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        _Screaming in Digital______________________________Editor's Note_

		Greetings.  As some of you probably realize from the
	volume number, this issue concludes the first year of "Screaming
	in Digital."  As this is a bit of a milestone for me, I'd like to
	take the time to thank some people.
	*	Laura, my ex-fiancee, for getting me into Queensryche.
		[talk about bittersweet, mixed blessings!]
	*	The 20 or so _original_ subscribers, for helping me get
		this whole thing started.
	*	Jeff Prothero, for giving me FTP archive space on Glia,
		even though he's not a Queensryche fan.
	*	Everyone who's uploaded the sounds and images.
	*	Spike at CD's We Bee, for keeping us informed about the
		availability of imports.  Money well spent.
	*	Everyone who helped redesign the header for volume 13.
	*	Everyone at EMI/New York and Wendy at EMI/Los Angeles.
	*	Metal Sushi and the Fan Club - Join it, if you haven't.
	*	Everyone who's ever sent anything in at all.
	*	Every one of you, for making this such a success!  
	When the 100th subscriber joined, I stated a goal of 500 
	subscribers by the end of the first year.  As I type this, there 
	are more than 650, in 20 countries! To put it bluntly, you're 
	all an incredible bunch of people to relate to, and I've never 
	gotten so positive a response from so many people before.  The 
	time I spend managing the digest is not only worthwhile, but also 
	extremely enjoyable.  Thank you all!
		Moving on to business: As you know, Tuesday is, we all
	hope, the release date for "Building Empires."  I don't think I
	even need to say this, but _all_ reviews and opinions of the
	video are welcome, and the more feedback you send in, the 
	better.  As usual, mail them to queensryche@pilot.njin.net.
		Wendy at EMI in Los Angeles informs me that they have
	received the letter and sample copy of the digest I sent them,
	and are reviewing the concept of adding "Screaming in Digital"
	to their list of publications which receive press releases about
	Queensryche.  Keep your fingers crossed.
		Since one year is ending, another year must be starting,
	and I feel like taking some feedback from everyone about ideas
	for this thing.  So, if there's anything you think would make
	this a better digest, send mail to me, please.  For that, the
	address'd be queensryche-owner@pilot.njin.net.
		In this issue:  Reminders to get the new video, the best
	of Queensryche, the "Movie: mindcrime" idea, tickets, fan clubs
	and tickets, confusing video footage explained, our favorite
	sound-bite, an entertaining news article, and a silly picture.

        _Neue Regel___________________________________________What's New_

		Well, with any luck, Tuesday we can all go buy the new
	"Building Empires" video.  [For those who've just joined us, I'll
	recap things briefly.]  The videotape will sell for about $20 US,
	and will reportedly include studio videos of songs, footage from
	the "Building Empires" tour, and footage from the MTV Unplugged
	segment Queensryche recorded this spring, which was aired this
	summer.

        _Speak____________________________________________Correspondence_

	eskin@violet.berkeley.edu (Ed Skinner) writes,
		To the person asking what to put on a compilation tape 
	for his friend that likes Rush.  I am a big Rush fan, most of 
	us drummers are.  I think you should not over look some of the 
	cuts on "The Warning."  This album smokes.  

	shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam) writes, 
		Did Queensryche ever make a _movie_ out of "Operation:
	mindcrime?"
			{Not yet.  The closest they've come to that was
			"Video: mindcrime," a non-live videotape of some
			of the songs from the album.  However, at least
			one member of the group has said they wouldn't
			mind a movie.  -sh}

        _Roads to Madness__________________________________________Shows_

	kad@iris129.biosym.com (Kinga) writes,
		Apropos the discussion about problems in getting tickets, 
	their prices and so on, I wanted to ask if the fan club was 
	offering their members any good tickets during the "Building 
	Empires" tour.  This is what I was told other fan clubs do: you 
	can get good seats for a fair price to any concert in your area.  
	If they didn't do it for "Building Empires" then I would write 
	them and ask to consider the idea for the next tour.
			{I wasn't a member at the time of the tour, does
			anyone else know?  -sh}

	edju@aludra.usc.edu (Eddie) writes,
		If you think the tickets situation was bad up in San 
	Jose, try Los Angeles!  Most of the major acts sell out within 6 
	hours after the tickets go on sale, and over 50% of them fall 
	into the hands of scalpers ("ticketing agencies")!  Thanks to the 
	recession, people are not going to the concerts anymore, so I 
	could get some decent tickets to see Metallica/GnR at the L.A. 
	Coliseum.  However, even when you _do_ get through on the phone 
	line, the price they charge for tickets is just outrageous.  For 
	example, a pair of tickets to see Joe Satriani costs $45.00 _but_
	with all the ridiculous charges the grand total ended up being 
	$60.50!  Isn't it time that we _all_ stop going to concerts for 
	3 months just to get our message across to TicketMaster?
			{Sounds like a good idea to me - I don't think
			Queensryche will be in my area in the next 3
			months anyway!  -sh}
									
        _I Will Remember_________________________________________History_

	nrcurtis@life.uams.edu (Nancy) writes,
		Here's yet another newspaper article. In light of 
	comments about Geoff Tate's (sometimes outdated) knowledge of the 
	U.S. outside the Northwest, I'd have to say that he is 
	unfortunately right on target at the end of this article; down 
	here in the South (much to the dismay of displaced "Yankees"), 
	iced tea and Coca-Cola products reign supreme.
	
	The Band with a Plan: Queensryche Finds Success through Hard Work
	by Claudia Perry, Houston Post, April 14, 1991, page G3
	[copied without permission]
		So many metal/hard-rock bands shoot up like Roman 
	candles.  When they've barely learned to shake their hair in time 
	to the music (in some cases, this is more difficult than others), 
	they can't walk down the street without a crowd forming.
		Queensryche, who will headline at The Summit Friday, 
	never had to deal with that.  If you want a textbook example of 
	how the work ethic pays off, look at this band.  There's also 
	this espresso thing, but that comes later.
		However, Geoff Tate, lead singer of the Seattle-based 
	group, said not everyone in the band understood that getting 
	signed to EMI meant the work was just starting.
		"That's something that it took awhile to be understood by 
	everyone in the band," Tate said from his home near Seattle a few 
	weeks back.  "When you first get signed to a record label, all of 
	a sudden you're not working anymore.  You have eight hours to do 
	stuff again.  You have to learn how to make use of that time. 
	There's nobody saying, 'Go to work.  You have to be at work at 8 
	o'clock.'  You have to make yourself start at 8 o'clock."
		Before the band was signed, Tate had worked 47 jobs.
		"I've been sort of trying to list them in my computer. 
	You know, the older you get, your memory goes," Tate said.  "I've 
	been trying to list everything down so... when people ask me I 
	can hit a button...  Towards the end, Michael (Wilton, guitarist) 
	was our boss.  He worked at an electronics company and had hired 
	myself and Eddie (Jackson, bass player) and Scott (Rockenfield, 
	drums and percussion).  We all worked and a couple of our road 
	crew were in the store with us.  Chris (DeGarmo, guitarist) was 
	working at a hospital; he was manager of the stock room.  It was 
	all odd jobs that didn't require a lot of brainwork so we could 
	concentrate on what we were doing with music.  That's something 
	that attracted me to everyone in the band in the first place. 
	Everyone was very focused on the goal."
		With the 1988 release of "Operation: mindcrime," the band 
	saw its years of touring and tossing spare money into the band 
	kitty pay off.  The album is nearing sales of 1 million copies 
	and the home video has passed the platinum mark.
		With "Empire," Tate said the band wanted to get away from 
	the depressing theme of "Mindcrime."
		"Mindcrime was a fictional account of what could happen, 
	hopefully, to somebody else," Tate said.  "I wouldn't want to 
	live through that.
		"Empire was definitely aimed at a more personal approach, 
	writing about things that were affecting the band, (and) the 
	community in which we live. Ironically, a lot of the things that 
	are affecting our community are also affecting other communities 
	around the country.  I didn't really realize until I started 
	hearing some feedback from the album."
		Tate said the band was trying to avoid making Empire a 
	concept album, but he did feel there was something of a theme to 
	it.
		"I keep hearing this sort of idea that the '80s is over 
	and all that sort of thinking is passe," Tate said.  "The '90s 
	are now a more kinder, gentler time.  People are focusing on 
	different goals.  I have a feeling that's all well and good but I 
	don't think a lot of people are really buying it.  They're still 
	going at the '90s with an '80s vengeance.  I don't think it's 
	really changed much.  Of course, it's only one year into the new
	decade.  Maybe if we keep hammering on it with all our 
	journalistic propaganda then maybe things will change a little 
	bit."
		One thing that Tate and the band didn't want to change 
	from "Mindcrime" was the production team of Peter Collins, James 
	Barton and Marcus Ramaer.
		"We felt that if we could accomplish what we did on 
	"Mindcrime" working together for the first time, doing a second 
	album with the same team, we'd be able to get even farther along. 
	We approached Empire with the fact that we hated the sound on 
	"Operation: mindcrime."  We wanted to better it.  At the time we 
	recorded it, we thought it was really good... A year or two 
	later, you look back on it with more critical ears.
		"That's what we tried to do on this one ... We had sort 
	of gotten to a certain point in our working relationship on 
	"Mindcrime" ... We just went from where we left off to another 
	point.  It's really a good team of people."
		The band kicks off the U.S. leg of the Empire Building 
	tour in Amarillo Monday.  The show weighs in at around two hours 
	and includes an hour of tunes from "Mindcrime."
		"We're trying to be smart about our touring and book it 
	in areas where it's going to be warm," Tate said.  "By 
	wintertime, we want to be in Australia so that we're catching the 
	sun wherever we go."
		And also the espresso.
		The band is known for its diligence on the road - writing 
	songs during off-time and carrying studio equipment along to 
	refine those tunes - but this tour could be subtitled the 
	Espresso Express. The band is bringing along an espresso machine 
	in case they play somewhere the heady brew isn't available.
		"We're sort of addicted to that up here," Tate said.  "We 
	drink more coffee than any city in the United States per capita. 
	I've been to places in Texas when they say, 'Espresso?  You want 
	one of those?  What is that?  Is that from Italy or something?' 
	It's a little disappointing."

        _The Whisper__________________________________________Discussion_

	esi011@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Jon) writes, 
		Regarding the question on what the images are in 
	'The Mission' solo on "Operation: LIVEcrime," If you look 
	carefully at the 'tube' you will notice that it is an inside out 
	sphere. If you were to flatten the world and then roll it the 
	other way you would get a cylinder.  This is what you are seeing 
	on the video, with the multicolours being a mixture of sea, land 
	and cloud, done with computer graphics and it fits in with the 
	last lyric "turned my life (world) around."  I'm not too sure of 
	the significance of the statue at the end.

	_The Killing Words_________________________Babble Interpretation_

	bn@mndcrme.uoknor.edu (Bo) writes,
		If anyone was watching the episode of ROC on the FOX 
	network Sunday, Oct. 11, you might have noticed the sound bite 
	when Roc and his wife went into the hospital. It was the 
	familiar "Dr. Blair, Dr. Blair.  Dr. Jay Hamilton, Dr. Jay 
	Hamilton."  Seems like someone on the production staff of the 
	show is a Queensryche fan!
			{Someday we'll make up the complete list of
			places that sound-bite shows up, and publish it.
			In hardback.  -sh}

	_Breaking the Silence__________________________None of the Above_

		Here's another ASCII-art piece for those of you who like
	that kind of stuff.  I did it for a BBS system on Internet that I
	help run [telnet to bbs.fdu.edu, login as bbs and say hi in the
	Metalheads> discussion base, if you're able] and figured I might
	as well stick it in here too.  It's from the cover of the 
	"Empire" CD-Single.  Disclaimer:  I am not an artist!

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		And so, the first year ends.  Thanks again, everyone, and
	I hope the second year will be better than the first.  Don't
	forget to get the new video, and send in your reviews of it,
	along with ideas on how to make this better... Thanks, and

						'Ryche on!

							-Shag