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. Reading, UK Setlist: 1. Victim of Changes 2. Dreamer Deceiver 3. Deciever 4. The Ripper 5. Mother Sun 6. Island of Domination 7. Rocka Rolla This is the very first known recording of Judas Priest playing their own songs. (The first recording of Priest playing was an other band's song called Budgie - the song is Running from my Soul, and the date is .) Unusual impovisations, never heard sounds in classic songs. A must for every Priest maniac! -Before their set, John Hinch remembers how the band were very nervous to leave their dressing room and go on stage. No, it wasn't a case of stage-fright, but actually fear for their own safety - for you see, a band called Stella opened the three-day event, with Judas Priest following next, and the audience responded to Stella by throwing so many cans, bottles and other things at them that they had to quickly exit the stage! Fortunately the members of Judas Priest overcame their apprehension to this hostile crowd and took the stage, opening with “Victim Of Changes“ - this time to rapturous applause!- “Last night, it seemed for a while that the only highlight was going to be a young lady in crutch throttling shorts, who flitted about the press arena. Stella, the first act to tread the virgin stage flopped. A three-piece from Durham, they produced a string of monotonous songs about nightmares, a lad who got his thrills wearing concrete boots, and a lunatic on holiday by the seaside. Adding to the atmosphere, the singer did chilling impersonations of Frankenstein's monster. The lead guitarist, who looked as if he had been involved in an argument with a lawn mower, plunked merrily away. “You get that crazy feeling you don't want to be a rock star“, droned the singer during one number. Stella are certainly going the right way not to hit the lofty heights of stardom. When Judas Priest appeared, things looked up. Lesson number one at a festival is to get the audience on their feet and clapping. Judas Priest have a commanding, self assured air. Lead singer Bob Halford, resplendent in medieval style jacket, had the audience in the palm of his hand. Following in the footsteps of Black Sabbath and Budgie, Judas Priest's music is as heavy as a ton of lead. Guitarists K.K. Downing and Glenn Tipton set up a relentless assault - cutting across one another and then spiraling off individually. At one point K.K. launched off into a Hendrix style solo, sounds catapulting across from one set of speakers to the other. Strangely, the rhythm section seems to be lacking in the band. Bass and drums were drowned out, as Tipton and Downing thrashed away.“ - Reading Evening Post, August 23, 1975 Yes, they wrote Bob Halford... there were a lot of jokes about that, you can imagine :D
