Episode 50: Glenn Tipton Biography. English Version

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00:00:25 - Glenn Raymond Tipton was born in Black Earth, a region near Birmingham,

00:00:29 - Birmingham, on October 25, 1947. His parents were named Olive and Doug Tipton. He studied at Hill Primary School. He became interested in music when his older brother Gary started playing in a local band called Atlantics. In his childhood, music occupied an important place in his life. His mother gave him piano lessons as a child. But who helped him was his brother Gary who taught him to play acoustic guitar. His first guitar was offender Stratocaster, which, to his chagrin, was stolen from him on the first show he offered as a guitarist. Rock and roll music, in my team's really, but you know in my early days because I'm getting on a bit. It was a lot of soul music and you know initially I was into blues, I got into blues and rhythm blues and then it just progressed from there. There were a lot of clubs around about that time that you could go and see some great acts with great songs, people that were just expressing themselves moving away from blues, progressing and there was lots of little clubs particularly in Birmingham and I think you know Birmingham is renowned for having a lot of important musicians and very successful musicians and I think that's a lot to do with it. I think there was a quite a large outlet there for bands to go and play. I remember seeing the cream. I didn't really know they were at the time, you know.

00:01:52 - And there's lots of bands, Early Fleet, Wood Mac, Mud The Hoop or Small Clubs. Small venues is great to see them really close up.

00:02:02 - His first band was Shave M. Dry, which would change its name to the Flying Hat band. With this band he even recorded an album for Atlantic Records, but they did not have the proper support of the critics because they were considered a clone group of the Black Sabbath.

00:02:42 - You're in for a surprise, you're in for a shock In London town streets, when there's

00:03:11 - He joined the Judas Priest by chance in 1974, temporarily not as a stable member of the band.

00:03:27 - During the early days with Judas Priest, he had to do a lot of temporary jobs because they couldn't make a living from music.

00:03:34 - The priests were about to separate and leave music, because they had numerous problems with the Gull Records label, which recorded the two albums. Later, they signed for Columbia

00:03:45 - Records to record Sin After Sin, which featured Roger Glover as producer, bassist for Deep

00:03:50 - Purple, with whom he had endless run in. That album was the boom of the band, had considerable success managing to tour around the world, especially in Japan.

00:04:26 - You're always the thing after me!

00:04:56 - Look out here, stop, break up, cruising in the town

00:05:06 - Sinister mind is stealing every heart around

00:05:12 - Step out on the sidewalks, if you're feeling game

00:05:18 - Becoming one's a lifetime, never see it again

00:05:24 - Slow break out, lights in from the sky

00:05:30 - Slow break out, takes you up so high

00:05:37 - And the chance is waiting for the chosen few

00:05:43 - And some of them may be this time, even to me and you

00:05:49 - Star points to where you are, light your mouth away

00:05:55 - Crush your knees, here it is, take us down this day

00:06:01 - Star bring up, glancing from the sky

00:06:07 - Star bring up, fix your arms for life

00:06:19 - Starbreaker, take my hand

00:06:25 - Starbreaker, understand

00:06:32 - Starbreaker, your one

00:06:38 - Starbreaker, lead the song

00:06:46 - Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah,

00:07:16 - I'm gonna stop, bring up

00:07:18 - Cruisin' in the town

00:07:20 - When we sit as one, I ain't just gettin' in

00:07:24 - Every time around

00:07:26 - Step out on that sidewalk

00:07:30 - If you're a pity game

00:07:33 - You gotta follow more

00:07:35 - For last time, no more

00:07:37 - No more, please, oh yeah

00:07:39 - I'm gonna stop, bring up

00:07:43 - Blighting from the sky

00:07:46 - Star

00:07:48 - Bring up

00:07:49 - Takes you on so high

00:07:52 - Star

00:07:54 - Bring up

00:07:55 - Blighting from the sky

00:07:58 - Star

00:08:00 - Bring up

00:08:01 - Takes you on so high

00:08:04 - Star

00:08:06 - Bring up

00:08:08 - Star

00:08:09 - Bring up

00:08:11 - Stand free now, stand free now

00:08:18 - Stand free now, stand free now

00:09:11 - And I'll be right back

00:09:13 - I'll be right back

00:09:15 - I'll be right back

00:09:17 - Slow Breakout

00:09:19 - Right to the front

00:09:21 - Slow Breakout

00:09:23 - Slow Breakout

00:09:25 - It's gonna be so hard

00:09:27 - It's gonna be so hard

00:09:29 - It's gonna be so hard

00:09:31 - Oh yeah

00:09:33 - Yeah

00:09:35 - Oh yeah

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00:10:07 - Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

00:10:37 - Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

00:11:07 - From there, the Judas priests began to live the Golden Stage, Stain Class, Killing Machine, and the extraordinary British Steel, Defenders of the Faith, the decade of the 70s and 80s, where they obtained albums of platinum and gold, being one of the fundamental groups in rock and heavy metal.

00:11:47 - They would abandon the influences of psychedelic rock and blues very fashionable at the time, and in 1980 to create heavy metal, they are one of the pioneers and Glenn became famous with his partner KK Downing, the twin guitars, those solos where they alternate between the two, with great precision and melody.

00:12:06 - Judas Priest always had the same way of composing songs.

00:12:10 - K, K, Len and Halford, are the songwriters, once KK left the band, Faulkner is a songwriter.

00:12:18 - In other words, the composition always falls between the guitarists and the singer, there was no better guitar companion for Tipton than KK Downing.

00:12:27 - This duo performed the best metal songs of all time.

00:12:30 - Tipton is also influenced by the classical music that his mother taught him, in his birthplace.

00:12:36 - Unlike Downing, Tipton is a much more melodic guitarist, he had a very fine ear, he combined his riffs with classic picks, but very effective.

00:12:46 - In the solos he pulls the melody and uses scales in a lower tone than his old Judas

00:12:50 - Priest partner, in those solos they shared, the melodic part usually falls on Tipton.

00:12:56 - He pulls many arpeggios and tremolo in the solo composition.

00:13:01 - As Downing played the speed metal, the speed, he gave the Judas Priest solos pause and harmony.

00:13:07 - In terms of riff construction, he always used martial amps to give it a more aggressive and garish tone, giving it a very aggressive live sound.

00:13:16 - In the 1980s, he experimented with synthesizers for the turbo album, and again experimented with keyboard and synthesizer on his two solo albums.

00:13:26 - It lends solos on some songs like Painkiller, Bloodstone, Beyond the Realm of Death are exceptional, but the only one that remains for the story is that of the song I Electric from the album Screaming for Vengeance.

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00:14:26 - When you feel safe, when you feel warm, that's when I rise, that's when I crawl,

00:14:50 - Lighting a mist, partly a sound

00:14:54 - Breaking the kiss, eagles abound

00:14:57 - In the dead of night

00:15:00 - Love bites, love bites

00:15:04 - In the dead of night

00:15:07 - Love bites

00:15:11 - Into your room, apparently sweet

00:15:14 - Value myself to my dream

00:15:18 - Then I descend, close to your lips

00:15:21 - I trust you I've been, smile as I sip

00:15:24 - And now you remind, in my control

00:15:28 - What taste is your life, and I own your soul

00:15:31 - Softly you stir, infinitely you moan

00:15:35 - Lost in the air, break as I groan

00:15:39 - In the dead of night, the long price

00:15:43 - Love bites you in the dead of night

00:15:48 - Love bites you in the dead of night

00:15:55 - Love bites you in the dead of night

00:16:02 - Love bites you in the night

00:16:09 - It lights you to light you

00:16:13 - It turns you to white

00:16:16 - Love, love, love

00:17:09 - In the dead of night

00:17:11 - In the dead of night

00:17:13 - In the dead of night

00:17:15 - In the dead of night

00:17:17 - In the dead of night

00:17:19 - In the dead of night

00:17:21 - In the dead of night

00:17:23 - In the dead of night

00:17:25 - In the dead of night

00:17:27 - In the dead of night

00:17:29 - In the dead of night

00:17:31 - In the dead of night

00:17:33 - In the dead of night

00:17:35 - In the dead of night

00:17:37 - In the set of nights

00:17:39 - Love fights

00:17:41 - Love fights

00:17:43 - In the set of nights

00:17:45 - Love fights

00:17:47 - Love fights

00:17:49 - Love fights

00:17:51 - Love fights

00:17:53 - Love fights

00:17:55 - Love fights

00:17:57 - Love fights

00:17:59 - Love, I love

00:18:01 - Love

00:18:07 - They're all the fights

00:18:17 - They're all the fightin' loves

00:18:24 - They're all the fights

00:18:31 - They're all the fights

00:18:35 - Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

00:19:05 - Glenn tells us how he started playing guitar. It was indirectly through my brother Gary.

00:19:15 - He had a guitar in his room, so when he went out I would go in, steal his guitar and play it. Of course, I thought they would never discover me. But every time he picked up that guitar, the tuning would inevitably change, and my brother, yes, he noticed. Currently,

00:19:32 - He is off stage, as he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease a few years ago, although he is still part of Judas Priest, mainly in songwriting.

00:19:40 - I think because both me and Ken there's no rules.

00:19:43 - We love heavy metal but we also love melody and we always believed that you can do whatever you want to do.

00:19:49 - You shouldn't be restricted by the so-called code of heavy metal.

00:19:53 - You can do what you want and I think that gave the band a lot of inner strength really.

00:20:02 - Light, wild fire, control rain, mad whirlwind, running the road, black thunder, white lightning,

00:20:28 - A dark, white-blind name

00:20:32 - Sweet demons cry

00:20:36 - The Hell Patrol

00:20:42 - The Hell Patrol

00:20:52 - Nightriders, death dealers

00:20:57 - Stormbreakers tear up the ground

00:21:04 - Fist flying, eyes blazing

00:21:10 - That glory bow

00:21:14 - The Hell Patrol

00:21:20 - The Hell Patrol

00:21:26 - Rune to last you, neutralize you

00:21:32 - Can't ignore the information that's on the main parade

00:21:35 - Pass you, tear around you, power at you

00:21:39 - When you've got the party, you've got the better it sounds

00:22:12 - Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

00:23:12 - Roar!