Rob Halford

Yeah.

Coming out on the 17th, which is the same week as the Son of Sam record we're talking about, Halford with Live Insurrection.

Have you ever listened to that? A

live Rob Halford record.

Let's breeze past the live part for a second.

Okay.

Have you listened to a Halford record?

Not a solo, no.

As you'll hear, it turned out really, really well.

And, of course, for people who don't know Tim Ripper-Owens, you might be surprised, but he was the vocalist for Judas Priest for two albums when Rob Halford left the band temporarily, but, of course, he came back.

And Tim Ripper-Owens also was a guest vocalist with Aventasia a few times and done some really good work with them, and we've certainly played a lot of Judas Priest and Aventasia over the weeks here on the show.

Proper metal royalty, I suppose.

So I sort of thought when I'd heard you did a song with Tim Ripper Owens, I thought, oh, you guys are taking the proverbials.

But no, it's genuine.

And that's a pretty, when you hear the track, it's a genuine Tim Ripper Owens, pretty close Rob Halford scream there in the track.

Yeah, we gave him some guidance.

And so there is a story to be told there and something to be documented there.

you know and the book features uh you know a foreword by rob halford and then an afterword by randy blight was it kind of like was it intentional to have you know sort of a classic heavy metal singer right up front and then i guess really like one of the future stars i guess i i don't know that feels weird to say because lamb of god's been around for like 20 something years but you know what i mean so like was that kind of an intentional decision to have it bookended that way

Well, the thought was there at the beginning.

We started thinking about who's going to do the forward and afterward.

And of course, that was there.

But of course, I put it off for as long as I could until the publisher was like, hey, man, did you ever talk to Rob and Randy? I'm like, oh, man.

put it off because you don't want the rejection you know you kind of it all sounds great and in your mind you're like oh that'd be so good and and then to finally just say okay i i gotta do it it's either do or die today and i did it and both uh said they would be in to doing it and robs came back first and blew me away with his words that what he wrote and just kind of almost brought tears to my eyes and It meant the right choice just because Rob Halford, Judas Priest played a big part in my life.

That was the band that I cut school to play guitar and learn every riff Judas Priest rip there was because I wanted to play a guitar player like KK.

He's not going to sit in the background and play on the records, kind of like they tried to do with Glenn Tipton.

And that leaves us down to, I know Rob Halford's not an original member, but I think we consider him

part of the core four.

Of course.

Like he's, he's doing it most of the time.

And like, he was very much influenced by Rob Halford.

And like when Rob started to do that kind of the high pitch stuff, that's what, when King wanted to do more of that.

But yeah, you know, I would have said he, he does it a lot more than Rob ever did.

And like Rob Halford's having to like, you know, choose his notes a bit more carefully now.

But King's is still sounding really clear.

And I don't know whether it's because he's maybe putting less grit on it.

Today, my wife said, she's asking me just a bunch of dumb questions like, what's your favorite color? And then she just goes, and I kept going, I don't know, blue or this or that.

And she goes, who's your favorite singer of all time? Rob Halford.

I don't need to think about that.

And Bruce is following very closely.

You know, maybe like something like more recent, like Amorphous is a different style with vocal.

But.

But Metallica, James Hetfield's vocals back then, it was a world of difference going from Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Blackie Lawless, Bruce, Rob Halford, to going to James Hetfield.

It was like, whoa, this guy's like yelling.

I sure can.

I think that's Rob Halford.

Steven Tyler.

It sounds like maybe

I think at the end of the year or the beginning of next year.

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