This is the song that put QR on my personal radar. Geoff’s range and his ability to sustain notes with such a beautiful vibrato wasn’t common or popular at that time with many singers. The band’s quality of musicianship, the way they composed their music and the quality of the lyrics was so much better than most of the cookie cutter garbage that was being promoted by the labels at that time. Needless to say I purchased this CD and my appreciation of QR still remains to this day.
commercially, empire was their most successful album and time period. Having said that, they never did 2 albums that had a similar sound so it was difficult for some people to get into them for a long period of time. Empire and Operation Mindcrime were the closest honestly, but they were MUCH bigger in Japan than ever in the U.S. as Japan has been VERY big fans of the metal genre for a long time. Judas Priest shared a similar fan base in Japan as did lots of metal bands of the 70's and early 80's. Geoff puts all other metal/hard rock vocalist in a catagory below him... he was a classically trained operatic vocalist that chose to sing metal/hard rock.
I believe everyone who watch geoff tate for the first time will have question in their mind "Who is this alien?"😂 And for me geoff the only singer who can make me smile everytime he sing those high note.it's just beautiful.
In 1983 I was 18 and managing a indie record/Headshop store. One day our record distributer guy came in and knowing I loved Metal gave a promo copy of Queensryche's EP. I took it home and put it on the turntable and instantly was hooked. I've been a fan ever since and have seen them dozens of times.
This decade of music was the best and queensryche was at their prime. Music today is crap today’s generation is lucky that they have the chance through RUclips to experience greatness like my generation X we had the best music and I am glad this generation is enjoying it even to this day.
How this duee is just able to slowly buildup and release at such an incredible height with such power is astonishing to me , truly ! I swear I am blown away every single time I watch it. Look at all he is puting into it at times and at others he makes it look so effortless !
I want that vest jacket Geoff is wearing and the bass is thumping and it always is and Rockenfield on the drums is phenomenal. They are all amazingly talented musicians
5 Song Demo Album...kind of like a pilot for a TV Series...one of their first recorded songs...BLEW MY MIND BACK THEN...I was a Judas Priest fan up until then...LOVE RYCHE
Great band, you can't go wrong with their 80s output, their first few albums were classics, not a bad song to be found. Try No Sanctuary off the Warning album, it is a cool tune with a great atmosphere. They are the real deal. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
Nice reaction and honest. Btw, Queensÿche did not wanted to get more commercial, I do get the label would have wanted them to stay like this, but the band didn't. The label or recordcompany thought they had the next Maiden or Priest, but the band said "don't try to limit us, cause we'll change"... and that they did... every album up to Promised Land is different, they are artists, they wanted to go their own way. I praise them for that.
You said you heard that the record label wanted QR to keep their sound like this but the band wanted to be more commercial. I've never heard that! Are you sure? Usually they talk about not wanting to just duplicate what they've done before...that they wanted to keep trying new things, etc. But I'm sure they wanted to sell more too, but not at the expense of creative integrity. Actually Operation: Mindcrime was a taking a big risk. I don't think anyone knew how that would be received. They weren't known for playing it safe. I'm always amazed at how Geoff can do so many vocal changes during a line, but still keep the volume and output very steady and even. It's hard to describe. Know what I mean? Yes, Cassandra, that was Geoff whistling. He's a whistler. I run out of breathe halfway through that! Yeah bass! Drums! Guitars! Backing vocals and harmonies!! They bring it ALL! This was one of the first songs they wrote together, so their sound was still in the early stages of formation. When you've heard the span of several albums you can see the growth and subtle changes that occurred throughout this process. Such a capable band!! Oh yeah, the slow, sexy guitar was fabulous! They aren't afraid of taking their time, musically, to paint the mood they want. If you notice, they frequently write songs that run soft and hard. Slow and fast. Calm and intense. I love hearing both of your opinions on these QR songs you've been doing! Interestingly diverse in how they strike each of you. More! SQUIRREL!! yes, that's exactly what I thought too! Haha!
I think I read it on a different reaction we did on here. Someone left a comment. I haven't looked into it too much but I think I did see something similar online while doing my Operation Mindcrime reaction.
@@AMusicianandaJerk We'll, I suppose it's possible. Just not a sediment I've heard them express. But then I'm not all-knowing, maybe just mostly-knowing. Lol
I don't know who's been feeding you your info, but it couldn't be more off the mark. They STARTED as a more generic, "commercial" metal band with the release of their debut EP. Then started to shift slowly more and more into a more progressive sound with The Warning (their first album, still mostly metal standards with hints at a more progressive sound), Rage For Order (Their second album. Beginning to take a more progressive approach to their songwriting style.) Operation: Mindcrime (A concept album. A massive risk for a relatively new/unknown band only releasing their third album.) Empire (A focus on separate standards rather than any musical or lyrical theme. This one saw them achieve massive commercial success with their first and only number 1 single and the album going multi platinum. The subsequent touring along with Eyes of A Stranger receiving a lot of airplay caused them to also have large success with Mindcrime, though Empire was the most successful.) My favourite album, Promised Land, was released after this in 1994. Contrary to Empire, this was easily their most progressive sounding output and started to alienate some fans who were used to a more accessible sound. Though not a concept album, the album had a little more of a lyrical theme to it than their previous output. There were plenty more albums following this but this marked their most successful period and I'm sure you don't want me to go through the entire discography. In short, the band never wanted to "go commercial". They just wanted to do their own thing and were successful by result. Geoff was the most adventurous musically and never wanted to be confined to a single genre. Chris was of a similar mind (1997's release being the best example of this), but I believe the rest of the band were more closely tied to their metal roots.
Just found your channel. Good stuff. As for Queensryche wanting to be more commercial, that's not entirely accurate at this point. They started making more abstract and creative music.....to the point of making albums that were very different from the last. I saw them on this tour...the Warning when they were opening for KISS. Rage for Order was next and they brought it to another level live. As for Operation Mindcrime, no one was counting on it being a break through album and the record company did not know how to market it. But the fans loved it. Empire brought them to headlining huge arenas. I saw them twice on that tour and they just couldn't be matched by too many bands during that time..
Thank you. I mostly play bass, and I want to know what is a good bass line. I would;d love to find a singer like that (or Tarja) that makes the bass worh it.
THIS IS THE SONG THAT GOT ME INTO THE RYCHE. SAW THEM ON THIS TOUR IN 1985. THESE GUYS WERE SO FUCKIN GOOD AND TATE WAS UNTOUCHABLE IN HIS VOCAL PRIME. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Nice reaction! A couple responses to things you said.... First, that absolutely is Geoff whistling live.. (I've seen it many times and this was in 1984..before bands started using backing tracks). In addition to being one of the best singers I've ever heard, he's also one of the best whistlers! 😂 Also, it wasn't that QR wanted to be "more commercial", it was that they weren't happy with the engineering/sound of the first album (The Warning). That's why the next album that they recorded (Rage for Order) sounds so drastically different... but, definitely NOT mainstream or commercial. Anyway, love your honest reactions.
Operation mind crime is one of the top albums ever it’s a story book album. Each song is related to the last or related to a future one you’ll listen you’ll get my drift.
This recalls the proggy metal ballads of the 70s, think "Child in Time," "The Wizard," "Stairway to Heaven," "We'll Burn the Sky," etc. It is intended more to evoke a mood than wow with technical wizardry and breakneck time changes.
EVERYBODY harps on Operation Mindcrime, which is nothing less than the pinnacle of concept LP's that's ever been done, so I set that one on a shelf by itself. But, I gotta agree that their early work is my personal favorite in their catalog of material. Rage For Order is my favorite "other" LP...with their initial EP release and The Warning (2nd) very close behind. The MTV Unplugged show is awesome as well.
Their early stuff is so cool....but yes their later stuff is SO much better. As a musician celebrating 50 years in the "biz" it's really nice to see the progression of bands, their music and their direction and how it all goes back to the start. Just sayin'.....
This is there masterpiece love the journey it takes you on they don't make music like this anymore miss guitar solos this is how you do a ballad love this band keep rocking
You got your comment about them wanted to go commercial that was the opposite. You got it backwards operation mindcrime proves it. Next time that's when he went commercial that was because of pressure from the record label wanted single shorter songs in general. Empire theres 5 solid hit singles releases on it. MTV pushed it through the roof for them in 90/91/92 lead to Livecrime also.
Have you seen the whole concert??? OMG beyond awesome the warning tour 1984 rage for order 1986 operation mindcrime 1988& empire 1990 beyond awesome albums and saw all tours the warning tour & rage for order tour beyond awesome 🤘🤘🤘 I was like 17-18 year's old and I was just blown away OMG 😳🤘🤘🤘🎸🎸 Michael Wilton Chris DeGarmo beyond awesome guitar player's hands down 💯🤘🤘🤘🤘
It wasn't the band that wanted to go commercial it was the record company that they signed a contract with they want them to go commercial and because they signed a contract with them they had to go commercial until the contract ended and being young as they were at the time they kinda got blindsided and stuck with that one
This is the Greatest band of all times, and yes I said it. Please do a reaction video to this entire show🤘... And if you want great dual guitar works then you need to listen to Judas Priest...
1:20 YES Geoff is whistling live. I've seen him change it up a few times live and he nails it.
Ah Geoff - what a range 🖤
Greatest voice in rock
You know you got it when you sound better live than in studio. These guys were magical at this concert. ❤🎸🎶🥁🎤
This is the song that put QR on my personal radar.
Geoff’s range and his ability to sustain notes with such a beautiful vibrato wasn’t common or popular at that time with many singers.
The band’s quality of musicianship, the way they composed their music and the quality of the lyrics was so much better than most of the cookie cutter garbage that was being promoted by the labels at that time.
Needless to say I purchased this CD and my appreciation of QR still remains to this day.
Degarmo/Wilton! Rock-n-Roll
commercially, empire was their most successful album and time period. Having said that, they never did 2 albums that had a similar sound so it was difficult for some people to get into them for a long period of time. Empire and Operation Mindcrime were the closest honestly, but they were MUCH bigger in Japan than ever in the U.S. as Japan has been VERY big fans of the metal genre for a long time. Judas Priest shared a similar fan base in Japan as did lots of metal bands of the 70's and early 80's. Geoff puts all other metal/hard rock vocalist in a catagory below him... he was a classically trained operatic vocalist that chose to sing metal/hard rock.
I believe everyone who watch geoff tate for the first time will have question in their mind
"Who is this alien?"😂
And for me geoff the only singer who can make me smile everytime he sing those high note.it's just beautiful.
This was the first song they ever wrote together!
Yep! All of the EP was written before Geoff joined except for the lyrics for this one, which Geoff wrote pretty last minute before they recorded.
In 1983 I was 18 and managing a indie record/Headshop store. One day our record distributer guy came in and knowing I loved Metal gave a promo copy of Queensryche's EP. I took it home and put it on the turntable and instantly was hooked. I've been a fan ever since and have seen them dozens of times.
This decade of music was the best and queensryche was at their prime. Music today is crap today’s generation is lucky that they have the chance through RUclips to experience greatness like my generation X we had the best music and I am glad this generation is enjoying it even to this day.
How this duee is just able to slowly buildup and release at such an incredible height with such power is astonishing to me , truly !
I swear I am blown away every single time I watch it.
Look at all he is puting into it at times and at others he makes it look so effortless !
Do the live version of Walk in the shadows with Geoff. Incredible
The lady wore black killer song 🤘 I remember seeing it live on the warning tour ,84-85 OMG beyond awesome 🤘🤘
You guys still need to react to "Queen of the Reich" from this show!
Wow Queensryche live is a different animal 😳awesome reaction 👏keep the Ryche and roll coming 😄
I want that vest jacket Geoff is wearing and the bass is thumping and it always is and Rockenfield on the drums is phenomenal. They are all amazingly talented musicians
Yes, Geoff Tate is whistling 😗!!!
About as good as it gets😂
5 Song Demo Album...kind of like a pilot for a TV Series...one of their first recorded songs...BLEW MY MIND BACK THEN...I was a Judas Priest fan up until then...LOVE RYCHE
Priest still rules and I love Tate!
Great band, you can't go wrong with their 80s output, their first few albums were classics, not a bad song to be found. Try No Sanctuary off the Warning album, it is a cool tune with a great atmosphere. They are the real deal. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
And just think no auto tune love the sexy solo it fit the song
My favorite Queensryche song!!!
If you like early Ryche listen to "Road to Madness" NM 156.
This is my favorite Queensryche song
This is the very first song they wrote with Geoff Tate.
God I love good reactions to the bands I watch live and grew up with. Went to the Seattle Warning tour leg in 85. Sounded just like this.
If you’re looking for a killer dual guitar solo from them, check out NM-156. Just an awesome tune!
Nice reaction and honest. Btw, Queensÿche did not wanted to get more commercial, I do get the label would have wanted them to stay like this, but the band didn't. The label or recordcompany thought they had the next Maiden or Priest, but the band said "don't try to limit us, cause we'll change"... and that they did... every album up to Promised Land is different, they are artists, they wanted to go their own way. I praise them for that.
You said you heard that the record label wanted QR to keep their sound like this but the band wanted to be more commercial. I've never heard that! Are you sure? Usually they talk about not wanting to just duplicate what they've done before...that they wanted to keep trying new things, etc. But I'm sure they wanted to sell more too, but not at the expense of creative integrity. Actually Operation: Mindcrime was a taking a big risk. I don't think anyone knew how that would be received. They weren't known for playing it safe.
I'm always amazed at how Geoff can do so many vocal changes during a line, but still keep the volume and output very steady and even. It's hard to describe. Know what I mean?
Yes, Cassandra, that was Geoff whistling. He's a whistler. I run out of breathe halfway through that!
Yeah bass! Drums! Guitars! Backing vocals and harmonies!! They bring it ALL!
This was one of the first songs they wrote together, so their sound was still in the early stages of formation. When you've heard the span of several albums you can see the growth and subtle changes that occurred throughout this process. Such a capable band!!
Oh yeah, the slow, sexy guitar was fabulous! They aren't afraid of taking their time, musically, to paint the mood they want.
If you notice, they frequently write songs that run soft and hard. Slow and fast. Calm and intense.
I love hearing both of your opinions on these QR songs you've been doing! Interestingly diverse in how they strike each of you. More!
SQUIRREL!! yes, that's exactly what I thought too! Haha!
I think I read it on a different reaction we did on here. Someone left a comment. I haven't looked into it too much but I think I did see something similar online while doing my Operation Mindcrime reaction.
@@AMusicianandaJerk
We'll, I suppose it's possible. Just not a sediment I've heard them express. But then I'm not all-knowing, maybe just mostly-knowing. Lol
He got that backwards obviously. Operation mindcrime prove that alone such a great concept album.
I don't know who's been feeding you your info, but it couldn't be more off the mark. They STARTED as a more generic, "commercial" metal band with the release of their debut EP. Then started to shift slowly more and more into a more progressive sound with The Warning (their first album, still mostly metal standards with hints at a more progressive sound), Rage For Order (Their second album. Beginning to take a more progressive approach to their songwriting style.) Operation: Mindcrime (A concept album. A massive risk for a relatively new/unknown band only releasing their third album.) Empire (A focus on separate standards rather than any musical or lyrical theme. This one saw them achieve massive commercial success with their first and only number 1 single and the album going multi platinum. The subsequent touring along with Eyes of A Stranger receiving a lot of airplay caused them to also have large success with Mindcrime, though Empire was the most successful.)
My favourite album, Promised Land, was released after this in 1994. Contrary to Empire, this was easily their most progressive sounding output and started to alienate some fans who were used to a more accessible sound. Though not a concept album, the album had a little more of a lyrical theme to it than their previous output.
There were plenty more albums following this but this marked their most successful period and I'm sure you don't want me to go through the entire discography. In short, the band never wanted to "go commercial". They just wanted to do their own thing and were successful by result. Geoff was the most adventurous musically and never wanted to be confined to a single genre. Chris was of a similar mind (1997's release being the best example of this), but I believe the rest of the band were more closely tied to their metal roots.
Just found your channel. Good stuff. As for Queensryche wanting to be more commercial, that's not entirely accurate at this point. They started making more abstract and creative music.....to the point of making albums that were very different from the last. I saw them on this tour...the Warning when they were opening for KISS. Rage for Order was next and they brought it to another level live. As for Operation Mindcrime, no one was counting on it being a break through album and the record company did not know how to market it. But the fans loved it. Empire brought them to headlining huge arenas. I saw them twice on that tour and they just couldn't be matched by too many bands during that time..
Cool! Another one of my fav 🤘 Thanks guys.
You should watch the MTV Unplugged version of this song.
Absolutely Fantastic🙏incredible interpretation on stage or studio👍🏿Geoff is marvelous💋♥️
Thank you. I mostly play bass, and I want to know what is a good bass line. I would;d love to find a singer like that (or Tarja) that makes the bass worh it.
First time i heard of Queesryche was this song and it became my favorite song
THIS IS THE SONG THAT GOT ME INTO THE RYCHE. SAW THEM ON THIS TOUR IN 1985. THESE GUYS WERE SO FUCKIN GOOD AND TATE WAS UNTOUCHABLE IN HIS VOCAL PRIME. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Nice reaction! A couple responses to things you said.... First, that absolutely is Geoff whistling live.. (I've seen it many times and this was in 1984..before bands started using backing tracks). In addition to being one of the best singers I've ever heard, he's also one of the best whistlers! 😂 Also, it wasn't that QR wanted to be "more commercial", it was that they weren't happy with the engineering/sound of the first album (The Warning). That's why the next album that they recorded (Rage for Order) sounds so drastically different... but, definitely NOT mainstream or commercial. Anyway, love your honest reactions.
Operation mind crime is one of the top albums ever it’s a story book album. Each song is related to the last or related to a future one you’ll listen you’ll get my drift.
This recalls the proggy metal ballads of the 70s, think "Child in Time," "The Wizard," "Stairway to Heaven," "We'll Burn the Sky," etc. It is intended more to evoke a mood than wow with technical wizardry and breakneck time changes.
EVERYBODY harps on Operation Mindcrime, which is nothing less than the pinnacle of concept LP's that's ever been done, so I set that one on a shelf by itself. But, I gotta agree that their early work is my personal favorite in their catalog of material. Rage For Order is my favorite "other" LP...with their initial EP release and The Warning (2nd) very close behind. The MTV Unplugged show is awesome as well.
Their early stuff is so cool....but yes their later stuff is SO much better. As a musician celebrating 50 years in the "biz" it's really nice to see the progression of bands, their music and their direction and how it all goes back to the start. Just sayin'.....
This is there masterpiece love the journey it takes you on they don't make music like this anymore miss guitar solos this is how you do a ballad love this band keep rocking
i'm here for her..
You got your comment about them wanted to go commercial that was the opposite. You got it backwards operation mindcrime proves it. Next time that's when he went commercial that was because of pressure from the record label wanted single shorter songs in general. Empire theres 5 solid hit singles releases on it. MTV pushed it through the roof for them in 90/91/92 lead to Livecrime also.
My favorite band from my home state of Washington
You got a lot of good bands from there. Especially them 90s bands from Seattle
Have you seen the whole concert??? OMG beyond awesome the warning tour 1984 rage for order 1986 operation mindcrime 1988& empire 1990 beyond awesome albums and saw all tours the warning tour & rage for order tour beyond awesome 🤘🤘🤘 I was like 17-18 year's old and I was just blown away OMG 😳🤘🤘🤘🎸🎸 Michael Wilton Chris DeGarmo beyond awesome guitar player's hands down 💯🤘🤘🤘🤘
Operation Mindcrime is the best album of album of all time!!
What state are you guys in??
The live show must have been remastered. The bass was never so clear and there wasn't good stereo separation of the guitars.
So glad you discovered queensryche. Much like Metallica, the older the queensryche, the better. ❤. Watching from Tupelo Mississippi ✌️
It wasn't the band that wanted to go commercial it was the record company that they signed a contract with they want them to go commercial and because they signed a contract with them they had to go commercial until the contract ended and being young as they were at the time they kinda got blindsided and stuck with that one
Great song, a little faster on the album 👍 & the guy does know what he’s talking about😂😇😂
This is the Greatest band of all times, and yes I said it. Please do a reaction video to this entire show🤘... And if you want great dual guitar works then you need to listen to Judas Priest...
Don't sleep on their Rage for Order release. Love Mindcrime but RFO is better. Peak QR IMHO.
Queen of the Reich from this show will blow you away 🎸🤟👍
We did that actually! Just recently.
@@AMusicianandaJerk oh sorry guys I'm new to your channel 😏
I like the fat the dude is honest about his like or dislike so for that alone I got sub
This is the first song they wrote with Geoff Tate
All their albums were good up to empire
so sad you feel that way.
Watch cassandra more, and how could you not, you'd know....already has done Queen of the Reich
I still don't know which one is the jerk.
agree with her for sure , sry fella cheak your ears lol
He’s talking about a nun
Call me weird but I prefer the studio version of this song. I recommend "NM 156" from "The Warning" album.
This live version is just a little bit better...
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Wither by Circus Maximus…thank me later
React to the one take of Immortal by the band Lorna Shore, it's very good.
Great song, but way too much chatter during the song. Give responses mostly after, not during. It interrupts the song's vibe and this is a great song.
Maybe not good, but sure you can whistle!!!