Halford a Tim “RIPPER” Owens: “Fuck You…”

L’ex vocalist dei JUDAS PRIEST spara a zero sul suo sostituto, in risposta ad un’intervista al magazine Francese Rock Hard, in cui “Ripper” lo accusava di essere tornato alle sue radici metal per far soldi sfruttando la sua popolarità e tentare di salvare la faccia dopo i flop con i FIGHT e i TWO.

Ecco le parole di Rob Halford:

“I don’t consider it that I turned my back to metal with FIGHT and TWO, it is a very negative way to see things. I look at it [FIGHT and TWO] as a necessary moment in my career that helped me find my way back. It’s like, if you go to the same place for a vacation each time, when you get there you know you’re gonna feel comfortable. Then you say one year, ‘I’m gonna go to a different place.’ You go to a different place and it’s exciting, and it’s unusual but you don’t feel comfortable. So you end up going to the same place you used to go. That’s basically how I felt with my departure from PRIEST. You are not me, you can’t possibly understand what was going through my mind, my spirit and my soul at that time. What you got was the music but I still don’t feel that conveyed what was really going on in my head and my heart. So, I think I had a lot of fucking balls to do what I did! But it was not about saying, ‘Fuck you, I’m gonna do this.’ It was just a necessary process as a creative musician. So, if Tim says I turned his back on metal because FIGHT was a failure and TWO was a failure, two commercial disasters, that I just went back to metal because that’s where I make my money and my living… Fuck you, Tim! Because that’s not what happened, and without me you would not be in JUDAS PRIEST.”