All guns, all guns blaaaaaazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    

		hellrider 31038 wrote:

I think most people who attend concerts whether it be Priest or Maiden or Metallica or whoever  tend to be casual rather than die hard fans. A lot of them won't have every single release by them and I reckon most of them have never been near the JP forum either. 

I bet  if you did a straw poll many people in a Priest concert wouldn't be able to name all their releases as well. And does it matter? If you put a ban on them because "they are not real fans" Priest would be playing to unfilled veneus.

    

		Head banger wrote:
		I dont know the technical terms either (are most priest fans more musicaly knowledgable than fans of other bands?) I do notice a marked change in style with british steel, and again with painkiller.  then of course rob left....   its actualy not the converting the casual I think that is the problem, its getting the casual fan to begin with.  how many maiden "fans" are there that cant name half the CD's they have put out, and own edward the great and one other.  priest doesnt have those "fans"      Bev wrote:   IDK HB ... though they push the musical boundaries the music can be associated with them (wish I could use the appropriate technical terms), but it is definitely distinguishable; the guitar style, tone, etc is KK & Glenn, vocals definitely Rob / Ripper.  'Has something to do with production but if you know the sound you recognize the band.  Sorry, don't know how better to describe it.  I think it's been up to the diehards to Baptize the casual!  If they don't convert, well that is on us - lol

     "I think now, as far as image and identity are concerned, we've got the whole thing down pat and it's pretty solid. I don't think we'll ever really deviate to any degree from our physical presentation because you know how important it is to maintain a certain level of imagery, so that when people think of Rob Halford, or whomever else in the band, they instantly paint a mental picture of the way you are rather than just your music. They remember the whips and the motorbikes. The whole process of imagery now, I think, is important or even more important than it has been in the past. I think the identity side of it is crucial to a certain extent. Bands don't get anywhere if they're faceless. You can have the greatest sounding album in the world, but if people can't relate to an individual or to the group as a whole in their appearance, then the band isn't really getting anywhere."- Rob Halford, Heavy Metal Times, November 1982

 

		ron h wrote:
		Well, at least the look of Metal...