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

[ELVIS]

I like this part...

"Definitely not about music or the direction of the band, because there's only me that's been pushing that and guiding that. The other guys have very little input in what Queensryche does. They just sort of show up and play shows and collect a paycheck."

[Hardrock69]

Be interesting to hear the other side of the story. All I heard from that was "ME ME ME ME ME".

But to have creative differences, you have to have two entities or more offering up creative ideas. And that just wasn't the case. Queensryche has always been my idea, starting from the first record. Queensryche is about albums. It's about concepts and themes, and those concepts were mine. [Laughs] I started out with The Warning, bringing those ideas in for Rage for Order, Operation: Mindcrime . . . all the albums. I write 81% of the music and the lyrics. Of the 144 songs that Queensryche has released, I've written 116 of those.

His band? So he has written all the music and lyrics for 81% of the songs? I smell a rat. I could see him saying he co-wrote a large percentage with other people in the band. But not everything for every song.

Someone needs to stick a pin in that inflated ego of his...

[jhale667]

Funny, I'd always heard Chris Degarmo wrote 80% of the band's material from the first 5 releases. Funny how they kinda went off the rails after he left if it was Geoff writing that much of it... must've been coincidental...

[gbranton]

When I met the guys they told me that the merch was done out of the Tate's garage. The reason the other guys wanted to go in a different direction with the merch is to get his ass out of it so that they could then get rid of his ass.

[ELVIS]

I've never seen any Queensrycke merchandise...

Maybe a shirt or two back when Mindcrime came out...

[Diamondjimi]

Funny, I'd always heard Chris Degarmo wrote 80% of the band's material from the first 5 releases. Funny how they kinda went off the rails after he left if it was Geoff writing that much of it... must've been coincidental...

Bingo!

[ELVIS]

Bingo!

Yep...

Tate is a fucking lying douchebag who has obviously been advised by his lawyer(s) to speak very nicely...

Fucking bald freak...

[PETE'S BROTHER]

Yep...

Tate is a fucking lying douchebag who has obviously been advised by his lawyer(s) to speak very nicely...

Fucking bald freak...

hey now, bald is beautiful

[vandeleur]

hey now, bald is beautiful

bald is cool ....dyeing your beard and heavy eye liner not so

[PETE'S BROTHER]

bald is cool ....dyeing your beard and heavy eye liner not so

or any eye liner for that matter

[binnie]

The odd thing here is that Queensryche have been more interesting in the last couple of weeks than they have been in 20 years............

[ELVIS]

I'm ready to go to a Queensryche reunion and throw some knives onto the stage...

[sonrisa salvaje]

Elvis, didn't like Rage For Order at least?

[ELVIS]

Never heard it all...

[sonrisa salvaje]

Never heard it all...

If i hadn't seen them open for Ratt in 86 i probably wouldn't have either. From what i got out of their 30 minute set i decided to check it out and thought it was pretty cool. I didn't like the direction they took when Mindcrime came out so i stopped keeping up with them.