Nathan East replaces Ian Hill in Judas Priest!

[gearHed289]

Haha! Just having fun with the clickbait title, but apparently Mr. East did play on a JP record in the 80s. They, however, did not Unleash the East.   

Nathan East confesses

[Ken]

That's cool!  And I see Metal Injection is making their article titles like a lot of YouTube videos, putting certain words in all caps.

[4stringer77]

That would be interesting to see Ian try to return the favor. Nathan did a lot of work for Barbara Streisand. I'd love to see her face if Ian showed up at one her shows and told her he's filling on bass! 

[gearHed289]

That would be interesting to see Ian try to return the favor. Nathan did a lot of work for Barbara Streisand. I'd love to see her face if Ian showed up at one her shows and told her he's filling on bass! 

     I think I first became aware of him with Clapton.

[hieronymous]

Would love to hear the earlier takes with the fills!

I am a big Ian Hill fan. Judas Priest were one of the first metal bands I got into, around 1983. I didn't listen to the bass then, but over the years have come to appreciate him, from the cooler busier stuff of the earlier years to the distilled-to-the-essence stuff from the '80s. And I really like Firepower!

I was never really impressed with Nathan East when I was younger, but I love his playing on Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, maybe this one especially?

[Ken]

Would love to hear the earlier takes with the fills!

I am a big Ian Hill fan. Judas Priest were one of the first metal bands I got into, around 1983. I didn't listen to the bass then, but over the years have come to appreciate him, from the cooler busier stuff of the earlier years to the distilled-to-the-essence stuff from the '80s. And I really like Firepower!

I was never really impressed with Nathan East when I was younger, but I love his playing on Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, maybe this one especially?

Seems like a great guy.  He talks about the Daft Punk sessions here.

[uwe]

Back in the 70s, Hill played almost proggy. Then JP decided to dumb down their music for mass compatibility (pretty much around the time after they had opened for AC/DC, it obviously got them thinking ...) and that is when he decided to devote his further life as a bassist to the netherworld between Tipton's and Downing's lower E strings one octave deeper and giving Dave Holland's and Scott Travis' bass drum a tone. It is not something that was forced on him, he simply came up by it with himself thinking it befitted their new music. So that shaped his metronomic, almost keyboard-like bass playing (and in fact often enough his bass playing was augmented by synth sequencers). Hill sees his role as giving Judas Priest sonic might in the low frequency department, a sub-low backdrop for Tipton and Downing to paint their riff cathedrals on and to fill space when Scott Travis is once again mistaking a Judas Priest album with a heavy metal drum clinic! 😂

There are a few melodic bass runs on Turbo that always had me wondering ... "Unusual for Ian", I thought. 🤣