Judas Priest ROCKED

Описание: As the My Mid-Atlantic team headed out tonight, memories from the 80's were flooding our heads and we had to slap in the British Steel CD into the Stereo to BLAST Breaking The Law as we sped down the Highway on the way to watch Judas Priest & Queensryche Rock the Mohegan Sun Arena and 1985 was in our heads.
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The Sold Out Crowd didn't disappoint as we saw Red Hot Chili Peppers, Van Halen and R.E.M. in the crowd cheering as the lights dimmed and the humm of the huge amps kicked in..... the night was here!

Judas Priest hasn’t stopped running wild since 1969. The heavy metal band set off on the fall trek of its North American “50 Heavy Metal Years” tour earlier this month.

At 71, Judas Priest bassist Ian Hill has zero intention of slowing down, but Priest has been a victim of changes over the years, as its 1976 track goes. Hill is the band’s only remaining original member. Longtime guitarist K.K. Downing left in 2011 citing “personal and professional differences,” and was replaced by Richie Faulkner. Then, longstanding guitarist Glenn Tipton stopped touring with the band after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2018. Following that, Downing thought he could rejoin Priest, but has since trashed his former bandmates when the invitation wasn’t extended to him.

This is also, technically, Priest’s second “50 Heavy Metal Years” tour. The first go round in 2021 was cut short when Faulkner suffered an aortic aneurysm on stage at Kentucky’s Louder Than Life festival and had to undergo emergency open-heart surgery.

The evening raged to order with a blazing set from Seattle’s Queensryche. Queensryche’s combination of technical savvy and vocal gymnastics are the perfect complement to Priest’s stained class work ethic.

“Queen of the Reich” led off the near-hour set in statement-making fashion, and lead vocalist Todd La Torre exemplified the true meaning of paying homage to your heroes. His voice soared on the opening scream and would not come down from the rafters until the band left the stage. They performed like a band with something to prove, not one with a forty-year career like they have navigated.

Guitarist Michael Wilton and bassist Eddie Jackson are the only remaining original members, but drummer Casey Grillo and guitarist Mike Stone complement the OGs with their own power metal prowess.

Songs “Warning” and “Take Hold of the Flame” laid the ground and pound for the ensuing attack of “Screaming in Digital”. The band ended with the heavily rotated “Eyes of a Stranger”, from their album Operation Mindcrime. At the time, the video for this song was in heavy rotation on MTV. You know, the station that used to show music videos and not just trashy TV.

A lot has changed in the fifty years since Judas Priest kicked over the motor and headed out to the highway. Just the last three years alone have seen us become victims of change and clearly, we have all taken notice.

When the lights went down to the sound of Sabbath’s “War Pigs” you could tell you were in the presence of heavy metal royalty. As the band emerged to the riffs of “The Hellion” and tore into “Electric Eye”, Priest ascended and was soon “Riding on the Wind”.
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