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 Screaming in Digital                  * *                  Volume 09 - 91Dec23
 The Queensryche NetDigest              *                Edited by Dan Birchall
 birchall@pilot.njin.net                *                  birchall@njin.bitnet

[anonymous FTP site]-------------------------------[glia.biostr.washington.edu]

                                Table of Contents
        Screaming in Digital            -                  Editor's Notes
        Neue Regel                      -                      What's new
        Speak                           -                  Correspondence
        Roads to Madness                -                    Touring Info
        I Will Remember                 -                         History
        Anybody Listening?              -                     Classifieds
        The Whisper                     -                     Discussions
        Spreading the Disease           -                       Resources

[Screaming in Digital]------------------------------------------[Editor's Note]

        So here it is,  Christmas.   A lot of us  are on break now,  and if you
went on break and  forgot to tell me your  account was going  to be idle,  full
mail queues are _not_ my fault! 
        Um,  while editing this,  I accidentally wiped a  file of contributions
that I _thought_  I had already pasted  into the digest,  only to find out that
I hadn't done  anything of the sort!   If you sent me something,  and don't see
it in this one, please RE-SEND it, as I don't want to leave things out.
        Some new  formatting here.   I've decided to use  smaller headers,  the
old ones were  using up a  little  bit more  room than  I wanted them to.  I've 
also made the decision to start full-justifying the text.  
        Oh,  some tips -  if you're sending  something in for  inclusion in the
digest,  you can make it easier on me by using paragraph form (indent the first
line of  each paragraph  with a tab)  and checking  your spelling  and grammar. 
Actually,  I think the readers  of this digest  are among the best _writers_ on
the net,  in terms of using the English language effectively.   Of course,  now
that I'm full-justifying,  if you have a text editor that does so, that'll save
even more time.

[Neue Regel]-------------------------------------------------------[What's New]

        Well, it's time to see whether all those  rumours about Livecrime being
released in  separate pieces  (album _or_ video,  but not  both together) after
Christmas will come true.   Of course,  by now most of us have the box set,  so
will there really be any reason to go buy the parts separately?

mchaifet@ucs.indiana.edu writes,
        "The transcription to "Jet City Woman" is in the new _Guitar World_ for 
all us Chris DeGarmo and Michael Wilton wannabe's." (Marshal)

cfulkers@wash.bbn.com writes,
        "Rockline with Queensryche aired last night  (Monday, 12/16).  I caught 
the last fifteen minutes or so.  They mentioned being approached on the concept
of doing a movie about Mindcrime.  They said they hadn't met the right group of
people to do it yet.  Really?  I want to see that!" (Chris)

[Speak]--------------------------------------------------------[Correspondence]

ju@aludra.usc.edu writes,
        "I think Geoff's comments on marketing  and promotion referred to their
first management before  switching to Q Prime.   Their first album  wasn't done
under the most  pleasant atmosphere and,  even though EMI believed in the band,
their promotional efforts didn't show." (Eddie)
                {For the  uninformed,  Eddie's referring to the  comments Geoff
                made at the Billboard awards. -sh}

mchaifet@ucs.indiana.edu writes,
        "Anybody remember way back when Queensryche  was hardly known and Geoff 
had the  ads in the metal mags for  mail-order voice lessons?   A lot's gone on 
since then." (Marshal) 
                {Never heard about that... anyone got those ads? -sh}

[Roads to Madness]-----------------------------------------------[Touring Info]

ju@aludra.usc.edu writes,
        "I  just  saw  Queensryche  last  Friday  nite!    The  production  was 
excellent,  but the performance was weak.   Maybe they got burn-out (the show I
saw was the 108th in a row) or maybe it was just Friday the 13th.
        "I got to the show the  minute Queensryche took the stage,  and all the 
programmes were sold out.   Was that the case in other cities?  Or did they run
out of the programmes and decide that it'd be a waste to print more since there
were only a couple more shows until the end of the tour?
        "The show,  after reading a couple subscriber's comments,  seemed to me 
very routinely planned, as evidenced by the video.  They cut out the part about
how  Mary died in the video,  but in the show I went to,  Geoff also mentioned,
"You're a sick individual... maybe we should hang out together." 
        "Right after  The Thin Line,  Scott started playing the hi-hat parts of
the Jet City Woman intro;  he did that twice and nothing was happening.   I was
thinking,  "Oh no,  now we have a drum solo...  later we will be subjected to a
bass solo and then two guitar  solos which will  be awesome,"  but Scott spread
his hands as if to say,  "What is going on?" and on the third try Eddie finally
kicked  in with his  bass and they played  the song for real.   I don't know if
they did it on  purpose or it was a real  screwup.   If it was a real one,  the
projection crew did a fantastic job - the image was totally in sync.
        "One of the sad things about the Long Beach show was that there were so
many MTV posers (hey,  it's L.A. after all!) who came for "Silent Lucidity" and
had never heard of  Operation: Mindcrime.   When Geoff left  some parts for the
audience to sing,  I was among the few fans who screamed their throats out.  It
was strange  being in this huge  arena with  it all  silent around me,  yelling
my head off while the rest of the crowd thought, "Huh?"  
        "The security was  real lousy that night.   Twice,  people got on stage
and  stayed there  for over ten seconds.   The  security people  must have been
sleeping.   As  a matter  of fact,  my friend  was hired as  a temporary  staff
member to guard the backstage  area because they needed people.   I'd have done
it for free!
        "The second  person who got  on stage was really funny,  and I think he
actually got invited backstage.  That would have been cool." 
        "I think there must be a  lot of hardcore Queensryche  fans in Madison,
Wisconsin  (remember "You'll never get away"  on the live  video/CD?),  or they
mixed some "instant crowd" in to cover it. 
        "Geoff was wearing some woman's tights  and dress by the last couple of
songs ... could he be a transvestite?!" (Eddie)
                {As Bob Hope would say,  only his hairdresser knows for sure...
                honestly,  though,  I think Geoff would do  something like that
                just for the shock value.  -sh}

[I Will Remember]-----------------------------------------------------[History]

intertel!wohlenbe@rutgers.rutgers.edu writes,
        "In 1983,  I had a  friend who  worked at  a major  rock radio  station 
in   Phoenix.    During  that  year,   the  station   received  a   Queensryche 
promotional tabloid called  the "Campaign Headquarters News"  from EMI records.
Fortunately,  my friend knew  that I was  sort of  freaked  out on  Queensryche
(after buying their EP earlier that year)  so he snagged  the tabloid  and gave
it to me." (Greg)
                {This document will also be available from the FTP site as a
                separate file, /pub/queensryche/text/press.release.1983. -sh}
                
           "Queensryche Humble Origins, Determination are Trademarks"

        Becoming  destiny's darling in  the world of rock  is problematical  at
best,  and  sometimes  even  less  desirable.   Take Queensryche  for  example.
Queensryche is a  five-piece modern  heavy metal  unit from  Bellevue,  WA that
made the conscious  decision to  avoid hype,  hoopla and the local  bar circuit
so they  could  concentrate  on  writing  and  perfecting  their  own  original 
material.   One might then logically  ask how a band so  intent upon hiding out
found a home at EMI America Records.
        The story is  an  interesting one  with  beginnings in  several places.
First,  Queensryche,  five young men  deeply rooted in  the American work ethic
decided to  apply their  disciplined  lifestyles  to the  challenging world  of
heavy metal.   For singer  Geoff Tate,  guitarists Chris  DeGarmo  and  Michael
Wilton,  bassist Eddie Jackson,  and drummer  Scott Rockenfield,  just being in
Queensryche is  excitement  aplenty.   To have been  forced by  popular  demand
from their  sequestered rehearsal bastion  to making a record,   signing with a
major label,  and  contemplating their  first major  turn ever,  is staggering.
        It all  started at  Easy Street Records,   a specialty record  store in
Bellevue.   The  store is  owned by  Kim and  Diana Harris  and is  a gathering
place for  young people.   When  drummer  Rockenfield's  older  brother,  Todd,
casually  mentioned  that  Queensryche  had  made  a  tape of  four songs,  the
Harrises  were  enthusiastic and  after hearing it decided  to start  their own
independent  label,  206 records.   They had a  jacket designed and  pressed up
3,500 copies of the Queensryche tape.
     In  November 1982,  the  Harrises  took  "a vacation"  to  England.   They
dropped  a copy  of the  tape off at  Kerrang Magazine and  upon return  to the
States starting  walking the  Queensryche EP  around local Washington stations.
The unusual  then happened to Queensryche.  Rock radio powerhouses KISW,  KZOK,
and KGON all loved  the record,  especially "Queen of the Reich"  and "The Lady
Wore  Black".   Meanwhile,  Kerrang's  chief critic,  Paul Suter,  was printing
rave reviews of the band.
     Said  Suter:   "Something's   happening  in  Washington...    we  have  an
absolute  monster of  a band in  Queensryche...   Very few genuine  heavy metal
bands write material  as classy as this;  the successful blend that Queensryche
has  created  puts  them  right  at  the  forefront  of  a  small  field that's
previously been almost exclusively British..."
     Encouraged by  the reaction  at home  and abroad,  concert  promoter  John
Bauer invited the  band to be  an opening act at two of the popular Rising Star
concerts at the  Paramount  Theatres in  Portland and  Seattle.   The explosive
results of  those two  shows have  triggered  an  avalanche of  interest in the
band.   Queensryche's  debut  EP has been  rush  released  by  EMI  to  satisfy
growing demand  not only  in the  Northwest but  in other  breakout markets  as
well.     Does  this  instant  stardom  swell  the  heads  of  the  members  of 
Queensryche?   Never!   As singer Tate calmly intones,  "This is all fantastic,
but the best  thing about it  (success) is  that we can quit  our day jobs  and
concentrate on what we really love- rock n' roll music."

[Anybody Listening?]----------------------------------------------[Classifieds]

        Wanted: Copy of the video for "Gonna Get Close to You"
        Reply to: schmitz@acsu.buffalo.edu

        Wanted: Copy or transcription of 12/16/91 RockLine
        Reply to: birchall@pilot.njin.net

[The Whisper]------------------------------------------------------[Discussion]

        I'm looking to revise the Tri-Ryche symbol at the  head of this digest.
I'd like to make it a little more finished,  and perhaps slightly smaller.   If
you would  like to  submit a  suggestion  for one,  just  type it  up in  ASCII
characters (no control codes please) and send it in.   I'll be working on a few
ideas for it myself, I hope.

[Spreading the Disease]---------------------------------------------[Resources]

schmitz@acsu.buffalo.edu writes,
        "Well, over the years of being a Queensryche fan and the fact of seeing
MTV before headbangers ball,  when metal was  shown daily  in a half hour to an
hour slot, I've been able to see these videos by Queensryche:
        "Queen of the Reich (its really funny looking at the band then and now)
        "Take Hold of the Flame (taken from the Live in Tokyo recording)
        "Gonna Get Close to You (I was stunned, this video is scary, with Geoff
stalking some poor,  seemingly  defenseless girl in  a gothic  mansion setting,
only to have the tables turned at the end) 
        "And  then of  course  there are  the Operation:  Mindcrime and  Empire 
videos that everyone has no doubt seen." (Rod)

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        Next issue's the big number 10...  I'm thrilled this  thing is going as
well as it is....  Have a most excellent holiday season,  everyone,  and I hope
to hear again soon from those of you who are going on break.
        Peace on earth, good will, love, joy, and rock'n'roll.
                                -Shag