JUDAS PRIEST – Transmission Impossible [Classic Radio Broadcasts / Triple CD-Set] (2023) *HQ*

As part of the very good ‘Transmission Impossible‘ series, here the JUDAS PRIEST collection over 3 discs presenting each very different eras from the band.
While releasing an innovative and pioneering body of work in the latter half of the 1970s, the band had struggled with indifferent record production and a lack of major commercial success until 1980, when the album British Steel brought them notable mainstream attention.
In celebration of the band’s longevity, commercial & critical success, and musicianship, this new triple disc set presents three live recordings of the mighty Priest, all taken from FM radio broadcast at different era of their lengthy career.

Disc 1 contains Priest’s October 1979 show from Seattle, in Washington State, USA, while the band were on their ‘Killing Machine tour’.
Disc 2 presents their May 1986 concert from Kansas City, played as part of another US tour, while promoting the Turbo album, released in March the same year.
Disc 3 concludes this superb collection with Judas Priest’s gig in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in September 2001, a show which was played while promoting their Demolition album. Both the concert and the album featured, Tim “Ripper” Owens on vocals, Rob Halford’s replacement during his decade long hiatus.

Despite often being hailed as part of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal – termed by Sounds Magazine in 1979 – Judas Priest formed a decade earlier, in 1969. Hailing from Birmingham, the band’s best-selling album is 1982’s Screaming For Vengeance, with their most commercially successful line-up featuring Halford, Tipton, K.K. Downing, Hill, and drummer Dave Holland.

The 1979 performance showcase a band hungry for glory, energetic, a hot set full of fire. There’s an official album from this era, however this recording is unedited, raw, as it was captured not post-processed. Sound quality is fine.
On CD 2 sound quality very good, Judas at their most ‘commercial era, but on stage the band was heavy as ever.
Last disc is from the 2000’s, with Tim “Ripper” Owens at the mix, and a proof of how good he fit the band live, and how good metal vocalist he is. Sound quality is good, raw, metallic.
Horns up!

CD 1
1. Hell Bent For Leather
2. Delivering The Goods
3. Running Wild
4. The Ripper
5. Beyond The Realms Of Death
6. Diamonds & Rust
7. White Heat, Red Hot
8. Sinner
9. The Green Manalishi (With The Two Prong Crown)
10. Victim Of Changes
11. Genocide
12. Starbreaker
13. Take On The World
14. Tyrant

CD 2
1. Out In The Cold
2. Locked In
3. Heading Out To The Highway
4. Metal Gods
5. Breaking The Law
6. Love Bites
7. Some Heads Are Gonna Roll
8. The Sentinel
9. Private Property
10. Desert Plains
11. Rock You All Around The World
12. The Hellion/Electric Eye
13. Turbo Lover
14. Freewheel Burning
15. The Green Manalishi (With The Two Prong Crown)
16. Living After Midnight
17. Hell Bent For Leather

CD 3
1. Metal Gods
2. Heading Out To The Highway
3. A Touch Of Evil
4. Blood Stained
5. Victim Of Changes
6. One On One
7. The Ripper
8. Diamonds & Dust
9. Machine Man
10. Burn In Hell
11. Breaking The Law
12. You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’
13. Painkiller
14. The Hellion/Electric Eye
15. United
16. Hell Bent For Leather

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