Judas Priest - Ram it Down, New Haven 1988

[Scarlowable]

FUCKING AWESOME

[Drag4401]

JP'88: The most spectacular scream ever caught on record in mankinds' history.

[ZsabresLP]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH



[silenoz81]

is dave holland on the drumms?

[PonchitoRudito1990]

One persons has never ramed it down! :P.

[MrGobarnacht]

Coming to Finland in April. Holy shit this gon be good.

[mkl62]

1-20-2012. Happy 60th Birthday, Ian Hill. I saw this tour; August 13, 1988; Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA. Cinderella opened.

[Guitartiers]

Insane solos haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Harnare]

it´s just too fast!!!

[danophile07]

think the ram it down era was my favourite was insane all the old songs they played faster and heavier live it was just an extreme "lets go nuts" era the style deffinitly influenced dragonforce, nitro and blessed by a broken heart

[The1IsonisBack]

The studio version is already lightning speed but this. This is fucking INSANE! (liek memetalhead guy said)

[The1IsonisBack]

The studio version is already lightning speed but this. This is fucking INSANE! (liek memetalhead guy said

[mojjecson]

I would pay a million bucks for a DVD from this tour.. What a great voice and speed!!

[Einfarhtfreihalten]

Lol the speed has been set up !

[gojira931]

i love that crowd reaction at 2:56 when downing and tipton launch into those harmony arpeggios

[sonnic1995]

@gojira931 hell yeah, that harmony and the crowd reaction are epic as hell

[MetalMan73100]

Back in those days the Metal God could outscream everybody else. Respect.

[Pablo3b1919]

fucking Great! Judas Priest forever!!

[Knifyman]

holy shit that is some speed!

[speednecromancer666]

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­MMN!!

[fist1130]

HOLY FUCKING HELL!!!!! THIS IS SPEED METAL!!!!!

[iltarion]

Call Defenders of the Faith whatever kind of rock you want. Whatever it was, it was JP's best album- easy.

[Justplayfuckingmetal]

GODS!!!!!

[666TonyBuddha]

Cool! I was at this show! Cinderella Opened up. thanks for posting

[PaganWinter666]

02:55 that solo makes me chill :D

[halford3256]

Lotsa cocaine this time of the career....

[BaptizedinFire]

@halford3256 Actually no, Rob went clean in '85. Or was it 86? Can't speak for the other guys, though.

[southplnk]

@BaptizedinFire he has been sober since jan 86

[InfiniteEndsThere]

EPIC!!!! Even the word doesn't cover how epic this is! :)

[joeypunkemo]

The BEST!!! AT ITS bEST.....

[memetalhead1]

Fuck they are playing lot faster than studio version! Hands down!

[vanfanel150]

@memetalhead1 Holy shit, this faster version just sounds insane!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

[Einfarhtfreihalten]

@memetalhead1

He has turn up the speed gard dammit.

My freind was to this concert and they not play it so fast.

[MeteoraXV]

this is like twice as fast

[SilverTounge85]

This gig was apparently recorded for a live album that never saw the light of day. They did film some of the shows too. Apparently the band had moved a bit away from the glamrock of 'Defenders of the Fait' / 'Turbo', and become more heavier. Too bad it was never officially released. Only some bootleg footage of the tour exsists.

[kornjubi]

@SilverTounge85 Defenders of the Faith glamrock!? :D Rofl

[joseenriqueof]

@SilverTounge85 Defenders of the Faith glam? It's probably one of their best albums

[drquesadilla]

@SilverTounge85 Turbe was as close to glam as they got, but even it certainly wasn't glam. I did not hear a single tune on Turbo that sounded even remotely adjacent to the poppy stuff like Autograph and Warrant, they still stayed true to the heavy. Defenders of the Faith on the other hand didn't have even a single hint of glam. You don't listen to the Sentinel or Freewheel and think glam?

[SilverTounge85]

@drquesadilla Sorry, what I really ment was the stuff they did off 'Defenders...' in 1986, sounded close to the 'Turbo' material, due to the guitarsynths and echo effects, so it sounded close to what came out of the LA scene in 1986 from most bands. The songs sounded very different than on the 'Defenders...' tour and on later tours too.

[SilverTounge85]

@drquesadilla The band was all glamed up though, to appear more mtv-friendly, and they had the new outfits from the designer that have made their stage outfits since 1986. But when thinking of it...Ozzy for instance walked around in a glitter coat with his hair done with permanent and white dye, looking like an old woman. Iron Maiden used synth and had more puffy hair than ever during 1986 too. I think most artists and bands were influenced by the glamrock era, though not neccesary playing that.

[drquesadilla]

@SilverTounge85 THAT is definitely true, there was clear influence. Was certainly an interesting era for the wardrobe of the rock musician.

[METAAAAALYEAH]

@drquesadilla You're telling me "Wild Nights Hot & Crazy Days" wasn't Glam?

[drquesadilla]

@METAAAAALYEAH It was diluted glam if anything. GLAM is music along the lines of Autograph and Poison. Anything shy of those levels of glamminess isn't full-on glam. The problem is when someone hears a band like Priest use even some glam elements in their songs suddenly they act like they're listening to Vixen.

[METAAAAALYEAH]

@drquesadilla Ehh, I don't think those represent the whole of Glam, those are just the poppiest Glam bands, but I see your point.

[Adekingofhell]

o my god!! how much is fuckin fast!!! wath a cool version!! Rob was great in that time!!

[Evilwalker99]

It´s a shame that Priest didn´t record a DVD from this tour, that would´ve been insane!!!

[SilverTounge85]

@Evilwalker99 They did film the tour, but it has never been released because they had just released a video 'Priest...Live' from the year before. This was recorded for a live album, but never released.

[artwel123]

@Evilwalker99 do what I did, play this tune alongside a vid of priest ... kinda woks

[ExNihilMetal]

@Evilwalker99

DVDs didn't exist back in 1988 ;)

[puchup11]

great performance:)