By Steve Newton
I did my second interview with Judas Priest guitarist Glenn Tipton in October of 2011, when the British metal band was on its Epitaph World Tour.
That was intended to be its farewell tour, which it wasn’t, of course. Last time I checked, Priest was still touring.
It was, however, the last Judas Priest tour with Tipton’s coguitarist K.K. Downing, who had left the group the year before, to be replaced by the much younger Richie Faulkner.
At one point in the conversation I asked Tipton if he was shocked by Downing’s departure.
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