Glenn Tipton

Yeah.

I mean, the guitar work of Glenn Tipton on that record is un- just amazing.

Mm-hmm.

But anyway.

studio.

Produced by Tom Allum and Judas Priest, guitarists KK Downing and Glenn Tipton.

The first Priest album produced by Tom Allum, who stayed on at the helm through Ram It Down in 1988.

The last Priest release to feature Les Binks.

Yeah.

Like, "Oh, I just happened to be sitting in the room with, with Glenn Tipton when he did this," or, you know-

Yeah

... like, I, I'm not the Zelig of heavy metal, but, like, you just always knew, even in those earliest days, e- even when, like, they went out and opened for Raven in the summer of '83 in the States, and they were crushing them every night and, uh, you know, and then they got the Ozzy tour in '86.

1988, Ram It Down, title track.

Even before it starts, you just hear this scream that I'm not going to recreate that starts before, I guess, Glenn Tipton comes in with the riff.

You mean a scream like this? Exactly.

Okay.

So two, you know, essentially replacement guitar players.

But Glenn came out at the end and did a few songs with them, which was super special.

um but yeah they did Saints in Hell and um and Andy Sneap technically should have taken the solo in that because he's Glenn for the night but he gave it to Richie which I thought was a class act yeah yeah and it was it was just fantastic like you know one of those few you know you see so many gigs and what you actually remember even though you know you were there you can't really actually bring pictures to your mind a lot of the time but I can actually see that that was super special that was unreal so at least two songs I've seen performed live um And I haven't even, oh yeah, Beyond the Realms of Death, one of the greatest guitar solos of all time.

Glenn Tipton, you fucking legend.

Where do we go next? We are heading all the way over to Mastodon.

Yeah.

Yeah.

When guitar players do pull-offs as part of the rhythm, that's like that Glenn Tipton, K.K. Downey.

I grew up on the double lead things.

Anyway, the name of the album is Curse Him.

And Priest wouldn't hire him back.

I guess him and Glenn Tipton got a lot of animosity with each other and always did, I guess, from the stories I've read now.

So then Glenn, of course, has got Parkinson's, and he wasn't able to tour anymore.

So, of course, it made sense to let KK come back.

I love K.K.

Downing and Glenn Tipton, and I love Dave Murray and Adrian Smith from Iron Maiden.

And I think that Eddie Ojeda, J.J. French is often overlooked as far as like a top tier guitar tandem.

Just talk about your chemistry.

we're at it

epitaph i really like this song rob doesn't really sound like himself at all here and he's like he's again he's demonstrating his range and i see i was looking at the credits earlier and i see glenn tipton is credited with piano organ and synthesizer on the album so fair play to glenn the multi-talented person and I'm told that this sounds very similar to early Queen.

Now, I can't really comment on that because I have never listened to any Queen beyond Queen greatest hits.

So I don't really know.

yeah good point yeah perfect wow you guys hit it out of the park very well done all right and uh a lot of good points by both of you on that record um fantastic and like i said my favorite uh priest album and uh it should win the whole thing it's gonna win i have confidence i have confidence shut up painkiller all right you have

confidence i have painkiller we'll see who wins

it depends on the guests i guess all right uh kk's priest sermons of the sinner which is a kk priest debut record released in 2021 produced by kk downing according to the credits uh with bassist tony newton giving given mixing and engineering credits i think given the choice obviously kk's production is way better than glenn tipton's production has it turned glenn tipton's productions all suck and uh this is actually a pretty good sounding record um production-wise.

KK Downing is and always has been my favorite guitar player.