I could never hate on Halford's voice at any age. Considering how hard it is to have that sort of range, I'm grateful he can still sing at all, and he can quite well. Redeemer of souls met all my expectations.
It gets better, imagine the ones who wrote the music, and played it to all of the millions of fans over the years. Imagine being these guys, fucking insane their life’s have been amazing.
Was at the Oct show in Toronto at the Gardens back in '90....such a godforsaken long time ago (33 years !). Testament were pretty good. Megadeth were great. Rob was awesome. Here his vocals seem a bit off..especially the almost spoken soft part part at the end, "..all at ounchhh...".
So amazing.... no fixes , no auto tune, not even any reverb. Just pure power and energi. I go back to this clip again and again i love the rawness. The audio is not great but it so real. This might just be the most metal moment in history!
People say Halford cant sing high notes now but he can.He chooses not to most of the time because it takes his voice longer to recover now with his age.When he was younger his voice recovered quickly after screaming.He is still the best metal singer in history - period.
Exactly, I can’t stand the judgement from people; no one will ever be able to sing like him, opera and death metal possibilities in that range; each octave is so powerful too.
@@LoganFK Have u heard Ralf Sheepers from Primal Fear? He is jaw dropping amazing like Rob was back in the day. Priest almost hired him when Rob left Priest. They hired Ripper instead and i think that was a huge mistake for Priest. No diss to Ripper cuz hes great but not good as Ralf..Ralf can sing better than Rob right now only cuz he is much younger. Rob was better than Ralf back in the day of coarse. No one can match Rob in his prime to this day. Ralf has a very wide vocal range like Rob in his prime. Rob is old now and still awesome and will always be The Metal God in my book but Ralf deserves to be handed the "torch" for best metal singer of today. Geoff Tate from Queensryche fame should be considered an elite vocalist also. David Draiman of Disturbed is on my elite list also. Also u cant forget ol Ronnie Dio. God rest his soul. He was great as great could be.
It's always an interesting, if sobering topic talking about a singer's peaks and troughs, especially if they have graced our eyes and ears for so long. Rob Halford holds a special place in my heart as a singer due to his wonderful legacy and how unique his freakishly exciting voice is. I say "is" due to how he seems to have come to grips with what his talents offer him again in the 2014 tour, and they seem to be a more energized and happy outfit once more. No Painkiller, no Sentinel, no Freewheel Burning, no Blood Red Skies to hamper him outside of the nostalgic (Montreal 2001 for the latter was spectacular however). I'm not surprised he seems more relaxed without those dark clouds on his laryngeal horizon. In my opinion, as a true fan of his work, the area of his voice that has tended to suffer the most at the end of tours or after major changes in musical direction was around his passagio roundabouts A4 (A above middle C) to D5 (D above tenor high C). Even when you look to very different voices such as Maria Callas, who sang dramatic, heavy Wagnerian soprano roles as a supple voiced youngster, to then transition to lighter bel canto roles as she grew older, roles which demand height, precision and all sorts of coloratura jiggery pokery, for longevity's sake it should be the other way around, similar transitional and tonal problems arise. Therein lies the dichotomy between "can" and "should" and more importantly "when". Halford to me is the definitive example of a metal rock singer who's tenor effectively takes him into soprano territory, mixed with a lot of cleverness, talent, and stretching to human extremes. Going back to major stylistic changes, it does sound to me like many things happened between Ram It Down and Painkiller, emotionally as well as physically. That court case must have made him question a hell of a lot of things perhaps including himself to a certain extent. As a singer myself I had a lover steal money from me, and I just couldn't sing like I wanted to, nothing was there. The stress Rob was under must have been exhausting. We saw a similar difference when Rob came back for Angel of Retribution, this time the contrast between him and what he was in the 78 to 88 epoch were hard to overlook (as glad as I was to see him back). Still capable of wonderful and emotional delivery, that acoustic version of Diamonds and Rust in Japan seemed to be the kind of material his voice could handle gorgeously, it goes up to the B under tenor C near the end I think. Yet that operatic, drawn out THING he used to do with seemingly no effort, - that sound you didn't quite know whether it was a reinforced falsetto, a man shouting at the top of his lungs, or the dancing lovechild of both, peppered with that clean consistent vibrato, was almost gone. I'm quite happy that the rest of the band seem to agree with him post-Redeemer that (in his words, as I red in an article a few years ago) there are just some songs that he "couldn't sing anymore". He had already been singing those monsters from DOTF and Painkiller using a higher, screechier area but bringing that down to a key where that tone had less body. Freewheel Burning in 2009 is a good example - I wanted to applaud him for wanting to deliver such a fast, multi- textural beast of a song in the same key, but also wanted to remind him of his words that I read in the same article: they would have to "find another way" to do it, regarding as much as he would love to sing "Run of the Mill" again. I wouldn't have minded. It's a testament to how much the man cares about his fan-base. I'm happy to see Devil's Child making a great comeback using a lot of his screechier, slightly less connected high and he doesn't seem to mind that the falsetto carries through now and again. Better late than never, but the Metal God is really an example of singing smart as well as hard (providing he gives Painkiller a rest, or puts the creature to bed ;P ) and while he doesn't have the hubris of his younger years, and he generally sounds different, he is after all in his 60s. Naysayers can never say that he still doesn't have all the talent. Scream on RJAH x
My pleasure! Alas Painkiller has reared its skyscraping head once more, but otherwise I'm dead happy that Priest are well and truly back. Considering how his voice is though... do yo think that his screechier area would lend itself quite well to black metal?
+Michael Gadsby As a "vocalist nerd" myself I really like your comments, and I largely feel the same way as you do. However, one should not beat around the bush: Halford's weakness is/was his under-developed chest voice (for a lack of a better word). Notes I can sing with relative ease was something Halford struggled to sing, and when his chest voice started wince once he got into higher notes he chose (?) a really difficult vocal technique. Sure, he might have had a very low natural voice and therefore a very low passagio, which renders my whole assessment irrelevant, but if he really has such long vocal cords I highly doubt that he ever could sing the high notes that he did. I consider myself a competent metal vocalist (and I know that many would agree), and being able to mix one's voice that well that low is a god-given gift, and where most of us would struggle with our passagio Halford could shriek like a majestic gryphon. So, why would he train to expand his chest? The krux is, however, that it probably did not make it much less demanding (physiologically). Halford's singing style required almost draconic flexibility and technique, and it showed during live performances. He has since the late 70s been shaky with the pitch, and I think it's because he sang extremely difficult stuff in the studio which was hard to perform live. Also, it's not like he sang with "vocal preservation" as the number one priority in mind (Halford himself is the source of this information), and I can attest to that such approach will hamper your flexibility and pitch control even further (and it will do so really quickly). But! When Halford managed to pull off (and sometimes even supercede) stuff live he was utterly untouchable - he was, by all rights, a metal god! My point is: he never really had a nice starting-point for longevity as he "chose" to take the most demanding route to compensate for his weakness, but with that being said, I'm glad that he did because it gave us some truly breathtaking display of what a vocal virtuoso could do. Also, his performances nowadays are amazing when you consider all of this.
Juan Rafael Santos Its just a shit recording, i recorded Some Guns n' Rose live, i was there so i know how good it sounded at the time but the recording i did sounded like it was a tribute band.
Glen looked me in the eye .. Defenders .. Spokane WA,,, a very vile event.. so loud it hurt.. yes so loud pain was a concern.. it really hurt .. physically.. my children.
True joshuanaconda, people don't think they would see live what I saw with Priest, in their late 50's and seeing KISS in gene and Pauls early 60's, I saw Paul turn around to his left doing a high karate kick with his left leg landing straight forward as the sky of lights above them exploded with bombs, then he ran forward did a perfect sumersault, and landed on his knees doing physical guitar tricks at 61 years old, that is proof age don't stop the show.
The camera crew are just there recording whatever bands come by to put on the arena screen. So it's unlikely they know much about the band. Unless it's an officially organized show, like the Fuel For Life concert, where it's all properly directed. This is just a bootleg, where somebody working backstage popped in a VHS and recorded the live feed.
@cormermusic I know mate, I'm a producer/musician, I understand the process of recording a vocal line, thought I must say, there is the rare ocasion when a singer manages to track the song in 1 take, 1 in 200 times I would say. Singing live, and singing this type of music is a very hard job for any singer, but I still believe that he has live performances when he was just as good, if not better than the original. I also don't know any other singer that can hit a G#5 being 60 years old.
There is a song by a band called Riot. It is called flight of the warrior, and it has only 1 dislike. for the longest time it had about 400 likes and 0 dislikes.
@cormermusic I agree with eveything you have said but you did say and I quote you "Halford was never able to sing perfect live though" which I don't agree with. Both stated performances are beyond perfection. Listen to the entire resurrection world tour man.. honestly, beyond perfection.
@Derekizak - thanks for that - you're right on this one - I think I had a few pages up when I posted the comment, an posted on the wrong one - still - doesn't stop Priest being my No1 all-time HM band ;-)
Most won't realise - and I'm a true Halford fan - but listen carefully and hear the vocal tuning equipment of the day kicking in loads of times during the track - I grew up with Priest listening painstakingly to evry vocal (you could say OCD like) - I know what I can hear - can you? Still - you can't perform with such power and accuracy night after night, over the years without a wee bit of help - Hail Halfod
Along deserted avenues Steam begins to rise The figures primed and ready Prepared for quick surprise He's watching for a sign His life is on the line Sworn to avenge Condemn to hell Tempt not the blade All fear the Sentinel Dogs whine in the alleys Smoke is on the wind From deep inside its empty shell A cathedral bell begins Ringing out its toll A storm begins to grow Sworn to avenge Condemn to hell Tempt not the blade All fear the Sentinel Amidst the upturned burned-out cars The challengers await And in their fists clutch iron bars With which to seal his fate Across his chest in scabbards rest The rows of throwing knives Whose razor points in challenged tests Have finished many lives Now facing one another The stand-off eats at time Then all at once a silence falls As the bell ceases its chime Upon this sign the challengers With shrieks and cries rush forth The knives fly out like bullets Upon their deadly course Screams of pain and agony Rent the silent air Amidst the dying bodies Blood runs everywhere The figure stands expressionless Impassive and alone Unmoved by this victory And the seeds of death he's sown Sworn to avenge Condemn to hell Tempt not the blade All fear the Sentinel Sworn to avenge Condemn to hell Tempt not the blade All fear the Sentinel Sworn to avenge Condemn to hell Tempt not the blade All fear the Sentinel Sworn to avenge Condemn to hell Tempt not the blade All fear the Sentinel Along deserted avenues Steam begins to rise The figures primed and ready Prepared for quick surprise He's watching for a sign His life is on the line Sworn to avenge Condemn to hell Tempt not the blade All fear the Sentinel Dogs whine in the alleys Smoke is on the wind From deep inside its empty shell A cathedral bell begins Ringing out its toll A storm begins to grow Sworn to avenge Condemn to hell Tempt not the blade All fear the Sentinel Amidst the upturned burned-out cars The challengers await And in their fists clutch iron bars With which to seal his fate Across his chest in scabbards rest The rows of throwing knives Whose razor points in challenged tests Have finished many lives Now facing one another The stand-off eats at time Then all at once a silence falls As the bell ceases its chime Upon this sign the challengers With shrieks and cries rush forth The knives fly out like bullets Upon their deadly course Screams of pain and agony Rent the silent air Amidst the dying bodies Blood runs everywhere The figure stands expressionless Impassive and alone Unmoved by this victory And the seeds of death he's sown Sworn to avenge Condemn to hell Tempt not the blade All fear the Sentinel Sworn to avenge Condemn to hell Tempt not the blade All fear the Sentinel Sworn to avenge Condemn to hell Tempt not the blade All fear the Sentinel Sworn to avenge Condemn to hell Tempt not the blade All fear the Sentinel
@cormermusic Well, some bands, specially the youngest ones, are even better live. But I agree with what you said. Reaching high notes is very hard. In the 70s he could do it perfectly (or almost) but now...
@kanaric It was, probably, when he started realizing that his "live" voice was going away. The worse he sings live, the more static he becomes. Unfortunately, I might add.
Great tour. Good song selection. Halford definitely a mixed bag though. At times just ferocious and unbelievably good, and at times just strange and sort of gay. I still love him here though. His highs were certainly spot on.
yeah i totally agree with you dude, but its not that, its the way it was recorded that you just cant hear much bass, i mean bass from robs voice and the guitars and the drums and the surroundings. you just cant hear it and thats a shame, cus it sounds pretty trebley
i was in the nose bleed section,in hamilton ontario for defenders,we missed the first act because we had to get tickets from a scalper,i was pissed because it cost me $15,i laugh now but back then that was a ton of cash. Ive seen the mighty priest 4 times at least,they rule live !!!!! every singer does loose his vocal power after a while,especially when pushing and its just natural,Bruce Dickinson is bad for not singing the high parts of many songs because his voice is hurting,
@cormermusic Right, why don't you watch The Sentinel live in 1986 and come back here and post that shit again. Or listen to him singing Jawbreaker in 2001 in Santiago de Chile, just here on your right .. and write that again.
lukewarm response DOTF, ... the sentinel didn't get one... bet KK and Glenn are so high on coke they're praying to stay in sync... saw them several times they are AWESOME, thank you forever 80's......damn! Tipton had an itchy nose bothering him...ha ha ha...
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I could never hate on Halford's voice at any age. Considering how hard it is to have that sort of range, I'm grateful he can still sing at all, and he can quite well. Redeemer of souls met all my expectations.
JelloFluoride in 2014 he is really sad
@@MODElAIRPLANE100 but in 2019 he's sounding good
@@MODElAIRPLANE100 In 22' he sounded great! He really worked hard to get ready for the 50 years tour and it paid off.
I was at this show. Priest & Megadeth. It was as good as it gets.
It gets better, imagine the ones who wrote the music, and played it to all of the millions of fans over the years. Imagine being these guys, fucking insane their life’s have been amazing.
They paired Priest with Megadeth?? Kind of weird
Was Also At This Show A Fucking Great Bill Priest With Megadeth And Testament
Was at the Oct show in Toronto at the Gardens back in '90....such a godforsaken long time ago (33 years !). Testament were pretty good. Megadeth were great. Rob was awesome. Here his vocals seem a bit off..especially the almost spoken soft part part at the end, "..all at ounchhh...".
Halford was a beast here. Probably his best performance
So amazing.... no fixes , no auto tune, not even any reverb. Just pure power and energi.
I go back to this clip again and again i love the rawness. The audio is not great but it so real.
This might just be the most metal moment in history!
Back again… might just be the best thing on the internet!
You know, at Rob's absolute worst, I could not lick the snot off his boots. Absolutely amazing.
Halford is probably the only frontman who doesnt even need a mic :D:D METAL GOD
People say Halford cant sing high notes now but he can.He chooses not to most of the time because it takes his voice longer to recover now with his age.When he was younger his voice recovered quickly after screaming.He is still the best metal singer in history - period.
Thank you.
rock dog 2019 performances of this song he hits them like crazy
Exactly, I can’t stand the judgement from people; no one will ever be able to sing like him, opera and death metal possibilities in that range; each octave is so powerful too.
@@LoganFK Have u heard Ralf Sheepers from Primal Fear? He is jaw dropping amazing like Rob was back in the day. Priest almost hired him when Rob left Priest. They hired Ripper instead and i think that was a huge mistake for Priest. No diss to Ripper cuz hes great but not good as Ralf..Ralf can sing better than Rob right now only cuz he is much younger. Rob was better than Ralf back in the day of coarse. No one can match Rob in his prime to this day. Ralf has a very wide vocal range like Rob in his prime. Rob is old now and still awesome and will always be The Metal God in my book but Ralf deserves to be handed the "torch" for best metal singer of today. Geoff Tate from Queensryche fame should be considered an elite vocalist also. David Draiman of Disturbed is on my elite list also. Also u cant forget ol Ronnie Dio. God rest his soul. He was great as great could be.
The best song with the best singer!!!! HALFORD AMAZING!!!
It's always an interesting, if sobering topic talking about a singer's peaks and troughs, especially if they have graced our eyes and ears for so long. Rob Halford holds a special place in my heart as a singer due to his wonderful legacy and how unique his freakishly exciting voice is. I say "is" due to how he seems to have come to grips with what his talents offer him again in the 2014 tour, and they seem to be a more energized and happy outfit once more. No Painkiller, no Sentinel, no Freewheel Burning, no Blood Red Skies to hamper him outside of the nostalgic (Montreal 2001 for the latter was spectacular however). I'm not surprised he seems more relaxed without those dark clouds on his laryngeal horizon.
In my opinion, as a true fan of his work, the area of his voice that has tended to suffer the most at the end of tours or after major changes in musical direction was around his passagio roundabouts A4 (A above middle C) to D5 (D above tenor high C).
Even when you look to very different voices such as Maria Callas, who sang dramatic, heavy Wagnerian soprano roles as a supple voiced youngster, to then transition to lighter bel canto roles as she grew older, roles which demand height, precision and all sorts of coloratura jiggery pokery, for longevity's sake it should be the other way around, similar transitional and tonal problems arise. Therein lies the dichotomy between "can" and "should" and more importantly "when".
Halford to me is the definitive example of a metal rock singer who's tenor effectively takes him into soprano territory, mixed with a lot of cleverness, talent, and stretching to human extremes. Going back to major stylistic changes, it does sound to me like many things happened between Ram It Down and Painkiller, emotionally as well as physically. That court case must have made him question a hell of a lot of things perhaps including himself to a certain extent. As a singer myself I had a lover steal money from me, and I just couldn't sing like I wanted to, nothing was there. The stress Rob was under must have been exhausting.
We saw a similar difference when Rob came back for Angel of Retribution, this time the contrast between him and what he was in the 78 to 88 epoch were hard to overlook (as glad as I was to see him back). Still capable of wonderful and emotional delivery, that acoustic version of Diamonds and Rust in Japan seemed to be the kind of material his voice could handle gorgeously, it goes up to the B under tenor C near the end I think. Yet that operatic, drawn out THING he used to do with seemingly no effort, - that sound you didn't quite know whether it was a reinforced falsetto, a man shouting at the top of his lungs, or the dancing lovechild of both, peppered with that clean consistent vibrato, was almost gone.
I'm quite happy that the rest of the band seem to agree with him post-Redeemer that (in his words, as I red in an article a few years ago) there are just some songs that he "couldn't sing anymore". He had already been singing those monsters from DOTF and Painkiller using a higher, screechier area but bringing that down to a key where that tone had less body. Freewheel Burning in 2009 is a good example - I wanted to applaud him for wanting to deliver such a fast, multi- textural beast of a song in the same key, but also wanted to remind him of his words that I read in the same article: they would have to "find another way" to do it, regarding as much as he would love to sing "Run of the Mill" again. I wouldn't have minded. It's a testament to how much the man cares about his fan-base.
I'm happy to see Devil's Child making a great comeback using a lot of his screechier, slightly less connected high and he doesn't seem to mind that the falsetto carries through now and again. Better late than never, but the Metal God is really an example of singing smart as well as hard (providing he gives Painkiller a rest, or puts the creature to bed ;P ) and while he doesn't have the hubris of his younger years, and he generally sounds different, he is after all in his 60s. Naysayers can never say that he still doesn't have all the talent.
Scream on RJAH x
Michael Gadsby Incredible analysis, man, awesome indeed. As a huge fan of Rob myself, I can only say thanks for this.
My pleasure! Alas Painkiller has reared its skyscraping head once more, but otherwise I'm dead happy that Priest are well and truly back.
Considering how his voice is though... do yo think that his screechier area would lend itself quite well to black metal?
+Michael Gadsby As a "vocalist nerd" myself I really like your comments, and I largely feel the same way as you do. However, one should not beat around the bush: Halford's weakness is/was his under-developed chest voice (for a lack of a better word). Notes I can sing with relative ease was something Halford struggled to sing, and when his chest voice started wince once he got into higher notes he chose (?) a really difficult vocal technique. Sure, he might have had a very low natural voice and therefore a very low passagio, which renders my whole assessment irrelevant, but if he really has such long vocal cords I highly doubt that he ever could sing the high notes that he did.
I consider myself a competent metal vocalist (and I know that many would agree), and being able to mix one's voice that well that low is a god-given gift, and where most of us would struggle with our passagio Halford could shriek like a majestic gryphon. So, why would he train to expand his chest?
The krux is, however, that it probably did not make it much less demanding (physiologically). Halford's singing style required almost draconic flexibility and technique, and it showed during live performances. He has since the late 70s been shaky with the pitch, and I think it's because he sang extremely difficult stuff in the studio which was hard to perform live. Also, it's not like he sang with "vocal preservation" as the number one priority in mind (Halford himself is the source of this information), and I can attest to that such approach will hamper your flexibility and pitch control even further (and it will do so really quickly). But! When Halford managed to pull off (and sometimes even supercede) stuff live he was utterly untouchable - he was, by all rights, a metal god!
My point is: he never really had a nice starting-point for longevity as he "chose" to take the most demanding route to compensate for his weakness, but with that being said, I'm glad that he did because it gave us some truly breathtaking display of what a vocal virtuoso could do. Also, his performances nowadays are amazing when you consider all of this.
i see you on a video of blood red skies.you're everywhere
+Michael Gadsby Very well thought out comment. I agree.
holly shit Rob´s voice
Juan Rafael Santos
Its just a shit recording, i recorded Some Guns n' Rose live, i was there so i know how good it sounded at the time but the recording i did sounded like it was a tribute band.
Front row for the Defenders tourGreat Whote opened. Tipton has such a delicate touch. Truly THE man.
what a voice dam!!!!!!!
I love this performance.
My favorite guitarist Glen Tipton played live in my small home town area!
+Wlliam Hunter you are so fukcing lucky man!!!!
He a friggin legend!
Glen looked me in the eye .. Defenders .. Spokane WA,,, a very vile event.. so loud it hurt.. yes so loud pain was a concern.. it really hurt .. physically.. my children.
What a fuckin awesome tune. Dark and violent lyrics.... nice.
that man..... he gives it all, every performance. everyone of them do. and as a unit, they were not surpassed.
BEST PRIEST SONG PERIOD
Goosebumps every time
I love how heavy he sings on this tour.
Epic intro. So good.
One of the greatest all time Judas Priest songs next to Freewheel Burning and Painkiller!!
Just astonishing how perfect Glenn hits al the notes of his solos perfectly.
I love Glenn and his Metal Heart & Soul! Pure Perfection! Glenn plays so beautifully and chews his Beloved gum! Lol
This was the original Priest Feast Tour.
Megadeth were promoting Rust In Peace, Judas Priest Painkiller and Testament Souls Of Black. Amazing line-up.
Rob said in his book that he wanted to Rollerblade on stage during this tour,he was out voted 4 to one.
Would've been Grand 😁
one of their best songs!! I also like painkiller, night crawler or hot for love. It´s a very good band.
even this song is twin guitar solo song, camera didn't focus on K.K. Downing.
Not happy!
As usual always this Glenn prick
Three people are tempting the blade! Go Priest!
The audio quality is shit, but Rob still sounds fucking awesome!
Amazing voice...yeahhhhhh
What a nice version of this song!
2:01 THAT SCREAM
Am i the only person that wishes Judas Priest were immortal and would stay the age they were here forever?
Damn! I was at this show! The sound, for the Palace was superb. But that's why Priest are so damn good. Thanks for posting.
Perfect Metal!
Those solos are fucking fire.
thanks a lot for the post... very good period for the Priest! Painkiller tour was amazing.
OMG THAT WAS FN GREAT !!!!
This song is a vocal monster to perform live.
Masterpiece ever. Great
So much great guitar!
Hell Yeah
I love Heavy Metal
THIS FUCKIN' KILLER SONG SENDS ME TO THE EDGE OF INSANITY. THIS IS MY ULTIMATE DOPE. OHHHHH HELL YEAAAAAA....
CONDEMNED TO HELL!!!!!
this song man.. makes me tingle
just wish i cudda seen kk in the solo equation too..
No close up of KK during the solo.
Who cares
@GAZBLIN
No I can't hear any "vocal tuning" here. There's an octaver / pitch-shifter / chorus effect used during the "spoken" part but that's it.
That was pretty fucking awesome
True joshuanaconda, people don't think they would see live what I saw with Priest, in their late 50's and seeing KISS in gene and Pauls early 60's, I saw Paul turn around to his left doing a high karate kick with his left leg landing straight forward as the sky of lights above them exploded with bombs, then he ran forward did a perfect sumersault, and landed on his knees doing physical guitar tricks at 61 years old, that is proof age don't stop the show.
que voz tan más chingoona ! ! !
Their best tour ever!
is the cameraman aware that there are two guitarist doing leads in this song? someone does not deserve a paycheck after this show
The camera crew are just there recording whatever bands come by to put on the arena screen. So it's unlikely they know much about the band. Unless it's an officially organized show, like the Fuel For Life concert, where it's all properly directed. This is just a bootleg, where somebody working backstage popped in a VHS and recorded the live feed.
@cormermusic
I know mate, I'm a producer/musician, I understand the process of recording a vocal line, thought I must say, there is the rare ocasion when a singer manages to track the song in 1 take, 1 in 200 times I would say. Singing live, and singing this type of music is a very hard job for any singer, but I still believe that he has live performances when he was just as good, if not better than the original. I also don't know any other singer that can hit a G#5 being 60 years old.
There is a song by a band called Riot. It is called flight of the warrior, and it has only 1 dislike. for the longest time it had about 400 likes and 0 dislikes.
Zero dislikes. That says a lot when the video is in such a wormhole as RUclips.
How do you dislike this?
@cormermusic
I agree with eveything you have said but you did say and I quote you "Halford was never able to sing perfect live though" which I don't agree with. Both stated performances are beyond perfection. Listen to the entire resurrection world tour man.. honestly, beyond perfection.
Condemned to hell!
Lol, that's an rare video. Thanks!
I love Tipton's guitar. It's beautiful! does anybody knows what is the model of this guitar?
Late but a Hamer GT model. Not made available to the public.
Could someone show Faulkner & Sneap this so they can practise the intro... !
The guy was like forty during this tour... I think we can forgive whatever "mistakes" he made.
Heavy freaking metal
@Derekizak - thanks for that - you're right on this one - I think I had a few pages up when I posted the comment, an posted on the wrong one - still - doesn't stop Priest being my No1 all-time HM band ;-)
@hitman802 and the drum fills sound like electric thunder
Most won't realise - and I'm a true Halford fan - but listen carefully and hear the vocal tuning equipment of the day kicking in loads of times during the track - I grew up with Priest listening painstakingly to evry vocal (you could say OCD like) - I know what I can hear - can you?
Still - you can't perform with such power and accuracy night after night, over the years without a wee bit of help - Hail Halfod
Awesome. How did rob live through these songs :)
Along deserted avenues
Steam begins to rise
The figures primed and ready
Prepared for quick surprise
He's watching for a sign
His life is on the line
Sworn to avenge
Condemn to hell
Tempt not the blade
All fear the Sentinel
Dogs whine in the alleys
Smoke is on the wind
From deep inside its empty shell
A cathedral bell begins
Ringing out its toll
A storm begins to grow
Sworn to avenge
Condemn to hell
Tempt not the blade
All fear the Sentinel
Amidst the upturned burned-out cars
The challengers await
And in their fists clutch iron bars
With which to seal his fate
Across his chest in scabbards rest
The rows of throwing knives
Whose razor points in challenged tests
Have finished many lives
Now facing one another
The stand-off eats at time
Then all at once a silence falls
As the bell ceases its chime
Upon this sign the challengers
With shrieks and cries rush forth
The knives fly out like bullets
Upon their deadly course
Screams of pain and agony
Rent the silent air
Amidst the dying bodies
Blood runs everywhere
The figure stands expressionless
Impassive and alone
Unmoved by this victory
And the seeds of death he's sown
Sworn to avenge
Condemn to hell
Tempt not the blade
All fear the Sentinel
Sworn to avenge
Condemn to hell
Tempt not the blade
All fear the Sentinel
Sworn to avenge
Condemn to hell
Tempt not the blade
All fear the Sentinel
Sworn to avenge
Condemn to hell
Tempt not the blade
All fear the Sentinel
Along deserted avenues
Steam begins to rise
The figures primed and ready
Prepared for quick surprise
He's watching for a sign
His life is on the line
Sworn to avenge
Condemn to hell
Tempt not the blade
All fear the Sentinel
Dogs whine in the alleys
Smoke is on the wind
From deep inside its empty shell
A cathedral bell begins
Ringing out its toll
A storm begins to grow
Sworn to avenge
Condemn to hell
Tempt not the blade
All fear the Sentinel
Amidst the upturned burned-out cars
The challengers await
And in their fists clutch iron bars
With which to seal his fate
Across his chest in scabbards rest
The rows of throwing knives
Whose razor points in challenged tests
Have finished many lives
Now facing one another
The stand-off eats at time
Then all at once a silence falls
As the bell ceases its chime
Upon this sign the challengers
With shrieks and cries rush forth
The knives fly out like bullets
Upon their deadly course
Screams of pain and agony
Rent the silent air
Amidst the dying bodies
Blood runs everywhere
The figure stands expressionless
Impassive and alone
Unmoved by this victory
And the seeds of death he's sown
Sworn to avenge
Condemn to hell
Tempt not the blade
All fear the Sentinel
Sworn to avenge
Condemn to hell
Tempt not the blade
All fear the Sentinel
Sworn to avenge
Condemn to hell
Tempt not the blade
All fear the Sentinel
Sworn to avenge
Condemn to hell
Tempt not the blade
All fear the Sentinel
Thanks a lot for this vid
@cormermusic Well, some bands, specially the youngest ones, are even better live. But I agree with what you said. Reaching high notes is very hard. In the 70s he could do it perfectly (or almost) but now...
Tempt not the blade all fear the sentinel!
POWER!
Nothing like Priest....live 1986.....unfortunately....
Тремя годами раньше пел ее бодрее.
Good Morning beautiful
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crazy
Fucking amazing screams.
CONDEMN TO HELL!!!
@kanaric It was, probably, when he started realizing that his "live" voice was going away. The worse he sings live, the more static he becomes. Unfortunately, I might add.
Why did you not record KK at his parts of the solo tho?
Hell yeah!!! JUDAS FUCKING PRIEST!!!!!!!!
Great tour. Good song selection. Halford definitely a mixed bag though. At times just ferocious and unbelievably good, and at times just strange and sort of gay. I still love him here though. His highs were certainly spot on.
why is it that ALL the live vids from the painkiller tour sound like they have no bass sound???
If you don't know then you are dead to me.
dead
this is heavy AF
intense potencia
yeah i totally agree with you dude, but its not that, its the way it was recorded that you just cant hear much bass, i mean bass from robs voice and the guitars and the drums and the surroundings. you just cant hear it and thats a shame, cus it sounds pretty trebley
i was in the nose bleed section,in hamilton ontario for defenders,we missed the first act because we had to get tickets from a scalper,i was pissed because it cost me $15,i laugh now but back then that was a ton of cash.
Ive seen the mighty priest 4 times at least,they rule live !!!!!
every singer does loose his vocal power after a while,especially when pushing and its just natural,Bruce Dickinson is bad for not singing the high parts of many songs because his voice is hurting,
@cormermusic
Right, why don't you watch The Sentinel live in 1986 and come back here and post that shit again. Or listen to him singing Jawbreaker in 2001 in Santiago de Chile, just here on your right .. and write that again.
what happened to his voice after the concerts from 1988?
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jojojo increible
lukewarm response DOTF, ... the sentinel didn't get one... bet KK and Glenn are so high on coke they're praying to stay in sync... saw them several times they are AWESOME, thank you forever 80's......damn! Tipton had an itchy nose bothering him...ha ha ha...
True metal gods
4:33 OH MY GOD
He was probably worn out, and straining his voice to be really high.
i think that Rob had voice trounle at that day.
Can someone pls tell me what was wrong with Rob's voice in 90s .His talking and singing voice isn't bad ,it is just weird.
Every singer has a weird period where they sound a bit off
They really slowed the beginning down, didn't they ?
1.Hell rider
2.Electric Eye
3.The Sentinel
@irphan213 well good luck, theres about 4 of them. and there Glenn's lmao
5 people are condamned to hell.....
It sounds like that they used a lot of chorus effects on the guitars for this tour (and the Painkiller LP too).
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