Asil
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Registered: Jan 21, 2010
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Thu Aug 17, 2017 2:54 am
The year was 1980, a warm June evening. The place, San Diego State University Amphitheater, I was 17 and the show was Judas Priest's British Steel tour.
Not a lot of people had not heard of Judas Priest at this point in time, so the amphitheater was less that half full and people were spread out with three seat full then five empty next to them and two empty rows below. We had great seats and most of the front area seats were sold out.
The lights went down and fog began to cover the stage. The sound of a Harley Davidson revving up, louder and louder. The band started playing the intro to Hell Bent For Leather, the lights lite up and Rob Halford rode that Harley onto the stage. When they were done with that first song, Halford started talking to the audience. He looked out onto the people sitting spread out and said, " What is all this space between you and us? This is Rock and Roll, This is a Party" and he motioned for us to rush the stage. The bouncers look at us going towards them as the next song, 'The Ripper" began. They then look and Rob with a "WTF?" look on their faces. He just shrugged at them and started singing.