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…
SFV and DOTF in their entirety? That would cause a Metal Meltdown! 😉
I thought they would come back with that right after the British tour because it would’ve been a guaranteed $$$$ maker….but, there’s this thing called being an artist…so I can’t blame them…and I also saw that tour and communicated telepathically with both Aldrich and Coverdale…(Coverdale…”why don’t share? pass it around..what is wrong with you?” Aldrich: “yeah, f that guy…”) so just a very profound night and then Priest actually made me quit my job the next day and re think my life…so these events are supposed to be confrontations with yourself….that is what art does…back to that Screaming for Vengeance idea for a tour that they almost (they had to have at least considered it) did, but didn’t because they are artists who must be in the moment creating…I get it…but the fan, that’s me, still has a better grasp on the artist’s art than the artist because we are fans…I mean, I can’t stand, and this goes for Gene and Paul, when the artist talks down to the fans for what they like and who they like in the band…I am just your fan, I shouldn’t be expected to look at it like you…it’s funny, the artist sometimes gets their art the least out of anybody, so I don’t give their opinions much weight anymore.
Fans don’t care about the artistry and the band’s selfish artistic desires. Didn’t Gene Simmons famously state that the fans are the band’s bosses?
So as one of Priest‘s millions of bosses, I would have liked to have seen that Screaming For Vengeance tour, while the original members, were still able to perform. No one can assume, especially at their age, that they are going to live forever. Sadly, even young people get seriously ill, look at Faulkner, he almost died.
So, do it when you can, as soon as possible, make the fans happy, and then have your “artistic” moment.
I know, Dana, but then you get Rob up there rolling his eyes….I have seen it……that still doesn’t change the fact that me, the fan, understands the art better than he does, though.
Thank heavens, I never saw the eye roll, that would royally piss me off.
…lol..it’s on youtube…Turbo tour…Out in the Cold….
I think I want to avoid seeing that, for fear of eye rolling his eye rolling. Also, what the heck is a Turbo tour?
he started to do that on the British Steel tour, but I think the fans’ energy got him back into it once it got going…something clicked, and then maybe he didn’t want to attempt it again…
similar to the Defenders of the Faith tour, the Ram It Down tour, the Painkiller tour….uhhhhh
I don’t comprehend Turbo. 😉
Dana, you always know what to say to me to keep me in line
the reason Priest had that otherworldly aspect to it is because they had real blues guitarists with a real blues singer…KK and Glenn are two of the best rock guitarists there will ever be…up there with Iommi, Page, Neal Schon, and they still had their ear to the ground, always….music will never be like that again
I think that would be a cool tour…..as long as it was performed by the guitarists who wrote the songs on those two albums.
Rattlehead,
BINGO!