Queensryche planning to fire Geoff Tate? Backstage knife drama!!

[Seshmeister]

Sesh, you hit the nail with this clip.
This band used to mean a whole lot to me.
Lemme share this. It's May '91.
Been dating the future Mrs Whorehey for almost
a month. She's holding out on the whoopie.
Caught a bad case of Mono from staying up
all night kissing with her. Anyhoo, got 2 tix for QR
Empire tour. Taking future Mrs Whorehey to said concert.
Next morning I'm going fishing in MN for a
week. Tell myself all week I'm gonna ditch this chick
if she don't turn it up a notch when I get back.
Twenty years and two kids later...
This should be a VH story, but I don't acknowledge
1986-2006, know what I'm saying?

I saw the Empire tour as well and it remains in my top 5 gigs of all time. I've seen them maybe 4 times since then and each time was a bit worse than the last. I missed the last one over here but was told it was a bit better.

[Seshmeister]

My parting thought was "Does GT know that they only have an hour up on stage?" and if so why were they absosfuckinglutely wasting it with these atrocious songs such as "(Don't) Get Started" and "(My Career Is) Damaged"?

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[Seshmeister]

I think the nicest thing you could say about Queensryche at the moment is they still make for a pretty good password at work.

[DavidLeeNatra]

...and even the
fucking dogs walked out of the room. How painful.
This band looks morose and just going thru the motions.

[Mr. Vengeance]

Biggest douchechill QR song/video....

[Terry]

Saw QR open up for Heaven and Hell and Alice Cooper several years ago. They were the first band to play on the three band bill.

The crowd response was, at best, lukewarm. It'd be hard for me to imagine that even if QR get the Operation Mindcrime lineup back together, or if Tate left, or if Degarmo came back and Tate left...whatever lineup jumble took place...that the drawing power would really be that much more or less with any permutation these days.

I mean, it's basically just fighting over whatever nostalgic crumbs and scraps are left from their heyday, which is...what...twenty-odd years behind them?

It's not as if the definitive lineup is the key to QR headlining arenas.

[Hardrock69]

I had dinner with a friend a few days ago who is a major fan of theirs......they are his favorite band....he filled me in on all the dirt.....basically, the band is fucking tired of Geoff's second wife managing the band....it has become like Spinal Tap.....that fucked up Cabaret Tour they did a couple of years back was her idea.....and half the time I see any sort of press release coming from the QR camp these days is about how Geoff is doing a solo show at some goddamn winery for a "wine-tasting" event......

I can see releasing booze under your name....Lemmy.....Slash.....but come ON. When fucking Geoff Tate releases his own fucking wine, and starts being a fucking suave wino motherfucker, you know he is fucking out of it.
Quite obvious he has just been doing QR gigs for the money for the past few years.

And his fucking wife is responsible for a lot of the fucking lame shit they have been doing over the past 10 years, aside from the fucking Cabaret shit. As in "musical direction".

My friend says that the band is fucking sick of her shit, and knows the only way to get rid of her is to get rid of the fat bald creep with the eyeliner as well.

I saw them open for Metallica in February of 1989, and have seen them 10 or 11 times since then.....they are one of only 3 or 4 bands I have seen that many times.

YES....they WERE a great band at one time. BACK IN THE FUCKING DAY!

But I purposely missed them this past November, as the time before that...well....I posted a detailed explanation somewhere....but the search function must be fucked up....unless we lost 4 years worth of posts.....I do a general search for Queensryche and it skips from 2009 back to 2005....anyway it was that fucked up show in 2009 or 2010 where they trotted Lita Ford and her hubby out for 3 songs.....and at some point had a couple of other people to come out and sing a couple of songs....I did not recognize the singers or the shit they were singing......that was when I knew I was tired of their shit, and THAT SHOW was when it struck me that Geoff's "suave and sophisticated" stage persona was the lamest fucking stage presence I had ever seen from a major frontman.

I got really pissed off about it.....not to mention the security peeps were out in force that night and were running around threatening people like yours truly who were trying to take photos.....in a CLUB no less.....

I love their early stuff....was glad to meet some of the guys in the band a couple of times, but they need to trim the fat.....

I feel sorry for Parker....he is stuck in the middle of all this soap opera shit and there is nothing he can do about it.....

The wifey is the reason DeGarmo quit and would not come back. I have heard the band has been talking to him lately....as they know the only chance they have of regaining any sort of glory is to get him back in the band.

[Seshmeister]

It's worth remembering they did some pretty dodgy work while DeGarmo was still in the band so even if he did come back it's doubtful they could do anything relevant with a new singer.

This band is so spent it's incredible. Time to hang up their boots, they can always pretend to make friends again in 5 years and do a reunion nostalgia tour.

[jhale667]

It's worth remembering they did some pretty dodgy work while DeGarmo was still in the band so even if he did come back it's doubtful they could do anything relevant with a new singer.

This band is so spent it's incredible. Time to hang up their boots, they can always pretend to make friends again in 5 years and do a reunion nostalgia tour.

The only thing I'd say would qualify as "dodgy" while Degarmo was around was "Promised Land" which IIRC was his last work with them (he co-wrote a couple of 'Mindcrime II' songs, didn't he though?). He was their primary songwriter during their heyday, and it shows.

[vandeleur]

all these post made me go check out mindcrime and empire again i listened to them since the very early 90's ...surprised my self i quite enjoyed them

[jhale667]

all these post made me go check out mindcrime and empire again i listened to them since the very early 90's ...surprised my self i quite enjoyed them

IMO, Operation: Mindcrime and Empire are their zenith. Even if Degarmo hadn't left it'd be hard to ever top those two. I mean, Rage for Order is cool too, but those 2 CDs were just amazing, and still stand up today.

[vandeleur]

will defo check out more stuff. but ive a feeling that there is a reason i stopped listening to them and judging by most of the posts it sounds like quality control

[vandeleur]

that or geoff tates mullet

[Mushroom]

I felt at the time Empire was the beginning of the end. Several great songs but not on par with Operation Mindcrime. I am glad I never wasted my time and money after Empire. Everything since then is contrived and tired.

[Hardrock69]

Yes...O:MC and Empire WERE their Zenith. They began the downhill slide after Empire.

Time to hang it up guys.

[Whorehey]

Let's face it. The bar was set pretty high with the EP.
The Warning sounded like mud. While RFO has
some great songs, my first exposure to it was the
video for "Gonna Get Close to You" on MTV. I couldn't
get into it for a long time.
I looked at the back of the album, they had these
ridiculous looking costumes on. I agree with
"J" , O:MC and Empire were their zenith. With the exception
of "Jet City Woman", and "Della Brown", or whatever the fuck
it's called.
Promised Land came out in what '94, '95? Pretty fucking sad.
Hear in the Now Frontier, Q2K, Tribe, O:Mc2, the covers Cd,
American Soldier, whatever the fuck their latest
abortion is called...Just curious...how many
CDs of mediocrity did I miss?

[Seshmeister]

IMO, Operation: Mindcrime and Empire are their zenith. Even if Degarmo hadn't left it'd be hard to ever top those two. I mean, Rage for Order is cool too, but those 2 CDs were just amazing, and still stand up today.

We need a new acronym - IEO

In Everyone's Opinion Mindcrime was their Zenith.

[Mr. Vengeance]

Their best song....

[loucap81]

They were in my neck of the woods about a year ago at the Keswick Theatre which seats 1300. My younger brother snuck in through a back door (really laid back venue that's right in back of a residential neighborhood), said it was about half full and it was just a really lame performance. Time to hang it up is right.

[indeedido]

They're playing Rocklahoma right now, you can tune in on HDnet and watch it live. They've broadcast today's bands live all day. I get it on direct tv

[Seshmeister]

http://www.noisecreep.com/2012/05/29...ger-geoff-tate

Queensrÿche's Geoff Tate to Festival Crowd: 'You Guys Suck'


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Queensrÿche frontman Geoff Tate, who possesses one of the biggest voices in rock music, offered a verbal jab at the Rocklahoma crowd over the Memorial Day weekend.

A YouTube clip is circulating in which the singer is seen and heard addressing the crowd, telling the assemblage of rock fans that it sucked. He also pointed out YOLO – you only live once- in order to get the crowd's energy up!

"My God! This is Rocklahoma, huh?," Tate asked with a smile while walking across the stage on Sunday (May 27). "I think we played here two years ago. I think it, maybe, was a different crowd. You guys suck. I'm serious. C'mon! I know it's Sunday. You've gotta go to work tomorrow. You're gonna let that stop ya? My God! You only live once, man. This is all there is. There ain't nothing else. This is your chance. This is it. This is all there is. It doesn't get any better than this. That's right. Anyway, nice to be here on a Sunday."

Given the fact that it was Memorial Day Weekend, a large portion of the crowd likely had off from work on Monday and should have been celebrating extra hard with the 'Ryche!

[ELVIS]

What a fucking douchebag...and a fucking asshole...

They couldn't sell out a fucking casino with free food...

[vandeleur]

smug bastard ...

[DONNIEP]

Yeah, that's the way to get a crowd pumped up - tell 'em that they suck. Genius

[gbranton]

It looks like QR is done. It also looks like they are doing it right, replacing Tate and changing the name of the band.

http://www.anybodylistening.net/brea...p?topic=2698.0

http://legacy.roadrunnerrecords.com/...sitemID=174669

[PETE'S BROTHER]

wow, he always came off condescending

[PETE'S BROTHER]

It looks like QR is done. It also looks like they are doing it right, replacing Tate and changing the name of the band.

http://www.anybodylistening.net/brea...p?topic=2698.0

http://legacy.roadrunnerrecords.com/...sitemID=174669

he can spend more time "wineing" now

[jhale667]

It looks like QR is done. It also looks like they are doing it right, replacing Tate and changing the name of the band.

http://www.anybodylistening.net/brea...p?topic=2698.0

http://legacy.roadrunnerrecords.com/...sitemID=174669

Just saw a Facebook blurb about that... the "core members of Queensryche" 's new band...Tate wasn't a "core" member?

[Whorehey]

You can't fire me...I'm Geoff Tate!!!
Smug arrogant prick, karma's a bitch.
I absolutely love it when people that are
fucking assholes get what's coming to them.

[vandeleur]

man, he came over as such a tool ...how could he expect any audience not to resent him

[jhale667]

Here it is..

Scott Rockenfield

well even though word seems to be traveling fast, I figured I'd post it anyways...haha...! Thanx for the support so far...See ya at the shows...!!!

On Friday June 8th and Saturday June 9th, the core members of Queensryche will debut their new band “Rising West” at the Hard Rock Café in Seattle WA. Rising West features Michael Wilton, Eddie Jackson, Scott Rockenfield, and Parker Lundgren of Queensryche, with powerhouse vocalist Todd La Torre of Crimson Glory. The band will be performing rare and classic hits from the first 5 Queensryche albums and plan on hitting the studio sometime early summer to begin recording their first release.

[gbranton]

I recall seeing Windowpane on YouTube, they are a pretty good band as well.

I think this is the best thing for this band, they desperately needed to shed some dead wood (in the form of a guy named Geoff and his wife). The new singer sounds better than Tate has in years and I'm interested to see what they can do in the studio.

[Whorehey]

Just watched BTM:Styx. Cannot help to draw comparisons
here. Styx had a two, three album period where they tore it up.
Parted ways with their "frontman", seem to be enjoying
life playing barns with REO and the like.

QR could find a Tate sound-alike and hook up with other
80's bands on one of these multi bills playing outdoor
venues. They can play the shit out of everything from the
EP to Empire and have no problem coming up with an
awesome setlist.

This is just a hint of my Super Clairvoyance!!!

[Hardrock69]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!



We knew it was coming. They did not waste any time.

GOOD FOR THEM!

TIME TO GET RID OF THAT BALD-HEADED PRICK!!!!! (no offense meant to those of you with skinheads, lol).

Pompous wine-tasting arrogant fuck.

Time for him to drivel off into obscurity. Wonder how long now before wifey divorces him, now that he is not going to be bringing home as much money as he was, lol.

Fucking tool.

I find this really funny.

[gbranton]

I am sort of relieved that I will never have to watch him attempt to play the saxophone again. They were getting so weird that it wouldn't have surprised me for some guy to come out on stage and let Geoff suck his dick.

[gbranton]

They were getting so weird that it wouldn't have surprised me for some guy to come out on stage and let Geoff suck his dick.

Actually I take that back, there would be no need for that, their last album sucked enough dick to last twenty six Linda Lovelace lifetimes.

[Hardrock69]

Thing is, there is still at least one QR date scheduled....June 11....so they are probably going to play out whatever committments they have then go their separate ways....

Something I found out just now I was not aware of....Parker and Tater's daughter have been divorced for at least a year.....so he is now the EX Son-in-law, lol.

[gbranton]

Something I found out just now I was not aware of....Parker and Tater's daughter have been divorced for at least a year.....so he is now the EX Son-in-law, lol.

That was something I didn't know either, I'm surprised he's still in the band, though when I met him he seemed like a really nice kid.

[SparkieD]

Tate has been an arrogant, washed up pos for a long time now. Todd LaTorre is AMAZING will mop the fucking floor with that asshat. If you aren't familiar with him, I suggest you check him out. He replaced my friend Midnight in Crimson Glory a couple of years back, which was a task in itself because Mid was an incredible singer.

An added bonus is that Todd is something that pompous dickstump never was. He's fucking hot! Holy shit, the things I would do to him (did I say that out loud?)

[DONNIEP]

I just want to know when Geoff Tate started sporting the Anton Lavey look?