October 10, 2025 • 16 mins
Rob Halford and Big Rig talk the current tour, the Priest - Ozzy - Sabbath legacy, Wet Tacos & the strangest fan request ever!
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Big rig what's up, buddy, Good.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
To are you?
Speaker 3 (00:01):
Robin is great to see you, my friend. I know
you're on the road right now.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
You're Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
The end of the month of October with Alice Cooper
in Corrosion and Conformity. You guys look like you've been
having a blast.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
It's been sensational.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I don't know whether you saw recently on Alice's Instagram
and my instagram, we did a couple of we did
a picture together Nate Phillips night. Somebody the original photographer
took a picture of Alis and myself by two of
us in nineteen ninety one. Oh wow, and it was
(00:33):
it was on the wall of the venue recently up
in Connecticut. And as I'm looking off stage, Alice is
in the coop and becking meet Alice is.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Alice is in the corner, beckinging meat on. What's coming.
I'm sweating. You know, I've got to take a picture.
We've got to take a picture. A picture. Give me
a dude, I gotta judge. Now we've got to do
I've got to do it. So he's got his photographer,
serial killer, as he's called.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
We recreate the same polls in twenty twenty five. So
if you look on both of our instagram as, you'll
see these two pictures, and that just gives a slight
glimpse into the longevity of Alice and Priest and the
friendship that we've had through these decades together.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
History repeating itself again. It's an awesome thing.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Amazing it is. It's beautiful moment, It's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Has there any moment besides that moment on this tour
been something that's been like the moment you'll remember most
from this tour. Has there been like a venue, a fan,
something that's happened that's just stuck in your brain you
can't get rid of.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, I think more than ever now when we play
Wall Pigs at the start of every set, everybody in
the room, everybody in the building, everybody in the shed,
everybody in the arena screaming that song at the top
of their voice.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You know, they're screaming their hearts out for Ussie.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
And so that's an extra kind of tingle and rush
that we've been experiencing since day one on this tour
that's been gone for a few weeks now. Yeah, and
that's just fantastic, you know it to be living in
that world still of this great communication emotion, this page
metal community as we call ourselves.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
It's just a great display of love.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, and that's it. It's the one thing that still
brings us together, unites us and we're all having a
good thing. We have a common interest right before our
very eyes, and we all just suck off each other's energy.
It's a great thing. Now, it's a good segue into
War Pigs the charity version, which we obviously got just
a few weeks ago, which has been an amazing thing.
It's doing a lot of great things for Glenn Tipton's
Parkinson's Charity, also the charity that Ozzie was supporting as well.
(02:42):
And as that came together, you know, I know you
had the prior commitment with the Scorpions, so you could
not be there. But when did this idea pop into
your head? And the vocals that use were those the
original War Pig isolated vocals put in for you guys
to go back and forth. How did that work?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
You know, as you've mentioned, we already had the committee
to do the sixtieth anniversary with Scorpions, so it kind
of made sense for me to think, well, we want
to do something we need to be a part of
this fantastic dates it's going to be one of the
greatest days of music ever, which it was and always
will remain so, so it was a now brainer. We've
(03:22):
been playing Warpicks forever. Why doesn't Priest it's about Tom.
Why doesn't Priest try to emulate and put the love
into the Judas Prestyle version of war Pigs, which we did.
We kept true to the cause because you don't mess
with a song like that. You keep it real, You
keep it real. You add a couple of little textures
(03:45):
to give its own identity.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
But everybody works hard.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Scott re learned how to play the drums you wanted to,
you know, homage to Bill being played like Geezer, our
march to Geezer. So you've got all of this great
stuff going on into the into the performance. And then
when and then when Sharon suggested let's get Oussie on there,
it was just this is just going to go through
(04:10):
the roof now, I mean, you know, how how bigger,
how far past eleven, final top, how far past eleven
can you go? And it's why past eleven you know
the fact that we were able to recreate it the way.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
We did, I think is enough.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You know, it justifies the opportunity to show that the
Aussie had for priests and Black Sabbath had for priests.
We grew up in the same nobook and practically just
a few short mass from each other. We started in
the in the late sixties. We had a long, long
life in in heavy metal rock role. And so for
(04:53):
this to happen now, as bittersweet as it is, it
was destiny this, this was going to happen, and this
was going to happen, you know. So to hear Izz
he sing that first line and then I sing the
second line, and back and forth and back and forth,
it's just magic. It's metal magic, and it's doing so
many good things for those two charities that you that
(05:16):
you referenced.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
So it's and the timing as well.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
To release that when Aussie passed and we were still grieving,
we're still I'm still grieving now, a lot of us
still grieving.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
We had to get the timing right.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And when when everybody felt that this was the opportunity
to release this song, we went.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Ahead and did. So.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
There it is, you know, Priest and Iza and I
listened to it now and it's still very difficult from
difficult for me to kind of, you know, enjoy it
because it's I'm still too you know, I'm just still
can't believe it. But when Ronnie Pastor and Lenny plastered
the greats that passed, you know, because we're we're friends
(06:00):
that you make what Big Rig does on his show
through his songs that he makes, you create friendships. You
create friendships with the music that you play, the bands
that you play, you create these relationships. It's it's an extraordinary,
beautiful thing that only happens in music, you know, so
(06:24):
so to be in that dimension, to be sharing this
special moment together with this with this song, is just
an absolute glorious blessing.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
It is. And Sharon reached out to you by by
note to let you know how much Ozzie appreciated that
smiling ear to hear I can just imagine him hearing that.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Wowah.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
By the way, yeah, a couple of years before he
went home, a couple of a couple of weeks before
he did, he did the show the Football Round.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
So you know, God's up there doing his stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Now this is gonna happen. And then that's gonna happen.
Now we're going to do this, you know, there above
the will of God that goes that, you know, and
it's just a beautiful, beautiful thing that's going on, and you.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Just got to sit on the crazy train and let
it all happen. And it has been a crazy train
and let it all happen. Yeah, that's what that song
is about.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Your crazy train continues. I mean, here we are. We're
going to be celebrating Turbo's fortieth anniversary I think next year.
I mean, the album's the legacy for me, my one
pinpoint moment, besides when I was a kid and I
first heard Living after Midnight for me was Painkiller. Because
Painkiller the way I first experienced that song was the
radio station I worked with we Aarn Metal Shop with
(07:41):
Charlie the Bunch kendle Yes, and they world premiered it.
We hadn't even been serviced the single yet, so we
were trying to lift it off of that show so
we could play it because it was like nothing that
I had ever heard. I was like, oh my god,
this is like next level. And then of course Touch
of Evil would follow and it's still two of my
most plays songs. In my Ihart metal playlist that I
(08:01):
have just because it admits so much. I mean Painkiller.
The first time I heard it was just like wow.
But what we had to do to get it so
we could play it was even crazier. But you know
what next year would be. I think if you guys
do the next record, it would be your twentieth album,
would it not?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
It would be yes, if we go to twenty. I
like the sound of that twenty. I'm all about the
number of numbers. I'm all about even numbers. But thank
you for saying those beautiful things about pain Killer. When
we were making that record, one of the few times
that we went into the studio with an agenda, you know,
because if you start controlling music too much, it doesn't
(08:37):
it loses its reality. You just again, you just let
it flow. You let the music take you to where
it's going to take you to. But we were in
this isolated place in the south of France, mirror of
our studios, and we literally locked ourselves away for the
whole time of writing and recording that album. And as
I said, the gender was, after all of this previous
(09:00):
treasures that priests have created, here we are the nineteen nineties.
You know how it's like big rigging rock and roll
the start of every decade, really exciting things happened out
of the way it does. But if you look at
the start of the nineties, the bands that were banging
out the big the big albums, Pantera and Metallica and
Megie Death, a bunch of others I can't even think of,
(09:23):
and and so here whilst Painkiller was in that in
that same energy field, and it was perfect timing for
this band to show that we had still got the metal,
that we could still you know, tear the place up,
We could still you know, get the fires roaring.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
We always we always.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Knew that we have that ability, but I think this
was the first time we made a concerted effort from
eaching every.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
One of us. So that's what it is, Painkiller. From
the first track to the last track, it just rules.
It just tears your head off, you know, insane.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
It was a tsunami of sound, is how I There's
just no better way to put it. I mean, that's
what it is. It's just boom Rob Halford joining us
as we're talking about obviously the tour, but the future
have a little bit of fun, do a couple of
questions here and kind of go off off the grid
a little bit. Let me ask you this strangest thing
a fan has ever asked you to do.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Sign a baby, Sign a baby.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Did they want to get a tattoo of the signature later?
I mean you eventually have to bathe the baby. I
don't get that. Not a breast but an actual baby.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Love. How many years ago was that?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I think we were in Jersey somewhere doing the record.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Well, okay, never mind, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Absolutely So we were in an in store. It was
a grinding store and tons of fans waiting outside, and
you know, the band sits at the table and yeah,
that signed.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
The band is really busy. They'll just signed too it.
And so you know this.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Album, that album, this pictures of pictures, and suddenly a
baby appears like a shelf, like this baby's pushed in
front of me, and I'm okay, this is a baby.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
It's a baby with the diaper on.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
That is crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
It's probably probably hours old and it's a baby. And
I look up and there's a beautiful couple and I
go the baby. We signed the baby, sign the baby.
I am not sign you know, if it did be a.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Man, I just that one. That that one. That's definitely
the strangest answer I've ever heard of that question a baby.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Wow, if it did have been Aussie with the with
the sharp pie right, oh.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, oh gosh, oh, man, I can only.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
But but I demute, I said, I said, this is
just a very generous, beautiful thing that you that you're offering.
But no, I'm afraid we will not decided. Please take
your baby back and give me a piece of vinyl
or a pick to sign sign the baby.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I love it, Rob Halford on with this. Let me
ask you this. So the Food Network has all these
shows now they're doing, like the Halloween Bakeoff and all this.
If you were to appear on a cooking show, what
would the Rob Halford dish be? What would it be called?
What would it be?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Ooh?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Actually I do like to cook, big rig I can
cook you anything, man, I can cook you anything. I've
been asked up from the UK side of life to
do these home cooking shows and I really don't think
of the ability to do that, quite frankly, but but
I do like to One of my favorite dishes that
(12:39):
I create is I wet taco.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Nice. I've never met a bad taco that I didn't like,
I'll be honest with you, but dry hard shop. But
I don't care at taco. What's what's the favorite ingredient?
What's the meat you put in there? Wet taco?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
It's the turkey. It's the ground turkey. It's the ground turkey.
But it's that you have to have the right seasoning.
You have to have the right shells, you have to
have the right cheese. It's all about all the ingredients,
as everybody will.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Tell you, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, so my my wet turkey tacos are just one
of the things available on the menu. Y.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
That is amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Don't have that associated with Halloween. I don't know. Maybe
it's the red saucer. Could be kind of love the
blood additive.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Right to do that. We add some nuclear hot sauce
to it. We call it the Killer and that's the end,
just the painkillers. I love it. Perfect one more before
we go here. Fashion has always been a big thing
in any form of music. It always has been, and
throughout the years, fashion has changed. For you, Is there
any fashion statement that you would never try on stage?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Oh? It all I've done it all.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
There isn't no nod, including being stripped to my bare
naked birthday skin. One time in London, I used to
whip the crowd. I used to whip the crowd. I
can't do that now because of insurance, but I used
to whip the crowd, you know. And then this one
one show in London at the at the Odein in London,
(14:03):
and I get pulled in, like seven thousand screaming metal
maniac and I get pulled in and I just you know, what,
can you look?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
We now have him on the ground in front of us.
What do we do?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
We just take off all of his clothes, which is
what they did, and then and then they threw him
back on stage. So there I was, in all my
glory with my whipping hand, chatting away Judas Bris Judas Brief.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
So yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
That's a fashion statement. That's hard to follow up, you
do there? Wow?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Well, Adam many they started with fig leads. But listen,
I love what we've been able to do in Priests.
We were the band that really put together the visual
side of this heavy metal power, the two blasts through
the radio. And so the day that we put on
the biker coats and a load of the pants and
the whips and the chains and the stones and the
(14:55):
handcuffs and the biker cap. Everything came together there it
was you know, that's the look. That's the look that
that look is so strong and so powerful it can
only mean metal. So we've had a wonderful journey in
this band, in Judas Priest, through the decades, working with
this fantastic guy in Scott style, ray Brown Fashion. Ray
(15:16):
Brown has been with us forever. And you know, these
designs that we make, these things that we put on
our backs to take out onto these stages around the world,
they're really important because much like Alice, we want to
give you a night to remember. We want you've paid
us good money, you've taken money out your wage packet.
You're taking your good money, you put your money down
(15:37):
for a ticket, and you deserve the best show that
you can get. And that's what Priest is doing for
forever now. And so yeah, come and see this, if
you if you're if you're going to see you, come
and see this, this great, gloryous spectacle of clothing and
costumes and drama and guillotines and motorcycles.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah it's crazy man.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Hell yes, Rob, I really appreciate your time. I know
you guys are busy while you're on the road and
your time is precious. So thank you for spinning it
with us, and have a great rest of the tour.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Thank you by Greg. Great checking out the Mental checking
out the rock and Roll Kitten sending pipe.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Oh yeah, awesome, Rob, thank you so much, man. Have
a great rest and safe tour.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Say by takee ohe bye bye.
Big rig what's up, buddy, Good.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
To are you?
Speaker 3 (00:01):
Robin is great to see you, my friend. I know
you're on the road right now.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
You're Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
The end of the month of October with Alice Cooper
in Corrosion and Conformity. You guys look like you've been
having a blast.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
It's been sensational.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I don't know whether you saw recently on Alice's Instagram
and my instagram, we did a couple of we did
a picture together Nate Phillips night. Somebody the original photographer
took a picture of Alis and myself by two of
us in nineteen ninety one. Oh wow, and it was
(00:33):
it was on the wall of the venue recently up
in Connecticut. And as I'm looking off stage, Alice is
in the coop and becking meet Alice is.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Alice is in the corner, beckinging meat on. What's coming.
I'm sweating. You know, I've got to take a picture.
We've got to take a picture. A picture. Give me
a dude, I gotta judge. Now we've got to do
I've got to do it. So he's got his photographer,
serial killer, as he's called.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
We recreate the same polls in twenty twenty five. So
if you look on both of our instagram as, you'll
see these two pictures, and that just gives a slight
glimpse into the longevity of Alice and Priest and the
friendship that we've had through these decades together.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
History repeating itself again. It's an awesome thing.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Amazing it is. It's beautiful moment, It's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Has there any moment besides that moment on this tour
been something that's been like the moment you'll remember most
from this tour. Has there been like a venue, a fan,
something that's happened that's just stuck in your brain you
can't get rid of.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, I think more than ever now when we play
Wall Pigs at the start of every set, everybody in
the room, everybody in the building, everybody in the shed,
everybody in the arena screaming that song at the top
of their voice.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You know, they're screaming their hearts out for Ussie.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
And so that's an extra kind of tingle and rush
that we've been experiencing since day one on this tour
that's been gone for a few weeks now. Yeah, and
that's just fantastic, you know it to be living in
that world still of this great communication emotion, this page
metal community as we call ourselves.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
It's just a great display of love.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, and that's it. It's the one thing that still
brings us together, unites us and we're all having a
good thing. We have a common interest right before our
very eyes, and we all just suck off each other's energy.
It's a great thing. Now, it's a good segue into
War Pigs the charity version, which we obviously got just
a few weeks ago, which has been an amazing thing.
It's doing a lot of great things for Glenn Tipton's
Parkinson's Charity, also the charity that Ozzie was supporting as well.
(02:42):
And as that came together, you know, I know you
had the prior commitment with the Scorpions, so you could
not be there. But when did this idea pop into
your head? And the vocals that use were those the
original War Pig isolated vocals put in for you guys
to go back and forth. How did that work?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
You know, as you've mentioned, we already had the committee
to do the sixtieth anniversary with Scorpions, so it kind
of made sense for me to think, well, we want
to do something we need to be a part of
this fantastic dates it's going to be one of the
greatest days of music ever, which it was and always
will remain so, so it was a now brainer. We've
(03:22):
been playing Warpicks forever. Why doesn't Priest it's about Tom.
Why doesn't Priest try to emulate and put the love
into the Judas Prestyle version of war Pigs, which we did.
We kept true to the cause because you don't mess
with a song like that. You keep it real, You
keep it real. You add a couple of little textures
(03:45):
to give its own identity.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
But everybody works hard.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Scott re learned how to play the drums you wanted to,
you know, homage to Bill being played like Geezer, our
march to Geezer. So you've got all of this great
stuff going on into the into the performance. And then
when and then when Sharon suggested let's get Oussie on there,
it was just this is just going to go through
(04:10):
the roof now, I mean, you know, how how bigger,
how far past eleven, final top, how far past eleven
can you go? And it's why past eleven you know
the fact that we were able to recreate it the way.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
We did, I think is enough.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You know, it justifies the opportunity to show that the
Aussie had for priests and Black Sabbath had for priests.
We grew up in the same nobook and practically just
a few short mass from each other. We started in
the in the late sixties. We had a long, long
life in in heavy metal rock role. And so for
(04:53):
this to happen now, as bittersweet as it is, it
was destiny this, this was going to happen, and this
was going to happen, you know. So to hear Izz
he sing that first line and then I sing the
second line, and back and forth and back and forth,
it's just magic. It's metal magic, and it's doing so
many good things for those two charities that you that
(05:16):
you referenced.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
So it's and the timing as well.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
To release that when Aussie passed and we were still grieving,
we're still I'm still grieving now, a lot of us
still grieving.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
We had to get the timing right.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And when when everybody felt that this was the opportunity
to release this song, we went.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Ahead and did. So.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
There it is, you know, Priest and Iza and I
listened to it now and it's still very difficult from
difficult for me to kind of, you know, enjoy it
because it's I'm still too you know, I'm just still
can't believe it. But when Ronnie Pastor and Lenny plastered
the greats that passed, you know, because we're we're friends
(06:00):
that you make what Big Rig does on his show
through his songs that he makes, you create friendships. You
create friendships with the music that you play, the bands
that you play, you create these relationships. It's it's an extraordinary,
beautiful thing that only happens in music, you know, so
(06:24):
so to be in that dimension, to be sharing this
special moment together with this with this song, is just
an absolute glorious blessing.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
It is. And Sharon reached out to you by by
note to let you know how much Ozzie appreciated that
smiling ear to hear I can just imagine him hearing that.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Wowah.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
By the way, yeah, a couple of years before he
went home, a couple of a couple of weeks before
he did, he did the show the Football Round.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
So you know, God's up there doing his stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Now this is gonna happen. And then that's gonna happen.
Now we're going to do this, you know, there above
the will of God that goes that, you know, and
it's just a beautiful, beautiful thing that's going on, and you.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Just got to sit on the crazy train and let
it all happen. And it has been a crazy train
and let it all happen. Yeah, that's what that song
is about.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Your crazy train continues. I mean, here we are. We're
going to be celebrating Turbo's fortieth anniversary I think next year.
I mean, the album's the legacy for me, my one
pinpoint moment, besides when I was a kid and I
first heard Living after Midnight for me was Painkiller. Because
Painkiller the way I first experienced that song was the
radio station I worked with we Aarn Metal Shop with
(07:41):
Charlie the Bunch kendle Yes, and they world premiered it.
We hadn't even been serviced the single yet, so we
were trying to lift it off of that show so
we could play it because it was like nothing that
I had ever heard. I was like, oh my god,
this is like next level. And then of course Touch
of Evil would follow and it's still two of my
most plays songs. In my Ihart metal playlist that I
(08:01):
have just because it admits so much. I mean Painkiller.
The first time I heard it was just like wow.
But what we had to do to get it so
we could play it was even crazier. But you know
what next year would be. I think if you guys
do the next record, it would be your twentieth album,
would it not?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
It would be yes, if we go to twenty. I
like the sound of that twenty. I'm all about the
number of numbers. I'm all about even numbers. But thank
you for saying those beautiful things about pain Killer. When
we were making that record, one of the few times
that we went into the studio with an agenda, you know,
because if you start controlling music too much, it doesn't
(08:37):
it loses its reality. You just again, you just let
it flow. You let the music take you to where
it's going to take you to. But we were in
this isolated place in the south of France, mirror of
our studios, and we literally locked ourselves away for the
whole time of writing and recording that album. And as
I said, the gender was, after all of this previous
(09:00):
treasures that priests have created, here we are the nineteen nineties.
You know how it's like big rigging rock and roll
the start of every decade, really exciting things happened out
of the way it does. But if you look at
the start of the nineties, the bands that were banging
out the big the big albums, Pantera and Metallica and
Megie Death, a bunch of others I can't even think of,
(09:23):
and and so here whilst Painkiller was in that in
that same energy field, and it was perfect timing for
this band to show that we had still got the metal,
that we could still you know, tear the place up,
We could still you know, get the fires roaring.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
We always we always.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Knew that we have that ability, but I think this
was the first time we made a concerted effort from
eaching every.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
One of us. So that's what it is, Painkiller. From
the first track to the last track, it just rules.
It just tears your head off, you know, insane.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
It was a tsunami of sound, is how I There's
just no better way to put it. I mean, that's
what it is. It's just boom Rob Halford joining us
as we're talking about obviously the tour, but the future
have a little bit of fun, do a couple of
questions here and kind of go off off the grid
a little bit. Let me ask you this strangest thing
a fan has ever asked you to do.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Sign a baby, Sign a baby.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Did they want to get a tattoo of the signature later?
I mean you eventually have to bathe the baby. I
don't get that. Not a breast but an actual baby.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Love. How many years ago was that?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I think we were in Jersey somewhere doing the record.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Well, okay, never mind, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Absolutely So we were in an in store. It was
a grinding store and tons of fans waiting outside, and
you know, the band sits at the table and yeah,
that signed.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
The band is really busy. They'll just signed too it.
And so you know this.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Album, that album, this pictures of pictures, and suddenly a
baby appears like a shelf, like this baby's pushed in
front of me, and I'm okay, this is a baby.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
It's a baby with the diaper on.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
That is crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
It's probably probably hours old and it's a baby. And
I look up and there's a beautiful couple and I
go the baby. We signed the baby, sign the baby.
I am not sign you know, if it did be a.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Man, I just that one. That that one. That's definitely
the strangest answer I've ever heard of that question a baby.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Wow, if it did have been Aussie with the with
the sharp pie right, oh.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, oh gosh, oh, man, I can only.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
But but I demute, I said, I said, this is
just a very generous, beautiful thing that you that you're offering.
But no, I'm afraid we will not decided. Please take
your baby back and give me a piece of vinyl
or a pick to sign sign the baby.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I love it, Rob Halford on with this. Let me
ask you this. So the Food Network has all these
shows now they're doing, like the Halloween Bakeoff and all this.
If you were to appear on a cooking show, what
would the Rob Halford dish be? What would it be called?
What would it be?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Ooh?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Actually I do like to cook, big rig I can
cook you anything, man, I can cook you anything. I've
been asked up from the UK side of life to
do these home cooking shows and I really don't think
of the ability to do that, quite frankly, but but
I do like to One of my favorite dishes that
(12:39):
I create is I wet taco.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Nice. I've never met a bad taco that I didn't like,
I'll be honest with you, but dry hard shop. But
I don't care at taco. What's what's the favorite ingredient?
What's the meat you put in there? Wet taco?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
It's the turkey. It's the ground turkey. It's the ground turkey.
But it's that you have to have the right seasoning.
You have to have the right shells, you have to
have the right cheese. It's all about all the ingredients,
as everybody will.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Tell you, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, so my my wet turkey tacos are just one
of the things available on the menu. Y.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
That is amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Don't have that associated with Halloween. I don't know. Maybe
it's the red saucer. Could be kind of love the
blood additive.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Right to do that. We add some nuclear hot sauce
to it. We call it the Killer and that's the end,
just the painkillers. I love it. Perfect one more before
we go here. Fashion has always been a big thing
in any form of music. It always has been, and
throughout the years, fashion has changed. For you, Is there
any fashion statement that you would never try on stage?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Oh? It all I've done it all.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
There isn't no nod, including being stripped to my bare
naked birthday skin. One time in London, I used to
whip the crowd. I used to whip the crowd. I
can't do that now because of insurance, but I used
to whip the crowd, you know. And then this one
one show in London at the at the Odein in London,
(14:03):
and I get pulled in, like seven thousand screaming metal
maniac and I get pulled in and I just you know, what,
can you look?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
We now have him on the ground in front of us.
What do we do?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
We just take off all of his clothes, which is
what they did, and then and then they threw him
back on stage. So there I was, in all my
glory with my whipping hand, chatting away Judas Bris Judas Brief.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
So yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
That's a fashion statement. That's hard to follow up, you
do there? Wow?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Well, Adam many they started with fig leads. But listen,
I love what we've been able to do in Priests.
We were the band that really put together the visual
side of this heavy metal power, the two blasts through
the radio. And so the day that we put on
the biker coats and a load of the pants and
the whips and the chains and the stones and the
(14:55):
handcuffs and the biker cap. Everything came together there it
was you know, that's the look. That's the look that
that look is so strong and so powerful it can
only mean metal. So we've had a wonderful journey in
this band, in Judas Priest, through the decades, working with
this fantastic guy in Scott style, ray Brown Fashion. Ray
(15:16):
Brown has been with us forever. And you know, these
designs that we make, these things that we put on
our backs to take out onto these stages around the world,
they're really important because much like Alice, we want to
give you a night to remember. We want you've paid
us good money, you've taken money out your wage packet.
You're taking your good money, you put your money down
(15:37):
for a ticket, and you deserve the best show that
you can get. And that's what Priest is doing for
forever now. And so yeah, come and see this, if
you if you're if you're going to see you, come
and see this, this great, gloryous spectacle of clothing and
costumes and drama and guillotines and motorcycles.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah it's crazy man.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Hell yes, Rob, I really appreciate your time. I know
you guys are busy while you're on the road and
your time is precious. So thank you for spinning it
with us, and have a great rest of the tour.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Thank you by Greg. Great checking out the Mental checking
out the rock and Roll Kitten sending pipe.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Oh yeah, awesome, Rob, thank you so much, man. Have
a great rest and safe tour.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Say by takee ohe bye bye.
Popular Podcasts
CrimeLess: Hillbilly Heist
It’s 1996 in rural North Carolina, and an oddball crew makes history when they pull off America’s third largest cash heist. But it’s all downhill from there. Join host Johnny Knoxville as he unspools a wild and woolly tale about a group of regular ‘ol folks who risked it all for a chance at a better life. CrimeLess: Hillbilly Heist answers the question: what would you do with 17.3 million dollars? The answer includes diamond rings, mansions, velvet Elvis paintings, plus a run for the border, murder-for-hire-plots, and FBI busts.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.