_________________________________ | Screaming in Digital
        ________________*________________ | The Queensryche Net Digest
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        __________*__*******__*__________ | Volume 029, 11may92
                 ******* *******          | Edited by Dan 'Shag' Birchall
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        ____************_************____ | Anonymous FTP sites:
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        _Screaming in Digital______________________________Editor's Note_

                Heya, everyone.  I'm still pretty backlogged as far as
        finding summer sites for those who requested them goes, 
        unfortunately.  On the bright side - from my point anyway - many
        of you will not be losing net access over the summer.
                Next week I hope to update the discography on the site
        at Glia, and I'm also going to be putting some more work into the
        Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list, and working on a general
        (non-music-related) short survey so I can find out what type of
        people you all are.
                In this digest - Groups that sound like Queensryche,
        readers in bands, the further adventures of Doctor Davis, other
        favorite groups, b-sides, lots of MTV-hating, and 'Scarborough
        Fair' airplay.

        _Neue Regel___________________________________________What's New_

        aldvp2z!cmd@attme.att.com (Christine) writes,
                I just heard 'Scarborough Fair' on the radio!  First time 
        I heard it.  It is a marvelous rendition of the song, although 
        I'm not too "keen" on the song per se.  We were forced to sing 
        this song like a million times in 4th grade, so I've grown to 
        hate it.  But it does show off Geoff's talents well.  It was 
        funny, we were having a mini-party on our deck, loud talking 
        and noise and all, radio on for background music, and as soon as 
        it began, I picked it out, and noted to my husband, also a big 
        Queensryche fan.  He liked the song too.
                It was on WZZO Z-95 of Allentown, PA.  They play great 
        stuff, classic rock, lots of Queensryche.  And they played 
        'Scarborough Fair.'  A pleasant surprise.

        _Speak____________________________________________Correspondence_

        hcw0@aberystwyth.ac.uk () writes, 
                Where does the Queensryche symbol come from?
                        {It's just something they thought would look 
                        neat, I believe.  -sh}

        Group 1 (Mystii, Christine) write,
                I think someone may have said this already, but it seems 
        to me that Doctor Davis is quite a popular person (he must 
        really be a good doctor or something) as i have heard the "Doctor 
        Davis, telephone..." thing many a time in the hospital scenes on 
        many TV shows.  I guess these shows need something going on in the 
        background.
                Watching the local TV channel recently, I saw a 
        commercial for some lawyers, medical malpractice, you know the 
        type, "have you been injured?."  And they were showing a 
        hospital and you hear in the background the same "Dr. Hamilton, 
        Dr. Jay Hamilton."  Obviously a readily available mix for local 
        law firm schmucks to use it!

        ak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Kendric) writes,
                I'm in a local band called Carpet Burn.  I'm a 
        percussionist.  We play hard rock/heavy metal.  We don't do any 
        Queensryche, we're not nearly that good.  We have a lot of fun, 
        though we seem to be the Rodney Dangerfield of the area.  Every 
        time we think we have a gig, it gets cancelled so we've really 
        only had about two gigs in the 8 months we've been together.  

        st9596@siucvmb.siu.edu (Darknight) writes,
                What the heck is the band Phish, mentioned in the babble
        section?
                        {It's a new band.  I don't think it's like
                        Queensryche.  -sh}

        _Spreading the Disease_________________________________Resources_

        jlee@weird.miami.fl.us (Jason) writes,
                I don't buy "Video: mindcrime" because I don't have the
        spare cash, and taping off the TV is much easier.

        becker@acsu.buffalo.edu (Don) writes,
                In England and Japan, they tend to release discs of 
        B-Sides when a band gets popular. Nirvana, Jane's Addiction, and
        Marillion have all had B-sides discs put out outside the U.S. in 
        the past 18 months.

        tdy3835@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Tim) writes,
                The closest thing to Queensryche I have listened to, the 
        only ones to even come _close_, is Helloween.  In fact I had to 
        check the "Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1" album to make sure 
        Jeff wasn't singing!  Helloween is a great band if you love 
        Queensryche.

        browning@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Howard) writes,
                As for Fates Warning, They have about 4 other albums out.
        I borrowed 'No Exit' from a friend, and when I was playing it in 
        my room, my roommate said 'I see you got a new Queensryche tape.'  
        I showed him the case and he was dumbfounded.  Fates Warning's 
        stuff sounds just like older Queensryche.

        jlee@weird.miami.fl.us (Jason) writes,
                I got 'Anybody Listening' last night.  Their rendition 
        of 'Scarborough Fair' is now one of my favorite Queensryche 
        songs.  It is excellent!

        _The Whisper__________________________________________Discussion_

        Group 2 (Paul, Tim) write,
                I'm pretty varied in my musical likings.  Favorite bands 
        of all time would be Queensryche, Rush, and Metallica, each for 
        different reasons.  Other bands I like include older classic 
        bands like Zeppelin, Blue Oyster Cult, and Black Sabbath, newer 
        heavy bands like Motley Crue and Van Halen, and VERY new stuff 
        like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, Red Hot Chilis, and 
        much more.  Then again, I have Indigo Girls, School of Fish, and 
        Jean Michel-Jarre (electronic synth maestro!) in the CD changer 
        right now.  I like Rush because for a long time it seemed as if 
        they were writing about me, about MY life when each album came 
        out.  I like Metallica because of their brash style, openness and 
        friendliness, and their unfailing consideration for their fans.
        As for why I like Queensryche, I've always liked bands with talent 
        and intellectual depth - Queensryche has that in spades!  
                My other bands that I listen to regularly are Queen, 
        Iron Maiden, Metallica, Enya (surprise?), and Soundgarden.

        _Empire______________________________________________We Hate MTV_

        Group 3 (Christine, TinyZ, Paul, Mystii, Jamie, Don) write,
                They did away with MTV's most wanted?  No wonder it was 
        never on when I put it on!  Now just "hanging" garbage.  I hate 
        MTV these days.  I wonder why the hell there is no direct 
        competition?  I heard that by 1997, MTV will be splitting into
        different stations, one for dance/pop, one for metal/heavy, one 
        for rap, etc.  Hope this is true, and hope my local cable 
        carries them!
                On the subject of MTV, Most Wanted _has_ been replaced 
        with Hangin' With MTV, but Hangin' also has requested videos. 
        MTV integrated Yo! MTV Raps, Most Wanted, Totally Pauly, and some 
        other shows into Hangin'.
                back when "Eyes of a Stranger" debuted I was one of many
        Queensryche Fan Club members (#2498 here, looks like they've 
        grown quite a bit since then!) who called in to DIAL-MTV to vote 
        for the video.  I got through many times.  One particular 
        frenetic day, I got through sixteen times and voted for it; if 
        their 1,000-call total figure was the truth, that's about a 
        percent and a half all by my lonesome, and the video only placed 
        12th that day, so go figure.  Are the calls "for real"?  Sure, 
        people called in and were sometimes placed on the air (I was 
        taped a few times but as far as I know, I was never aired).  But 
        the actual song placement on the list?  Based on actual calls?  
        Highly unlikely!  MTV probably used the calls as an impromptu
        music-listening survey -- after all, toll-free 800 lines cost 
        lots of money - so in a sense, every call WAS probably important.
                i was quite miffed at the fact that MTV (i like the eMpTyV 
        idea) took the _most wanted_ thing off, but even before, i could 
        not get a hold of an operator over there - i even tried calling 
        once about 3 in the morning est, and the line was busy.  perhaps 
        all the MTV Lines are kept busy on purpose, as i tried to call 
        _Rockline_ when Queensryche was on there, and i never got through 
        then,' perhaps it's all a conspiracy against viewers or something.
                If you had a chance to listen to the Most Wanted on MTV, 
        you might remember that they say something like, "These videos 
        are compiled using viewers request, MTV polling, and other MTV 
        statistics."  Well, the "other" in this case is MTV's rotation. 
        Thats why the new videos, the ones MTV over-plays and pushes on 
        the public, are always on the countdown. It's a powerful tool 
        they are playing with. The media has amazing control over people. 
        They play a video on Most Wanted and it sells, no matter who it 
        is, no matter what talent (or lack of). That's just my input on 
        the MTV situation.
                I've never been able to get through on Dial MTV / Most 
        Wanted either, although I got through once in 1987, and I 
        requested a Van Halen video.  I'm pretty sure that the Dial MTV 
        stuff is fixed to a degree, anyways. That would _definitely_ 
        explain why they played "Silent Lucidity" as opposed to a more 
        obscure song.  I must admit that this attempt at getting an 
        obscure Queensryche video some airplay inspired me to try the 
        same for Marillion's "He Knows You Know" video.  Too bad I'm not 
        on their mailing list yet.

        _The Killing Words_________________________Babble Interpretation_

        sl7w3@mua.usu.edu (Mike) writes,
                What exactly is the reference/allusion of 'The Needle'.  
        Is it referenced as far as just "Operation: mindcrime," or is 
        there other significance?

        jjm13@pop.cwru.edu (Jeff) writes,
                I submitted the words in Silent Lucidity both times.  The 
        first one was written from memory and contained a few errors.  The 
        second one was a definite reference with all the errors fixed and 
        the exact issue of the magazine cited.  

        _Writer Group Listings___________________________________________

        Name            E-mail Address                          Groups
        Christine       aldvp2z!cmd@attme.att.com               1,3
        Don             becker@acsu.buffalo.edu                 3
        Jamie           cs-ind23@oswego.oswego.edu              3
        Mystii          mystii@wam.umd.edu                      1,3
        Paul            corum@uscn.cc.uga.edu                   2,3
        Tim             tdy3835@ritvax.isc.rit.edu              2
        TinyZ           kosteca@nyxxa.cs.orst.edu               3

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                That's about it for now, gang.  See you in another week!

                                                Ryche on...

                                                        -Shag