Tim Owens

Two great choices, both in my top five.

Yeah, and not to take away from the Owens era, but Juggulator is far better than Demolition.

I don't care.

I don't care what anyone says.

I remember I had seen that he had auditioned for Skid Row.

But the thing was, were they going a Ripper Owens route where they wanted somebody that sounded like Kevin Dubrow after Jizzy Jizzy? And who was the American Idol guy?

James Durbin.

James Durbin didn't really sound like Kevin, either one of them.

Obviously, you browse around on socials and, you know, someone might post, hey, you know, I've got free time.

And I saw a lot of other musicians doing this, but Tim Ripper Owens was one of them.

And he posted on his socials, hey, if anybody wants some guest vocals done, hit me up.

So...

Proper metal royalty, I suppose.

Definitely, yeah.

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.

Yeah.

Ripper Owens was just so good.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Doesn't matter.

Yeah, because Tim just brought it.

Tim's great, man.

He's so good.

Tim just brought it, and the band sounded great, and they sounded solid.

And if I just want to go for a night of Judas Priest music, I'll go see K.K.' 's Priest.

Well,

me too and boy would that be a royal royal fuck off to tim If KK said, well, I'm going to put it down and I'm going to go and play these same exact songs with these guys instead.

I talked with R.D. Leopakis.

He's the singer of Mystic Prophecy.

He was a good chat.

I talked to the original guitar player from Godsmack.

I think the albums themselves, the new albums he's put out, are quite pointless.

I think him touring around and performing Judas Priest with Ripper Owens is absolutely fine, because some people can't get-

Oh, yeah

... to go get, uh, see that.

Yeah.

I mean, this is no different than Tim, Tim Owens joining Judas Priest.

Sure.

Same type of interest in that.