Judas Priest: Why Rob Halford and company got banned from Madison Square Garden
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I had previously talked about concert riots or fans behaving badly at rock shows including the time Led Zeppelin fans got the group blacklisted from the city of boston or the time Alice Cooper fans rioted at a Canadian show after the shock rocker failed to turn up. The links to those videos are down below.. In today’s video we’re going to discuss the time heavy metal band Judas Priest received a life-time ban from one of the most prestigious venues in America.

Back in June of 1984 Judas Priest was on tour in support of their album Defenders of the faith. Kind of sounds like a stryper album, doesn’t it? BTW i’ve done a video on stryper link is down below. Part of the tour saw the band play one of the most prestigious venues in America, Madison Square Garden in New York City. Unfortunately the night didn’t go as planned. There’s been several versions of this story floating around. The official story I’ve read in many places claims that a local DJ named Perry Stone would take the stage before Judas Priest started their show and announced a list of upcoming concerts to the waiting audience. The largely accepted story goes that the announcement allegedly seemed to infuriate the crowd, maybe because the acts that Stone announced had nothing to do with metal. They included Neil Diamond and Helen Reddy.

Stone would recall "Naturally, the crowd of 20,000-plus booed me when I introduced myself,""but began to get truly unruly when I read that list of uncool acts." Stone would then hurl insults at the crowd but then things got ugly pretty quickly He would recall. "The crowd," he said, "proceeded to throw firecrackers, M-80s, Cherry Bombs and assorted beer bottles at me.” But a photographer who was working the pit that night named bob leafe would dispute Stone’s claims. He would claim Stone was exaggerating the importance of his announcement the night of the riot & things didn’t get out of control until Judas Priest hit the stage He would claim on his website he has no recollection of flying beer bottles, m80’s or firecrackers during Stone’s speech as the photographers would have raised a stink about it to the venue.

Judas Priest would end up taking the stage and playing through a roaring 20 song-set that was similar to other shows on the tour. Something was off that night though. Many fans snuck fireworks and other explosives into the venue and bootleg tapes of the concert, you could hear a barrage of explosions, none of which came from the band’s stage show, but rather the audience. I’ve read the reviews from several fans who attended the show who claimed they didn’t know how the show was allowed to continue given the amount of fireworks and m80’s going off in the crowd in addition to fist fights that broke out. All hell seemed to break loose when the band came back for their encore. One fan cut the foam out of his seat cushion and othe fans soon followed hurling their seat cushions on stage. In addition to that fist fights broke out into the crowd and chairs were damaged in the venue. The band’s encore consisted of “Living After Midnight”, Hell Bent for leather and you’ve got another thing coming.


To start the encore as he did every night frontman Rob Halford drove his harley davidson on stage for living after midnight and would recall in his book Confess: The Autobiography.

It was a great, regular gig until the encore….By the time I rode it onstage, it was like trying to motorbike through a floor-level soft-furnishings jumble sale. There were more seat cushions on the stage than in the arena. What the fuck? Two thoughts filled my head: a) This is fantastic! Our own riot! And b) They’re never gonna let us play this place again! ”Glenn, Ken [Downing] and Ian [Hill] were by n

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