Ian Hill K.K. Downingista: ”Olisi ollut hieman outoa nähdä hänet lavalla soittamassa Glenn Tiptonin riffejä”

Englantilaisen heavy metal -legenda Judas Priestin basisti Ian Hill on antanut hiljattain haastattelun Backstage Axxessille, jossa hän on kertonut oman mielipiteensä bändin entisen kitaristin K.K. Downingin halusta palata takaisin yhtyeen riveihin. Hillin mukaan olisi outoa nähdä Downing lavalla soittamassa toisen kitaristin Glenn Tiptonin osuuksia, minkä vuoksi yhtye päättikin pyytää Andy Sneappia soittamaan kitaraa bändin riveihin ”Firepower”-albumin keikkojen ajaksi. Hän kertoi seuraavasti:

”I haven’t spoken to Ken for a while, for a couple years. I’ll say what I said before: I really don’t know where he was coming from. When he retired, we took on Richie, you know, so he’s playing all Ken’s parts. So, it’s not Ken’s [parts] that are missing, it’s going to be Glenn’s parts that he would be playing. Really, Ken, what’s he going to do? Come over to my side of the stage and play Glenn’s parts? I just don’t know where he was coming from with it. I think it was a bit of mischief on his behalf, to be honest. It wasn’t his job, if you know what I mean, that had become vacant. It was Glenn’s. Glenn and Ken are two excellent guitarists, [but] both are completely different in styles and sounds, and for Ken to be playing Glenn’s parts anyway, it really wouldn’t have sounded right anyway. We went for Andy anyway. We never thought about Ken for that reason. Like I said, I don’t really know where he was coming from with it.”

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