Wrapping up my Rio portion of the interview, was there any thought given to releasing that concert itself as an official live CD?
No. Again, there’s no reason why it shouldn’t. Roy Z did a fantastic job with the sound. In fact, I think we’re one of the first people to provide you with the ability to switch into the onstage sound apart from the surround sound. You can actually flip it into the sound that we experienced when we were performing on stage using the monitors. But I don’t know, anything’s possible.
A friend of mine brought up to me that you were thinking of releasing the Voyeurs demos from your Two project. Is this correct?
Yes. The bigger goal of that is to try and get the actual music that I did with Trent Reznor … and get that back somehow because then I’d like to provide the fans with both sides of what Two was about at that point musically. There was the demos and [they] were all practically completed. But we shifted gear and worked with Trent and Ray Riendau. Most people are only aware of the final outcome of that collaboration. So we just got to get through all the legal business stuff.
A lot of people are talking about that as I’ve been chatting to friends around the world about this Rio DVD. Everybody’s remembering and thinking about the Two record. And I think that’s very cool because, you put some of those tracks on now and they just click into active rock radio and Top 40. … And that just shows you the foresight that Trent had as a musician and as a producer. You can really feel Trent’s influence on songs like “I Am A Pig.” He’s just ahead of the game in music to a certain extent…. But yeah, I think it would be useful if the demand was there … we’ll do it.
How did Judas Priest decide to get involved in the videogame Rockband and decide to be one of the first bands in April (of 2008) to have its record, Screaming For Vengeance available to download through the system?
It’s a Sony thing. They’re behind all of that. I mean of all the people they could pick and choose within that catalog, we were absolutely thrilled they chose Priest and S.F.V. … and the same with Guitar Hero. … So yeah, it’s really cool to be in that world, [though] I’m rubbish when I try to play video games.
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