They are a statement. The statement is " I am a tool ".

		Becks wrote:
		Hahaha, there's something very try hard about a white guy with dreads, isn't there? LOL!      jimmyjames wrote: Would have been funny though, every time I see a white guy with dreads i crack up. Bozos.      ~ MG_Metalgoddess~ wrote: eeewwww I cannot pic him with those,,  I like rob just the way he is!!!  And as spa has said I agree .. he realized that Priest is where he belonged... Sometimes you have to get lost, first before you can be found!      jimmyjames wrote: It's lucky for us that Rob has never had much hair, otherwise he would have probably tried to put it into dreadlocks.      ~ MG_Metalgoddess~ wrote: Not A chance... LOL      jimmyjames wrote: So no pics of you in baggy shorts and backwards cap from the early 90s floating about?      ~ MG_Metalgoddess~ wrote: I dont care for the look myself, I just stuck out with the Metal scene.. LOL      jimmyjames wrote: He did look funny though, don't you think?      ~ MG_Metalgoddess~ wrote: I know that..   I believe I read  / heard a interview with rob, that he wanted to try ans write with his own band,, try it on his own, for a bit... And since that was what  was going on then,,, I think he was trying to opt into the scene when he ventured out on his own.. Hence the grunge crap of the 90's... I dont care for that music,, I agree they all would not be where they are today if it was not for the Metal bands.. ect..      jimmyjames wrote: So in other words he was having a midlife crisis. He broke up Priest at their peak in order to try and compete with the new breed of hardcore metal bands eg Pantera, Sepultura and adopted the grunge look that those guys wore in an attempt to remain relevant. I think he failed to realise that without Priest none of those bands would have existed.      ~ MG_Metalgoddess~ wrote: I think Rob was going with the flow at that time .. The music industry was changing,, Stone temple pilots, Nirv, pearl jam.  ect... the grunge movement.      jimmyjames wrote: Enough about Freddy, anyone else have any thoughts about Halfords midlife crisis and grunge look in the early 90s?

So no pics of you in baggy shorts and backwards cap from the early 90s floating about?

		~ MG_Metalgoddess~ wrote:
		I dont care for the look myself, I just stuck out with the Metal scene.. LOL      jimmyjames wrote: He did look funny though, don't you think?      ~ MG_Metalgoddess~ wrote: I know that..   I believe I read  / heard a interview with rob, that he wanted to try ans write with his own band,, try it on his own, for a bit... And since that was what  was going on then,,, I think he was trying to opt into the scene when he ventured out on his own.. Hence the grunge crap of the 90's... I dont care for that music,, I agree they all would not be where they are today if it was not for the Metal bands.. ect..      jimmyjames wrote: So in other words he was having a midlife crisis. He broke up Priest at their peak in order to try and compete with the new breed of hardcore metal bands eg Pantera, Sepultura and adopted the grunge look that those guys wore in an attempt to remain relevant. I think he failed to realise that without Priest none of those bands would have existed.      ~ MG_Metalgoddess~ wrote: I think Rob was going with the flow at that time .. The music industry was changing,, Stone temple pilots, Nirv, pearl jam.  ect... the grunge movement.      jimmyjames wrote: Enough about Freddy, anyone else have any thoughts about Halfords midlife crisis and grunge look in the early 90s?

It's lucky for us that Rob has never had much hair, otherwise he would have probably tried to put it into dreadlocks.

		~ MG_Metalgoddess~ wrote:
		Not A chance... LOL      jimmyjames wrote: So no pics of you in baggy shorts and backwards cap from the early 90s floating about?      ~ MG_Metalgoddess~ wrote: I dont care for the look myself, I just stuck out with the Metal scene.. LOL      jimmyjames wrote: He did look funny though, don't you think?      ~ MG_Metalgoddess~ wrote: I know that..   I believe I read  / heard a interview with rob, that he wanted to try ans write with his own band,, try it on his own, for a bit... And since that was what  was going on then,,, I think he was trying to opt into the scene when he ventured out on his own.. Hence the grunge crap of the 90's... I dont care for that music,, I agree they all would not be where they are today if it was not for the Metal bands.. ect..      jimmyjames wrote: So in other words he was having a midlife crisis. He broke up Priest at their peak in order to try and compete with the new breed of hardcore metal bands eg Pantera, Sepultura and adopted the grunge look that those guys wore in an attempt to remain relevant. I think he failed to realise that without Priest none of those bands would have existed.      ~ MG_Metalgoddess~ wrote: I think Rob was going with the flow at that time .. The music industry was changing,, Stone temple pilots, Nirv, pearl jam.  ect... the grunge movement.      jimmyjames wrote: Enough about Freddy, anyone else have any thoughts about Halfords midlife crisis and grunge look in the early 90s?