Judas Priest!

This isn't the brightest part of my life, but here goes:

At some point, I don't have a clue when it was, I was invited by a friend to go with her to a concert with, you guessed it, Judas Priest.

It was a pretty nice evening, spoiled by only one dreadful event that made me regret ever going to Stockholm that day.

That event was the concert itself. It was...bad...

Not only were the old legends tired and addled by enough drugs and alcohol to at least make an irishman slightly tipsy, the playlist was a disaster.

First of all, the second song they played was "Electric Eye", so right there vanished the only real reason for attending at all. Good job! ...assholes...

Second, rather than going with a stripped down hardrock sound that they did back in the day, they decided to fill the whole thing with a whole lot of jerking off their guitars! They are instruments, not penises for christs sake!

Third, Rob Halford should have quit years ago, his voice was nothing like it used to be! They did "Painkiller" and "Riding On The Wind", and all Halford did was stand half-bent trying to screech his was up to the higher notes, without much success, making it absolutely impossible to recognize a single word of what he was, supposedly, singing.

Somewhere near the end they finally did "Living After Midnight", after which me and my pal promptly left.

That concert was simply not good, and it completely killed any interest I had in the band right there.

Next time we'll be listening to one of my big rants again, the next subject will be an earlier concert with Europe. Find out if it sucked or rocked!