Following in the footsteps of Maynard from Tool andLil Jon, Geoff Tate from Queensrÿche is now producing wine, and his reasons for starting the project were somewhat amusingly told to the Salt Lake City Tribune. Plus, Friday seems like an excellent day for some "Silent Lucidity"!
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Washingtonian and guitarist Scott C. Moughton got five years in the pokey yesterday for thieving the identity of Queensryche frontman Geoff Tate and helping himself to a Lexus in the process. The reason for his deception? Drugs! Really is there anything related to Queensryche that can't be explained away by saying "drugs"? [Blabbermouth]
After a year of sifting through nominees, Idolator is proud to announce its Worst Album Cover Of The Year Tournament, which looks back on the worst crimes against aesthetics, Photoshop filters, and peoples' fields of vision committed over the past 12ish months. We narrowed all the covers down to 32, and this week and next will be the tournament's opening round, with two cover-vs.-cover polls a day from now until Dec. 12.
The 32 covers have been divided into four brackets: the We Aren't The World bracket (hat tip to Gerard Cosloy for inspiring the name); the Photoshop Crimes bracket; the Anatomically Incorrect bracket; and the Southeast bracket (that one's for all of the lousy covers that didn't fit anywhere else). We open with the No. 1 seed and the No. 8 seed in the We Aren't The World bracket, which could be seen as something of a pair):
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Usually our referrer logs just lead us to fetish sites and people wanting to know how to make crack cocaine. But sometimes, they lead to drama! For instance, this message board post entitled "Opinion needed—Did Queensryche rip off Pure Hatred?"
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For those of you who have been thinking, all this time, that what Queensryche singer Geoff Tate really needed to do to get back into your good graces was offer up his interpretation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber songbook: Your day has been made. (At the very least, we suspect this guy is going to be thrilled.) [Billboard]
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