JUDAS PRIEST - Drummer Simon Phillips Reminisces About Sin After Sin - "Damn Good"

May 10, 2012, 12 years ago

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Patrick Prince of Powerline recently spoke with drummer Simon Phillips about his experience in 1977 recording the JUDAS PRIEST album Sin After Sin, an excerpt follows:

What was your overall impression of Judas Priest’s music before entering the studio with them? And afterwards?

"At the time, of course, we had no idea how successful that album would become. I remember enjoying playing the music and it was always challenging to play a song the best way I could think of approaching it. I fairly recently played a couple of those songs at a special performance at the NAMM show commemorating my 30 years as a Tama Drums endorser and it was so much fun to play those songs again and I realized just how damn good they were compositionally."

What was the extent of your songwriting involvement on Sin After Sin? Any?

"Absolutely none. I was hired to play only."

Did you ever consider joining the band, or going on tour with them?

"I was asked to join the band but I was already committed to another band — THE JACK BRUCE BAND — at that time, so I couldn’t even consider the offer."

To read the interview in its entirety, click here.


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