I'm actually surprised that Geoff Tate hasn't been sued yet for misappropriating the Queensryche name, and I'm also surprised that the other members of Queensryche (the actual Queensryche) are just letting Tate use it.

they've been motivated by greed and jealousy to pursue this.

So where I'm getting an equal amount of money for my show, they are not — they are getting very little money for their shows.

Geoff, you should start a band with Kenny G. That's more your style. It's wot you do.

Hmmm, That ONE Rising West show that didn't sell out and only drew about 200 people... I was there and it was 2 shows and both sold out and had the Hard Rock have a larger capacity there would have been more people there. The Hard Rock said that those were the two biggest shows they have had to date. There were something like 500+ people both nights. They sold out of all their merch the 1st night too!

I read that earlier and considered posting it because of how ludicrous it was.

"[What] the other side [is doing is they're engaging in] what's called a smear campaign, where they take bits of information and they're stretching what they call the truth.

'Operation: Mindcrime II' was very metal, or very hard rock. The same with 'American Soldier', our album after that.

So saying that I was not interested in playing old songs is completely untrue, 'cause I wrote most of those.

You'll notice that Glen Drover's biography section on Queensryche.com is copied straight out of Wikipedia, with the reference markers intact.

http://www.queensryche.com/glen-drover/

You'll notice that Glen Drover's biography section on Queensryche.com is copied straight out of Wikipedia, with the reference markers intact.

http://www.queensryche.com/glen-drover/

Geoff Tate's version of Drover's biography mentioned that he wrote "Rust in Peace" and "Countdown to Extinction" during his time in Megadeth, so they had no choice but to plagiarize from Wikipedia.

Yeah Tate, it's the way to show how the money it's not important for ya.

Jeezus. Either Geoff Tate is so arrogant that he's more or less taking credit for everything his ex-bandmates have done or he's too delusional to know the difference. Seeing as Glen Drover and Rudy Sarzo have joined up with Tate, does the Tateryche page mention who the other people who joined are?

So if this thing ends up existing for any other reason than as a cash cow, who do you think will write the songs? Obviously Tate and Gray will oversee everything but I am morbidly curious to see what the others would come up with.

Teaser clip

http://youtu.be/ZNP_jR0McuU

Sounds more metal, but there's not enough to make a real judgement on. La Torre sounds great though.

Am I the only one then that just heard modern Queensryche-sounding riffs underneath the "check him out! it's like our old singer, but it's a new guy!!! vocals?

This new QR has had it ridiculously easy so far. The world has more or less wholeheartedly blamed Tate for all their problems - in fact, you could almost say we were looking for a scapegoat, and his massive ego was a great target - but now they have to back it up. And that essentially means releasing something that sounds like a pre-Promised Land album. If they do that, it'll be lauded as the comeback of the century. Fuck, Death Magnetic is rubbish but look how well-received it was. They could do whatever they want after that, but they need to re-establish themselves first.

If they misjudge their niche and try to "stay relevant", it won't work. That clip is far too early to tell for sure, but what little I could hear wasn't so far removed from what they've been telling us was the Tatefest of the last 20 years....

What the fuck was that clip? Cutting between songs every 5 seconds is horrendous, and from what I heard there's a tremendous lack of metal riffs, just big sing-along choruses over bland modern rock.

Color me unimpressed.

I suppose on the positive side of things La Torre sounds significantly less irritating in the above clip than he has previously.

What the fuck was that clip? Cutting between songs every 5 seconds is horrendous, and from what I heard there's a tremendous lack of metal riffs, just big sing-along choruses over bland modern rock.

Color me unimpressed.

This guy, man. This guy.

It's an early song that was written [by Chris DeGarmo alone, before he even recruited me] and it shows.

It was the first song written thirty-some-odd years ago [by Chris DeGarmo alone, before he even recruited me] and obviously I cannot relate to it anymore. [at all, because it isn't mine and it never was].

As you grew older, you felt you wrote better songs?

Songs that mean more to me, definitely. [Shyeah, right! Like I ever composed any music at all, let alone on this level!]