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K.K. Downing avaa syitä miksi on vihainen, kun häntä ei hyväksytty takaisin Judas Priestiin

Kirjoittanut Arto Mäenpää - 13.2.2022

Englantilaisen heavy metal -legenda Judas Priestin entinen kitaristi K.K. Downing on useaan otteeseen ilmaissut kokeneensa vääryyttä vuonna 2011 kun jätti yhtyeen. Nyt K.K. Downing on tuoreessa Goldmine podcastin haastattelussa jälleen kerran palannut vuoteen 2011 kun hänet hänen omasta mielestään kuin siirrettiin sivuun yhtyeestä vastoin lopullista tahtoaan. Downing avasi aihetta aiempaa tarkemmin ja voit lukea mitä kerrottavaa kitaristilla oli tästä:

”That was a myth. That’s complete misinformation. And this is why I’m so unhappy with the rest of the guys in [JUDAS PRIEST], because they told you and all the fans something that’s complete misinformation. But they only told you that because they don’t wanna get into the details.
”In December 2010, I decided not to do the farewell tour — the tour that we all said we were gonna retire; we were gonna retire the band. It was gonna be the end of the band. And so we’d been asked to put together press releases, which we did, and I have, about the of the band and all of us retiring JUDAS PRIEST. When we were gonna do a farewell tour, we were being asked by the management to think of a name for the end of the band, the farewell tour. And it was gonna be called the ’Epitaph’ tour, which I wasn’t particularly keen on. It was gonna be the end of the band.
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”So, what was it that I was gonna not do that everybody else was gonna do? There was only one thing that I was not gonna do. It was do the farewell tour, which was the retirement tour, and I said, ’I’m not gonna do it.’ I didn’t know they were gonna carry on for another 10 years; I thought they were gonna do the retirement tour, which I didn’t do.
”This is why I’m disgruntled about the whole thing — because it made me look like a deserter; it made me look like I jumped ship and deserted the fans. ’Oh, Ken, he’s retiring to look after his golf course.’ Well, thanks a lot.
”[What I told the band and the management was], ’I will do this tour, this farewell tour, but things have gotta change. People can’t get pissed on stage. People have got to give a hundred and one percent if we’re gonna do this. I’m not gonna do an EP, like you’re telling me to do, because I’m not gonna end my career on an EP.’ All of these things that I was saying — ’I need to have a voice’ and ’Everybody needs to listen to K.K. If we’re gonna end this, it needs to be done in the way I think it should be done.’ But no, they weren’t having it. So I went, ’Right. I’m not doing it.'”
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”What the world doesn’t know as well, in April 2011, I changed my mind, because people were telling me, ’K.K., you were there in the beginning. You started it. You should finish it.’ And so I was speaking to Ian [Hill, bass]; I called Ian up. And I was talking to him about it. And I told him, ’I should do the tour, really.’ And I asked him, ’Can you send me the setlist over?’ Because that was always a bone of contention. He sent the setlist over. And the very next day, they released a press release that I retired. Because after he sent the setlist over, I called him back and said, ’Ian, it’s really good. It’s exactly what I was suggesting back in December.’ This should be a chronological, it should be a taster of the successful songs from each album. It should take people on this lovely journey, chronological journey through the setlist. And that’s what the setlist was. So instead of me getting a phone call the next day, thinking, ’Okay, Ken, we hear that you’re thinking about doing the tour.’ I didn’t get that. They released the press release.
”So that’s when I got really angry and sent in my second letter — that same day. And I gave the guys my real reasons for not doing that final tour. The first letter I sent in was a retirement letter, saying, ’I’m not doing the tour. I’m out now.’ But I didn’t give them the real reasons. But in the second letter, I did.”