Geoff tate now
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The 4 MOB guys were SO different. It was like the story of the squirrels - the one who gathered his nuts and survived the winter, and the one who frolicked and then starved. I remember us calling Mike Wilton to go party. We were 21 years old then. Mike told us he had to stay home and do hand & finger exercises for his fret hand. We thought he was being ridiculous at the time. Lots of times we'd call Mike or Chris to go to a great party we'd heard about and they would time and again say they had practice. We thought 5 times a week was excessive, not to mention obsessive, at the time. We would roll our eyes.
They all took on at least 2 jobs each and saved all the money for a big 24track recording they were going to make. They didn't even have a singer at the time. By the time they had enough money, they booked time at local TRIAD STUDIOS. I think it was 5 consecutive graveyard shifts Monday through Friday.
Geoff had just joined the band band MYTH at the time, a progressive metal 5-piece which included the keyboard player Randy Gane (who later was keyboardist o
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GEOFF TATE's Autobiography Is 'Almost Finished'
In a new interview with Tony González of Spain's Made In Metal, former QUEENSRŸCHE frontman Geoff Tate confirmed that he is "almost finished" writing his autobiography after working on it "for quite a few years". He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "It's a lot of work to be a book writer, I find. It's different with songs. For example, you might spend one month per song — writing the music and writing the lyrics — and then it's finished. But books can take years to write. Every chapter has to be so in-depth. It depends on what kind of book. In my case, writing an autobiography is a little easier because I know my subject very well. [Laughs] And I've been a journaler for years — I've always kept a diary and a journal — so I have a lot of source material to reference. Like where I was on a certain date, what happened, roughly. So I have a lot of ability to go back and read what I lived."
Tate previously discussed his autobiography last fall in an interview with Keysmash magazine. At the time, he
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Geoff Tate
American singer (born 1959)
For the album, see Geoff Tate (album). For other people, see Jeff Tate (disambiguation).
Musical artist
Geoff Tate (born Jeffrey Wayne Tate,[1] January 14, 1959; he later changed his first name to Geoffery or Geoffrey)[1][2][3][4] is an American singer and songwriter. He rose to fame with the progressive metal band Queensrÿche, who had commercial success with their 1988 album Operation: Mindcrime and 1990 album Empire. Tate is ranked fourteenth on Hit Parader's list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time. He was voted No. 2 on That Metal Show's top 5 hard rock vocalists of the 1980s. In 2012, he won the Vegas Rocks! Magazine Music Award for "Voice in Progressive Heavy Metal". In 2015, he placed ninth on OC Weekly's list of the 10 Best High-Pitched Metal Singers. After his farewell tour as Queensrÿche, he renamed his band Operation: Mindcrime, after the Queensrÿche album of the same name.[5][6][7][8]
Early years
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