Legendary ACCEPT guitarist Wolf Hoffmann is interviewed by Jari Asell and Kimmo Tattari on JUDAS PRIEST guitarist K.K. Downing's Steel Mill website. Here are a few excerpts from the chat:

Steel Mill: The year 1981 was important for Accept. Did you, back then, sense that something special was in production while you were recording your third album, Breaker?

Hoffmann: "Not really, I but it felt like we were finding our style more and more with each record. So Breaker was just another step in that direction for us."

Steel Mill: The same year you toured Europe supporting Judas Priest. Do you still remember that tour? Are there any anecdotes you could share with us?

Hoffmann: "We were dirt poor and literally hungry most of the time. It was a self financed tour, without any label support. So on occasion we tried to sneak into Judas Priest's dressing room and steal something from their deli tray. One day we got caught by their tour manager and thrown out of the room, ha!

The tour was a great and eye–opening experience though, our first tour with a 'real' band. Of course we wanted to be just like them and subsequently there were quite a few Judas Priest influences in our next records.

Also, here is another episode from that time. Peter had his only bass stolen one day in this tour. One of the guitar players, can't remember whether it was K.K. or Glenn, was nice enough to drive home and bring us his own personal vintage Fender bass to use for the rest of the tour. It was pristine with not a mark on it. Well, let's just say it wasn't pristine anymore when Peter got done with it after the tour ! There were scratch marks and belt buckle marks all over it!! Remember in those days we all wore these studded belts - they left terrible scars on the instruments. Ah well… battle scars give an instrument more mojo!"

Steel Mill: The song 'London Leatherboys' (1983) has got memoriable Accept style guitar riff , main riff is same or almost the same as in Judas Priest's song 'Killing Machine' (1978) , so was that a coincidence or w as it intentional?

Hoffmann: "I discovered that after the fact and thought 'Oh shit... it is indeed very similar…' But it was not intentional. Maybe it was subconscious… we always loved Judas Priest and the riff felt great."

Read the entire interview here.