This "guy" with fancy pants, "nice boots", whip, aviators...wierd moves...is a LEGEND OF HEAVY METAL. Just named a Metal God, Mr. Rob Halford. Still rockin' at 70's old age!!
This is a song about the surveillance society, from 1982, if memory doesn't fail me... P.s. Don't ignore the recent Priest catalog, the last three albums are not groundbreaking, but for sheer quality, are some of the very best.
I missed them for this tour I hope I get the chance to see them again, Rob Halford is the metal god for a reason and even at 70 he will still put all those kids now to shame
It's about surveillance cameras. Inspired by the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four As for their outfits. When they were looking for a new edgier look Rob Halford suggested they'd go to a shop that catered to the leather subculture and that's how the 70s gay scene forever influenced heavy metal as leather and studs and dressing as exaggerated caricatures of manly men is still the goto look for metal. Then we have the glam days where guys started borrowing from the 80s female ideals. But in a way it started with The Beatles rebelling by having long hair. Rock and Metal has a long history of challenging and rebelling against cultural expectations
Fun story: 1983, 17-year-old me was playing my guitar to this song along with the record. My mom happened to walk past just as Rob sang the line, "The engine roars between my thighs". My mom said, "Well, he's certainly full of himself!" I was all, "IT'S A MOTORCYCLE! HE'S TALKING ABOUT HIS MOTORCYCLE!"
@@chrissarina981 My first concert was Kiss with Judas Priest a couple of years before that! Took me a little while to jump in with both feet but I was sold after that!
Priest one of the very best of Metals bands of all time. Incredible shows and devout fans all withstanding the test of time. The 80’s were historic in talent, ingenuity, improvisation, respect to the past and the launch of multiple sub-genres of Rock for decades forward. Lucky to have seen JP multiple times. Always a great show!
US Festival 1983 at Glen Helen Park, San Bernardino on Metal Day. It was over 100 degrees and we didn’t care. It was awesome and will never be surpassed. Priest set the bar high for all that followed them.
Blood Red Skies is still my favorite. JP has lots of hits. I'll give you a few that aren't the most popular, but are great regardless: The Sentinel, Riding On the Wind, & Diamonds & Rust (cover). (Too many to list really).
Judas Priest performing 'Desert Plains' Live Vengeance '82 is one of their best performances! Clean high B naturals, excellent display of distortion, amazingly high reinforced falsetto screams, and an awesome, awesome ending. Plenty of reactors have done videos on Victim of Changes and Painkiller, but Desert Plains always gets overlooked. It is fucking excellent both lyrically and sonically.
Hey Ken...Watch the live version of VICTM OF CHANGES MEMPHIS 1982..THE SCREAM FOR VENGEANCE TOUR and you'll definitely hear why Halford is a legend..Peace from the Northeast..
First time I saw Priest in 10th grade in February’83 was the good ol days of general admission. I was front row with my right ear maybe a foot away from the tower of speakers. My ears rang for a week and a half
The official Judas Priest - Painkiller Video (the black and white one, 70 million views, or the newer lyric video) gives you a much better impression of Rob Halfords incredible vocal abilities
This song is about spy satellites. "Up here in space, I'm looking down on you", "Electric eye... in the sky... I keep the country clean..." BADASS SONG!!
I've seen them live in june last year and they still slap hard and extremely loud. I had trouble hearing for two days after the concert but it was so worth it...
If you want more of Rob Halfords, then listen to him perform a song called "Silent Screams" and you will be blown away.. again Rob Halford: Silent Scream. He is definitely one of the greatest metal vocalist along with DIO, Geoff Tate, Bruce Dickinson.
A fabulous performance by not just Rob, but the band as a whole. They seem to be energized by the large crowd and seemingly playing relieved and happy.
Rob Halford is well known as being able to go very high. He doesn't really flex it much in this particular song, but there are plenty where he does. Do more songs off Screaming for Vengeance, it's a great album. Maybe the title track or Devil's Child. I would say go with the album versions though. If you really want to see him live, there's a version of Victim of Changes they do at like that same concert that's superb. But yeah, do more Judas Priest. They are very under-represented in these kinds of videos. They're a cornerstone of Heavy Metal and with great innovated and influence, but they feel over looked to me these days.
Never heard Judas Priest and "Electric Eye" is the first song to react to ?... I APPROVE ! "Electric Eye" may not be everyone's first choice for best song... but the calibre of their music is so consistently high that "Electric Eye" is still a perfect song !... and perfectly indicative of their music... especially in the sweet spot of their career ! And the '83 US Festival was such an awesome performance !... You picked a great one here !
I've seen priest live three times and after every concert my ears would be ringing for 3 days I've Stood Beside those Marshalls at a concert I was like 3 ft away and I'm pretty sure the speakers were real I could feel the air pressure change around me they were so loud❤
The Electric Eye is a reference to the Surveillance State. And this song was written in the early 80s. They saw back then what the world was coming to.
New to the channel but loving your metal reactions. Thougth I should suggest 'Judas Priest - Painkiller'. You asked about other suggestions of Judas Priest so that would be the best imo. Keep up the good work bro. \m/
4:02 Yes, the Marshalls are real but only a couple of them per musician are actually hooked and mic'ed (here apparently the second and the 6th (starting from the left). In this particular concert, the Marshall heads do not seem to be working, only the 4 speakers cabinets are live and probably connected to Marshall heads backstage. All the other are there just for the look.
I was at US FESTIVAL 83 in Devore ca..(San Bernardino) Badass Awsome concert Scorpions kicked ass Van Halen shredded "Eddie"..seeing this brought back some memories😎 unless you were there you wouldn't get it..
At this time the Marshalls would more than likely still be loaded with speakers. Early PAs at rock concerts were often only carrying the signal for vocals and the 100 watt Marshall’s purpose was to fill arenas and festivals with enough volume for the guitars to be heard. Slayer in particular would eventually do away with full stacks and only have the lower cabs. As many as 6 lower cabs on each side of the stage. Kerry, Jeff, and later Gary would run multiple amp heads in these cabinets. Head 1 into cab 1 and 3 - Head 2 into cab 2 and 4 etc. Tube amps, even duplicates of the same model can sound different enough that a guitar player might find it advantageous to blend multiple amps for a fuller sound. In the studio this can actually be even more elaborate. To achieve a unique guitar tone that takes advantage of the differing voices of say a Peavey 5150 with a Marshall JCM 800 to highlight the best part of the heads in a way they compliment each other. This blending can either done with both (or more) amps mic’ed up and played at once for a more rock sound. In a different technique more Modern styles of metal the rhythm guitars might be recorded several times through the same or different amps. The slight differences in playing on each take stacked on each other in the mix can make the guitars sound thicker which is the goal. James Hetfield famously would record four tracks on all rhythm parts for Metallica.
Yeah baby. 1982. I saw this tour in Toronto Canada. My ears rang for two weeks afterward. They are super loud and it was an indoor show. Rob Halfords pipes are completely clean. This is a little ditty about electronic surveillance.
To my knowledge; having lots of amps actually had a purpose before better PA systems, which could handle full mixes, were a thing. Once you could mic up any amp rig and pump it through the sound system, there was no need for all the amps to push the guitar sound to the back of the venue. But the stage looks way cooler with a bunch of amps so there'd be all sorts of false cabs and such (like you mentioned) to help fill the estestic on stage. It's rock n roll xD
Probably not the best first Judas Priest song to show Rob's vocals the man has a killer falsetto. The singer is one of the only out gay men in metal ( not that we care, just FYI), out in 1991) Do Painkiller, then you will get it!!!
I saw them in concert in the 80s and remember an interview where he said in the early career it was a don’t ask don’t tell type of attitude. He said he didn’t want to push his sexuality to the front of the bands success or failure. Let the metal and music be a unified theme.
The least surprising coming out of all time... Rob Halford: "So, I've got to tell all the fans... I'm gay." The fans: "Yeah Rob... We know. We've always known. It's cool. You rock."
The wall of speaker cabinets was a 70's thing. Audio equipment was lacking so it was a wall of sound. By this time there was one, possibly two cabinets used. All you need to do is look where the mic is positioned to spot the real cabinet(s). Today, many put the actual cabinets behind the stage because of monitor improvements and everything other than the drums are fake. It really depends on the player these day and how loud they wish the stage to be. Drums are loud, so many don't put anything else on stage.
I'm quite surprised you haven't done any more Priest. The official Painkiller video vocals will likely blow you away, and any live video from the Fuel For Life tour will show you the band at the height of their musical, vocal, and performance levels. There's tons of other videos to check out, including Victim Of Changes from this same concert, and many others that have been mentioned in previous comments.
The 1983 US Festival at Glen Helen Park in San Bernardino, CA. It was May and it was hot. Really hot. It was the Heavy Metal day. There were about 300,000 of us that day. Did I mention that it was hot? Motley Crue, Quiet Riot, Triumph, Scorpions, Judas Priest (I’m sure I’m forgetting bands) and headlined by SoCal’s own Van Halen. Good times.
This was at the '83 US Festival in Glen Helen Regional Park. I was there and Priest was pretty damn good. at the time it was biggest attended festival in history. It's been estimated that there were around 375,000 ppl there that day and I believe it. it was just an ocean of ppl as far as the eye could see. amazing festival in the brutal heat. lol
Rob Halford is known for his high notes and how he does it depends on the song, so many great tracks hard to find a bad song in their lineup. yes definitely need more priest!
Wow...I wore this album out playing it so much. It is my favorite Priest album...by far! And it is an awesome driving album; I played this over and over when I drove across country in the Fall of '82. You can play the whole album, but at least try: Devil's Child__Fever__Bloodstone__Pain and Pleasure__(Take These) Chains. ←Some will notice I suggested those many would never. First time I saw them Live was on my 21st B-Day at the US Festival '83 in San Berdoo...the very same concert you are watching in this video. Was a really good concert with really good bands.
Talking about their costumes, it's about 70's and 80's gay aesthetic. Rob Halford is a recognized gay and introduced this aesthetic to the band as a result of his hobbies
Saw Priest and Maiden on the Screaming/Number tour. O.M.G. - one of the best double-bills ever. Also got to see Halford at The Whiskey in the early 90's. Metal God indeed.
I prefer the "Live from the 'Fuel for Life' Tour" version of this song from the "Priest... Live!" concert video. That entire concert is killer. Check out videos from that film: "Out In the Cold," "Love Bites," "The Sentinel," "Electric Eye," "Turbo Lover," "Desert Plains," "The Green Manalishi" are great showcases of Rob's range. All these "Live from the 'Fuel for Life' Tour" videos are available on YT from the band's official channel.
Fry scream happens when his voice is fried after touring too many cities. His scream is usually very clean and clear and really quite a bit higher. Maybe he's holding back to protect his voice because doing that every night is rough. Watch the video for Sinner.
Watch Priest fuel for life Dallas 1986. I guarantee you haven't seen or heard anything like it. Rob Halfords showmanship is not of this world. You're we 🤘
Yes, Rob is gay, & yes, he created the leather & chains heavy metal aesthetic. I think most fans had no idea he was gay in 1982, when this song was released - certainly I didn't when I got to know the band as a young teen in the mid-80s. But those close to him knew, including his band mates, but they accepted him. When he came out publicly in 1998, my perception is that very few fans cared at all - certainly I didn't, because I loved him for his art, not for his sexual orientation, about which I'm indifferent. "Electric Eye" is an excellent song, & this is an excellent performance, but, as many other commenters have pointed out, it is not one of the more impressive Judas Priest songs vocally. If you randomly drew Judas Priest song titles out of a hat, you'd get a more vocally challenging song about 95% of the time. Numerous commenters are recommending "Painkiller". That's probably Rob's most extreme vocal performance, & it's certainly impressive. However, it's also alienating for the uninitiated & not very representative of the Judas Priest catalog or of Rob's influence on the genre. I'd recommend something earlier, like "Run of the Mill", "Dreamer Deceiver", "Victim of Changes", "Beyond the Realms of Death", "Rock Forever", "The Rage", "Desert Plains", "Fever", "Night Comes Down", "Out in the Cold", "Blood Red Skies". That's one song from every album before they split up when Rob came out, except for Sad Wings of Destiny because I couldn't choose between "Dreamer Deceiver" & "Victim of Changes". BTW, the Marshalls are real - ask anyone who's seen them live.
There are countless songs where he produces those screams. This one is not very impressive. Check out Victim of Changes, Sinner, Devils Child or Desert Plains from Live Vengeance 82 in Memphis. There is honestly no one that sounds like Rob And the crazy thing is that he can do those insane screams on their current tour at age 70. 🤯
This "guy" with fancy pants, "nice boots", whip, aviators...wierd moves...is a LEGEND OF HEAVY METAL. Just named a Metal God, Mr. Rob Halford. Still rockin' at 70's old age!!
It's about big brother, the electric eye is cameras :D
satellites*
1984-Think about it
The studio version of Dreamer/Deceiver. Should you want to hear his full range. It's incredible
Absolutely also showcases Tipton and Downing guitar work
Agreed.
Singer: Rob Halford aka "The Metal God". Check out Priest's song "Painkiller", think you'll like that one.
The Metal God indeed.
More Judas Priest!!! This wasn’t the best example of his vocal talents.. he’s amazing
You must be kidding.
@@realeyesrealizereallies1176 not allowed to have opinions? Troll
This is a song about the surveillance society, from 1982, if memory doesn't fail me...
P.s. Don't ignore the recent Priest catalog, the last three albums are not groundbreaking, but for sheer quality, are some of the very best.
Yeah Rob is known for the sort of gritty/fry stuff across his range, but also super high stuff. And he’s still touring in 2022, at 70 years old.
And last year, he CRUSHED all those high notes when I saw them with Sabaton.
Yeah I saw them few days ago in Helsinki. Fucking awesome gig. Like usually he drove on The stage with harley just before Hell Bent for leather.
I missed them for this tour I hope I get the chance to see them again, Rob Halford is the metal god for a reason and even at 70 he will still put all those kids now to shame
It's about surveillance cameras. Inspired by the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
As for their outfits. When they were looking for a new edgier look Rob Halford suggested they'd go to a shop that catered to the leather subculture and that's how the 70s gay scene forever influenced heavy metal as leather and studs and dressing as exaggerated caricatures of manly men is still the goto look for metal. Then we have the glam days where guys started borrowing from the 80s female ideals. But in a way it started with The Beatles rebelling by having long hair. Rock and Metal has a long history of challenging and rebelling against cultural expectations
Desert Plains is seriously one of his most underrated. Give it a visit if you’re unfamiliar. A gem.
From live vengeance 1982
Fun story: 1983, 17-year-old me was playing my guitar to this song along with the record. My mom happened to walk past just as Rob sang the line, "The engine roars between my thighs". My mom said, "Well, he's certainly full of himself!" I was all, "IT'S A MOTORCYCLE! HE'S TALKING ABOUT HIS MOTORCYCLE!"
@@chrissarina981 My first concert was Kiss with Judas Priest a couple of years before that! Took me a little while to jump in with both feet but I was sold after that!
@@rikosborne1212 I remember hearing this song on my new headphones at about 12 years old! Solar Angels too. Good times.
@@chrissarina981 Seriously their best performance of that song. God, so good.
Check out Judas Priest “The Sentinel” live in Dallas, 1986! Much better example of Rob’s vocal capabilities!
And how duelling guitar solos can be used to perfection
Priest one of the very best of Metals bands of all time. Incredible shows and devout fans all withstanding the test of time. The 80’s were historic in talent, ingenuity, improvisation, respect to the past and the launch of multiple sub-genres of Rock for decades forward. Lucky to have seen JP multiple times. Always a great show!
It's pretty simple. He is the man, the myth, the legend. He is the METAL GOD. ! We love him !
US Festival 1983 at Glen Helen Park, San Bernardino on Metal Day. It was over 100 degrees and we didn’t care. It was awesome and will never be surpassed. Priest set the bar high for all that followed them.
@@academiccredentialsevaluat2485 Yes, but all I had to do is jump and wave my arms and they'd hit me with one of the tower fire hoses.
Blood Red Skies is still my favorite. JP has lots of hits. I'll give you a few that aren't the most popular, but are great regardless: The Sentinel, Riding On the Wind, & Diamonds & Rust (cover). (Too many to list really).
Non rock slower live cover.
Looking at this in 2022, they seem prophetic. Loved living in the eighties.
Judas Priest performing 'Desert Plains' Live Vengeance '82 is one of their best performances! Clean high B naturals, excellent display of distortion, amazingly high reinforced falsetto screams, and an awesome, awesome ending. Plenty of reactors have done videos on Victim of Changes and Painkiller, but Desert Plains always gets overlooked. It is fucking excellent both lyrically and sonically.
Hey Ken...Watch the live version of VICTM OF CHANGES MEMPHIS 1982..THE SCREAM FOR VENGEANCE TOUR and you'll definitely hear why Halford is a legend..Peace from the Northeast..
Priest was amazingly loud. Bike on the stage, mic in the pipes and reving that sucker for all it was worth. couldn't hear right for a week😊
First time I saw Priest in 10th grade in February’83 was the good ol days of general admission. I was front row with my right ear maybe a foot away from the tower of speakers. My ears rang for a week and a half
You really want to understand the range of Rob Halford his vocals and pure awesomeness listen to.."Unleashed in the East" you'll get it..
the song is electric eye about electronic monitoring of our every move, I guess a novel concept/fear in 1981
The official Judas Priest - Painkiller Video (the black and white one, 70 million views, or the newer lyric video) gives you a much better impression of Rob Halfords incredible vocal abilities
Yes, this!!
The set of four Marshalls under the drum riser are false fronts that open up so the band can enter and leave the stage.
Check Screaming for Vengeance from the same tour and you shall see his range hehe
Rob Halford is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
This is one of my ten favorite Judas Priest songs. And it's also one of the best heavy metal songs ever written.
Rob got his gear from S & M shops, he didn’t come out as a gay man until years later but had set the trend in metal stage clothes
This style of clothing had nothing to do with his sexuality, but it had a lot to do with looking cool and like "machos".
I'm Getting Lieutenant Dangle "new boots goofin" vibes
This song is about spy satellites. "Up here in space, I'm looking down on you", "Electric eye... in the sky... I keep the country clean..."
BADASS SONG!!
I've seen them live in june last year and they still slap hard and extremely loud. I had trouble hearing for two days after the concert but it was so worth it...
If you want more of Rob Halfords, then listen to him perform a song called "Silent Screams" and you will be blown away.. again Rob Halford: Silent Scream. He is definitely one of the greatest metal vocalist along with DIO, Geoff Tate, Bruce Dickinson.
Finally someone says GEOFF TATE!! in the best singers list
Agree ! Totally... not usually near enough love for Rob Halford's solo stuff... which was good to FANTASTIC !
That is a kicka$$ song as well, Silent Screams.
A fabulous performance by not just Rob, but the band as a whole. They seem to be energized by the large crowd and seemingly playing relieved and happy.
Rob Halford is well known as being able to go very high. He doesn't really flex it much in this particular song, but there are plenty where he does. Do more songs off Screaming for Vengeance, it's a great album. Maybe the title track or Devil's Child. I would say go with the album versions though. If you really want to see him live, there's a version of Victim of Changes they do at like that same concert that's superb.
But yeah, do more Judas Priest. They are very under-represented in these kinds of videos. They're a cornerstone of Heavy Metal and with great innovated and influence, but they feel over looked to me these days.
Never heard Judas Priest and "Electric Eye" is the first song to react to ?... I APPROVE !
"Electric Eye" may not be everyone's first choice for best song... but the calibre of their music is so consistently high that "Electric Eye" is still a perfect song !... and perfectly indicative of their music... especially in the sweet spot of their career ! And the '83 US Festival was such an awesome performance !... You picked a great one here !
The metal gods. Victim of changes, diamonds to rust. PAINKILLER.
It's no secret. Rob Halford brought gay S&M culture to the look of heavy metal... and nobody seemed to notice!
I've seen priest live three times and after every concert my ears would be ringing for 3 days I've Stood Beside those Marshalls at a concert I was like 3 ft away and I'm pretty sure the speakers were real I could feel the air pressure change around me they were so loud❤
Screaming for Vengeance was a huge hit, I like that song.
This song predicts 20 years before the CONTROL that technology would have on the individuals. It's plain clear in the lyrics.And he was right...
Please please react to Dreamer Deciever from Judas Priest, youll hear an amazing Rob Halford sound!
Gotta celebrate Rob Halford's badassery during Pride. He is indeed the Metal God.
How does one have Pride in a mental disorder?
Nice choice - but you need to check out the official video for Painkiller from the early nineties 😲 then you'll hear Halford and Priest at their best
No. This is Priest at their peak.
I was at this gig 🤘
Check out Victim of Changes
from the same show.
The US Festival 83
The Electric Eye is a reference to the Surveillance State. And this song was written in the early 80s. They saw back then what the world was coming to.
MOST EPIC ENTRANCE OF ALL TIME
The song is about surveillance and the loss of privacy. Prophetic.
New to the channel but loving your metal reactions. Thougth I should suggest 'Judas Priest - Painkiller'. You asked about other suggestions of Judas Priest so that would be the best imo. Keep up the good work bro. \m/
Very well known for their screams. Awesome singer
Saw priest in March of this year and for Rob Halford being 70 he still has it!
I wish this guy would take this seriously, the song is pretty easy to interpret, It's about Big Brother before we were even aware of such a thing.
4:02 Yes, the Marshalls are real but only a couple of them per musician are actually hooked and mic'ed (here apparently the second and the 6th (starting from the left).
In this particular concert, the Marshall heads do not seem to be working, only the 4 speakers cabinets are live and probably connected to Marshall heads backstage.
All the other are there just for the look.
Glenn Tipton n KK Downing with Rob on vocals. Magic 🤘
I was at US FESTIVAL 83 in Devore ca..(San Bernardino) Badass Awsome concert Scorpions kicked ass Van Halen shredded "Eddie"..seeing this brought back some memories😎 unless you were there you wouldn't get it..
There all 3 days, I get it! I remember David Lee Roth was so drunk.
The message is what is awesome😉🫡👍
Yeah, this band that has ONLY been around for 50 YEARS.
Den - “Moments I Had” is a really great recent beatbox video of you want to dive into more of that.
Victims of changes , Blood red skies next please. Thank you Ken!
At this time the Marshalls would more than likely still be loaded with speakers. Early PAs at rock concerts were often only carrying the signal for vocals and the 100 watt Marshall’s purpose was to fill arenas and festivals with enough volume for the guitars to be heard.
Slayer in particular would eventually do away with full stacks and only have the lower cabs. As many as 6 lower cabs on each side of the stage. Kerry, Jeff, and later Gary would run multiple amp heads in these cabinets. Head 1 into cab 1 and 3 - Head 2 into cab 2 and 4 etc.
Tube amps, even duplicates of the same model can sound different enough that a guitar player might find it advantageous to blend multiple amps for a fuller sound.
In the studio this can actually be even more elaborate. To achieve a unique guitar tone that takes advantage of the differing voices of say a Peavey 5150 with a Marshall JCM 800 to highlight the best part of the heads in a way they compliment each other.
This blending can either done with both (or more) amps mic’ed up and played at once for a more rock sound. In a different technique more Modern styles of metal the rhythm guitars might be recorded several times through the same or different amps. The slight differences in playing on each take stacked on each other in the mix can make the guitars sound thicker which is the goal. James Hetfield famously would record four tracks on all rhythm parts for Metallica.
My absolute favorite band in the eighties LMAO I took my son to see them in 2015, STILL rockin it!
Yeah baby. 1982. I saw this tour in Toronto Canada. My ears rang for two weeks afterward. They are super loud and it was an indoor show. Rob Halfords pipes are completely clean. This is a little ditty about electronic surveillance.
Rob Halford, the singer called this his 'leather phase.' I'm sure you can figure the rest out. LOL
To my knowledge; having lots of amps actually had a purpose before better PA systems, which could handle full mixes, were a thing.
Once you could mic up any amp rig and pump it through the sound system, there was no need for all the amps to push the guitar sound to the back of the venue.
But the stage looks way cooler with a bunch of amps so there'd be all sorts of false cabs and such (like you mentioned) to help fill the estestic on stage.
It's rock n roll xD
Probably not the best first Judas Priest song to show Rob's vocals the man has a killer falsetto. The singer is one of the only out gay men in metal ( not that we care, just FYI), out in 1991) Do Painkiller, then you will get it!!!
I saw them in concert in the 80s and remember an interview where he said in the early career it was a don’t ask don’t tell type of attitude. He said he didn’t want to push his sexuality to the front of the bands success or failure. Let the metal and music be a unified theme.
Not a falsetto.
The least surprising coming out of all time...
Rob Halford: "So, I've got to tell all the fans... I'm gay."
The fans: "Yeah Rob... We know. We've always known.
It's cool. You rock."
70s Priest will always be my fave. I was 9 when the first album came out. I was introduced to JP by my brother. I was hooked
The speakers are totally real! Been there. Judas Priest wall of sound
You got my like from the very honest, "judas priest... dunno judas priest BUT HEYYY~"
Keep being you, Ken. 💕 👍
You need to listen to more judas preist. This is a very old version of this song. I've been a fan since about 1975..... and he can do so much more
Why not listed. Put the video on. Salute from Brazil.
Excellent choice, Sir Ken!
Great reaction thanks
Saw them in concert when I was in high school 😊
The wall of speaker cabinets was a 70's thing. Audio equipment was lacking so it was a wall of sound. By this time there was one, possibly two cabinets used. All you need to do is look where the mic is positioned to spot the real cabinet(s). Today, many put the actual cabinets behind the stage because of monitor improvements and everything other than the drums are fake. It really depends on the player these day and how loud they wish the stage to be. Drums are loud, so many don't put anything else on stage.
I'm quite surprised you haven't done any more Priest. The official Painkiller video vocals will likely blow you away, and any live video from the Fuel For Life tour will show you the band at the height of their musical, vocal, and performance levels. There's tons of other videos to check out, including Victim Of Changes from this same concert, and many others that have been mentioned in previous comments.
The 1983 US Festival at Glen Helen Park in San Bernardino, CA. It was May and it was hot. Really hot. It was the Heavy Metal day. There were about 300,000 of us that day. Did I mention that it was hot? Motley Crue, Quiet Riot, Triumph, Scorpions, Judas Priest (I’m sure I’m forgetting bands) and headlined by SoCal’s own Van Halen. Good times.
Oh this is the US festival! Heavy metal day, I was 17 at this show freaking awesome!
They have a great live performance on their channel of Breaking the Law. Vid is called Judas Priest - Breaking the Law (Live Vengeance '82)
This was at the '83 US Festival in Glen Helen Regional Park. I was there and Priest was pretty damn good. at the time it was biggest attended festival in history. It's been estimated that there were around 375,000 ppl there that day and I believe it. it was just an ocean of ppl as far as the eye could see. amazing festival in the brutal heat. lol
“Codpiece and Fledermaus” might be my favorite epithet you’ve ever used, LOL!
@Ken Lavigne - This was their warm-up song from that concert, you should watch the rest of it
Never pause a solo. You know that. LOL.
good to see you are learning
Rob Halford is known for his high notes and how he does it depends on the song, so many great tracks hard to find a bad song in their lineup. yes definitely need more priest!
Wow...I wore this album out playing it so much. It is my favorite Priest album...by far! And it is an awesome driving album; I played this over and over when I drove across country in the Fall of '82. You can play the whole album, but at least try: Devil's Child__Fever__Bloodstone__Pain and Pleasure__(Take These) Chains. ←Some will notice I suggested those many would never. First time I saw them Live was on my 21st B-Day at the US Festival '83 in San Berdoo...the very same concert you are watching in this video. Was a really good concert with really good bands.
When you can sing like that, you wear anything you want!
Talking about their costumes, it's about 70's and 80's gay aesthetic. Rob Halford is a recognized gay and introduced this aesthetic to the band as a result of his hobbies
Saw Priest and Maiden on the Screaming/Number tour. O.M.G. - one of the best double-bills ever. Also got to see Halford at The Whiskey in the early 90's. Metal God indeed.
Victim of Changes and Dremer deceiver/Deceiver are probably best songs for reaction
Victim of changes live from this same concert is amazing 100% need to check it out to here robs ability.
I prefer the "Live from the 'Fuel for Life' Tour" version of this song from the "Priest... Live!" concert video. That entire concert is killer. Check out videos from that film: "Out In the Cold," "Love Bites," "The Sentinel," "Electric Eye," "Turbo Lover," "Desert Plains," "The Green Manalishi" are great showcases of Rob's range. All these "Live from the 'Fuel for Life' Tour" videos are available on YT from the band's official channel.
Agreed ! But WOW was the 83' US Festival an unbelievable performance !
Priest is the greatest heavy metal band ever. And trust me if you had seen them in the day, you could not hear right for days
i would say check out their earlier work. i think you would really appreciate it
Fry scream happens when his voice is fried after touring too many cities. His scream is usually very clean and clear and really quite a bit higher. Maybe he's holding back to protect his voice because doing that every night is rough. Watch the video for Sinner.
Victim Of Changes, Sinner, Tyrant, Exciter, Screaming For Vengeance, Freewheel Burning, Desert Plains, Painkiller, Touch Of Evil, Halls Of Valhalla
its about the eye in the sky
Watch Priest fuel for life Dallas 1986. I guarantee you haven't seen or heard anything like it. Rob Halfords showmanship is not of this world. You're we 🤘
Most appropriate thumbnail ever Ken! Haha. 😅
Yes, Rob is gay, & yes, he created the leather & chains heavy metal aesthetic. I think most fans had no idea he was gay in 1982, when this song was released - certainly I didn't when I got to know the band as a young teen in the mid-80s. But those close to him knew, including his band mates, but they accepted him. When he came out publicly in 1998, my perception is that very few fans cared at all - certainly I didn't, because I loved him for his art, not for his sexual orientation, about which I'm indifferent.
"Electric Eye" is an excellent song, & this is an excellent performance, but, as many other commenters have pointed out, it is not one of the more impressive Judas Priest songs vocally. If you randomly drew Judas Priest song titles out of a hat, you'd get a more vocally challenging song about 95% of the time.
Numerous commenters are recommending "Painkiller". That's probably Rob's most extreme vocal performance, & it's certainly impressive. However, it's also alienating for the uninitiated & not very representative of the Judas Priest catalog or of Rob's influence on the genre. I'd recommend something earlier, like "Run of the Mill", "Dreamer Deceiver", "Victim of Changes", "Beyond the Realms of Death", "Rock Forever", "The Rage", "Desert Plains", "Fever", "Night Comes Down", "Out in the Cold", "Blood Red Skies". That's one song from every album before they split up when Rob came out, except for Sad Wings of Destiny because I couldn't choose between "Dreamer Deceiver" & "Victim of Changes".
BTW, the Marshalls are real - ask anyone who's seen them live.
There are countless songs where he produces those screams. This one is not very impressive. Check out Victim of Changes, Sinner, Devils Child or Desert Plains from Live Vengeance 82 in Memphis. There is honestly no one that sounds like Rob
And the crazy thing is that he can do those insane screams on their current tour at age 70. 🤯
If Judas Priest ever does a Christmas Album it will be called... "Screaming For Presents"
Screaming for vengeance live
Check out "Victim of Changes" from the same US festival in 1983.