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        _Screaming_in_Digital______________________________Editor's Note_

                Greetings once again from the land where the weather is
        actually cool for a change.  I haven't really said much in this
        space lately, as I've been thinking mostly about jobhunting.  Did
        anyone manage to find the domestic-release LaserDiscs yet?  I'm
        still hoping for information on them if anyone picks them up.
        I've included contact information for Mercury Rising, the band
        from Baltimore I reviewed last week, since I neglected to do so
        in the review.  Anyway, on with the show.

        _Contents________________Contributors____________________________

        IRC                     Scott <swolf@aol.com>
        Mercury Rising          Matt <mattm@ss1.digex.net>
        Fandom                  Gerhard <gerhard@jason.nl>
        Eddie's Bass Technique  Squrille <c561423@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
        Queensryche in Alaska?  Sean <asspk@acad2.alaska.edu>
        Rage Songs in Shows     Jorge <15062998r@servax.fiu.edu>
        Rage for Order Poster   Eddie <edju@chaph.usc.edu>
        Rock N Roll Comix       Jorge <15062998r@servax.fiu.edu>
        German Bootleg          Scott <swolf@aol.com>
        T-Shirt                 Paul <vanyel@crl.com>   
        Early Singles           Jorge <15062998r@servax.fiu.edu>
        Geoff Smoking           Gerhard <gerhard@jason.nl>
        Geoff Smoking           Jorge <15062998r@servax.fiu.edu>
        Geoff Smoking           Squrille <c561423@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
        Record Label Change     Jorge <15062998r@servax.fiu.edu>
        Wanted: Livecrime-CD    Brian <dyetb@ahecas.colorado.edu>
        EMI Factoids            Squrille <c561423@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
        Turn It Down!           Than <nrbogan@athena.mit.edu>

        _Speak______________________________________Comments_&_Questions_

        IRC                     Scott <swolf@aol.com>
                Is there any chance that a bunch of 'Ryche fans might get 
        together on the Internet Relay Chat somewhere?  I recently got 
        access to IRC and wanna play with it.
                        {Several of us have IRC access.  Whenever I use
                        it, I'm on channel #QRyche.  Hang out there long
                        enough and someone will stop by!  -sh}

        Mercury Rising          Matt <mattm@ss1.digex.net>
                Do you have any information on Mercury Rising?  I'd be 
        interested in possibly buying a demo, or maybe even going to see 
        them - I live near Baltimore, only about 10 miles away.
                        {I forgot to put their contact phone in the last
                        issue with the review - It's (410) 665-1475.  
                        Mention you heard it here. :)   -sh}

        Fandom                  Gerhard <gerhard@jason.nl>
                I'd rather have a smaller group of hard-core fans, like
        at the time of the "Rage for Order" LP, than a huge amount of 
        fans who come to a show to hear 'Silent Lucidity' and get shocked
        to pieces because the rest of the set "is sooo different."

        Eddie's Bass Technique  Squrille <c561423@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
                For all of the musicians out there:  What difference does 
        using a pick and just slapping/plucking make when playing a bass?
        I have no idea since I am not a musician.  I've noticed in videos
        that Eddie picks on parts of 'Jet City Woman' and all(?) of 
        'Another Rainy Night' and 'I Don't Believe in Love.'  Will 
        someone please explain?

        _Roads_to_Madness__________________________________Tours_&_Shows_

        Queensryche in Alaska?  Sean <asspk@acad2.alaska.edu>
                I have been a 'Ryche fan for a long time - way before 
        'Silent Lucidity' - and although I have seen them front for both 
        Def Leppard and Metallica I have never seen them headline.  This 
        is largely due to the fact that I have spent the last four years 
        going to college in Anchorage, Alaska.  Is anyone close enough
        to the band or the decision makers, to possibly interest them in 
        coming up here?
                While various places to play aren't huge they're more 
        than big enough and we are concert starved up here.  Almost all 
        bands sell out when they play here and there is _no_ doubt in my 
        mind that Queensryche could sell out a few shows.  We`d love to 
        see them in the next year.
                        {I'd suggest writing to the band through the
                        fanclub, asking them to hit Alaska on the next
                        tour.  -sh}

        Rage Songs in Shows     Jorge <15062998r@servax.fiu.edu>
                When Queensryche was in Miami for the Building Empires 
        tour, the second song they played was 'Walk in the Shadows.'
        That was all for "Rage" though.

        _Spreading_the_Disease__________________________Info_&_Resources_

        Rage for Order Poster   Eddie <edju@chaph.usc.edu>
                I picked up a poster today, don't know how rare it is 
        though.  It's a promo poster for "Rage for Order" and the main 
        picture is the same as the black and white group photo on the 
        back of the CD booklet - yeah, the horrible makeup and hair-do's,
        standing on the steps - but this photo on the poster is in color
        instead.  Queensryche is written on top of the poster (generic 
        font) and then a row of symbols below it.  At the bottom of the 
        group photo was written "Rage for Order" and below this line, 
        the cover of the album in the center, to the left is the two 
        crossed daggers, and to the right is the world map in four 
        slices.  Below these three pictures: "Available on EMI America 
        High Quality XDR Cassettes and Records."  What, no CDs?!
                It was the only copy I found there, and since "Rage for 
        Order" is my favorite Queensryche album, I grabbed it right away 
        even though the guys in the picture looked terrible!  :)

        Rock N Roll Comix       Jorge <15062998r@servax.fiu.edu>
                I have the rock-n-roll comic on Queensryche at home in 
        mint condition.  Anybody know if it or any of the others are 
        worth anything?  I think I have ones on Zep, Living Colour, 
        Anthrax, and some more.
                        {I picked up the Queensryche one for $3 at a
                        collectibles show.  They're worth just a bit more
                        than cover price.  -sh} 

        German Bootleg          Scott <swolf@aol.com>
                I found a bootleg in Germany, I forget the title but it 
        was recorded live in Koeln (Cologne) and it has a few songs from 
        "Empire," 'Queen of the Reich,' and the entire "Mindcrime" album 
        live.  Anyone heard of this?
                        {It's not on the bootleg list in the FTP
                        discography, if anyone else knows the name I'll
                        put it in.  -sh}

        T-Shirt                 Paul <vanyel@crl.com>   
                Jamey asked about a shirt he had - with tri-ryches on a 
        black background, red circular Queensryche-and-star on the left? 
        front.  I had such a shirt, purchased at their Atlanta show for 
        the "Empire" tour - it was their 'value-added' shirt, every tour 
        has one shirt that's a bit nicer or different and of course, 
        pricier :).  Alas, it was stolen not long afterwards.  As I 
        recall, it cost about $30 as opposed to about $23 for the 
        standard tour shirts.

        Early Singles           Jorge <15062998r@servax.fiu.edu>
                What were the singles or emphasis tracks off "The 
        Warning" and "Rage for Order?"  I read they made a video for 
        'Gonna Get Close to You,' and the little discography thing in 
        "Empire" lists two or three songs, but were those it?
                        {Singles were released for 'Warning' and 'Take
                        Hold of the Flame' in 1984, and for 'Gonna Get
                        Close to You' in 1986.  -sh}

        _The_Whisper__________________________________________Discussion_

        Geoff Smoking           Gerhard <gerhard@jason.nl>
                I remember reading somewhere in a magazine at the time of 
        the "Mindcrime" release - or was it "Empire?" - that Geoff had 
        stopped smoking.  Dunno if he restarted or anything.

        Geoff Smoking           Jorge <15062998r@servax.fiu.edu>
                David Coverdale doesn't have a raspy voice?  May I direct 
        you to track 10 on the Coverdale-Page album?  You can grate 
        cheese with that.  Don't worry about Geoff though.  If you see 
        him hangin' with Chris Robinson or the guys from Cypress Hill, 
        then start to fret.

        Geoff Smoking           Squrille <c561423@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
                I've been reading a lot about the smoking issue.  I 
        recall reading in some magazine that interviewed Geoff - I think 
        I have it somewhere in my room, if anyone wants the info on it 
        let me know - in 1991 or 1992.  Geoff stated that the entire 
        band had quit smoking for the Building Empires tour.  There are 
        several different ways to take this, so those of you in the know 
        will have to clarify for the rest of us.  I also recall reading 
        somewhere (it would take a lot of digging to find this one) that
        Geoff said he started smoking in 1986.  Someone clear up all the 
        smoke for the rest of us!

        Record Label Change     Jorge <15062998r@servax.fiu.edu>
                Someone wrote about how record companies are planning to 
        shift artists from their labels in order to accommodate musical 
        genres.  I don't know what anybody else thinks, but this just 
        adds to something scary going on in music: people still insist on 
        labeling their music.  These aren't the old days where you either 
        wore spandex and hair spray or jeans.  MTV insists on feeding us 
        a show called "alternative nation" twice a day, and that show
        basically consists of what they play any time else throughout the 
        day minus Janet Jackson and Bon Jovi.  I haven't seen an entire 
        "Headbanger's Ball" in ages, but when I flip through it, it 
        doesn't seem that different.  I'm trying to make a point here 
        somewhere, hopefully someone will help me try to figure out what 
        I'm trying to say.  By the way, where will Queensryche fit in 
        EMI's new "plan?"
                        {They won't fit.  That's the problem.  -sh}

        _Anybody_Listening?_______________________________Advertisements_

        Wanted: Livecrime-CD    Brian <dyetb@ahecas.colorado.edu>
                This seems like a weird request, but what the heck - I am 
        looking for the "Operation: Livecrime" box set _without_ the CD,
        but with the box, libretto, and video.  Anyone want to sell an 
        incomplete set?

        _Breaking_the_Silence______________________________Miscellaneous_

        EMI Factoids            Squrille <c561423@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
                I found some slightly interesting information on EMI as I 
        was throwing books around.  For a lot of sources, one must look 
        under Thorn-EMI.  All my information was taken from: The 
        Directory of Multinationals, vol. 2, K-Z, M Stockton Press, 
        Macmillan Publishing LTD, 1989, pages 1270-1273.  
                EMI started out "in the gramophone industry in the late 
        19th century."  They also ended up dabbling in radar (WWII) and 
        the medical technology industry (x-rays).  They've since dumped 
        all that.  "EMI Music is one of the world's 'Big Five' recording 
        and music publishing companies, with a network of operation in 37 
        countries."  
                "The US $337 million purchase of a portfolio of 250,000 
        music copyrights in early 1989 lifted EMI Music to joint first 
        place in the world league of music publishers with 12% of the 
        market.  The portfolio was bought from SBK Entertainment World, a 
        private company which bought the music publishing interests of 
        CBS in 1986."  

        Turn It Down!           Than <nrbogan@athena.mit.edu>
                I realize it was just an off-hand comment at the end of 
        the last digest, but I'm afraid I have to represent the anal side 
        and object to the idea of cranking Queensryche in the dorm room.  
        The reason people get scared when I tell them I'm a metal fan and 
        that no one will hire someone wearing a Queensryche T-shirt is 
        because so many metal fans are inconsiderate a**holes who play 
        their music so f***ing loud that no else around can do anything.  
        I'd like to think that the people on this digest could be leaders 
        in improving the reputation of metal fans worldwide.  It's damn 
        good music, and you don't have to be scum to listen to it.  Sorry 
        to over-react, but let's think about it.

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                That's all for now... see you again next week, and, as
        always, 'Ryche on!  (but quietly ;)

                -Shag