Jeffrey Easton of The Metal Exiles recently conducted an interview with JUDAS PRIEST guitarist Glenn Tiption. An excerpt from the chat follows:
The Metal Exiles: Is there another solo album in the future?
Glenn: "At the moment no, with PRIEST reunited and with a new record starting my full attention is on that. In the future I will but probably when PRIEST is over as I do not want to compromise anything with PRIEST. After waiting for 14 years I would not want to get in the way of what we are doing. I am very fortunate to be in a band like PRIEST, to be a band where everything fits and a great writing formula. There are many musicians that are way better than me that just have not been fortunate enough to be discovered yet. I like film soundtracks and at some point I would like to do something on that level as I love the big dramatic sounds but at the moment I am focused on PRIEST. It needs to be the priority as that is what the fans want.
The Metal Exiles: You said they have been waiting for 14 years for this PRIEST to be together. Do you consider the Ripper years to be a black part of the career?
Glenn: "No, not at all, as I love what we did with Ripper. The other thing that people forget is that if it were not for the Ripper years we would not have been together now. There are two very good studio albums that I am very proud of, 'Jugulator' and 'Demolition', they are not Halford albums so you have to look at them in the right light. There was a great live album and two great tours so with Ripper stepping into the band to keep everything going I think the light would have faded by now."
The Metal Exiles: It was a great album, I liked it. As you go through the record, you can pick out which era you were visiting but at the end of the day people were expecting "Painkiller". I do not think people were expecting this. You said you were about to do the next PRIEST record, what do you have planned for it?
Glenn: "We have something special planned for the next PRIEST record. Until we start writing it next month it will be top secret. I think everybody is going to love the next record, it will be PRIEST."
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