Any Queensryche fans?

by exwitless 7 Replies latest jw friends

  • exwitless
    exwitless

    I planned a little overnight getaway trip for Little Drummer Boy and I for next week. We're going to see Queensryche in concert. I myself am not too familiar with most of their music, but LDB has been a fan for many years. We got fourth row center stage seats! Can't wait!

  • Purza
    Purza

    I'm a big fan -- or I was. I didn't see them when they were in the Bay Area a month ago. I saw them in February 05 -- great show. They performed the entire OM and their biggest hits. I downloaded OM 2, but I haven't been that impressed. I also saw them about 10 years ago and I won front row seats. It is so awesome to be up close.

    Since you are four rows back, perhaps you will catch a drumstick from Scott Rockenfeld.

    Have a wonderful time! I would love to hear your thoughts about the show.

    Purza

  • Little Drummer Boy
    Little Drummer Boy

    Thanks soooo much for buying those tickets for us and making the arrangements. I can't wait to go. Woo Hoo!

    (check my avatar)

    My favorite song: Queensryche, Roads to Madness

    Most of this is memory now
    I've gone too far to turn back now
    I'm not quite what I thought I was but
    Then again I'm maybe more
    The blood-words promised, I've spoken
    Releasing the names from the circle
    Maybe I can leave here now and, o
    Transcend the boundaries

    For now I'm standing here
    I'm awaiting this grand transition
    The future is but past forgotten
    On the road to madness

    Times measure rusts as it crawls
    I see its face in the looking glass - stop
    This screaming laughter hides, the pain of its reality
    Black, the door was locked I opened
    And now I've paid that price ten-fold over
    Knowledge - was it worth such torment, oh
    To see the far side of shadow

    And still I'm standing here
    I'm awaiting this grand transition
    I'm a fool in search of wisdom
    And I'm on the road to madness
    Yes, I'm on the road to madness

    I'm awaiting endlessly
    Pounding rhythms echo me
    Won't you take me somewhere far beyond the void

    And still I'm standing here
    I'm awaiting this grand transition
    Maybe one day, oh I'll meet you, and we'll
    Walk the roads to madness
    Yes, we're on the road to madness

    Oh, I think they've come to take me
    I hear the voice, but there's no-one to see
    I can't scream, too late it's time

    Stay on the course to pass
    You'll never find the answer
    To a place where darkened angels seemed lost and never found
    Scream to see the light of
    Forming figures fast behind you
    Lay the past in the wind to spin
    And your fate will sail beyond the open plains, yah
    Sail with angels onward
    Live or die for the chosen one said
    Saber sights cast a spell behind you
    And they lock in all around

    Free the scene insider
    Never looking back to find why
    Ride a course till the end of time
    And you'll stand atop the gate
    Laying waste in a path recited
    Fighting force won't avenge the guided black wing
    Oh, electric might poses fright inside me
    Seeing light at the end of sight reminds me
    I've passed away

  • apfergus
    apfergus

    Queensryche is pretty awesome. I prefer Dream Theater, but all the prog rock and prog metal bands are pretty good. Spock's Beard, Porcupine Tree, Marillion, Fate's Warning... all bands I've listened to at some point in history.

  • yaddayadda
    yaddayadda

    I bought one of their albums once and thought it was crap. Sorry.

  • under_believer
    under_believer

    Wow, yaddayadda, I think that is exactly the kind of post that she was hoping for! Well played.

    I used to be an enormous Queensryche fan. I've seen them twice and own all the old albums, up to Q2K (at which point I kinda tuned out.) I have kind of grown out of them at this point, but they were essentially the soundtrack of my high school and early adult years. Every once in a while I'll fire up Mindcrime (their best album, imho, with Empire running a very close second) and listen through again.

    Even reading the title to this thread has put "Best I Can" in my head.

  • Purza
    Purza
    I've seen them twice and own all the old albums, up to Q2K (at which point I kinda tuned out.)

    I totally hear you on that one under. That was a crappy album. However I did like the Tribe album -- much better.

    Purza

  • parakeet
    parakeet

    Keep this lovely gift from your wife in mind, LDB, when you review your thread of Nov. 3 (hint, hint, wink, wink). Exwitless, you're still now allowed to look!! :-)

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