I used to trust the media to tell me the truth, tell us the truth But now I've seen the payoffs everywhere I look Who do you trust when everyone's a crook? Someone tell me what's more relevant than that right now.

RC needs to happen like yesterday 10X's over already...!!!

Exactly! This and Empire.

I really thought there was going to be a movie

They knew a lot back then

A message of a revolution calling more relevant today than ever!

Hell yeah @@jamesflake6601

Amen to that.

Absolutely true!! ​@@jamesflake6601

​@@jamesflake6601We've waited too long to strike... They have total digital control of the millennials & Gen Z. Boomers are too old! For the majority, its Gen X'ers & Y awake now!!

Do they still perform it?

@@vlad.of.smirnows3rd no the original band have split up now and have been for ages sadly.

Equally as good, if not better than the live presentation of The Wall. And musically it is every bit as good as The Wall

You were lucky.

100% agree!

Wilson wrote a great deal of material. His guitar solos are just as good as degarmo. Jackson's backing vocals are just as prominent as degarmo. Wish they all reunite

@@pwebb5360 And Scott's drumming is second to none.

@@pwebb5360yet they absolutely lost something tangible when Chris left.

Yep. Absolutely the pinnacle.

@@pwebb5360 His name is Michael Wilton, and he only wrote the music for his solos. Also Chris DeGarmo is much better in background vocals than Eddie Jackson. Geoff Tate mainly came up with the story to Operation Mindcrime. Geoff & Chris wrote the lyrics.

Fact

word

Its between him and Halford.

​​@@OutHereOnTheFlatsYou have factual merit! My 4 favs in order from the 80's.. Priest, Maiden, Ozzy, Quueensryche.

Queensryche without Tate, DeGarmo & Rockenfeild.

We grew up in the best of times. 80s metal kicked ass.

@@anthonylove821 I sometimes listen to modern rock, but all of the bands I like all sound the same (songs are written by those 2 dudes in Scandanavia) and they all use autotune on their voice. QR is the real-deal with dual guitar solos and real voices. Nothing matches the 80s... oh, god... are we old? that sounds like something my parents would have said!

Same here but I am 53!! Love it

52 here….lol and agree 100% The 80’s were an amazing time to be a teenager. I wish all teenagers could experience times like that.

55 ... still get goosebumps.

feel exactly the same way

bun album. buna trupa.

​@KING CONDOM III for me, this one was a masterpiece. I do like Empire too, but ... oh well :)

I think I can up you one my friend. I listened to this on cassette, cd, mp3 and everything 101 times, lol. I first got the demo, with Queen of the Reich for like $2,99 Canadian in Vancouver, BC Canada. Amazing.

@@keddmann2334 fair enough :)

Saw him recently and his vocals are still top notch.

Me too... I saw him 5 times in the past 12 months, his voice is unreal to this day!!!

Its actually unbelievable . Watching it after many years and they are so fucking great.

@@sandypeppers6861 Come on now! You could mean top notch for his age. No one is the same as they were in their prime, 20's - 30's when they're in their 60's. He's top notch still today compared to others in the same age range, yeah. 👍 Tate & the band certainly were incredible for sure!!

Actually they were underrated in their prime. I saw them on the Mindcrime tour with Metallica in 1988/89. We booed them off the stage.

Well put mark,, I'll shoot some heroin

It's almost more relevant now.. such a killer album. 🤙🏻

Not one of the best. The best ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Nothing is better than life of agony River Runs Red. Best concept album ever made. No arguments

@@lifeofgaming6112 Huh...then why has no one heard of it, oh, I know why......b/c it stinks. 🤣🤣🤣

Mine did.🤘

True but there's an era for all kinds of music and the era of this kind has passed. But, Queensryche still performs and so does Geoff Tate. They both do a good job, with old and new songs and I love both parties. In September I will attend a show of Geoff Tate and you know in advance that it will be a party!! The man can still sing and he is an entertainer 'pur sang'! Gives me goose bumps all the time.. Perhaps no arena's but then again, the current venues are much more intimate.

I broke, wore out a few cassettes from the 80's as well. Wish I had all those on CD, instead of tons of trash cassettes that I can't play. I certainly appreciate their music much more nowadays as to when I was a young dumb & full of cum blitzed & high teenager..

Test

I was at this show in NJ, and Suicidal Tendencies opened. ST did a meet and greet before the show in the Giants Stadium parking lot. BEST show I’ve ever seen (and I’ve been to a lot of metal and hardcore shows). I get to witness Tate again in March when he plays live.

Cuz they knew back then not everything but a lot my favorite band

My favorite I'm 58

I’m 51 and these guys live were the top 3 of all time in clarity and execution and I saw almost every hair band live

Dio brother 🎵🎶🎸👍

The drummer is absolutely amazing. All of them, terribly terribly underrated. This is a masterpiece that I watch every day. I'm addicted.

Me too! 3 times. One of my favorite bands of all time with DeGarmo and Tate leading the way. The new guys can sing and play, but it just isn't the same!

The lineup. Band hitting on all 8 cylinders. Epic. I was almost at the stage this tour. Fan since their ep. Before actually. Found them on a metal massecure album back when unknown bands would get on those.. l was so high at this show. This took me back. There's only been handful of times music scared me and amazed me at the same time. Floyd, Maiden. Queensryche.

One of my favorite bands too. One time I saw them at a small venue, I'm pretty short so I had to get upfront by the stage. Sooooo glad I did!!! I sang every song they played. Towards the end of the show they played Eyes of a Stranger and Geoff had on really dark shades. When Geoff sang "Lies behind my Stare" he then took them off and reached out for my hand!!! I went crazy! Everyone around me was like holy crap, he took my hand!!! I really miss the original Queensryche. Miss you Geoff. Unforgettable memory!! 😎❤️

Totally agree-DeGarmo was a Monster Guitarist!!! Holy Shit, when he was on point, he lit the place up!!

Me to ,no one can appreciate what we talking about unless they lived it like we did,right ?

Same. Except when I saw Rage for Order, they were opening for AC/DC. I didn't leave the venue disappointed.

Same here,and before I was a fan,right before Mindcrime came out,they played a small club close to where I live.Played a couple songs off the cd and I was hooked.I laid out of school the next day to go buy the cassette,I was 17 when it came out.Till this day and all the shows I've seen,the Empire tour where they did this whole cd as well is still tops.

Yep, saw them in St. Louis in May of 91. Did Mindcrime start to finish plus a ton of stuff from other albums.

Saw them open for def leppard on the operation mind crime tour and saw them on the rage for order tour

I saw the same shows in Phoenix and San Diego. I was already a huge fan from the Warning album, and where I was sitting we could see back stage too, and it was so cool seeing them huddle before coming out on stage (the Ozzy show). They were so nervous back stage, and such pros on stage. I loved each of their shows but the Mind Crime they got to headline and do all the effects seen here, and my only complaint, that it all started to fade away too soon after. The next two albums were incredible, but then came the splintering in Hear in the New Frontier, an unlistenable album, and I take zero pleasure saying that. Chris left to become a pilot for Fed-Ex (dang! but I am told he loves it), and the next album was really good again, then the roller coaster and final split and splat.

Cool

I agree! She is mesmerizing when she sings!

Think it’s my fav song of theirs!!

THE RIGHTEOUS WORD !!!

No they are too busy putting idiots like Eminem and such in to worry about rock and roll hall of famers !?

Right!

Except they don’t still play these songs well, this was like 1989/90

Yes.. they certainly belong in the hall of fame!!

@@cyradus Thanks for telling the truth brother! without Tate singing I don’t wanna listen to any of it, I never paid attention to any of the other ones it just sounded good mainly because he was out front, if you put somebody else out front with the same musicians I would not like it, when you take the front person out of the band it changes the whole band I don’t care who’s left within it

That's good stuff there my friend. Appreciate you sharing it here. Where did 35+ years go so fast?! "......I turned to look but it was gone......"

Yes, yes I believe it is

It shows you how corrupt our government has been for a very long time and in its modern era, its beginning to really show, hence how missed our opportunity for a revolution in the late 60's. This album is my all time favorite, not only for the lyrics, but the musicianship behind it. It fits the emotion of the lyrics.

America is ruled by the rich. Banks and big pharma = EVIL

Coming to fruition. Crazy isn’t it?

The Evil down here is timeless; always been there, but with variations: Same Pig - Different Lipstick. But it sometimes it takes a poet to hand us a pair of sunglasses.

@@FunEcar I was told by a fellow who used to work in a building with 5-sides that a Re-vol you shun was just a cycling of the power that ultimately ends up where it started. When you look at the legal dictionaries for Re Bell Eye On it is: the 'illegal' rising against a legitimate government. When you look at In Sir Ek Shun, it is the lawful rising against an Illegitimate government; to which my associate Franzetta said: ALL govern mentes (Latin for: To Steer The Mind) are illegitimate. Operation Mind Crime. We're swimming in it.

Yes!!!!!!

Lol..me too..I'm 54

@@roonie2 glad I managed to see them live when they were at their best . I had hair back then lol

Yes

Absofuckinlutely!!!

Agreed 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

Lucky guy

This is a great concept album...But the greatest? That accolade is held by several Pink Floyd albums: Animals, Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, and/or Wish you were here.

@@johnjacobs3643 I agree, seen PINK FLOYD in concert 2x best shows ever!!

​@@johnjacobs3643 Pink Floyd can't touch this.

Queensryche is awesome...but are not in the same galaxy as Pink Floyd or Led Zep. I'm sorry...but they're not!@@ReaveShot

@johnjacobs3643 pink Floyd is far too mellow to be this hype, and not only was the musical performance album quality but the stage performance was incredible.

30 años después Geoff Tate tocando íntegramente el álbum, frente a 100 personas lo vimos

Killer man. Saw them open for Metallica sometime in 80s. Unfortunately I can't fing remember if it was Masters or Justice tour. Was a little intoxicated. I'm thinking it was Master right after Metallica stopped opening for ozzy. Not sure how meny if any Stadiums they played, but they would have thrived in a stadium with concept album props. Few bands I like in Stadiums. Just saw another band I happen like,especially early days stuff, that I've seen in small and large venues the blew me away in raw power and volume for a stadium... Went for Motley, and they blew them off the fing stage. You probably guessed, DONT LAUGH it's a guilty pleasure (got laid to tones of one popular album) yep... Def fing Leppard lady's and jents..jents!!

Go you

Awesome, I was at the same show,section U

Base was always a great punch to their songs.

Good old Spectrum! Remember the days of linning up or sleeping over night outside the Spectrum to get tickets? I do. tickets where $18 and a $2 service fee, if that. Good old days. Now you spend over $20 on service fees, what a joke.

Totally agree!

Lucky you

Excellent 🎉

Queensryche were hands down America's greatest metal band, they had all the right ingredients...top notch musicality, great songwriting/vocals and they looked great, a class act. I was into them from day one. I remember seeing the ad for Mindcrime in the rock mags comparing it to The Wall. The ad said " Yeah, it's THAT good and after buying and hearing it I was in total agreement. It is one of my top favorite LPs of all time, the thing burns from finish.

I’m with you. Well said. For my time, it probably is the best concept album.

Best concept album ever because you can understand what's happening and they're explaining things what's going on all these other concept albums have no freaking clue what they're talking about what they're doing ,

The greatest concept album was Dark Side Of The Moon Sorry. I love operation mindcrime but floyd made 4 concept albums in a row. No one come close to them yet.

Great opinion my friend!🤘🏽😎

It's not Queensryche unless Tate is singing 🤘🤘🤘

@@davidblack5551 EXACTLY No Geoff no RYCHE

I liked it in the day, but looking at it now, it's pretty derivative. And many bands have done this exact type of thing. This really isn't even live. It has so many studio repairs and backing tracks.. and flat lead vocal quite often.

Hear, hear!!!! 🤘🏻 Totally concur