Let's not forget that this is live and towards the end of the performance.

So few reactors mention how accurate Chris DeGarmo’s harmonies are during the last verse. He nails it perfectly.

Best metal vocalist of the 80’s.

Vocally speaking , the acoustic version of " I Will Remember" is a must. Not the vocal gymnastics, but pure singing ability, agility, range ,and expression are on FULL display in the way only singers can understand.

Hitting those high Es as a Baritone is mind blowing!

Second to the last song of that concert, last song is "Queen of the Ryche"

Tate, Dio, Halford and Dickinson are the 80’s metal gods!!! Glad you enjoyed the vid!!🤘🏼

BEST metal vocalist EVER! Mind blowing in his prime! I saw this tour live 'back in the day' at L'Amour Rock Club in Brooklyn, NY, and I STILL have chills having witnessed this vocal phenom!

I grew up in Seattle during this time. Even took a few lessons from David Kyle but I couldn’t afford more than two. He had long grey hair and a little pot belly. 😝. All my friends wanted to sing like Geoff back then. We’d walk down the middle of Southcenter Mall and sing Queensryche lyrics at the top of our lungs. People would stare, shake their heads and frown. Such good times. Thank you Queensryche! For adding more magic to my teen years.

One of THE live performances of a singer ever captured. I don´t know how many times I´ve listened and watched this, but it never loses its impact. And I enjoy watching people´s first impressions. Very much appreciated !

Geoff Tate was untouchable back in the 80’s. He is classically trained and he’s actually a baritone, but he can nail those high notes easily. The drummer, Scott Rockenfield, is one of the best drummers out there, and I love his chain draped drum set! Totally cool!!!

My favorite singer... Geoff is just amazing

When a vocal coach is headbanging, you know this song is a banger!!!

Please check out their song “ Queensryche - Suite Sister Mary “ and not only do you gets Geoffs vocals.. But you get an unforgettable experience of female vocals to compliment him. It’s amazing. They complement each other so good and the LIVE version gives you an unforgettable experience of Geoff doing what he does best on stage and singing 💯

Fun fact. This was an encore song after a 2 1/2 hour concert!

What is also impressive is how he sings a couple of words to start a phrase in his chest voice and in the next syllable he completely switches register and goes up to those high notes, like its nothing.

4:24 This is an often overlooked note about this specific song performance.........THIS IS AN ENCORE!

Geoff's combination of tone, range and vibrato made him virtually untouchable in the 80s and 90s. I was a musician on the metal scene in New Orleans back in the 80s and 90s and virtually every singer that I came across back then aspired to be Geoff Tate. Great reaction btw! Hope that you venture down into the Queensryche rabbit hole!

And he's a baritone. Which makes it even more an impressive of a feat. This was also one of the last songs of the evening after a full set. Seeing Tate live in the 80's was an experience you'll never forget. Queensryche was one of the few bands that may have been better live than in studio.

In terms of pure pipes, Geoff Tate was (IMO) the most vocally gifted of all the great, 80s Metal singers.

I went to see Dio and Queensryche were the support act. Normally I’d have been in the bar, but I always tried to hear a song by them before heading upstairs. I’d never heard of this band, and this was the first of two nights in Birmingham U.K.. I am not a musician, but I recognise excellence, and the whole band was just top notch, right out of the box. But Geoff’s vocals blew me away. So much so that the second night, I went with a friend and almost literally dragged him to see the support band, much to his dismay. He thanked me for it later. Imagine, Geoff Tate, followed by RJD….followed by the same again the next night. Bliss.

Basic technology. 40 years ago. No auto tune..in-ear monitors or technical support wizardry of today's shows. 100% pure talent on LIVE display. I'm so grateful to have grown up in this incredible era. Legendary skill.🎤🔥🎸🥁

awesome reaction, Geoff tate in his prime was untouchbal!! can i have a request from them is (eyes of a stranger live 1988 in cologne) insane band and vocal performance including the backing vocals!!!

It is indeed, an excellent rabbit hole to dive into. I've watched at least a dozen reaction videos for this, and I never get tired of the expression on people's faces when Geoff hits that E5. In case you're curious, the set list for this show was 10 songs. This one was number 9, so he had been performing for around 35-40 minutes before dropping this gem.

I got to give some love to that incredible solo, wow.

Geoff Tate of Queensryche, Ann Wilson and her youngest sister Nancy Wilson, the late Layne Staley of Alice in Chains and the late Chris Cornell of Soundgarden lived in Metro Seattle in the 1970s. They were students of the late singing coach David Kyle. Marilyn Horne and Frederica von Stade, who moved to my hometown area the San Francisco Bay Area 🌁, are his other students. Written by Geoffrey Tate and Chris DeGarmo. Unfortunately, guitarist DeGarmo quit. Queensryche has not been the same since it fired Geoffrey Tate. Suggested video 📹: Queensryche performs Queen of the Reich live.

This was recorded live at the END of the set. He had already been singing like that for over an hour.

Metal in the 80's, was blessed, with some really world class singers. Who knew in less than fifty years, computers would have to do all the singing.

Thank you so much for this, I am a baritone like tate and have his range. YOU are the first coach that explained this in a way that i was hanging on to all your words. I understand what you mean about loving that note. When you nail it and the acousting in your own hear are in the perfect spot...it just rings like a bell inside the head and becomes so easy to hold it. So many coaches kept using the falsetto term and I always felt it was more than that. I have Noticed that Baritones tend to have the higher of the ranges

Check out the live acoustic version of their song "I will Remember".

Eyes of a Stranger , Road to Madness & I will Remember are Highly recommended 🤟 any one of those

Having seen them live in their beginnings was so very special and transformative for me, personally, on so many levels. Suffice it to say, they were and still remain so underrated. I will always love them for what they gave to me in their music!

He’s an astounding singer.

enjoyed your analysis

Geoff Tate best vocalist not only in metal but in music How Queensryche never got the full recognition they deserved is nothing short of criminal

Love your reactions. I cry at the amazingness of him every time. The rest of this live concert was equally amazing.

Geoff Tate in his prime was amazing, Queensryche amazing band , great times 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

Geoff Tate's vocal coach was the great David Kyle, who also coached Layne Staley, Chris Cornell, and Ann Wilson, among others.

Love Tate, Halford, Dickenson from the 80’s into the 90’s with their sustained high note vocal abilities… A great example from the 2000’s to today is Myles Kennedy - who seemingly effortlessly can do the same thing Live with 4 octave range and breath control!💪 He is an ardent student of Bel Canto techniques and has only gotten better with age, rather than the other way around with most ‘rock’ vocalists. For Live - AlterBridge anything from Royal Albert Hall concert with Parallax orchestra will give a beautiful example of late 40’s Myles sounding so great!

Unbelievable! Wonderful explanation of the vocal talent of the singer.

Saw queensryche in the eighties they were such a tight band live just awesome live.geoff tate one of the greatest rock singers ever

Geoff really is just something else isn't he? And Queensryche to this day are a great, great band.

Queen of the Reich, same concert…impressive!

At the time this was recorded this is the first of two encores. 13th song that night. Queensrÿche the art of live threw out there 40 years. Queensrÿche Hands down is one of the greatest live acts musicly of the mid 80s-2010 world wide

I ❤ watching ppls reaction 2 his beautiful voice. They can't possibly say anything bad.

I had one of those magical bonding moments with my Dad when I was a young man. My Dad loved country music, shocker. But one day I just had to share Geoff Tate and Queensrÿche with him. I forget which song it was. One of the many where he starts out singing low and then reaches the stratosphere. My Dad's eyes lit up, "How does he do that?!!". People with no desire for heavy metal can listen to Queensrÿche and be blown away by the talent.

This whole concert is worth a watch! Especially "Queen of the Ryche" and "The Lady Wore Black" 🤘

He’s still incredible and touring nonstop today! I’m going to Ireland with him next year! He’s a huge vocal influence & good friend! Great reaction!!!!

I saw this tour. I became an instant fan!

Geoff Tate, Rob Halford (Judas Priest/Halford/Fight), Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden/Samson) and Ronnie James Dio (Dio/Black Sabbath/Rainbow) are the greatest metal vocalists to ever live.

I' seen this band the first time during the Empire tour at the Joe Louis Arena way back in 91 I believe, they played the full Empire Album and Operation Mindcrime.. i was so blown away that I seen them 4 more times over the years. I have seen legends, from Clapton to Billy Joel to Elton John etc and this band was the best live band I have ever seen. You need to go down this rabbit hole and watch the evolution of his voice. I'd hit every album all the way up to Hear in the now frontier and then it was over. Lol

Really all of these reaction videos just confirm what I sensed in the 80's when this song first came out...the vocal performance was untouchable. Not today or since can pull this off the way Geoff did at that time...not even Geoff himself. A combination of technique, youth, talent, and the moment. I'm at least glad this performance and band get the accolades today for what they were back then...an absolute masterpiece.

Hi. New to your channel. Some more info on Geoff Tate for you. His aunt was a professional opera singer. He trained in opera starting at 8 years old, I believe. If you want to see/hear more, watch their pinnacle album "Operation: Mindcrime" performed live as "Operation: Livecrime" from 1991. It's a concept album, PHENOMENAL. This song was performed in their encore along with "Queen of the Reich" which is another mind-blowing performance. Geoff still tours, currently with Adrian Vandenberg. Thanks for this reaction!

I'm vocally trained. I've heard a lot of great voices. The roundness, range and overall quality of his voice is so rare it's like finding a unicorn running down Rodeo Drive on the 4th of July in a snow storm.

Love your analysis and appreciation of Geoff's off-the-charts vocals! This is the original lineup of the band, which is MAGIC! This is a song off their FIRST full-length album. Geoff stays in his higher register primarily in their first couple of albums, and then brings in more if his lower register later on. Whatever notes he sings are just spectacular! EVERY member if the band is fantastic! I really enjoy vocal coaches and other professionals' breakdowns and observations. Very informative and interesting! And yes, the three E5's (especially that second one -- what tone!) are something Geoff's known for. He has amazing tone, pitch, vibrato, expression...he just has it ALL! And, he's a baritone! You might want to try these songs to hear some samples of their diversity: "THE KILLING WORDS" and "I WILL REMEMBER", and "DELLA BROWN" all from MTV Unplugged ,1992. "ANYBODY LISTENING?" "THE WHISPER" "JET CITY WOMAN" "ONE MORE TIME" "ANOTHER RAINY NIGHT" "I DREAM IN INFRARED " "ROADS TO MADNESS " ALL of their concept album "OPERATION: MINDCRIME"! Just to get you started. And there are SO many more, it's hard to pick. Hope we hear more Queensryche reactions from you!

Here because of hawk on tiktok, first reaction I watched of the song

Thanks for doing the live version.

Geoff has been my favorite vocalist since 1987. Try "Eyes of a Stranger" or "I don't believe in love"

Great reaction, subscribed

I had an uncle who me that the vocals and guitars was just noise after I played the guitar parts to this song,, I said "just noise",, and he said yup.. so tried to hand him my guitar and said, "if it's just noise, you do it"! I caught some flack from my parents on that one but I made my point! Just an outstanding song front to back, Top to bottom!

Love your combination of studious musical appreciation with the unavoidable headbanging that inevitably comes with this song and Tate’s vocal virtuosity!

Hey John, great to see another reaction from you. Always insightful and enjoyable.

YOU DO A WONDERFUL JOB REACTING TO THIS SONG

Another great voice to react to is Rik Emmett from Triumph. Check out luve performances of Lay it on the Line, Fight the Good Fight and Never Surrender for 1983s Us festival. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/raeSq858x7iRomg.htmlsi=cX0N7pbbeDSzB5RC kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jsumlppenLrPXYU.htmlsi=nKJhPHHmsQwcSBrJ kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n9h8Z5lnlsnUkWw.htmlsi=TsM7Z7gOiuqxLbtq

You gotta see their masterpiece Operation Mindcrime live! His voice is guaranteed to astound!!!

I heard someone else say it's in his implicit memory so he can then focus on engaging the audience, moving around etc.

We just saw him last week… he can still bring it! Sounds amazing! And I had no idea he played the saxophone 🎷 Edit: also check out ‘Queen of the Rÿche’ you love it

The drumming skills of Rockenfield are criminally underrated

Saw them live in 2003 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana! They blew my mind. Check out their song "Queen Of The Reich" from the same concert. 🤘🏼

Roads to Madness live is awesome as well. You won't believe it's live

he is awesome

This is vocal God territory. Geoff is one of the best to ever do it. I l8ve it when people discover Geoff, true raw talent. "Eyes of a Stranger" is a must

I so envy evey1 @ these concerts.

These records were perfect soundtracks to the video games back then.

It must've been Hawk that put you up to this! I saw the video also. Love Queensryche.

First saw them live opening for Metallica in 88. At that time I was a fan but was a bigger Metallica fan. After the show I came away a huge Queensryche fan and saw them 4 more times over the years and never saw Metallica again.

The music of my youth, love their music. Speaking of great vocalists, Eivor just released a new song, and she is pure magic.

Another, similar artist w/ the golden voice is from Steelheart. Try the acoustic version (live) of "She's Gone." It's magic. (Full band is also great, but the acoustic version just hits the spot). (I think he gets up to the G5 to boot).

I saw them live on this tour. They were opening for KISS and musically blew KISS off the stage which pains me to say because I've been a KISS fan since I was 8. I was an instant fan and have been since.

Very good job

The MTV "Unplugged" session is pretty awesome. The band was on the verge of a breakup, and it's evident on stage. But, the performance was top-shelf.

Geoff is my favorite metal singer of all time. Simply untouchable and mind blowing. Would love to hear your opinion on Bruce Dickinson and Rob Halford.

All should try their song; *Queen of the Reich.* Was the first song I heard by them in '83 (maybe early '84) from their first 4-song EP (promotional). It is released again in '84 and I got one and wore it out on my stereo.

That’s the same creator who sent me here 😂

Hahaha i love to see how you get all excited with those crazy beautiful high notes. Geoff Tate is one of a kind 🔥🔥🔥

React to the band TNT! Singer is Tony Harnell and every song on the album Tell No Tales is incredible!

He was taught by Seattle's Maestro David Kyle.

Great analysis and reaction. Will check out some of your others. 🤘🏼

First of all. Great reaction. Thanks for sharing this.❤️ 1.) Geoff Tate is an Unicorn. Unmatched. Untouchable. Unreachable. 2.) This E5s. This exactly is how an E5 should sounds and sung. Unbelievable good. 3 .) Chris DeGarmo. Songwriter and Lead Guitarist. Have you noticed his Backup Vocals? Chris DeGarmo for me is the greatest Guitar player of all time that ever picked up a Guitar. 3.) Operation Mindcrime is the greatest Album of all time. Operation LIVEcrime is OM played all Songs in a row. It's an Concept Album. Please check out the Story of it. And the Story behind. It worth it. 4.) Silent Lucidity. This Queensryche Song is from their 1991 Album Empire. In this Song Geoff Tate sounds very different to this one. And you can hear what rich Voice this Guy has. Orchestration by nothing other than Micheal Kamen! Unbelievable good! 5.) We Queensryche Fans ar called: Rychers.

That my local boys Geoff was untouchable at that time

And to think, he was discovered at a house party by some of the band members were at. Partying and singing along to a Rush album. Was astonished they thought he could sing 🤯🍻🤘

SEEN THEM LIVE OPENING FOR MAIDEN IN NYC IN 1984

I have seem a lot of reactions to this video. Yours is very good, technical and with feeling. Just subscribed.

You should also check out Ric Emmett lead singer of Triumph in Fight the Good Fight live at the Us Festival ... Very similar feel.

Pretty much anything off of Rage for Order is worth hearing. London, Neue Regel, I Dream in Infra Red, I will Remember are all a great experience.

Great reaction, to an amazing performance. Tate was peerless back then. Now you can go on to Yannis Papadopoulos' vocal cover of Nightwish's Ghost Love Score. There you will have some technique to dig through :-)

Man , the rabbit hole that is Geoff Tate. So many great tracks.

Pretty sure that was one of the encore songs. Tate was Halford and Dickinson rolled into one.

Check out their MTV unplugged concert.

Us generation X have been trying to tell you guys for 40 years!