Fan-filmed video of former Judas Priest frontman Tim "Ripper" Owens performing the band's song "One On One" - taken from the Demolition album - in Panama on November 15th has surfaced on YouTube and can be viewed below:

Owens was recently interviewed by Eamon O'Neill of Über Rock. An excerpt from their chat reads as follows:

You joined Judas Priest in 1996. What was it like receiving that phone call?

"Well, you know what, it was crazy. I was in a band called Seattle at the time, and I was getting ready to go to a show, and I happened to stop by my parents’ house because my number was unlisted, and they said 'Judas Priest was trying to get a hold of you.' So I got the number and called Jane Andrews [Judas Priest’s co-ordinating Manager], and it was crazy. They said; 'do you have a passport?' And they flew me over, saying that they didn’t even think that I was going to have to audition, because they saw this video [of Owens performing with Judas Priest tribute band British Steel]. And then I had to audition, which was really weird, because I hadn’t sang a Judas Priest song at that point for over a year. I didn’t rehearse and I didn’t practice. I just went there and sang ‘Victim Of Changes’ and I made it."

After joining Judas Priest, how long was it before you went into the recording of Jugulator?

"I flew home after the audition, and went back three months later, and we pretty much went straight into it. ‘Burn In Hell’ and ‘Death Row’ I think might have been the first two. We started recording at a guy named Barriemore Barlow’s studio, the drummer from Jethro Tull, and then we recorded the rest of the album at this other place in Guilford. The second record [Demolition] we recorded at Glen [Tipton, Judas Priest guitarist]’s house."

Which is your favourite of the two albums?

"Man I’ll tell ya, it’s funny, because my favourite record as a whole is probably Jugulator, but some of my favourite songs are on Demolition. I mean ‘Hell Is Home’ and ‘One On One’ are just classic. You think of some of those songs like ‘Machine Man’, ‘Lost And Found’, ‘In Between’, there are some great ones on there. But my favourite song actually is probably ‘Blood Stained’. It’s a brutal song."

Given Rob Halford’s indelible mark on the band, was there ever a feeling that it was a thankless task?

"I knew the reunion would come someday, but I’ve got to be honest, and I’ve said it before and I’ll say it always; I wasn’t upset. I really was ready to be out. Looking back now, if Halford’s name had have been on Jugulator it would probably have been a masterpiece. I just think that’s how it is. And I understand, it’s a normal situation. I mean, Rob’s the man, but I just knew that I could do it, vocally every night on stage. I wanted to do it, and I knew that as a Judas Priest fan myself, I knew that what I was doing was something that I would have liked, as somebody who could sing the songs to the same level."