Eddie on bass ran that show with Scott pounding the skins like a wild man. However, by far, Geoff's voice is other worldly. I'm very glad there's shows like this we can listen to anytime we want to hear classic Ryche which for me is daily.
Queensrÿche from the mid-80s was unbeatable live: Tate had the best voice and technique in Metal, and the band played a phenomenal set with incredible cohesion!
Geoff Tate was something in his prime the whole band was just unreal!!😎🔥 Geoff’s range and voice control is out of this world people compare him to Bruce Dickson and Rob Halford but sorry he surpassed them both with his pipes in his prime untouchable. Imagine if they had American idol back then and Geoff was a contestant no competition!!!😂🔥🤘 He had that perfect natural Silk in his voice that you are born with yes he did have lots of training but it has always been there with him to release the beast at the right time!! Wish we had more singers and music like this today but it only comes around once in a lifetime. God Bless The original Members of Queensryche & Geoff’s Pipes!😄🔥
I was there right in front of the stage. Seen Queensryche many times in concert. This was by far the best! They were at Sam's Jams record store in Ferndale the day before signing autographs. I still have The Warning posters and album flats signed by them.
Tate sings his balls off for an hour and then sings Queen of the Ryche and Take hold of the flame like it’s a walk in a the park. Unbelievable!!! The man is a God.
I was at this show, it was a "free" WLLZ promotion if I remember, they gave out tickets at various locations before the show. I was completely caught off guard and was blown away! Harpo's is a great sounding room for any band, but they took it to another level that night! So happy to have found this and yes, soundboard/radio broadcasts are the best live recordings. I wish there were more out there.
This brings back so many memories!! Like recording the VHS of the Tokyo show to cassette so I can play drums to it through my walkman 2!! Loved the fact that The Prophecy was played too!!
Saw this show for free at Harpos in Detroit by the time we got to the venue people were stretched down Harper avenue in Detroit for a mile and the fire Marshall was closing the front doors due to capacity we were lucky enough to know the house photographer he brought us kids in through the stage door .
Sounds like the Motorhead show at the Variety Theatre in Cleveland. They were so loud that the plaster was falling from the ceiling and the fire marshall pulled the plug on them right in the middle of Overkill
@@paulhabat6338 The one and only time I saw Motorhead was when they opened up for the Blizzard of Oz tour in 81 the crowd at the Toledo sports arena pelted Lemmy with garbage I guess they were too heavy for them .
Every one of these guys were virtuosos at their respective crafts. There was no weak link in this chain. Flawless perfection. This makes me wish I was 10 or 15 years older. (I was born in 1972.)
Ok, especially listening to queen of the ryche here, I honestly think Tate is right there next to Halford. I take nothing from Rob, but I like Geoff better.
Tate was great but nobody comes close to Halford. Listen to the early priest. He could break glass with his voice. Dreamer Deciever. On Rocka Rolla. Every verse he gets higher and higher. Nobody I can think of ever did anything like that.especially back then. Halford Will Always be the METAL GOD! FLAT OUT.
I was there too! Home on leave from the Army, I was going to be traveling to Korea before x-mas for 3 months, so I took leave early. I only discovered QR a few months prior from an Army buddy and fellow metalhead from the Seattle area. I introduced QR to my Detroit metalheads back home and luckily enough, they were playing at this Harpos show. It was incredible!
By the time we got there there had to be 500 people lined up down Harper avenue and the fire marshall was closing the doors at capacity we got lucky I knew Harpos house photographer he took us in the back stage entrance incredible show.
My favorite band - in my town! Man, I wish I could have seen this show live - but I didn’t discover the Ryche until a few years later. Got to see them live for Operation Mindcrime & Empire tours though. This is such a great recording. Enjoying the heck out of it. :)
The only reason they played this show was because of Mark St John had carpal tunnel issues and they canceled the Detroit show that night leaving the Ryche open to play this free show. Side note met Mark coming out the stage door after the show.
@@mikeheffner1895 John developed reactive arthritis, which caused his hands and arms to swell. He was unable to perform live as a member of Kiss, and played only two full shows and one part show during the Animalize tour, with Bruce Kulick playing the rest. St. John was officially replaced by Kulick on December 8, 1984.
I was at this exact show. The stage is about 10-12 feet higher than the main floor pit so you are looking up as if into an upstairs window. Nobody was sitting.
........I was at this show front row in Harpo's pit. Can't believe I found this. They blew the roof off the place that night! Thanks for posting man! \,,/
You had to be right in front of us. We were 2nd Table Center just to the right. My buddy caught the Drum stick from Scott. He came out front, tapped it on the stage, looked right at us and tossed it. During Take Hold of the Flame, I hit Tate in the hand with an envelope that had a song I wrote in it.
I was too young back then to go to a concert 2hours away. Saw them years later during the Operation: Mindcrime tour in Amsterdam, with Pamela Moore, great show! On the Monsters of Rock tour with Black Crows, Metallica and AC/DC. Only in the Netherlands they played after Metallica due to their popularity in the Netherlands. Never saw them in their prime (the 80's), but both show were great.
Seen this tour. They opened for Twisted Sister at the old Engineers building downtown Cleveland. Tickets were around 20 bucks !!! My friend recorded it on his Sony (stereo ) Walkman cassette player ! Still have it ! Epic !
Named after a New Mexico highway turned into Route 66. Also lyrics in Deliverance, "Torn from Enchantment, this Land, forevermore" NMs' State motto is Land of Enchantment
@@Ifyernotawakeyet dude...I thought that might be what they were referring to as all the highways here are labeled as such. I moved here 5 years ago. Cool factoid \\m//
DEC 8 1984 Queensrÿche at Harpo's, Detroit, MI, USA 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:20 Nightrider 00:04:35 Prophecy 00:08:30 Deliverance 00:12:00 NM 156 00:16:00 Child of Fire 00:22:35 Before the Storm 00:27:03 Solo Chris DeGarmo / Michael Wilton 00:28:50 Blinded 00:32:40 The Lady Wore Black 00:40:45 En Force 00:45:10 Roads to Madness 00:55:40 Warning 01:01:50 Queen of the Reich 01:08:15 Take Hold of the Flame
This is so strange, its like The Ryche was once a real heavy metal band and not a pop metal band. A great reminder of how great they once where an how far they fell. This was an awesome tour back than. Saw them a few days prior to this show in Aurora, Il.
Yeah i saw them this tour long beach arena opening for kiss.... By the end of their set kiss disnt even need to take the stage..... Just being honest...... They blew kiss off the stage.
That's a weird statement on two counts... how could they blow KISS off the stage if KISS didn't even take the stage yet? Also, two different types of music... QR was thrash metal with glints of progressive at this point, KISS was hard rock. Both are great & legendary at what they do.
@@ricmichael5949 I think it was someone from the roadcrew who actually shouts "Hello Detroit....on their 1984 world tour.......the MIGHTY QUEENSRYCHE!" Have heard the same voice announcing the show start on other cities from this tour. And when I first heard it, it sparked a memory from when I saw them in Baltimore on this tour. They hit the ground fucking running! I remember that guy announcing them.
Most underrated band ever!! Tate’s vocals live are INSANE!!!
Geoffs voice was other worldly back then.
Eddie on bass ran that show with Scott pounding the skins like a wild man. However, by far, Geoff's voice is other worldly. I'm very glad there's shows like this we can listen to anytime we want to hear classic Ryche which for me is daily.
This gig is legendary in Detroit concert history.Michael Wilton still talks about it.The band was on fire and the crowd was going ape shit
Agreed 👍 👌 🇨🇦
Queensrÿche from the mid-80s was unbeatable live: Tate had the best voice and technique in Metal, and the band played a phenomenal set with incredible cohesion!
The best performance of queensryche I've ever heard! Unbelievable
One of the best live concerts ever recorded!!
My God. Tate is here on... Another planet
Exactly bro. Just wish he was more recognized for his incredible voice
Yes and Almost as good as Halford! Almost.
Geoff Tate was something in his prime the whole band was just unreal!!😎🔥 Geoff’s range and voice control is out of this world people compare him to Bruce Dickson and Rob Halford but sorry he surpassed them both with his pipes in his prime untouchable.
Imagine if they had American idol back then and Geoff was a contestant no competition!!!😂🔥🤘
He had that perfect natural Silk in his voice that you are born with yes he did have lots of training but it has always been there with him to release the beast at the right time!!
Wish we had more singers and music like this today but it only comes around once in a lifetime.
God Bless The original Members of Queensryche & Geoff’s Pipes!😄🔥
This is the best live show I've ever heard from any band.
Almost.. Judas Priest. Painkillers tour was probably the best. Or Iron Maiden. Number of the Beast tour was epic
I was there right in front of the stage. Seen Queensryche many times in concert. This was by far the best! They were at Sam's Jams record store in Ferndale the day before signing autographs. I still have The Warning posters and album flats signed by them.
What a great night of metal that was we all loaded up into my Rambler and came up from Monroe county to see this show .
Great! 👏👏
Tate sings his balls off for an hour and then sings Queen of the Ryche and Take hold of the flame like it’s a walk in a the park. Unbelievable!!! The man is a God.
This is how they always sound in my memories
😭 JUST WISH THERE WAS SOME VIDEO 😭👍🏋️🇺🇸
If you search for Queensryche 1984 Japan there is one
The mix is insane..wow
I was at this show, it was a "free" WLLZ promotion if I remember, they gave out tickets at various locations before the show. I was completely caught off guard and was blown away! Harpo's is a great sounding room for any band, but they took it to another level that night! So happy to have found this and yes, soundboard/radio broadcasts are the best live recordings. I wish there were more out there.
This was the Queensryche that I remember. Raw.. Heavy and Before they succommed to the record company and the money. But Mindcrime is Epic too
I loved everything up to Empire and some of the promised land but after Degarmo left they never were the same again.
What a VOICE!!!! TATE=INSANE.Thanks for sharing.
Such power, such force, such in your face Queensryche!!
This brings back so many memories!! Like recording the VHS of the Tokyo show to cassette so I can play drums to it through my walkman 2!! Loved the fact that The Prophecy was played too!!
Saw this show for free at Harpos in Detroit by the time we got to the venue people were stretched down Harper avenue in Detroit for a mile and the fire Marshall was closing the front doors due to capacity we were lucky enough to know the house photographer he brought us kids in through the stage door .
Sounds like the Motorhead show at the Variety Theatre in Cleveland. They were so loud that the plaster was falling from the ceiling and the fire marshall pulled the plug on them right in the middle of Overkill
@@paulhabat6338 The one and only time I saw Motorhead was when they opened up for the Blizzard of Oz tour in 81 the crowd at the Toledo sports arena pelted Lemmy with garbage I guess they were too heavy for them .
Just finished the whole show… Fucking brilliant!! That’s how you get a Friday night started!! Thank you GFV!! Take Hold!!
Every one of these guys were virtuosos at their respective crafts. There was no weak link in this chain. Flawless perfection. This makes me wish I was 10 or 15 years older. (I was born in 1972.)
Absolutely incredible.
Wow, awesome quality! These guys were so awesome
1:08:33 Great version of "Take Hold of the Flame". Oh yes, and enjoy 1:11:59
Ok, especially listening to queen of the ryche here, I honestly think Tate is right there next to Halford. I take nothing from Rob, but I like Geoff better.
Yeah man, "Take Hold Of The Flame" is amazing too, just check this 1:11:59
Tate was great but nobody comes close to Halford. Listen to the early priest. He could break glass with his voice. Dreamer Deciever. On Rocka Rolla. Every verse he gets higher and higher. Nobody I can think of ever did anything like that.especially back then. Halford Will Always be the METAL GOD! FLAT OUT.
I still have many of my Harpos Headbanger glasses.
Incredible quality! Thanks for sharing
I was there
I was to Mr. Eddie435...I'll never forget that show.
I was there too! Home on leave from the Army, I was going to be traveling to Korea before x-mas for 3 months, so I took leave early. I only discovered QR a few months prior from an Army buddy and fellow metalhead from the Seattle area. I introduced QR to my Detroit metalheads back home and luckily enough, they were playing at this Harpos show. It was incredible!
By the time we got there there had to be 500 people lined up down Harper avenue and the fire marshall was closing the doors at capacity we got lucky I knew Harpos house photographer he took us in the back stage entrance incredible show.
Was Twisted Sister on the bill ?? I saw them right before the Warning was released with Twisted Sister. Queensrych opened the show !
Incredible!
Awesome!!! Great recording! These guys were on fire that night!!! Big fan of the Old Ryche! Today? Not so much!!!
My favorite band - in my town! Man, I wish I could have seen this show live - but I didn’t discover the Ryche until a few years later. Got to see them live for Operation Mindcrime & Empire tours though. This is such a great recording. Enjoying the heck out of it. :)
I saw them open for Metallica, blew them away!
No, they didn't.
I saw the same thing, Metallica didn't know what hit them. It was great!
I saw them in December 84, opening for KISS in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I bought THE WARNING next day!
The only reason they played this show was because of Mark St John had carpal tunnel issues and they canceled the Detroit show that night leaving the Ryche open to play this free show. Side note met Mark coming out the stage door after the show.
@@kingdiamondfan4032 i remember my brother saying...THAT, is not Mark St. John, watching Bruce Kulick.
@@missiontotransition641 That was sad for Mark but great for Bruce who is a much better guitar player.
I always thought he was diagnosed with cancer was the reason Vinnie Vincent took over.
@@mikeheffner1895 John developed reactive arthritis, which caused his hands and arms to swell. He was unable to perform live as a member of Kiss, and played only two full shows and one part show during the Animalize tour, with Bruce Kulick playing the rest. St. John was officially replaced by Kulick on December 8, 1984.
CLASSIC!!!!
This was actually on Monday December 10th, 1984
I was at this exact show. The stage is about 10-12 feet higher than the main floor pit so you are looking up as if into an upstairs window. Nobody was sitting.
Unbelievably tight.
This is an incredible recording, the band is rocking their fuckin balls off!!!
ALL HAIL THE 'RYCHE!!!
Thanks for posting this. Awesome!
........I was at this show front row in Harpo's pit. Can't believe I found this. They blew the roof off the place that night! Thanks for posting man! \,,/
I was right under Chris Degarmo that night for the entire show.
You had to be right in front of us. We were 2nd Table Center just to the right. My buddy caught the Drum stick from Scott. He came out front, tapped it on the stage, looked right at us and tossed it. During Take Hold of the Flame, I hit Tate in the hand with an envelope that had a song I wrote in it.
Thanks for posting as it bring back memories when I saw them a year later at Lamours East Queens, NY. Nice recording.
Not too many bands sound better live than the actual record
I saw them 5 nights later when they opened for Kiss in Dayton ,Ohio.Great show
this is the QUEESRYCHE error I'd like to hear present day. so let's ROCK some progressive METAL cheers beers 🍺 🍺 friends original lineup.ROCK ON
I agree but sadly Geoff Tate can't come close to hitting these notes but this is the best they sounded on this tour.
I was too young back then to go to a concert 2hours away. Saw them years later during the Operation: Mindcrime tour in Amsterdam, with Pamela Moore, great show!
On the Monsters of Rock tour with Black Crows, Metallica and AC/DC. Only in the Netherlands they played after Metallica due to their popularity in the Netherlands.
Never saw them in their prime (the 80's), but both show were great.
I am happy to hear this recording but also sad this tour never did get to Toronto. Had tix to see it but it got cancelled both times.
Superb! Whats suxs is opening bands like Queensryche etc had to rush the songs because of the limited time allowed on stage.
they weren't opening here.
Seen this tour. They opened for Twisted Sister at the old Engineers building downtown Cleveland. Tickets were around 20 bucks !!! My friend recorded it on his Sony (stereo ) Walkman cassette player ! Still have it ! Epic !
I miss Harpos,Hayloft 🤘
Blondies too, I miss the whole music time frame in Detroit from 1977-1990
Geoff tate queensrychee album the warning 1984 o melhor
Ein Geschenk! Kannte bislang nur das Über Konzert, auch 1984 in Japan, TOKYO Tapes! Hier noch bessere Aufnahme! Best of all! 🥰🤩👌✊👊🤘🤘
Se escucha genial.
nm156!
Named after a New Mexico highway turned into Route 66. Also lyrics in Deliverance, "Torn from Enchantment, this Land, forevermore" NMs' State motto is Land of Enchantment
@@Ifyernotawakeyet dude...I thought that might be what they were referring to as all the highways here are labeled as such. I moved here 5 years ago. Cool factoid \\m//
Great! I didn't know that.
I love this song. So unique
The correct date is December 10 :)
Yes, Monday 12/10/1984 at Harpo's. We were 2nd Table front of Stage.
They opened for Kiss at Cobo on 12/8/1984.
DEC 8 1984
Queensrÿche at Harpo's, Detroit, MI, USA
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:20 Nightrider
00:04:35 Prophecy
00:08:30 Deliverance
00:12:00 NM 156
00:16:00 Child of Fire
00:22:35 Before the Storm
00:27:03 Solo Chris DeGarmo / Michael Wilton
00:28:50 Blinded
00:32:40 The Lady Wore Black
00:40:45 En Force
00:45:10 Roads to Madness
00:55:40 Warning
01:01:50 Queen of the Reich
01:08:15 Take Hold of the Flame
Doing God’s work son. Peace be upon you
Thanks
All if their original material in concert. Excellent! Correction, No Sanctuary was not played.
This is so strange, its like The Ryche was once a real heavy metal band and not a pop metal band. A great reminder of how great they once where an how far they fell. This was an awesome tour back than. Saw them a few days prior to this show in Aurora, Il.
RYCHE AND ROLL 🤘
Prophecy!!
Yeah i saw them this tour long beach arena opening for kiss.... By the end of their set kiss disnt even need to take the stage..... Just being honest...... They blew kiss off the stage.
That's a weird statement on two counts... how could they blow KISS off the stage if KISS didn't even take the stage yet? Also, two different types of music... QR was thrash metal with glints of progressive at this point, KISS was hard rock. Both are great & legendary at what they do.
I think this bootleg ist called Storming Detroit aswell
🖖✌️💯🤩. IN CHINA THEY MADE GEOFF SING QUEEN OF THE RICE 😜
Who did that into? That was off the hook!
Jim Kelly from WLLZ
This show was simulcast by WABX not WLLZ .
@@ricmichael5949
I think it was someone from the roadcrew who actually shouts "Hello Detroit....on their 1984 world tour.......the MIGHTY QUEENSRYCHE!" Have heard the same voice announcing the show start on other cities from this tour. And when I first heard it, it sparked a memory from when I saw them in Baltimore on this tour. They hit the ground fucking running! I remember that guy announcing them.
@@seamus2112ophelan I love all this historic minutea. Wish I was there!