Devin Townsend on Judas Priest’s “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 hasn’t played the riff in Judas Priest’s “The Sentinel” “for enough years that it may be dubious.” But that’s hard to believe when he delivers the soaring line that’s 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 guitar—and how that riff suddenly made him one of those “cool kids” … almost. It’s the guitar, he says, “that made me at least moderately accepted, and that still holds true to this