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Geoff Tate's career is really taking off since he split with Queensryche. On Wednesday, October 17, he will be playing the 605-seat Newton Theatre in Newton, New Jersey. Tickets are $39 premium, $29 orchestra, and $24 balcony. I'm not planning on going, but if I was, I'd definitely go for the balcony, as it might be out of spitting distance.

On Thursday, October 25, he will be playing at Mexicali Live in Teaneck, NJ. Tickets are $20.

Starrider wrote:Geoff Tate's career is really taking off since he split with Queensryche. On Wednesday, October 17, he will be playing the 605-seat Newton Theatre in Newton, New Jersey. Tickets are $39 premium, $29 orchestra, and $24 balcony. I'm not planning on going, but if I was, I'd definitely go for the balcony, as it might be out of spitting distance.

On Thursday, October 25, he will be playing at Mexicali Live in Teaneck, NJ. Tickets are $20.

He's playing here in Baltimore this month. I'm going.

Starrider wrote:Geoff Tate's career is really taking off since he split with Queensryche. On Wednesday, October 17, he will be playing the 605-seat Newton Theatre in Newton, New Jersey.

verslibre wrote:

Starrider wrote:Geoff Tate's career is really taking off since he split with Queensryche. On Wednesday, October 17, he will be playing the 605-seat Newton Theatre in Newton, New Jersey.

Yeah, that's what I thought...Taking off?

I heart sarcasm.

Both sides of this Queensryche thing will fail...too public, too dishonest, too ugly, too much talk...

The snippets I've heard off this new solo effort are mediocre. I'm not sure Tate knows what a "True Hard Rock Record" really is if he keeps
insisting on that is what he set out to do here. It really sounds like boring demos.

Curious to hear reviews from the concerts, though...
Does anyone really think Blotzer can handle the old Ryche stuff, if Tate even goes there?

Just checked Tate's touring schedule on his website again. His tour begins on Wednesday, October 17, and he is playing every night from then through November 3. That's 18 nights in a row. That's a lot for a singer of any age, but absurd for someone his age (53). I guess we'll see how his voice holds up.

based on what I heard.. he needs to start using Autotune..

The new guy for Queensryche sounds really good and can definitely cover the older material, but I want to hear new music from the band AND I want the band to start writing more material in the vein of Queen of the Reich, Walk In The Shadows, etc.. the stuff that Queensryche started putting out from "Hear In The New Frontier" on out past that just sucked royally! And, I have to put that blame on Geoff Tate. So, it doesn't surprise me that he's playing to very small venues - I think he fizzles out and Queensryche will at least be a renewed band for a little while.

I just want to know why the hell he would book dates on 18 consecutive nights. He shouldn't be that hard up that he needs the money that bad. It can't be very profitable playing in 600 seat theaters and a bunch of night clubs. His voice isn't what it used to be and he's not a young guy. He's going to destroy his voice. I would imagine he is going to be tuned down, and hopefully he won't be lipping.

Starrider wrote:I just want to know why the hell he would book dates on 18 consecutive nights. He shouldn't be that hard up that he needs the money that bad. It can't be very profitable playing in 600 seat theaters and a bunch of night clubs. His voice isn't what it used to be and he's not a young guy. He's going to destroy his voice. I would imagine he is going to be tuned down, and hopefully he won't be lipping.

Maybe it's going to be an acoustic set...LOL!

Yoda wrote:The new guy for Queensryche sounds really good and can definitely cover the older material, but I want to hear new music from the band AND I want the band to start writing more material in the vein of Queen of the Reich, Walk In The Shadows, etc.

Don't we all...

Yoda wrote: the stuff that Queensryche started putting out from "Hear In The New Frontier" on out past that just sucked royally!

Promised Land was full of empty promises. Just a couple good songs on that one. Haven't listened to it since...oh, '95 or '96.

Starrider wrote:I just want to know why the hell he would book dates on 18 consecutive nights. He shouldn't be that hard up that he needs the money that bad. It can't be very profitable playing in 600 seat theaters and a bunch of night clubs. His voice isn't what it used to be and he's not a young guy. He's going to destroy his voice. I would imagine he is going to be tuned down, and hopefully he won't be lipping.

Tate gets guarantees at these venues...he's not playing for the door. He's making money just showing up.

verslibre wrote:

Yoda wrote:The new guy for Queensryche sounds really good and can definitely cover the older material, but I want to hear new music from the band AND I want the band to start writing more material in the vein of Queen of the Reich, Walk In The Shadows, etc.

Don't we all...

Yoda wrote: the stuff that Queensryche started putting out from "Hear In The New Frontier" on out past that just sucked royally!

Promised Land was full of empty promises. Just a couple good songs on that one. Haven't listened to it since...oh, '95 or '96.

I actually really like "Promised Land". The music is dark and depressing, yes, but it works and the atmosphere created on that album is good, in my opinion. I don't like it as well as their previous albums but it's certainly heads and shoulders above anything they've done since then.

Pelata wrote:

Starrider wrote:I just want to know why the hell he would book dates on 18 consecutive nights. He shouldn't be that hard up that he needs the money that bad. It can't be very profitable playing in 600 seat theaters and a bunch of night clubs. His voice isn't what it used to be and he's not a young guy. He's going to destroy his voice. I would imagine he is going to be tuned down, and hopefully he won't be lipping.

Tate gets guarantees at these venues...he's not playing for the door. He's making money just showing up.

It can't be that much of a guarantee though if the venues are that small and ticket prices are that low, can it? I can see a night club giving a decent guarantee hoping they make it up on bar tabs, but a 605-seat theater in the middle of nowhere in northwest New Jersey just wouldn't seem to have the financial resources to offer him a huge guarantee. He'd have to be banking on merchandise/CD sales in the lobby. I'd love to see some figures, but I know that's not going to happen. Maybe he's just in the position that he wants to get his name back out there. I'd be concerned about getting bad reviews though as a result of being shot from playing gigs 18 nights in a row at age 53.

conversationpc wrote:

verslibre wrote:

Yoda wrote:The new guy for Queensryche sounds really good and can definitely cover the older material, but I want to hear new music from the band AND I want the band to start writing more material in the vein of Queen of the Reich, Walk In The Shadows, etc.

Don't we all...

Yoda wrote: the stuff that Queensryche started putting out from "Hear In The New Frontier" on out past that just sucked royally!

Promised Land was full of empty promises. Just a couple good songs on that one. Haven't listened to it since...oh, '95 or '96.

I actually really like "Promised Land". The music is dark and depressing, yes, but it works and the atmosphere created on that album is good, in my opinion. I don't like it as well as their previous albums but it's certainly heads and shoulders above anything they've done since then.

The prob is that's like saying it doesn't stink quite as much as the logs they crapped out afterward.

Just heard live clips of the "new" Queensryche's lead singer from Corpus Christi. Holy crap! I almost had goosebumps La Torre is just about a dead ringer for Tate. I know at this point he's just basically rehashing Tate's stuff but from someone who never got to see the Tate-led Queensryche in their prime, it's as close as you can get.

Geoff has enlisted Glen Drover as his guitarist. That guy is really good.

Glen Drover - Ground Zero

He's not playing anywhere near me unfortunately. I'd go to hear him again.

But the entire split with Queensryche is EVERYONE's fault.

Starrider wrote:

Pelata wrote:

Starrider wrote:I just want to know why the hell he would book dates on 18 consecutive nights. He shouldn't be that hard up that he needs the money that bad. It can't be very profitable playing in 600 seat theaters and a bunch of night clubs. His voice isn't what it used to be and he's not a young guy. He's going to destroy his voice. I would imagine he is going to be tuned down, and hopefully he won't be lipping.

Tate gets guarantees at these venues...he's not playing for the door. He's making money just showing up.

It can't be that much of a guarantee though if the venues are that small and ticket prices are that low, can it? I can see a night club giving a decent guarantee hoping they make it up on bar tabs, but a 605-seat theater in the middle of nowhere in northwest New Jersey just wouldn't seem to have the financial resources to offer him a huge guarantee. He'd have to be banking on merchandise/CD sales in the lobby. I'd love to see some figures, but I know that's not going to happen. Maybe he's just in the position that he wants to get his name back out there. I'd be concerned about getting bad reviews though as a result of being shot from playing gigs 18 nights in a row at age 53.

It's probably not huge...but enough to pay the band, expenses, and his salary. The venue is banking on alcohol sales as well as tickets.

And Promised Land was the last great Queensryche album...IMO.

Starrider wrote:I just want to know why the hell he would book dates on 18 consecutive nights. He shouldn't be that hard up that he needs the money that bad. It can't be very profitable playing in 600 seat theaters and a bunch of night clubs. His voice isn't what it used to be and he's not a young guy. He's going to destroy his voice. I would imagine he is going to be tuned down, and hopefully he won't be lipping.

Yea he really must be about the dumbest dumbass to do this. It just killed Dokken's voice when he did those 30 nights in a row or whatever it was. I had to do two three nighters a few weeks apart in August, I think I'm just about recovered from it.

TageRyche wrote:He's not playing anywhere near me unfortunately. I'd go to hear him again.

But the entire split with Queensryche is EVERYONE's fault.

Seems to me like it's more Tate's fault that anyone's but something like this doesn't happen without everyone sharing at least a little of the blame.