I love your attitude and i'm glad there are people like you out there. You guys/gals will help
keep the legacy alive. I only feel the way I do because I've been listening to them for over 31
years but the last 10 have been a bit of a disappointment for me. I know what they were once
capable of doing. Now with K.K. gone and them sounding different it's harder and harder for me
to get into them like I once did. Due to age the tempo of their music has slowed a little also.
There is a video of them from 1983 (Dortmund Festival). Search this out and watch and listen.
You'll see why it's hard for me now. I still love them if for no other reason than longevity and I
tell people all the time that I'm glad I picked Priest as a favorite band. I can think of only one band
from my youth that still sounds great and that's Megadeth. I just got their new disc and other than
the first track it sounds as good as the early stuff. Anyway, keep the faith. Peace!

		Netanyah99RobH8 wrote:
		Well, I am young, quite young and I actually haven't listened to all the Priest songs yet. Judas Priest has made a lot of songs and some people (in my generation) haven't listened to all their songs either. So it might take a some time as they get addicted to a song listen to it over and over then move on to the next song. They will eventually grow out of Priest and moved on but also might have passed it down to family and friends who are young. And all the young people that are new to Priest and Priest's songs will listen to their music that they've made in the past. Priest loses fans but also gets fans right there. I know its past music but it will seem new to the youngsters. Judas Priest's history they've had members come and go. That might be the case when  Priest members we have now leave or something. I really don't want Priest to die out and if that's where their heading I just wanted to say something positive to kinda say that Priest still has fans that are young and will hopefully carry on with the Faith even if its past music. Personally I think the past is better because there was better artists. I don't know about other people, agree, don't agree, this is just my opinion..      Budred wrote: I'm going to assume that you must be young and your enthusiasm towards the Priest has to be commended. If you are young then you probably don't understand the concept of age yet. These guys are not getting any younger and they definitely don't have the drawing power of years gone by. People are not patient for new music and they will be passed by if they continue to draw this out so long in between records. I'm afraid that you and your generation are only going to have the past to enjoy when it comes to Priest. Since Rob's return I've been stuck in the past. I call them my favorite band but if the only thing I heard from them was what they've done since Demolition then I probably wouldn't be much of a fan at all. I can't stay in the past when it comes to music, I choose to move forward.      Netanyah99RobH8 wrote: Aw man. Well I think Priest will have a future with my generation. I've got my whole class addicted to them. Some of my friends have bought albums like single cuts. I've got my younger cousins addicted and they're telling their friends about Priest. Even got some teachers addicted and they pass Priests' awesome music along. No matter what we all know Judas Priest is da beast      Budred wrote: I was checking out my page on youtube and noticed something interesting about my video views. Before I post anything let me stress that I do not consider Mushroomhead to be better than Judas Priest. I was checking total views. I'm not going to list song titles just numbers. These videos were put up two weeks apart. Total counts for Priest-        Total counts for Mushroomhead-   90                                                      491   131                                                   775   96                                                     450   232                                                   699   164                                                   1212                                                             1425                                                             1095 Does this mean anything? (No) but it is pretty interesting. Mushroomhead isn't even big outside of Cleveland yet their numbers crush Priest. Actually, I find this a little disturbing. Outside of this site Priest is losing their fanbase. People aren't interested in them anymore it seems. Gund Arena holds 25,000 people yet Priest only had about 3000 people there. Even though I got ripped for saying it maybe they are picking the right time to do a final tour. This tour had to lose money, at least for the promoters, so I don't think anyone would be all that eager to promote them in the future. I'm so glad (and grateful) for their longevity but I'm not noticing a future for them. I hope the new album kicks ass, my guess is that it may be the final one. Just an opinion, only matters to me.

(Not purposely) but I exaggerated that a little. I thought I had around 11,800 and rounded up.
I saw your post so I checked and I have 11, 200. Pretty much my entire cd collection is on it.

		Vaillant 3.0 wrote:
		12,000 songs?!?      Budred wrote: You make a good point, I didn't even consider that. I couldn't tell you how many in Cleveland watched Thin Lizzy. I made it a point not to. I said before that I hated them but I use that term loosely sometimes. I never have cared for them though and I don't have a single song of theirs on my iPod out of nearly 12,000. I never thought they were heavy and I didn't like Phil Lynott's voice at all. (I probably spelled his name wrong). Anyway, take care man.      Head banger wrote: perhaps the sheer number of priest vids on youtube slows them down? 3000 at your show?  did anyone see thin lizzy?  here they went on at 6 to less than 100 people est watching.  by sets end there were less than a thousand from a crowd of almost 9000 total.  I watched their whole set.... never again.      Budred wrote: I was checking out my page on youtube and noticed something interesting about my video views. Before I post anything let me stress that I do not consider Mushroomhead to be better than Judas Priest. I was checking total views. I'm not going to list song titles just numbers. These videos were put up two weeks apart. Total counts for Priest-        Total counts for Mushroomhead-   90                                                      491   131                                                   775   96                                                     450   232                                                   699   164                                                   1212                                                             1425                                                             1095 Does this mean anything? (No) but it is pretty interesting. Mushroomhead isn't even big outside of Cleveland yet their numbers crush Priest. Actually, I find this a little disturbing. Outside of this site Priest is losing their fanbase. People aren't interested in them anymore it seems. Gund Arena holds 25,000 people yet Priest only had about 3000 people there. Even though I got ripped for saying it maybe they are picking the right time to do a final tour. This tour had to lose money, at least for the promoters, so I don't think anyone would be all that eager to promote them in the future. I'm so glad (and grateful) for their longevity but I'm not noticing a future for them. I hope the new album kicks ass, my guess is that it may be the final one. Just an opinion, only matters to me.

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