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Making a Masterpiece: Judas Priest Talk About Their
New Album
I’ve always wondered what it takes to make a
Becki masterpiece. In fact, it’s one of the foremost
H thoughts on my mind every time I sit down at my
computer and begin writing. Just for reference,
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or brain, rather—has ever remotely reached the
level of masterpiece. Yet every day, I keep plugging away and trying
to figure out how one does create work that will go down in the
annals as a masterpiece.
When the opportunity to interview Glenn Tipton, guitarist for Judas
Priest, first arrived, I was incredibly excited. Here is a man who could
tell me all about creating a masterpiece. Aside from laying the
foundation of modern metal and earning the moniker “Metal Gods,”
for the last four years, it has been rumored that the band has been
working on an epic two-disc album about the French prophet
Nostradamus. Nostradamus may be Judas Priest’s most experimental
album to date. With most people these days listening to music
through iTunes and radio play becoming more and more limited, most Message: To:
mainstream artists tend to opt for pithy songs and albums. But Priest has decided to do just the opposite. “The
whole deal with Nostradamus is that it’s not an album made up of two or three strong tracks-- it’s a whole piece,”
explained Glenn. “You step out of this world and you step into the world of Nostradamus for an hour and a half From:
almost. It’s a fantasy; it’s escapism. It’s best to either put headphones on or put it on your system and crank it up
and when you’ve got a free hour and a half, go enjoy the journey really.”
Now, with less than one month until the release of Nostradamus, I was going to have the opportunity to dig into the
mind of Glenn Tipton and find out what it really takes to make a true work of art. “We’ve always been a fairly brave
band with albums like Point of Entry and Turbo. So maybe this is another brave or stupid move-- who knows,”
responded Glenn blithely when asked about the group’s overall feeling about Nostradamus. Okay, not exactly the
response I was expecting from a man who almost single-handedly modernized the twin-guitar sound. Where was the
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bravado? The unerring sense of confidence?
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“Nobody knows the way it’s going to go, but like I said, we’ve never worried too much about that,” said Glenn
nonchalantly. “We’ve made either brave or stupid moves in the past, but we’ve done what we believe is right and Medication Nation
we’ve done what we feel is right at that particular point in time. That’s exactly what we feel about Nostradamus.”
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Communication?
Perhaps it’s easier to be casual about your work when you’ve been doing it for as many years as Glenn. He picked up
his first guitar at the age of 19 and less than five years later, Glenn found himself touring with legendary metal band Depression
Deep Purple. “I still get sort of embarrassed when I think about it,” Glenn said, reminiscing about his first European
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tour wit the band. “[Deep Purple] was my real baptism of fire.”
Of course, Glenn came from a musical background. His mother was a classical pianist and Glenn himself often,
“messed around on the keyboard.” He marks up his rapid acquisition of guitar skills to intense work during the first
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few years he was learning how to play. All of his hard work soon paid off though. “Priest came along and asked me
to join. In all reality, I thought, ‘Yeah well, I’ll join for a bit, ya know.’ And here it is, 35 years later, and I’m still here. Could a Cartoon Character Save the
It didn’t take me long to realize the potential of the band and the talent in the band.” Environment?
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“Our process of writing is that we accumulate ideas individually and then myself, Ron [Halford] and K.K. [Downing]
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get into a room and we pull our ideas,” explained Glenn. “When the room lights up, we know we’re onto something.
That’s the way we work.” Perhaps that’s how Glenn’s first “great” guitar solo, as critics have come to refer to his Gaming: Not a Solitary Activity Anymore
work on the 1978 classic “Beyond the Realms of Death,” came to be penned by drummer Les Binks.
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The band members did have their share of difficulties. In 1991, lead singer Rob Halford left the band to begin My Room is Me
pursing his own solo projects, even this didn’t seem to faze Glenn. “At that point in time, we were pretty much burnt
out,” Glenn said, when discussing why the group initially disbanded. “At the end of the day, I think we look back on Gay Can Be Dangerous
it as a good thing. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. I did two solo albums, which I never would have done,
and got to work with some great musicians. In a way, I’m glad that happened. I wouldn’t have done those if Priest No Dirty Little Secrets for The All-American
had still been together.” Rejects
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Glenn. “Once we sat down in the room and started to compose again, it was almost like we’d never been apart.”
So what, aside from perfect unity within the band—which is not easy for everyone to accomplish—as well as natural
talent, is the key to creating a true masterpiece? As I looked back on the interview, I noticed Glenn invoked a single
word over and over again: belief. “We’ve always had a belief in our music,” said Glenn as he discussed how Priest
has managed to survive for nearly three decades. “We never turned our back on metal. We’ve always been proud to
be heavy metal. Some bands have denied the tag, ‘heavy metal’ and thought it wasn’t in vogue or it wasn’t
fashionable. We’ve always been proud of the fact that we’re a heavy metal band and been proud to play Judas Priest
music. Even though we’ve evolved to a certain extent, our music has stayed true to our roots and what we enjoy
composing and playing.”
So perhaps some day, I may be able to write the masterpiece I have always dreamed of creating. Maybe, like Priest,
I’ll even recognize it if I write it. The key, I guess, is just having the innate belief in yourself and in your work. The
rest, I suppose, will grow from there.
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July 2, 2008 10:23 PM
thats cool as hell they're making another album.if its priest they're going to be
kick ass ...fuck !!!!
randy phillips
May 24, 2008 10:10 PM
I FUCKIN LOVE JUDAS PRIEST!!!!! WOOT WOOT!!!!!!
HANA RoCkA RoLAKK
lover
May 24, 2008 10:58 AM
untouched by anyones vocal ability need I say more about the master Rob
Halford Hail to the vocal Metal God
Scott Minery
May 24, 2008 02:06 AM
FUCK YA METAL MASTERS TOUR!!!!!!! SEE YOU THERE PRIEST :D
marcos gomez
May 23, 2008 08:12 PM
THE METAL GODS...JUDAS PRIEST...ENOUGH SAID
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May 23, 2008 02:29 AM
judas priest kicks ass they were my first concert
Louise Rivera
Lorenzo Suazo
May 22, 2008 11:45 PM
oh fuck yeah im defenetily buying this album i have best of priest and it kicks ass
junk food kid
May 22, 2008 10:56 PM
Not a big fan but priest kicks ass!!
Matt's Noemi
+Spooky Strano+
May 22, 2008 10:48 PM
Screaming for Vengance, and Turbo are my favorites
~Dragonheart~ >:P
~Wizard~
May 22, 2008 10:13 PM
British Steel is my all time favorite
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No Dirty Little Secrets for The All-American Rejects
Tyson Ritter is getting out of his head and putting it all on the line
for The All-American Rejects newest album When the World Comes
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the age of seventeen? Out of your head,
apparently! At least, that’s where The Al-American Rejects’ lead
singer and guitarist Tyson Ritter went when trying to create the
band’s second major label album, When the World Comes Down.
“The fact that I’m still here at the end of it is really a surprise to me,”
said Tyson reflecting on the experience of making this latest album. “I
think it’s like a Litmus test of where the world’s at right now for
us. When you’re 17 or 18, you’re questioning yourself; you’re in your
own world. Once you graduate college or you’re at least at the age
that you would have—right now, I’m 24—I think I’m questioning the
full universe right now. This record is a little bit more reflective of the
world around me.” Message: To:
This is a far cry from the outlook of the 17 year old, whose band was
signed to its first label when one label president’s sister-in-law pulled From:
The All-American Rejects’ demo out of a trash can because she liked the photo of the band on the cover.
“It was like natural,” Tyson says recalling their leap from then indie label, Doghouse records to the major label,
Dreamworks Records. “It felt like what we were supposed to do. It felt like we just ran into destiny’s arms.”
In truth, destiny seems to have played a hand in much of Tyson’s career. At 13 years old, the young guitarist found
his four other bandmates through a midnight cemetery club where kids would go to watch scary movies. “It was just
a fun thing to do,” Tyson said. “Mike Kennerty and Chris Gaylord were next to Old Man Witter’s headstone, so I Military, Disrespect, War In Iraq, Etc.
walked over and I was like, ‘Yo, do you play music?’ For some reason, that was on my mind that day. They were
The Uninvited
like, ‘Yes!’ We started the band and played our first show right at the gates of the cemetery.”
Medication Nation
At the time, Tyson claims he did little more than play kazoo, but after forcing him to record a solo track on a song,
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the band realized they had a real singer on their hands. “It was kind of funny because they other guy we had singing
with us couldn’t sing for shit,” Tyson said. “The local radio station ended up playing only my song.” Communication?
Depression
Being in Stillwater, Oklahoma, a real college town, the guys had no problem driving their tapes down to the local
radio station and getting their songs on the air or playing local college bars for that matter—even though they were What It Really Means to be Single
only 13 years old at the time. “We had these permission slips that we literally just invented and the cops seemed to
not care,” Tyson laughed.
The real goal was getting out of Oklahoma though. “We knew we weren’t the smartest birds in the basket, so it What It Really Means to be Single
wasn’t like we were going to become rocket scientists and leave, move off to New York,” Tyson said with an
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unabashed air of authenticity. “We just knew how to write songs. We were hoping to God something would happen
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before we graduated.”
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Honest engagement, both with his music and his fans, may just be the secret to The All-American Rejects’
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success. The entire band participates in a daily live blog on AllAmericanRejects.com that gives fans an
unparalleled look inside the band’s day-to-day lives. Gaming: Not a Solitary Activity Anymore
And in the end, this attention and care has helped the band create an album that Tyson stands behind more Sitting Down With Fall Out Boy
passionately than any artist I have heard speak about their work in almost a decade. “We write every one of our
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songs,” he says emphatically. “We don’t crap out a record three months after our last one died out…We don’t write
skippers… [When the World Comes Down] is a full record. It’s an experience. You sit down and it’s like a ride. It lifts Gay Can Be Dangerous
you up; it drops you down; it makes you think; it makes you feel love; it makes you feel loss; it makes you reflect on
people who have come and gone in your life. I think this record is a life-changing record for people that enjoy pop No Dirty Little Secrets for The All-American
rock.” Rejects
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Releasing on December 16 th, When the World Comes Down may very well be the contemporary pop rock album that
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December 24, 2008 04:07 PM
yes...I started listening their first song 'cause the guy was so hot...hihi :)
Lydia
[iadmiredyou/addme]
December 21, 2008 02:00 PM
I like that new song they have. 'Give's you Hell'
Chaotic Kittie
December 17, 2008 08:18 AM
omg i love them so much :D they are my insperation one day, i hope we can play
together!
Kat Ferguson
December 17, 2008 04:41 AM
these guys rock got there 1st nd it was sik cant w8 4 it 2 get down under :D
dayne norris
December 17, 2008 03:51 AM
I agree with Shae! He's so gosh dang HOOTTT!
dawlface ♥ No
Lies, Just Love♥
December 17, 2008 12:25 AM
that dude is soo hot and i love their songs
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December 17, 2008 12:12 AM
my favorite band. they say it like it is.
katie johnson
December 16, 2008 11:52 PM
I have loved the All American Rejects but I just got the new album and I'm a little
disappointed. I do love "Gives You Hell" though.
Hannah Ohman
December 16, 2008 11:46 PM
hey audrey, I agree with everyone else when they said you're lame
Cherry Martinez
December 16, 2008 11:01 PM
omg i luv "dirty Little Secret" its me and my best friends song. yeah don't ask.
thats what he calls me.. haha
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Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Are Fightin' Back!
How one band is taking an honest stand against domestic violence
Yesterday, I was schooled in the
Becki art of honesty by the lead singer
H of Red Jumpsuit Apparatus,
Ronnie Winters.
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Prior to our conversation, I may
or may not have been joking with a colleague
about the multitude of charities the Red Jumpsuit
Apparatus seem to support through their
Foundation. I mean, this is a band that chose its
name by placing words on a wall, blindfolding one
of their members and choosing three words
randomly. Their allegiance to charities seemed just
as haphazard—supporting everything from suicide
to domestic violence. Reading through all their
various causes, visions of “The Derek Zoolander
Center for Kids Who Can’t Read Good” were
crossing my mind, I have to admit. [On a side note,
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I have interviewed countless musicians over the
years and, in the process, have become slightly
cynical]. Five minutes on the phone, though, with From:
Ronnie and I found myself summarily put in my place.
The interview was supposed to be about their campaign, their Guardian Angel campaign to be exact. Through the
month of November, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is hosting a contest along with the National Coalition Against Domestic
Abuse at their website site www.totalassault.com/contests/yourguardianangel/. The user who creates the
most compelling video about their personal guardian angel will win $1,000 and have $1,000 donated to the Red
Jumpsuit Apparatus Guardian Angel Fund in their guardian angel’s name. Knowing this, of course, my first question
had to be, “Why are you involved with this campaign?”
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“My parents pretty much self-destructed due to drugs and alcohol and a number of other things. Neither one of them Depression
were actually able to take care of us. So my grandparents stepped in and adopted all three of us [Ronnie and his
two brothers] so that way we wouldn’t be split up by the courts,” Ronnie explained. “They adopted us and just kind What It Really Means to be Single
of roped us in, gave us a reality check. We definitely had kind of a different life for a while. They just kind of brought
us back to normality and taught us what a normal family household is like. They just kind of saved us really.”
Suddenly their song, “Face Down,” seemed so much more meaningful. You could almost see a young boy huddled in What It Really Means to be Single
a corner as he shouts, “Do you feel like a man when you push her around? Do you feel better now?” It’s so rife with
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pain and so…honest. It’s a word we don’t often apply to celebrities, but for Ronnie and the other members of Red
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Jumpsuit Apparatus, there really is no other way to describe them.
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“Everything on our album is pretty simple as far as inspiration— they’re all just me talking about things that we’ve
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gone through. Domestic violence is something I grew up with pretty much my entire life,” Ronnie explained.
“Basically, it was just something I dealt with and I guess I kind of had it stored way back in my brain somewhere Gaming: Not a Solitary Activity Anymore
and it just came out one day. I don’t know how other people do it, but I say it’s really hard to write a song with
intent. You have to kind of feel it. Half way through the song, I kind of got a grasp on where it was going and just Sitting Down With Fall Out Boy
let it finish.”
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When any other musician said something like this in previous interviews I’d done, my bullshit meter would start Gay Can Be Dangerous
reaching maximum capacity; but with Ronnie, the words feel innately true. “We’re five real people from a small
town,” he said matter-of-factly. “We weren’t put together by a label. Nobody did anything for us. We did it ourselves. No Dirty Little Secrets for The All-American
We worked our way up. We are real guys. We care about real issues because we’re real people with real families.” Rejects
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That’s when it hit me— this interview seemed so real because Red Jumpsuit Apparatus are just a bunch of
hometown guys. They met in Florida, came together through a sequence of strange coincidences (except Ronnie and More From This Author | Article Archive | Meet The Team
Duke, who met in high school) and just sort of clicked. Nothing more complicated than that. And that’s why Ronnie
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isn’t afraid to express how grateful he was to have his older brother Randy to talk to all those years they were being
abused. And why he can openly admit he is proud of his younger brother Eric, who is currently serving in Iraq as a
Chaplin Assistant, when the war is such a controversial subject.
The organizations that he and his band fight for, like the National Coalition Against Domestic Abuse, help with
problems that have affected these guys in their personal lives and ones they believe in passionately. “I just had an
interesting experience with life in general,” he said when asked why he supported suicide prevention as well as
domestic abuse. “I think a lot of times there is a strong correlation between domestic violence and sexual abuse and
other things of that nature and teen suicide. Not only are they being abused, they’re being abused by the people
who claim to care about them. When that happens, it can be pretty devastating. So I definitely understand the
situation.”
His one word of advice to those suffering from domestic abuse is to always remember that you are not alone. “Don’t
be afraid to reach out and talk to somebody, whether it’s a guidance counselor, or a coworker, or a friend. Anybody
who you think actually cares. Somebody does care. It’s that simple. No one is ever alone in this world. If you are
alone, there is always God. He’s always there for you,” Ronnie advises. “I might be hung for that statement
nowadays.”
Hearing that was a bit of a relief. For a guy who seemed so naturally honest that he made me trip over my own
detailed questions, it’s almost reassuring to hear him profess self-doubt. Of course, I assured him there would be no
reproof for that statement; just heartfelt gratitude that there is someone willing to be this real in the world.
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January 28, 2008 11:25 AM
face down holds great meaning for me. it describes the pain that i have been
threw an di give all props for becoming who they are
Anonymous
January 27, 2008 07:58 PM
"do you feel like a man, when you push her around, do you feel better now as
she falls to the ground..." love it
eMiLy LoRaNe ~add
me~
January 9, 2008 03:29 AM
FACE DOWN I LOVE THAT SONG!!!! they freakin rock. and no wonder their songs
are so good.
Dee G.
January 2, 2008 01:11 PM
yeah...now i dont really feel so bad for being "the closest look alike to Ronnie
Winter" actually i hate the feeling...but still they are a great band!
Chris Francis
December 21, 2007 04:47 PM
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is a brilliant band, and most people just become famous
cause its what they wanted. They became famous from being themselves, and
-- speaking the truth. Their music reaches out to a lot of people today, especially
face down. As much as teens don't like to admit it, they are the most vunerable
for abusive relationships. I listen to their album every day. Kudo's to RJA! ♥♥♥
December 21, 2007 11:34 AM
i love the red jumpsuit apparatus...they have so much meaning in their music. and they have their hearts in
the right place. in response to another artical Becki wrote on heroes, they are heroes... and Tom Lamb, who
says "THEY ARE EMO!!!!" to this i respond...who cares? why do people have to put someone in a catagory by
the way they act. i think that "emo" is just a term for those who are more sensative then then the average
person...and there is nothing wrong with that. why do we have to label them?
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December 12, 2007 08:39 PM
THEY ARE EMO!!!!
xX Flea Xx ♥ Love
is Love ♥
Bishop Don Magic
Tom
November 26, 2007 06:38 PM
THAT SONG FACE DOWN GETS ME ALL CHOKED UP WHEN I HEAR IT...I ♥ RED
JUMPSUIT APPARATUS
Yari =]
November 26, 2007 12:40 AM
There my fav bands the lyrics of them is wow amamzing man I love them I mean
the song face down has a great meaning to it
Stephy (JINO'S
PROPERTY) *say
what?* Black
November 25, 2007 09:43 PM
They're in my top 5 bands and I love them for being so honest. I hate when some
girls like the song "Face Down" because it was on the radio and they don't really
understand the meaning of it. Everytime I hear it I get really sad and feel like I
want to cry because what he's singing is stuff that is happening to alot of people.
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Making a Masterpiece: Judas Priest Talk About Their
New Album
I’ve always wondered what it takes to make a
Becki masterpiece. In fact, it’s one of the foremost
H thoughts on my mind every time I sit down at my
computer and begin writing. Just for reference,
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or brain, rather—has ever remotely reached the
level of masterpiece. Yet every day, I keep plugging away and trying
to figure out how one does create work that will go down in the
annals as a masterpiece.
When the opportunity to interview Glenn Tipton, guitarist for Judas
Priest, first arrived, I was incredibly excited. Here is a man who could
tell me all about creating a masterpiece. Aside from laying the
foundation of modern metal and earning the moniker “Metal Gods,”
for the last four years, it has been rumored that the band has been
working on an epic two-disc album about the French prophet
Nostradamus. Nostradamus may be Judas Priest’s most experimental
album to date. With most people these days listening to music
through iTunes and radio play becoming more and more limited, most Message: To:
mainstream artists tend to opt for pithy songs and albums. But Priest has decided to do just the opposite. “The
whole deal with Nostradamus is that it’s not an album made up of two or three strong tracks-- it’s a whole piece,”
explained Glenn. “You step out of this world and you step into the world of Nostradamus for an hour and a half From:
almost. It’s a fantasy; it’s escapism. It’s best to either put headphones on or put it on your system and crank it up
and when you’ve got a free hour and a half, go enjoy the journey really.”
Now, with less than one month until the release of Nostradamus, I was going to have the opportunity to dig into the
mind of Glenn Tipton and find out what it really takes to make a true work of art. “We’ve always been a fairly brave
band with albums like Point of Entry and Turbo. So maybe this is another brave or stupid move-- who knows,”
responded Glenn blithely when asked about the group’s overall feeling about Nostradamus. Okay, not exactly the
response I was expecting from a man who almost single-handedly modernized the twin-guitar sound. Where was the
Military, Disrespect, War In Iraq, Etc.
bravado? The unerring sense of confidence?
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“Nobody knows the way it’s going to go, but like I said, we’ve never worried too much about that,” said Glenn
nonchalantly. “We’ve made either brave or stupid moves in the past, but we’ve done what we believe is right and Medication Nation
we’ve done what we feel is right at that particular point in time. That’s exactly what we feel about Nostradamus.”
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Communication?
Perhaps it’s easier to be casual about your work when you’ve been doing it for as many years as Glenn. He picked up
his first guitar at the age of 19 and less than five years later, Glenn found himself touring with legendary metal band Depression
Deep Purple. “I still get sort of embarrassed when I think about it,” Glenn said, reminiscing about his first European
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tour wit the band. “[Deep Purple] was my real baptism of fire.”
Of course, Glenn came from a musical background. His mother was a classical pianist and Glenn himself often,
“messed around on the keyboard.” He marks up his rapid acquisition of guitar skills to intense work during the first
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few years he was learning how to play. All of his hard work soon paid off though. “Priest came along and asked me
to join. In all reality, I thought, ‘Yeah well, I’ll join for a bit, ya know.’ And here it is, 35 years later, and I’m still here. Could a Cartoon Character Save the
It didn’t take me long to realize the potential of the band and the talent in the band.” Environment?
Perhaps it's their diplomatic approach to creating music that has helped the band survive and grow over the years. Even Cough Syrup Gets You High?
“Our process of writing is that we accumulate ideas individually and then myself, Ron [Halford] and K.K. [Downing]
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get into a room and we pull our ideas,” explained Glenn. “When the room lights up, we know we’re onto something.
That’s the way we work.” Perhaps that’s how Glenn’s first “great” guitar solo, as critics have come to refer to his Gaming: Not a Solitary Activity Anymore
work on the 1978 classic “Beyond the Realms of Death,” came to be penned by drummer Les Binks.
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The band members did have their share of difficulties. In 1991, lead singer Rob Halford left the band to begin My Room is Me
pursing his own solo projects, even this didn’t seem to faze Glenn. “At that point in time, we were pretty much burnt
out,” Glenn said, when discussing why the group initially disbanded. “At the end of the day, I think we look back on Gay Can Be Dangerous
it as a good thing. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. I did two solo albums, which I never would have done,
and got to work with some great musicians. In a way, I’m glad that happened. I wouldn’t have done those if Priest No Dirty Little Secrets for The All-American
had still been together.” Rejects
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Glenn. “Once we sat down in the room and started to compose again, it was almost like we’d never been apart.”
So what, aside from perfect unity within the band—which is not easy for everyone to accomplish—as well as natural
talent, is the key to creating a true masterpiece? As I looked back on the interview, I noticed Glenn invoked a single
word over and over again: belief. “We’ve always had a belief in our music,” said Glenn as he discussed how Priest
has managed to survive for nearly three decades. “We never turned our back on metal. We’ve always been proud to
be heavy metal. Some bands have denied the tag, ‘heavy metal’ and thought it wasn’t in vogue or it wasn’t
fashionable. We’ve always been proud of the fact that we’re a heavy metal band and been proud to play Judas Priest
music. Even though we’ve evolved to a certain extent, our music has stayed true to our roots and what we enjoy
composing and playing.”
So perhaps some day, I may be able to write the masterpiece I have always dreamed of creating. Maybe, like Priest,
I’ll even recognize it if I write it. The key, I guess, is just having the innate belief in yourself and in your work. The
rest, I suppose, will grow from there.
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July 2, 2008 10:23 PM
thats cool as hell they're making another album.if its priest they're going to be
kick ass ...fuck !!!!
randy phillips
May 24, 2008 10:10 PM
I FUCKIN LOVE JUDAS PRIEST!!!!! WOOT WOOT!!!!!!
HANA RoCkA RoLAKK
lover
May 24, 2008 10:58 AM
untouched by anyones vocal ability need I say more about the master Rob
Halford Hail to the vocal Metal God
Scott Minery
May 24, 2008 02:06 AM
FUCK YA METAL MASTERS TOUR!!!!!!! SEE YOU THERE PRIEST :D
marcos gomez
May 23, 2008 08:12 PM
THE METAL GODS...JUDAS PRIEST...ENOUGH SAID
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May 23, 2008 02:29 AM
judas priest kicks ass they were my first concert
Louise Rivera
Lorenzo Suazo
May 22, 2008 11:45 PM
oh fuck yeah im defenetily buying this album i have best of priest and it kicks ass
junk food kid
May 22, 2008 10:56 PM
Not a big fan but priest kicks ass!!
Matt's Noemi
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May 22, 2008 10:48 PM
Screaming for Vengance, and Turbo are my favorites
~Dragonheart~ >:P
~Wizard~
May 22, 2008 10:13 PM
British Steel is my all time favorite
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No Dirty Little Secrets for The All-American Rejects
Tyson Ritter is getting out of his head and putting it all on the line
for The All-American Rejects newest album When the World Comes
Becki Down
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the age of seventeen? Out of your head,
apparently! At least, that’s where The Al-American Rejects’ lead
singer and guitarist Tyson Ritter went when trying to create the
band’s second major label album, When the World Comes Down.
“The fact that I’m still here at the end of it is really a surprise to me,”
said Tyson reflecting on the experience of making this latest album. “I
think it’s like a Litmus test of where the world’s at right now for
us. When you’re 17 or 18, you’re questioning yourself; you’re in your
own world. Once you graduate college or you’re at least at the age
that you would have—right now, I’m 24—I think I’m questioning the
full universe right now. This record is a little bit more reflective of the
world around me.” Message: To:
This is a far cry from the outlook of the 17 year old, whose band was
signed to its first label when one label president’s sister-in-law pulled From:
The All-American Rejects’ demo out of a trash can because she liked the photo of the band on the cover.
“It was like natural,” Tyson says recalling their leap from then indie label, Doghouse records to the major label,
Dreamworks Records. “It felt like what we were supposed to do. It felt like we just ran into destiny’s arms.”
In truth, destiny seems to have played a hand in much of Tyson’s career. At 13 years old, the young guitarist found
his four other bandmates through a midnight cemetery club where kids would go to watch scary movies. “It was just
a fun thing to do,” Tyson said. “Mike Kennerty and Chris Gaylord were next to Old Man Witter’s headstone, so I Military, Disrespect, War In Iraq, Etc.
walked over and I was like, ‘Yo, do you play music?’ For some reason, that was on my mind that day. They were
The Uninvited
like, ‘Yes!’ We started the band and played our first show right at the gates of the cemetery.”
Medication Nation
At the time, Tyson claims he did little more than play kazoo, but after forcing him to record a solo track on a song,
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the band realized they had a real singer on their hands. “It was kind of funny because they other guy we had singing
with us couldn’t sing for shit,” Tyson said. “The local radio station ended up playing only my song.” Communication?
Depression
Being in Stillwater, Oklahoma, a real college town, the guys had no problem driving their tapes down to the local
radio station and getting their songs on the air or playing local college bars for that matter—even though they were What It Really Means to be Single
only 13 years old at the time. “We had these permission slips that we literally just invented and the cops seemed to
not care,” Tyson laughed.
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wasn’t like we were going to become rocket scientists and leave, move off to New York,” Tyson said with an
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unabashed air of authenticity. “We just knew how to write songs. We were hoping to God something would happen
Environment?
before we graduated.”
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Honest engagement, both with his music and his fans, may just be the secret to The All-American Rejects’
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success. The entire band participates in a daily live blog on AllAmericanRejects.com that gives fans an
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passionately than any artist I have heard speak about their work in almost a decade. “We write every one of our
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songs,” he says emphatically. “We don’t crap out a record three months after our last one died out…We don’t write
skippers… [When the World Comes Down] is a full record. It’s an experience. You sit down and it’s like a ride. It lifts Gay Can Be Dangerous
you up; it drops you down; it makes you think; it makes you feel love; it makes you feel loss; it makes you reflect on
people who have come and gone in your life. I think this record is a life-changing record for people that enjoy pop No Dirty Little Secrets for The All-American
rock.” Rejects
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December 24, 2008 04:07 PM
yes...I started listening their first song 'cause the guy was so hot...hihi :)
Lydia
[iadmiredyou/addme]
December 21, 2008 02:00 PM
I like that new song they have. 'Give's you Hell'
Chaotic Kittie
December 17, 2008 08:18 AM
omg i love them so much :D they are my insperation one day, i hope we can play
together!
Kat Ferguson
December 17, 2008 04:41 AM
these guys rock got there 1st nd it was sik cant w8 4 it 2 get down under :D
dayne norris
December 17, 2008 03:51 AM
I agree with Shae! He's so gosh dang HOOTTT!
dawlface ♥ No
Lies, Just Love♥
December 17, 2008 12:25 AM
that dude is soo hot and i love their songs
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December 17, 2008 12:12 AM
my favorite band. they say it like it is.
katie johnson
December 16, 2008 11:52 PM
I have loved the All American Rejects but I just got the new album and I'm a little
disappointed. I do love "Gives You Hell" though.
Hannah Ohman
December 16, 2008 11:46 PM
hey audrey, I agree with everyone else when they said you're lame
Cherry Martinez
December 16, 2008 11:01 PM
omg i luv "dirty Little Secret" its me and my best friends song. yeah don't ask.
thats what he calls me.. haha
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Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Are Fightin' Back!
How one band is taking an honest stand against domestic violence
Yesterday, I was schooled in the
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Prior to our conversation, I may
or may not have been joking with a colleague
about the multitude of charities the Red Jumpsuit
Apparatus seem to support through their
Foundation. I mean, this is a band that chose its
name by placing words on a wall, blindfolding one
of their members and choosing three words
randomly. Their allegiance to charities seemed just
as haphazard—supporting everything from suicide
to domestic violence. Reading through all their
various causes, visions of “The Derek Zoolander
Center for Kids Who Can’t Read Good” were
crossing my mind, I have to admit. [On a side note,
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I have interviewed countless musicians over the
years and, in the process, have become slightly
cynical]. Five minutes on the phone, though, with From:
Ronnie and I found myself summarily put in my place.
The interview was supposed to be about their campaign, their Guardian Angel campaign to be exact. Through the
month of November, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is hosting a contest along with the National Coalition Against Domestic
Abuse at their website site www.totalassault.com/contests/yourguardianangel/. The user who creates the
most compelling video about their personal guardian angel will win $1,000 and have $1,000 donated to the Red
Jumpsuit Apparatus Guardian Angel Fund in their guardian angel’s name. Knowing this, of course, my first question
had to be, “Why are you involved with this campaign?”
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“My parents pretty much self-destructed due to drugs and alcohol and a number of other things. Neither one of them Depression
were actually able to take care of us. So my grandparents stepped in and adopted all three of us [Ronnie and his
two brothers] so that way we wouldn’t be split up by the courts,” Ronnie explained. “They adopted us and just kind What It Really Means to be Single
of roped us in, gave us a reality check. We definitely had kind of a different life for a while. They just kind of brought
us back to normality and taught us what a normal family household is like. They just kind of saved us really.”
Suddenly their song, “Face Down,” seemed so much more meaningful. You could almost see a young boy huddled in What It Really Means to be Single
a corner as he shouts, “Do you feel like a man when you push her around? Do you feel better now?” It’s so rife with
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pain and so…honest. It’s a word we don’t often apply to celebrities, but for Ronnie and the other members of Red
Environment?
Jumpsuit Apparatus, there really is no other way to describe them.
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“Everything on our album is pretty simple as far as inspiration— they’re all just me talking about things that we’ve
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gone through. Domestic violence is something I grew up with pretty much my entire life,” Ronnie explained.
“Basically, it was just something I dealt with and I guess I kind of had it stored way back in my brain somewhere Gaming: Not a Solitary Activity Anymore
and it just came out one day. I don’t know how other people do it, but I say it’s really hard to write a song with
intent. You have to kind of feel it. Half way through the song, I kind of got a grasp on where it was going and just Sitting Down With Fall Out Boy
let it finish.”
My Room is Me
When any other musician said something like this in previous interviews I’d done, my bullshit meter would start Gay Can Be Dangerous
reaching maximum capacity; but with Ronnie, the words feel innately true. “We’re five real people from a small
town,” he said matter-of-factly. “We weren’t put together by a label. Nobody did anything for us. We did it ourselves. No Dirty Little Secrets for The All-American
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That’s when it hit me— this interview seemed so real because Red Jumpsuit Apparatus are just a bunch of
hometown guys. They met in Florida, came together through a sequence of strange coincidences (except Ronnie and More From This Author | Article Archive | Meet The Team
Duke, who met in high school) and just sort of clicked. Nothing more complicated than that. And that’s why Ronnie
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isn’t afraid to express how grateful he was to have his older brother Randy to talk to all those years they were being
abused. And why he can openly admit he is proud of his younger brother Eric, who is currently serving in Iraq as a
Chaplin Assistant, when the war is such a controversial subject.
The organizations that he and his band fight for, like the National Coalition Against Domestic Abuse, help with
problems that have affected these guys in their personal lives and ones they believe in passionately. “I just had an
interesting experience with life in general,” he said when asked why he supported suicide prevention as well as
domestic abuse. “I think a lot of times there is a strong correlation between domestic violence and sexual abuse and
other things of that nature and teen suicide. Not only are they being abused, they’re being abused by the people
who claim to care about them. When that happens, it can be pretty devastating. So I definitely understand the
situation.”
His one word of advice to those suffering from domestic abuse is to always remember that you are not alone. “Don’t
be afraid to reach out and talk to somebody, whether it’s a guidance counselor, or a coworker, or a friend. Anybody
who you think actually cares. Somebody does care. It’s that simple. No one is ever alone in this world. If you are
alone, there is always God. He’s always there for you,” Ronnie advises. “I might be hung for that statement
nowadays.”
Hearing that was a bit of a relief. For a guy who seemed so naturally honest that he made me trip over my own
detailed questions, it’s almost reassuring to hear him profess self-doubt. Of course, I assured him there would be no
reproof for that statement; just heartfelt gratitude that there is someone willing to be this real in the world.
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January 28, 2008 11:25 AM
face down holds great meaning for me. it describes the pain that i have been
threw an di give all props for becoming who they are
Anonymous
January 27, 2008 07:58 PM
"do you feel like a man, when you push her around, do you feel better now as
she falls to the ground..." love it
eMiLy LoRaNe ~add
me~
January 9, 2008 03:29 AM
FACE DOWN I LOVE THAT SONG!!!! they freakin rock. and no wonder their songs
are so good.
Dee G.
January 2, 2008 01:11 PM
yeah...now i dont really feel so bad for being "the closest look alike to Ronnie
Winter" actually i hate the feeling...but still they are a great band!
Chris Francis
December 21, 2007 04:47 PM
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is a brilliant band, and most people just become famous
cause its what they wanted. They became famous from being themselves, and
-- speaking the truth. Their music reaches out to a lot of people today, especially
face down. As much as teens don't like to admit it, they are the most vunerable
for abusive relationships. I listen to their album every day. Kudo's to RJA! ♥♥♥
December 21, 2007 11:34 AM
i love the red jumpsuit apparatus...they have so much meaning in their music. and they have their hearts in
the right place. in response to another artical Becki wrote on heroes, they are heroes... and Tom Lamb, who
says "THEY ARE EMO!!!!" to this i respond...who cares? why do people have to put someone in a catagory by
the way they act. i think that "emo" is just a term for those who are more sensative then then the average
person...and there is nothing wrong with that. why do we have to label them?
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December 12, 2007 08:39 PM
THEY ARE EMO!!!!
xX Flea Xx ♥ Love
is Love ♥
Bishop Don Magic
Tom
November 26, 2007 06:38 PM
THAT SONG FACE DOWN GETS ME ALL CHOKED UP WHEN I HEAR IT...I ♥ RED
JUMPSUIT APPARATUS
Yari =]
November 26, 2007 12:40 AM
There my fav bands the lyrics of them is wow amamzing man I love them I mean
the song face down has a great meaning to it
Stephy (JINO'S
PROPERTY) *say
what?* Black
November 25, 2007 09:43 PM
They're in my top 5 bands and I love them for being so honest. I hate when some
girls like the song "Face Down" because it was on the radio and they don't really
understand the meaning of it. Everytime I hear it I get really sad and feel like I
want to cry because what he's singing is stuff that is happening to alot of people.
bryanna raney
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Making a Masterpiece: Judas Priest Talk About Their
New Album
I’ve always wondered what it takes to make a
Becki masterpiece. In fact, it’s one of the foremost
H thoughts on my mind every time I sit down at my
computer and begin writing. Just for reference,
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or brain, rather—has ever remotely reached the
level of masterpiece. Yet every day, I keep plugging away and trying
to figure out how one does create work that will go down in the
annals as a masterpiece.
When the opportunity to interview Glenn Tipton, guitarist for Judas
Priest, first arrived, I was incredibly excited. Here is a man who could
tell me all about creating a masterpiece. Aside from laying the
foundation of modern metal and earning the moniker “Metal Gods,”
for the last four years, it has been rumored that the band has been
working on an epic two-disc album about the French prophet
Nostradamus. Nostradamus may be Judas Priest’s most experimental
album to date. With most people these days listening to music
through iTunes and radio play becoming more and more limited, most Message: To:
mainstream artists tend to opt for pithy songs and albums. But Priest has decided to do just the opposite. “The
whole deal with Nostradamus is that it’s not an album made up of two or three strong tracks-- it’s a whole piece,”
explained Glenn. “You step out of this world and you step into the world of Nostradamus for an hour and a half From:
almost. It’s a fantasy; it’s escapism. It’s best to either put headphones on or put it on your system and crank it up
and when you’ve got a free hour and a half, go enjoy the journey really.”
Now, with less than one month until the release of Nostradamus, I was going to have the opportunity to dig into the
mind of Glenn Tipton and find out what it really takes to make a true work of art. “We’ve always been a fairly brave
band with albums like Point of Entry and Turbo. So maybe this is another brave or stupid move-- who knows,”
responded Glenn blithely when asked about the group’s overall feeling about Nostradamus. Okay, not exactly the
response I was expecting from a man who almost single-handedly modernized the twin-guitar sound. Where was the
Military, Disrespect, War In Iraq, Etc.
bravado? The unerring sense of confidence?
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“Nobody knows the way it’s going to go, but like I said, we’ve never worried too much about that,” said Glenn
nonchalantly. “We’ve made either brave or stupid moves in the past, but we’ve done what we believe is right and Medication Nation
we’ve done what we feel is right at that particular point in time. That’s exactly what we feel about Nostradamus.”
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Communication?
Perhaps it’s easier to be casual about your work when you’ve been doing it for as many years as Glenn. He picked up
his first guitar at the age of 19 and less than five years later, Glenn found himself touring with legendary metal band Depression
Deep Purple. “I still get sort of embarrassed when I think about it,” Glenn said, reminiscing about his first European
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tour wit the band. “[Deep Purple] was my real baptism of fire.”
Of course, Glenn came from a musical background. His mother was a classical pianist and Glenn himself often,
“messed around on the keyboard.” He marks up his rapid acquisition of guitar skills to intense work during the first
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few years he was learning how to play. All of his hard work soon paid off though. “Priest came along and asked me
to join. In all reality, I thought, ‘Yeah well, I’ll join for a bit, ya know.’ And here it is, 35 years later, and I’m still here. Could a Cartoon Character Save the
It didn’t take me long to realize the potential of the band and the talent in the band.” Environment?
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“Our process of writing is that we accumulate ideas individually and then myself, Ron [Halford] and K.K. [Downing]
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get into a room and we pull our ideas,” explained Glenn. “When the room lights up, we know we’re onto something.
That’s the way we work.” Perhaps that’s how Glenn’s first “great” guitar solo, as critics have come to refer to his Gaming: Not a Solitary Activity Anymore
work on the 1978 classic “Beyond the Realms of Death,” came to be penned by drummer Les Binks.
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The band members did have their share of difficulties. In 1991, lead singer Rob Halford left the band to begin My Room is Me
pursing his own solo projects, even this didn’t seem to faze Glenn. “At that point in time, we were pretty much burnt
out,” Glenn said, when discussing why the group initially disbanded. “At the end of the day, I think we look back on Gay Can Be Dangerous
it as a good thing. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. I did two solo albums, which I never would have done,
and got to work with some great musicians. In a way, I’m glad that happened. I wouldn’t have done those if Priest No Dirty Little Secrets for The All-American
had still been together.” Rejects
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Glenn. “Once we sat down in the room and started to compose again, it was almost like we’d never been apart.”
So what, aside from perfect unity within the band—which is not easy for everyone to accomplish—as well as natural
talent, is the key to creating a true masterpiece? As I looked back on the interview, I noticed Glenn invoked a single
word over and over again: belief. “We’ve always had a belief in our music,” said Glenn as he discussed how Priest
has managed to survive for nearly three decades. “We never turned our back on metal. We’ve always been proud to
be heavy metal. Some bands have denied the tag, ‘heavy metal’ and thought it wasn’t in vogue or it wasn’t
fashionable. We’ve always been proud of the fact that we’re a heavy metal band and been proud to play Judas Priest
music. Even though we’ve evolved to a certain extent, our music has stayed true to our roots and what we enjoy
composing and playing.”
So perhaps some day, I may be able to write the masterpiece I have always dreamed of creating. Maybe, like Priest,
I’ll even recognize it if I write it. The key, I guess, is just having the innate belief in yourself and in your work. The
rest, I suppose, will grow from there.
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July 2, 2008 10:23 PM
thats cool as hell they're making another album.if its priest they're going to be
kick ass ...fuck !!!!
randy phillips
May 24, 2008 10:10 PM
I FUCKIN LOVE JUDAS PRIEST!!!!! WOOT WOOT!!!!!!
HANA RoCkA RoLAKK
lover
May 24, 2008 10:58 AM
untouched by anyones vocal ability need I say more about the master Rob
Halford Hail to the vocal Metal God
Scott Minery
May 24, 2008 02:06 AM
FUCK YA METAL MASTERS TOUR!!!!!!! SEE YOU THERE PRIEST :D
marcos gomez
May 23, 2008 08:12 PM
THE METAL GODS...JUDAS PRIEST...ENOUGH SAID
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May 23, 2008 02:29 AM
judas priest kicks ass they were my first concert
Louise Rivera
Lorenzo Suazo
May 22, 2008 11:45 PM
oh fuck yeah im defenetily buying this album i have best of priest and it kicks ass
junk food kid
May 22, 2008 10:56 PM
Not a big fan but priest kicks ass!!
Matt's Noemi
+Spooky Strano+
May 22, 2008 10:48 PM
Screaming for Vengance, and Turbo are my favorites
~Dragonheart~ >:P
~Wizard~
May 22, 2008 10:13 PM
British Steel is my all time favorite
zach hummel
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Making a Masterpiece: Judas Priest Talk About Their
New Album
I’ve always wondered what it takes to make a
Becki masterpiece. In fact, it’s one of the foremost
H thoughts on my mind every time I sit down at my
computer and begin writing. Just for reference,
View Profile nothing that has ever come out of my computer—
or brain, rather—has ever remotely reached the
level of masterpiece. Yet every day, I keep plugging away and trying
to figure out how one does create work that will go down in the
annals as a masterpiece.
When the opportunity to interview Glenn Tipton, guitarist for Judas
Priest, first arrived, I was incredibly excited. Here is a man who could
tell me all about creating a masterpiece. Aside from laying the
foundation of modern metal and earning the moniker “Metal Gods,”
for the last four years, it has been rumored that the band has been
working on an epic two-disc album about the French prophet
Nostradamus. Nostradamus may be Judas Priest’s most experimental
album to date. With most people these days listening to music
through iTunes and radio play becoming more and more limited, most Message: To:
mainstream artists tend to opt for pithy songs and albums. But Priest has decided to do just the opposite. “The
whole deal with Nostradamus is that it’s not an album made up of two or three strong tracks-- it’s a whole piece,”
explained Glenn. “You step out of this world and you step into the world of Nostradamus for an hour and a half From:
almost. It’s a fantasy; it’s escapism. It’s best to either put headphones on or put it on your system and crank it up
and when you’ve got a free hour and a half, go enjoy the journey really.”
Now, with less than one month until the release of Nostradamus, I was going to have the opportunity to dig into the
mind of Glenn Tipton and find out what it really takes to make a true work of art. “We’ve always been a fairly brave
band with albums like Point of Entry and Turbo. So maybe this is another brave or stupid move-- who knows,”
responded Glenn blithely when asked about the group’s overall feeling about Nostradamus. Okay, not exactly the
response I was expecting from a man who almost single-handedly modernized the twin-guitar sound. Where was the
Military, Disrespect, War In Iraq, Etc.
bravado? The unerring sense of confidence?
The Uninvited
“Nobody knows the way it’s going to go, but like I said, we’ve never worried too much about that,” said Glenn
nonchalantly. “We’ve made either brave or stupid moves in the past, but we’ve done what we believe is right and Medication Nation
we’ve done what we feel is right at that particular point in time. That’s exactly what we feel about Nostradamus.”
When Should You Excommunicate Your Ex-
Communication?
Perhaps it’s easier to be casual about your work when you’ve been doing it for as many years as Glenn. He picked up
his first guitar at the age of 19 and less than five years later, Glenn found himself touring with legendary metal band Depression
Deep Purple. “I still get sort of embarrassed when I think about it,” Glenn said, reminiscing about his first European
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tour wit the band. “[Deep Purple] was my real baptism of fire.”
Of course, Glenn came from a musical background. His mother was a classical pianist and Glenn himself often,
“messed around on the keyboard.” He marks up his rapid acquisition of guitar skills to intense work during the first
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few years he was learning how to play. All of his hard work soon paid off though. “Priest came along and asked me
to join. In all reality, I thought, ‘Yeah well, I’ll join for a bit, ya know.’ And here it is, 35 years later, and I’m still here. Could a Cartoon Character Save the
It didn’t take me long to realize the potential of the band and the talent in the band.” Environment?
Perhaps it's their diplomatic approach to creating music that has helped the band survive and grow over the years. Even Cough Syrup Gets You High?
“Our process of writing is that we accumulate ideas individually and then myself, Ron [Halford] and K.K. [Downing]
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get into a room and we pull our ideas,” explained Glenn. “When the room lights up, we know we’re onto something.
That’s the way we work.” Perhaps that’s how Glenn’s first “great” guitar solo, as critics have come to refer to his Gaming: Not a Solitary Activity Anymore
work on the 1978 classic “Beyond the Realms of Death,” came to be penned by drummer Les Binks.
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The band members did have their share of difficulties. In 1991, lead singer Rob Halford left the band to begin My Room is Me
pursing his own solo projects, even this didn’t seem to faze Glenn. “At that point in time, we were pretty much burnt
out,” Glenn said, when discussing why the group initially disbanded. “At the end of the day, I think we look back on Gay Can Be Dangerous
it as a good thing. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. I did two solo albums, which I never would have done,
and got to work with some great musicians. In a way, I’m glad that happened. I wouldn’t have done those if Priest No Dirty Little Secrets for The All-American
had still been together.” Rejects
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Indeed absence did seem to make the heart grow fonder-- after reuniting nearly 12 years later, the band went on to
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Glenn. “Once we sat down in the room and started to compose again, it was almost like we’d never been apart.”
So what, aside from perfect unity within the band—which is not easy for everyone to accomplish—as well as natural
talent, is the key to creating a true masterpiece? As I looked back on the interview, I noticed Glenn invoked a single
word over and over again: belief. “We’ve always had a belief in our music,” said Glenn as he discussed how Priest
has managed to survive for nearly three decades. “We never turned our back on metal. We’ve always been proud to
be heavy metal. Some bands have denied the tag, ‘heavy metal’ and thought it wasn’t in vogue or it wasn’t
fashionable. We’ve always been proud of the fact that we’re a heavy metal band and been proud to play Judas Priest
music. Even though we’ve evolved to a certain extent, our music has stayed true to our roots and what we enjoy
composing and playing.”
So perhaps some day, I may be able to write the masterpiece I have always dreamed of creating. Maybe, like Priest,
I’ll even recognize it if I write it. The key, I guess, is just having the innate belief in yourself and in your work. The
rest, I suppose, will grow from there.
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July 2, 2008 10:23 PM
thats cool as hell they're making another album.if its priest they're going to be
kick ass ...fuck !!!!
randy phillips
May 24, 2008 10:10 PM
I FUCKIN LOVE JUDAS PRIEST!!!!! WOOT WOOT!!!!!!
HANA RoCkA RoLAKK
lover
May 24, 2008 10:58 AM
untouched by anyones vocal ability need I say more about the master Rob
Halford Hail to the vocal Metal God
Scott Minery
May 24, 2008 02:06 AM
FUCK YA METAL MASTERS TOUR!!!!!!! SEE YOU THERE PRIEST :D
marcos gomez
May 23, 2008 08:12 PM
THE METAL GODS...JUDAS PRIEST...ENOUGH SAID
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May 23, 2008 02:29 AM
judas priest kicks ass they were my first concert
Louise Rivera
Lorenzo Suazo
May 22, 2008 11:45 PM
oh fuck yeah im defenetily buying this album i have best of priest and it kicks ass
junk food kid
May 22, 2008 10:56 PM
Not a big fan but priest kicks ass!!
Matt's Noemi
+Spooky Strano+
May 22, 2008 10:48 PM
Screaming for Vengance, and Turbo are my favorites
~Dragonheart~ >:P
~Wizard~
May 22, 2008 10:13 PM
British Steel is my all time favorite
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Making a Masterpiece: Judas Priest Talk About Their
New Album
I’ve always wondered what it takes to make a
Becki masterpiece. In fact, it’s one of the foremost
H thoughts on my mind every time I sit down at my
computer and begin writing. Just for reference,
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or brain, rather—has ever remotely reached the
level of masterpiece. Yet every day, I keep plugging away and trying
to figure out how one does create work that will go down in the
annals as a masterpiece.
When the opportunity to interview Glenn Tipton, guitarist for Judas
Priest, first arrived, I was incredibly excited. Here is a man who could
tell me all about creating a masterpiece. Aside from laying the
foundation of modern metal and earning the moniker “Metal Gods,”
for the last four years, it has been rumored that the band has been
working on an epic two-disc album about the French prophet
Nostradamus. Nostradamus may be Judas Priest’s most experimental
album to date. With most people these days listening to music
through iTunes and radio play becoming more and more limited, most Message: To:
mainstream artists tend to opt for pithy songs and albums. But Priest has decided to do just the opposite. “The
whole deal with Nostradamus is that it’s not an album made up of two or three strong tracks-- it’s a whole piece,”
explained Glenn. “You step out of this world and you step into the world of Nostradamus for an hour and a half From:
almost. It’s a fantasy; it’s escapism. It’s best to either put headphones on or put it on your system and crank it up
and when you’ve got a free hour and a half, go enjoy the journey really.”
Now, with less than one month until the release of Nostradamus, I was going to have the opportunity to dig into the
mind of Glenn Tipton and find out what it really takes to make a true work of art. “We’ve always been a fairly brave
band with albums like Point of Entry and Turbo. So maybe this is another brave or stupid move-- who knows,”
responded Glenn blithely when asked about the group’s overall feeling about Nostradamus. Okay, not exactly the
response I was expecting from a man who almost single-handedly modernized the twin-guitar sound. Where was the
Military, Disrespect, War In Iraq, Etc.
bravado? The unerring sense of confidence?
The Uninvited
“Nobody knows the way it’s going to go, but like I said, we’ve never worried too much about that,” said Glenn
nonchalantly. “We’ve made either brave or stupid moves in the past, but we’ve done what we believe is right and Medication Nation
we’ve done what we feel is right at that particular point in time. That’s exactly what we feel about Nostradamus.”
When Should You Excommunicate Your Ex-
Communication?
Perhaps it’s easier to be casual about your work when you’ve been doing it for as many years as Glenn. He picked up
his first guitar at the age of 19 and less than five years later, Glenn found himself touring with legendary metal band Depression
Deep Purple. “I still get sort of embarrassed when I think about it,” Glenn said, reminiscing about his first European
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tour wit the band. “[Deep Purple] was my real baptism of fire.”
Of course, Glenn came from a musical background. His mother was a classical pianist and Glenn himself often,
“messed around on the keyboard.” He marks up his rapid acquisition of guitar skills to intense work during the first
What It Really Means to be Single
few years he was learning how to play. All of his hard work soon paid off though. “Priest came along and asked me
to join. In all reality, I thought, ‘Yeah well, I’ll join for a bit, ya know.’ And here it is, 35 years later, and I’m still here. Could a Cartoon Character Save the
It didn’t take me long to realize the potential of the band and the talent in the band.” Environment?
Perhaps it's their diplomatic approach to creating music that has helped the band survive and grow over the years. Even Cough Syrup Gets You High?
“Our process of writing is that we accumulate ideas individually and then myself, Ron [Halford] and K.K. [Downing]
Depressed and Seeking Help
get into a room and we pull our ideas,” explained Glenn. “When the room lights up, we know we’re onto something.
That’s the way we work.” Perhaps that’s how Glenn’s first “great” guitar solo, as critics have come to refer to his Gaming: Not a Solitary Activity Anymore
work on the 1978 classic “Beyond the Realms of Death,” came to be penned by drummer Les Binks.
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The band members did have their share of difficulties. In 1991, lead singer Rob Halford left the band to begin My Room is Me
pursing his own solo projects, even this didn’t seem to faze Glenn. “At that point in time, we were pretty much burnt
out,” Glenn said, when discussing why the group initially disbanded. “At the end of the day, I think we look back on Gay Can Be Dangerous
it as a good thing. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. I did two solo albums, which I never would have done,
and got to work with some great musicians. In a way, I’m glad that happened. I wouldn’t have done those if Priest No Dirty Little Secrets for The All-American
had still been together.” Rejects
Music From the Underground
Indeed absence did seem to make the heart grow fonder-- after reuniting nearly 12 years later, the band went on to
produce one of their most commercially and critically successful albums to date. “It was absolutely natural,” said More From This Author | Article Archive | Meet The Team
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Glenn. “Once we sat down in the room and started to compose again, it was almost like we’d never been apart.”
So what, aside from perfect unity within the band—which is not easy for everyone to accomplish—as well as natural
talent, is the key to creating a true masterpiece? As I looked back on the interview, I noticed Glenn invoked a single
word over and over again: belief. “We’ve always had a belief in our music,” said Glenn as he discussed how Priest
has managed to survive for nearly three decades. “We never turned our back on metal. We’ve always been proud to
be heavy metal. Some bands have denied the tag, ‘heavy metal’ and thought it wasn’t in vogue or it wasn’t
fashionable. We’ve always been proud of the fact that we’re a heavy metal band and been proud to play Judas Priest
music. Even though we’ve evolved to a certain extent, our music has stayed true to our roots and what we enjoy
composing and playing.”
So perhaps some day, I may be able to write the masterpiece I have always dreamed of creating. Maybe, like Priest,
I’ll even recognize it if I write it. The key, I guess, is just having the innate belief in yourself and in your work. The
rest, I suppose, will grow from there.
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July 2, 2008 10:23 PM
thats cool as hell they're making another album.if its priest they're going to be
kick ass ...fuck !!!!
randy phillips
May 24, 2008 10:10 PM
I FUCKIN LOVE JUDAS PRIEST!!!!! WOOT WOOT!!!!!!
HANA RoCkA RoLAKK
lover
May 24, 2008 10:58 AM
untouched by anyones vocal ability need I say more about the master Rob
Halford Hail to the vocal Metal God
Scott Minery
May 24, 2008 02:06 AM
FUCK YA METAL MASTERS TOUR!!!!!!! SEE YOU THERE PRIEST :D
marcos gomez
May 23, 2008 08:12 PM
THE METAL GODS...JUDAS PRIEST...ENOUGH SAID
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May 23, 2008 02:29 AM
judas priest kicks ass they were my first concert
Louise Rivera
Lorenzo Suazo
May 22, 2008 11:45 PM
oh fuck yeah im defenetily buying this album i have best of priest and it kicks ass
junk food kid
May 22, 2008 10:56 PM
Not a big fan but priest kicks ass!!
Matt's Noemi
+Spooky Strano+
May 22, 2008 10:48 PM
Screaming for Vengance, and Turbo are my favorites
~Dragonheart~ >:P
~Wizard~
May 22, 2008 10:13 PM
British Steel is my all time favorite
zach hummel
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No Dirty Little Secrets for The All-American Rejects
Tyson Ritter is getting out of his head and putting it all on the line
for The All-American Rejects newest album When the World Comes
Becki Down
H
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the age of seventeen? Out of your head,
apparently! At least, that’s where The Al-American Rejects’ lead
singer and guitarist Tyson Ritter went when trying to create the
band’s second major label album, When the World Comes Down.
“The fact that I’m still here at the end of it is really a surprise to me,”
said Tyson reflecting on the experience of making this latest album. “I
think it’s like a Litmus test of where the world’s at right now for
us. When you’re 17 or 18, you’re questioning yourself; you’re in your
own world. Once you graduate college or you’re at least at the age
that you would have—right now, I’m 24—I think I’m questioning the
full universe right now. This record is a little bit more reflective of the
world around me.” Message: To:
This is a far cry from the outlook of the 17 year old, whose band was
signed to its first label when one label president’s sister-in-law pulled From:
The All-American Rejects’ demo out of a trash can because she liked the photo of the band on the cover.
“It was like natural,” Tyson says recalling their leap from then indie label, Doghouse records to the major label,
Dreamworks Records. “It felt like what we were supposed to do. It felt like we just ran into destiny’s arms.”
In truth, destiny seems to have played a hand in much of Tyson’s career. At 13 years old, the young guitarist found
his four other bandmates through a midnight cemetery club where kids would go to watch scary movies. “It was just
a fun thing to do,” Tyson said. “Mike Kennerty and Chris Gaylord were next to Old Man Witter’s headstone, so I Military, Disrespect, War In Iraq, Etc.
walked over and I was like, ‘Yo, do you play music?’ For some reason, that was on my mind that day. They were
The Uninvited
like, ‘Yes!’ We started the band and played our first show right at the gates of the cemetery.”
Medication Nation
At the time, Tyson claims he did little more than play kazoo, but after forcing him to record a solo track on a song,
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the band realized they had a real singer on their hands. “It was kind of funny because they other guy we had singing
with us couldn’t sing for shit,” Tyson said. “The local radio station ended up playing only my song.” Communication?
Depression
Being in Stillwater, Oklahoma, a real college town, the guys had no problem driving their tapes down to the local
radio station and getting their songs on the air or playing local college bars for that matter—even though they were What It Really Means to be Single
only 13 years old at the time. “We had these permission slips that we literally just invented and the cops seemed to
not care,” Tyson laughed.
The real goal was getting out of Oklahoma though. “We knew we weren’t the smartest birds in the basket, so it What It Really Means to be Single
wasn’t like we were going to become rocket scientists and leave, move off to New York,” Tyson said with an
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unabashed air of authenticity. “We just knew how to write songs. We were hoping to God something would happen
Environment?
before we graduated.”
Even Cough Syrup Gets You High?
Honest engagement, both with his music and his fans, may just be the secret to The All-American Rejects’
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success. The entire band participates in a daily live blog on AllAmericanRejects.com that gives fans an
unparalleled look inside the band’s day-to-day lives. Gaming: Not a Solitary Activity Anymore
And in the end, this attention and care has helped the band create an album that Tyson stands behind more Sitting Down With Fall Out Boy
passionately than any artist I have heard speak about their work in almost a decade. “We write every one of our
My Room is Me
songs,” he says emphatically. “We don’t crap out a record three months after our last one died out…We don’t write
skippers… [When the World Comes Down] is a full record. It’s an experience. You sit down and it’s like a ride. It lifts Gay Can Be Dangerous
you up; it drops you down; it makes you think; it makes you feel love; it makes you feel loss; it makes you reflect on
people who have come and gone in your life. I think this record is a life-changing record for people that enjoy pop No Dirty Little Secrets for The All-American
rock.” Rejects
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Releasing on December 16 th, When the World Comes Down may very well be the contemporary pop rock album that
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December 24, 2008 04:07 PM
yes...I started listening their first song 'cause the guy was so hot...hihi :)
Lydia
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December 21, 2008 02:00 PM
I like that new song they have. 'Give's you Hell'
Chaotic Kittie
December 17, 2008 08:18 AM
omg i love them so much :D they are my insperation one day, i hope we can play
together!
Kat Ferguson
December 17, 2008 04:41 AM
these guys rock got there 1st nd it was sik cant w8 4 it 2 get down under :D
dayne norris
December 17, 2008 03:51 AM
I agree with Shae! He's so gosh dang HOOTTT!
dawlface ♥ No
Lies, Just Love♥
December 17, 2008 12:25 AM
that dude is soo hot and i love their songs
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December 17, 2008 12:12 AM
my favorite band. they say it like it is.
katie johnson
December 16, 2008 11:52 PM
I have loved the All American Rejects but I just got the new album and I'm a little
disappointed. I do love "Gives You Hell" though.
Hannah Ohman
December 16, 2008 11:46 PM
hey audrey, I agree with everyone else when they said you're lame
Cherry Martinez
December 16, 2008 11:01 PM
omg i luv "dirty Little Secret" its me and my best friends song. yeah don't ask.
thats what he calls me.. haha
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Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Are Fightin' Back!
How one band is taking an honest stand against domestic violence
Yesterday, I was schooled in the
Becki art of honesty by the lead singer
H of Red Jumpsuit Apparatus,
Ronnie Winters.
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Prior to our conversation, I may
or may not have been joking with a colleague
about the multitude of charities the Red Jumpsuit
Apparatus seem to support through their
Foundation. I mean, this is a band that chose its
name by placing words on a wall, blindfolding one
of their members and choosing three words
randomly. Their allegiance to charities seemed just
as haphazard—supporting everything from suicide
to domestic violence. Reading through all their
various causes, visions of “The Derek Zoolander
Center for Kids Who Can’t Read Good” were
crossing my mind, I have to admit. [On a side note,
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I have interviewed countless musicians over the
years and, in the process, have become slightly
cynical]. Five minutes on the phone, though, with From:
Ronnie and I found myself summarily put in my place.
The interview was supposed to be about their campaign, their Guardian Angel campaign to be exact. Through the
month of November, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is hosting a contest along with the National Coalition Against Domestic
Abuse at their website site www.totalassault.com/contests/yourguardianangel/. The user who creates the
most compelling video about their personal guardian angel will win $1,000 and have $1,000 donated to the Red
Jumpsuit Apparatus Guardian Angel Fund in their guardian angel’s name. Knowing this, of course, my first question
had to be, “Why are you involved with this campaign?”
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“My parents pretty much self-destructed due to drugs and alcohol and a number of other things. Neither one of them Depression
were actually able to take care of us. So my grandparents stepped in and adopted all three of us [Ronnie and his
two brothers] so that way we wouldn’t be split up by the courts,” Ronnie explained. “They adopted us and just kind What It Really Means to be Single
of roped us in, gave us a reality check. We definitely had kind of a different life for a while. They just kind of brought
us back to normality and taught us what a normal family household is like. They just kind of saved us really.”
Suddenly their song, “Face Down,” seemed so much more meaningful. You could almost see a young boy huddled in What It Really Means to be Single
a corner as he shouts, “Do you feel like a man when you push her around? Do you feel better now?” It’s so rife with
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pain and so…honest. It’s a word we don’t often apply to celebrities, but for Ronnie and the other members of Red
Environment?
Jumpsuit Apparatus, there really is no other way to describe them.
Even Cough Syrup Gets You High?
“Everything on our album is pretty simple as far as inspiration— they’re all just me talking about things that we’ve
Depressed and Seeking Help
gone through. Domestic violence is something I grew up with pretty much my entire life,” Ronnie explained.
“Basically, it was just something I dealt with and I guess I kind of had it stored way back in my brain somewhere Gaming: Not a Solitary Activity Anymore
and it just came out one day. I don’t know how other people do it, but I say it’s really hard to write a song with
intent. You have to kind of feel it. Half way through the song, I kind of got a grasp on where it was going and just Sitting Down With Fall Out Boy
let it finish.”
My Room is Me
When any other musician said something like this in previous interviews I’d done, my bullshit meter would start Gay Can Be Dangerous
reaching maximum capacity; but with Ronnie, the words feel innately true. “We’re five real people from a small
town,” he said matter-of-factly. “We weren’t put together by a label. Nobody did anything for us. We did it ourselves. No Dirty Little Secrets for The All-American
We worked our way up. We are real guys. We care about real issues because we’re real people with real families.” Rejects
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That’s when it hit me— this interview seemed so real because Red Jumpsuit Apparatus are just a bunch of
hometown guys. They met in Florida, came together through a sequence of strange coincidences (except Ronnie and More From This Author | Article Archive | Meet The Team
Duke, who met in high school) and just sort of clicked. Nothing more complicated than that. And that’s why Ronnie
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isn’t afraid to express how grateful he was to have his older brother Randy to talk to all those years they were being
abused. And why he can openly admit he is proud of his younger brother Eric, who is currently serving in Iraq as a
Chaplin Assistant, when the war is such a controversial subject.
The organizations that he and his band fight for, like the National Coalition Against Domestic Abuse, help with
problems that have affected these guys in their personal lives and ones they believe in passionately. “I just had an
interesting experience with life in general,” he said when asked why he supported suicide prevention as well as
domestic abuse. “I think a lot of times there is a strong correlation between domestic violence and sexual abuse and
other things of that nature and teen suicide. Not only are they being abused, they’re being abused by the people
who claim to care about them. When that happens, it can be pretty devastating. So I definitely understand the
situation.”
His one word of advice to those suffering from domestic abuse is to always remember that you are not alone. “Don’t
be afraid to reach out and talk to somebody, whether it’s a guidance counselor, or a coworker, or a friend. Anybody
who you think actually cares. Somebody does care. It’s that simple. No one is ever alone in this world. If you are
alone, there is always God. He’s always there for you,” Ronnie advises. “I might be hung for that statement
nowadays.”
Hearing that was a bit of a relief. For a guy who seemed so naturally honest that he made me trip over my own
detailed questions, it’s almost reassuring to hear him profess self-doubt. Of course, I assured him there would be no
reproof for that statement; just heartfelt gratitude that there is someone willing to be this real in the world.
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January 28, 2008 11:25 AM
face down holds great meaning for me. it describes the pain that i have been
threw an di give all props for becoming who they are
Anonymous
January 27, 2008 07:58 PM
"do you feel like a man, when you push her around, do you feel better now as
she falls to the ground..." love it
eMiLy LoRaNe ~add
me~
January 9, 2008 03:29 AM
FACE DOWN I LOVE THAT SONG!!!! they freakin rock. and no wonder their songs
are so good.
Dee G.
January 2, 2008 01:11 PM
yeah...now i dont really feel so bad for being "the closest look alike to Ronnie
Winter" actually i hate the feeling...but still they are a great band!
Chris Francis
December 21, 2007 04:47 PM
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is a brilliant band, and most people just become famous
cause its what they wanted. They became famous from being themselves, and
-- speaking the truth. Their music reaches out to a lot of people today, especially
face down. As much as teens don't like to admit it, they are the most vunerable
for abusive relationships. I listen to their album every day. Kudo's to RJA! ♥♥♥
December 21, 2007 11:34 AM
i love the red jumpsuit apparatus...they have so much meaning in their music. and they have their hearts in
the right place. in response to another artical Becki wrote on heroes, they are heroes... and Tom Lamb, who
says "THEY ARE EMO!!!!" to this i respond...who cares? why do people have to put someone in a catagory by
the way they act. i think that "emo" is just a term for those who are more sensative then then the average
person...and there is nothing wrong with that. why do we have to label them?
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December 12, 2007 08:39 PM
THEY ARE EMO!!!!
xX Flea Xx ♥ Love
is Love ♥
Bishop Don Magic
Tom
November 26, 2007 06:38 PM
THAT SONG FACE DOWN GETS ME ALL CHOKED UP WHEN I HEAR IT...I ♥ RED
JUMPSUIT APPARATUS
Yari =]
November 26, 2007 12:40 AM
There my fav bands the lyrics of them is wow amamzing man I love them I mean
the song face down has a great meaning to it
Stephy (JINO'S
PROPERTY) *say
what?* Black
November 25, 2007 09:43 PM
They're in my top 5 bands and I love them for being so honest. I hate when some
girls like the song "Face Down" because it was on the radio and they don't really
understand the meaning of it. Everytime I hear it I get really sad and feel like I
want to cry because what he's singing is stuff that is happening to alot of people.
bryanna raney
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