Judas Priest - Accesso Showare Center - Kent, WA 6.21.19"FirePower" Tour - www.judaspriest.comBlog/Photos: "Iron" Mike Savoia - www.Facebook.com/SavoiaPhotographyKISW Photo Gallery: https://kisw.radio.com/galleries/photo-gallery-judas-priest-accesso-show...
In a rarity, we got the metal gods Judas Priest twice on the same tour in the great Accesso Showare Center in Kent, WA. Last year on this "Firepower" album cycle tour, the band came and played a set that was more familiar to the hits or radio/MTV side of the band. This time around Judas Priest played a set that included some awesome deep cuts that spanned from 12 albums from 1976 to their latest 2018 release "Firepower". Only three songs (Hell Bent for Leather, Breaking the Law, Living After Midnight) were the same from the last time which was awesome for us fans who attended both!
Last year we got lucky and had Glenn Tipton special guest on the encore but not this time around. Tipton has been battling Parkinson’s and only playing very few select dates here and there. He currently is writing new riffs for the follow-up to "Firepower". His guitar replacement on tour has been the great Andy Sneap.
So it'll be interesting to see how Sneap's role in Priest from the current "Hired Gun" role plays out after this tour. Overall this show was pure badassery from start to finish. Loved seeing all the people rocking out in their seats especially the girls in front of me half my age all rocking out headbanging in unison. Heavy Metal is very much alive and thank goodness Rob Halford/Ian Hill and Judas Priest are still doing what they do all these decades later.
