GEOFF TATE: 'Not A Lot Has Changed In My Life' Since Splitting With QUEENSRŸCHE

September 22, 2016

Germany's Rock Antenne recently conducted an interview with former QUEENSRŸCHE and current OPERATION: MINDCRIME singer Geoff Tate. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET).

On playing the saxophone:

Geoff: "I've been playing saxophone for quite a while. Saxophone, they say, is the instrument that's closest to the human voice, and I can see that. It's very expressive; you can do a lot of interesting things to it. You play a note, and it's a note; you can bend that note up into pitch, like you can with your voice. And it's a pleasing sound. I've used it for a number of different applications. On [the new OPERATION: MINDCRIME] album, I've used it primarily as a standard saxophone sound. But in the past, I've run it through Marshall amps and distorted it, I've put it into echoes and pitch shifters and all kinds of effects to make it interesting… pain a picture."

On not separating himself from QUEENSRŸCHE completely, either musically or by using a band name that is so closely associated with his former group:

Geoff: "Well, I can't really separate myself from it, 'cause it's my life. [The fact that someone else owns the rights to the name now] is kind of one of those tawdry little business things that you have to deal with in your life. But that's okay; we've settled and all gone in our different directions and I'm very happy. And really, honestly, not a lot has changed in my life. I still get up in the morning, I go into the studio, write music, create records, go out on the road, play shows, tour around the world, drink wine and beer, and appear on radio stations and things like that. Nothing has really changed except the people that I play music with. And that's kind of fun, because I get to work with a lot of different people now and a lot of people that I perhaps couldn't have worked with in the past. Being locked into a band keeps you working with the same people over and over and over again. And in this situation, I'm free to work with anyone, you know."

Frontiers Music Srl will release "Resurrection", the new album from OPERATION: MINDCRIME, on September 23.

"Resurrection" is the second part of Tate's musical trilogy.

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