Friday, 30 May 2008
Glenn Tipton
Artist: Glenn Tipton
Genre(s):
Rock: Hard-Rock
Discography:
Baptizm Of Fire
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Glenn Tipton is famed as half of the legendary metal banding Judas Priest's groundbreaking ceremony twin-guitar tone-beginning. Born in Birmingham, England, on October 25, 1948, Tipton played in several local bands before forming the Flying Hat Band, a intemperate, Hawkwind-influenced prog rock unit, in 1972. He asleep the next year to join Judas Priest, which became i of the most democratic and influential heavy metallic element bands of all time; late-'70s albums like Stained Class and Hell Bent for Leather most outlined the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement, patch early-'80s records like British Steel and Screaming for Vengeance brought them external commercial success and stardom as advantageously. Tipton's partnership with K.K. Downing made for unmatchable of the most telepathic guitar teams in hard stone; the iI were able of keeping a groove in stark synchrony, or trading turned virtuosic solo licks. Lead vocalizer Rob Halford asleep in 1991, leaving Priest's future in serious doubtfulness, and in 1995 Tipton began work on his first solo album, taking on his kickoff lede vocals since his Flying Hat Band days. He recorded periodically over the following deuce and a half years with a form of musicians, including bassists Billy Sheehan and John Entwistle, and drummers Cozy Powell and Shannon Larkin, among many others. The results were finally released in 1997 on Atlantic Records as Baptizm of Fire. With new lead isaac M. Singer Ripper Owens in plaza, however, Judas Priest became a viable vexation once more, and Tipton subsequently returned to the folding.
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