{"id":716,"date":"2008-02-16T08:29:48","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T08:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/?post_type=qampa&#038;p=716"},"modified":"2024-09-06T09:40:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T09:40:42","slug":"february-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/february-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Craig Crofoot, Rochester, Minnesota:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My question has to do with the song &#8220;Death Row&#8221;.\u00a0Whose voice is it that we hear indicating the man&#8217;s death sentence is to be carried out?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hi Craig, happy new year! It Is Glenn&#8217;s voice.<br \/>\nRegards K.K.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chelsea, Honolulu Hawaii:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m only 17 years old, but I\u2019ve been a fan of Priest for as long as I can remember!\u00a0You guys are THE shit and watching you play live on TV has only pushed me further towards wanting to play guitar. Your guitar playing just blows me away&#8230;discourages me at moments, but why shouldn&#8217;t it? YOU KICK ASS!!\u00a0So anyways&#8230;I was basically wanting to ask, is there any POSSIBLE way you could come to Hawaii and show everyone here what REAL music sounds like? We just moved here and I think I\u2019ll die if someone good doesn&#8217;t play here, and who better then the Metal Gods? You guys kick ass and I hope you&#8217;ll come around! If not, oh well&#8230;..I\u2019ll catch you when i move back to England, I guess!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hi Chelsea. Yes it would be great for us to play Hawaii again, it\u2019s been a long time. After the last show I actually rented a House on the north shore for 6 months or so and got to visit all of the Islands and do the\u00a0 tourist thing. Whale watching, glass bottom boats, go inside volcanoes, the whole 9 yards. So I hope we can get it together one more time, if not we will be waiting for you in the UK.<br \/>\nRegards K.K.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jason McNaughton:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hi K.K. I am a 14 year old Maiden and Priest fan, and loving the work of Tipton and Downing. I would like to know how much a guitar lesson would cost from K.K. Downing, because I feel it would be a great honor to have a lesson from a man I look so highly upon, with him being one of my guitar inspirations to wanting to start a band in the first place.\u00a0\u2028\u2028Many thanks.<\/strong><br \/>\nHi Jason. I would be happy to give lessons but unfortunately I can\u2019t find the time at present but if things change I will let you know. I might however\u00a0be able to do something via Steel Mill at some time in the future so please stay tuned. Meantime I wish you well with your practice.<\/p>\n<p>Regards K.K.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emre from Istanbul:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I asked you a question before about releasing live albums of Painkiller era or 2004-2005 era. But you said you band members don\u2019t think this project now because of the massive NOSTRADAMUS album. Well, in the future do you guys plan to release any live albums covering the era with the Metal God Rob Halford? \u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And my last request is about the Nostradamus album. Would you guys like to add a DVD that includes &#8220;making of Nostradamus, photos, interviews etc&#8221; to a special edition version? Rehearsals, you guys at the studio singing and rocking!\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Thank you for your kind behaviour. You are the greatest guitarist in the world with Glenn!<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Rock Hard Ride Free!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hi Emre. All valid points, as I said before we will continue to research any material from those periods but just as importantly as you say we must be more vigilant from now on and try to document the bands history more comprehensively for the benefit of ourselves but more importantly the fans. Thank you for your comments and I hope to see you soon in Istanbul.<br \/>\nRegards K.K.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris, California:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hello K.K.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>I saw Priest on the SFV tour in Eugene OR and I was standing at the wall right in front of you&#8230; when you were walking off stage you turned around and came back on stage to shake my hand&#8230; thanks I&#8217;ll never forget that! K.K. I downloaded music sheets for three Defenders of the Faith songs on the Judas Priest home page.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>I&#8217;d love to see the music for \u201dJawbreaker\u201d and your ripping lead solo&#8230;Also you and Glenn tear it up on \u201dEat Me Alive\u201d&#8230; and your solo parts shred!!!!!!!! Please post the music tabs to those two songs and any others you can&#8230; the more the better&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>I do want to Thank You and Glenn for\u00a0pushing Rob Halford in the studio to get his 100% best vocals for Nostradamus. I\u00a0read an interview with Rob and he acknowledged you and Glenn saying that both of you really\u00a0made sure Rob delivered his best vocals possible on Nostradamus. I am a huge Rob Halford fan\u00a0and one thing I have noticed is that\u00a0Rob vocals in all of his solo gigs (Fight, Two and Halford) have never sounded as\u00a0good as Rob&#8217;s vocals in Judas Priest!!!! Rob\u2019s vocals in Judas Priest are so unique and original and one of\u00a0a kind! Songs like Turning Circles, Hot Rockin\u2019, Grinder, Hot For Love,\u00a0Love You To Death, Heavy Metal, You Say Yes, Burnin\u2019 Up&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>All of Rob&#8217;s Priest vocals\u00a0help make the songs masterpieces. I have no doubt that your and Glenn&#8217;s\u00a0inspiration and direction help Rob Halford sound as good as he does!!!!!!!!<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Whatever you and Glenn do&#8230;keep doing it and Thanks for all of Judas Priest&#8217;s Kick ASS Music!!!!! You are a very talented guitarist. Thanks for all the music you&#8217;ve created!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hi Chris. Yes I will try to get some more tabs up but it might have to wait until we have finished recording. I will ask the Mill Workers to keep reminding me. Thanks a lot for your kind words, Hell Yeah!!<br \/>\nRegards K.K.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ronen Elbaz, Israel:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hi K.K. My question is Do you think that Nostradamus tour will continue into 2009 and if it will until what month?\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nHi Ronen. Yes I do and possibly for the whole of that year too. We hope very much to cover the planet and I would certainly like us\u00a0to include Israel as I know we have many fans there. I think now promoters are happy to book metal bands, so fingers crossed we will see you with Nostradamus soon.<\/p>\n<p>Regards K.K.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hugh Morris, South Wales:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hello! I\u2019d firstly like to say I am a huge fan of Priest, my dad brought me up listening to you and you were my inspiration to play the guitar! \u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>I won&#8217;t keep you long as I\u2019m sure you have a lot of things to do but I was just wondering whether on the new Priest tour that is taking shape, is there any possibility of a gig in Cardiff or would they all be based in areas like Birmingham, London and Manchester? I was just wondering as I have never seen Priest and if you were playing Cardiff I would most definitely come to see you but travelling to these places in England is a little hard for many fans from this area. Thank you for your time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hi Hugh. I certainly hope we will be playing in Cardiff, I know we have many fans there and Wales has been very supportive of Priest for all of our careers so with luck we will see you later.<br \/>\nRegards K.K.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mick, Geraldton Western Australia:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hi K.K.! \u00a0\u2028My question for you is &#8220;Is Judas Priest going to tour Australia and if so will there be a gig in Perth, Western Australia?&#8221; You guys went there with Ripper a few years ago and I would love to see you there on your tour of Australia if you get down this way. My first taste of Priest was when I saw the video clip of Painkiller when I was 16, myself and my \u00a0\u2028mates were blown away and ever since then I have been a massive fan!! Keep up the great work and keep the metal coming. Judas Priest rules \u00a0\u2028forever!!!!!!!!!\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nHi Mick. Yes I believe the promoters are working on it as we speak. I can\u2019t say for sure that we will play Perth or not but at the same time I don&#8217;t see how the promoters could possibly miss it out, especially as you say we have been there before and the gig was great. Hope to see you soon.<\/p>\n<p>Regards K.K.<br \/>\n<strong>Bev:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We are beginning to see tour date releases ~ This is exciting!!!!\u00a0 Can you give us a hint when we might see an album release announcement?\u00a0 My best to you and the Millworkers!\u00a0\u2028\u2028Bev\u00a0\u2028\u2028PS &#8230; Letty turned 16, this Saturday past.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nHi Bev. Please say a big\u00a0Happy Birthday with lots of kisses to Letty for me.\u00a0As soon as I can I will let you know when the album is to be released. Please be patient with us for now, see you all soon.<br \/>\n<strong>Glenn, Syracuse, NY:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hello\u00a0K.K. and all at the Mill!<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>How are the Knucklebonz sculptures of you and Glenn coming along? Have you seen the finished product, and do you approve? Are they from the same era as the Rob Halford figure (80&#8217;s)? Also is a Nostradamus tour with material exclusively from that album played in its entirety still planned? And then a separate &#8220;classic&#8221; Priest tour still planned?\u00a0I can&#8217;t wait to see the Priest again LIVE!! Later<\/strong><br \/>\nHi Glenn. I have only seen Rob\u2019s statue in its finished state and it\u2019s pretty cool. I am still looking forward to getting mine. We will soon be on tour playing songs that many people have been waiting for and also we will be including some tasters from Nostradamus. If all goes well I think it would be pretty cool to do a tour later performing the whole concept album.<br \/>\nRegards K.K.<br \/>\n<strong>Chris, California:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hello K.K. I love Angel of Retribution! On the song Wheels of Fire your guitar riffs seem to be strongly influenced by Jimi Hendrix&#8230;Was that your intention?Wheels of Fire is a classic old school Priest rocker and it\u00a0sounds fantastic!Also what is your favourite Jimi Hendrix song? Thanks for answering my questions! Keep on rockin K.K&#8230; you rule!!!!!\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nHi Chris. No it wasn&#8217;t intentional for that song to be reminiscent of Jimi but if it is that cool with me. It is extremely hard for me to choose favourite Hendrix songs as I am a total fan although I would like to give Voodoo Chile a blast on stage someday.<br \/>\nRegards K.K.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lars Westerberg, Lule\u00e5 Sweden:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hello K.K.\u00a0\u2028\u2028Greetings from Sweden and a big Judas Priest fan! My older brother listened a lot on Priest when he was a teenager and me still a little kid (I&#8217;m 31 now). That introduced me to your fantastic music. Best wishes to you and the rest of the guys in the band. \u00a0\u2028\u2028Now some questions:\u00a0\u2028\u20281) How is it to write music nowadays after having made so much during the years? Is it more difficult to get the inspiration and creativity flowing? Has the new upcoming album been a certain challenge in terms of new ideas and creativity?\u00a0\u2028\u20282) What&#8217;s your methodology when composing new material &#8211; do you get together with Rob and Glenn and start from ground zero so to speak in terms of ideas, or do you have an &#8220;official&#8221; pre-writing period when all of you individually try to come up with new ideas before you meet initially to write material for a new record?\u00a0\u2028\u20283) In the superb Diamonds and Rust song, a part of the lyrics in the second verse goes like: &#8220;hearing the voice I&#8217;d known A couple of light years ago &#8230;&#8221;. Since &#8220;light year&#8221; is a measurement of distance, not time (it&#8217;s obviously referring to a long time ago), the verse phrase is a little bit strange (or is it perhaps English slang to say so?). In this case JP is not responsible behind the lyrics (as it&#8217;s a Joan Baez song). However, when composing lyrics, do you (or Rob perhaps since he&#8217;s writing them as I understand) put effort to not make them sound too silly or too overwhelmed?\u00a0\u2028\u20284) Going on tour like you&#8217;re about to do this year, must be (I reckon) a huge apparatus in terms of determining where to perform, stage setup, carry around all the equipment, set up and take down all equipment at the venues, travelling logistics etc. How many people are involved during the tour? Do you have two stage setups, so that while you&#8217;re playing at one venue, there are people working on putting up the stage for the next gig?\u00a0\u2028\u20285) I saw you on the Retribution tour in Oulu in Finland, February 2005 (have you by the way ever played so far north before?). It was an amazing show! I was really impressed by the attitude you guys had: you were in the northern Lapland at a rather small venue (max. capacity of approx. 5000 people), it was -25 degrees outside and it was Monday evening. Quite the opposite to a warm summer Saturday evening at an outside venue with 40 000 metal maniacs. Do you ever feel that a gig is &#8220;another day at the work&#8221;. I thought that the Oulu show could be like that. How wrong I was. You didn&#8217;t at all show that another-day-at-work feeling. You came on stage and totally kicked ass. You didn&#8217;t just play the songs; you did it with passion, energy and everything else metal is all about. \u00a0\u2028\u20286) How much do you rehearse before a tour? Do you determine the set list before the start of the rehearsals, or do you rehearse a number of songs and compose a set list out of those songs?\u00a0\u2028\u20287) As I understand (conclusions drawn from various interviews) you&#8217;re about to play whole of (and nothing but) the new album on the upcoming summer tour. Are you going to perform a new tour with JP classics after the Nostrodamus tour?\u00a0\u2028\u20288) Do you feel that in the present information society, people require to have new information as soon as possible? With internet you can present every single step taken forward in the progress of writing a new album. I get the impression that you (JP) go the other way: you reveal almost nothing about what&#8217;s happening. Other bands present almost every step that they make, put new songs onto the web etc. I can&#8217;t say that it&#8217;s wrong to be very secret, but it&#8217;s a contrast to the enormous possibility to present information. \u00a0\u2028\u2028Finally a pure guitar playing question:\u00a0\u2028\u20289) I play the guitar myself, and discovered early the huge difference in the difficulty level regarding to play solos and to play riffs. Do you have any tip on how to learn to play solos? It&#8217;s almost impossible (also very tedious) to learn a solo from tabs. I guess the best thing is to recognise the structure of the solo (what scale it is and so forth) and pick it out from there. This means that you have to master many scales. But then I wonder how guys like Glenn does it: he says in an interview that he never plays out from any scale. This means that you have to have a perfect pitch and a tremendous ability to play by ear. \u00a0\u2028\u2028With bests regards,\u00a0\u2028\u2028Lars Westerberg\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nHi Lars,<br \/>\n1. Actually I found coming up with ideas was easier on the album because it is different to our usual approach that being a concept album with lots cool content to tap into from the enigmatic Nostradamus.<br \/>\n2.The pre-writing approach is the one we always take ,then we get together and decide what is strong and not so strong.<br \/>\n3.We defiantly take a lot of pride in our lyrics, it is very important to us that our fans can totally understand and relate to them.<br \/>\n4.There have been occasions when we have had a need to duplicate everything in order to make gigs happen. It varies from tour to tour how many people we take on tour but I guess it usually between 20 and 30.<br \/>\n5.Actually we played the festival of the Midnight Sun somewhere in Lapland in the 70\u2019s.(Editor&#8217;s note: Oulu, Finland summer 1977,you can see pictures of this show in Steel Mill Judas Pix &#8211; section) with the climax blues band and a band called Caravan. It was really cool, and yes we take every gig just as seriously as the next. It is totally in our D.N.A.<br \/>\n6.We try not to over rehearse so as to keep things fresh,we usually decide on the bulk of the songs beforehand but if someone makes a suggestion we will give it a go.<br \/>\n7.For the moment we are planning to tour with classics but with some Nostradamus, then possibly tour again playing the entire Nostradamus spectacle.<br \/>\n8.Yes maybe a lot of bands think that doing it that way they get more exposure but I prefer to do it the old way because I remember the excitement that I had when rushing to the store to buy a record that I had been waiting so eagerly for and playing it for the first time. It was such a rush, by giving people updates nearly every day somehow takes the excitement away for me. Also just making the record takes us more hours in the day than we have.<br \/>\n9.Good subject this one. I prefer to know exactly what I am doing musically. To be proficient at soloing you do as you say have to master scales but also you have to be able to analyze the backing track to find out what scales you can include in your playing. Having said that I do like to play solos that don&#8217;t rely so heavily on scales but more on feel like Hendrix, Trower, Paul Kossoff etc. When I do this I am usually thinking no further than natural miner, the blues scale and pentatonic after all, those were the mainstay scales of guitarists of that period. Thanks a lot Lars you owe me a beer for that when you see me, don\u2019t forget!<br \/>\nRegards K.K.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Crofoot, Rochester, Minnesota: My question has to do with the song &#8220;Death Row&#8221;.\u00a0Whose voice is it that we hear indicating the man&#8217;s death sentence is to be carried out? Hi Craig, happy new year! It Is Glenn&#8217;s voice. Regards K.K. 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