In a new interview with “Rock Of Nations With Dave Kinchen,” Ex-JUDAS PRIEST guitarist K.K. Downing discussed his relationship with his band members.
When asked whether some of his comments in the media have created the perception among PRIEST fans that he is complaining incessantly about his ex-colleagues, Downing said:
“Everyone can make mistakes. We’re not always exactly right. But I can only say what my understanding is at the time that I’m actually conducting an interview and what I actually believe. And that’s the information I want to get over from me to the world. Because I’m really proud and I really treasure everything that I’ve done in my life and everything that I’ve built up and my relationship with the fans in the world. And I wouldn’t want to destroy that — I’d be stupid, and it would be hurtful if I thought that I’d done that.
He continued:
“I’m a fan of Blabbermouth. We get an awful lot of information that we would never, ever, ever get. So I’m grateful to those guys, but, obviously, their kind of technique or the way that they do things to grab attention sometimes puts the fans on the wrong footing to start with whereby some of the fans don’t actually read the interview and the context that something was said in.
“Even I have taken umbrage to some of the things that the band said in the early days that were hurtful. After I left the band, I was reading things like, ‘None of the fans are missing K.K.‘ [and] ‘Richie has brought new energy to the band.’ That’s a slap at me, really, as though I was kind of slacking if you wanna read it that way. And so even I took umbrage in the beginning, but now you have to go back and read the interviews in the way that it was said and decide then whether you wanna forgive that person for saying what they did. Ian [Hill, bass] actually said, ‘None of the fans are missing K.K.‘ Well, Ian, you could have said, ‘Not all of the fans are missing K.K.‘”
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KK, you are a pure gentleman!