Priest in Tallinn
 

i'm still very emotional and so will be the post (just a report).
the show absolutely rocked: the band was into it 100% and crowd answered with the same :fist:
i knew what is going to happen and it all happened :mothersun they are wonderful!
the whole show was a highlight, i simply enjoyed it!
the set was around 2 hours. less songs than in a first part of the tour, but they played with the crowd, Rob talked some (promised to come back!).
setlist was:
hellion/electric eye
the metal gods
riding on the wind
a touch of evil
judas rising
revolution
breaking the law
i'm a rocker
diamonds and rust (this time here i thought that maybe they should return to play the (their) original version)
BTROD
turbo lover (Rob messed here a bit, wanted to begin with hellrider already here, Glenn let him know that too early.. :))
hellrider
victim of changes
green manalishi
painkiller
HBFL
living after midnight
YGATC
:headbange
what was as good as the show was that i got to meet Ove, his friend Peter and LEATHERX from Sweden/ quorum - wonderful people! :mothersun

Way to go mai!!! No other band in metal puts on a show quite like Judas Priest!!!! :bang1: :bang1: :bang1:

[quote=mai]i'm still very emotional and so will be the post (just a report).
the whole show was a highlight, i simply enjoyed it!
the set was around 2 hours. less songs than in a first part of the tour, but they played with the crowd, Rob talked some (promised to come back!).
setlist was:
....
green manalishi

so green manalishi is back in the set list

OK..It`s the second time i see Priest in another country than Sweden. It was very nice to spend some time in Tallinn. If you havent been to Tallinn/Estonia before and plan a trip to the city i suggest you find a hotel in the old town.. there are lots of medieval houses there etc! Very very nice.

One thing i noticed is that they played mostly Swedish music on the radio here which was fun but a bit strange..hehe.. Made me feel like home. Actually Tallinn reminds me much about Sweden..except the language of course. It is me and Peter K and LEATHERX that flew over together from Sweden to see Priest live.

It enjoyed very much meeting you aswell mai!! Nice to meet you in person for the first time!! I also talked alot with Daniela (Lita77) and her friend outside the arena.

The show:

The venue is called Saku Suurhall. (SAKU is the name of a beer they sell over here. Suur means "big") Its a quite new arena and i liked it. It was not full but there was not to many empty seats. Also there was no seats an the floor..it means standing-tickets which i like.

I saw Priest live in the very beginning of the tour so it was very interesting to see them again in the very end of the tour. 100 shows later...

The opening act sang metal in russian. I enjoyed watching them but when at a Priest-show the focus is on Priest!

The same songs was played in the speakers before the show. Like Sad But True, Back In Black etc. Gets you in the mood! It was cool to watch the Estonian crowd. There were classic metalheads in black. I saw very young people...school/kids etc...i enjoy watching crowds. I guess for most of them it was the first Priest/show.

About Priest i jst can say: WOW!! God they were good. Rob`s voice was very very strong! And those high notes were incredible! Dogs are howling all across Estonia!!! The band was very tight and in an excellent shape. The self-esteem was on high! I have noticed through the years that Robs voice gets stronger and stronger during the tour which Rob again proved to be right.

It was the first time for me to hear the mighty Hellrider live which was a big moment for me. And it was amazing indeed! Especially the screams in the end of the song!

One thing i noticed was that Rob used the leather-hat during LAM also. Cool!

It was one of the best shows i have seen with Priest. Very very good performance. And the crowd was good aswell..i saw Priest enoyed Tallinn. Actually Rob talked quite alot about it after Diamonds And Rust...thanking everyone for waiting so many years for them. Also in the end of the show he shouted that "The Priest will be back!!!" :metal:

Judas Priest in Tallinn was a great concert. Time to fly back to Sweden!

/Ove

Thanks for reviews! :jpcross:

Thanks for the review

ouyeee, The Show was fucking great! The voice on Rob's was perfect, Glenn seemed to enjoy the whole thing but KK was quite unemotional.
I hope that some day they will come back!

Thanks for reviews...Priest once again deliver the Goods :bang1:

Thanks for the reviews! :jpcross:
I'm leaving to Vilnius in the evening. :)

Great Reviews,thanks.How many People ?

I think about 7000 :*:

Thank you for the reviews! :jpcross:

Priest in Tallinn
 

Hello, Mai and Ove !

I enjoyed the Tallin gig just as much as you did , wonderful crowd with a mix of ages , all from little kids sitting on their parents shoulders to very old drunk people doing their best to sing along , it was beautiful !

This trip was worth to sell the guitar , travelling with a serious case of asthma ( Thank God, the extiement didn't kill me before the show! ) , just to leave everyday seriousness aside for a while .
This will be a memorable ending of this year.

Thank you Mai and Ove for being fun to be with , i'll look forward till next time !

hey, Paloma! :wave:
hope you made it home safe and.. until next year!! :cool:

i found some pics people have put up on the web here. one place and the other

Demonizer, i don't think there was that many people.. lets wait for some official numbers to show up!

It was really great to spend time with you Mai and Paloma!! :metal: And what a good JP-show it was in Tallinn!! Me and Peter are back up north now.

/Ove

Cool pics!

:cool: In a newspaper the day of the Tallinn-show!

Ove, the opener band didn't sang in Estonian, he sang in Russian.

Ohh..sorry! My mistake.

COOL REVIEW, GLAD YA FINALLY GOTTA CHANCE TO SEE THE ALMIGHTY PRIEST, AND MMET UP W/ SOME "Q" MEMBERS, GET ANY PIX ?

it wasn't my first time ;)
it was second time this year and i've seen priest with ripper and rob with halford band also :)
i myself did not take pics. i posted some links with pics about the show in my previous post.
what about us.. i guess we kinda forget that to take a group photo.. but we'll meet again :D
:mothersun

interview with KK and Ian
 

i found one interview here yesterday and now i translated it. Enjoy!
http://www.sloleht.ee/index.aspx?id=187026&r=39

First the author talks very briefly about the band and show, then 20 minutes interview with K.K. Downing and Ian Hill (seems to be taken in a hotel before the show in Tallinn).
Question: How is the tour so far? Is setlist the same what it was in spring?
Hill: The same, mostly. Some songs have changed.
Question: How did band get its name and how is the right way to pronounce it? There are people here, who pronounce [p r a i s t] instead of [p r i: s t] – is that in kind of a dialect like this?
(K.K., Hill and manager all laugh)
Hill: No, it has nothing to do with a dialect. [p r a i s t] is wrong, [p r i: s t] is correct.
K.K.: It was so long ago. Simply Judas Priest suites to heavy metal very well.
Question: About musical influences. You come from the same part of England, where Black Sabbath comes from, Birmingham. You began later, did they influence you?
Hill: I admired Sabbath. But they did not influence us musically, there in the beginning were lots of influences from many bands. I’d name Jack Bruce here.
K.K.: Jimi Hendrix was a big idol.
Question: Have you had parties with Sabbath?
K.K.: Yes, of course. We toured with them, took part of Ozzfest. Btw, their manager, Ozzy’s wife Sharon, treated us very well.
Question: How are the relationships between members in the band after Halford returned? Why did you let him go in the first place at all?
Hill: It is great, all get along well. Halford wanted to do his solo album in 1991, we did not hinder him, but his being away too much began to disturb our thing.
Question: Do you still keep in contact with Ripper Owens?
K.K.: He is doing his own project. It is called “No Fear”, but I’m not very sure.
Question: Which album do you consider the best of your career so far?
K.K.: It is difficult to say. Some albums have helped the career. “Screaming For Vengeance”, “British Steel”, “Defenders Of The Faith”.
Hill: The best Of’s. It is difficult to say.
Question: About Estonia. Did you know anything about the country before you came here? What are your first impressions?
K.K. (smiles): By Eurovision.
Hill: You have absolutely beautiful town. Especially the old town, simply great.
Question: But Estonian women?
K.K.: True, I knew before, that there are lots of very beautiful women in this region.
Hill: I’ve my own family.
Question: You’ve toured a lot around the world. Maybe you’ll tell some funny story, weird incident?
K.K.: Can’t tell, there may be troubles later.
Hill: I’m in a band to play music. I don’t know. There something happens in every tour. Helicopters also break.
Question: You just came from Russia. How were you taken there?
K.K.: The crowd was very good. We noticed, especially in Moscow, that there were lots of security people inside the arena.
Question: When was the last time you played in a club, face to face? What is the biggest crowd there has ever been?
K.K.: Probably at Ozzfest. There were 300 000, but there were other bands also, not only us. Or then Rock In Rio festival. In the early years, when we toured with Led Zeppelin, there were 60 000 people sometimes at the show.
In clubs we were the last time with Ripper Owens.
Question: Where do you get inspiration for your music? For example the latest hit “Revolution”. Is it inspired by a Russians Great Socialist October Revolution or Cubans rebellion, Castro’s fiesta?
(Both LOL)
K.K.: We get inspiration from everywhere. From guitar-riffs, lyrics, it is different. The result we do together. That’s how it is with “Revolution”. It has nothing to do with Russians or Cubans. In 90s metal kind of died out. There came grunge etc. Now there’s hard rock in it’s rise again, metal is coming back, that is what we say.
Question: Your Prime Minister Tony Blair is visiting Estonia today. What do you think about him as a politician?
K.K.: Is very proud, is very british.
Hill: Because of him we did not get away from the city at a right time.
Question: How do you keep yourselves in a shape, avoid rutine and are able to give the best on stage tour by tour?
K.K.: I like to play football.
Hill: Golf, drive fast cars, yard work and visit pubs.
Question: Future plans. When there will be a new album out? There are talks about DVD?
K.K.: We will continue with shows, keep band’s image. Without a doubt we will go to a studio one day.
Hill: DVD will be out soon.

That’s all. He thanks etc.
That has been kinda silly to translate, because it first has been in English and… but ok.

Thanks for posting the interview...Some of those questions are funny.

It seems like K.K. and Ian were both having a good time in Estonia although Ian "has a family" ....lol :bigsmile:

SORRY ABOUT THAT, THOUGHT IT WAS YOUR 1ST TIME SEEING PRIEST

COOL REVIEW & THREAD! NOW WHERE ARE THE PICS OF YOU GUY'S HANGING OUT??????

SO THEY BROUGHT THE GREEN MANALISHI BACK!?

Thanks for the reviews and interviews. :fist:

Here are those pics from the Tallinn-trip. :) It was great to spend time with such true metal maniacs. :metal: And Judas Priest was absolutely amazing as always!!!

http://groups.msn.com/HeavyMetalFoton/foton.msnw?Page=1

this Medieval pic on page 2 - it's my fav street in Tallinn, it's name is Katariina käik :)
but the whole Old Town is cool, so very true!

MAI IS COOL!:666::cool::666:

wow!
hey-hey :wavey:

HEEEEEEEEEEEY MAI! :666::bllama::666:

Mai IS cool!

:wavey:
thanks! and so ARE you!

i'm keeping my fingers crossed that priest will attend the sweden rock fest!
:jamming:

:groupwave

:jpcross:

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