+1 for the guy's first name.

Awesome tune

given the description, I can't imagine why this is something I would want to even try listening to.

SoothinglyDeranged: given the description, I can't imagine why this is something I would want to even try listening to.

Because it rocks, that's why.

Pfft. Geoff's just warming up on that one. Check this (new window) out if you want to shatter stuff. Bonus: bad theatrics and gratuitous cleavage.

Back in the day, DeGarmo says about Tate (paraphrasing), "I swear, that man has suitcases with octaves at home. He just grabs the ones he needs on the way to work."

Queensryche is one of my all time favorite bands, and Geoff Tate's screeching wail is one of the reasons.

I type this on a home network named Mindcrime. Me them a couple of times and even had Tate sign a baseball for me. Damn cool guy.

/Huge QR fan.

Dreadstar: Pfft. Geoff's just warming up on that one. Check this (new window) out if you want to shatter stuff. Bonus: bad theatrics and gratuitous cleavage.

And at the end, it says "To be continued"

It was never continued :)

/damn I loved that first record

Random good time story no one asked to hear: Was at a house party in Hoboken in '90. Guy hosting the party plays 'Suite Sister Mary.' While sipping a beer and doing the head nod bit, I notice more than a few random people doing the same. Two girls, three guys.

We start talking and after introductions and a few more beers admit to each other that a mutual favorite pastime is jumping around in front of a mirror pretending we're Geoff Tate. Even the girls (this was NJ in 1990 - everyone loved metal).

We ditch the party, pick up a case of beer and head to a small street nearby with an awesome view of the Hudson River and NYC (it was near the old Maxwell House factory if you're from that area). Blasting Mindcrime from my car stereo, everyone takes a turn jumping around and screeching like idiots and laughing at how awful we each sounded.

18 years later, I still stay in touch with that group of five people and I'm godfather to one of their sons.

Mindcrime is pretty heavy stuff, but I smile every time I hear it. Good times.

This and Road to Madness make it my fav QR album.

/errr... they were on the same album, right?
//80s: serious forgetting

I got a QR bug earlier today. They'll be in town in about a week. I can't wait t see them. Both Mindcrime 1 and 2 for the show. It's gonna rock.

/Subby and mega QR fan.

Memories. Jesus.

When I was in college I wore out my *ugh* vinyl copy of Operation Mindcrime.

Another huge QR fan here.
In his prime, no more powerful and clean voice existed in music, period.

DeGarmo, get your ass back with the boys where you belong.

I went to the Operation Mindcrime 1&2 show a few months ago. Geoff's voice isn't what it once was, but man, do these guys still rock. I also noticed that Mindcrime 2 sounds a LOT better live than it does as a studio album.

+10 for a Queensryche thread. Play this song at my funeral when I die.

Mindcrime at the Moore was awesome, I only wish I could have been there to see it in person, but I settled for the couple tours before that where they did them back to back albeit shorter sets.

My only regret with Queensryche is that I did a homemade self-tattoo of a Tri-Ryche on my arm when I was 15. I should have waited and had it done right.

Dreadstar: gratuitous cleavage.

No such thing.

/mindcrime

I am shocked, SHOCKED I SAY, to see a positive thread about Queensryche. Thank you farkers for restoring my faith in humanity.

One of my top 5 songs of all time.. just awesome.

oh and check out Mr. Tate singing the national anthem at a Seahawks game: Link (new window)

GruntledWorker: oh and check out Mr. Tate singing the national anthem at a Seahawks game:

Hmmm. Never heard so much scooping in that song. Still pretty cool though.

/pre-EP QR fan, still have a copy of the EP on 206 records (purchased at Easy Street Records in Bellevue) in cellophane, unopened

Still listens to Rage to Order and Operation Mind Crime.

Saw them live twice.

Open for Metallica and Promise Land tours

Ah, "Live in Tokyo." Love it and the Ryche--well, at least until DeGarmo left.

/"mindcrime 2" is okay
//this is why smoking isn't good
///Geoff bummed a cigarette off me outside the Philadelphia Spectrum in 1988 when the Ryche was opening for Def Leppard
////slashies

Queensrÿche EP - 8/10
The Warning - 8/10
Rage for Order - 9/10
Operation: Mindcrime - 100/10
Empire - 10/10
Promised Land - 9/10
Hear in the Now Frontier - 5/10
Q2K - 0/10
Tribe - .5/10
Operation: Mindcrime II - -100/10

QR used to be one of my favorite bands, but after Q2k and OPMC2, I almost now hate that band...

/I still loves me some pre-HITNF QR though.

Dogfacedgod: QR used to be one of my favorite bands, but after Q2k and OPMC2, I almost now hate that band...

I'll give you Q2K, not even close to good. Mindcrime 2 wasn't bad though. It doesn't hold a candle to the original, but it had it's moments.

One shiatty album wont change my mind about them. They are one of the best bands of the 80s and the best to ever come out of Seattle.

Anyhow, here's a pretty sweet video for Screaming in Digital

Wow...I'd forgotten how many times I listened to this song (and album) on my walkman...full blast. I think I wore through 2-3 copies of this and Mindcrime over a 3 year period, deafening myself.

Saw them 3 times...met them with a good friend of mine who made us Mindcrime shirts before the show. They commented on how well made they were...super nice guys!

I miss the 80s...man I'm old!

Seen them 5 times. I love QR!

Mind Crime and Promise Land are 2 of my top 10 albums of all time.

GT, in my opinion, is one of the best rock singers of all time. 20+ years into it and he still sounds fantastic!

Long ago I saw the making of Hearin aid video and they had a camera in the iso booth with this guy singing, no effects and man it sounded horrible!

Saw them on the Livecrime tour. Up there with Pink Floyd and Van Halen as one of the best shows I have ever seen...

/side note

I almost left the show...I complained to my friend, "these guys are lip synching, I hate that crap...". About a minute later Geoff changed the vocals up a little in comparison to the album...I was blown away...the whole band was absolutely perfect...not one missed note, not one inflection change...Geoff is one of the greats...

Tate is one of the best frontman I've ever seen. He brings his game face to every show and gives his all. I've seen Queensryche 3 or 4 times and have always been blown away.

Best concert I ever saw (and there has been many) was them on the Empire tour. They played Operation Mindcrime beginning to end as well as Empire tunes.

I think Bruce Dickenson is the only guy I've seen that is in the same ball park as Geoff when it comes to live performance.

/that song so brings me back to high school

Yeah. Dude's a beast live.

Man. Operation Mindcrime was the only Queensryche album I ever bought, but damn did I loved the hell out of it.

\m/

h3dge: I almost left the show...I complained to my friend, "these guys are lip synching, I hate that crap...". About a minute later Geoff changed the vocals up a little in comparison to the album...I was blown away...the whole band was absolutely perfect...not one missed note, not one inflection change...Geoff is one of the greats...

Came here to say the exact same thing. Saw a show in C-bus around 1990ish and could not believe it wasn't Memorex, until Geoff did a little fill and confirmed it for me. Same with the other boys. Other than a Floyd show at Ohio Stadium in the 80s, those were the only two shows I've been to where the performance was CD-quality.

/and I raise my head and stare...

StillItchy

Hobokenite here. That's a great story. I had the same experience at at a friend's house in '88 to Metallica's One clip. Even people at the party who weren't into metal were crowded around the tv watching the full version.

QR owns.

DaddyCanI: h3dge: I almost left the show...I complained to my friend, "these guys are lip synching, I hate that crap...". About a minute later Geoff changed the vocals up a little in comparison to the album...I was blown away...the whole band was absolutely perfect...not one missed note, not one inflection change...Geoff is one of the greats...

Came here to say the exact same thing. Saw a show in C-bus around 1990ish and could not believe it wasn't Memorex, until Geoff did a little fill and confirmed it for me. Same with the other boys. Other than a Floyd show at Ohio Stadium in the 80s, those were the only two shows I've been to where the performance was CD-quality.

/and I raise my head and stare...

Damn straight! I remember seeing them way back in the day, wedged between the Black Crowes and Metallica, last time Monsters of Rock was in NL. Holy crap, even at a festival they had a perfect (and I do mean perfect!) sound.
Then when I went to see them headlining... well, let's just say there are different orders of perfect...