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.
17 Responses
Oh how cool you were at MSG for that show!! Chairs everywhere LOL
Screaming For Vengeance was my introduction to the whole genre when I was 14 (I’m 57 now) in particular The Hellion/Electric Eye.
That intro just reeled me in big time. I had never heard anything like it before in my life then! By the end of the song I was hooked!!!!
It’s something that will probably never happen, So thankfully I too saw the 30th Anniversary British Steel show, which has become one of
my top concerts of all time.
Scott,
We truly are compatriots. Screaming was also my introduction to the band. I sometimes wonder had it been another album, would Priest have become my favorite band?
At the time, it was Def Leppard and I was OBSESSED with them. I played Pyromania so much, I thought my mother was going to lose it-LOL! Luckily for me, unlike when I played Ozzy, she happen to like Def Leppard, it was the child like monotony, that drove her crazy.
Regarding Screaming, You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’ is what hooked me, and then Bloodstone, was the bullseye.
As for that infamous MSG show, I came home with a piece of seat foam as a reminder. My grandfather came in to see me the next day and said, “Weren’t you at that rock show last night at the Garden, where they destroyed the seats?”
I said, “Yes poppy, that was my first ever heavy metal concert.” What an introduction-LOL!
Finally, I completely agree about that British Steel tour, we took one of my mother’s friends with us, and she has seen Rush, The Who, The Stones, etc. and she said, that was one of the best shows she ever saw. It was very high praise and deservedly so.