Priest Live [Live, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

Judas Priest | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 19, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Live, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000630C0
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
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Editorial Reviews

JUDAS PRIEST Priest... Live! (2001 issue US digitally remastered 18-track 2-CD live set of bone-crushing metal at its best by the original gods of the genre originally recorded in 1986 and including three bonus tracks: Screaming For Vengeance Rock Hard Ride Free & Hell Bent For Leather. Picture sleeve booklet with deletion drill-hole top left through the jewel case factory sealed from new K86378-S1)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Album, Disappointing Revised Track Listing, April 12, 2002

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The Scenario (Roseville, MN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Priest Live (Audio CD)

One of my favorite live albums from one of my favorite tours by one of my favorite bands, now remastered for pristine sound.

I was disappointed that the bonus tracks on this remaster didn't mimic the track listing for the VHS version of this CD, which included four songs not on the original album - "Desert Plains", "Locked In", "Hell Bent For Leather", and "Green Manalish (With The Two-Pronged Crown)", all of which were of course performed at the same concert on the same tour. This new remaster does include "Hell Bent", but foregoes the other three songs in favor of "Screaming For Vengeance" and "Rock Hard, Ride Free", neither of which came from the 1986 Fuel For Life tour despite what the packaging reads. In fact, prior to "Screaming", Rob tells the crowd, "Here's the title track from the new album," indicating that it is from the tour supporting the "Screaming For Vengeance" album 3 or 4 years earlier. The version of "Hell Bent For Leather" here is also obviously not from the VHS version, since the video was filmed in Dallas, TX and this version ends with Rob saying "Thank you St. Louis!" It could still be from the Fuel For Life tour, not sure.

Live versions of "Desert Plains" and "Locked In" are bonus tracks on other remastered Priest albums, and an older live version of "Green Manalishi" has always been available on "Unleashed In The East", so it's not like those songs don't exist at all on CD, but it would've been nice to have all four on here so I could have the perfect audio companion to the "priest...live!" VHS tape. There is one way Judas Priest can make this up to me - re-release the video version on DVD!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Has their big hits but lacks passion, January 21, 2007

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John Alapick (Wilkes-Barre, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Priest Live (Audio CD)

Released in 1987, Priest...Live! is Judas Priest's second live album, following 1979's Unleashed in the East. While that album was recorded when the band was still hungry and had yet to achieve worldwide success, Priest...Live! shows a band on the downslide. During the time between, the band had achieved their greatest success while releasing albums of varying quality as the classic releases British Steel and Screaming for Vengeance were countered by the uneven albums Point of Entry and Turbo. The energy that made Unleashed in the East so exciting rarely surfaces here as the songs differ little from the originals except for an occasional guitar fill or Rob Halford scream. The release does contain their most popular songs from the `80s such as "Metal Gods", "Breaking the Law", "Electric Eye", "Heading Out to the Highway", "The Sentinel", "Some Heads Are Gonna Roll", and the hits "Living After Midnight" and "You've Got Another Thing Comin'." Other tracks such as the mid-tempo "Love Bites" and the relentless tracks "Screaming for Vengeance" and "Freewheel Burning" are also very good. However, it's the inclusion of 5 songs from the aforementioned Turbo album that hurts the track listing. While "Rock You All Around The World" is a good anthem and "Turbo Lover" and "Out in the Cold" are okay, none of the songs on that release touch the other songs on this album, even on the reissued version. Even more disturbing is the inclusion of their corniest song ever in "Parental Guidance" while the excellent "Locked In" is not included. No more than two songs should have been included from Turbo as they have so many better songs that should have made the cut like "Desert Plains", "Bloodstone", "United", and "(Take These) Chains." All told, Priest...Live! is similar to AC/DC's 1992 release, Live, in that while it contains their most popular songs, it would have been better if the songs were performed with more passion and had a better song list.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not the best Priest live record, May 10, 2004

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S. Baker "sdbaker70" (Phoenix, Arizona United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Priest Live (Audio CD)

With the sheer energy of the first live record, I was a bit disappointed with this one. First of all, the sound is somewhat flat, which is unfortunately characteristic of early digital recordings. it was recorded during the Fuel for Life tour in 1986 in support of the relativley disappointing 'Turbo' record, and contains some of that record's worst tracks, including "Rock You All Around the World" and "Parental Guidance". The result is a mediocre live album.

The remaster of the first Priest live record, 'Unleashed in the East', is the best of the remasters (in my opinion) because they added four live tracks that were recorded at the same time but never fit on the original single LP. With this remaster, extending the compacted single CD back out to a double CD (as the original was a double LP), Sony could have done the same - adding such 1986 tour tracks as "Locked In", "Victim of Changes", "The Green Manalishi", and "Hell Bent for Leather" (three of which appear on the recently released 'Electric Eye' DVD). Unfortunately, we only get only the last cut from the 1986 tour, and two other live tracks from two other tours - "Screaming for Vengeance" from 1982 show and "Rock Hard, Ride Free" from a 1984 show. As with all but one of the other remasters, Sony has missed the opportunity to do it right.