JUDAS PRIEST Guitarist Glenn Tipton Talks About The Band's Touring Future
December 10, 2008, 15 years ago
JUDAS PRIEST guitarist Glenn Tipton spoke to Ian Harvey from Shropshirestar.com recently about a number of topics. A few excerpts from the chat follow:
What can fans expect from Judas Priest in 2009, a similar show to the one they have been touring with around the world this year?
“It’ll be more or less the same,” says Glenn. “We’ll probably change a couple of numbers but it’ll be more or less the same, because this is quite a different set for us. We’ve brought a couple of ‘new old songs’ back like 'Devil’s Child', 'Hell Patrol', 'Dissident Aggressor' and 'The Sinner' and we’ve still got a lot of the classic songs such as 'Painkiller' and 'Hell Bent For Leather'. We’ve also injected some Nostradamus in there. We open with 'Dawn Of Creation' which is the intro tape and we play Prophesy and we do a track called Death, so we’re introducing people to Nostradamus slowly and that’s the way we’ve always done it when we have a new album. Three tracks is enough while we wait for people to really get to know it.”There has been talk that Priest might at some point perform the whole two hours-plus of Nostradamus in concert.
“We’d like to do that,” says Glenn. “Our intention right from day one when we started to compose it was at some point in the future to play it in its entirety in special venues around the world and that’s something we’ve still got in mind, something we really want to do. It’ll either be late 2009 or 2010.”Where did the tour name Priest Feast came from?
“We just thought it had got a nice ring to it,” he says. “We’d just done the Metal Masters tour in the States and we had Heaven and Hell on the go with us and Motorhead and Testament and we just felt it’s great to get a classic metal bill and the audience is united and unified. It really worked in the States so we thought we’d do the same in Europe.”To read the entire interview head to this location.
