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        _Screaming in Digital______________________________Editor's Note_

                In case you hadn't noticed... Yes.  There is a new
        tri-ryche symbol up top.  Yes, the recent advertisement was a
        preview of it.  Yes, we now have right and left margins - you
        shouldn't have to worry about wordwrap on the right, and you can
        run the left edge through a holepunch for looseleaf binders if
        you so desire.  I've also added the usual disclaimers (adlibbed
        from reading dozens of computer magazines) to the header, as my
        father suggested that there really should be something of that
        sort up there.  Also, the table of contents has been axed, as
        not all issues contain the same sections.
                Hopefully, this will deal with most of the formatting
        problems people had encountered.  As a note to those who are
        reading this on systems with variable tabs - I'm using 8-space
        tabs throughout the digest, except on the header.
                The recent advertisement was - probably due to its
        coinciding with the beginning of the new semester - relatively
        well received, and the subscriber list continues to grow.

        _Neue Regel___________________________________________What's New_

                The 'management' of SiD would like to extend birthday
        wishes to Geoff Tate, vocalist for Queensryche, who reached the
        age of 33 this past Tuesday.  A rather timely contribution of
        biographical information on him is included in this issue.  Many
        happy returns, Geoff!

        _Speak____________________________________________Correspondence_

        mugglestd@willow.ulowell.edu (Dave) writes,
                "For you Queensryche buffs, look on the floor of the
        Beverly Hillbillies' mansion, in the parlor, and lo and behold -
        a tri-ryche!  This is true of the black and white episodes, I
        don't know about the color ones.  The New Orleans Saints' logo
        is also really similar to a tri-ryche."

        lsh078@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Judge) writes,
                "I am a Queensryche fan, a recent convert.  There are
        quite a few of us here in the UK, and through friends listening
        to Empire, I gradually developed an interest, although I have yet
        to have the pleasure of seeing them live.  I missed them on the
        Empire tour and was unable to get to the 1991 Monsters of Rock
        show at Castle Donington."

        allanm@vulcan.med.ge.com (Al) writes,
                "I first heard of Queensryche soon after the release of 
        their EP.  My brother had a copy; believe it or not, the thing
        that first grabbed my attention was the album cover - I thought
        it looked pretty cool.  Anyway, I gave it a listen, and was
        totally blown away.  I've been a fan ever since - funny thing is,
        I don't think my brother ever bought another one of their albums.
                "I've loved all their albums (even Empire) after the
        first listen except Rage, which took a while to grow on me.  I
        guess I'm in the vast minority because Rage is my least favorite
        Queensryche album.  How do you all rank Queensryche's albums?
        For me, it's Operation: Mindcrime, EP, Empire, Warning, Rage.
        Maybe I'm just twisted?"
                        {Of course you're twisted.  We all are.  When it
                        comes to favorite albums, there's no accounting
                        for taste.  I believe one of the subscribers had
                        offered some time ago to accept and compile your
                        votes for best albums by the group, but we never
                        quite worked out how to word it.  I've sent him
                        mail about it and if it's still an option, it'll
                        be announced next week. -sh}
                        
        darcy@metro.bst.rochester.edu (Sean) writes,
                "If it can be agreed upon what are the lowest and highest
        notes Geoff sings, I will figure out his vocal range.  It seems
        the highest is in the song "Queen of the Reich" and the lowest
        would be in "Silent Lucidity."

        dwb4025@venus.tamu.edu (Dave) writes,
                "I first heard Queensryche last spring in my dorm.  A
        friend of mine down the hall lent me "Empire".  I made a copy and
        liked it a lot right away.  After listening to it for days, I
        decided that this was a special band, one which I should
        investigate further.  I loved the emotions in "Empire" and bought
        "Operation: Mindcrime."  When I first listened to it, I was
        amazed.  I had it committed to memory by the end of the week.  I
        had my walkman with me all the time, listening to it, and it
        quickly became my favorite album.  I especially love "Spreading
        The Disease" and "Suite Sister Mary."  I have all the other
        albums, including imports, and am infatuated with them. I was
        fortunate enough to meet them in New Mexico this past month and
        am collecting anything of theirs I can get my hands on."  

        pomeranz@isis.dccs.upenn.edu (Hal) writes,
                "The "Paging Dr. Blair" soundbite did definitely appear
        in the movie "Peacemaker."  It seems to be a standard TV and
        movie background noise to establish hospital settings, and you
        can hear it all over soap operas and primetime TV shows.  It's
        gotten to the point where I can pick it out really quickly, and
        the lack of originality shown by TV producers is becoming
        extremely annoying."
                        {I agree.  After all, there can't possibly be so
                        many doctors named "Blair" in the country. -sh}

        rvfisher@ecn.purdue.edu (Robert) writes,
                "Can anyone tell me where in the movie 'Ford Fairlane' 
        "Last Time in Paris" can be heard?  I only saw the movie once, so
        I may not have been paying attention.  Also, is the soundtrack
        worth buying just for "Last Time in Paris?"
                        {"Last Time in Paris" is on the back of the 
                        "Another Rainy Night" single, cheaper. -sh}

        ju@aludra.usc.edu (Eddie) writes,
                "I believe I mentioned in an earlier issue of SiD how 
        similar Iron Maiden and Queensryche are in several aspects.
        Therefore, it shouldn't come as a surprise that Geoff Tate sounds
        a bit like Bruce Dickinson, since both of them were trained as
        singers."

        jgray@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Jeff) writes,
                "The thread about the "Calling Dr. Blair" sound effect
        circulated on 'alt.rock-n-roll.metal' about 6 months ago.  No
        one mentioned then that it has also appeared on The Cosby Show,
        of all places."
        
        _Roads to Madness___________________________________Touring Info_

        darcy@metro.bst.rochester.edu (Sean) writes,
                "I'm not really sure what is meant by the term '"fake" 
        backing vocals.'  The three guitarists in the band do have
        cordless headset microphones on and did sing during most of the
        show."
                        {I believe the reference was to the lyrics sung
                        by "Sister Mary" who, at most of the shows, was
                        just a projected image. -sh}

        bergmans@vax001.kenyon.edu (Stef) writes,
                "I saw Queensryche at the Meadowlands in New Jersey over
        the summer.  I can't quote Geoff exactly, but when he asked the
        audience how Mary died, he was actually listening to the
        audience's responses and commenting on the ideas.  I got 
        backstage before the concert, and was able to get Geoff, Chris, 
        and Eddie's autographs.  They were all really nice, unlike some
        other stars."

        mugglestd@willow.ulowell.edu (Dave) writes,
                "On the "Justice" tour, when Metallica took QR on the
        road, I waited in the cold to meet Metallica.  After about an
        hour, Geoff Tate walked out the back door, and no one even
        noticed him, except for a few "wasn't that the guy from
        Queensryche?" type lines.  Kind of lame, but the same thing
        happened to The Cult on the next leg of the tour." 
                        {At my stop of the "Building Empires" tour, the
                        lead singer from the opening act signed anything
                        people held out in the parking lot after the
                        show.  I think the crowd liked both bands an
                        awful lot. -sh}

        _I Will Remember_________________________________________History_

        dwb4025@venus.tamu.edu (Dave) sent the following:

                From an article in Hit Parader
                Written by Jodi Summers Dorland

        Name:           Geoffrey Wayne Tate
        Birthdate:      January 14, 1959, at Stuttgart Army Hospital in
                        Stuttgart, West Germany.  "I'm a Capricorn,"
                        Geoff stated.  "People say Capricorns get younger
                        as they get older.  My mother used to tell me
                        that I was an old soul."

        Family:         Geoff's family moved to Tacoma, Washington when
                        he was a toddler.  They've lived in that area
                        ever since.  Geoff's father was a member of the
                        United States government's Diplomatic Corps. His
                        mother, Ella, is the author of several children's
                        stories and an artist in her own right.  "My
                        mother wanted to give me art lessons, so I took
                        some classes from her and took them in school,"
                        he revealed.  "I had no talent at it, so I had to
                        find something else to do."

        Scholing:       Geoff was an "A" student at Wilson High School in
                        Tacoma.  He attended Tacoma Community College for
                        one year.  His academics interests were Political
                        Science and business.  He expressed an interest
                        in redesigning corporations to make them more
                        efficient.

        Interests:      Geoff played football in high school and, until 
                        he was harnessed by a knee injury, considered a
                        professional career in that sport.  He was also 
                        on the swim team, and swam on the NCAA circuit.  
                        Out of school, he was part of Washington state's 
                        Search and Rescue Team, a group that assisted in
                        the recovery of crashed planes and lost people in
                        the Coast Range area of the Rocky Mountains near
                        Tacoma.

        Music:          Geoff showed an interest in music early in life.
                        At two-and-a-half years of age, he would sit in
                        front of the television set, hands behind his
                        back, and watch symphonies from beginning to end.
                        Music abounded in his house.  "We always sang
                        around the house.  My mother has a very nice 
                        voice," he recalled.  His aunt, an opera singer,
                        also has tremendous vocal ability.  Through the 
                        years, Geoff toyed with a variety of instruments
                        before deciding to concentrate on his voice.  
                        Like all aspiring musicians, he was in his school
                        band, playing trumpet.  He developed a knowledge
                        of keyboards, which helped him out when he was
                        called on to play them on "The Warning."  Geoff 
                        also plays guitar adequately, and used it to 
                        develop song ideas for "Rage for Order."  While
                        in high school, Geoff was in a now-defunct
                        garage band called Tyrant, which also featured 
                        Adam Bomb on guitar.  His post-college years saw
                        him play with Myth, a group that stayed intact 
                        and shopped for a major-label deal after he left.
                        Next, he played with a closet quintet called
                        known as the Mob.  It was with these four other
                        Washington state musicians - guitarists Chris
                        DeGarmo and Michael Wilton, drummer Scott
                        Rockenfield and bassist Eddie Jackson - that he
                        wrote and recorded four songs.  The quintet
                        subsequently renamed themselves Queensryche,
                        and the four songs became the band's EP, which
                        served as the starting point of their "overnight
                        success."  "In a sense, I'm the black sheep in my
                        family, because I wanted to pursue the artistic
                        vein and it wasn't looked upon as lucrative,"
                        explained Geoff about his parents' difficulties
                        with his choice of music as a career.  "It just
                        wasn't accepted as something you could do and
                        become successful at - it was more like a dream.
                        Mind you, my parents were always supportive of
                        me.  They were always behind me, but they never
                        liked it or understood that it could happen.  But
                        when it did it turned their minds around to the
                        fact that it could be done.  It's even helped my
                        mother's art career since I've become so 
                        successful at my music.  She sees what I've done
                        and realizes that you can pursue what you really
                        want to and be successful at it."

        _Anybody Listening?__________________________________Classifieds_

                Wanted: Lyrics to "Last Time in Paris"
                Reply to: birchall@pilot.njin.net (Shag)

        _The Whisper__________________________________________Discussion_

        sjs@bae.bellcore.com (Steve) writes,
                "I've been following the "demise of Mary" thread for a
        while now, and have some input.  When I watched "Video: 
        Mindcrime" (studio version) I saw the image of what seemed to be
        Father William walking through a door with a rosary wrapped
        around both hands and tightening.  What was also evident is that
        it was not Father William, but Dr. X.  Or so it seemed to be.
                "So now the question is did:
                        1) Marry commit suicide as others have suggested?
                        2) Nikki actually kill her?
                        3) Dr. X., as the video suggests?
                "All this is open to speculation and obviously is quite
        open-ended.  Of course if you want to throw another twister in
        there, there is Mary's mental condition toward men at this point.
        She could very possibly be hallucinating the whole thing." 

        bergmans@vax001.kenyon.edu (Stef) writes,
                "In response to the question posed on how Mary dies in
        Operation: Mindcrime, I'm pretty sure that the basic idea has
        been that she commits suicide.  In Video: Mindcrime, Mary can be
        seen holding a knife on the altar.  In the next scene, she is
        found dead."

        _Spreading the Disease_________________________________Resources_

        71520.3130@compuserve.com (Paul) writes,
                "Have you notified the Queensryche fan club about the
        digest?  I'm a member of the club - and very happy with it - and
        I'm sure they'd be interested in it.  Queensryche is truly a
        fans' band; I remember personally pushing "Eyes of a Stranger" on
        MTV's dial countdown, way back then." 
                        {I wrote to the fanclub a while ago, and forgot
                        to include a SASE.  Of course, I've been meaning
                        to write again, but anything other than my job
                        and the digest gets lots of procrastination. I
                        have heard nothing but good reports on the fan
                        club, and would encourage membership in it. -sh}

        lsh078@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Judge) writes, 
                "Apparently Operation: Livecrime was only released in 
        England on CD, if the publicity is to be believed.  Perhaps it is
        a case of EMI not agreeing with EMI USA?"
                        {I guess that makes it a rarity in Europe? -sh}

        _________________________________________________________________

                So, there it is then.  I've tried to bring into reality
        the suggestions that have been made, and I hope I've succeeded on
        the most vital ones.  Please keep those suggestions - and, of
        course, contributions - coming... and have a piece of birthday
        cake for Geoff.
                                        -Shag