bit conservative. Picking her up, I cautiously turned down the cheapo 6x9s blaring Priest and took off the spiked bracelets and dog chains. Of all the artists/bands to have a simple beer or coffee chat with, Mr. Halford/Priest would be my choice. #1 vocalist, bar none. Such gentleman and oh so cool.
One of the best concerts of my life was seeing Judas Priest at the Hollywood Sportatorium in Florida in the 1980's. Dokken opened...and got boo'd hard. Priest played an extended set on a wild wild night ! I was only 15 ....what I wouldn't give to go back and live that night again !
The band took its name from the Bob Dylan song "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest." And the term, used as an alternative to taking the Lord's name in vain, had been around a long time before that. Walter Brennan utters it in the movie "The Westerner" in 1940.
A Judas Priest video with John Denver the feature album in the background, classic. I thought the feature song would be Living after midnight or Breaking the law. Great interview
R. I. P. 🙏😔👼 founder/vocalist and lead guitarist Blaine John ("Beej") Chaney 67 yrs of - The Suburbs : Music For Boys , 1 o' my all time 80s N/W faves #66 BB dance / Waiting #42 / Love Is The Law #? Died Thursday by drowning near home in Hermosa Beach (L A's west beaches are 'known' for dangerous Rip currents) and was to discuss after Christmas w/ co-founder Chan Poling about reuniting 🥺
One time I worked as a board operator in 1982 at KSRF, a "beautiful music" radio station in Santa Monica. One night the phone rang. It was Ian Hill, the bassist for Judas Priest calling to thank us for playing their record. I had to explain to him that we didn't play that kind of music at KSRF but thanked him for calling
Flashback to my 1970’s childhood…my mom was having an exasperating day, wrangling 5 kids through her shopping errands. As we were entering yet one more store, she says under her breath “Judas Priest! Will you kids listen to me?” I piped up with all of my 5 year old enthusiasm, “who’s Judas Priest Mom?” I got the mom side-eye and knew to not ask any more annoying questions. It was at least 10 more years past that, when the band Judas Priest was formed.
The moment I most remember for Judas Priest was 7 ½ years ago. I had recently started working at a Walmart and I heard Breaking the Law on Walmart Radio. I couldn't believe they would play it there.
My Grandfather who was in his 80s during the 80s, would use "Judas Priest!" as a swear word, and having been my favorite band since I'd first seen them live in 81, I would always say "Yeah!" when he would utter it. I have managed to witness at least one show or more for every tour of theirs since 81, including the Ripper years and also just this past October.
I got into Judas Priest in high school. Hell Bent For Leather and Unleashed in the East came out about the same time and I bought em both. Been a fan ever since.
My first Judas priest album made me a fan of the band and it was Screaming for vengeance! and it was songs like you got another thing coming, take these chains & bloodstone that really made the album great!
I'm always trying to think "What should I do for vacation this year?" Maybe a trip to Phoenix, and hope for a random chance meeting with Rob. Yeah, that sounds good.
I saw Priest with Maiden on the World Vengeance Tour in '82. I was a senior in high school and already playing in bands. We didn't get MTV for about another 8-10 months where I lived, but we knew it was there. I think MTV launched a generation of bands, the same way the Beatles had when they appeared on Sullivan, the entire LA wave came out shortly featuring bands that had gotten together right around that time.
Poll: What is your pick for the COOLEST Hard Rock or Heavy Metal Song of the 80s?
Jump! VH (Hard Rock)
Run To The Hills - Iron Maiden (Heavy Metal)
Screaming For Vengeance
Back In Black - AC/DC
Master of Puppets by Metallica 🤘
I'll nominate ... "Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride)" by Don Felder.
I remember an interviewer back in the 90s asked Rob when he decided to "come out." He said something like, "I thought with the black leather and spikes, it was pretty obvious." Classic!
Ha!
Rob is the OG leather boi, innit?
*My buddy, Ric, figured out what was up with Rob way back in the 1970s bc he mentioned entering a tough bar on FIRE ISLAND in the song "Raw Deal". It wasn't formally confirmed for many years after that, though.*
Lol i remember that quote too.
My dad used to point that out. I'm like dad he's got a hot blonde on his Harley. Dad was right. Not like it matters. Rob is the Metal cat daddy and one of my biggest vocal inspirations. Seeing the Screaming tour as a 16 year old blew my mind.
10 years ago, I was wearing a recent Priest concert t-shirt in San Diego, and I passed a bald Brit that said "nice shirt". It was Rob, and I got a selfie with him. Nice dude. When we parted I yelled back "You're a Legend!" And he still is. Fav. Metal Song is probably Hit the Lights.
Ozzy is the King.....but Halford is the Godfather of metal.🔥🤘🎸🎤🔥
You're the hardest working man is Rock Professor! Thanks for all the sensational content!
I appreciate that!
Agreed!
@@notmyrealname2592 Thanks!
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Plus you have great taste in music and your knowledge surpasses any one I know🤘😎🤙
I got to see Def Leopard open up for Judas Preist,who opened up for Scorpions. Krocus opening for Iron Maiden.. I saw RR with Ozzy. As a guitar player myself,i was floored.What a great time for music. 😊❤ Thanks, Professor.
YEs!
Screaming For Vengeance hit the rock scene like a bomb. What a wicked record. That record led me to pick up all their older releases.
Glad to see you covered Judas Priest. Greatest metal band of all time. Rob Halford had an amazing voice-always seemed like an intelligent and thoughtful dude. Enjoyed seeing your interview of him.
And what a great Halford interview, sometimes lost is how positive and uplifting Priest songs are. You've Got Another Thing Coming is all about pursuing your dreams and not letting anybody or anything stop you.
Thanks!
Me being from San Antonio, JUDAS PREIST came on every tour so I ended up seeing a lot of them. 21 times on 21 tours, live in concert to be exact. The band loved TEXAS. It was A SCENE on concert night! San Antonio was a massive Heavy Metal town in the 80’s and all the bands knew we were a red hot market. We were industry famous, a lot of the bands mentioned this from the stage. It was always like another world Big Time! An Extremely LOUD world! My concert list is stupid ridiculous. EVERYONE toured here. JP is just ONE of the bands I saw numerous times each. It was my world. The local Rock radio dubbed S.A. The Heavy Metal Capital of the World. It really felt like that some times.
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I saw JP in Austin, TX 1982. Rob first appeared 30 feet in the air standing on the PA. He was screaming his operatic voice off. One of the best shows I've ever seen. Glen and KK were so tight playing 5ths. They opened with The Hellion /Electric Eye
Of all my memorabilia my KK Downing and Glen Tipton guitar picks are my prized possessions.
That "Whisky Woman" intro will forever be burned into my 14 y.o. brain.
Very cool!
So cool!
I so loved everything Tipton/Downing did together. Delay pedal? We don't need no stinking delay pedal.
The phrase "Judas Preist" is older than the band (of course). It is one of the substitute curse words used to avoid taking the lord's name in vain.
A friend of mine told me a story about his childhood in which his grand-dad said "Ju-das Preist" at the dinner table and it struck my friend as funny, so funny in fact that milk came his nose.
From that day forward, I'd lay in wait for an opportunity to say "Ju-das Priest" right when he was drinking. I got him good a couple of times....and will do it again given the chance!
I remember hearing my Mormon grandmother using Judas Priest way back in the 70s. Thanks for the clarification. I was worried I remembered it wrong.
Thank You. I'm so old I remember hearing it in the 60s.
As you say, JP was a completely different thing in England, and in my native Sweden. With Sad Wings Of Destiny, everything in my life changed. I played in a band, even there everything changed. From hard rock to metal. And I am convinced that the Scandinavian success in metal music owes a lot to JP. Thanks for a great video!
My brother bought me Screaming for vengance for Christmas in 1982, best present I ever got from him, lol!
😁 '02 - Me 40+ coworker 19.. 😮💨 after listening to Muzak all day, starting closing duties at the store. I put and crank my copy of Screaming.. on the PA.. could only tell how bad he wanted to kiss me.. 🤣
Got that album for Christmas as well. Saw the tour that January. Heaven from Australia opened the show.
My sister gave me this cassette for Christmas.
Thank you, professor, for covering this band. They are the reason we have Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, and a slew of other metal bands that were heavily influenced by Priest. They are the godfathers of metal because they did indeed bring metal to the masses. Halford is one of the greatest vocalist that ever sang. Their music will live forever. ❤❤❤
This was such a great episode! The interview was amazing.
Thanks for watching!
*Priest has been one of my top favorite bands for decades.*
Got photo credentials for a Priest stop in Reading,Pa. Wore a Motorhead shirt and Rob came to the front of the stage and gave me a thumbs up pointing at my shirt. Good show and have seen them 9 times,with every show having a different setlist.
Very cool!
There must be some reward for living in Reading other than the flea market. Only so many throwing stars can be bought in a lifetime.
@@David-w9i7j we have drawn many bands to Reading,from the 60's to now. In the last few years I have seen,Blue Oyster Cult,Kansas, Judas Priest,Van Halen, Alice Cooper, Black Label Society,Saxon,Fozzy and Ted Nugent.
Rob Halford?? Damn Prof, you are starting off 2025 with metal thunder! 🤘
You know it!
Could have started off with Steppenwolf.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Jupiters Child" got some play in the early 1970, they had multiple songs but you always hear the same 2 songs by them.
Saw Judas Priest in early 83 for the Screaming for Vengeance tour which was the first time they played here in Hawaii and they didn’t scaled down their stage show especially when Rob Halford drove his Harley on stage. Probably the most flawless and energized show I have ever seen🤘😎🤙
Great episode, Adam! Thanks for covering it.❤
the first video I ever saw on MTV was Heading Out To The Highway. That song was also the first song we heard in my car after I installed a cassette player. When You've Got Another Thing Coming came out, all the kids at school were coming to me and asking about Judas Priest. I told them to get with the program... lol
Awesome! It opened everything up!
The African American community loves the professor of rock he dives deep into the artist and their work 🙏🙏🙏
Yup!
Always loved when Rob was on headbanger's ball because he was such a great spokesman for metal and still is to this day. Great interview and episode. If you think that metal will die well you got another.....
Amen!
He BELONGED on that show.
yes a said to other viewer rob was tireless supporter of the genre 07 08 glasto highlights was commenting on bbc up and coming bands of the genre he liked very articulate well spoken as usual rave brit divas were big at the time but uk had a,thriving metal club scene also at the time a few got coveted slots on the second stage glasto a gahzillion fans there so had exposure to a wider audience maybe get a record deal
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 he should have hosted it
@@marktait2371 Rob was great at getting metal bands exposure
I needed an energy boost this morning, and this interview did it. The song always pumps me up, too, along with Livin' After Midnight. Love em!
Awesome!
Seems like as we age living after midnight takes on a different meaning. Makes me look forward to seeing tomorrow, not necessarily the party going on.
Living After Midnight is a great feel good song.
@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 sure is!
Was in Philly on business.
Two cheerleaders from a local school asked me to go see the Hooters (a good pop/rock band) returning home after their first big tour.
Said ok. Sex drugs and rock n roll in the big city. (Ftr they were legal. 😄)
Then three teen guys that worked for me said “dude we got an extra ticket to see Priest! You wanna go?”
Same night as the Hooters.
Of course i chose Priest. Beautiful cheerleaders are everywhere but was my only chance to see JP since they already played my hometown Nashville.
Rock on!🤘
Great story.
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Cool. Best shows are the ones that just pop up.
Roomie and i sitting at home watching the news. They say still good seats available for the Nuge downtown Nashville.
Hopped in car and got great seats night of show.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU!! This is something that is a pet peeve of mine...when they switched "think" for "thing" in that song.
I brought this up on one of your previous shows and people gave me a hard time about it. So, THANK YOU for setting everyone straight!
The Professor of Rock strikes again with an educational AF video. 🤘🏼
Rock on!
Hello from CDA Idaho.... i love your show Adam! Im 61 and your show takes me back in time, THANKS!!
Priest is much of the reason we had the "scene" of leather and dog-whistle vocals back then.....a crime it took so long to get into the hall of fame....this band was foundational to rock and metal becoming more mainstream and exposed to the masses, especially when MTV ruled.
Thanks.
When I first seen that I was a teenage metal head hanging with my best friend watching MTV and playing guitars. We spent hours afterwards figuring out how to play it. Good times! 😊
In , I believe 1978, I was living in Atlanta, and working at a club when Judas Priest and UFO came walking in. Being someone who was use to kicking with musicians, and being artistic myself, I was comfortable meeting the famous artists, never a groupie, but feeling like one of them, and often spending a lot of the time at such occasions, talking shop with the managers,(considering taking up that career myself). I happened to live across the street from the club, and invited both bands over to kick and catch a buzz, and they accepted. They actually stayed there, just chilling, for at least a couple of days, instead of going to their own hotel.😊 Wasn't any kind of wild party,no sex, just getting high and chilling. Although a few girls I worked with stopped by some, I did notice that Rob wasn't as flirty as the other guys. Wasn't sure why at the time, but it became clear the following night at the concert at the Fox Theater, and after hanging back stage, observing some groupies run in and out,then taking a seat in the middle of the second row... and really watching Rob in his black leather and studs, and thinking about how he reminded me of some of the gay guys at my favorite disco. My gaydar was going off, and I knew. Confirmed later,it just wasn't a thought about a metal rocker being a black leather wearing gay guy. But I totally understood and accepted Rob with the love and respect a true rock artist deserves... although I'm sure I could have hooked him up really fine with some of the guys I knew at my disco(not work club). Hahaha. But maybe it would have been kinda awkward for us both after all. I really enjoyed the simple,chilled, atmosphere there guys all had at my place. Cool, open, and not all stuck up like so many other artists. Really nice guys. Oh, the best part was actually after the concert, when we all went across the street from the Fox Theater, over to the Agora Ballroom after hours, and members of JP,UFO, and the popular band that had played at the Agora,all joined together for a jam session! Hell yeah, that was really cool and something special to hear. ✌️😎💜👍😜😉😊😎💜
Great episode with the Metal God himself. 1986 Priest was my band. I was 16 and dad dropped off me and my cousin at Brendon Byrne arena in NJ for the Turbo concert. First experience at a metal concert. I was shocked, in a good way!
Awesome! Cool Dad!
Priest is a band who I heard on the radio as a teenager but have largely taken for granted. "You Got Another Thing Comin'" is this song I tried to play in a band from my time in Indianapolis that I have mentioned multiple times on this channel and didn't have a name or any gigs while I was one of them. That was in 2008. Cut ahead to Circa 2017. The subway based band that I played with called The Meetles occasionally worked with this bass player who I thought was a jazz cat but was actually a Metalhead. When I overheard that Priest was his favorite band, I titillated his ears during an appearance with the intro to this song.
Rob Halford's voice alone is a treasure. I used to listen to a lot of their other songs, like Bloodstone and (Take these) Chains. OMG his range, so phenomenal.
All your content takes me back to a kickass time and place, being a teenager and feeling like you owned the world and Judas Priest was absolutely right on with this song, thanks for so many memories and music that will never die, peace, love and rock on
The greatest Judas Priest tribute was by Beavis and Butthead at the laundromat.
"Washing the dog!"
"Washing the dog!"
Yes!
Racking the lawn, Making the lawn.
"Grating the slaw
Grating the SLAAAAW!
Grab yourself a head of cabbage,
And some mayonaise.
Shred it then mix them together.
And you've got slaw for days!
Who invented it? i don't know,
I haven't got a clue.
But if you are hungry enough,
You can make some cole slaw too!"
-Judas Chef
@@jeromethiel4323 "uh...smells like Teen Spirit"
Early 80’s, early 20 year old, Priest and Maiden, different iterations but, still awesome Sabbath and Deep Purple. What a great time to be alive.
Great song, great band. I lived in Reno at the time of JP’s trial. Metal Heads lined the streets daily.
Wow! So rad!
Johnny B. Goode. One of my favorite covers of all time! Rob's vocals always give me goosebumps!
I am 60, raised in a backwater town in Idaho. The only radio stations we got were country. I remember being envious of the other kids who had cable and would drone on and on about MTV. Life moved on and it wasnt till 1988 that a young co worker gave me a tape of the Judas Priest Live album, "because it gets you pumped!!". Mind blown, and 40 years later I still rock to the Metal God.
82 I graduated from High School! What a amazing year for music! ❤️❤️
82 I entered High School! Same same!
What I remember most about this video, and it’s great that you showed it at the end of your video, is the fade out at the end. Because that was so prevalent among those videos from the early 80’s on MTV. It’s always nostalgic for me. 🤘🏼
Loved Judas Priest since "Sad Wings of Destiny"! Touches my soul and brain and body! Great interview! I especially enjoyed hearing about your songwriting process! Rock Forever!
I met Rob Halford and KK Downings when I was working across the street from a concert venue in the mid/late 80s. It was totally random and a pretty surreal moment in my life.
During the Turbo ‘86 tour, I was 17yo. I made my way to the front row & my buddies got relegated to the back.
My head was buzzed, kinda spikey and I had a goatee. Rob kept looking at me throughout the show pointing at my head…. One of his crew approached me and asked me to come back stage to meet Rob… I said, “Yeah” I have to get my buddies & he said “No! Just you!” I had a weird feeling & politely refused. 🥴
Seeing Judas Priest warm up for Kiss at the Springfield Civic Center in September 1979 and being in awe.
"Where'd these guys come from?"
When Screaming for Vengeance came out it was immediately in the rotation of WPLR New Haven and WCCC Hartford probably from people that saw that show and said you HAVE TO HEAR THESE GUYS.
My dial always turned up when "You got another thing coming" came on, even today.
Rob's voice and that riff, it's transcending.
Great interview with Rob Halford. “British Steel” remains one of my favorite albums, and it happens to be heavy metal. When i got my first ever stereo in 1981, that album was the first one I ever played. I’ll always remember “Breaking The Law” blasting out of the speakers, and I never was the same afterwards.
I was never a big heavy metal fan but I have learned to appreciate the music and now I do like more than I ever had.
The very instant I laid ears on Rob I became a grateful victim of changes. One of my favorite memories was when I was 15 at a family pool party and my uncle put in his Joan Baez 8-track. I yelled, "Whoa! Quiet everyone! She's singing a Judas Priest song!" ... Uncle Wolf said, "Huh?"
If you can find it there is an interview on TH-cam with Rob Trujillo where he talks about hanging out with Lemmy for like 12 hours in L.A. and going to a show where the two of them saw Joan Baez, who Rob sort of knew. He introduced the two of them and she kept calling him "Lenny". Rob said he heard Lemmy doing his best to talk to Joan over the noise in the club and he was asking about chord changes in "Diamonds And Rust".
@@dustybrand Love it!
Both "judas priest" as an expletive and "you've got another thing coming" - with a g, not a k - go back at least to my parents' generation, the ones that grew up during the great depression and WWII, as I remember my mother using both when I was a kid in the 50s and 60s.
Actually, saying 'Judas Priest' was a minced oath explitive years before the band existed.
Thanks for putting this song into context. Being from another part of the world, I just literally learnt a piece of your history from that newspaper article. Boy they've got another thing comin'.
Rob Halford is so cool. I was there for the very beginning of MTV. I learned to spell as well as I do because I would sit for hours upon hours with MTV on, writing down the names of each artist and song on lined notebook paper. I was 6 when we got cable (1981), MTV shaped me from then on, for about 15 years. You and I would have some phenomenal conversations Adam.
To speak about MTV specifically, living in the Midwest it was huge in introducing me to bands that maybe didn't get on the radio here. Iron Maiden and Judas Priest for sure and MTV turned me on to those bands. I remember this video coming out and I was blown away. Not just the song and music but the image of the band. I wanted to BE Rob Halford. Unfortunately, I can not only not sing like Rob (no one can) but I can't sing at all! lol. But this started me on that path. I had a jean jacket and patches all over it, I got leather bracelets and wore leather boots. It changed me. Rob Halford changed my life and even though I have never met him, I love him for it.
Thanks!
Rob Halford is an absolute TREASURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I listened to Priest occasionally through the years. But it really wasn't until my friend had a roommate from Canada named Ron who was their number one fan. He was always playing their albums and playing their music on guitar. That really opened my eyes to how great they are
I’d love to meet Rob, not because of his notoriety heavy metal icon but as a fellow human, he seems like a pretty cool dude to chill with.
The guitar solo for love bites lives rent free in my head even after all these years.
I bought that album when it was new (I was 18), and instantly learned "Screaming for Vengeance" and "You've Got Another Thing Coming" on guitar, because I knew I'd have to sing and play them in my band. What a fantastic album from start to finish. Finally, we were doing some metal live in a top 40 band! Admittedly, we had done "Breaking the Law" and "Living After Midnight", but it was time to break out the big guns with Judas Priest, Iron Maiden ("Number of the Beast"), and Blue Oyster Cult ("Burning For You"). What a grand time when the lines of genres were so blurred on the charts!
Thanks for sharing!
One of the greatest Heavy Metal vocalists there is. One of my favorite concerts i went to at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake city.
Where are you from?
@@ProfessorofRock Salt Lake City, Utah
This is probably a story I shouldn't share but yolo. I had grabbed one of Glen's guitar picks at a show for the Defenders of the Faith tour and I really wanted to get one of KK's for a matching set. I was at a show during the Turbo tour when KK threw out several picks. They landed a few feet in front of me and the guy next to me saw them fall also. I knew he had reach on me (5'3' female) so he was going to snatch them first. So instead of going for the picks I stomped his hand with my boots, grabbed the picks, and ran like you know what to disappear into the crowd. Not my best moment but definitely my most metal moment.
One does as one must.
That was YOU!!! 🤬
That's Medal asf ! You go girl !
Somewhere right now there is a guy telling the same story only his ends with: "So that, kids, is the story of how I went from being the youngest classical guitar prodigy ever admitted to Julliard to being the sketchy old hobo with a cart full of bottles who you keep seeing rooting through the dumpster at Taco Bell. Always remember, your dreams can be taken from you in an instant so always have a backup plan and wear protective gloves. Thanks for the pocket change and the scraps but this overpass is no place you kids need to be. Now move along. Get."
As a 5'5" afab, I feel like you were somewhat entitled to compensate for your lack of reach. Hope you didn't break any bones, though.
Rob seems to be riding the HELLION yet, hale, hearty, healthy, humorous. I've been saying it for years. I SCREAM, YOU SCREAM, WE ALL SCREAM FOR JUDAS PRIEST! DAMN I LOVE THAT GUY.
I can remember dancing in the club to You got another thing coming! ❤
I was into other metal bands like Ozzy,Scorpions,Dio,Great White,Dokken early Def Leppard early Motley Crue . In 1982 I had just bought Screaming for Vengeance and when I got home I put the cassette in my stereo ,put on my headphones ,turned the volume up and they totally blew my mind. The power of the band and the one and only Rob Halford. What amazes me is their last 2 albums. Firepower and Invincible Shield are amazing.
I have a friend who swears saying, "Judas Priest!" Love this band and last two albums continue to be great.
Rob Halford ,at 73, still sings as good or better than he did back in 1982. An amazing voice and story.
On December 12th 1982 at the Mid-South Colliseum Judas Priest recorded a live video and i was there in the 3rd row. My 14 year old mind was BLOWN. The DVD is still in print and still one of the best live shows ive ever attended and I've been to countless shows
Awesome!
My understanding is that Mid-South Coliseum is kind of in limbo right now. Hope they keep it going.
I watch this DVD all the time! Went to kindergarten in Memphis and my dad went to college at Memphis State (University of Memphis today of course). Whenever I drive through Memphis today it still feels nostalgic. Other night I watched the Tom Cruise movie “The Firm” from the 90s, actually shot in Memphis!
@@jamiemcgill67 So was Making The Grade with Judd Nelson.
I was more into punk back then than metal but I always loved Maiden,Motörhead and Judas Priest! Rob Halford is bad ass and has an amazing voice! Love Judas Priest!
Thank you Mr Halford and company ! My big brother introduced to to Judas Priest before MTV,and i fell in love. Priest and Sabbath were my go to before Metallica !
I was never a metal head, and I enjoyed this interview. Thanks, Adam!
That's an amazing piece of trivia there Adam regarding Wilson Phillips hitting no. 1 25 years later.
The man himself, so awesome. 🤘🏻Great interview, Professor.
You mentioned the MTV British Invasion synth bands and then JP with its metal. As a classic rock fan, I learned to appreciate metal for the guitar work and driving rhythm. Thanks Adam!
Loved the head-exploding shot on the Video. For me was like a revenge on those holding you back or the trouble they caused you. Started listening to Priest in 1977, Got to see them Live in Warner theater, early 80s in DC. Loved when Halford brought his motorcycle out on stage. had the shorter blond hair and leather attire then.
I have been a metal fan since the 1970s, having loved exciting, dramatic music since I was in grade school. Screaming For Vengeance is my favorite Judas Priest album. These days I really appreciate how prescient "Electric Eye" was. I have fond memories of "You've Got Another Thing Coming" and "Breaking the Law" playing on the radio frequently. Defenders of the Faith is another great album.
My stepbrother, who was quite a bit older than me, had Screaming for Vengeance on a cassette. When he went back to Oklahoma, he left it. There were a few other he left, but Screaming was my favorite. It didn't come out of my tape deck for months.The only tape that came close was a 38 Special tape (it might have been a greatest hits album - it was dubbed). This was my first real venture into metal. I knew I found a genre I connected with. In a few years, my buddy Barry introduced me to Anthrax and Metallica. I still love all of those old metal albums.
In the 80's, my mom had a condo ten miles from a huge outdoor arena. We could hear the Judas Priest concert at that distance.
1982 definitely was a great year especially here in Oklahoma with MTV
watching all of the great music videos of different genres of music from
hard rock, new wave and the other types of music. great interview with
Rob Halford and covering the 80's especially MTV, America's Top 10 and
American Bandstand especially here in rural Oklahoma thanks again for
the memories of music especially the 80's thanks Professor.🎶🎶📺📻🎶🎶
It was a great time for music!
I always thought ya'll kinda got robbed with the license plates that read "Oklahoma Is OK". Having been through there a few times I can definitely say that it's a lot more than just o.k., it's actually a beautiful state. I like "Native America" better.
Have you ever been to heaven?
I'm a little late at this party. Rob Halford seems like a really nice guy. One of my favorite albums from him was his Christmas album 3 Winter Songs. His version of O Holy Night will put chills down your back. That's not from the winter weather.
I didn't even discover this song until the mid 90's, when it was on one of my Time-Life rock collection CDs. I loved it the first time I heard it. As a top 40 person, I would've discovered it earlier, but as you said, it fell short. I don't ever remember hearing it on the radio.
Right on!
It was in heavy rotation on m t v
@user-mv5bu2kk8b My family didn't get cable until early 1989.
Do you remember exactly what Time Life collection it was?
@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 "Guitar Rock" and the specific CD was "The Heavy 80's."
Oh man.... Memories. Huge JP fan. I dated a girl whose family was a wee bit conservative. Picking her up, I cautiously turned down the cheapo 6x9s blaring Priest and took off the spiked bracelets and dog chains. Of all the artists/bands to have a simple beer or coffee chat with, Mr. Halford/Priest would be my choice. #1 vocalist, bar none. Such gentleman and oh so cool.
One of the best concerts of my life was seeing Judas Priest at the Hollywood Sportatorium in Florida in the 1980's. Dokken opened...and got boo'd hard. Priest played an extended set on a wild wild night ! I was only 15 ....what I wouldn't give to go back and live that night again !
Such an amazing metal song. Fantastic group incredible vocalist/frontman.
Great interview. Thank you.
saddest day in music history was when everyone found out
What he did to Jani... 😥
The band took its name from the Bob Dylan song "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest." And the term, used as an alternative to taking the Lord's name in vain, had been around a long time before that. Walter Brennan utters it in the movie "The Westerner" in 1940.
A Judas Priest video with John Denver the feature album in the background, classic. I thought the feature song would be Living after midnight or Breaking the law. Great interview
Thanks!
R. I. P. 🙏😔👼 founder/vocalist and lead guitarist
Blaine John ("Beej") Chaney 67 yrs
of - The Suburbs
: Music For Boys , 1 o' my all time 80s N/W faves #66 BB dance / Waiting #42 / Love Is The Law #?
Died Thursday by drowning near home in Hermosa Beach (L A's west beaches are 'known' for dangerous Rip currents) and was to discuss after Christmas w/ co-founder Chan Poling about reuniting 🥺
One time I worked as a board operator in 1982 at KSRF, a "beautiful music" radio station in Santa Monica. One night the phone rang. It was Ian Hill, the bassist for Judas Priest calling to thank us for playing their record. I had to explain to him that we didn't play that kind of music at KSRF but thanked him for calling
Love JP! Thank you Professor! Everyone have a great cold snowy weekend! ✌🏼😊❤️
Stay warm out there!
“Brrrr!” from Canada!
@@ProfessorofRock 👍🏻✌🏼🥶
@@guntherdawg 👍🏻✌🏼🥶
Yes! I can’t wait to see the snow!
Flashback to my 1970’s childhood…my mom was having an exasperating day, wrangling 5 kids through her shopping errands. As we were entering yet one more store, she says under her breath “Judas Priest! Will you kids listen to me?” I piped up with all of my 5 year old enthusiasm, “who’s Judas Priest Mom?” I got the mom side-eye and knew to not ask any more annoying questions.
It was at least 10 more years past that, when the band Judas Priest was formed.
Thanks for sharing! It became more prominent after the band for sure!
You need to check your history, mate. The band Judas Priest formed in 1969. They had released more than one album before the 1970's ended!
Great story, however, Judas Priest was formed in the early 70's.
Did she mean Jesus Christ?
@@Kalepherion didn't you read my reply? They formed in 1969!
The moment I most remember for Judas Priest was 7 ½ years ago. I had recently started working at a Walmart and I heard Breaking the Law on Walmart Radio. I couldn't believe they would play it there.
My Grandfather who was in his 80s during the 80s, would use "Judas Priest!" as a swear word, and having been my favorite band since I'd first seen them live in 81, I would always say "Yeah!" when he would utter it. I have managed to witness at least one show or more for every tour of theirs since 81, including the Ripper years and also just this past October.
Dee Snider putting it to Congress! They absolutely were not expecting THAT! 😆 One of the best moments of the 80s.
I saw Judas Priest at the Cow Palace in San Francisco when I was in the Navy they absolutely ROCKED
Yeah! 🤘🏽🖤
Great video, Professor!
TGIF I am ready for this 😊
YES!
I love it when my rock heroes age with grace and dignity.
Same!
Do you like that they are the alleged therapist of the lead singer of Warrant, according to his ex wife Bobby Brown?
I got into Judas Priest in high school. Hell Bent For Leather and Unleashed in the East came out about the same time and I bought em both. Been a fan ever since.
My first Judas priest album made me a fan of the band and it was Screaming for vengeance! and it was songs like you got another thing coming, take these chains & bloodstone that really made the album great!
I'm always trying to think "What should I do for vacation this year?" Maybe a trip to Phoenix, and hope for a random chance meeting with Rob. Yeah, that sounds good.
I saw Priest with Maiden on the World Vengeance Tour in '82. I was a senior in high school and already playing in bands. We didn't get MTV for about another 8-10 months where I lived, but we knew it was there. I think MTV launched a generation of bands, the same way the Beatles had when they appeared on Sullivan, the entire LA wave came out shortly featuring bands that had gotten together right around that time.