Re: Oh no -- Ryche looking into Mindcrime 2 ? -- and some Threshold news

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brent Wiescamp
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> >       QUEENSRYCHE Singer Talks About Revisiting 'Operation: Mindcrime'
> > Album - Nov. 4, 2003
> >
> 
> Of course it had to be on November fourth.
> 
> >[..] We're illiterate and watching
> > 'Jerry Springer'. what's that do for ya?"
> >
> 
> At least he includes himself in that statement. I've never understood why
> people would want to air laundry that is that dirty.
> 
> >       Read the entire interview here.
> >
> >
> http://www.electricbasement.com/interview_queensryche_november2003.htm
> >
> 
> Pretty cool interview overall.

Just read it myself.....very candid indeed.

> He doesn't really make any arrogant ass
> comments. 

Well I'll comment on one below that I think is fairly arrogant and jab
at the "long time Queensryche fan".

> I like what he said about not doing anything off The Warning or
> EP. Well, I don't like it but I respect it I guess. 

The man does stick to his convictions.  

> And it doesn't sound
> like it would be O:M II either. I'm with Phil -- DeGarmo would definitely
> have to be an integral part.

Seems doubtful at this point that he would be though.  With each new
interview it seems that DeGarmo had less and less to do with Tribe. 
Makes me wonder if at some point we're going to read that DeGarmo had
absolutely nothing to do with it.  

Wanted to comment on this question and answer from the interview.

> [Interviewer] I had wondered because it would seem like you would people yelling 
> "Play Lady Wore Black!" 
> and screaming at you ever other night. Does that say less about the music than it 
> does about the fans wanting 
> to maybe relive some part of their life? Is it impossible to for Queensryche to 
> release a record at this time 
> that could ever approach the success ofEmpire or Operation Mindcrime?

> [Geoff Tate]  Well, it is impossible because people have lived with those albums for 
> years and years and years. 
> They are in a situation where they don't know the new songs, and it hasn't been a 
> part of their lives-

This I totally disagree with and his logic is flawed.  If this was the
case then explain the ever increasing popularity of Queensryche's music
from the EP-Empire.  At some point each successive QR album was "new". 
So how come the fans didn't reject the new songs on Empire because it
hadn't been a part of their lives like O:M or RFO had? 

> that's 
> basically what music is-the soundtrack for your life. It's the thing that gets you 
> through to the next day. 
> When there's a problem, you just listen and take your mind off of what was going on 
> around you, and once
> you do that, the song or record is in your heart.

For me this is exactly what music is.  I can track my entire life
through music.


> The new stuff can't even compete with it no matter how good it may be-that's true 
> even if the stuff you do right 
> now is considered the most brilliant stuff you ever did ten years from now.

This is just flat out bullshit, and more than a bit condescending. 
Basically what he's saying is that Queensryche fans are just stuck in
the past and blinded to the "brilliance" QR latest material.  So then
explain to me how bands like Tool, Disturbed, Evergrey, Evanescence and
many others are rivalling Rage for Order and Mindcrime in the my
musical catalog and Tribe, Q2k and HitNF don't?  

Keep digging your grave Geoff.  Pretty soon you'll alienate every last
fan this band still has....which based on Tribe sales and Concert
attendance figures at a whole lot at this point. 

Later
Phil