QUEENSRŸCHE Singer Discusses Solo Tour

September 19, 2008

Doug Fox of the Daily Herald recently spoke QUEENSRŸCHE frontman Geoff Tate about the singer's current solo mini-tour which kicked off last night (Thursday, September 18) at The Depot in Salt Lake City, Utah. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

On the setlist for the solo tour:

"One thing that is kind of neat about this show is although I'm doing a lot of my solo material, I'm also doing a lot of QUEENSRŸCHE stuff. What we're doing is, we're doing kind of re-arrangements on some of the familiar songs, and then we're also playing songs that QUEENSRŸCHE doesn't normally play live. Kind of giving our QUEENSRŸCHE fans something special, you know."

"We just kind of all got together and started jamming out stuff and working on some of the songs from my upcoming album and also playing some of the solo stuff. And then we said, 'Hey, let's throw some QUEENSRŸCHE stuff in there and see what that's like.' And it was really fun to play these different versions, you know, different people's interpretations of the songs, which I always like. In fact, when I hear cover bands do our stuff, I love hearing that — other people's versions of it, because it's very difficult, apparently, from what I've been told, to cover QUEENSRŸCHE."

On QUEENSRŸCHE feeling locked into a certain number of songs that fans expect them to play:

"It's more like demand that you play. It's actually very satisfying because they're songs I've always wanted to perform live, but never had the chance to — and the same with Scott [Rockenfield; QUEENSRŸCHE drummer, who is also part of Tate's solo band]. This is really a treat for us as well."

Geoff Tate's band for these shows consists of the following musicians:

Geoff Tate - Vocals
Scott Rockenfield - Drums
Jason Slater - Bass
Joe Mulkern - Guitar
Parker Lundgren - Guitar
Ben Anderson - Keyboards
Pamela Moore - Vocals
Jason Ames - Vocals

Remaining dates are:

Sep. 19 - Boise, ID - Knitting Factory
Sep. 20 - Walla Walla, WA - Three Rivers Winery
Sep. 21 - Spokane, WA - Knitting Factory

Tate released his first solo album in 2002 on Sanctuary Records. Self-titled, the LP was a huge departure from the work he had previously done with QUEENSRŸCHE.

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