Queensryche
Mindcrime at the Moore
Rhino Entertainment - 2007
When the original Operation:mindcrime album came out and for a few years after, Queensryche was my favorite band. The story they told was just far and away the most explosive tale I'd heard in a music recording. A friend and I used to make up stories set in the Mindcrime World. I saw the full Mindcrime performance on the band's Empire tour (TWICE!). I bought Operation: Livecrime.
Like many, I was very wary when the news was announced that the band was recording a sequel. While most people had a mixed reaction to the finished product, I thought Operation:mindcrime II was a pretty good follow up.
Now comes Mindcrime at the Moore, a three night recording of the band playing both albums and recording it for posterity. Musically, the band sounds pretty good.
To the surprise of I'm sure no one, there are musical changes and flourishes that weren't a part of the original studio recordings. Thankfully nothing that really amounts to such drastic change that one hates the new version.
The thing that bugs the heck out of me is that Geoff Tate sounds horrible. I'm sorry, I used to think Geoff Tate was one of the best singers in the metal world, but unless my ears have completely gone wacky, he just cannot do justice to the material all this time removed from the original performance. Of course 20 plus years will change a voice, I understand that. But there are times when he struggles to hit notes that aren't even as high as the original songs. Not too mention he sometimes sounds off-key.
The two encore songs of Queensryche classics "Walk In The Shadows" and "Jet City Woman" round out the evening as a come down from the two albums, but this is one fan who has been mightily disappointed in LIVE Queensryche recordings once again.
Rating: C
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Norma Jean Fox
(11/30/1945-9/7/2010)
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