So, what have you been listening to lately?

[doombass]

Yup, that worked fairly well 30+ years ago and Alan might have been interpreted as being a bit more complimentary. Or......?? I wonder what a bald, wild, creek living beaver looks like? Hmm, well maybe something like this:

[Dave W]

[Dave W]

I've posted the song before but hadn't seen this video before.

[uwe]

Are there any Dave Edmunds vids left Dave has not posted yet? 

He's infatuated with the man!

[Dave W]

Are there any Dave Edmunds vids left Dave has not posted yet? 

He's infatuated with the man!

In a six year old thread, I've probably posted a whopping dozen of his videos. There are many more that I could have posted.

He's retired now but he's really the last link to 50s style rock 'n' roll.

Anyway, how about some real country for this morning. I'm sure no double entendre was intended.

[uwe]

In - vin - ci - ble !!!


PS: Yes, three guitarists. By now there are days where Glenn Tipton (on the right) cannot play guitar at all anymore due to his Parkinson's Disease, but he continues to write with the band (and record, they say, but I take that with a pinch of salt). So that is why there is producer Andy Sneap helping out on the left with Richie Faulkner (with a Flying V, looking like a hybrid between KK Downing, 70ies UFO Michael Schenker and a young Zakk Wylde). They are not pretending that Glenn can still join dual lead lines, he lost that ability long ago - bitter for the man who played the lion's share of Priest solos both live and in the studio in former times and was always a very proficient and accurate lead guitarist.

PPS: I think Ian Hill had cosmetic surgery. At this rate no one will be able to tell him apart from Geezer Butler in a few years ... 

PPPS: Scott Travis (born 1961 in Norfolk, Virginia) epitomizes the nice, mild-mannered American oozing decency to me. Have him run for President, he could drum up support!

[Ken]

https://1200line.bandcamp.com/track/fongnana-kouma

[gearHed289]

In - vin - ci - ble !!!

Good stuff! They are masters of their craft. Scott Travis was such a great add to the band. They've been able to do much more technical stuff with him. Richie is great too.

[uwe]

Priest are one thing so many metal bands are not: elegant. That is the secret of their appeal to me.

[Dave W]

Lloyd Price was 80 in this clip from 2013.

[uwe]

Pipes still in good order, nice groove.

[Basvarken]

Priest are one thing so many metal bands are not: elegant. That is the secret of their appeal to me.

I've seen you say this many times before about them.
And I still have no idea what you mean. 
I've known Judas Priest since I was twelve. I really was into metal in those days. But I have never ever considered Judas Priest elegant.
A few of my friends were really big fans. And I tried to like them too, but it just never worked for me.
Guess I just don't get it.

[Alanko]

Yup, that worked fairly well 30+ years ago and Alan might have been interpreted as being a bit more complimentary. Or......?? I wonder what a bald, wild, creek living beaver looks like? Hmm, well maybe something like this:

Jesus! I know we are a bit pale and pasty in Scotland and all!

For the record, my wife was fully clothed!

[uwe]

AC/DC aren't elegant, they're primal. Iron Maiden aren't elegant, they're cluttered and overblown. Saxon aren't elegant, they are endearingly simplistic.

Priest are elegant because their music is mean, lean and honed, sleek, metal-ish gleaming, streamlined as in good German engineering. There is no fluff or fat to their arrangements, yet they are not without sophistication. It's well-designed music in much the same way that BMW builds well-designed cars.

It's a quality that I also find and like in Deep Purple - it's no coincidence I love both bands. If you listen to Machine Head there is something functionally precise and naked to the music which appeals to me. If you listen to Led Zeppelin IV, the music is meandering and embalmed in this huge atmospheric production - I find that pretentious and irritatingly unfocused.

Judas Priest sounds like this to me:




Iron Maiden like this:

[Basvarken]

Priest are elegant because their music is mean, lean and honed, sleek, metal-ish gleaming, streamlined as in good German engineering. There is no fluff or fat to their arrangements, yet they are not without sophistication. It's well-designed music in much the same way that BMW builds well-designed cars.

I hear nothing of that in their music.
Again, I just don't get it.

The tank comparison is way over my head. I know nothing about tanks.
Sorry Uwe. I can understand the Deep Purple part of your musical preference. Just can't match Judas Priest with them.