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Rob Halford Headlines Madd Maxx’s Metal Bash 2000
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Rob Halford Headlines Madd Maxx’s Metal Bash 2000
July 22, 2000.
Rob Halford at the Diamond Ballroom.
Madd Maxx’s Metal Bash.
And yes, it was Max’s birthday party.
418 people in the room for the Metal God himself. For Max, this one hit different. Early Judas Priest meant everything to him. In the late 70s and 80s, he traveled all over to see Priest, so when David called and said he had a headliner for Metal Bash, the name made him stop for a second.
Rob Halford.
That’s not just another booking.
That’s one of your heroes walking into your show.
The lineup was packed too. Around 16 bands wanted on that bill. Element was supposed to play right before Halford, but the night shifted and they ended up having to play after him.
That is a dangerous spot.
Everybody knows when the headliner is done, the room can turn into a ghost town fast. If you’re going on after the main event, you better be ready immediately.
So they pulled off one of the fastest set changes they had ever done.
Element hit the stage, played like champs, and held the crowd.
Even Rob Halford watched them.
That’s the kind of night that proves why Metal Bash mattered. Local bands, national legends, impossible changeovers, and a room full of people who came for heavy music.
For Max, it was more than a birthday.
It was a full-circle metal moment.
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July 22nd, Rob Hallford at the Diamond Ballroom. Now was this your birthday party? Absolutely. Absolutely. 418 people? Absolutely. What happened was once again it was one of them Mad Max's metal bash, you know, year, what year is it, 2000? 2000. So that'd be my 12th or 13th year of being sober, uh drug-free. But I got David called me, and it was like, hey, I got a headliner for your for your metal bash, and he told me who it was, and I had to sit there for a second and just go, because he's like the metal god, and you know, I love love early priests back in the 80s and early late 70s. I traveled all over to see him, you know, this was one of them bands. And um, so I remember taking that show, and I had like 16 bands that wanted to play with them. One of them was, and we were gonna have Element play right before them. And somehow or another, it got down to and the cool thing about this show was it was one of four club shows before um Rob Halford joined the Iron Maiden uh the Iron Maiden tour in Dallas. So then we do the show, but it came to the point where we had to flop. Element had to play after Rob Halford, which was like crazy because that wouldn't that meant we had to do a miracle set change and up because everybody knows when the headliner plays, if you go on after him, you're going on to the ghost town. Yep. And if you're not up and running and and hitting it, you're not going to be able to entertain any of that crowd. And I mean, it was probably one of the fastest set changes we'd ever done because and they played like champs and they held the crowd. You know, even Rob Halford watched them, you know, and but I will say that about.