QUEENSRŸCHE Frontman Geoff Tate: "Tenacity Has Probably Been The Biggest Component To Our Survival"
November 6, 2006, 17 years ago
KNAC.com has issued an exclusive interview with QUEENSRŸCHE frontman Geoff Tate, conducted by Jeff Kerby. The following is an excerpt from the interview:
Q: Queensrÿche has been pretty lucky by not having been pigeonholed into a genre like "hair metal" or some other classification that would shorten the group’s shelf life. Wouldn’t you agree?
A: "I think that for us, tenacity has probably been the biggest component to our survival. We just won’t stop. (laughs) Never say never, you know? I think that after Empire, we made the conscious decision to follow our musical muse and not jump on the commercial bandwagon. They were talking action figure dolls and that kind of stuff. That wasn’t what we got into music for in the first place. That was a turning point for us. We went really underground and took four years off in between records which is just unheard of in pop life. We made the conscious decision to stay away from that and make records that were pleasing to us. We wanted to make the kind of records that if you shared them with somebody, they’d have that same feeling rather than making the kind of records that please people where we would end up not pleasing anybody."
See the full interview at this location.
