K. K. Downing

Uh, another question, this is from, um, Tailgunner, which, uh, a, a great band out of the UK.

I believe their first album was produced by, uh, KK Priest, uh, KK Downing of, uh, of Priest.

Um, was there any conversa- Was there a conversation, you may have answered some of this before, about the danger of releasing an album that sounded like this in '87? Because there was a lot of that hair metal band.

Or was it always, We're just gonna do it our way? And which I know you're doing it your way, but was there any pressure maybe from the label that like, "Hey, you know, maybe make it sound like this." You're like, "No, no, let's, we're gonna do it our way."

Let's see if it takes a little uptick in my satisfaction.

And then at the end of the month, I've got Wasp and KK Downing's Priest, which I've seen them both, of course, before, and I'm looking forward to that.

It should be a good time.

Yeah,

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.

Blackie Lawless and the gang.

KK's Priest on the front when KK Downing split from Judas Priest, do his own thing.

Our buddy Tim Ripper-Owen's there fronting that band.

Two weeks from tonight.

Her son brought her to the gig.

She knew nothing about Wasp or KK Spree, so...

Guy brought his mom, and the guy looks a couple years younger than me, so I thought that was kind of odd.

Yeah, totally.

Yeah.

Start off with KK's Priest.

If you know anything about KK's Priest, it's basically KK Downing from Judas Priest.

and Ripper Owens, the guy who replaced Rob Halford and Priest, with three other guys.

Um, before we move on real quick, I do want to mention, I did see another concert here in Houston on Sunday night.

I ventured over to the house of blues to see KK's priest and wasp.

Now I wasn't there for wasp.

I'm not a huge fan.

I know some of their music and, um, I, I was okay for me, but I was there for KK's priest, um, which is.

KK Downing used to be lead guitar player in Judas Priest, and this is his new project.

And they did about 12 songs, and only four of them were his solo project.

The rest were all fucking Priest songs.

The kind of band Wasp was on stage way back in the day compared to the kind of band Priest was on stage back in the day.

I know it's KK's Priest, but KK Downing there.

Ripper Owens wasn't Judas Priest at one point.

They were more of a, we're a group of badasses and we don't run around looking like...

Me too.

Wasp with KK's Priest featuring KK Downing and Tim Ripper Owens.

Well, first off, if everybody remembers, we were supposed to go see Wasp back in 2024.

Yes.

So we got in real quick.

Um, Then the merch line was like four stairways deep, so I never even looked at the merchandise.

Brett, as we see, show off your KK shirt again.

My KK shirt.

But this time we have kind of a, I think, a little more exciting and enthralling matchup.

We have Sermons of the Sinner by KK's Priest.

and Sad Wings of Destiny, Judas Priest's second album back in 1976.

45 years separate these two records.

It's absolutely full of great riffs.

It's extremely catchy as well, but it maintains its heaviness throughout.

I haven't seen Judas Priest play it, obviously, but I did see KK's Priest play it a couple of years ago, actually.

And that was since I spoke to you last on this.