As a kid, the Tipton/Halford/Downing trio came across as the Lennon & McCartney of metal - a three-headed machine that created with one mind some of the greatest music I'd heard.
As an adult you learn that Lennon & McCartney in fact operated as individuals, had their differences, and were not, in fact, a singular musical entity.
Likewise, we've learned to appreciate, from Rob leaving through KK's book, that the men behind "Priest, the brand", are not some magical three-headed metal hydra.
Musically, Glenn's the alpha, and KK the ultimately-resentful beta.
And, tired of playing second flying-v fiddle to Glenn, KK took his ball and flounced home.
Only to come running back when Glenn developed a degenerative condition, ready to "save the day" when..... bit awkward this.... Glenn was (and remains, however ceremonially) still in the band.
Understandable on some level, but also pretty naive given his "setting the record straight" book, and possibly even a little distasteful.
If you're of the opinion that Priest themselves have lacked "great management", then it logically follows that KK's not used to having people around him telling him things he might not want to hear. Clearly even less so, now he's on his own.
Will he come back at some point?
Maybe.
Is he a big enough draw that it would push them from being a touring theater act at this point into arenas?
I doubt it, which makes his return a little less likely.
But then again, they're at a point where any kind of marketing that makes it "not just another Priest tour, but (say) a big anniversary tour!" is possible.
Maybe he'll be back, more likely he won't, but the soap opera of endless interviews naively restating his case for why he, Kenneth Kenneth "KK" Downing, should be back in Judas Priest alongside a man he clearly dislikes who (do we need to restate this?) had a degenerative condition has been if nothing else, pretty amusing for a while now.
>>16 Animals have a soul. After an animal etc dies the cells live up to 15 days or more, anerobically. Obviously something was controlling and organizing the animal before then.
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Anonymous2024-08-23 11:27
Fine day.
The fucking qafirs are right I mean, unbelievers
It's like they know everything of you Well You don't even look like you enjoy football.
Pop your eyes off.
I am the material body, aren't I.
But eh,
Here it is, talking things that Is not even the line itself.
Fine confession
You should Live up to it.
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Anonymous2024-08-23 11:55
It's like Aldrich
So fucking shallow Not even a face.
You should make your own experience
But boy I think you like it.
You could make something better But there's nothing better
And really, it's not beyond me And in all the iteration Timeline whatever
Just like evil, You lost Because you are the same Also, not that much. Or if slightly more, Guess it's just, Wrong.
All these listening Guess it didn't even Last a second.
And your thought Like everyone "Fuck you all. Time to, salvate you"
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So aching2024-08-23 12:02
Don't mind believe
Just do your fucking job But I guess you are just a fucking vegetarian
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So aching2024-08-23 12:02
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So aching2024-08-23 12:02
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So aching2024-08-23 12:03
Yeah Just some random driving pains
What is jail for
So you can save Useless candies
That don't even Actually gone to you
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So aching2024-08-23 12:04
Artupida is a fucking faggot
Or, a lookalike
Muslims In tees.
It's night
And god sleeps
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So aching2024-08-23 12:06
2024. That's all to note.
Your dad is in the police anyway
And he cry When I can't entertain you "The faggot" it says.
Take it easy now Can't divorce thrice. Can't divorce Divorced.
Or if winner Why are you so, fucking Priceless.
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So aching2024-08-23 12:06
Prizeprize
Wake me at 0000 I bet you ll bring dad Instead of the fish
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So aching2024-08-23 12:07
Since I am deaf You won't even get the last word right?
me. And then myself and Al started to write songs like “Never Satisfied,” “Caviar And Meths,” “Winter,” “Whiskey Women,” which would become “Victim Of Changes.” We went out and we did a lot of shows together as that four-piece. Then Al Atkins left with our drummer, Chris Campbell; they both left on the same day. Then, we recruited Rob Halford, and his drummer from his band, John Hinch, and we became Judas Priest version two.
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Anonymous2024-08-24 4:26
K.K. Al Atkins was in a very good Blues band, and Al had a good name as a singer in the area. His bass player, Bruno Stapleton, was a great bass player. They were real musicians; a little bit older than myself and Ian. I saw the group’s van driving across the housing estate, and it had “Judas Priest” spray painted, and I’m going, “I wanna be in that band! Whoever it is, I don’t care!” It’s such a cool name. So, maybe I was stalking them; I don’t know.
But then, I got wind of an audition, because unfortunately, the guitar player in the band [John Perry], I believe it was suicide; he was just eighteen, which was very, very tragic. I didn’t know all of that at the time, I just found out that the guys were looking for a guitar player. But they were kind of asking me to do some twelve-bar stuff. You know, Blues stuff, because the name of the band at the time was The Jug Blues Band.
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Anonymous2024-08-24 4:29
K.K.: Well, I went ‘round to his mom and dad’s house, where he lived, and met up with him. He did a little bit of singing then; he might deny that but he did; singing along to the radio, and stuff like that. I’m thinking, “Hmm. This guy’s hair is far too short for my liking,” because Rob cropped his hair very short.
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