Backstageaxxess.com has issued an interview with JUDAS PRIEST guitarist Glenn Tipton. An excerpt from the interview, conducted by Tracey Lukasik, follows:

Q: After all these years, is there a favorite JP tune you enjoy playing live more than any other?

A: "I enjoy them all. I mean, yeah you’d think that after 40 years of playing 'Living After Midnight' and 'Breakin’ The Law', you think you’d get sick of them, but once you walk out on stage and you hear the roar of the audience and they sing along, its just as good every night."

Q: I read that you took your Fender Stratocaster and Gibson SG Special out of retirement for the British Steel 30th Anniversary tour. What did you bring along on this tour?

A: "Just my SG really. I play my Hamer’s onstage, as always. They’ve got me through many, many years of performances. I brought my black SG out as well, which I use for a couple of numbers. Not too many on this tour but enough to get me through."

Q: The Epitaph tour set list contains one song from each studio record. How on earth did you ever select those? I’m sure it was a collaborative effort.

A: "It’s so hard, Tracey, you know, we sit for hours really, discussing the setlist. We do 'Never Satisfied' off Rock A Rolla and we picked some songs we’ve never done live before, like 'Blood Red Skies'."

Read the complete interview at this location.

Attention Deficit Delirium's Bryan Reesman recently reported:

In the past, Glenn Tipton has expressed his love for movie soundtracks. Given the fact that Priest is currently playing their farewell tour, A.D.D. asked the guitarist about whether he would take a shot at the film score world himself, especially given the fact that Scott Rockenfield from QUEENSRŸCHE and other metal musicians have done the same even as they remain active in rock.

“I love the fact that if you write a piece of music and put it to an average piece of footage, the combined thing can be really beautiful or really stunning or really powerful,” Tipton told Attention Deficit Delirium. “It’s the combination of the visual and audio that makes that. That’s always interested me. I love people like Hans Zimmer. Some of the stuff that they do is incredible.” (Tipton particularly loves the Gladiator soundtrack.)

“One day when I’m good enough to, I wouldn’t even call it a film score, but do music for film, I’d like that opportunity. It would be really exciting for me to do. Whether that will happen or not, I’m not sure. I would certainly welcome the opportunity to do something like that as long as it were something that I liked or had respect for visually.”

Read more here.

Check out Tipton's recent chat with BraveWords.com's "Metal" Tim Henderson at this location.