While most of you are nursing your Bonnaroo hangovers, I've benn determined to not let my night end up like my day, inside with limited human contact, so I ventured downtown. After checking my local haunts for familiar faces I decided to explore lesser known parts of town. On my walk I began to hear music, a loud repetitive thud that vibrated down the street, muffled vocals of unrecognizable words, and a shrill sound reminiscent of guitars. So naturally I headed in that direction. What I found was
Judas Priest, nestled next to
Edvard Grieg Plass with a beautiful view of
Ulriken lurking in the background. I arrived at the end of an unfamiliar song, which happened to be the end of their set, but in stereotypical fashion it was only the beginning of a 30 minute encore. After a minute and a blast from the smoke machine, Rob Halford and the gang returned with
"Hell Bent for Leather" . After that it was decided, my spot for the remainder of the show would be right across the street with a perfect view of the stage, sharing the company of others with the same idea and a homeless man who was setting shit on fire in a small aluminum grill.
Halford was dressed in his trademark biker hat and a jacket made of tinfoil that went down to his knees, the homeless man, to be expected, was extremely unshaven, wearing an assortment of clothes waving a cucumber and an eggplant around in the air. Some may give
Judas Priest shit for continuing their careers after almost forty years, but to be reliving the best years of your life, on your own terms, that's happiness. After
Hell Bent.. the gang left the stage again, then Rob Halford returns for a call and answer session of
Woooah wooooahs and
Yeahhhh Yeahhh yayyyyys only to transition into a 10 minute rendition of
Another Thing Comin' accompanied by a recorder solo from the faithful homeless man, who had begun to grill his produce. To finally wrap things up, the homeless man, nay prophet, began to profess "Revolution is now, you stopped the wrong war! Revolution! End the World War!" as "
Living After Midnight" began and the crowd started to dissipate.
TL:DR Metal never dies in Bergen featuring the Prophet.
