Suite Sister Mary is epic! Screaming in digital too. So many great songs from that classic line up. Thanks for showing some love to an overlooked band!
It's a 10/10 album. I think Promised Land is their magnum opus though. Often overlooked, but absolutely their best work. They've had 6 10/10 albums. No other band can boast about that
oh, I think metal fans are well aware. It is one of those albums that the REST of the world MUST listen to...and put their damn phones down for a couple hours too. ❤
Yes, the arpeggios of QR made me fall in love with their music. Absolutely LOVED this band up until Chris walked away. I was so fortunate to get to see them during their Empire Tour, in which they performed Operation Mindcrime in its entirety! The greatest concert of my lifetime!
I agree and believe in all the shows I've been to the "EMPIRE" show will forever be my number 1 Everything about it was magic and I've never enjoyed a concert more despite almost getting into a fight with a drunk Suicidal Tendencies fan before they played. The MINDCRIME part just pushed it over the top "FANTASTIC" did Geoff Tate do the jumping off the stage and disappearing thing at the end of the show when you saw them? Very dramatic ending to an incredible night of music!!
Chris Degarmo era Queensryche is and will always be my favorite prog rock/metal music ever written! I was so fortunate to see them live for the first time on the Operation Mindcrime tour...
RFO is from another space and time. That album sounds like nothing before or after it. Everything about that album just transcends what was being done at that time. Definitely my favourite QR album.
"The Mission" is one of Queensryche's best tracks. The solo is brilliant. I feel like Dream Theater really "borrowed" a lot from this song when composing "Pull Me Under"
Yeah. The 12 string intro on that song got me hooked on 12 strings. Although i dont really feel like pull me under is a rip off of it. I like them both but they have such radically different compositions that outside of the solo being kind of similar they really aren't alike.
Yes dude. The main riff is so freakin good. The way that bass crunch drives the main riff into your soul is something to behold. And like you said, such a well put together solo. One of my favorites for sure.
Bass intro to Disconnected on Promised land is killer. Also love the intense psycho drama of Screaming in Digital on Rage For Order, there's nothing out there quite like it.
I like the production on Rage For Order too, that drum sound is so raw and epic. Stands out for being really acoustic and natural, in an era when a lot of albums were using drum samples on Rock and Metal but never mentioning this in the credits, for fear of damaging the bands image.
One more short comment. I love how QR marries the music to the lyrics! The music supports the lyrical idea and enhances it. In THE MISSION I loved how the music BELIED the lyrics when Geoff sings:. My mission saved the world, and I stood proud...". During that part Nikki is trying to convince himself that what he's doing is still a good thing, but he's starting to doubt it. The WORDS are expressing triumph and pride, but the music on that part sounds remorseful and anguished. Whether by design or subconsciously, it's BRILLIANT!
NM 156! Not everyone's favorite probably because of the off sounding twin sounding guitar tone. That's my pick from out of the Normal favorites like queen of the ryche... seen them from infancy on the 1st album when they were handing out actual newspaper type programs AND I stil have my original Warning shirt when they opened for Kiss... yea I'm that old... 😅
That’s 90’s Queensryche: I love it, songwriting got even more varied and mature, and production is raw 90’s sound probably influenced by the grunge scene in Seattle. It just speaks to my since I grew up with 90’s music, so that and Empire are my all time favourites. Mindcrime is a close second.
I LOVE Queensryche! I was lucky enough to see them live with the new singer. I thought it wouldn’t be good without Geoff, but boy I was wrong. They were flawless…and the mix was perfect . I bought there EP also. And enjoyed how they have evolved through the years. Walking in the Shadows is one of my favs. Just an incredible band.
The very first time Ragdoll toured the states we played a festival with them that turned out to be Geoff's last gig with them. Weird vibe. Played the same festival a few years later with them and Todd was UNREAL on lead vox.
What’s interesting is, like yourself, I was introduced to Queensryche with Operation Mindcrime. There just is no way of describing the first time I heard the intro to Eyes of a Stranger. The way they use arpeggiated chords with distortion. For me, they were the first band that made distortion beautiful. My top 5: Walk in the Shadows Revolution Calling The Mission Della Brown Anybody Listening? One extra off of Promised Land: One More Time
Loved this. Grew up when Queensryche was starting out. First hearing the EP, as you said, it sounded like Seattle's own Iron Maiden. Seeing them live (opening for Kiss on the Warning tour), I couldn't believe two guitar players could play harmonized guitar riffs/solos so well. On Walk in the Shadows, I love the little harmonized parts during the verse - after each vocal. The intervals they came up with were nuts.
Love that you did this! And yes a Queensryche clean arpeggiated chords video would be great. You certainly have the gear for it! Also agree on Empire, one of my favorite albums ever, with Della Brown at the top of that list.
Favorite guitar moment: The trade-off solos in "Walk In The Shadows", favorite song (it's actually 4 in a row... and I think they should be played together every single time hahaha) "I Don't Believe In Love / Waiting For 22 / My Empty Room / Eyes Of A Stranger"........... this band still gets my blood pumping after all of these years. I love them (minus the large group of bad albums they released). I just saw them 2 weeks ago and they played a near dream setlist. Was an incredible show - even with the absence of DeGarmo and Rockenfield. Todd really brings his A game vocally.
The ‘Live in Japan’ versions of Nightrider and Child of Fire are huge. I wore out that VHS. Good stuff, Leon. You had the appropriate amount of delayed chorus on your five riffs. Always appreciated!
5:00 for Rage I'm going "The Whisper" and "Surgical Strike" OM I'm going "Spreading The Disease" "The Needle Lies" "Breaking The Silence" Empire I'm going "Empire" "Resistance" "One And Only"
No doubt Queensryche had a huge influence in European Metal from the 90's on, along with Savatage and King Diamond. In saying that, America did not go that road..instead going to punk,alt rock,folk rock and of course Pantera style. A Mistake (debateable on pantera,dime shredded but melodies left the building) that was deliberately pushed by corperate media and certainly caused mass fallout as masses left the train for other genres (country/hiphop). Europe however progressed forward with that Queensryche/Savatage/Dream Theater/King Diamond/Helloween style. I will take that over grunge,emo,screamo and cookiemonster metal any day of the week. lol. coooookkkiiiee caaavemen
I guess my post was TOO long, cos it didn't come up. I just have so much to say about Queensryche that's it's hard to keep it short So I'll try again, and restrain myself. LOVED your video! Musicians give the best analyses of songs because of their knowledge, and in your case, good taste. PLEASE do MORE on Queensryche!! And you must realize there's NO WAY to pick ONE favorite QR song! So here are a few: ANYBODY LISTENING? WALK IN THE SHADOWS TAKE HOLD OF THE FLAME THE THIN LINE JET CITY WOMAN SILENT LUCIDITY BREAKING THE SILENCE THE MISSION EYES OF A STRANGER I DON'T BELIEVE IN LOVE SPREADING THE DISEASE ROADS TO MADNESS SCREAMING IN DIGITAL NM 156 NEUE REGEL ONE MORE TIME REAL WORLD To name a few.... I really enjoyed your comments, and you have a sincere and likable personality. Can't wait for more!
Never actually listened to Queensryche, but i will definitely give it a shot, the riffs sound awesome, and the guitar tone is just making me drool, so awesome
Knew it had to be Queensryche today, after comment in yesterday's Q&A. Lots of anticipation looking forward to this video...and boy did you deliver! :) Another vote here for a dedicated video to just those amazing clean parts. It's two fold: those pristine shimmering clean sounds, but also those chord arrangements. Would love a video on this!
I never realized Queensryche was Prog Metal. I grew up here in the Seattle area and in the era as well though I never saw them live. Back in the '80s we just considered them to be a heavy metal band and we didn't have as many sub-genre titles yet. I especially loved Empire though I was aware of them from the Operation Mindcrime days.
I think prog metal is one of those retrospective terms used TBH - once you had every other band being "heavy metal" you needed sub-genres like thrash/speed/power/prog.
Thank you for doing this vid! Queensryche does not get the hype it deserves! I know it’s not the most referenced, but something about the way the vocals harmonize with the guitars in “Breaking the Silence” just kills me every time.
You had me with the admission to be a Queensryche influeced Guitar Player. Walk in the Shadows sealed the Like Button and the comment. It shows how great de Garmo-Queensryche were with all the love on the reaction channels they are getting. Good job, Leon. PS: And playing this lovely Hamer, you want me to like you hard, man.
I feel lucky to have seen them on the Mindcrime tour with the full stage production. One of the greatest concerts I’ve ever been to. Just a shockingly good show both in sound and spectacle.
I had never heard of Queensryche until a bass player friend took me to a show right as Operation Mindcrime was released. It was a mid-sized club show, only partly full, and they were absolutely phenomenal - one of the best 3 shows I've ever seen. I knew none of their songs, but from about 30 seconds into the set I was completely dumbstruck - didn't move an inch. When they finally let up, I realized I was holding the same beer that I bought when we came in, still full and warm. Thinking about their sound and energy still gives me chills - they were THAT good. The next day I started learning their material.....
They've been a massive influence on me. Both as a writer and guitarist, and as a singer. Eyes of a Stranger is probably my favorite or one of them. Geoff's voice is so unique to me in his style, tone and accent. I can hit the notes, but that uniqueness of his voice is something that can't be duplicated. When I was younger and did covers, I always tried to get my voice as much like the singers as possible. That's easier with some, as a singer has his own natural voice that you just can't stop from being there. Which is why now, if I were to do a cover, I would do my own version of it. I never considered them progessive as much as others though since they stay in 4/4 so much. I have always seen them as Cinematic Hard Rock. And original in their way.
"Empire" gets a lot of flak from rock/metal/Queensryche fans... but it's So. Stinkin'. Great. From top to bottom, a brilliant example of "greater than the sum of its parts." It makes me happy to hear your love for the album, yo...
First thing that comes to mind was Silent Lucidity. Enjoyed a lot of ballads during those years but really pursued contemporary jazz, fusion, and yes...classical music!
I appreciate the visual distraction on the Hamer guitar, the dance ball end of the high E string (Please cut that off, please). But heck yeah!!! I’m a huge Queensrÿche fan!!! I love and miss Chris DeGarmo. Nice job LT 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
That run from their debut EP to Empire is near perfection. I started listening to them when The Warning was released, one of the rock stations in Columbus, OH had "Take Hold Of The Flame" in their rotation. When I heard they were opening for Kiss on their Animalize tour I begged my mom to go...and I did. I saw them next on the Rage For Order tour opening for Ratt in Jackson, MS.
QR is one of the best bands in history, I believe. I've seen them in concert many times, and every show is incredible. It's sad they broke up, I'll never understand the pettiness of fabulously successful musical bands. Most bands would feel success if they had 1 good album. Be that as it may, all of QR's music is good to great but Mindcrime and Empire are legendary albums, and QR probably has several other good and great albums. They really are incredible.
I bought the EP when it first came out,and was hooked…”Lady wore Black”was amazing….I actually saw them live on the Rage for Order tour….One of the best bands from that decade for sure…Chris DeGarmo was an amazing songwriter and player…Awesome band,huge influence on me…they don’t make ‘em like that anymore…
Oh man I was in their fan club and had the Promise Land CD-ROM game. Yes they made a Myst-ish game at one point. :) They were *awesome* to see live too.
One of the very few times I got into a band from the getgo was Queensrÿche...the glory days of university! I cannot listen to "...Mindcrime" unless it's start to finish, which isn't hard. It's like a great movie waiting for all the bits to turn up and before you know it it's over...such a ride. I don't know the truth of this but I was in a band while at university, and we got to know the local PA guys, and they always used "Empire" as the starting point to EQ everything...the claim being it was that well produced. Like I said, don't know if it's true but it was always a great time hearing that album through a 40,000 watt PA system in one of the university venues👍
Such an awesome band! It's sad that we'll never get to experience the classic Queensryche again, but I think it's great that the band, in it's current form, is releasing enjoyable music again after all those miserable years at the tail end of the Tate era. Maybe they should have pulled the plug on Queensryche right after the split with Geoff - or they could have carried on as Rising West - but I've always tried to be positive about the new Queensryche, and so far I think it's worked out pretty well, even though it clearly sounds and feels a bit different now. I do wish we would see mr Rockenfield back again, but realistically that's probably never going to happen.
Yes -people have only positive words for Todd La Tore and I feel the same.The band is maybe not in their heyday,but they are going onward and thats for every respect.
@@LeonTodd Yes, Todd sure brought back the fire that had been missing from the vocals for over a decade. Geoff had just stopped caring, and it showed. In all fairness I think Geoff has improved since then. He seems to treat the classic Queensryche material with a bit more respect while performing with his new band. He might not hit all the high notes (or even try to), but at least he seems to take it seriously again.
Yessss. Cool. What a great band and great video. I read an article that Micheal Wilton now uses a modeler instead of amps touring which makes so much sense. I used to have a neck thru ESP from Japan that had the crossed swords. I think I sold that or traded it for a Kramer Stagemaster.
One of my favorite songs is "Best I Can" off Empire. I remember the first time I heard "Queen of the Reich" , I had never heard anyone sing like that. For Geoff Tate vocal " Someone Else " with just piano is one of my favorites.
The EP will always have a special place for me. I remember picking it up on tape in a Seattle record store when it first came out because I liked the album art and the band name. (Seriously, that's kinda how you had to shop for metal bands in the 80s!)
I just want to say thanks for this great video,you really put your heart and soul into it.100% agreed on everything you said-Queensryche was one of the most agile band of their time.Just one more thing-"Promised land' is also very convincing record(yet so dark) and different than their previous work,but I like it just as much maybe even more.'Promised land" and 'Hear now in the new frontier' came at point in time when musical landscape was radically changing and it was not easy for bands of heavy orientation.
I still have the first print of Empire Album Vinyl, I bought without knowing anything about the band, just out of the reviews of the, by then, printed rock magazines. It blew my mind and while many people still think OM is their peak, for me it is Empire. it was DeGarmo''s album,, it is a piece of art in itself and that jet City Woman track is indeed my favourite, and its solo, one of my favourite solos of all time with such an amazing musicality.
Queensrÿche is another of my top 5 favorite bands. I am a fan since "Rage for Order" All albums including "Promised Land" are amazing; after that they lost their greatness, IMHO.
Amen! Queensryche are amazing. I saw them open for Iron Maiden in NYC at Radio City, Chris DeGarmo back pedalling across the stage while playing the solo to “The Lady Wore Black”. And I saw them open for Metallica during the Mindcrime era.
Oh man, yes... It's so big... I juste came across your video, and yes : Operation Mindcrime... Empire... and above all of course : Rage for Order ! Oh boy, I love music, it is my job, and all my life, but this album... There is in it something, an atmosphere, that I have never seen elsewhere... Thanks for the wink
saw them on their first tour at the Aladdin hotel casino in Vegas open up for kiss absolutely blew them off stage next time I saw Them Bayfront Center, Saint Pete Florida rage for order tour opening up for Ozzie ultimate sin with Jake Lee on guitar I've seen everyone over the years including Bon Scott and Randy Rhodes both tours with Ozzie from Nazareth to humble pie to iron maiden to Judas Priest to Dio with all guitarist queen Ozzie show at the bayfront Center was one of the top three the quality of sound was extraordinary opened up with the song Neue Regel that was absolutely killer to open up with so bad ass with the Garmo and Michael Wilton that was one hell of a show
Got into QR at The Warning.... early adaptor... Lost track after DeGarmo left the band, the magic was gone 😞 But still exited to hear their early work!!
My number one band. I have a tattoo of their dagger. All five of them I consider master musicians and Tate can break glass or used to be able to. Halford can’t say enough praises for them
Great video. "The Mission" is truly deserving of the overused word epic. For free hypnosis, watch the string ball that is dangling and spinning under the Hamer head stock. PS "I don't believe in love" but do in those inimitable clean tones.
Queensryche you picked a fantastic band there. First time I saw them 1984 the warning opening for Kiss animalize. Queenryche very odd chords that sound fantastic. I saw them last year but not the same with a different line up! Thanks for the video
Way cool HAMER USA Californian (Elite or Custom?)!!! Boomerangs baby! Dig Queensryche since before they were Queensryche. Good to see a pro playing the same methods I have used as an old hairless hesher and hack. BTW I am "hamernut" on the evilBay.
Favorite Queensryche song??? That's impossible. First song I ever heard was Lady Wore Black, which I love. But Queen of the Reich is there and Take Hold of the Flame. Really can't pin down a single song. Awesome catalog.
Empire was too MTV-friendly imo, it was not bad, but it wasn't great, like previous albums. Often bands have several great albums, then they get a breakthrough and the next album is much weaker and they never recover from it. Fame and money ruin the best of bands.
Rage for Order made me a fan. Love all the DeGarmo age music. Their stuff without Chris is good, but to me is missing something. Miss Scott in their newer stuff. Michael and Eddie still kick it. Geoff was amazing, Todd does a good job.
My favorite tracks are Screaming in Digital, Resistance and Spreading the Disease. FWIW, Queensryche almost singlehandedly made the BBE Sonic Maximizer standard equipment for guitar racks back in the 80's. It's a hallmark of their guitar sounds.
What's your favourite Queensryche song?
i only have favorite albums from queensryche.
Operation Mindcrime! Such a simple riff, yet so effective. And I looooove the solo! 🤟
After I left my other general comment, I couldn't resist putting a vote in for "Jet City Woman." You nailed it brother! God bless and rock on 🎸😎👍
Great video! I love all of their songs. Della Brown and Suite Sister Mary are two that if they come up in my playlist I'll often repeat. Keep Rocking
Suite Sister Mary is epic! Screaming in digital too. So many great songs from that classic line up. Thanks for showing some love to an overlooked band!
Operation Mindcrime is a masterpiece that I think deserves more attention from mainstream metal fans.
and the writing to complete the journey from beginning to end
absolutely
It's a 10/10 album.
I think Promised Land is their magnum opus though. Often overlooked, but absolutely their best work.
They've had 6 10/10 albums. No other band can boast about that
oh, I think metal fans are well aware. It is one of those albums that the REST of the world MUST listen to...and put their damn phones down for a couple hours too. ❤
I always thought of it as the metal version of Pink Floyd's "The Wall".
Yes, the arpeggios of QR made me fall in love with their music. Absolutely LOVED this band up until Chris walked away. I was so fortunate to get to see them during their Empire Tour, in which they performed Operation Mindcrime in its entirety! The greatest concert of my lifetime!
I agree and believe in all the shows I've been to the "EMPIRE" show will forever be my number 1
Everything about it was magic and I've never enjoyed a concert more despite almost getting into a fight with a drunk Suicidal Tendencies fan before they played. The MINDCRIME part just pushed it over the top "FANTASTIC" did Geoff Tate do the jumping off the stage and disappearing thing at the end of the show when you saw them? Very dramatic ending to an incredible night of music!!
Chris Degarmo era Queensryche is and will always be my favorite prog rock/metal music ever written! I was so fortunate to see them live for the first time on the Operation Mindcrime tour...
We definitely need a "5 Killer Clean Riffs" for Queensryche too! And a 5 minute tones for them while you're at it!
Yes yes yes please! Loved to see you celebrating the bottled lightning that was Chris DeGarmo era Queensryche!
DeGarmo and Wilton were simply epic masters of tone and texture. And that Hamer of yours along with your playing really does them justice.
RFO is from another space and time. That album sounds like nothing before or after it. Everything about that album just transcends what was being done at that time. Definitely my favourite QR album.
"The Mission" is one of Queensryche's best tracks. The solo is brilliant. I feel like Dream Theater really "borrowed" a lot from this song when composing "Pull Me Under"
Yeah. The 12 string intro on that song got me hooked on 12 strings. Although i dont really feel like pull me under is a rip off of it. I like them both but they have such radically different compositions that outside of the solo being kind of similar they really aren't alike.
Yes dude. The main riff is so freakin good. The way that bass crunch drives the main riff into your soul is something to behold. And like you said, such a well put together solo. One of my favorites for sure.
Bass intro to Disconnected on Promised land is killer. Also love the intense psycho drama of Screaming in Digital on Rage For Order, there's nothing out there quite like it.
Operation Mindcrime and Empire have to be two of the best produced albums of all time.
I like the production on Rage For Order too, that drum sound is so raw and epic. Stands out for being really acoustic and natural, in an era when a lot of albums were using drum samples on Rock and Metal but never mentioning this in the credits, for fear of damaging the bands image.
Outstanding albums, both of them.
One more short comment.
I love how QR marries the music to the lyrics! The music supports the lyrical idea and enhances it.
In THE MISSION I loved how the music BELIED the lyrics when Geoff sings:. My mission saved the world, and I stood proud...". During that part Nikki is trying to convince himself that what he's doing is still a good thing, but he's starting to doubt it. The WORDS are expressing triumph and pride, but the music on that part sounds remorseful and anguished. Whether by design or subconsciously, it's BRILLIANT!
NM 156! Not everyone's favorite probably because of the off sounding twin sounding guitar tone. That's my pick from out of the Normal favorites like queen of the ryche... seen them from infancy on the 1st album when they were handing out actual newspaper type programs AND I stil have my original Warning shirt when they opened for Kiss... yea I'm that old... 😅
Yeah it's total cyberpunk tone!
I also love Promised Land, an album that kind of gets overlooked, but there are some killer tracks on that album
Same here. "Someone Else" is one of my favourite songs EVER.
@@LeonTodd
Stunning vocal from Geoff
That’s 90’s Queensryche: I love it, songwriting got even more varied and mature, and production is raw 90’s sound probably influenced by the grunge scene in Seattle. It just speaks to my since I grew up with 90’s music, so that and Empire are my all time favourites. Mindcrime is a close second.
Great album...ill go with Lady Jane
Apart from Bridge and My Global Mind, it has aged wonderfully
They were such an incredible band. Rage For Order was so far ahead of its time no one has caught up yet.
I LOVE Queensryche! I was lucky enough to see them live with the new singer. I thought it wouldn’t be good without Geoff, but boy I was wrong. They were flawless…and the mix was perfect . I bought there EP also. And enjoyed how they have evolved through the years. Walking in the Shadows is one of my favs. Just an incredible band.
I saw them recently too and was stunned. It was amazing
The very first time Ragdoll toured the states we played a festival with them that turned out to be Geoff's last gig with them. Weird vibe. Played the same festival a few years later with them and Todd was UNREAL on lead vox.
@@LeonTodd Have you listened to their last album, The Verdict? Sound just like the good old QR again. Todd is perfect for the band.
Queensrycs Empire is my favorite album also! You play it perfectly! Wow! 😎👍
What’s interesting is, like yourself, I was introduced to Queensryche with Operation Mindcrime. There just is no way of describing the first time I heard the intro to Eyes of a Stranger. The way they use arpeggiated chords with distortion. For me, they were the first band that made distortion beautiful.
My top 5:
Walk in the Shadows
Revolution Calling
The Mission
Della Brown
Anybody Listening?
One extra off of Promised Land:
One More Time
Loved this. Grew up when Queensryche was starting out. First hearing the EP, as you said, it sounded like Seattle's own Iron Maiden. Seeing them live (opening for Kiss on the Warning tour), I couldn't believe two guitar players could play harmonized guitar riffs/solos so well. On Walk in the Shadows, I love the little harmonized parts during the verse - after each vocal. The intervals they came up with were nuts.
Man, I couldn't click on this video fast enough when I saw Queensryche, plus Leon??? Hellya. 🔥
The Mission is my favourite song on Mindcrime, although my favourite Mindcrime riff to play is the opening riff to 'I Don't Believe in Love
Hahaha I might be right there with you!
Love that you did this! And yes a Queensryche clean arpeggiated chords video would be great. You certainly have the gear for it! Also agree on Empire, one of my favorite albums ever, with Della Brown at the top of that list.
Della Brown is a masterpiece!
dude, your selections were SPOT on!!!
Thankyou!
Favorite guitar moment: The trade-off solos in "Walk In The Shadows", favorite song (it's actually 4 in a row... and I think they should be played together every single time hahaha) "I Don't Believe In Love / Waiting For 22 / My Empty Room / Eyes Of A Stranger"........... this band still gets my blood pumping after all of these years. I love them (minus the large group of bad albums they released). I just saw them 2 weeks ago and they played a near dream setlist. Was an incredible show - even with the absence of DeGarmo and Rockenfield. Todd really brings his A game vocally.
The ‘Live in Japan’ versions of Nightrider and Child of Fire are huge. I wore out that VHS. Good stuff, Leon. You had the appropriate amount of delayed chorus on your five riffs. Always appreciated!
5:00 for Rage I'm going "The Whisper" and "Surgical Strike" OM I'm going "Spreading The Disease" "The Needle Lies" "Breaking The Silence"
Empire I'm going "Empire" "Resistance" "One And Only"
No doubt Queensryche had a huge influence in European Metal from the 90's on, along with Savatage and King Diamond. In saying that, America did not go that road..instead going to punk,alt rock,folk rock and of course Pantera style. A Mistake (debateable on pantera,dime shredded but melodies left the building) that was deliberately pushed by corperate media and certainly caused mass fallout as masses left the train for other genres (country/hiphop). Europe however progressed forward with that Queensryche/Savatage/Dream Theater/King Diamond/Helloween style. I will take that over grunge,emo,screamo and cookiemonster metal any day of the week. lol. coooookkkiiiee caaavemen
Ha, when I started this up I said "Man, he better not miss having Jet City Woman on there" . Low and behold :)
One of my Favourite bands period !!!! awesome Leon .
I guess my post was TOO long, cos it didn't come up. I just have so much to say about Queensryche that's it's hard to keep it short So I'll try again, and restrain myself.
LOVED your video! Musicians give the best analyses of songs because of their knowledge, and in your case, good taste. PLEASE do MORE on Queensryche!! And you must realize there's NO WAY to pick ONE favorite QR song! So here are a few:
ANYBODY LISTENING?
WALK IN THE SHADOWS
TAKE HOLD OF THE FLAME
THE THIN LINE
JET CITY WOMAN
SILENT LUCIDITY
BREAKING THE SILENCE
THE MISSION
EYES OF A STRANGER
I DON'T BELIEVE IN LOVE
SPREADING THE DISEASE
ROADS TO MADNESS
SCREAMING IN DIGITAL
NM 156
NEUE REGEL
ONE MORE TIME
REAL WORLD
To name a few....
I really enjoyed your comments, and you have a sincere and likable personality. Can't wait for more!
Never actually listened to Queensryche, but i will definitely give it a shot, the riffs sound awesome, and the guitar tone is just making me drool, so awesome
Knew it had to be Queensryche today, after comment in yesterday's Q&A. Lots of anticipation looking forward to this video...and boy did you deliver! :) Another vote here for a dedicated video to just those amazing clean parts. It's two fold: those pristine shimmering clean sounds, but also those chord arrangements. Would love a video on this!
I never realized Queensryche was Prog Metal. I grew up here in the Seattle area and in the era as well though I never saw them live. Back in the '80s we just considered them to be a heavy metal band and we didn't have as many sub-genre titles yet. I especially loved Empire though I was aware of them from the Operation Mindcrime days.
I think prog metal is one of those retrospective terms used TBH - once you had every other band being "heavy metal" you needed sub-genres like thrash/speed/power/prog.
I kill for a video like this with JUST Op Mindcrime riffs.
Great Leon, sound amazing ... Regards from Spain/Italy
About time you did some Ryche. Heck yeah.
Thank you for doing this vid! Queensryche does not get the hype it deserves! I know it’s not the most referenced, but something about the way the vocals harmonize with the guitars in “Breaking the Silence” just kills me every time.
You had me with the admission to be a Queensryche influeced Guitar Player. Walk in the Shadows sealed the Like Button and the comment. It shows how great de Garmo-Queensryche were with all the love on the reaction channels they are getting. Good job, Leon. PS: And playing this lovely Hamer, you want me to like you hard, man.
I feel lucky to have seen them on the Mindcrime tour with the full stage production. One of the greatest concerts I’ve ever been to. Just a shockingly good show both in sound and spectacle.
That would have been amazing. I've watched the Livecrime DVD quite a lot over the years
I had never heard of Queensryche until a bass player friend took me to a show right as Operation Mindcrime was released. It was a mid-sized club show, only partly full, and they were absolutely phenomenal - one of the best 3 shows I've ever seen. I knew none of their songs, but from about 30 seconds into the set I was completely dumbstruck - didn't move an inch. When they finally let up, I realized I was holding the same beer that I bought when we came in, still full and warm. Thinking about their sound and energy still gives me chills - they were THAT good. The next day I started learning their material.....
They've been a massive influence on me. Both as a writer and guitarist, and as a singer. Eyes of a Stranger is probably my favorite or one of them. Geoff's voice is so unique to me in his style, tone and accent. I can hit the notes, but that uniqueness of his voice is something that can't be duplicated. When I was younger and did covers, I always tried to get my voice as much like the singers as possible. That's easier with some, as a singer has his own natural voice that you just can't stop from being there. Which is why now, if I were to do a cover, I would do my own version of it. I never considered them progessive as much as others though since they stay in 4/4 so much. I have always seen them as Cinematic Hard Rock. And original in their way.
No doubt, the bass on Empire's Della Brown is one of my favorites. ruclips.net/video/MErpmlHZXy4/видео.html
Love that tune!
"Empire" gets a lot of flak from rock/metal/Queensryche fans... but it's So. Stinkin'. Great. From top to bottom, a brilliant example of "greater than the sum of its parts." It makes me happy to hear your love for the album, yo...
Empire is on another level IMO
think you said it all
I need to listen to Queensrÿche
First thing that comes to mind was Silent Lucidity. Enjoyed a lot of ballads during those years but really pursued contemporary jazz, fusion, and yes...classical music!
cheers fellow 'Ryche nerds. :) thanks leon. always love to hear me some 'ryche.
I appreciate the visual distraction on the Hamer guitar, the dance ball end of the high E string (Please cut that off, please).
But heck yeah!!! I’m a huge Queensrÿche fan!!! I love and miss Chris DeGarmo.
Nice job LT 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Absolutely love this!
Anyone else spend the entire video trying to figure out why the ball-end of the string was hanging off the tuner?
My absolute pleasure!
The Whisper, I don't believe in love two of my favorites
That run from their debut EP to Empire is near perfection. I started listening to them when The Warning was released, one of the rock stations in Columbus, OH had "Take Hold Of The Flame" in their rotation. When I heard they were opening for Kiss on their Animalize tour I begged my mom to go...and I did. I saw them next on the Rage For Order tour opening for Ratt in Jackson, MS.
QR is one of the best bands in history, I believe. I've seen them in concert many times, and every show is incredible. It's sad they broke up, I'll never understand the pettiness of fabulously successful musical bands. Most bands would feel success if they had 1 good album. Be that as it may, all of QR's music is good to great but Mindcrime and Empire are legendary albums, and QR probably has several other good and great albums. They really are incredible.
Operation Mindcrime is when metal got great again for me after the hair metal lull. Saw them open for Metaĺlica's AJFA tour and blew me away.
I bought the EP when it first came out,and was hooked…”Lady wore Black”was amazing….I actually saw them live on the Rage for Order tour….One of the best bands from that decade for sure…Chris DeGarmo was an amazing songwriter and player…Awesome band,huge influence on me…they don’t make ‘em like that anymore…
Oh man I was in their fan club and had the Promise Land CD-ROM game. Yes they made a Myst-ish game at one point. :) They were *awesome* to see live too.
WHAT!!!!!
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Yep. I still have mine.
Great !
One of the very few times I got into a band from the getgo was Queensrÿche...the glory days of university! I cannot listen to "...Mindcrime" unless it's start to finish, which isn't hard. It's like a great movie waiting for all the bits to turn up and before you know it it's over...such a ride. I don't know the truth of this but I was in a band while at university, and we got to know the local PA guys, and they always used "Empire" as the starting point to EQ everything...the claim being it was that well produced. Like I said, don't know if it's true but it was always a great time hearing that album through a 40,000 watt PA system in one of the university venues👍
Leon:
**Plays Take Hold of the Flame**
Ryan:
***starts sweating***
Such an awesome band! It's sad that we'll never get to experience the classic Queensryche again, but I think it's great that the band, in it's current form, is releasing enjoyable music again after all those miserable years at the tail end of the Tate era. Maybe they should have pulled the plug on Queensryche right after the split with Geoff - or they could have carried on as Rising West - but I've always tried to be positive about the new Queensryche, and so far I think it's worked out pretty well, even though it clearly sounds and feels a bit different now. I do wish we would see mr Rockenfield back again, but realistically that's probably never going to happen.
We played a festival with them a few years ago and Todd was amazing on vocals, such a powerhouse
Yes -people have only positive words for Todd La Tore and I feel the same.The band is maybe not in their heyday,but they are going onward and thats for every respect.
@@LeonTodd Yes, Todd sure brought back the fire that had been missing from the vocals for over a decade. Geoff had just stopped caring, and it showed. In all fairness I think Geoff has improved since then. He seems to treat the classic Queensryche material with a bit more respect while performing with his new band. He might not hit all the high notes (or even try to), but at least he seems to take it seriously again.
Yessss. Cool. What a great band and great video.
I read an article that Micheal Wilton now uses a modeler instead of amps touring which makes so much sense.
I used to have a neck thru ESP from Japan that had the crossed swords. I think I sold that or traded it for a Kramer Stagemaster.
Great guitar duo!
last i heard they were using Kempers live
@@johnf6288 Yeah. He's using the floor model I think, but I may be wrong.
One of my favorite songs is "Best I Can" off Empire. I remember the first time I heard "Queen of the Reich" , I had never heard anyone sing like that. For Geoff Tate vocal " Someone Else " with just piano is one of my favorites.
The Mission.
The EP will always have a special place for me. I remember picking it up on tape in a Seattle record store when it first came out because I liked the album art and the band name. (Seriously, that's kinda how you had to shop for metal bands in the 80s!)
My favorite band. The original lineup. And before hear in the now frontier.
Nice and all, but I can’t unseen that giggling high e-string :-(
I just want to say thanks for this great video,you really put your heart and soul into it.100% agreed on everything you said-Queensryche was one of the most agile band of their time.Just one more thing-"Promised land' is also very convincing record(yet so dark) and different than their previous work,but I like it just as much maybe even more.'Promised land" and 'Hear now in the new frontier' came at point in time when musical landscape was radically changing and it was not easy for bands of heavy orientation.
I still have the first print of Empire Album Vinyl, I bought without knowing anything about the band, just out of the reviews of the, by then, printed rock magazines. It blew my mind and while many people still think OM is their peak, for me it is Empire. it was DeGarmo''s album,, it is a piece of art in itself and that jet City Woman track is indeed my favourite, and its solo, one of my favourite solos of all time with such an amazing musicality.
I think the happiest I've ever seen an audience was when Geoff's solo band played *that* riff from The Needle Lies. 🤯🤘
My favorite SOLO from Chris DeGarmo has got to be in Breaking The Silence !!! It RIPS!!!!!!
Queensrÿche is another of my top 5 favorite bands. I am a fan since "Rage for Order" All albums including "Promised Land" are amazing; after that they lost their greatness, IMHO.
Exactly what you said... that's how I discovered Queensrÿche as well. My Favorite band... all time.
Amen! Queensryche are amazing. I saw them open for Iron Maiden in NYC at Radio City, Chris DeGarmo back pedalling across the stage while playing the solo to “The Lady Wore Black”. And I saw them open for Metallica during the Mindcrime era.
Far out that would have been incredible to see.
Oh man, yes... It's so big...
I juste came across your video, and yes : Operation Mindcrime... Empire... and above all of course : Rage for Order !
Oh boy, I love music, it is my job, and all my life, but this album... There is in it something, an atmosphere, that I have never seen elsewhere...
Thanks for the wink
I always thought Geoff sounded like a more technically powerful Bruce Dickinson!
saw them on their first tour at the Aladdin hotel casino in Vegas open up for kiss absolutely blew them off stage next time I saw Them Bayfront Center, Saint Pete Florida rage for order tour opening up for Ozzie ultimate sin with Jake Lee on guitar I've seen everyone over the years including Bon Scott and Randy Rhodes both tours with Ozzie from Nazareth to humble pie to iron maiden to Judas Priest to Dio with all guitarist queen Ozzie show at the bayfront Center was one of the top three the quality of sound was extraordinary opened up with the song Neue Regel that was absolutely killer to open up with so bad ass with the Garmo and Michael Wilton that was one hell of a show
I've been a QR fan since 1984 good to see they have younger fans!!
Yea yea great video and all, could you PLEASE CUT THE LITTLE HANGING E STRING?
Its killing me 😂
Got into QR at The Warning.... early adaptor...
Lost track after DeGarmo left the band, the magic was gone 😞
But still exited to hear their early work!!
My favorite band for the last 30 years !!!!!!!
In fact, I'll be seeing them tomorrow in Orlando, FL ! They're 1st DNA Tour show to kick off their tour !
Awesome unexpected choice but “the mission,”,probably my favorite song!
Operation Mindcrime, Empire, Walk in the shadows……..🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
My number one band. I have a tattoo of their dagger. All five of them I consider master musicians and Tate can break glass or used to be able to. Halford can’t say enough praises for them
Great video. "The Mission" is truly deserving of the overused word epic. For free hypnosis, watch the string ball that is dangling and spinning under the Hamer head stock. PS "I don't believe in love" but do in those inimitable clean tones.
Queensryche you picked a fantastic band there. First time I saw them 1984 the warning opening for Kiss animalize. Queenryche very odd chords that sound fantastic. I saw them last year but not the same with a different line up! Thanks for the video
Empire was the Ryche favorite album on the US west coast
Way cool HAMER USA Californian (Elite or Custom?)!!! Boomerangs baby! Dig Queensryche since before they were Queensryche. Good to see a pro playing the same methods I have used as an old hairless hesher and hack. BTW I am "hamernut" on the evilBay.
Favorite Queensryche song??? That's impossible. First song I ever heard was Lady Wore Black, which I love. But Queen of the Reich is there and Take Hold of the Flame. Really can't pin down a single song. Awesome catalog.
Empire was too MTV-friendly imo, it was not bad, but it wasn't great, like previous albums. Often bands have several great albums, then they get a breakthrough and the next album is much weaker and they never recover from it. Fame and money ruin the best of bands.
Rage for Order made me a fan. Love all the DeGarmo age music. Their stuff without Chris is good, but to me is missing something. Miss Scott in their newer stuff. Michael and Eddie still kick it. Geoff was amazing, Todd does a good job.
Tough choices on Rage. Probably would go with Neue Regal.
This video is a treasure for people to understand the glory of the bands best years...
My favorite tracks are Screaming in Digital, Resistance and Spreading the Disease. FWIW, Queensryche almost singlehandedly made the BBE Sonic Maximizer standard equipment for guitar racks back in the 80's. It's a hallmark of their guitar sounds.
Queensrycye is a amazing band based riffs on Ratt,Dokken
You sound great.My friend.I like your videos qr is awesome
This video made me so very happy! I have to be careful, when writing, not to outright, steal their stuff. So great!
So many... I don't believe in love, Another Rainy Night, etc. etc
I'm impressed man for your lics that almost sounds like original..
One of my favorite bands and one of the best rock bands ever imo. Well done Leon 👏
Ah, yeah, Walk in the Shadows had to be there, that kind of interplay in the beginning of the song is so prevalent in their sound.