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What do you recall about that experience? It takes a lot of work to build an audience. But it’s a pretty emotional thing, I think. It’s not an easy song to play, musically and stuff. It was pretty unique, really, to play that song. I just think that I’d always wanted to play it, and we never played it. It was great seeing you go back to "Before the Dawn" from Hell Bent for Leather. Listen to Judas Priest's 'Winter / Deep Freeze / Winter Retreat / Cheater' But maybe I’m going to revisit some of that stuff and maybe play it live, and start to look at that style again. I was really so happy, and those guys are from Birmingham as well and that was wonderful. When I first heard Black Sabbath, I thought, “Thank you for that! Hallelujah, there’s hope!” I mean, it wasn’t exactly where my mind was at, but it was really pleasing that that came about. In those early days, because it would seem to be something that there wasn’t enough of. I must confess, I was always the darker type - I was always wanting to be heavier and more meaningful, and show more emotions and stuff like that. Obviously a lot of that came about when we were a four-piece.
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What was influencing the musical exploration on that album? It has such a progressive feel to it and shows that, musically, the band could have taken a different turn. On the debut album, Rocka Rolla, there’s the “Winter/Deep Freeze/Winter/Cheater” suite that takes up a large portion of Side One. It’s great to have been a part of that evolution of music as we know it today. Then we went onto rock, I guess, and then hard rock, and the rest is history. Because so many great bands came out of that: Fleetwood Mac, Blodwyn Pig, Ten Years After, Jethro Tull, Wishbone Ash, the list goes on and on of progressive blues bands. That kind of paved the way and got the ball rolling, really. If you listen to “ Crossroads” by the Cream, it can be a 10-minute live version with the improvised solo. Those guys in those bands went on to create progressive blues - their version, like extending solos and stuff like that, and doing their interpretations. And they really enjoyed, as I did, that music.
That’s why a lot of the greats, Clapton and Page and Beck, all of those guys, they looked to the Black blues artists for. When I was a young teenager, there wasn’t any music around for people like working-class white kids in the U.K. How do you take stock of it all when you look at what you helped bring to life? This year marked the 50th anniversary of Judas Priest's first show, but your history with the group goes back even further. Their debut album, Sermons of the Sinner, arrives on Oct. It’s what’s done but anyway not to be.” He's now moving forward with KK’s Priest, which includes former Judas Priest singer Tim “Ripper” Owens. “Bands have a long history of self-combusting, and sometimes they all leave at the same time,” Downing tells UCR. The guitarist lobbied for a return, but the door was closed - something he says he's since made peace with.
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But it wouldn’t take them long to establish a blueprint, and 1977’s Sin After Sin was the first in what became a long series of gold and platinum albums for Judas Priest.ĭowning retired from the band in 2011, although he later explained the real reason for his departure. The band began its musical evolution on these initial recordings, including a few songs that approached progressive rock. By that point, Judas Priest included Downing, singer Rob Halford, guitarist Glenn Tipton, bassist Ian Hill and drummer John Ellis. The group’s first album, Rocka Rolla, arrived in 1974.