The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child. But my grown-up initiation was as part of that band.
There's more outrage on Twitter about a One Direction split or about what one band member said to another than there is about institutionalized racism and something huge.
I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.
There has to be an element of danger, or at least an element of intrigue, for a band to be interesting.
I was in the Rockin' Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain. A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.
What I do is a bit broader in scope than a heavy metal band like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, ACDC and so on.
In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.
I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.
And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.
In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.
I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one.
I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.
Journey was a jazzy jam band when they first started. They were very out there.
It was an extraordinary connection, the synergy within the band. There was an area of ESP between Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, and myself.
I was in several bands before I joined Judas Priest. Being in those early unknown bands were the stepping stones, really, so I learned a lot in those short few years jumping from one band to another.
I think we all appreciate it now just how lucky we are to be in a band like Judas Priest.
The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.
A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre.
