JUDAS PRIEST THREATEN TO PLAY NOSTRADAMUS LIVE IN ITS ENTIRETY

I will never forget the time Vince and I went to see Maiden and they played the entire A Matter of Life and Death album from front to back. Not in “I’ll never forget the first time I touched a girl’s titty” kinda way; more in a “I’ll never forget the time I went to Mexico, drank the water, and got Montezuma’s Revenge” kinda way. Literally the only good part of the entire night was when the band played “2 Minutes to Midnight” for the encore; for those six glorious minutes, we actually got our money’s worth.

So maybe Judas Priest had already announced plans to play their latest album, Nostradamus, from start to finish in a series of “special” shows, but I hadn’t heard of any such gigs until I saw this JAM! Music interview with Rob Halford posted on Blabbermouth:

“If we didn’t play it live in its entirety, I think we would regret it,” he says. “It’ll be a real treat when we do play the whole thing live. We’ll surround it with a great stage set, costumes and we’ll do it at a storied venue like [London’s] Royal Albert Hall. That will be a first for Priest; we’ve never ventured into that kind of experience.”

I don’t really know who’s gonna go to one of these shows, save for the hardest of the hardcore JP fans – the kind that think that every album the band makes is brilliant, that Tipton and Downing’s shit smells like their fondest childhood memories, and who were only too happy to learn that they could now be male groupies for Halford.

Still, at least fans who buy tickets for these shows will know what they’re getting into, which is more than I can say for the poor souls who got stuck at one of those Maiden gigs.

But if Judas Priest even try to pull that shit on their summer trek with Dio-Sabbath, Motorhead and Testament, I swear to God I will make it my life’s mission to track each and every band member down and erase him from this earth, Sayid-on-Lost style. That’s wasted time that could be used “Delivering the Goods,” fuckers.

-AR