Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford recently guested on The Best Show With Tom Scharpling, and during the interview he talked about the band's creative process and their need to keep moving forward and creating new music. Check out the chat below.
Halford: "Each time we go out on stage, as we will for the next Priest record that's just about done, it's to show off the things that we've created. And that, for us as a band, is important to us for the reason of, yes, we can still go into a studio at the start of a day and have nothing but at the end of the day we have a great song that we hope we'll eventually record and it's gonna live forever. That's the great testimony to bands that still feel the need and the urge and the hunger. There's always an unending innate inquisitiveness of the adventure: 'What if we did this?' 'What if we did that?' It's all about the need to express yourself in a new song or in a new album."
"For the longest time, I had a real problem with nostalgia - what that word meant -because in my mind, for a period of my life, it just felt like, 'Oh, it's all over; we're in nostalgic mode.' Now I realize that was a really bad train of thought. I've learned and I've grown from that misconception of nostalgia. When you're going to see Judas Priest and we play 'Breaking The Law' or 'Living After Midnight', it's not 2022; it's 1980. You're with your girlfriend, your boyfriend, your significant other, whoever, or by yourself, and you hear that song and you're at college, you're at school, you're in the back of the bus, you're in the back of the car, you're on vacation, all these beautiful feelings and emotions erupt up in this word, 'nostalgia.' I know that, and we appreciate that as a band, the emotional opportunities that are taking place, when you play those songs. I see it on people's faces. Sometimes there are tears in the house because it's such a significant memory, and that's the beauty of music; the way it touches that time clock in our existence and brings us from the present to the past and back again."
