Judas Priest - Steeler - Hampstead 1980 (Audio)

[@j0eschm0e1]

Steeler live at the Seminole hard rock arena is THE. Best

[@OkieMikester]

Absolutely!!

[@tobyalder42]

The best quality record you mean?

[@moto-rambler]

This is the way.

[@inlakesh555]

Seriously, I love this unpolished live-recordings! Dave Holland sounds so powerful

[@Nissardpertugiu]

He hit super hard

[@williamcoyle7226]

I believe this show was actually at the Calderone Concert Hall in Hempstead, Long Island , NY (Nassau Coliseum is/was in Uniondale). I was there as a 15 year old and grabbed a Killing Machine poster from the wall on my way out. Because it was around the 4th of July, a large M-80 was thrown by someone in the balcony and exploded near me. Rob even commented on the explosion. I had trouble hearing for several days thereafter, lol, and maybe even until this day. Fantastic show, one of the best of my life.

[@EattheApple666]

I was 12 when I first found them... now coming up on 45yrs of them being my band. Priest!!!!

[@madeinhell10]

JUDAS PRIEST FOREVER !!!

[@cctitansfan]

Proud to call Priest my favorite band of all time.Rob is the GOAT in my opinion

[@TheEarnold]

one of their most definitive tunes. "carpetbaggers bluff and strike/ kiss of judas, spiderlight"

[@mlratto]

uh that would be spider like

[@GRILLBUOY101]

rob looks cool with hair .2 years after this i saw them in 82 and he had his head shaved almost bald.but his voice was spine tingleing i saw the screaming 82 tour in madison square garden front row!!! best show in my life.

[@timcornell8975]

Fantastic photos from the day...thx for the post. PRIEST4LIFE✊

[@buyamerican]

Saw Preist in1981,Iron Maiden was the opening act,That was some fckin show.Orpheum theatre ,Boston Mass.Those days will never be back

[@ramon2008]

God maiden opening for priest !!! That's freaking crazy !!! Both legendary bands

[@bluepowder2008]

i wish i had kept all my cream magazine cutting i had on them from 77/78 there was some awesome high quality pictures with rob wearing some very elaborate long sleeve kimono type things from tikyo tours in the 77 78 era........dam it .......cool pics thanks.............

[@martymcfly3159]

Absolute gem!!! Thanks from Italy

[@sezwhom]

Just saw 'um at the Warfield in SF and they played Steeler. Sounded freaking awesome.

[@brentmann]

Man I can still remember the energy and the vibe of excitement at that show, all the dudes with long hair and leather and demin and Hot metal chicks IUt was the best of times for Heavy Metal, everyone was united in enjoying the night Awesome Times!

[@Frip36]

You don’t have to tell me Ace. I'm freakin' Vinnie Calderone. The city made me shutter the venue after that lunatic singer of theirs shot up the place. Lost two of my cousins that night. Sal and Tommy Two Shoes. Broke my heart. Both were standing right next to me. Clear as day one second. Gone the next. Say a hail Mary they’re solar angels now. God bless ’em. They still haven't found the other shoe by the way. They never do, do they. The fellas give me grief about this old Monopoly shoe hanging around my neck. This is for Tommy. I don’t tell ‘em. True story. Full metal jacket lead singer pulls a machine gun outta nowhere. To this day...this VERY DAY…up and down Long Island...as their wives sleep...as their children come and play with their toys...they argue about how this god forsaken killing machine slipped through all those metal detectors. I didn't tell my wife about it till long afterward. She's a bit skittish when it comes to violence. Didn't want to excite her. Capiche? But women talk. They all found out about it. Ladies pulling out their hair bands over it. TO...THIS...DAY. And we’re not talking some wholesale, “I know a guy”, metal detectors. No. We’re talking top dollar heavy duty Brooklyn Metallican. My opinion? Like a rollin' stone this savage just rumbled through 'em like they were nothin'. Security so in awe they just stood there frozen like mannequinz. Mouthz hanging open like mindless zombies. No matter how they tried they couldn't understand. It was beyond them. So they just gave the man a hand. As if he were a god or somethin’. Some hero. Hero my ass. An hour? Two hours later? I’m hanging out back stage playing dominos with the fellas. We can barely here ourselves over the "music" blasting from out there. All the sudden…bing, bang, boom, POP! Shots ringing out all over the joint. I drop my white hot red coffee mug. Run out there. And holy saints in hell. God as my witness. Blood...everywhere. Blood on the mics. Blood on the Marshalls. Blood on the stained glass. Blood on the lasers, blood on the razors. Sorry the Harleys. There's frigin blood...on the popcorn...Ace. ‘The ultimate in horrors.' You said it. Blood on the seats. Which is hell on the leathers, lemme tell'ya. Not cheap getting that out. Not cheap at all. Blood on the boom tracks. The reviewers from all the rags are dippin' their pens in blood at this point. Some of them dead already. Well, we know the reason why. Karma's a bitch. But I can’t help thinking, holy Berlin, better yous rather than me. OK. Anyway. You get the picture. Total genocide. Dead. Dead everywhere. Half dead. Walking dead. Dead dead. End of story. You get the picture. Moral of the story? Uh, that's a tough one. Gotta gimmie a minute on that... Ok Brent. Here we go. Right. Unless you WANNA get hurt? Right? Like, you're literally cruisin' for a bruisin'? NEVER invite Priest into your town. These freakin'...what's the word I'm looking for. These freakin'...freakin'......invaders. Is essentially what they are. I'm shaking my head right now, in earnest. This is our town. Our lair. They don’t come rollin’ in here in their Caddies, with their hogs, with their axes and their spikes…hell bent on…on.…I DUNNO WHAT. Sorry. Don’t trust ‘em. CAN’T trust ‘em. Can’t win with ‘em. Masqueraders, the whole lot. Keep those boys outta this town. Get the picture? Set the snare. Stop ‘em at the border if you have to. Capice? Ahh, but it's different now. Times change see. Things settle. The sun comes up. The night comes down. Let us prey someday by the safety of the bay. Shall we? Amen to that. Cheers Ace.

[@ScottBis]

My favorite Priest song, fantastic!!!

[@TheVedder11]

I saw them on 7/3/80 in Asbury park N.J. I just turned 14 , my first concert . the opening band was called the game [ I think ] they got run off the stage , people started throwing M80s at them . great show I was deaf for two days.

[@bippy88]

I thought it was The Fixx

[@uudong]

that's f'd up lol, they can't be that bad if they open for Priest.

[@TheAubelisk]

😂

[@paulhabat6338]

Saw this tour in Cleveland. Heavy Metal Wednesday ! Leopard.. Scorpions. Priest.. Only $ 10 bucks ! Epic

[@f.frederickskitty2910]

This must be before Rob quit smoking, drinking and partying in general. What this song lost by being out of tune (unlike all later JP performances) it makes up x 10 for pure, raw enthusiasm in spades! I really like this version - and excellent pictures too. 👍👍

[@thewhiteelephant]

It’s not out of tune, it’s a old analog recording.

[@MetallianDefender]

Awesome live performance and pics!

[@CorvusCorax.]

Heavy Metal has a second name. That name is JUDAS PRIEST!!

[@bloodstone6196]

Always liked this song,then saw it live in 2010,fuuuuucking awesome!

[@arthurmurfitt7698]

WOW! nice upload, the studio album is my gym fave!

[@tyrant1505]

Great, thanks for the upload! Rob was a real "Tim Brooke-Taylor" from the Goodies lookalike on the UK British Steel tour, these photo's reinforce just how energetic the guys were in their younger years! Musically they're still as good as it gets live, roll on another album, a "back to basics" red blooded British metal album would do nicely, THEN another tour. Thanks for the last 35 years boys!

[@JoeyP322]

When Black Sabbath was dropping the torch, Judas Priest picked it up and ran...

[@timcornell8975]

Lol....Sabbath was done in 74....

[@JoeyP322]

“Sabotage” was one of their best, and heaviest albums, and that was in ‘75... after that I’d have to agree with you.

[@thebannanaslugs2300]

@@JoeyP322 ozzy's peak was 74, sabbaths peak musically was 1975

[@JoeyP322]

@@thebannanaslugs2300 I think “Sabotage” is their second best album (behind “Paranoid”)… “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” was definitely Ozzy’s best album vocally…

[@tyronedonut8336]

Meh,Real metal started with Priest,Sabbath had unique distortion sound but lacked Metal elements we all know,Look at riffs at SWOD,the metallic riff and Non-existent blues in The Ripper is Ground Zero for metal.

[@ssolo8]

Creem Magazine! My wallpaper from 77 till they crusted right off the wall! Right On!

[@austinsobek2341]

They need to put this live track on iTunes!! or the one from Denver! either way, I want it on my iPod!

[@Steeler_]

banger song!

[@rockdog2843]

Awesome rare photos.Perhaps by roadies? Never seen some of them.COOL!!

[@07kitara]

saxon.. judas priest....... forest n... bruxelles 1980..... big souvenir de mes 15 ans

[@BiblePit]

Great pix! You rule! This is METAL, not most of the garbage metal we hear by the new bands today.

[@tonytaglalucci7778]

Wholly crap !!! Great version and pictures !!!

[@brentmann]

@buyamerican Saw them at the Opheum in Boston with Def Lep opening for Scorps then Priest! GREAT SHOW!

[@scheissdrek]

First concert ever, this tour with Def Leppard, in Corpus Christi TX. I had never heard of D.L. I thought they were called Death Lepper. I remember trying to explain to my buddy what the name meant. So fucking weird how Death ( R.I.P. Chuck) had an album called Leprosy. However, I digress... Priest was beyond amazing. Blew my 15 year old mind and turned me into a fan for life. I wish I still had my Unleashed in the East grey softball jersey with the Tipton red sleeves from the show.

[@paulhabat6338]

Proof their the METAL GOD'S ! POWER METAL IN YOUR FACE !

[@Marcoshary]

Fucking great song and photos!! Thanks for uploading! \m/

[@paulfox1020]

The JP/SCORPS/DEF LEP show at the Orpheum was my first concert (I was 12yrs old) WOW!! I also had 10th row for the "point of entry" tour with VINTAGE Maiden "KILLERS" OPENING......WHAT A F&%CKING SHOW!!

[@StefanEzpharess]

So awesome, awesome and awesome!!! \m/

[@ttbjammn]

The Metal Gods...

[@oiyabastard]

true metal always never falter ever ever , stay true we are the blessed with the most powerful force ever metal music it is a gift fot us to use and respect, ok maybe i went too far? NO DIDNT ROCK 4EVER

[@tonyaltano7992]

"My Top Two songs for 1980:" 1. Demolition Boys (Girlschool) 2. Steeler (Judas Priest)

[@SpinalAlloy]

Especially at this tempo

[@exc123]

@buyamerican - I saw that tour in NYC they opened up with Solar Angels Kick ass show.

[@juandelacal8343]

Inmortal song.

[@FagmanGudaval]

Wow epic vid! Btw woah that F tuning though

[@kitjank]

Nice job!!!

[@Hardrockstorm]

....this is it ...!!!

[@ecatalan98]

Awesome tune! I'd shit in my pants if I ever hear them play this one live again.

[@Scania855JG]

❤

[@AlexRG8]

EPIC!

[@SpinalAlloy]

So enjoy 'em while you can :^P

[@HarryPotter87]

4:55 Bobby H stole my shirt! Hahaha! Mine's actually a v-neck sweater and I think his was a rugby shirt.

[@HarryPotter87]

I just grabbed the screen of the computer and kissed it when 5:04 came up lmao

[@GRILLBUOY101]

the pics are fucking awesomw wow!!!!!!

[@mattoman2010]

fast forward nearly 30 years and they sound so much more tight.. search judas priest hollywood steeler

[@Dietpepsivanilla]

Today's youth says "Lady Caca," I say "Judas 'Fuckin' Priest."

[@painkllrrr]

Not sure what to make of your comments here. I personally love all 3 of these bands & would be very hard pressed to choose 1 over the other 2. That being said, I would never, ever say Maiden or Sabbath are shit compared to JP. If you were a true fan of the genre, you should know better.

[@ramon2008]

Anyone who would utter such ridiculous statement should be drawn and quartered immediately !!!! Jk. All three bands rock and each one has a sound for particular occasions and events. Love all of em

[@BenDover-ku1yj]

ok so priest invented headbanging haha

[@melgibsonsballs]

4.33 Halford looks like like my dad

[@PhilWorley]

lml

[@HarryPotter87]

4:35 Bobby sticks out his tongue lmao

[@vandalking8341]

Miss Rob's hair.

[@BenDover-ku1yj]

kiss was from a circus halloween look and they didnt play metal, but they were heavy. Priest were the first normal lookin people to do it.

[@BenDover-ku1yj]

the most important thing is that priest were the first non-clown people to wear spikes haha

[@christervainio]

Greatest Heavy Metal band, ever.🤘 Terrible sound quality, though.👎

[@herbiedunlap5534]

Rob Halford,,the god father of metal, ? Why not ?

[@BenDover-ku1yj]

so u think god of thunder was actually metal? not. there word 'metal' did not come out until the 80s and british steel and metal gods word the reason why the word 'metal' were created. and dont say sabbath were metal either, they were hard rock.

[@glenwisneski9990]

The phrase Heavy Metal Thunder was part of the 60's song Born To Be Wild.

[@EattheApple666]

@@glenwisneski9990 Heavy Metal Thunder was a reference to motorcycles rolling along.

[@timothydfrank1991]

@GomerSexual more like overworked and badass

[@jimkayser1880]

Why does Rob sound like Mickey Mouse?

[@HarryPotter87]

1:50 Rob looks like a woman

[@praisedio4763]

Princess Leia.