Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner spoke with Slovenia’s PodRaznoKast podcast, where he discussed what era of the band he would like to focus on, when playing live shows.
Faulkner replied, as per blabbermouth.net, “Personally, I’d like to do a Screaming For Vengeance and Defenders Of The Faith tour, [focusing on] those two records. So maybe it could be called Screaming For The Faith or Defenders Of Vengeance or something like that. But that’s totally fantasy. That’s nothing that we’ve spoken about or anything like that, but that’s just something I’d like to do.”
He continued, “The last [tour] was pretty album specific — it was [focusing on the] Invincible Shield and Painkiller [albums] — so I think this summer in Europe, it’s just gonna be a bit more free, over the band’s career, and nothing too specific — just a celebration, I think, of everything Judas Priest. So it will be fun to see what we come up with.”
Asked if there is any particular song that he would like include in the setlist that hasn’t been performed yet by the current line-up and the guitarist said, “Let me think. I think we’ve done a lot of songs — over the last few years, we’ve done a lot of songs. Because usually if we go out for a third leg in the U.S. or something, we have to do different stuff, ’cause we can’t play the same stuff again that we played twice before. So we have to change it up. So, we pull some good ones out. But I would like to play — we’ve played it before, but I’d like to play Night Comes Down again. I love Night Comes Down. I love that song. It’s such a great song, especially for festivals. But as far as songs that we haven’t played, Reckless from the Turbo album — we haven’t played that one. I’d like to play that. We rehearsed it, I think, for the Redeemer Of Souls tour, I think, but we never played it. Or maybe it was [the] Firepower [tour]; I can’t remember. But we’ve played so many. No, I think apart from Reckless, we’ve played all the ones that I wanna play, really — unless I’m forgetting one.”
Judas Priest will release The Best Of Judas Priest, a career-spanning collection celebrating one of the most influential and enduring bands in heavy metal, on June 19th through Sony Music. Read more details, here.
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Screaming For Vengeance is my all time favorite Priest album, always has been, always will be.
That being “said,” I was hoping that after the band did their 30th Anniversary British Steel tour, which I saw, thank God, and was phenomenal, they would have done the same with Screaming For Vengeance.
Sadly, they did not, and even though it is my all time favorite album, if they should ever decide to perform the album live, with Tipton and Downing, I am not interested.
Additionally, I saw the original infamous Defenders Of The Faith tour at Madison Square Garden, that earned the band a lifetime ban. So, I am good…