BEYOND FEAR / ex-JUDAS PRIEST frontman Tim "Ripper" Owens is featured in a new interview with Classic Rock Revisited. He discussed his new album, Play My Game, with Ryan Sparks. An excerpt is available below.

Ryan: After listening to Play My Game for the first time from beginning to end, when it was over I felt like I had a much better idea of who Ripper Owens is as a musician if you know what I mean?

Ripper: "Well I think so; it’s definitely that type of CD. The reason why you would feel that is because it's 100% me being able to do something that I wanted. It’s the kind of music that I would like to hear if I bought a CD. I’d like it to get a little more aggressive at times, but I didn’t want to bring that into this album because I have a band Beyond Fear to do that. This was the one where I just wanted to kind of kick back and just do it."

Ryan: You definitely called in some favours because you’ve got a real all-star cast of musicians on here. That being said did you ever consider contacting anyone from Priest to contribute?

Ripper: "I didn’t. I thought about contacting them but I figured they’re just so busy and I didn’t see how it was going to happen. I didn’t see how I could do it. When I looked at the schedule and saw that they weren’t even in town, I just figured that I wouldn’t even try to get it done. I’d love to for the next solo record, although there probably won’t be as many guests next time, I’ll probably shrink it a bit. This was the ‘lets get out there and do it’ album but the next one will probably be at least half the musicians or whatever. This was the dream album to make with everybody on it."

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