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Summary: This posting contains Frequently Asked Questions - and answers -
about the band Queensryche, the Fan Club, and the Net-Digest. It
should be read by those seeking information on Queensryche.
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Last-modified: 1993/11/08
Version: 2.02
Queensryche Frequently Asked Questions
Compiled by Shag (queensryche-owner@pilot.njin.net)
Revision 2.02, November 8, 1993
________ _Introduction_ ________
Welcome to the Queensryche FAQ. The purpose of this FAQ is to
provide some basic (and sometimes not-so-basic) information about
the band, so that new readers won't have to ask questions that
have already been answered many times. The posting schedule is
something like every 30 days - basically, once a month. FTP from
glia.biostr.washington.edu, /pub/queensryche/FAQ.
Much of the information comes from back issues of the Queensryche
net-digest, "Screaming in Digital." Many thanks to the readers
who contributed this information to the digest. Thanks also to
Joyce Filmer, Vinnie Vera, John Sutton-Smith, Metal Sushi, and
everyone else who's been of help at the Queensryche fanclub and
EMI Records, to Cynbe Ru Taaren for the FTP space in Seattle,
and to Dave Datta for the FTP mirroring.
Questions or comments - email queensryche-owner@pilot.njin.net
'Ryche on!
-Shag
________ _Index_ ________
General What Queensryche is
What's new in this revision
The new album and other news
Where to get the latest revision
Why there are margins
Beginnings The members
The name
The symbol
Releases Queensryche
The Warning
Live in Tokyo
Rage for Order
Operation: Mindcrime
Empire
Operation: Livecrime
Operation: Empire
Building Empires
Fanclub Things The Fanclub
The Pen Mate club
The Archives
The Net-Digest What the net-digest is
How to subscribe or unsubscribe
How to contribute information
How to contact the digest owner
Where to get back issues and other files
Digest Tidbits Guidelines
Abbreviations
The old list
T-shirts
Lyrics
Discographies
Sheet Music Operation: Mindcrime
Empire
Bootlegs What they are
How many there are
Where to get them
Spoken Words The Whisper
Neue Regel
Chemical Youth
Screaming in Digital
I Remember Now
Anarchy-X
Operation: Mindcrime
Speak
Spreading the Disease
The Mission
Suite Sister Mary
The Needle Lies
Electric Requiem
Breaking the Silence
Eyes of a Stranger
Best I Can
The Thin Line
Della Brown
Another Rainy Night
Empire
Silent Lucidity
Anybody Listening?
Personalities Michael Kamen
The Operation: Mindcrime cast
The Moronic Monks of Morin Heights
Metal Sushi
Related Bands Other progressive rock and metal bands
________ _General_ ________
Queensryche
Queensryche is a band, from Seattle, Washington. The
music created by Queensryche is commonly referred to as
progressive metal.
What's new in this revision of the FAQ
Moving and updating the new album and other news section.
Addition of Mercury Rising to the related bands list.
The new album and other news
To know when new albums are coming out, subscribe to the
net-digest and read it on a regular basis. New releases
are always a hot topic, usually for months ahead of time,
and as soon as they're out, scores of reviews are
contributed.
The band have written quite a few songs (around twenty,
I believe) over the past year or so, and are currently in
the process of deciding which ones should go on the next
album and putting the album together. It's now expected
in early 1994.
Scott Rockenfield played drums for a few songs on the
David Lanz/Paul Speer album "Bridge of Dreams" which was
released early this fall by Narada.
"Building Empires" was released on laserdisc by Panasonic
in early September. Panasonic's laserdisc club can be
reached at 1-800-322-2285.
Where to get the latest revision of the FAQ
The latest revision of this FAQ is always available for
FTP from glia.biostr.washington.edu (128.95.10.115) in
/pub/queensryche/FAQ, and maybe ftp.uwp.edu (131.210.1.4)
in /pub/music/lists/queensryche/FAQ. It can be retrieved
using Gopher from the Mailing List Archives subdirectory
on ftp.uwp.edu. It's also crossposted to the newsgroups
Alt.Rock-N-Roll.Metal.Progressive, Alt.Rock-N-Roll.Metal,
and Alt.Rock-N-Roll, periodically. If all else fails,
e-mail queensryche-owner@pilot.njin.net and ask for a
copy of the FAQ.
Why there are margins on the FAQ and the net-digest
The net-digest and FAQ are both hand-formatted with
margins, since readers may wish to print copies and
staple them or punch them for binders.
________ _Beginnings_ ________
The members
Queensryche's five members all hail from the Seattle area
and were involved in local bands, before coming together
in a band called The Mob and recording a 4-song EP. The
members are, in birth order:
Geoff Tate - Vocals - Jan 14, 1959
Eddie Jackson - Bass - Jan 29, 1960
Michael Wilton - Guitar - Feb 23, 1962
Chris DeGarmo - Guitar - Jun 14, 1963
Scott Rockenfield - Drums - Jun 15, 1963
The name
The Mob's EP got the attention of Kim and Diana Harris,
record-shop owners on the east side of Seattle, who began
managing the band and encouraged them to change their
name. The title of the first song on the EP, Queen of
the Reich, was contracted to Queensreich, then altered to
Queensryche, so as not to imply nazi sentiments. The EP
was also given the title Queensryche.
The symbol
Queensryche's symbol, known as a tri-ryche (sometimes
spelled try-ryche), has no particular meaning, and is
just something the band thought looked neat at the time.
Through subsequent releases it has evolved, but the basic
shape remains the same.
________ _Releases_ ________
Queensryche
In 1983, the initial 3,500 copies of this four-song 206
Records EP sold out before the band had played a live
show. EMI reissued the EP when they signed the band, and
in 1986 a fifth song, Prophecy, was added.
The Warning
Queensryche's first full-length work, this album was
recorded at Abbey Road studios. Released in 1984,
it is generally viewed as a semi-conceptual comment on
the current and future state of the world
Live In Tokyo
This concert video, now out of print in the USA, was
recorded during a brief headlining tour in Japan just
before the release of The Warning, and was released in
1985.
Rage For Order
This 1986 album dealing with three tiers of order -
personal, political, and technological - was not a big
commercial success, but is the favorite of many longtime
fans.
Operation: Mindcrime
This 1988 concept album introduced a small cast of vivid
characters, participants in a storyline involving drugs,
politics, religion, drugs, sex, and assassination, all
set to music.
Video: Mindcrime
This conceptual video was released in 1989, and features
videos for a half-dozen songs from Operation: Mindcrime,
including a "hidden" video with clues to the storyline.
Empire
A good bit more upbeat than Operation: Mindcrime, this
1990 album nonetheless dealt with several contemporary
issues. The album went gold in one week, and spawned
several singles.
Operation: Livecrime
This boxed set featuring a complete life performance of
Operation: Mindcrime on both CD and video was released
in late 1991, as Queensryche prepared to finish touring
in support of Empire.
Building Empires
This 100-minute retrospective video, featuring rare and
unreleased conceptual videos and live footage from the
Building Empires tour and television appearances.
________ _Fanclub_ ________
The Queensryche Campaign (membership - US $15, SASE for info)
Queensryche
P.O. Box 70503
Bellevue WA 98007-0503
USA
The $15 gets you an 8x10 autographed photo of the band, a
certificate of membership, a bumper sticker, at least one
window decal, a half-dozen stickers, and four newsletters
each year. The Fanclub also has a variety of merchandise
available.
The Pen Mate Club (send an SASE for info)
Tane Pruett
P.O. Box 26862
San Diego CA 92196
"Operation: Archyves" ($5 for a copy, SASE for info)
Joyce Filmer
The Queensryche Archives
P.O. Box 020265
Staten Island NY 10302-0003
USA
The $5 gets you a copy of the archives, which are the
most complete Queensryche discography known to exist,
covering everything (except bootlegs) that has ever been
released by, or written about, the band.
________ _The_Net-Digest_ ________
What the net-digest is
The net-digest, "Screaming in Digital," is essentially a
free weekly fan magazine in electronic text form. Common
subjects include anything and everything implicitly or
explicitly related to Queensryche.
How to subscribe or unsubscribe
To begin or stop receiving "Screaming in Digital," email
your request to queensryche-request@pilot.njin.net.
How to contribute information
To contribute information to "Screaming in Digital,"
email your submission to queensryche@pilot.njin.net.
How to contact the digest owner
If you have problems with or questions about "Screaming
in Digital," or wish to send something to only the
editor, email queensryche-owner@pilot.njin.net.
Where to get back-issues
You can FTP back-issues from glia.biostr.washington.edu,
in the directory /pub/queensryche/digest, and FTP or
use Gopher to retrieve them from ftp.uwp.edu, in the
directory /pub/music/lists/queensryche/digest.
________ _Digest_Tidbits_ ________
Digest guidelines
If you're contributing to the digest, try to use correct
spelling and grammar, and go easy on the flames. If any
of these really aren't practical for you, contribute
anyway, the editor can fix anything that's incorrect.
Since this is handled by a human, it's entirely okay to
have a lengthy signature file or send "test" messages,
they'll just get edited out. One thing to keep in mind
is that it's a weekly digest, and thus not a very fast
way of communicating crucial information.
The old list
A year or so before "Screaming in Digital" came along,
there was, for a short time, a Queensryche list called
"Breaking the Silence." Very little information from
it still survives, aside from a history of the band.
Abbreviations
Some of Queensryche's releases are called by shortened
forms of their titles. The Warning may be referred to
as Warning, Rage For Order as Rage, Operation: Mindcrime
and Operation: Livecrime as Mindcrime and Livecrime,
respectively. Initial abbreviations such as RFO and O:M
are less widely accepted.
T-shirts
A run of Screaming in Digital t-shirts were designed and
offered for purchase by subscribers in early 1993. All
the shirts were pre-ordered, so no extras are available.
However, if there is sufficient interest in the future,
more might be made.
Song lyrics
You can FTP lyrics to all the songs from all Queensryche
albums (and the ones they've contributed to movie
soundtracks, or used as b-sides on singles) from
glia.biostr.washington.edu in /pub/queensryche/lyrics, or
use FTP or Gopher to retrieve them from ftp.uwp.edu, in
/pub/music/lists/queensryche/lyrics. Lyrics are also
available from the Fanclub.
Discographies
Discographical information covering full-length releases,
singles, magazine articles, and bootlegs is available on
glia.biostr.washington.edu, /pub/queensryche/discography
for FTP, and can be retrieved through FTP or Gopher from
cs.uwp.edu, /pub/music/lists/queensryche/discography.
This information is extensive but still incomplete.
________ _Sheet_Music_ ________
Operation: Mindcrime
A sheet music and guitar tablature book of selections
from Operation: Mindcrime is commercially available.
Transcriptions of several of the individual songs have
also appeared in guitar magazines.
Empire
A sheet music and guitar tablature book of selections
from Empire is commercially available, as is individual
sheet music and tablature for Silent Lucidity.
________ _Bootlegs_ ________
What they are
Bootlegs are unauthorized recordings of a band. Yes,
they're illegal. Most of them have titles related to the
band, a photo on the cover, whatever. They're usually
live, of course, taped from concerts or live broadcasts.
The sound quality varies greatly based on the recording
technology used, the situation, and how many times the
recording is copied before it reaches you.
How many there are
There are dozens of bootlegs of Queensryche, ranging back
to the early days of the band. Some are in the vinyl LP
format, some are in the CD format, some are videotapes.
As mentioned above, the discographical information which
is available for FTP includes a list of bootlegs. Note:
this list is purely for reference purposes, and does not
contain information on prices, availability, or quality.
The digest owner has no bootlegs.
Where to get them
Since bootlegs are illegal, they can only rarely be found
in record stores. Record shows and sales tend to have
more of them, and specialty magazines and mail-order
companies are the most likely to have them. Sometimes
bootlegs are offered for sale by digest subscribers.
Cost
Bootlegs aren't cheap - they usually cost at least as
much as import releases. If you're not a stickler for
quality, though, there are people who'll trade you a tape
copy of a bootleg, for a tape copy of another bootleg, or
in some cases, another group altogether.
________ _Spoken_Words_ ________
The Whisper
Quite a bit at the end, including a clip of a female
shouting "Kill us all, kill us all!" taken from the movie
"Helter Skelter."
Neue Regel
Quite a bit spoken behind the music, ending in repetition
of, "It's all related."
Chemical Youth
Repeated, "I cannot help but get angry at times," at the
beginning of the song, then in the middle of the song,
"I used to wonder if there was something I could do with
my life that would really make a difference. Heh... you
can't change the world..." The voice continues behind
the music for some time.
Screaming in Digital
At the beginning of the song, "It occurs to me that I
might not grow old," from the left, then "If you want to
say goodbye, just say I love you," from the right.
I Remember Now ]
Over the hospital public address system, "Doctor Davis,
telephone please, Doctor Davis, telephone please. Doctor
Blair, Doctor Blair, Doctor J. Hamilton."
TV, "...the Soviets... In other news the bizarre murders
of political and religious leaders that have shocked this
city over the last month seemed to have ended as suddenly
as they began. No terrorist groups ... responsibility
for the slayings, but police have a suspect in custody
under observation in a state hospital. His identity is
being withheld pending further investigation. Sports and
weather next...
Debbie, "It's ten minutes past curfew, why are you still
up? Hello? Hello? Perhaps you need another shot.
There, that should do it. Sweet dreams... you bastard."
Nikki, "I remember now. I remember how it started. I
can't remember yesterday, I just remember doing what they
told me... told me... told me... told me."
Anarchy-X
Dr. X, "Do we have freedom? Do we have equality? This
country's changing! It is no longer for all of the
people! It is for some of the people!"
Operation: Mindcrime
Nikki (answering phone), "Hello?"
Dr. X (on phone), "Mindcrime!"
Nikki (answering phone again), "Hello?"
Speak
Nikki, at the beginning, "Hey, hey, listen to me!"
Whispered in choruses, "Revolution!"
Spoken at the end, "Speak!"
Spreading the Disease ]
Spoken, "Religion and sex are powerplays. Manipulate the
people for the money they pay. Selling skin, selling
God, the numbers look the same on their credit cards.
Politicians say no to drugs, while we pay for wars in
South America, fighting fire with empty words, while the
banks get fat, and the poor stay poor, and the rich get
rich, and the cops get paid to look away, as the one
percent rules America.
Repeated at the end, "Sex."
The Mission
TV, "...informing Washington, a technical violation of
the 1972 ABM Treaty..."
Televangelist, "I'm asking for hands to be uplifted in
just a moment. God the Holy Ghost is calling out to
embrace you. I want you to reach deep into your hearts
and your pocketbooks and take his hand. Some of you are
in a state of rebellion right now. You're saying..."
Nikki, "Bless me, father, for I have sinned."
Suite Sister Mary
Dr. X, "Dr. X: Kill her. That's all you have to do."
Nikki, "Kill Mary?"
Dr. X, "She's a risk... and get the priest as well."
Mary, "What are you doing out in the rain?"
Mary, "I've been waiting for you. Come in."
The Needle Lies
Nikki, "I've had enough and I want out!"
Dr. X, "You can't walk away now. Hahahahahaha..."
Electric Requiem
Nikki, "Anybody home? Mary?"
Breaking the Silence
Voices repeated at end of song, "We know you did it.
Why'd you do it?"
Nikki, "No... no... no!"
Eyes of a Stranger
Over the hospital public address system, "Doctor Davis,
telephone please, Doctor Davis, telephone please. Doctor
Blair, Doctor Blair, Doctor J. Hamilton."
Best I Can
Man at beginning of song, "Don't worry dear, he'll never
find the gun."
Woman, "Don't be scared."
The Thin Line
At beginning of song, "Let's go."
Della Brown
Woman at beginning of song, "Taxi!"
Another Rainy Night
In middle of song, "You have no new messages in your
mailbox."
Empire
At beginning of song, "Next message saved Saturday, at
9:24 PM... Sorry, I'm just, it's starting to hit me like
a, um, um, two-ton heavy thing."
In middle of song, "In fiscal year 1986 to 87, local,
state, and federal governments spent a combined total of
60.6 billion dollars on law enforcement. Federal law
enforcement expenditures ranked last in absolute dollars
and accounted for only a sixth percent of all federal
spending. By way of comparison, the federal government
spent 24 million more on space exploration and 43 times
more on national defense and international relations than
on law enforcement."
Silent Lucidity
In middle of song, "Visualize your dream. Record it in
the present tense. Put it into a permanent form. If you
persist in your efforts, you can achieve dream control...
dream control... dream control."
Overlapping that voice, "How's that, then, better?"
At end of solo, "Help me."
Anybody Listening?
Last 70 seconds of song, faint voices behind sounds of
wind and surf, impossible to make out.
________ _Personalities_ ________
Michael Kamen
Michael Kamen - known for his movie music - arranged
orchestration for The Warning, Operation: Mindcrime,
Silent Lucidity, and Operation: Livecrime. He also
co-wrote the song Real World, which can be found on the
soundtrack of Last Action Hero, with Queensryche.
The Operation: Mindcrime cast
Sister Mary: Pamela Moore
Dr. X: Anthony Valentine
Nurse: Debbie Wheeler
Anchorman: Mike Snyder
Preacher: Scott Mateer
The Moronic Monks of Morin Heights
This anonymous choral group (the staff of Le Studio, in
Morin Heights, Canada) provided the chorus vocals for
Operation: Mindcrime and Operation: Livecrime.
Metal Sushi
Metal Sushi - whose real identity is a carefully guarded
secret - is the head of the Fanclub, and edits 'Ryche &
Roll Times, the Fanclub's quarterly newsletter.
________ _Related_Bands_ ________
Progressive rock and metal
These bands all either influenced Queensryche, were
influenced by some of the same bands as Queensryche,
influenced some of the same bands as Queensryche, or were
influenced by Queensryche. Below are listed the best
places to get information on those bands - newsgroups and
e-mail lists or digests. Participation in any of these
forums is strongly encouraged! There are many other good
progressive rock and metal bands out there, too.
Crimson Glory News: alt.rock-n-roll.metal.progressive
Dream Theater News: alt.rock-n-roll.metal.progressive
Mail: ytsejam-request@bnf.com
Echolyn News: alt.music.progressive
Fates Warning News: alt.rock-n-roll.metal.progressive
Genesis News: alt.music.progressive
Mail: genesis-request@cs.unca.edu
Heir Apparent News: alt.rock-n-roll.metal (?)
Iron Maiden News: alt.rock-n-roll.metal
King's X News: alt.rock-n-roll.metal.progressive
Mail: n8846069@henson.cc.wwu.edu
Marillion News: alt.music.progressive
Mail: freaks-request@bnf.com
Mercyful Fate News: alt.rock-n-roll.metal.progressive
Mercury Rising News: alt.rock-n-roll.metal.progressive
Mail: glgoldsm@cbda9.apgea.army.mil
Pink Floyd News: alt.music.progressive
Mail: echoserv@fawnya.tcs.com
Rush News: alt.music.rush
Mail: rush-mgr@syrinx.umd.edu
Sacred Warrior News: rec.music.christian
Yes News: alt.music.progressive
________ _The_End_ ________
