Recently, Judas Priest has announced that they will tour as quartet on their 50th-anniversary tour. But this decision wasn’t so pleasant so the former band’s guitarist K.K. Downing slammed Priest for their decision.
During a chat with the “Rock Of Nations With Dave Kinchen” classic rock show, Downing commented:
“I’m like everybody else. I’m totally bemused. It was just so extreme and insulting in a way, I guess, and insulting to Glenn as well. It was kind of a slap in the face, saying, ‘Okay, you two guys did it, but we think just one guy could do what…’ It kind of made us and everything that we’ve done and created, saying it was all superfluous, really, and didn’t really have the value that… I’m sure Glenn will agree with me that it does have a value.”
“There must be, obviously, something behind the scenes that we don’t know. It’s kind of awkward for me, guys because, with myself and Glenn, that’s JP to me. I think I’ve got a license to say that, after spending a lifetime in the band. And the image and everything and all the shows and all the work and all the albums and everything, everything revolves around that. I mean, if you don’t see Glenn‘s red pants on stage, it’s not JP, right?
“Okay, I created an image with the flying V [guitar], long blond hair, leather and studs — I created that. It’s easy to use the wheel, but inventing it is a different story,”
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He did reti8re from the band, right?