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I often wonder what would have happened if Scheepers would have gotten the gig with Judas Priest instead of "Ripper", not that the two Priest/Owens collaborations were bad.
Scheepers never actually auditioned for Priest. It was something his manager brought up to him, but he didn't do it. I read an interview where he said that and he also said he was glad he didn't because he thought Jugulator was weak.
Yeah, the legends of the Priest audition process are basically all nonsensethey more or less just picked Ripper. Devin is pretty much the only other person they actually approached, and he passed because he was so much younger than everyone else in the band. (He was 23-24 at the time.)
What about D.C. Cooper? I always heard that the 3 "finalists" (even though some of them bever actually auditioned, like Ralf) were Ripper, Ralf and D.C. Was this just an urban legend?