"We played our first show last night in Tilburg Holland. Although it was a warm up show, it was just as important to us as the big shows to come and it was jam packed.

The audience was fantastic and it was an amazing debut for Ritchie. I still can`t believe the way he captures the essence of the solos, but does it in his own way. He really is quite special!

It was great to be back on stage again. The set list works well. We are, as we said doing a song from every album and being the farewell tour we have obviously included all the favourites, but songs like "Never Satisfied", "Blood Red Skies", "Starbreaker" and "Nightcrawler", also got a great reaction. The arrangement changes we made in the other songs worked well too.

All in all it was a great night for the band and I'd like to thank our fans, it was quite emotional and great to be back especially as it looked unlikely for a time."

		Budred wrote:
		I'm not saying it's good or bad but I am curious to know what some of you think. I only have Youtube to go by but to me it seems as if Richie is changing some of the guitar work to suit his style. Some of his solos sound a little flashy or jazzed up. I'm wondering if anyone is noticing a change in their sound and I wonder, if there is a change, is it Priest's idea or Richie's. Do they want him to add his own flair to their sound or is it maybe that he can't do KK's parts as well as KK? Maybe it's me and there is no change. The little differences I'm noticing I'm not really liking because to me they (Priest) sound different. The poor video quality and me only watching about a half dozen or so of them tells not to criticize just yet.           Any thoughts?