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At his best he was totally untouchable - transcendent performances. At his worst - dire.
And in a way, that was part of the allure. Would it be great, or awful? He was never boringly ‘professional’ - there was a spark and spontaneity about him that was worth seeing. He was also often exceptionally funny.
I met him on four occasions. These meetings pretty much mirrored the gigs - on three he was charm personified - on one utterly obnoxious. There was a particular tuning I knew he used but hadn’t been able to figure out. I asked him after a gig what it was? He happily wrote it out on a CD cover, which he also signed.
A complex (and clearly very flawed) man who had an astonishing talent.....
Absolutely atrocious, he just walked on stage, plugged in to an amp, turned up to deafening, counted in the band he'd never met before or even looked at and launched into an out of tune cacophony of distortion for an hour and a half.
Probably one of his better latter day gigs!
What year @Philly_Q out of interest? I saw them in 1983 at Hammersmith and it was the loudest gig I've ever been to. Quiet Riot were support.
Pretty sure it was 2005 - with Scorpions as the support band, which was one of the main reasons I went.
I think that's the only time I've seen Judas Priest (apart from Monsters of Rock in 1980, also featuring the Scorpions!).
Worst was probably Robert Fripp on a G3 tour at The Apollo Manchester. He was off-stage behind a curtain making noise. I had no idea when one ended & the other began. I warned a mate who was seeing him a few days later, but he said it was 15 minutes of his life he'd never get back before he left for the bar!
They are a killer live band. Most bands made up of guys in their 60s and 70s, you go to see them out of nostalgia, but the Scorpions are actually still great! All down to very non-rock'n'roll stuff like staying healthy and simply being professional.
Which isn't to say Judas Priest aren't great live as well, they are... they were just too loud.
"Worst was probably Robert Fripp on a G3 tour at The Apollo Manchester. He was off-stage behind a curtain making noise. I had no idea when one ended & the other began. I warned a mate who was seeing him a few days later, but he said it was 15 minutes of his life he'd never get back before he left for the bar!"
Saw him on that tour as well at Bournemouth CIA. Joe did a blinding set and then after a while this film score music came over the PA ( or so we thought ). After about 10 minutes somebody in the audience shouted " we can't fucking see you! " and we realised it was RF. He'd just wandered on to the back of the stage, sat on a chair and started playing. All you could see was the headstock of his guitar poking out from whatever he was sat behind. Weird and turgid at the same time and a total mismatch on a tour that's supposed to be a celebration of guitar.
Steve Howe at a trade show, more than once. Shadow of his former self.