Geoff Tate

Phoenix Reign Drummer wrote:

Its not that the songs are bad, because its actually better than DTC, but its not a "Queensryche" album.

Yea who cares, this may be the first "Q" lp I've been interested in for a long time...

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

So is "The Weight Of The World"...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRk5oTwIPxQ

I think this one is great.

Fat Freddy wrote:

There are three songs on F.U. that I really like: "Cold," "Slave," and "Everything." The rest is somewhere between "Meh" and "zzzzzzz."

"Cold" is good...don't like "Slave".

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

There are three songs on F.U. that I really like: "Cold," "Slave," and "Everything." The rest is somewhere between "Meh" and "zzzzzzz."

"Cold" is good...don't like "Slave".

I dunno why, I find myself humming the chorus to "Slave" without even realizing it ("You're a slaaaave to the light...")

Fat Freddy wrote:

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

There are three songs on F.U. that I really like: "Cold," "Slave," and "Everything." The rest is somewhere between "Meh" and "zzzzzzz."

"Cold" is good...don't like "Slave".

I dunno why, I find myself humming the chorus to "Slave" without even realizing it ("You're a slaaaave to the light...")

It is kinda catchy, but overall doesn't do much for me. Like DTC and his solo album, FU has 4 or 5 cool songs, the rest is blah to bad (I'm looking at you, "Dare"...ugh).

I liked Cold, but Dare has put me off listening to the rest, so very very bad!

Boris2008 wrote:

I liked Cold, but Dare has put me off listening to the rest, so very very bad!

Yeah, "Dare" sucks...but there are some cool songs to be had. "In The Hands Of God", "The Weight Of The World" and "Life Without You" for sure.

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

It is kinda catchy, but overall doesn't do much for me. Like DTC and his solo album, FU has 4 or 5 cool songs, the rest is blah to bad (I'm looking at you, "Dare"...ugh).

Oh yeah, "Dare" is godawful.

The Vest just doesn't know when to shut his mouth...... Doesn't ever want to be in a "band" because he can't control a band member having a dentist appt...... he "writes" all the time AKA "Jason Slater sends me demos, I write lyrics over it"

And it seems he is finally admitting that his Queenswreck is all about money.... his comments about the case to me seem like "I know I will not get the name, so I need to push for every last penny I can get from the corporation that fired me"



GEOFF TATE: 'I Don't Ever Wanna Be In A Band Again' - June 11, 2013

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=191104

On whether he is writing any new music at the moment:

Tate: "I'm working on a new album now. I just started writing it, and I hope to have it out early [next] year.

"My goal is to write albums and put them out without a lot of time going by. In the past, I've had to wait for years to put records out, and I don't wanna work like that anymore; I wanna be more immediate with my art. So I wanna put out a record every six months….

"It's not hard at all [to write and record an album that quickly]; it's just making the time, because it's difficult to write when you're on the road. You just have to be disciplined about it.

"I've spent the majority of my career waiting for the guys in the band to write, or to come up with songs, or to be ready to write, or to be done with going to the dentist so they can come to rehearsal, and that kind of thing, and I'm just done with that now; I don't need to have to worry about that, so I can put out records at my own pace.

"I either write by myself or I write with a group of people that I choose, which I'm very into; I like working with, in a collaborative sense, different people, and I don't ever wanna be in a band again — a band band that sticks together through thick and thin and all that. I've already done that. I wanna work with different groups of people and I wanna constantly be changing it up to make it interesting and different. And I wanna play with as many great players as I possible can. Because I can. I can call up [former JUDAS PRIEST guitarist] K.K. Downing and say, 'Ken, hey, you've got time, two weeks in November, to play a short tour?' I can do that. And why not? Why not have that experience of playing with these fantastic players. That's kind of what I started doing on the last record, 'Frequency Unknown' — working with all these great players who I admire."

On which moniker he will release his next album under:

Tate: "I don't know yet what moniker I'm gonna release it under yet. I haven't decided yet. Hopefully by November [when the legal dispute between Tate and his former bandmates in QUEENSRŸCHE over the rights to the group's name is scheduled to go to court], it will all be settled.

On what his chances are of winning the court case in November:

Tate: "Honestly, what the whole thing is about is money. It's a corporate dispute, and corporate disputes have a formula that is in place that is set by the state and the federal government as to how the dispute is settled. So that's what we'll be going with — the formula that the state set forth. And it's just about money — who is going to compensate who? That's strictly the whole thing. It doesn't have anything to do with who said what, it's just a matter of exchanging money, which is kind of ridiculous at this point, but that's what it's about."

On the details of the album that he is currently working on:

Tate: "I can't about it too much at this point, but I can tell you that it's a trilogy — it's three albums that all relate to each other; it's a story. It's something I've been working on quite a long time, and I'm finally in a position to do it now. So I'm very excited about it. It's a very cool and very interesting subject. It's very topical, it's very 'now.' I can say that it's an international story, it's set in a number of different countries around the world, and it has some central characters who are involved with an international incident. It has to do with virtual currencies and Internet banking and stock trading."

A prize will go to the HOM member who can count how many times TheGeoff says "I" in that interview.......

SpectreFate wrote:

A prize will go to the HOM member who can count how many times TheGeoff says "I" in that interview.......

An even bigger prize will go to whoever can read that interview and not roll their eyes.

SpectreFate wrote:

A prize will go to the HOM member who can count how many times TheGeoff says "I" in that interview.......

Which reminded me of this:

Ahhh, the sound of real Queensrÿche.........

a trilogy???


whats it gonna be called:

FU
and then some
and once more for good measure

Orion Crystal Ice wrote:

Ahhh, the sound of real Queensrÿche.........

Written by Chris DeGarmo of course (lyrics by The Geoff).

S.D. wrote:

Orion Crystal Ice wrote:

Ahhh, the sound of real Queensrÿche.........

Written by Chris DeGarmo of course (lyrics by The Geoff).

Bingo.

Quote :

a trilogy???


whats it gonna be called:

FU
and then some
and once more for good measure

exact33 wrote:

a trilogy???  


whats it gonna be called:

FU
and then some
and once more for good measure

I predict his next project will titled 'Chapter 13'

thejokeriv wrote:

Oh, that's terrible. I didn't laught at all.

"Now with fisting applicator"

Ugh - don't need that image in my head!

It is scary how he has gone from one of everybody's favorite singers to this.