Devin Townsend on Judas Priests The Sentinel, Hooked

Devin Townsend Rig Rundown: Subscribe to PG s Channel: The once Strapping Young Lad chronicles the pinnacle moment with the Glenn Tipton and K. K. Downing riff that helped him earn social collateral and he became moderately accepted with schoolmates. Warning: Devon Townsend says he hasnt played the riff in Judas Priests The Sentinel for enough years that it may be dubious. But thats hard to believe when he delivers the soaring line thats the hook from this Defenders of the Faith (1984) track. Townsend describes his initial discovery of the song as one of those pinnacle moments. He also opens up about being a misfit kid, and tells a great story about overhearing older kids in band class talking about guitarand how that riff suddenly made him one of those cool kids almost. Its the guitar, he says, that made me at least moderately accepted, and that still holds true to this