Hear how AWKWARD Victim of Changes sounded at first | Judas Priest reaction

[@MetalPilgrim]

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[@AndriiVozniak]

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[@larsnilsson8949]

@Ace Courage The best version of Victim of changes? Have seen them live several times, the first time promoting Defenders of the Faith, in Stockholm ´84. That night was pure magic and Victim of changes best song of the evening, even though they still performed with The Ripper and The Sinner in the set list, but Victim of changes is the best song ever written/recorded by Priest. The best version, Westfallenhalle/Dortmund december ´83. That festival they were kings in Dortmund/Germany, saw them one month later, January 21th 1984 in Stockholm Sweden. Judas Priest Rules, the greatest heavy metal band, of all time.

[@AndriiVozniak]

Love the "Unleashed In The East" version of this song, heavy enough and fast. Can't help but headbang when listening to it!

[@AndriiVozniak]

@Ace Courage Priests' performance at US Festival '83 was amazing, totally agree with you

[@darrenangle4493]

I couldn't agree with you more.

[@MetalPilgrim]

It is one of the best ones for sure

[@TheEnderBand]

I love every version of the songs on that album, a lot even more so than the original recorded versions which is super rare

[@metalpianomusic5635]

My favorite version was years ago when I saw them play it live.. the song is faster, guitar solos last longer and hearing Halford live made it better than anything else I could ask for 🤘🏻

[@V3ntilator]

I think it's cool with demo versions of songs, because sometimes they don't even sound like final version and also often sounds rough. Just shows how important good producers are as some demoes weren't that great, but ended up being killer songs.

[@MetalPersonJ]

The definitive version of Victim of Changes is on Unleashed In The East. This is not up for debate.

[@MarkLipka]

*Agreed!* 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@vinylholicsanonymous3871]

Great video. I love hearing how Priest evolved their sound. Every bit as important as Sabbath in creating metal.

[@chrisw5742]

Sabbath ripped off Iron Claw

[@metalpianomusic5635]

I’ve been considering asking Atkins if we could make a piano version of the song together.. lol but of course I still need to compose it on piano and ask him if we wants to sing on it

[@brittanysaunders2105]

Do it!!!!!! ❤️

[@jayrigby2600]

That would be really cool!

[@jimmyneut2702]

Make a version of the bluesier Whiskey Woman as it would suit a piano more

[@MetalPilgrim]

You should totally go for it if you can

[@merciful]

Try and contact him on facebook, he is pretty active over there

[@patkelley8293]

I heard it first on "Unleashed" which led me to get "Sad wings". But thanks for the history, really facinating!

[@kellyhelms1584]

Me too

[@TherionPalace]

This is a really fun video. Thanks. Love that classic Judas Priest songwriting.

[@RuthlessMetalYT]

Love Priest, they really nailed the essence of those two songs on the final version of it. :) Cool channel, Cheers!

[@MetalPilgrim]

Thanks, love yours as well ;)

[@fuhrersavior9575]

Wow! That is really interesting they way you had laid it all out here concerning Victim of Changes.

[@mindyskinner2562]

Indeed, it is one of the greatest songs ever written! It is Priest’s “ stairway”

[@mindyskinner2562]

@JRG123 Dreamer Deceiver is A transporter song! Don’t talk while it’s on... Amazing vocals all the way through Tipton on point as usual! Priest is the greatest metal band ever.. amazing history to this band! never get enough!

[@professormuro]

That 1973 version right around 2:01 reminds me of Queen's Dragon Attack. My favorite version has to be Unleashed in the East, but I do like the 2009 live in Hollywood, FL version too.

[@stanstanly3812]

First time I saw them was in 1986 at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. That was an awesome show. The best show by far was when I saw them at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas. Glenn was still playing and Mastodon opened for them. WOW! what a awesome show. The Pearl Theater at the Palms is very small and intimate. I was about 10 feet from the stage! Can't wait for March...got tix for them at Zappos Theater here in Vegas. After that show it will be my 8th time seeing them.

[@clinerandalee3789]

I first heard it in 1977 when they played at a Day on the Green, opening for Led Zeppelin. OMG JP has been my favorite band ever since. Victim of Changes is so real to me. My first 2 Priest records were Sad Wings of Destiny and Stained Class, which I listened to over and over. I don't know how many shows I have been to anymore (cuz I'm old) But I am so bummed gonna miss the 50th anniversary tour. Closest they are playing to me is Berkeley, Ca and it's such a tiny venue it sold out right away. Anyway to answer your question, I like the 1077 version best, but that don't stop me from listening to any other version.

[@phryg2035]

It's fascinating to see how songs start off as a rough idea and get more and more polished... It's like watching a shiny stone turning into a beautiful gem

[@rickyjustin5846]

I would loved hearing a studio version of ''Mother, Son'' epic rare live performance from the 70's. can you explain on a future video more about the origins of this song. thanks love your channel.

[@kevinwagner542]

Yes, my favorite metal song! I really like the verson live in Dortmund, Germany 1983. Worth checking out!

[@jimmyneut2702]

I would say that Victim was only inspired by red light lady, as judging by the recording barely any of it ended up on the album. I would love for the Al atkins recordings and demos to be released one day, as unlike Maiden pre-dianno they arent pretected by 50000 guard dogs in Steve Harris's house.

[@Ifyernotawakeyet]

😃😃 50,000 guard dogs in Steves' castle

[@jimmyneut2702]

@@Ifyernotawakeyet there is a safe though, and Maiden asked all people wiith bootlegs to lock them up and transfer them

[@jimmyneut2702]

@@Ifyernotawakeyet I cringe when I see my old comments

[@nikki78225]

@@Ifyernotawakeyet This is the alt account of that same channel and a lot of Judas Priest recordings are protected by the Gull records vaults

[@hollymccormack4081]

Ah, Victim of Changes is my favorite song and it's cool to hear bits of the final version in the early stages. I agree, I'm happy that they took the time to develop their sound before blending the two songs into Victim because they created a masterpiece! In my opinion, anyway. It's hard to pick a favorite a version, but perhaps the version from Live Vengeance - the concert filmed in Memphis on the Screaming for Vengeance tour. It was the first time I heard the song and was immediately hooked. Thanks for your insight and the cool vintage photos as well.

[@tasos0140]

My favorite version of Victims is the one I saw live in 2011. Can not beat the feeling of listening live to the dual opening riff, inspite the fact that kk had left the band. Another Al atkins song that has an intriguing story is the song Chaviar and meths. An originally 14 min long song that only plays for 2 minutes on Rocka Rolla. The 7 minutes version by Al atkins on his solo album Victim of Changes is powerful.

[@germansalas6159]

I absolutely love these old versions, so groovy and heavy.

[@pandaspirit6734]

I saw them perform in Atlanta , Ga in the 1980's for the second time. After the Fuel For Life tour. Rob introduced the song by saying " it is our favorite song of all ". I can now see why he said that. They developed while refining this song. The early versions sounded flat and one deminsional. When I heard it live for the first time it was refined and sophisticated with different movements. A rock classic.

[@MarkLipka]

🤘🏼🤘🏼 *It seems clear & obvious to me that the best version of this AMAZING song is from "Unleashed In The East".* 🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@GrampsD63]

Loved the song since I first saw the British Steel tour. So much power wrapped up in it and definately one of the greatest ever written.

[@rafalradomski6508]

Victim of changes is Heavy Metal. This song is a very definition of this kind. Trust me metal maniacs -I’ve listen this particular band on daily basis for over 35 years. Protect your ears and always listen your favorite Priest on good stereo.

[@extantia]

Been my favorite Judas Priest song ever since I got “Unleashed in the East” back in 1979 when I was in high school. Also my favorite rendition of the song

[@godetonter4764]

Some of the most bizarre lyrics, that no one ever questioned. Good God Pluck Me , and changes come over her body , she doesn't see me anymore. Those lines are strange, what changes come over her body ? Pluck Me

[@ericv7720]

Like metal itself, Victim of Changes evolved. There obviously was a lot of woodshedding between RR and SWOD on Priest's part, because they had to set themselves apart from bands like Queen and Kiss, who were already putting forward a more streamlined, uptempo, accessible vision of what metal could be (and I know the nerds will pipe in with "Bu-bu-but those bands weren't metal!" Easy thing to say in 2022 with three decades of EMG plus TS9- pushed 5150 half-stacks behind us already!)

[@jerseyforhawks]

Unleashed in the East version is the standard.

[@forgottenfilmchannel1194]

Unleashed in the East from J.P, but my true fav was a few years ago I saw a talent show in Greenwich Ct where this group of 8th graders did a sped up almost garage punk version + rocked it like bosses. V.O.C is a true classic no matter how it's played. Didn't a 1970's folk singer do a super slow depressing version of Whiskey Woman?

[@kattycat3502]

As a 12 year old kid listening to that album back in the day. Yes, it was metal. Of the day! We all knew that album had something special but we didn't know at the same time.. A few years later when Unleashed in the east came out and heard victim of changes. That was it! Metal was born!!!!!!

[@arto2533]

possibly my favorite Priest song. The Unleashed In The East - version is the definite reading, but some of the Travis-era slower and heavier live cuts are great too. It would probably be much better known if it had more memorable lyrics.

[@eugenneek]

Love the 1983 Dortmund video. Rob at his best condition and classic Dave's drums

[@myronstewart9085]

It’s always cool to hear how a song was written and how it evolved. Victim is one of the baddest songs in the galaxy and the version on Unleashed in the East is quite awesome. I did not know the history of those two songs becoming one. Im so ashamed. Thanks for the education. As always , dig your videos Pilgrim 🤘🏻❤️🤘🏻

[@raybeez55]

one of priest most iconic songs

[@nonsuch]

Victim of Changes is a great song. I've always loved the version from 'Unleashed in the East' the best. It definitely had more of a "Metal" sound and feel to it by that time. Speaking about a Metal song... with the exception of the intro, I feel that 'Dissident Aggressor' from 'Sin After Sin' is the first "modern" Heavy Metal song. When Rob's scream comes in with the chugging palm muted guitars and then double bass drum groove, it's borderline "Thrash". If there's something more "Metal" before that... prove me wrong. 🤘

[@spyder2383]

Sad wings was my 1st priest album and remains my favorite today. Interestingly Rolling Stone once rated it as an essential album in the early eighties and yet only rate it as mediocre now.

[@ytusersumone]

Before you saying it Vlad, I was also thinking, it all worked for the best when the record label didn't want to use the proto Whiskey Woman&Red Light Lady/V.o.c. prematurely as the initial bluespsychrock/hardrock version it was. Musicians (and Im one too) know there are endless ways of exploring, executing and combining themes, so letting something sit - just like maturing whiskey - can very well be for the best, especially if one still doesnt have an 'artistic brand' vision. Rocka Rolla is also an absolute must have, a great debut album which fortunately also gives the JP discography all the more diversity. I adore the trippy and hypnotic Run Of The Mill, Caviar And Meths (which imo should have been a longer instrumental) and One For The Road in which they asked some entity to 'show them the way' - and seemingly shortly after they certainly were 'shown the way', lol :D

[@justsomedude5727]

I wish there were more early recordings of al, it would have been cool to hear him on rocka rolla and his voice might have fit that record better than halfords

[@JonMallek]

Atkins cracks me up.

[@chassy]

It suits more their second album, wich is still my favorite to this day. So it's a damn good thing they didn't put it on Rocka Rolla. And the sound on the album version when listened with earphones is just awesome. The srum's aound is perfect too, even for that time.🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@johnpeace971]

Rob Halford: We invented heavy metal Tony Iommi: wait just a second here... Black Sabbath invented heavy metal 3 years before Priest had a record. Priest invented POWER metal

[@ericv7720]

Blue Cheer: hold my beer!

[@MarkLipka]

*Of course.* 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@luiscordova2290]

Metal was not real metal until the "mute" sound of Judas Priest's guitars.

[@ericv7720]

@@luiscordova2290 Bands were doing staccato stuff before Priest, like Deep Purple on "Hard Lovin' Man" and Uriah Heep on "Bird of Prey". And there are bands that do almost no palm muting, like Motorhead, Autopsy, DiAnno-era Maiden, and most Black Metal bands. So there has to be more to metal than chuggy rhythms.

[@luiscordova2290]

@@ericv7720 Ok, good point, however, 60 % of actual power metal is priest like, followed by 30% maiden like, 10% Accept-Queensriche like. I dont know power metal Sabb like. Not event Osborne like.

[@luiscordova2290]

They came from blues to heavy metal. The best versión for me is: "Unleashed in the east" 1978 Live in Japan.

[@MrXHammer]

I would really love to hear the original Full version of Caviar and Meths from Rocka Rolla. That would be Awesome!!

[@davidstock2713]

Over looked equation, Travis being foundation, double bass triplet excursions brought the priest to fullest capabilitys. Front runners had much more to work with, than previous years. Closures changed drastically.

[@Nissardpertugiu]

What Travis on that song is a copy of what Les was doing

[@charliegaskins5735]

Of course it was

[@tomlangley6236]

Everything has to start somewhere

[@Glamosapien]

Lets be glad some musicians are willing to change some songs theyve already made or we wouldnt have gotten what we got

[@ronnieharp8940]

I still have sad wings if destiny on vinyl. Awesome album

[@chrisfry7915]

Great video and a great band, but Black Sabbath opened the drawbridge first.

[@georgegeorge7469]

1:04 soo heavy

[@kellyhelms1584]

It evolved into the best song in the world

[@patrickpenix3399]

Best version is also on the best live (arguably) album of all time….Unleashed in the East.

[@robbybeum212]

Where do you find all these old raw recordings of these songs???

[@DODO-vy6sf]

Hmm, interesting how big men Tipton & Halford failed to make my personal favourite songs. KK wrote Run of the Mill and The Rage. Les Binks (their late 70's drummer) - Beyond the Realms... Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust, Spooky Tooth - Better by you... KK especially deserves more credit and Im happy that at least he is still in good shape

[@markbouquet1316]

They did invent the two guitar attack, were the precursors to speed metal. Everything prior was slow and droning like Black Sabbath. But they created the image that became associated with metal. They had to let Gull Records keep and own the rights to Sad Wings of Destiny and I believe Rocka-Rolla in order to leave and sign on with CBS Records. Too bad for KK isn’t in the band. Al Atkins is a nice guy. I thought I knew everything about Priest and he’s a stand up guy. But, it was Hell Bent for Leather (Killing Machine across the pond) and specifically a cover song that sucked until it was “Priestasized!” Just listen to the original version by the writers. Fleetwood Mac. Also, to hear what Priest heard from folk artist Joan Baez and to take Diamonds and Rust to where they did was ridiculously cool. Then to (in my professional opinion) go back to the acoustic version so that Rob, who live is shot. The studio wizardry (I mean that literally too! If you have never been offered a major label record deal as I was, you can’t understand without some serious life changing events as in “Hell No! I won’t leave my wife or sell my soul!” Elektra Records when I met with the A&R person in Chicago in a high rise had a mural on the wall that said “GOD IS DEAD.” It shocked me! When I asked her, “what’s that all about?” You would of thought I asked the time or temperature. “Oh, we’re Satanist’s.” Nice meeting you Tina. I will tell you to look for the X-Factor winner who could be dead by know. But he was going along but that was until one night he was asleep at the wheel and he said a very soft voice told him to wake up. The man has nailed everything I’ve come to learn about everything. And he’s lost everything as a result of telling the truth and most likely his life too. All these musicians that die young isn’t just a coincidence. Chris Cornell didn’t hang himself from a doorknob using a tie. Chester Bennington, lead singer of the band Lincoln Park had a evil father and uncle. He happened to be financing a film Chris was making to expose all the pedophilia that’s finally coming out but not fast enough. This is coming from someone who knew pretty much in grammar school I was going to be a rockstar. I could have been but I was so not a Christian until a year before all the doors we couldn’t open because e couldn’t even find them. That all changed when I became a Christian. And if not for me realizing what was truly happening, (Satan or a demon was waving a carrot in my face. Satan is very real and I won’t debate that. I played with many bands that got signed or with members in my own bands that have committed suicide and weren’t on drugs or alcoholic’s. And the list of people just kept getting longer. I played for a season with Tyler Bates. He’s scores more films than anything. But he was playing with Marilyn Manson until his label dropped him over all of the sexual assault allegations. Brian Warner is his real name and he’s quite intelligent. No much on talent. He was raised as a Christian but he definitely rebelled. I do hope he wakes up and I don’t see anyway Tyler could get where he is having experienced what I have in the industry. WATCH THIS VIDEO. Just find it on KZbin. His first name starts with an A. X-Factor winner who tells what really is happening and what the plans really are. It took me two days to watch it. It’s 5 plus hours long. But the evidence is damning and makes me feel better knowing I didn’t sign any deal. Well done work on the video and presentation. I love the music but the message is from the pit of hell. And what some people do to get there only to realize they are owned unless they accept Christ into their lives. If you’re sure of what you believe, you shouldn’t be afraid to watch maybe a 10 to 12 minute video. Also on KZbin. Check it out. I know these things are true. But you decide. Living Waters is the name of his KZbin channel. And he was a very wealthy New Zealander and living for the party when he was a young man. Ray Comfort isn’t the Savior. He’s just the one I think makes things understandable if you have the courage to listen to the end. Your eternity depends on this just like mine and his still does. He won’t ask you to join a church or anything like that. I wonder if you’re brave enough to check it out....I hope so. You do great work but it’s could be put to much better uses. Other than that, great job man!

[@Nissardpertugiu]

2:06 : Rob doing Wilson pickett

[@robunish9233]

Pilgrim..... what's your thoughts on Priest going back on tour with only Richie Faulkner & no Andy Sneap?

[@br1qbat]

The songs on the first album were determined by the heavy hand of producer Rodger Bain, which is why Priest always had a love/hate relationship with their debut, because it didn't really reflect their onstage sound.

[@hadara69]

Rob said it himself. You have to give credit to Sabbath for their input, but Priest INVENTED Metal in that they shed the blues base that Sabbath are known for. Faster, heavier, little to no pentatonic scales, dual guitar work, more operatic and theatrical (you know it’s true!), and DARKER. That’s Heavy Metal!

[@brownwrench]

🤯

[@paisteplayer1040]

Priest was a hard rock band in the 70's when hard rock was becoming popular. Then when Metal became popular in the 80's they became a metal band. Then when thrash became popular late 80's early 90's they even tried their hand at thrash. painkiller was definitely thrash. Thats just my opinion... You are welcome to yours.

[@midnightadmirer]

Live vengeance 82 version🥇

[@B1FFCO]

My favorite version is the Sad Wings of Destiny version

[@skullheadwater9839]

unleashed in the east version, hands down

[@pmrttw]

Yes, its still metal. We need to realize that metal today has a heavier sound compared to 1976. In 1976 metal was heavier than rock in 1976.

[@johnfletcher948]

Defenders #1!!!!!!!!!!!

[@xXAlmdudlerXx]

Comforting to see even a band like Priest doesn’t get it right first try

[@POOKIE5592]

Al Atkins is actually a pretty good singer.

[@dawnclaibourne2183]

Regardless of what version is the best, I think it's time to break out Sad Wings of Destiny again🤘🤘🤘

[@godetonter4764]

Rob Halford said himself Judas Priest invented Heavy Metal. You never can find anywhere that anyone in Black Sabbath makes that claim. Whoever said that Black Sabbath with their Heavy Psyche Rock were playing Metal were wrong. Over time Black Sabbath developed into a Heavy Metal band, but by that time Judas Priest and Rush were already playing Metal. Heavy Weird Scary Music existed since the Neolithic era , but nothing was Metal until Sad Wings of Destiny hit the shelves of Record Stores . If you are convinced that Black Sabbath were playing real Metal in 1970 then so were Led Zeppelin, UFO, Sir Lord Baltimore, Deep Purple and Uriah Heep. Most of those 1970s bands actually had more elements of Metal in their sound than Black Sabbath had , first and foremost screaming Vocals and Agressive music, which is very scarce to find on the first 2 Black Sabbath albums. Black Sabbath just had songs that sounded like a bad LSD trip, not headbanging fury

[@dougieboxell6505]

First version isn't Halford, that's Al Atkins for sure

[@richjnev70]

Are you going to a video about Priest's strange decision to become a 4 piece?

[@MetalPilgrim]

Yup, just launched a poll and it seems like I have to haha - kzbin.infoUgkxnae-yahDe49orXL-kmuoRR0TvyAUQqBy Will be out very soon

[@richjnev70]

@@MetalPilgrim Thanks you're doing a great job, I hope you get to 20k subscribers soon.

[@stm113]

Priest are Metal Titans but to say they invented it? I mean Sabbaths Master Od Reality came out in ‘72. That’s when Metal became Metal.

[@tedmich]

Rob says NO, they are not two combined songs, nice theory though.

[@LauraKnotek]

I'd love to hear Ken play both of these original songs without another guitarist nowadays.

[@blakessite]

1982

[@jonny555ive]

Honestly, I don't like either one of those songs. So, I'm gonna pass on this conversation.

[@carlosw1687]

The best records are the early ones.

[@jasperedwards3341]

there not been judas priest since kk left

[@jasperedwards3341]

alan akins not rob halford

[@asbe0180]

Yes it was metal... have you never heard of a ballad?

[@georgemaranville3305]

UFO Scorpions etc they all sounded less metal in the early years.

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[@dougieboxell6505]

Not even the best of the album, m8

[@KingDiamond714]

I think they ripped off the idea from Nazareth.