DU Music fans, your opinion please.

Hi everybody, I know this sort of thing is not most DUers cup of tea--but I think I am most curious about the opinions of non-heavy metal fans in this case.

What do you all think of this song, especially the guitarwork, more especially the solo section. I have long thought that people are just "wired" to like different kinds of music and the emotions that they stimulate, and damn, this is just up my alley. To call it a furious guitar assault is to (I think) understate the case! From the trade off section, to the sweep picking/counter melody section to a descending harmony, to an ascending harmony, it just seems to build in intensity each step of the way. The audible "whoa" sound from the audience really says a lot--the crowd at the St Paul Excel Energy Center made pretty much the same sound when I saw this show later that summer.

Again, I am generally curious to hear from people who would never think of attending a concert like this, so let me know what you think. :)

Judas Priest: Hellrider.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRF-3yG8D30

:)

Can't resist replying, it's Judas Priest, fuckin awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

but when they move into the final sections of that harmony it just makes me want to pump my fist in the air and shout YEAAAAHHHHHHH!

I wonder what other people feel when they hear it? I take it you're with me on this one eh? \m/ \m/

And, it's just cool to see a band not resting on their laurels: These guys were pretty much contemporaries with Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Ozzy era Sabbath, and look at how much they have progressed. There's no phoning it in here. :hi:

yes, those two have gotten better on guitar. Tapping!, sweeping! (ok, not Yngwie level, but you know.)

Those others you mentioned, same as it ever was. I could be wrong.

because (especially with Tipton) he just looks so damned RELAXED when he is playhing like that, you have to wonder what it would be like if really, really pushed it.

Me and my brother and SIL will sit around in their kitchen drinking and laughing and listening to some JP on occasion and we still get all dorky excited :headbang:

They were in awesome form at the Taste of MN. Glenn and KK were awesome as always and Rob was hitting the high notes like I haven't heard since the Painkiller tour. Coupled with his obvious singing practice in the intervening years means it might have been the best I've heard him sing. And this was my eighth show.

Not that they never touch on important topics, they occasionally do, (Intrusive Big Brother, Nuclear War, destruction of indigenous cultures, they have songs about all of them) but for the most part they just generally try to convey a sense of underdog triumph against conformity/personal freedom and fullfillment.

This is just one of those.