QUEENSRŸCHE Singer Schedules More Solo Dates
March 15, 2012QUEENSRŸCHE lead singer Geoff Tate has scheduled the following solo dates:
Apr. 29 - Denver, CO - Bluebird
May 01 - Lincoln, NE - Knickerbockers
May 02 - St. Louis, MO - Old Rock House
May 03 - Milwaukee, WI - Shank Hall
May 04 - Lincolnshire, IL - Viper Alley
May 05 - Chicago, IL - Mayne Stage
May 06 - Grand Rapids, MI - Intersection
May 07 - Akron, OH - Ripper Owens Tap House
May 09 - New York, NY - Highline Ballroom
Tate entered the studio on February 29 to begin recording his second solo album. He wrote on Facebook, "I'm very excited about this record and I'll be sharing a lot more info about it in the weeks to come."
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.
Geoff played a handful of acoustic solo dates, billed as GEOFF TATE AND FRIENDS, beginning on January 26 at Anthology in San Diego, California. According to Tate, he performed "acoustic renditions of songs from my solo album as well as some of my favorite QUEENSRŸCHE songs."
Professionally filmed, multi-camera video footage of the San Diego concert can be seen below.
In a recent interview with AnthologySD.com, Tate was asked if he is looking into any future solo projects. "I am!" he replied. "I'm actually working on one right now that I hope to have wrapped up pretty soon. This show that I'm doing [on the solo tour] is an acoustic show with some friends of mine who are fantastic acoustic players. We're doing kind of a blend of my last solo album, some QUEENSRŸCHE songs, and we'll toss in some new ones that haven't been released yet. It'll just be a really fun night. Very homey, intimate, we'll probably take requests, things like that."
He added, "For the last couple of years, I've been doing more stuff outside of QUEENSRŸCHE in order to just stretch out. But I'll tell you, even though I've sang shows in front of hundreds of thousands of people and also intimate shows of a few hundred, but whenever I go out to an event or something and someone asks me to sing a song with them, I'm petrified! (Laughs) I don't know much material outside of my own material that I've written, and so if someone asks me to sing 'Danny Boy', I couldn't sing it! Not even if someone offered me a million dollars could I sing that song. So I'm trying to be a bit more versatile and learn more stuff."
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