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Yes, we are fortunate because as a band we've always been on the up, always getting more successful.
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I play two major basses, a 4-string Stuart Spector bass, which I've played now for about 16 years, and a Hamer 5-string.
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There are challenges in life, and it was a great challenge to have (became a member of Judas Preist). The situation I was getting into, I knew what it stood for to me and to millions of people around the world. You get an opportunity like that, a chance to audition, you've got to do it. It worked out.
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Nothing mysterious about it - I mean Ken, Glenn, and Rob are the three frontmen and they do a majority of the songwriting too; we've a majority of interviewers who want to speak to one of them, so it's not really that I don't want to do interviews or anything like that, it's just the way it works out.
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Rob Halford’s my ex-brother-in-law. His sister and I were divorced several years ago, about ten years ago now. I see his sister from time to time because my son lives there. So, obviously, I see her when I pick him up...
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In lots of ways. I mean, it's remained the same in the sense that I'm still doing what I've always done, which is play guitar with that kind of outlook - harmony guitar and heavy guitar; I didn't have to change my writing style or anything, so things like that have remained the same, fortunately, 'cause that's who I am as a guitar player. Other things have changed immensely. I mean, I'm never in the same place for more than a month or so, 'cause we've always got promotion to do, or some recording to do, or some writing to do. . . whatever it is, there's always something going on every few months. So I've become a bit of a heavy metal vagabond, really. I think I'm young enough to do that still and I don't have to settle down here too much. And just being a part of PRIEST, because you're going everywhere and you're so learning so much about the industry outside of playing guitar, and I welcome the challenge.
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The way I see it is that we've got three very effective frontmen in the group and I think that's enough for any band. If you had five frontmen, they'd start bumping into each other, not just physically, but also mentally in terms of writing and everything.
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The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.
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It's also giving back to the community that put us all there in the first place. Priest wouldn't be here without the support of the fans. As soon as I joined the band Judas Priest, I got it straight away. Especially in my situation, since I've only been here five minutes. I was a fan.
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He used to play in some of the Big Bands and a few jazz outfits. He taught me scales and things, but then he died when I was 15.
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Practice. Listen. Use you ears. And as Rob Halford said, that team effort. You can learn your instrument in your room, but being in a band is more than playing your instrument.
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I think the most amazing thing is the sense of family and the inclusive nature of the band; it's like a brotherhood. And it was like that right from Day One.
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There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.
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I like cars - I guess you could say I've always been a bit of a car freak. I like fiddling around, taking them to bits and then putting them back together again...(but) I decided it was either the bass or a new car - and music ended up coming first.
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Listen to other people. Respect the other people in the band, and work together to create something that is larger than the sum of its parts. And have fun.
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I have a little daughter and my first boy is 19; he’s playing in a band of his own. But I missed a lot of his childhood in the '80s. It was album, tour, album, tour, then I’d be off again. "My lad is playing in a little group at the moment and they’re playing the stuff I used to play, the Cream stuff, the Hendrix stuff and old blues numbers!
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Yeah, but on the U.S Tour we threw a new song into the set almost every night. Ofcourse, you can't do too many new songs every night as they've never heard it.