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Source: Bravewords.com

JUDAS PRIEST frontman Rob Halford is featured in a new interview with Ultimate-Guitar.com’s Steve Rosen. An excerpt from the discussion about the band’s new Epitaph DVD is available below:

UG: You left in 1992 after the tour for Painkiller. Did you know you were going to leave?

Halford: “No, I don’t think any musician feels that way whether it was when Bruce stepped away from MAIDEN or whether it was when Vince stepped away from CRÜE. It’s just a very peculiar thing and even now I can’t really fully understand the true circumstances of it. I sometimes reflect on what could have happened in those 10 years I was away. What records could we have possibly made together? It’s easy to look back and use those moments in a better way. A lot of people look on that time as a little bit of a wilderness type of moment. For me personally, I think I was maybe exorcising some of my demons. You know what it’s like to be in a band, Steve?”

UG: I do.

Halford: “It’s a very, very fragile chain and you’ve got all these combustible components in the players. Not in a violent way but just in a very frictional way. That’s just the way it is in a rock and roll band. I think if any band tells you, ‘Oh yeah, we get along great and everything is wonderful,’ I think they’re lying. Rock and roll should be about chaos and rock and roll is about making a fuss and kicking down doors and yelling and screaming. It needs to maintain that type of emotion and delivery.”

UG: It sounds like you might have done things differently now that you’re looking back at those moments.

Halford: “Yeah, you know whatever they say about hindsight but you can’t change the past. You can only enjoy what you’ve got now and look forward to the future, which is definitely how Priest are rockin’ these days.”

Go to this location for the complete interview.