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Originally Posted by Wouter Vuijk
Just like Judas Priest they made a terrific job of killing the essence of the song by disbanding the haunting suspense only Peter could hav brought into it.
Halford and Judas Priest should be sent to jail or something the like  |
They took all of the darkness, and evil out of the song, from a band that's supposed to be ironically dark, and evil. To read those punks on Youtube who are JP fans tell me that they made "The Green Manalishi" better is dumb at best. Where are the power chords? Where is the space of time with dread, where is the evil laugh? Judas Priest did a 'Pat Boone' to what was a very scary song in 1970.
There's no doubt that Peter Green's "Green Manalishi" inspired Brian May, and later helped to create the early 80's wave of British Heavy Metal (Iron Maiden).