Glenn Tipton, Film Composer?

In the past, Judas Priest guitarist Glenn Tipton has expressed his love for movie soundtracks. Given the fact that Priest is currently playing their farewell tour, A.D.D. asked the guitarist about whether he would take a shot at the film score world himself, especially given the fact that Scott Rockenfield from Queensrÿche and other metal musicians have done the same even as they remain active in rock. “I love the fact that if you write a piece of music and put it to an average piece of footage, the combined thing can be really beautiful or really stunning or really powerful,” Tipton told Attention Deficit Delirium. “It’s the combination of the visual and audio that makes that. That’s always interested me. I love people like Hans Zimmer. Some of the stuff that they do is incredible.” (Tipton particularly loves the Gladiator soundtrack.)

“One day when I’m good enough to, I wouldn’t even call it a film score, but do music for film, I’d like that opportunity. It would be really exciting for me to do. Whether that will happen or not, I’m not sure. I would certainly welcome the opportunity to do something like that as long as it were something that I liked or had respect for visually.”