JUDAS PRIEST THREATEN TO PLAY NOSTRADAMUS LIVE IN ITS ENTIRETY
Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 11:33am by Axl Rosenberg
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
“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.”
haha, very Spinal! you’re a naughty one..Saucy Jack!!
* Spinal Tap btw. wtf my typing
Maiden tour was 2 years ago, no? Absolutely brutal.
Nostradamus isn’t bad, but it ain’t what I’m paying for. Just saw Opeth at a European festival, and they fucking opened with “Demon Of The Fall.” Now that is a band giving the crowd what it came for!
Why won’t this band just go away.
hahahha +1 AR on the bitterness. Hilarious. Amon Amarth is going to be doing something similar, but im sure that would leave less of a bacterial aftertaste in your mouth.
It’s Moctezuma you Prick
Well, of course they’re going to want to do this one front to back. Would be silly to cut a concept album and not do so. That said, I’m not a fan of Nostradamus, and hope they’ll use the Metal Masters tour to focus on a hits-filled set to satisfy the rest of us.
Between the buried and Me is doing that for their upcoming dvd(playing Colors all the way through), then again their music is genius.
I meant to talk to you about a couple of releases when we ran into each other pre-Dethklok and my view on this album and their threat of doing the whole thing in the live sense. To be honest, our opinions will not change the bands view on it, so I say do it. Find a decent theater setting like they referenced and put the whole thing on with costumes and symphonies and the like but do a limited run of this and record them for a DVD release. Then get back to the basics of the classic material. The Iron Maiden “A Matter Of Life Or Death” worked in the sense that the tracks were a little more uptempo than this new Priest so I think if they plan on doing this full recording and then “Breaking The Law” (with its 5 minute intro of “Breaking the what? I said breaking the what? Lets go break that law”) or the mass audience sing along of “Youve Got Another Thing Comin’” for 10 minutes this will be a dreadful concert.
I like the new album, but I made sure to seperate myself from what I loved most about Priest music. Clearly they are not going to get “Painkiller” fans on this one, but some Progressive Rock fans might finally take more listen to them and if album sales do anything, its help the scene. I’m interested in finding out what other Metal heads think about this idea. Metal Masters tour will find some of these tracks presented, so lets hope its the fast paced ones. There are a lot of slow moments on “Nostradamus”.
I have never felt more swindled in my entire life than when Bruce Dickinson said “We’re going to do something special and play our entire new album.” I had tickets for the first night, so I didn’t even see it coming (however, my friend’s brother was hit the worst by it, as it was his first Maiden show)!
If Priest thinks I’m sitting through a live version of “Nostradamus”, it is they who have another thing comin’.
What the hell is wrong with A Matter of Life and Death?
its not a matter if it is good album it is that a show is supodse to be spontaneus but if u just play the album u know wat is goin to happen
Priest and Maiden aren’t Pink Floyd, so they should leave the whole “The Wall” experience alone!
If they had a classic concept album then maybe it would be okay. What they should do is just give King Diamond some money so he could put on one hell of a theatre show!
well… to be honest a concept albums from cover to cover can be incredibly awesome, but only if the material itself were incredible. they key there is in how good the material is.
where as ‘the wall’ and Between the buried and me’s ‘colors’ bot those were amazing to be seen from start to finish.
as for priest…. this incarnation where mediocre at best (imho) need to be left in the studio. its not what fans want from their old school metal band.
whats with old bands not caring what the core members want to hear. its one thing to change up the lineup and play a couple rarities…
and as for not breaking up a concept album for its hard to do right… well i have to disagree, upon seeing between the buried and me again after the ‘colors tour’ they simply took a a sequence of songs that flowed and played them as one, AS WELL as playing the ones fans expect to see, and even through in a couple of suprises….
talk about keeping fans happy :)
The Priest could take a note from BTBAM
King Diamond should do the entire Abigail album. Complete with fire, corpses, pyro, lots of smoke machines and horses. Now that would be a treat!!!
I’d love Machine Head to play all of The Blackening live…
if it werent for priest and maiden, there wouldnt be that garbnage machne head, and all that nu metal shit. anything they do will always be better than that nu metal shit, that sounds like everything esle
I’m sorry, did this fucktard just call Machine Head garbage?Have they heard any MH from this decade?There has been nothing remotely Nu about this band since like 1999.
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A Matter of life and Death is actually a really good album, so when I saw Maiden during that tour I didn’t cry and complain like everyone else.
Nostradamus kind of blows though.
Whats wrong with “nostradamus”?
(i dnt wana know what haters you think)
Its a fuckin Trippy album!
Its an epic album with fucking fast solos with lots of sweeping!
This album would be so damn good live man, its not about every song sounding like “painkiller”,
Nostradamus live would have So much atmosphere and emotion,
It would be a real trip of the senses!