Talk:Redeemer of Souls

Latest comment: 5 years ago by FiggazWithAttitude in topic K.K. Downing ?

Wrong album cover edit

Someone should take note that as of May 15, 2014 .... the wrong album cover is being shown. The current image is a false upload. The band website shows the valid cover art. 198.164.210.60 (talk) 19:47, 15 May 2014 (UTC)Reply

K.K. Downing ? edit

Was K.K. Downing really a founding member of Judas Priest as referenced here? "It is their first album without founding guitarist K. K. Downing,..."

The Judas Priest Wikipedia page, in Origins, states "Judas Priest formed in 1969 in industrial West Bromwich, in the Black Country, by vocalist Al Atkins and bassist Brian "Bruno" Stapenhill, with John Perry on guitar and John "Fezza" Partridge on drums. Perry soon died in a road accident, and amongst the replacements the band auditioned were future Judas Priest guitarist Kenny "K. K." Downing; at the time, they turned him down in favour of 17-year-old multi-instrumentalist Ernest Chataway, who had played with Birmingham band Black Sabbath when they were still called Earth.[1] Stapenhill came up with the name Judas Priest from Bob Dylan's song "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest" on the album John Wesley Harding.[2] No member of that early line-up lasted long enough to play on the band's recordings, though several songs co-written by Atkins appeared on their first two albums.[1] The band gained a three-album recording contract with the label Immediate in late 1969 after a gig in Walsall,[a] but the label went out of business before an album could be recorded, and the band split in 1970. Late in the year, Atkins found a heavy rock band rehearsing without a singer called Freight, made up of K. K. Downing on guitar, his childhood friend Ian "Skull" Hill on bass, and drummer John Ellis.[3] He joined them, and they took on Atkins' defunct band's name."

I think that in the original passage it would be better worded as "It is their first album without long time guitarist K. K. Downing,..."

Cheers! FiggazWithAttitude (talk) 15:54, 25 February 2019 (UTC)Reply