I’ll let Geoff say it all.
Q: How about musically? Were you guys seeing eye-to-eye on the sound of the band at this point?
A: “Well, this is kind of a weird situation too. In the press release they said there were “creative differences.” But to have creative differences, you have to have two entities or more offering up creative ideas. And that just wasn’t the case. Queensrÿche has always been my idea, starting from the first record. Queensrÿche is about albums. It’s about concepts and themes, and those concepts were mine. [Laughs] I started out with The Warning, bringing those ideas in for Rage For Order, Operation: Mindcrime… all the albums. I write 81% of the music and the lyrics. Of the 144 songs that Queensrÿche has released, I’ve written 116 of those. I am the creative energy in the band, especially since Chris left. When he was in the band it was more of a shared thing between him and I. But once he left, the burden was on me. I don’t consider it necessarily a burden. That’s what I do. I’m a creative person. I write everyday and I’m constantly coming up with creative ideas. I present them to the other guys and they go, “Yeah, sure, that sounds good to us.”
This guy is so full of himself, it’s not even funny. It is undeniable that Geoff Tate has written some great songs. It also seems apparent from recent developments that the band just wanted to get back to playing progressive metal again. And what is wrong with that? And the video footage of Tate spitting on Rockenfield live in concert? Disgusting. Geoff will one day have to apologize to his old bandmates, mark my words.
Also, Geoff says:
For it to end in such a hostile way, it’s just mind-boggling.
DUDE! Mind boggling? You were the one holding the friggin’ knife, man!
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Seriously this is the best thing that has happened to this band in a long, long time. Taint ran the band into the ground over the last decade and a half.
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I think you might be right. The live footage with Todd La Torre has been pretty good. And they’re playing old stuff like Neue Regel again.
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We will see what the future holds but I cannot say that I have been all that fired up with anything that these guys have done in the last 10 years and I have seen them atleast 6 times over that span. Some decent live shows but also a few pretty uninspired performances. It is nice to see the band get back to their roots and atleast play the stuff that their remaining fans want to hear. Tate no longer or ever did really care for metal so it is nice to see that they finally have someone in the band that loves metal. Dream Theater became the standard in prog metal and have put out some pretty good stuff in the time that QR was asleep at the wheel. Dedicated To Chaos was abysmal. That was rock bottom after a string of mediocre albums.
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Ron I an inclined to agree with you. I havce been a fan for a long time, it was Queen of the Recih that initially got me into the band. I have endured most of the past 10 years. My favourite album is still Promised Land, but I never listen to Tribe or OPII. I recently found some statements from Wilton and Rockenfield that state all they wanted to do was contribute song ideas but were shut out. If this is the case, then good riddance to Tate.
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