Well think about it this way too - they will be contracturally (sp?) obligated to fulfill all these tour dates by the promoters - if they quit and cancelled all the dates, they would get in big trouble and possibly even sued.
I guess I would need someone to set things straight.... cause all you people are talking about "saying goodbye to Priest" and seeing them "for the last time".
The way I see it - we get to do neither.
If I have interpreted the info given so far - this is the situation:
1. K.K left before Christmas
2. The band/management (who am I angry with, I don't even know since they as usual have chosen to be so....british about it!) start selling tickets for the EPITATH TOUR - say goodbye to the band blah blahhh - well knowing the truth, but conveniently "forgetting" to inform anyone about it.
3. Oh - by the way - a month before the tour begins - K.K quit six months ago. We forgot to tell you? Oh darn. But we have a GREAT new replacement! You know that guy from Lauren Harris' band?! No? No biggie, it will be SWELL.
4. No reason given for the departure. Just some blah about differences and more blah.
5. Scott lets us know that it might not be the last tour after all.
The dudes in KISS suddenly seem more straight-forward with all of THEIR bullshit-"farewell"-tours than this huge SCAM.
In other words... I've been buying tickets and flight tickets, hotels, rental cars and what not - for the past few months, because I wanted to see my favorite band in the world. All this time I've been played for a fool, tricked into buying tickets for what I thought would be my last chance to see Priest. But that ship has already sailed!
That chance was ON THEIR LAST TOUR, because K.K didn't even have the decency to say goodbye, he just split.
And the rest of them just kept their mouths shut so that it wouldn't affect ticket-sales.
I am so upset and I feel like I've been treated like an idiot, I've bought tickets under false pretenses and when I go to see Priest now, that's how it will feel. It's not right. This dishonesty is sickening and I really HOPE that I have misunderstood the whole situation and that there is some detail somewhere that I have missed.
Because the way it looks NOW - it's nothing but deception and it's sad if this is the way Judas Priest chooses to "leave the building"....
