Glenn Tipton
Glenn Tipton
Glenn Raymond Tiptonis an English Grammy Award-winning guitar player and songwriter. Often noted for his complex playing style and classically influenced solos, he is best known as one of the lead guitarists for heavy metal band Judas Priest...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth25 October 1947
country fans heavy metal
Each country has its own character, but heavy metal fans all over the world have a lot in common. It's fantastic.
album bass came cozy deserved felt good great john knew leave light player realized studio tracks until valuable
A really great album came out of it, but what it did was leave all these other tracks that I'd done with John and Cozy. I always knew that Cozy was a great drummer, but I never realized what good a bass player John was, until he came down to the studio and started to play. I always felt that these tracks were valuable tracks, and deserved to see the light of day.
fall luck musician
There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.
bucks band reason
A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it.
live-life years lessons
I never took a lesson until I was 20, and I'm glad I had those years living the life of a normal person. I don't consider that time wasted.
late
I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.
looks enjoy ifs
If you're not enjoying yourself, you can't really look as if you are.
writing first-love love-is
I write a lot of stuff, and some of it I don't even present to Judas Priest. But having said that, my first love is to play Judas Priest music.
children sacrifice men
I'm a married man and I've got two children, and you have to do sacrifices.
song writing ability
My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.
song player guitar
In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work.
play voice long
You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.
thinking appreciate band
I think we all appreciate it now just how lucky we are to be in a band like Judas Priest.
england management problem
Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join.