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        _Screaming in Digital______________________________Editor's Note_

                Hello again, everyone!  I hope those of you celebrating
        Passover and Easter this past week had a good holiday.
                "Screaming in Digital" reached a milestone, topping the
        1000-subscriber mark.  My thanks to everyone who has made it
        possible, and compliments to Regan, the 1000th subscriber.
                I've come up with layouts for the T-shirt, and have put
        them on the FTP site (Glia) in /pub/queensryche/files/images. 
        The filenames are t-front.gif and t-back.gif.  Please feel free
        to look at them and send me any comments or suggestions.  I have
        a greyscale screen, but the medium shade is _supposed_ to be red!
        The images are half-size, the actual size on the shirts will be
        1 foot square.

        _Contents________________________Contributors____________________

        WHAT'S GOING ON?        blitzer@wybbs.mi.org (Don)
        GEOFF'S TRAINING        af07984@academia.swt.edu (Andrew)
        WARRIOR SOUL            lmeriwether@macalstr.edu (Laura)
        CLOTHES ENCOUNTER       mussk@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Scott)
        QUEENSRYCHE T-SHIRTS    asspk@acad2.alaska.edu (Sean)
        THE YOUNG ONES          avery@utkvx.utcc.utk.edu (Regan)
        CHRIS'S VOICE           mussk@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Scott)
        TRI-RYCHE ORIGIN        jimd@sscl.uwo.ca (Jim)
        WAITING FOR 22          bjross@mailbox.syr.edu (Brian)
        DR DAVIS... AGAIN       jlee@weird.miami.fl.us (Jason)
        THINGS WANTED           dwb4025@rigel.tamu.edu (Dave)
        KERRANG ARTICLE (2/2)   phils@phrog.att.com (Phil)

        _Speak____________________________________________Correspondence_

        WHAT'S GOING ON?        blitzer@wybbs.mi.org (Don) 
                Any idea what the new Queensryche album is going to be
        called?  What are the guys up to right now (besides recording)?
        Have they ever participated in the MTV rock n' jock baseball
        games?

        GEOFF'S TRAINING        af07984@academia.swt.edu (Andrew)
                Do you know what kind of vocal training Geoff Tate had?
        I read that he had 5 lessons and then mastered the rest on his
        own.  Are there any articles concerning this?

        WARRIOR SOUL            lmeriwether@macalstr.edu (Laura)
                OK, I have to speak up here.  I am an avid Warrior Soul
        fan who attended a show in Denver, Colorado while Queensryche and
        WS were on tour together.  It was the best show I have ever seen-
        BOTH parts.  In fact, I was practically hoarse by the time
        Queensryche made it on stage.
                I'm not trying to start a huge flame war here, but I'm
        just getting a little sick of people bashing Warrior Soul because
        they have a politics and stick to it, refusing to dilute it for
        anyone.  I am especially surprised to find it here because from
        looking at a song like 'Spreading the Disease' it appears to me
        that Queensryche's politics and Warrior Soul's politics are
        essentially the same.
                Go right ahead and insult Warrior Soul for playing songs
        that are worthless musically, but to dis a band because they're
        rejected by an apathetic crowd who couldn't care less about the
        hell our world is becoming is completely ludicrous.
                        {If anyone _does_ want to start a flame war in
                        response to this, take it to Usenet, thanks! -sh}

        _Roads to Madness__________________________________________Shows_

        CLOTHES ENCOUNTER       mussk@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Scott)
                I had the fortune to see the Building Empires tour twice
        in two weeks - once in Cedar Rapids, IA and once in Peoria, IL.
        The shows were great and I'm sorry if any of you missed it.  A
        friend of mine had backstage passes for the Cedar Rapids show and
        took my jean jacket back with her for autographs.  It has a
        _very_ good airbrush painting of the "Empire" cover and now
        proudly sports Chris, Eddie, Michael, and Scott's signatures
        right above the painting.  Don't know where Geoff was, but
        everyone else commented on how much they liked it.

        _Spreading the Disease_________________________________Resources_

        QUEENSRYCHE T-SHIRTS    asspk@acad2.alaska.edu (Sean)
                I used to have one Queensryche shirt that was black with
        a picture of Dr. X on the front and a few bullet holes in him and
        the crowd scene from the cover on the back, with the words
        "Operation: Mindcrime" or some such on it.  It was my favorite T
        until it disappeared during a move, you wouldn't happen to know
        if the fan club still has that shirt - as their merchandise page
        is a little vague - or where else I could get a new one?

        _The Whisper__________________________________________Discussion_

        THE YOUNG ONES          avery@utkvx.utcc.utk.edu (Regan)
                I was wondering if anyone has said anything about
        Queensryche's thanks to "The Young Ones" on "Rage for Order."
        I was curious as to whether they were one of the many bands who
        "appeared" in the living room on the show.  I'd like to know if
        anyone knows which episode they were in (if that is why they
        thanked the show).

        CHRIS'S VOICE           mussk@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Scott)
                I have a video tape of some miscellaneous Queensryche
        stuff that I taped from eMpTyV and other normal sources, and I
        have come across something very interesting.  Upon viewing a few
        songs recorded from the "Rock in Rio" thing, I notice that Chris
        has a few lines in some of the songs.  Namely "no I won't let it
        go" and other backing-vocal-type stuff that comes out quite
        clear.  His voice sounds very good - I think it would be cool to
        hear him do a whole song on lead vocals.

        TRI-RYCHE ORIGIN        jimd@sscl.uwo.ca (Jim)
                Does anyone know where Queensryche came up with their
        logo? I am referring to the pair of wings and dagger symbol. Is
        there any significance to this. I noticed it was on a building
        in the Gonna get close video but I am not sure if this was just
        a prop made for the video.
                        {Yes, it was just a prop, the symbol goes back
                        to their first EP.  It's just something they
                        thought looked neat.  Some - if not all - of 
                        the logos which appear on the EP were drawn by
                        Scott Rockenfield's brother, Todd.  -sh}

        WAITING FOR 22          bjross@mailbox.syr.edu (Brian)
                Another hypothesis nobody's suggested yet... Since Dr.
        X's operation is probably bigger than just Dr. X and Nikki,
        perhaps 22 is referring to somebody with instructions or the
        like.  Sort of like a code number so that Nikki can't take
        anybody with him when/if he gets busted, as in "Video Mindcrime,"
        in the 'I Don't Believe In Love' video, where he is being
        interrogated.  Or maybe it has a double or triple meaning.

        _The Killing Words_________________________Babble Interpretation_

        DR DAVIS... AGAIN       jlee@weird.miami.fl.us (Jason)
                I heard the soundbite "Dr. Davis..." of Mindcrime infamy
        twice in a movie yesterday.  In the hospital, that bite kept
        repeating over and over every few minutes.
                        {I wish they'd stop using that clip, really! -sh}

        _Anybody Listening?______________________________________Adverts_

        THINGS WANTED           dwb4025@rigel.tamu.edu (Dave)
                Wanted: the CD "Evolution Calling."  I have many rare
        recordings to trade, and will make it worth your time.
                Also wanted: Metal Shop radio show interviews with Scott
        and Eddie during the Empires tour.

        _I Will Remember_________________________________________History_

        KERRANG ARTICLE (2/2)   phils@phrog.att.com (Phil)
        from Kerrang!, issue No 433, March 6, 1993, page 26 (c) 1993 EMAP

                The 'Ryche Way! by Dave Reynolds

                A decade later, and Queensryche are in the midst of 
        piecing together their latest recorded work.  DeGarmo, somewhat 
        disappointingly, points out that there is "not much to report, 
        other than we're all really excited about it".
                "We feel we've got some good stuff, but I don't really 
        like to speculate on things until they're done.  There are no
        song titles to report simply because things may change.  But
        we're working really hard on everything to ensure that everything 
        is absolutely perfect."
                In the light of 'Empire's success, do you feel any 
        pressure to come up with something as good, if not better?
                "Had we rushed in straight off tour, then, I guess we 
        would nave felt some pressure.  But because we took a healthy
        break after a couple of pretty serious years of recording and 
        touring, then we don't.  And we needed to have that break, to 
        step away from the lights and recharge our batteries before 
        regrouping.
                "Once we'd got back together, we found that we were 
        starting from a different point than we had on previous projects.  
        I don't think our approach has changed any; it's just that we're 
        more confident, in that we don't have to all be in the same room 
        at any one time to work on songs.
                "Rather than write everything and then record, we find 
        that we're recording as we write.  So we're capturing the
        spontaneity of it in our homes.  I actually feel that a good
        percentage of things we've recorded at home will be meshed
        with newer things and will make the record as they are.  It's a 
        whole different way.  A bit of a home-grown deal, really.
                "The quality of the stuff we're doing at home is really
        fantastic.  We know that we've set standards for ourselves in 
        previous recordings, that we don't want to do something that 
        isn't going to sound right.  But it's just the whole vibe of 
        what we're doing at home that I'm really excited about."
                No producer is involved, as yet.  Could this mean that 
        all you need is an engineer involved at some point ?
                "It could well end up that way!  Normally, at this point
        we'd have someone picked out to do pre-production, but it's not 
        like that now.  We know what we want in our records - but, having 
        said that, we do like the objectivity of having an outside party 
        there, 'cos you can get too close to the music."
                It sounds like a set release date is out of the question
        until Queensryche decide how far to go with this essentially
        home-produced album.  It could well be that the record doesn't 
        see the light of day until next year.
                "I hope it comes out before then," states Chris with some
        concern in his voice.  "I'm sure it'll be out this year.  The 
        pattern we did things in before, you could always predict the 
        month of release, but we're so into uncharted waters that I 
        really can't say for sure how long it's going to take us to 
        complete the new record.  But we ARE working every day!"
                So EMI haven't given you any deadlines, then?
                "Not at all.  They're cool.  They just want us to make a
        good record.  It's kinda nice to have a relationship like that.  
        I think the days where record companies played God are over.
                "EMI don't hurry us.  They did get involved early on in 
        our career, but now the deal is that if the band and management 
        are happy, then they don't mess with things.  Like, last time, 
        we just gave 'em a tape when we were done and said, 'Here, this 
        is called 'Empire'.  See what you can do with it...'."

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                Have a good week, everyone, and if you're in the USA,
        remember to file your tax return (and pay for wars in South
        America).  I hope to have cost information on the T-shirts in the
        next issue.  'Ryche on!

                        -Shag