GEOFF TATE Is Already Working On A New QUEENSRŸCHE Record

Will C. Franklin of FairfaxTimes.com recently conducted an interview with QUEENSRŸCHE vocalist Geoff Tate. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

FairfaxTimes.com: I don't know how much you can talk about it, but can you talk a little from your perspective about the band breakup and how damaging it may be having two QUEENSRŸCHEs out there?

Tate: Well, I think that it's definitely challenging, yeah, definitely. In a business sense, you know? We're basically competing against each other right now, which is no fun. I mean, it's hard enough out there, you know, touring and competing against other bands and that kind of thing for the touring dollar. It's hard enough doing that without competing against yourselves, basically. Yeah, very difficult. But November is the date for the reconciliation, we hope, of the lawsuit. So hopefully it'll all be over by then.

FairfaxTimes.com: I don't know what your plans are with how long you plan on doing this, but is there something for you after QUEENSRŸCHE? At some point, do you say, "I've had enough. I want to do something else now"?

Tate: [laughs] I've had enough and I want out? [laughs] You know, I don't know. I enjoy it. I like making music. I write all the time. I have tons and tons of songs and projects I'm working on — I'm already working on a new QUEENSRŸCHE record. I started about a month ago. It's in the works. It's what I do, you know? I write and I make songs and I make records and I perform live. I don't know how else to define myself. [laughs] Maybe I'll get to a point, you know, where I'm interested in something else as much, but I have a passion for it. For me, it's important to follow my passions.

FairfaxTimes.com: Is there any chance whatsoever of the core group getting back together?

Tate: I don't think so. I think we've completed our chapter as a group. It's moved on and probably went too long as it was. It's a good thing that it's done and we're all moving on. I wish that we could have settled this whole thing in a much more gentlemanly way and not have it plastered all over the Internet every day. [laughs] That's something I really wish would have happened. But it is what it is, and we work with what we have and we'll get through it and get to the other side. Which is what I'm doing. I'm just waiting for November to come and in the meantime continuing to make records and tour and having a good time doing it.

Read the entire interview from FairfaxTimes.com.