Official Queensryche thread: Kickstart the next album

[Samsara]

Also - did anyone ever actually buy/hear the 2021 remasters on vinyl? I can only find "reviews" on Amazon and most of them say that the albums sound bad or are the not so good 2003 remasters still.  I never had Operation Mindcrime or Empire on vinyl and I'd really like to as they are great records and a big part of my music listening history. I just want to know if it's worth it.  Even if anyone has a link to a credible review of the recent remasters - post it if you can.

I didn't purchase them, as I have the original Mindcrime on vinyl and the last reissue of Empire on vinyl. I would not be surprised, however, if those reviews are correct. It's not just one or two, it seems like most who pay attention to sound quality do not like what they heard. And the whole project (Empire 30th and the Mindcrime reissue) were done on the cheap - just repackaged existing stuff.

[fivestring]

I didn't purchase them, as I have the original Mindcrime on vinyl and the last reissue of Empire on vinyl. I would not be surprised, however, if those reviews are correct. It's not just one or two, it seems like most who pay attention to sound quality do not like what they heard. And the whole project (Empire 30th and the Mindcrime reissue) were done on the cheap - just repackaged existing stuff.

Thank you for the additional information and feedback. That's really too bad that these re-re-releases aren't of good quality. Now with two variations out there that aren't good, I can't imagine how difficult finding any original pressings might be.

[goo-goo]

Whip selling some memorabilia (QR and non-QR)

https://www.ebay.com/sch/fromthevaults/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

[Samsara]

If you're in the Seattle area, consider joining us for this book signing event. Should be a great time!

October 23-24 at the Hotel America Snoqualmie. Queensryche plays on the 23rd up the road at the Snoqualmie Casino. So come get a book, check out all the great QR rarities, and then go see the gig!

Join us for S2k21 – A Queensr˙che Book Signing and Rarities Exposition on Saturday, October 23, and Sunday, October 24, at the Hotel America Snoqualmie (formerly the Snoqualmie Inn), in Snoqualmie, Washington. Queensr˙che will be performing at the Snoqualmie Casino down the road on the night of October 23, so stop in before the show, or after the gig on the following day, to check out and buy a copy of the band's first biography, Building An Empire: The Story of Queensr˙che. Authors James R. Beach, Brian L. Naron and Brian J. Heaton will all be on-hand to sign your copy and talk about the book, Queensr˙che and Pacific Northwest metal history.

And as you're waiting to have your book autographed, you can peruse The R˙chean Arch˙ves, the legendary traveling museum of Queensr˙che rarities and artifacts that will be on display in a museum-like format throughout the 1,700 sq. ft. conference room. With rare audio and video of Queensr˙che playing in the background, this massive collection features pieces from some of the world's largest Queensr˙che collectors, who will also be on-hand to talk about the items. This massive curated collection was previously displayed a handful of times in conjunction with Queensr˙che's Seattle 98, 99, and 2001 (S98, S99, S2k1) fan club events, but hasn't seen the light of day in years!

In addition, these events often bring in special guests from the Pacific Northwest music and art scene, so NW Metalworx Music will also have a selection of its books and music available for purchase. You never know who may pop by and be willing to autograph. Don't miss out!

A 10-room block at a discounted rate ($179 per room for the first 10 rooms, $219 per room thereafter) has been established by the Hotel America Snoqualmie for this event. To book a room at the lower rate, you must CALL the hotel at (425) 363-3888 and mention the room block rate under “Brian Naron.” The discount will NOT work with online booking. The S2k21 Book Signing and Rarities Exposition will be held on Saturday, October 23 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, October 24, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Access to the book signing and R˙chean Arch˙ves is FREE. This is about sharing good times with fellow fans and enjoying the music of Queensryche. Come, hang out, talk about your favorite band and music and enjoy the atmosphere with friends. Then on Saturday night, head on down the road to the Snoqualmie Casino to rock with us as Queensr˙che takes the stage!

Look for the pre-orders for Building An Empire: The Story of Queensr˙che to begin the week of August 23 on nwmetalworxmusic.com!

What:  S2k21 – A Queensr˙che Book Signing and Rarities Exposition
When: Saturday, October 23 & Sunday, October 24
Where: Hotel America Snoqualmie, 35228 Snoqualmie Pkwy, Snoqualmie, WA 98065
Time: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Saturday)/11 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Sunday)
Cost: Free! 

[TAC]

Wow! The Queensryche Convention.

[Samsara]

Wow! The Queensryche Convention.

The event Naron put on 20 yrs ago was awesome. Tons of rare QR stuff to check out. Essentially a traveling museum. While writing the book, I rediscovered some pics of his Rychean Archyves that I took. And we just figured why not do it again? It'll be fun and a nice addition to the signing.

[TAC]

That sounds awesome. I'm not on social media....besides DTF but I'd love to see what the scene looks like.

[cfmoran13]

Damn!  If I were anywhere near the Washington State area, I'd be there.  That's my birthday weekend.  Would've been the perfect present to myself.

[Samsara]

That sounds awesome. I'm not on social media....besides DTF but I'd love to see what the scene looks like.

I'll take pics. Naron doesn't have many because he was busy chatting and putting it on all the other times over the years. (and cellphone cameras arent like they are today.) So I'll make sure I take a bunch. Video too, as we're hoping to have some special guests pop in here and there both days.

[TAC]

 

[Samsara]

For those of you interested in pre-ordering the Queensryche biography, we finally have the initial pre-orders available on nwmetalworxmusic.com. Amazon and all that will come later. The hardcover special edition version is unique to the nwmetalworxmusic.com site, however. Amazon will only have the paperback and kindle versions.

Here is the announcement and the link to pre-order. Thanks to those of you who expressed interest in wanting to get one. Hope you enjoy it.

Queensr˙che. A majestic name for a band that found itself at the pinnacle of rock and roll stardom thanks to the Grammy-nominated song “Silent Lucidity” in 1991. But how Queensr˙che got to the moutaintop, fell, and rose again to be labeled as one of heavy metal's most regal acts has never been told...until now.

Building An Empire: The Story of Queensr˙che examines how the five original members of the band came together in the eastern suburbs of Seattle to create some of the most influential heavy metal albums of the 1980s, including the conceptual masterpiece Operation: Mindcrime. Discover how the band weathered the loss of key members, a changing industry at the turn of the century, a bitter lawsuit and numerous obstacles to continue a career that has spanned four decades and counting...

Written by James R. Beach, with Brian L. Naron and Brian J. Heaton, Building An Empire: The Story of Queensr˙che examines how the band evolved from album to album, weaving interviews with the band members, managers, producers, peers, family and friends to help tell this honest, riveting tale of how five guys from Seattle's Eastside overcame the odds to become one of the most respected bands in hard rock and heavy metal. Paul Suter, the acclaimed writer from Kerrang! who broke the story on Queensr˙che in early 1983, penned the book's Foreword. Includes hundreds of rare photos and images throughout the band's career.

- Signed/Limited Edition hardcover of only 300 copies. Includes all full-color pages as well (paperback only has black and white pages). *EXCLUSIVE TO PRE-ORDER ONLY FOR THE HC WILL INCLUDE A BONUS INTERVIEW CD (Featuring 3 rare radio interviews from 1983, 1984 and `1997 with the band) AND POSTER.

(PRE-ORDER. ESTIMATED RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 25, 2021.)

Link: www.nwmetalworxmusic.com

>>>>And for an update, we're up against our deadline. Last edits being done this week, designer does his thing this weekend and the following weekend, and then we proof it mid-September, and off to the printer toward the end of September.

I took a break from doing my final text and image edits. The three of us have been burning the midnight oil the last several days to get this done by Friday.

[devieira73]

Hi Brian! The link isn't work for me. Here is the message:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

I tried to change the configuration of my google chrome, but nothing.

[TAC]

I got the same thing.

[Zoom E]

I got the same thing.

Me too.

[bosk1]

Come on, man!  Help us give you our money!

[Samsara]

Thanks everyone. Yeah, we just found out there's something wonky going on and people can't access the site or order. I've alerted the appropriate folks. Not sure when it happened, because as of 11 p.m. Pacific last night, we were getting a bunch of orders (tons of hardcovers, which is really appreciated). I'll let you know when it is fixed. Bad timing. Which is always par for the course. 

[Samsara]

We're still working on the main website issue, but we also have a store page on the Storenvy site you can purchase the books from directly here:

https://www.storenvy.com/stores/783060-nw-metalworx-music

[Samsara]

Regular website back up and running to pre-order the book.

nwmetalworxmusic.com

Thanks for your interest everyone. I think we did Queensryche and all of us fans of the band, proud.

[wolfking]

Thanks everyone. Yeah, we just found out there's something wonky going on and people can't access the site or order.I've alerted the appropriate folks. Not sure when it happened, because as of 11 p.m. Pacific last night, we were getting a bunch of orders (tons of hardcovers, which is really appreciated). I'll let you know when it is fixed. Bad timing. Which is always par for the course. 

Rockenfield?

[Mladen]

Nope. Tate.

[wolfking]

Nope. Tate.

Of course.

[Samsara]

Apparently some band members and their representatives are saying they never knew about the book, and according to rumor, have asked fan groups and sites to stop talking about the book. 

So we've made a collective statement and posted it on the book's Facebook page to be crystal clear. I include it here, as I know some of those fan groups and such frequent this thread to see what's posted:

It has come to our attention that certain members and representatives of Queensryche are claiming that they never heard about our book until they found out on Blabbermouth. While we don't know what the band as a whole knew, or didn't know, we can say this: We reached out multiple times to the band through those who work for them inviting the band to take part. We never received a reply. In fact, one person who we interviewed for the book specifically asked permission of the band before agreeing to be interviewed. So to our knowledge, some members of the band absolutely knew about this project. In addition, we made it a point in our first press release about the book on December 30, 2020, that the book was an unauthorized account, just so readers knew that this wasn't an official release by Queensryche.

The bottom line is this: We (James Beach, Brian Naron and Brian Heaton) are lifelong fans of Queensryche, and have worked hard to tell the band's complete story with amazing detail, accuracy, and respect. This book isn't some dirt-dishing tell-all. It's a biography that tells their amazing story, album by album, tour after tour, year after year. We don't shy away from some of the more difficult years in Queensryche's past, but we don't dwell on them either. Our book about Queensryche was written with the word perseverance in mind – how the band continually faced obstacles, knocked them down, and has continued to stand proud for almost 40 years now.

We've written something we're immensely proud of that we feel has honored the band's amazing legacy, and is something all Queensryche fans will thoroughly enjoy. Thanks for your interest, and we look forward to your reactions once the book is released in October.

I'm not AT ALL surprised that the band is all of a sudden now saying they didn't know and allegedly trying to sway people not to talk about it. Because the book is actually here, generating sales (thanks everyone), and they probably aren't liking someone else making money. And to be clear, for folks who don't know how band biographies work, anyone is entitled to write a biography on a band. It doesn't have to have the group's blessing. In fact, most of the biographies on bands are done just this way -- by authors who are historians and collectors, etc.

Anyway, we wrote this book as a celebration of Queensryche and it is something that we are extremely proud of. And we feel once you read it (whether a hardcore fan or a casual one), and the band reads it, everyone will agree we've told their story in a respectful, classy manner.

[jammindude]

Nope. Tate.

[in my best Iago impression]
“I’m gonna have a heart attack and DIE from that surprise!”

[Samsara]

Hey everyone.

For those of you interested in our Queensryche biography, the paperback edition arrived from the printer this week!



These will start shipping on Monday (10/18). The hardcovers are due back from the printer in mid-November (these take a bit more time, as they have a dust jacket, full color glossy pages, etc.)

If you'd like to order the paperback now that it is in stock, you can at nwmetalworxmusic.com. In the next month, it'll be on Amazon (at a slightly higher price than our pre-order price), along with the Kindle versions.

350+ pages
Tons of images of rare posters, items, gigs, etc.
It's the definitive story told respectfully and in a celebratory manner.

Thanks to all of you who expressed support and interest in this project. It has been very rewarding and pre-orders have sold incredibly well. So much appreciated to you all who trusted us to deliver something good and put in an order. We hope you will like it!

Any of you up in the Pacific Northwest, our book signing is at the Hotel America Snoqualmie on 10/23 & 10/24. Next week already. We'll be there all day on the 23rd, and for about three or four hours on the 24th. The entire conference room will feature the Rychean Arcyhves museum, presented by the three of us, but featuring items from some of the world's biggest Queensryche collections (notably from my co-author, Brian Naron). So even if you don't want a book, but want to check out all the stuff, stop on by. It's absolutely free and some really cool stuff will be displayed to check out. It has been 20 years since some of this stuff has been publicly seen. Would be nice to see you all and talk old school Queensryche.

And for those interested, Queensryche is playing 5 minutes up the road at Snoqualmie Casino on the night of the 23rd. Should be a fun weekend. Hope you can join us all then.

 

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[JediKnight1969]

Here we go...

https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/founding-queensryche-drummer-scott-rockenfield-sues-fellow-original-members-michael-wilton-and-eddie-jackson/

[IDontNotDoThings]

Here we go...

https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/founding-queensryche-drummer-scott-rockenfield-sues-fellow-original-members-michael-wilton-and-eddie-jackson/

[gzarruk]

Here we go...

https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/founding-queensryche-drummer-scott-rockenfield-sues-fellow-original-members-michael-wilton-and-eddie-jackson/

 

[King Postwhore]

Ugh.  This band excels at not communicating.   The court is how they communicate 

[ozzy554]

Scott's complaints do sound plausible but I think his silence works against him. Everybody else has remained consistent in their story of Scott going radio silent and not talking to anybody since 2017.

Until this Lawsuit we've heard nothing from him but cryptic nonsense. It will be interesting to see if he has any proof that he tried to make any kind of contact with the others.

[Kwyjibo]

If he's getting no money that would be legally his, why wait 4 years to file a lawsuit?

[T-ski]

With each passing day, Chris DeGarmo looks smarter and smarter.

[KevShmev]

With each passing day, Chris DeGarmo looks smarter and smarter.

Haha, I was just going to say that.  If he hears about all of this nonsense, he has to be feeling pretty smart for getting away from this trainwreck long before the crash was on the horizon.

[TAC]

If he's getting no money that would be legally his, why wait 4 years to file a lawsuit?

Probably waiting for Giuliani to be available.

[ozzy554]

He's just really really bad when it comes to checking his bank statements.

[TAC]

He's just really really bad when it comes to checking his bank statements.

Probably still using a checkbook.