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  • Thanks for posting this Classic footage!!!! It Still ROCKS !!!

  • soo metal begins around here <3 lucky bastards does who where there! cant imagine the reaction of people back in that day they seeing soo hard fast and soo perfect performance show, cry =(

  • Looks like David Bowie singing Priest \m/

  • Very EARLY jp years - very

  • Judas Priest could wear pink tutus and they would still kick ass!

  • Halford borrowed that pant suit from yo mama.

  • Holy shit.... What an amazing voice! What a powerful performance ! Hell this is one of the most brutal and awesome things to ever grace my ears!

  • @SuperSpacebum check out the cover by gamma ray..fucking amazing and its a live performance too

  • Why does the screaming angel have his wings hanging down from his belt?! Love their look here, so funny.

    The performance is beyond imagination, of course... but you knew that already.

  • Man that bitch could sing high.

  • Love '70s Priest. Nice post.

    How long before someone snarks, "Which pixel is Judas Priest?".

  • fucking mind = blown

  • I can't believe they went with the leather and spikes right after this...the Karate Kid look was good for Rob.:-P

  • wow great .thanks

  • everything he touches fries into a crisp !!

  • @bengativo6

    Classic Priest, dude. lol

  • awsome 

  • @Daim0th stand by for exciter

  • Classic

  • Rob looks like a cross between David Bowie and Luke Skywalker.

  • @carlhungus00

    Your mom look slike a cross between David Bowie and Luke Skywalker.

  • I would like to take this opportunity to thank you from the bottom of my heart for posting this, as I have been into PRIEST since around 1978 and have never ever seen this before. This is soo freaking cool. Thanks again . This is back in the day when it wasnt fashionable to like this kinda thing and a t shirt could only be obtained at a gig. The MUSIC WAS ABOUT VOLUME AND POWER and not punkish attitude. GOD bless all Priest fans forever. TURN IT UP!

  • this video is fucking coolio.

  • Very nice video.

  • Elvis Bowie

  • the one n only masters of METAL....no comprimise,no bargaining & no discussion.....

  • is this show recorded in HD1080p?

  • @Voddgreen There used to be a good quality version on here but I don't know if it's still on here.

  • @cubby3o5 okay, hehe . ;)

  • Good thing Rob switched top leather outfits shortly after this..Don't think they would have broken through in THAT get-up!

  • Good thing Rob wtiched to leather after this...dont think they would've broken thru in THAT get-up!

  • I saw them this tour in April/78 @ The Whiskey in Hollywood(LA). I was 14 this was before the leather...Great show!!

  • ehehe rob seem the major god:D !!

  • Amazing!

  • not many drummers were doing his thing in that era...def. their best drummer ever.

    Stained Class is their best LP.

  • this rules.

  • Another great performance by Judas Priest...

  • ROB IS THE MASTERPASTANDFUTURE. YOUR CLIPS ARE GERAT

  • IT IS GREAT. IM GLAD YOU HAVE THE OLD STUFF,THEY ARE VERRY HARD TO FIND. KEEP POSTING. ROB IS THE MASTERPASTANDFUTURE.

  • fuck the world

    wonderfullllllllllllllllllll

  • Primitive but you get the idea!

  • wow some people call this the invention of speed metal? I love it!

  • @LatexCat45 no doubt this was where speed metal started. Even the other 70's metal guys weren't as heavy sounding as priest.

  • Gary numan

  • What a fucking voice!

  • HELL BENT FOR POLYESTER!!

    And Miss Birmingham <3

  • all I can say is... JUDAS FUCKING PRIEST FOREVER!!!

  • Damn, Rob's voice was so powerful, it almost peaked at the end!

  • Ziggy Stardust on speed

  • lol, rob.

  • who is on drums?

  • Is that a MISS BIRMINGHAM on the sash he's wearing?? haha This is one the original speed metal songs...a classic!

  • 6 deaf people vote thumbs down

  • judas priest at their best!!!!!

  • EXCITER

  • I fucking love this band.

  • this is cool, where did u get this.

  • Robs voice is so powerful !

    

  • I've met Les Binks a few times (he was drummer of my mate's band in the 90s) and it wasn't him - he never even considered himself as a permanent member of Priest. He didn't want to go to Japan but he was roped in at the last minute cause they couldn't find anyone to join full time. The gigs mentioned were 1974. John Hinch was the drummer on Rocka Rolla and they must have been recording this at the time - so it must be him. Alan Moore came back for Sad Wings - then Phillips - then Binks in 1978.

  • LA MEJOR BANDA DEL UNIVERSO CTM! \ m /

  • I wrote what I said because this video reminds me of that time. I remember them playing before they started to wear all that leather, just like in this video. And yeah, Les Binks was with them during that time. Anyway, I rarely comment on videos. I used to jam with my band in Phoenix at a place called ROCKERS(Rob was part owner) in the 1980's. Those were the days. I'm 50 now and own a second home in Paradise Valley, AZ. Rob is my neighbor and friends with my wife and I. There you have it!!!

  • It was late 1977 when I first met the band at the Starwood Club in Hollywood. I was a fan about one year before and when they came to LA I got to go backstage(a friend worked the door) and spent from about 2am until 6am with the entire band after the show,minus Halford.They couldn't even pack that 300+ club, but I instinctively knew a band like that would be on the very top, and I insisted that to the band. Over the years, we still remain friends. Rob lives just four houses away from me. TRUE!!

  • @BellumSacrumBellum28 - I first saw them in January 1974 (without Tipton) supporting Budgie in Newcastle - there was very few people clapping - it was very different for the time. The Sin after sin gig was incredible (saw them May 77 at Redcar)

  • @NeilThompson30 Excellent! That truly does go back a long time. I'm quite certain they sounded completely different back then. Being from England, you got that chance to see many British bands in the very beginning as I once did here in America, and living in Hollywood back in the day. So tell me what was the line-up? I assume a quartet then? Was Halford with them yet, or was it still Atkins? So...for sure K.K., Ian Hill and who was the drummer at the time, Moore?

  • @BellumSacrumBellum28 - Halford was with them. Don't know who the drummer was - the same package (Budgie/Priest) came back in May 74 (with Tipton) - both gigs they did most (if not all) of what was to become the Rock a rolla album. My brother and I are Priest fanatics but at the time everyone was just waiting for Budgie to come on (Priest were very different for the time) They then did a headline tour for Rock a Rolla which I missed and then the Sad wings tour which I also sadly missed - shame.

  • @NeilThompson30 i think the drummer was les binks, not totally sure tho, oh and i hate you for seeing them and budgie all in one night

  • @NinjaJedi11 - thanks for the comment - it could have been John Ellis, Alan Moore, Chris Campbell or John Hinch - I assume it was John Hinch. Alan Moore then rejoined and was replaced by SimonPhillips - then came Les Binks.

  • @NeilThompson30 yeah, either way, given the time period, and all i know of priest it would prpbably be any of the three, im still leaning towrads binks, tho it couldve been phillips

  • WOW. Rob Halford is SMOKING HHHHHHHOOOOTTTTT in this!!!!!!!!!!!

  • youve had this video up for 4 years, can you at least spell Exciter right?

  • @StonedReviewer hahaha exiter

  • @StonedReviewer PEOPLE DO THE BEST THEY CAN.BE COOL

  • 1978, Les Binks, Exciter, Stained Class, Tipton, Halford .. Priest. I mean this is IT!

  • jeez, that be punk rock ...no question

  • @skyelevator more like early heavy metal. the clash is punk. not this

  • The Priest drummer during this time period is Les Binks and he may be the most under-rated drummer in metal. His drumming on Stained Class is amazing and was really leading edge for the time period in metal. His drums also sounded great. He and Neil Peart were among the first to get away from that early seventies tom-tom sound where everything was dead and muffled and really allow the drums to sound colorful, tonal and bright. Listen to Stained Class and 2112 and compare the sound of the toms.

  • Amazing vocals. Double bass back then too. Leading edge sound!

  • wow!

    From where this Video came up??

    It's made out of Hell!!

    Judas Priest, will be forever!!!

  • awwww dud exiter is mah favrit prist son!!11!!11!...

    awesome vid anyways

  • Wow .... I've never seen this one. Thanks for the post

  • It's so weird seeing Judas Priest without the leather and the studs.

    It still kills, though.

  • Hail The Priest!!!

  • Priest never lets you down from the 70's through tomorrow they always kick ass.

  • love it!

  • I would like to see that song in Rock Band.... what a challenge for the vocals !!!

  • definitely a different look lol. all hail the priest

  • never cared to much for this song till i saw this video.sour guitar opening then wicked sassy priest at their best.saw this show (opened for U.F.O.)IN1977 in milwaukee.best show ive EVER seen.

  • Les Binks popularized the double bass kit.

    PROVE ME WRONG

  • @guy158 when you say he popularized, what do you mean?

  • @LPcustom76

    well who else was double bassing in the 70s?

    then compare that to the hundredsof thousands of drummers that used double bass kits in the 80s

  • @guy158 Ginger Baker and many other drummer had one almost a decade earlier, sorry you're wrong

  • sounds an awful lot like the studio version, just sayin

  • Deep Purple-Highway Star came before this. Accept- Fast as a Shark came after this. Both songs and this classic shaped the history and future of metal.

  • Unstoppable. Unbeatable. Unleashed.

  • priets is more cool in the 70ts dan 80ts

  • This is OLD metal

  • @TheWezel1995 at least it IS metal not like korn slipknotlinkin park or that shity "music", posser

  • Well I wasn't negative... The old metal is better. Like metallica, pantera, iron maiden. That's the good shit. Also is Judas Priest.

    So i wasn't like... wow dude old metal sucks.

    sorry i'm dutch my english sucks don't know how to say anything in english.. 

  • @TheWezel1995 you call pantera "old" metal? xD

    also... pantera sucks... old metal is priest from the run of the mill or blue oyster cult!

  • @TheWezel1995 the old metal is THE METAL

  • rob went from the stoner look in the old grey whistle videos to this new wave look and then to leather and spikes oh well every body goes thru changes still cool though

  • Damn , what's up with Rob's outfit?? Looks more like David Bowie than the Black leather Metal God. Maybe it should've been Hellbent for polyester :). No matter what he wears he is still one of the best metal singers of all time.

  • man i was so exited to watch this!

  • I was lucky enough to see them in 1975 and onwards. Their confidence grew and grew and when most other bands would of given up, they had an image change and carried on. I still think Robs the best singer ever.

  • OMFG! hell yeah! Priest 4everrrrrrr!

  • I saw them the following year on the Evening Star mini tour in the UK.

    They made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up............

  • Wish I had had an HD videocam when I saw them in Hollywood 3 months after this was taped. Oh yah, that shit wasn't invented yet!! They played twice as much material as is on Unleashed in the East. EPIC!!!! Wish you were there! The place only held 500 people.

  • legendary

  • i wouldve shit in my pants .if i witnessed the priest in this time.fuck studio 54 disco crap of that time.who ever was dancing to disco missed a great period in music.the first time i crapped in my pants was on 86 when i first heard from priest.i wish i was born on the 60s so i couldve witnessed them playing at early days

  • Is that Les Binks on drums? He was a bad ass.

  • @bergerfry les Binks +more bonks

  • @bergerfry - Yes, it's Les Binks.

  • Who is singing the vocal harmony with Rob that starts around 2:25?

  • probably tipton.

  • @TimeLordGuitar Glenn tipton,

  • @TimeLordGuitar I think that is a harmonist effect

  • They looked kinda funny before the leather... haha

    Late hippy image;)

  • evel kinevil's weekend gig. haha.

  • This awesome! I got this on bootleg but seeing the actual performance is cooler!

  • isnt sometimes kind of strange .every video that ive watched and read comments everybody seems to go yeah thats the best metal band ever .but when im playing my music in the place i work all people stares at me so wierd like saying what is that ugly noise?i go havent you heard of judas priest .they go ju who?i go where is all the people that really love this music?dont leave me fucking alone.i want to rock along .i may live in a town where rap takes over.and the ghetto ass music.

  • u gotta join the metalheads!

  • hard to find in a town where everybody wants to be shaven head and carry a little gun calling themselves gangsters.i hate this town.

  • Im with ya man

  • thanks .lets break also the youtube hostile attitude.and be united by this great music

  • My goodness! What a band! Saw them with Maiden back in the day of '81.  Yes I'm old. Fucking one of the best concerts I'll ever seen. Maiden opened up from Killers Tour, and then comes Priest. Full fog shit on Beyond the Realms of Death. Shit! Fucking Sinner! On and on it went. Fucking Dallas '81! I will never forget.

  • Halford..awesome voice.

  • Darth Halford or just got back from judo lessons and didnt have time to change before the show

  • We Japanese KNOW what MUSIC is~!!! Greats like these guys and Iron Maiden, Michael Schenker has been HUGE~!!! I knew about them when I was only in elementary school~!!! No kidding! LOL

  • this is pretty close to unleashed in the east.....or is that what it is .......

  • cool quality...cam of mobile. Must be cool n' expensive mobile in ' 78 what you want it's Japan.

  • amazing early judas!

    such a tight and precise band for 1978!

    real masters

  • Cool. I would have loved to see all their tours. \m/

  • 1978 - eexxx...

  • Good God, Halford looks like he's in Duran Duran right there

  • This video is included in the Visual metalogy bootleg,it's fucking awesome

  • I'm guessing he'd use a lightwhip instead of a lightsaber. :P

  • @DanteUmbra

    hahahahaha

  • So I guess it's a crime that I don't own that yet. I was gonna just purchase Live Vengeance 82, but seeing how much The Metalogy has to offer, I guess I should go for the full package.

  • Les Binks is a lost treasure of metal drumming. Not sure what happened, but this album is watermark in metal history.

  • damn

    Before the leather & metal gods thing. This thing is awesome.

  • Very cool, I've always wanted to see footage with Les Binks on drums. Now I'll look for live Victim of Changes circa 1978.

  • just get Unleashed in the East

  • so good... =,(

  • Boston, different style but good band and music anyway

  • Wow, Great post. This is shortly before unleashed in the east.

  • I would have thought David Bowie myself ;p

    Possibly my favorate era of Priest. Unleashed all the way. . .

  • Long Love The Priest!

    \m/

  • i didnt know rob was a jedi looks like luke skywalker

  • uuuu before the leather clothes!

  • Cool retro Priest. One of my favourite bands and it was around 1978 I started listening to them. I saw them in concert in 1982 and they rocked Vancouver!

  • wow cool video strange to see him dressed as he was they sure rocked!!

  • I think the priest first came to Japan in summer 1979. As far as I remember, they were already in the leather-stud costume with Rob wearing a police hat at the time. I regret I didn't go to the concert. Instead I went to see Boston.

  • tipton se equivoco en el principio o es mi oido?

  • Dios no se equivoca .. lo hizo a propósito :)

  • The beginning sounds a bit like the end of the 1812 Overture. Such an awesome voice that Halford had, no?

  • Kosei-Nenkin Hall 7-31-1978?

  • Absolute gold.Thank you for posting this.

  • Tämä kolisee vieläki! Ja pappa sen kuin paranee!

  • For 1978, Les Binks playinig especially the double bass parts were just from a whole other planet.

  • This is one of the most vocally-challenging songs ever. Rob Halford is a god.

  • @Alecsull Listen to Painkiller

  • @TheSerpineVirus oh, trust me, i have, MANY times... along with every other priest song. notice how i said "one of" in my other comment :) The point is, rob halford is beastly and all judas priest songs are sick.

  • Judas Priest did in fact Pioneer the sound of Heavy Metal. They also Pioneered the look of Heavy Metal with the studs, leather and the Harley Davidson Motorcycle.

  • maybe because hes 60!!!

  • priest has always been my favorite band and halford my fav singer. still is, but seeing him here so animated and hitting all the high notes with ease i wonder what happened. the last few years ive seen him live he barely moves and struggles to hit a lot of words and pretty much cant do any of the high notes i saw him do in the 80's. it kinda hurts to see him like that, i know hes older but that should't matter. but i still think hes the best metal singer ever.

  • shouldnt matter?how old r u 5?

  • Unlike a female, a man's voice changes with age. You'll often hear an old women sound like a young woman. Halford's voice and flawless singing lives on the remasetered CD's! Every good thing must come to an end.

  • Pioneering fast metal. Judas Priese invented Heavy Metal. This is pioneering work!

    British Steel came after this! Screaming for Vengeance two years after that.

    What is Rob wearing in Japan for the Japanese audience? A little out of his regular leather garb!

  • This was Priest before the "leather-and-studs" look. Until early 1978 they didn't use leather. Rob's outfits were more in a quasi-Freddie Mercury style.