I love Queensryche. I was there. Sorry to say it was not us, we did not have to work tomorrow, Monday was a holiday. They acted like they were the only band playing, and everyone (like me) knows all the words to their songs. So no, Queensryche you sucked on Sunday, not the people. They owe you nothing, and that is what you gave them.
"It doesn't get any better than this." I'd probably lose my joy of living, if I heard that on the gig of a band that hasn't EXACTLY been at its best for the last two decades.
I met him at a meet & greet in at a concert in 2001 when the band was opening for Iron Maiden and he was an asshole in almost every conceivable way. While Bruce Dickinson and Rob Halford took the time to speak with fans sign autographs and were actually really polite and personable Geoff Tate was rude pushy and seemed to be more interested in getting back to the hotel than interacting with the fans. He came across like Axl Rose to me and quite honestly that's not a good thing.
Same here. At a Rage for Order meet and greet. All I had was a cassette cover of The Warning for them to sign. DeGarmo, Wilton, Fast Eddie were all really really cool and took pics with me. (Scott wasn’t there) But Tate was like “The Warning??”. I guess he was mad cuz I didn’t have their new album yet. So he signed it but it was just a reluctant scribble. He looked like he despised everyone there.
I had meet and greet tickets through a local radio station. Snubbed by everyone in the band except for Michael. Geoff was in a roped off area drinking wine and didn't speak to a single fan.
This is bull. A true great frontman would yank emotions out of the crowd more cunningly. This just killed the mood. And yeah: the seats killed the mood too.
This clip reminds me of when David Lee Roth interviewed Edward Van Halen. Both of them agreed: "Its not the audience's job to pump up the artist." If the artist is doing the job they'll get that feedback, but it's not the responsibility of the audience to pump up the artist. It was an interesting take especially when you look at this clip.
Which is probably why he sings with Crimson Glory and covers an even higher register than Tate in that band and yet he hasn't blown out his voice. He has been doing that for a few years now. I don't think so,give The Ryche a chance the recent show in Corpus Cristi was incredible as well as the half way jam. Todd knows how to walk the talk.
The rest of the members of Queensryche just started up a new band called Rising West and have a singer out of Florida named Todd La Torre who has a set of pipes on him....they have two upcoming shows in Seattle on June 8th and 9th at the Hard Rock Cafe....if you live in that area....I suggest you all go...it is going to be an epic show to the sounds of it!!!!!
As a person who was at this show and a native okie, I have to say in our defense, the reason the crowd sucked was because Queensryche sounded horrible, played mediocre and had no energy to bring to the stage. Because of this everyone left and watched HellYeah at the other stage which was a fucking barn-burner of a show.
Reason for this was because Tate had previously spat on the guitar player , knocked the drums down before the show and spat on the drummer. He's a goof.
I was there. And the only defense that I would give him is THE FUCKING WAY THE SEATING IS ARRANGED AT ROCKLAHOMA! They should get rid of the seating and let everybody roam free, like a real festival
"This is all there is. This is your chance." Imagine the arrogance of a man who believes that the pinnacle of someone's life is their participation in one of his "on the downside of my career" shows. Insane.
Jesus. It looked like there were 300 people watching them. How depressing. But what in the hell would Tate expect playing ROCKLAHOMA? A total nostalgia festival with washed up bands and hillbilly fans.
I remember a singer telling me the golden rule...you never ever put down or say anything negative to the people who just paid to see you perform, dealt with traffic, parking, ticket fees, etc...and are the only reason why you're up on stage making money from them. You can encourage them, but never say anything to put them down...not even joking. At least he didn't spit on them.
Geoff's ego has grown over the years. He'll never have the rock star status he had back in the day. I saw them back in the Operation: Mindcrime days and they were fantastic. I think "Empire" was the last great album from them.
At the same show there was one guy in particular in the crowd who was acting like an idiot and the guy threw something onto the stage. Lemmy was so cool, he said something like "You think you're tough? Get up here and I'll fight you!" This was at the Tampa Fairgrounds in the late 80's. Slayer was on their South Of Heaven tour.
I was in the crowd in the pit at the very front row. You couldn't even hear him down there. Everyone the entire time was yelling at him to turn his mic up and that they couldn't hear him. He didn't mention it or even acknowledge us.
Probably true on Blaze, I guess one thing he did for Maiden was give them a connection with some new and younger fans, which in turn has given them a massive new fan base. Of course all of us who grew up with Maiden are still going strong too! Good on 'em, they just keep on getting better and better! I really hoped that Queensryche would be able to move forward with the same kind of power, I know they could do it, but sometimes greatness falls apart too...sometimes it rediscovers itself.
This reminds me of the Van Halen Interview they did recently when Dave is talking to Eddie and Alex. When discussing their interactions with the audience, both Eddie and Dave agreed it's their job to get the audience into it, never the other way around. Tate must have missed that clip. LOL.
lmfao!! I'm SO glad someone got this recorded! When I first heard people going crazy about Geoff apparently telling a crowd "you suck!" I admit I was a little concerned. This proves it's just people overreacting and fuel for the Tate haters. As a frontman, you work a crowd. It was crowd banter is all. He didn't mean it in any form of malicious way.
To be fair Geoff, those folk were waiting patiently on the puppet show 1:10 Although it's quite funny how similar this is to the Jazz Odyssey scene in Spinal Tap, it is genuinely sad to see how far these guys have fallen. It's popular to blame Tate, but I blame the rest of the band members as well for letting it come to this.
Maybe he was right, this is it. Every moment is unique. When you see your heroes, go rockin and enjoy it. It´s all about mindfullness. "The problem is, you think you've got time
i haven't bought a QR album since promised land (and i thought that sucked as well) & from what ive heard (at least on mindcrime 2) their latest stuff sucks just as much, but i have to admit: i lol'ed when he said "you guys suck!" so casually. its the look on his face & the way he says it.........its hilarious!
The Mission is my favorite song off of Mindcrime. I recorded a live version of it on my channel from 2015, I think. DeGarmo is an awesome guitarist but Wilton still has that signature Queensryche sound.
That's because he is 100% correct. He was NOT the only person to say something about the people there at that show. I heard Rob Zombie said something as well. People nowadays at shows don't come to rock out. They come to just stand there and film it with their cell phones. Then post it on RUclips. That is today's concert goers.... You know it to be true as we all see it show after show.
Sad thing is, he was right. We sucked completely. It was embarassing to have that shown on HDNet and for the world to think that Rocklahoma crowds are that lame. We're usually not...
well, the way he's talking it makes it boring, be a rock and roll guy and get the crowd pumped... call out for some fighting, and rumbling, and for gods sake, encourage a fckn riot
Playing to a dead crowd must suck, no energy, no emotion. It makes that band feel bored, and like the crowd isn't into the music. Geoff was obviously pissed off by it and told the truth. He was trying to get people to be more active, I mean is a rock concert not a opera or orchestra. you don't go to these shows to sit and be quiet. you go there to rock the F**K out! for Geoff to say that so easily and without care, the crowd must have truly been the worst he's seen. That's what it seems like.
As much as I love everything DeGarmo had written and performed with Queensryche, they have written many killer songs after he left...perhaps you have not been listening. Q2K was filled with great music, check "Breakdown" or "The Right Side of My Mind", "Rearrange You" from Mindcrime 2, "Dead Man's Words" "Man Down" from American Soldier", "Retail Therapy" from D2C , as awesome QR songs as anything they've ever done...Eddie's Mack truck bass, Michael's killer guitar work, Scott...Geoff...Wizards!
Geoff is and will always be a true legend, I am disappointed that the rest of the band have taken this way, only a couple of bands have switched singers successfully and created something new (Sabbath with Dio!, Maiden w/Bruce, and Van Halen w/Sammy), they didn't do it by hiring a guy to sing note for note covers of old material which the original singer wrote! I have always loved these guys (Scott is still my absolute favorite drummer of all time!), if you are doing something new...write new!
You missed the best band with an amazing come back. ACDC after bon died and brian came on the scene everyones faces melted after the first time they heard HELLS BELLS.
It wasn't taken out of context. I was there. I love Queensryche but he was rude. They had only played a few songs at that point and they weren't the more known songs. So, of course the crowd wasn't hiped up. That is his job. And he wasn't there a couple years ago. It had to have been a different year because I was there a couple years ago. A lot of the crowd doesn't go for the "older" bands so not everyone knew who they were which is the reality of why he was upset.
I have been a Queensryche fan most of my life growing up in Tacoma. Seen the highs and lows. Having said all of this: Geoff Tate made an asshat comment. But does that make him an asshat? Maybe....Maybe he is a little distraught over been kicked out of the band a week prior. Knowing that this was his last gig. Seeing the rows of empty chairs. It was sad when DeGarmo left. It will be sad when Tate leaves. But I will see Rising West next week at the Hard Rock. Because their music lives on.
Well this was right after he had some words with other guys in the band. That would suck to have to out on stage at that point. Still shouldn't have been a douche.
The thing with Blaze Bailey's time in Iron Maiden was that after Bruce left the sort of lost their identity and were trying to find it. If Blaze had stayed for another album or two they probably would have found their stride again but the hardcore fans and record company didn't want to give them that chance. If they had done Silicone Messiah as an Iron Maiden album it probably would have been a hit.
I heard there were some sound problems during their set and people couldn't hear them very well in some spots. I think this effected audience feedback. I seemed to be in a good spot and loved the show.
Haha my friend Michael went there!! Me and him are talking about it now, and he tells me "haha i remember rob zombie told people to shove their iphones up their asses and enjoy the concert XD funniest moment of the show" I was like LOL then since everyone was recording he said Rob Zombie said " FUCK YOU AND YOUR PHONE!!!!FUCK YOU AND YOUR PHONE!!!! FUCK YOU AND YOUR CAMERA........GET A PHONE! " pointing at people saying tht lol
And you wonder why they kicked him out. If I was playing in front of a crowd that big and the singer did that, I'd kick his ass after the show and THEN boot him out of the band.
Man, it takes one shitty ass crowd to get that kind of speech. Say what you will about Geoff Tate being a jerk, losing his voice, leading the band in weird direction etc., but he's usually appreciative of his live crowd. Saw QR last year and it was nothing but love, even for a fairly small crowd. Sad to see QR falling upon these kinds of times.
That crowd was pathetic. Its a frontman's job to keep the crowd going. I have been at dozens of concerts where the singer has needled the audience to wake them the fuck up. Geoff loves his fans people gotta learn not to be so sensitive.
The "type of people in OK" are EXACTLY the "type of people" that go to concerts across the nation... I'm guessing you've never been to Oklahoma, or Rocklahoma! It's a great time, with GREAT people. Queensryche used to be one of my favorites, however, after their unfortunate performance the reaction they received from the crowd was exactly what they deserved! Apparently the pot insists on calling the kettle black, even in the concert world.
You sit and be quiet if you want to watch the musicians play and really appreciate the music by giving it all of your concentration. If you're running around in a pit, knocking people over, you're not giving the band your full attention so why did you even bother to show up? Sit down so the people behind you can see. They paid good money for their tickets to see the band - not to see you. I remember seeing Lemmy say basically that to some idiots at an Overkill/Motorhead/Slayer show.
I doubt Geoff will ever perform with QR again. Apparently he overheard a meeting between the other band members about firing him and he lost it during a sound check, pulling a knife on Scott and hitting Eddie so hard he fell. Security had to pull him off the stage! QR should have pulled the plug when Chris left.
(I am not sayn QR sucks I usta jam them all the time)But... people do work! he should be glad he has people that will pay to see him play and glad he has been able to play music insted of having a normale job.. my band has played shows at clubs that everyone was sitting also some wher everyone was up and moshing I NEVER NEVER blame the people if it is a bad night well shit happens lol its best to move on and dont be a cry baby
We were in the pit and honestly... you couldn't hear a word Geoff sang! We tried to yell out to him between every song and tell them to turn up the vocals. It was impossible to get into the songs with no vocals being heard at all. Oh well... It may have been a great performance, but we couldn't hear it.
This band should have packed it in the day Chris DeGarmo left, if not before. And any performer knows, you NEVER talk to your audience like this. Let the music do the talking.
...Dickinson became Iron Maiden and again turned them into a new band, sure they still play "Wrathchild" once in a while but he doesn't copy Paul's recording of it! Give Geoff credit due, he created a sound and a style all his own and I have never thought any of QR's albums "sucked", because of GT, they have always done the unexpected, that is art.
"If I were the organizers of this festival, I may never invite them back again." - did you see the size of that crowd? I don't think that there will be an "again" to be invited back to for anybody.
If he's out the door anyway, it's fairly tame. He could've been way more of an asshole. That said, that crowd is paying his mascara bill, so it is uncool of him to dis them like that.
@@markusaurelius777 *Hey, thanks for that article. I believe Michael, he's really cool and humble. His accounts of Geoff's actions just killed the memories of the past.... I'll never listen to the old stuff the same way again. Todd is great, I like the new stuff. It's all a shame it ended that way. I'm surprised Mike, Scott and Eddie put up with all that for sooooo long.*
Why does Tate look like a gay genie??
MrGreenwood8 I think he was preparing for Shazam 2
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I love Queensryche. I was there. Sorry to say it was not us, we did not have to work tomorrow, Monday was a holiday. They acted like they were the only band playing, and everyone (like me) knows all the words to their songs. So no, Queensryche you sucked on Sunday, not the people. They owe you nothing, and that is what you gave them.
"It doesn't get any better than this." I'd probably lose my joy of living, if I heard that on the gig of a band that hasn't EXACTLY been at its best for the last two decades.
Geoff Tate- "It doesn't get any better than this"
Todd LaTorre- "Hold my Beer".
Truth. Todd is 1000 percent better
yea right . . . not on his best day friend
@@DS77831 Time to drop the crack pipe.
@@terryfrances8341 your hilarious sir
@@anthonysaponaro6318 Then you woke up
Remind me that I have to go to work tomorrow, that this the best it will ever get & that I suck..I don't think I can go on living after that (lololol)
I met him at a meet & greet in at a concert in 2001 when the band was opening for Iron Maiden and he was an asshole in almost every conceivable way.
While Bruce Dickinson and Rob Halford took the time to speak with fans sign autographs and were actually really polite and personable Geoff Tate was rude pushy and seemed to be more interested in getting back to the hotel than interacting with the fans.
He came across like Axl Rose to me and quite honestly that's not a good thing.
Same here. At a Rage for Order meet and greet. All I had was a cassette cover of The Warning for them to sign. DeGarmo, Wilton, Fast Eddie were all really really cool and took pics with me. (Scott wasn’t there) But Tate was like “The Warning??”. I guess he was mad cuz I didn’t have their new album yet. So he signed it but it was just a reluctant scribble. He looked like he despised everyone there.
I had meet and greet tickets through a local radio station. Snubbed by everyone in the band except for Michael. Geoff was in a roped off area drinking wine and didn't speak to a single fan.
@@MikeB_2112 This was in 1986?
@@MikeB_2112 What a tool LMAO !!!!
This is bull. A true great frontman would yank emotions out of the crowd more cunningly. This just killed the mood. And yeah: the seats killed the mood too.
This clip reminds me of when David Lee Roth interviewed Edward Van Halen. Both of them agreed: "Its not the audience's job to pump up the artist." If the artist is doing the job they'll get that feedback, but it's not the responsibility of the audience to pump up the artist. It was an interesting take especially when you look at this clip.
ROFL
Which is probably why he sings with Crimson Glory and covers an even higher register than Tate in that band and yet he hasn't blown out his voice. He has been doing that for a few years now. I don't think so,give The Ryche a chance the recent show in Corpus Cristi was incredible as well as the half way jam. Todd knows how to walk the talk.
Dude needs to quit shaving his head! He looks like Ming the Merciless from the Flash Gordon movie
He lost his hair. Looks better this way
@@briandavis2885 Genie in the lamp looking TOOL.
The day he lost a fan in me. He was my vocal idol, until this moment.
Ahhhhhhh. Get over it.
I mean that crowd looked terrible
The rest of the members of Queensryche just started up a new band called Rising West and have a singer out of Florida named Todd La Torre who has a set of pipes on him....they have two upcoming shows in Seattle on June 8th and 9th at the Hard Rock Cafe....if you live in that area....I suggest you all go...it is going to be an epic show to the sounds of it!!!!!
As a person who was at this show and a native okie, I have to say in our defense, the reason the crowd sucked was because Queensryche sounded horrible, played mediocre and had no energy to bring to the stage. Because of this everyone left and watched HellYeah at the other stage which was a fucking barn-burner of a show.
Reason for this was because Tate had previously spat on the guitar player , knocked the drums down before the show and spat on the drummer. He's a goof.
www.blabbermouth.net/news/queensr-che-guitarist-geoff-tate-spat-in-my-face-punched-me-and-called-me-a-pussy/
I was there. And the only defense that I would give him is THE FUCKING WAY THE SEATING IS ARRANGED AT ROCKLAHOMA!
They should get rid of the seating and let everybody roam free, like a real festival
"This is all there is. This is your chance." Imagine the arrogance of a man who believes that the pinnacle of someone's life is their participation in one of his "on the downside of my career" shows. Insane.
no matter how the audience is or how many of them there is , thery'e the paying audience and you dont diss them.
I loved Geoff, but now he is mentally disturbed
He has a god complex personality. Sold his soul & he chooses to be an asshole. He didn't write the yrics, he channeled the supernatural
Anton La Vey? A poor reincarnation.
Right! Was thinking the same thing
@@paisleyprincess7996 lmfao !!!
Jesus. It looked like there were 300 people watching them. How depressing. But what in the hell would Tate expect playing ROCKLAHOMA? A total nostalgia festival with washed up bands and hillbilly fans.
At 1:09, just when Tate says "It doesn't get any better than this"... classic.
if the crowd ain't into it, that means you gotta ROCK HARDER!!! and you can't rock that hard with EYELINER!
-Todd
You're right with your first statement, but Freddie Mercury rocked as hard as anyone with eyeliner.
@@IanM1984 Freddie was 1000x better than The Genie In The Lamp. LOL
Geoff is really freaky looking nowadays. Like Carrot top freaky....
He needs to go back to doing Vaideville with his wife and daughter
I was one of them. He lost the crowd before the first song was over. Now watch the crowd for HellYeah. It was insane!
I remember a singer telling me the golden rule...you never ever put down or say anything negative to the people who just paid to see you perform, dealt with traffic, parking, ticket fees, etc...and are the only reason why you're up on stage making money from them. You can encourage them, but never say anything to put them down...not even joking.
At least he didn't spit on them.
0:52 uhhh, hate to break it to ya, geoff...but you're saying this to a bunch of people who believe in an afterlife.
this is the culmination of having too much power within one band.
Geoff's ego has grown over the years. He'll never have the rock star status he had back in the day. I saw them back in the Operation: Mindcrime days and they were fantastic. I think "Empire" was the last great album from them.
Promised Land...
And he was fired for this and a few other things so now he is a solo act and he can thank himself for that.
"You only live once. This is it. " That's some really profound stripper wisdom there. YOLO indeed..
At the same show there was one guy in particular in the crowd who was acting like an idiot and the guy threw something onto the stage. Lemmy was so cool, he said something like "You think you're tough? Get up here and I'll fight you!" This was at the Tampa Fairgrounds in the late 80's. Slayer was on their South Of Heaven tour.
I was in the crowd in the pit at the very front row. You couldn't even hear him down there. Everyone the entire time was yelling at him to turn his mic up and that they couldn't hear him. He didn't mention it or even acknowledge us.
over 75 bands in three days. fuck if I'm gonna scream and shout during everyone of them. especially on sunday.
Probably true on Blaze, I guess one thing he did for Maiden was give them a connection with some new and younger fans, which in turn has given them a massive new fan base. Of course all of us who grew up with Maiden are still going strong too! Good on 'em, they just keep on getting better and better! I really hoped that Queensryche would be able to move forward with the same kind of power, I know they could do it, but sometimes greatness falls apart too...sometimes it rediscovers itself.
Ozzy has been doing that for years and years. Just like all of them.
This reminds me of the Van Halen Interview they did recently when Dave is talking to Eddie and Alex. When discussing their interactions with the audience, both Eddie and Dave agreed it's their job to get the audience into it, never the other way around. Tate must have missed that clip. LOL.
He just oozes arrogance, doesn't he?
its the vest look what its done to him.
I always liked him until I started reading about this attitude problem and watching interviews about why they fired him
He say in Metal Edge magazine that he was “pompous”
lmfao!! I'm SO glad someone got this recorded! When I first heard people going crazy about Geoff apparently telling a crowd "you suck!" I admit I was a little concerned. This proves it's just people overreacting and fuel for the Tate haters. As a frontman, you work a crowd. It was crowd banter is all. He didn't mean it in any form of malicious way.
WRONG. Here's why bud:
www.blabbermouth.net/news/queensr-che-guitarist-geoff-tate-spat-in-my-face-punched-me-and-called-me-a-pussy/
He went about it the wrong way.
To be fair Geoff, those folk were waiting patiently on the puppet show 1:10
Although it's quite funny how similar this is to the Jazz Odyssey scene in Spinal Tap, it is genuinely sad to see how far these guys have fallen. It's popular to blame Tate, but I blame the rest of the band members as well for letting it come to this.
It was insane. They were awesome.
Maybe he was right, this is it. Every moment is unique. When you see your heroes, go rockin and enjoy it. It´s all about mindfullness. "The problem is, you think you've got time
i haven't bought a QR album since promised land (and i thought that sucked as well) & from what ive heard (at least on mindcrime 2) their latest stuff sucks just as much, but i have to admit: i lol'ed when he said "you guys suck!" so casually. its the look on his face & the way he says it.........its hilarious!
Geoff Tates last show as a member of Queensryche !
At the 1:10 mark where the guy has his hand raised, is that Sebastian Bach just to the right, waiting for Skid Row to invite him onstage? lol
"The Mission" was written solely by Chris DeGarmo. Go figure. Queensryche without DeGarmo never wrote even a single good song.
The Mission is my favorite song off of Mindcrime. I recorded a live version of it on my channel from 2015, I think. DeGarmo is an awesome guitarist but Wilton still has that signature Queensryche sound.
That's because he is 100% correct. He was NOT the only person to say something about the people there at that show. I heard Rob Zombie said something as well. People nowadays at shows don't come to rock out. They come to just stand there and film it with their cell phones. Then post it on RUclips. That is today's concert goers.... You know it to be true as we all see it show after show.
Did Geoff Tate just say YOLO?
Sad thing is, he was right. We sucked completely. It was embarassing to have that shown on HDNet and for the world to think that Rocklahoma crowds are that lame. We're usually not...
"YOLO"
"You guys suck" is what Queensryche say to themselves while looking in a mirror. No wonder the crowd is terrible.
So funny I forgot to laugh. Hardy. Har. Har.
well, the way he's talking it makes it boring, be a rock and roll guy and get the crowd pumped... call out for some fighting, and rumbling, and for gods sake, encourage a fckn riot
Playing to a dead crowd must suck, no energy, no emotion. It makes that band feel bored, and like the crowd isn't into the music. Geoff was obviously pissed off by it and told the truth. He was trying to get people to be more active, I mean is a rock concert not a opera or orchestra. you don't go to these shows to sit and be quiet. you go there to rock the F**K out! for Geoff to say that so easily and without care, the crowd must have truly been the worst he's seen. That's what it seems like.
As much as I love everything DeGarmo had written and performed with Queensryche, they have written many killer songs after he left...perhaps you have not been listening. Q2K was filled with great music, check "Breakdown" or "The Right Side of My Mind", "Rearrange You" from Mindcrime 2, "Dead Man's Words" "Man Down" from American Soldier", "Retail Therapy" from D2C , as awesome QR songs as anything they've ever done...Eddie's Mack truck bass, Michael's killer guitar work, Scott...Geoff...Wizards!
wrong.
Well put man, well put!
From being there, the reason that no one was excited was because half of the sound didn't work. It was Bass and Drums. It was a shit show.
Geoff is and will always be a true legend, I am disappointed that the rest of the band have taken this way, only a couple of bands have switched singers successfully and created something new (Sabbath with Dio!, Maiden w/Bruce, and Van Halen w/Sammy), they didn't do it by hiring a guy to sing note for note covers of old material which the original singer wrote! I have always loved these guys (Scott is still my absolute favorite drummer of all time!), if you are doing something new...write new!
You missed the best band with an amazing come back. ACDC after bon died and brian came on the scene everyones faces melted after the first time they heard HELLS BELLS.
It wasn't taken out of context. I was there. I love Queensryche but he was rude. They had only played a few songs at that point and they weren't the more known songs. So, of course the crowd wasn't hiped up. That is his job. And he wasn't there a couple years ago. It had to have been a different year because I was there a couple years ago. A lot of the crowd doesn't go for the "older" bands so not everyone knew who they were which is the reality of why he was upset.
I have been a Queensryche fan most of my life growing up in Tacoma. Seen the highs and lows. Having said all of this: Geoff Tate made an asshat comment. But does that make him an asshat? Maybe....Maybe he is a little distraught over been kicked out of the band a week prior. Knowing that this was his last gig. Seeing the rows of empty chairs. It was sad when DeGarmo left. It will be sad when Tate leaves. But I will see Rising West next week at the Hard Rock. Because their music lives on.
first time i've seen this ....
wow - that was awkward
www.blabbermouth.net/news/queensr-che-guitarist-geoff-tate-spat-in-my-face-punched-me-and-called-me-a-pussy/
problem was they booked him for sunday. half the people leave sunday. the owners of this festival do terribly at scheduling
Well this was right after he had some words with other guys in the band. That would suck to have to out on stage at that point. Still shouldn't have been a douche.
yup !
www.blabbermouth.net/news/queensr-che-guitarist-geoff-tate-spat-in-my-face-punched-me-and-called-me-a-pussy/
The thing with Blaze Bailey's time in Iron Maiden was that after Bruce left the sort of lost their identity and were trying to find it.
If Blaze had stayed for another album or two they probably would have found their stride again but the hardcore fans and record company didn't want to give them that chance.
If they had done Silicone Messiah as an Iron Maiden album it probably would have been a hit.
I can see why he said it since a large portion of the crowd at this point in their show was waiting for Hellyeah at the second stage.
I heard there were some sound problems during their set and people couldn't hear them very well in some spots. I think this effected audience feedback. I seemed to be in a good spot and loved the show.
That M3 concert is the bigger festival type show now.
In his defense Oklahoma does indeed suck.
ORLY
www.blabbermouth.net/news/queensr-che-guitarist-geoff-tate-spat-in-my-face-punched-me-and-called-me-a-pussy/
Haha my friend Michael went there!! Me and him are talking about it now, and he tells me "haha i remember rob zombie told people to shove their iphones up their asses and enjoy the concert XD funniest moment of the show" I was like LOL then since everyone was recording he said Rob Zombie said " FUCK YOU AND YOUR PHONE!!!!FUCK YOU AND YOUR PHONE!!!! FUCK YOU AND YOUR CAMERA........GET A PHONE! " pointing at people saying tht lol
Better free up some beds in Butthurt General Hospital because this is gonna be blown out of proportion.
And you wonder why they kicked him out.
If I was playing in front of a crowd that big and the singer did that, I'd kick his ass after the show and THEN boot him out of the band.
He speaks the truth
Man, it takes one shitty ass crowd to get that kind of speech. Say what you will about Geoff Tate being a jerk, losing his voice, leading the band in weird direction etc., but he's usually appreciative of his live crowd. Saw QR last year and it was nothing but love, even for a fairly small crowd. Sad to see QR falling upon these kinds of times.
That crowd was pathetic. Its a frontman's job to keep the crowd going. I have been at dozens of concerts where the singer has needled the audience to wake them the fuck up. Geoff loves his fans people gotta learn not to be so sensitive.
I didn't know Howie Mandell was the lead singer of Queensryche.
Was there. They sucked!! Rob Zombie didn't have problems with the crowd, but that's because he rocked.
The "type of people in OK" are EXACTLY the "type of people" that go to concerts across the nation... I'm guessing you've never been to Oklahoma, or Rocklahoma! It's a great time, with GREAT people. Queensryche used to be one of my favorites, however, after their unfortunate performance the reaction they received from the crowd was exactly what they deserved! Apparently the pot insists on calling the kettle black, even in the concert world.
You sit and be quiet if you want to watch the musicians play and really appreciate the music by giving it all of your concentration. If you're running around in a pit, knocking people over, you're not giving the band your full attention so why did you even bother to show up? Sit down so the people behind you can see. They paid good money for their tickets to see the band - not to see you. I remember seeing Lemmy say basically that to some idiots at an Overkill/Motorhead/Slayer show.
He looks like a TV
I doubt Geoff will ever perform with QR again. Apparently he overheard a meeting between the other band members about firing him and he lost it during a sound check, pulling a knife on Scott and hitting Eddie so hard he fell. Security had to pull him off the stage! QR should have pulled the plug when Chris left.
The best to get a crowd into the show and fired up is to tell them they suck. What the hell was he thinking?.
Too funny, I was thinking the same thing when I saw all those empty seats!
(I am not sayn QR sucks I usta jam them all the time)But... people do work! he should be glad he has people that will pay to see him play and glad he has been able to play music insted of having a normale job.. my band has played shows at clubs that everyone was sitting also some wher everyone was up and moshing I NEVER NEVER blame the people if it is a bad night well shit happens lol its best to move on and dont be a cry baby
"Todd" couldn't hold Geoff's jock strap. Call it Rising West, it's not and will never be Queensryche.
He was right that crowd did suck.
He looks like a alternative Mr Clean
He was really pissed off!...With himself.
The crowd did suck. I was thinking it before he said.
he is right. the crowd ws tame, but he shouldnt be running his mouth like that, I was in the pit and could barely hear the vocals... that made us tame
Anyone else think he looks and sounds like Howie Mandel with mascara?
We were in the pit and honestly... you couldn't hear a word Geoff sang! We tried to yell out to him between every song and tell them to turn up the vocals. It was impossible to get into the songs with no vocals being heard at all. Oh well... It may have been a great performance, but we couldn't hear it.
man fuck that gut I could here any of the solos
This band should have packed it in the day Chris DeGarmo left, if not before.
And any performer knows, you NEVER talk to your audience like this. Let the music do the talking.
Oh brother.
...Dickinson became Iron Maiden and again turned them into a new band, sure they still play "Wrathchild" once in a while but he doesn't copy Paul's recording of it! Give Geoff credit due, he created a sound and a style all his own and I have never thought any of QR's albums "sucked", because of GT, they have always done the unexpected, that is art.
"If I were the organizers of this festival, I may never invite them back again." - did you see the size of that crowd? I don't think that there will be an "again" to be invited back to for anybody.
Damn, what concert is this that you have to sit? No wonder people are quiet...
If he's out the door anyway, it's fairly tame. He could've been way more of an asshole. That said, that crowd is paying his mascara bill, so it is uncool of him to dis them like that.
Except the whole "can't sing for shit now" thing.
They had their good times but all good things must come to an end.
he s like a drill instructor as walks around the stage ...i love his dirty sarcastic grin...tate rules!!
Tate is a fuckin goof.
www.blabbermouth.net/news/queensr-che-guitarist-geoff-tate-spat-in-my-face-punched-me-and-called-me-a-pussy/
@@markusaurelius777 *Hey, thanks for that article. I believe Michael, he's really cool and humble. His accounts of Geoff's actions just killed the memories of the past.... I'll never listen to the old stuff the same way again. Todd is great, I like the new stuff. It's all a shame it ended that way. I'm surprised Mike, Scott and Eddie put up with all that for sooooo long.*
@@bakurasplanet4502 I feel the same. Cheers to you.
It must have not sucked that much since he came back three years later. ;)
Spinal Tap.