QUEENSRŸCHE - Part 4 Of "I Remember Now - The 20th Anniversary Of Operation: Mindcrime" Retrospective Available
May 27, 2008, 16 years ago
Blistering.com has posted the fourth part of their celebration of the 20th anniversary of QUEENSRŸCHE's Operation:Mindcrime album. Blistering.com has been running a multi-part retrospective detailing the album's creation titled, "I Remember Now: The 20th Anniversary of Operation:Mindcrime."
The following is an excerpt from the fourth installment, from Christa Titus:
Queensrÿche’s fans owe Scott Rockenfield’s parents one hell of a whopping debt - and an even bigger thank-you.
The drummer was gifted with a pair of folks who went amazingly beyond the call of duty in the name of their son’s career. From the earliest days of Queensrÿche, the band worked in the basement of the Rockenfields’ home, nicknamed “the Dungeon.” The quintet toiled away there for the first 15 years of its career, writing, practicing and recording.
When it started to tour, “we were still rehearsing in the basement,” Rockenfield says. “We actually made and recorded demos, or even tracked partial records all the way up until 1995 when ‘Promised Land’ was being finished. We actually did some of the final mixing and recording at my folks’ house.”
Rockenfield’s parents backed his music habit from the age of 12, and they put their money where their mouth - and ears - were.
“We didn’t have in-ear monitoring back in those days where you could just plug direct into a computer,” he explains. “We had Marshall stacks and everything in the basement in full-on volume, and we used to literally shake pictures off the wall upstairs and in the living where my folks were sitting tryin’ to watch TV.” He laughs. “But they dealt with it, and I God bless them to death.”Read the full story at Blistering.com.
