Queensrÿche - 5 Killer Riffs
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What's your favourite Queensryche song?
i only have favorite albums from queensryche.
Operation Mindcrime! Such a simple riff, yet so effective. And I looooove the solo! 🤟
After I left my other general comment, I couldn't resist putting a vote in for "Jet City Woman." You nailed it brother! God bless and rock on 🎸😎👍
Great video! I love all of their songs. Della Brown and Suite Sister Mary are two that if they come up in my playlist I'll often repeat. Keep Rocking
Suite Sister Mary is epic! Screaming in digital too. So many great songs from that classic line up. Thanks for showing some love to an overlooked band!
Operation Mindcrime is a masterpiece that I think deserves more attention from mainstream metal fans.
and the writing to complete the journey from beginning to end
absolutely
It's a 10/10 album.
I think Promised Land is their magnum opus though. Often overlooked, but absolutely their best work.
They've had 6 10/10 albums. No other band can boast about that
oh, I think metal fans are well aware. It is one of those albums that the REST of the world MUST listen to...and put their damn phones down for a couple hours too. ❤
I always thought of it as the metal version of Pink Floyd's "The Wall".
We definitely need a "5 Killer Clean Riffs" for Queensryche too! And a 5 minute tones for them while you're at it!
Yes yes yes please! Loved to see you celebrating the bottled lightning that was Chris DeGarmo era Queensryche!
Yes, the arpeggios of QR made me fall in love with their music. Absolutely LOVED this band up until Chris walked away. I was so fortunate to get to see them during their Empire Tour, in which they performed Operation Mindcrime in its entirety! The greatest concert of my lifetime!
Bass intro to Disconnected on Promised land is killer. Also love the intense psycho drama of Screaming in Digital on Rage For Order, there's nothing out there quite like it.
Chris Degarmo era Queensryche is and will always be my favorite prog rock/metal music ever written! I was so fortunate to see them live for the first time on the Operation Mindcrime tour...
DeGarmo and Wilton were simply epic masters of tone and texture. And that Hamer of yours along with your playing really does them justice.
"The Mission" is one of Queensryche's best tracks. The solo is brilliant. I feel like Dream Theater really "borrowed" a lot from this song when composing "Pull Me Under"
Yeah. The 12 string intro on that song got me hooked on 12 strings. Although i dont really feel like pull me under is a rip off of it. I like them both but they have such radically different compositions that outside of the solo being kind of similar they really aren't alike.
Yes dude. The main riff is so freakin good. The way that bass crunch drives the main riff into your soul is something to behold. And like you said, such a well put together solo. One of my favorites for sure.
RFO is from another space and time. That album sounds like nothing before or after it. Everything about that album just transcends what was being done at that time. Definitely my favourite QR album.
One more short comment.
I love how QR marries the music to the lyrics! The music supports the lyrical idea and enhances it.
In THE MISSION I loved how the music BELIED the lyrics when Geoff sings:. My mission saved the world, and I stood proud...". During that part Nikki is trying to convince himself that what he's doing is still a good thing, but he's starting to doubt it. The WORDS are expressing triumph and pride, but the music on that part sounds remorseful and anguished. Whether by design or subconsciously, it's BRILLIANT!
They were such an incredible band. Rage For Order was so far ahead of its time no one has caught up yet.
Operation Mindcrime and Empire have to be two of the best produced albums of all time.
I like the production on Rage For Order too, that drum sound is so raw and epic. Stands out for being really acoustic and natural, in an era when a lot of albums were using drum samples on Rock and Metal but never mentioning this in the credits, for fear of damaging the bands image.
Outstanding albums, both of them.
I also love Promised Land, an album that kind of gets overlooked, but there are some killer tracks on that album
Same here. "Someone Else" is one of my favourite songs EVER.
@@LeonTodd
Stunning vocal from Geoff
That’s 90’s Queensryche: I love it, songwriting got even more varied and mature, and production is raw 90’s sound probably influenced by the grunge scene in Seattle. It just speaks to my since I grew up with 90’s music, so that and Empire are my all time favourites. Mindcrime is a close second.
Great album...ill go with Lady Jane
Apart from Bridge and My Global Mind, it has aged wonderfully
The ‘Live in Japan’ versions of Nightrider and Child of Fire are huge. I wore out that VHS. Good stuff, Leon. You had the appropriate amount of delayed chorus on your five riffs. Always appreciated!
This video is a treasure for people to understand the glory of the bands best years...
Queensrycs Empire is my favorite album also! You play it perfectly! Wow! 😎👍
I LOVE Queensryche! I was lucky enough to see them live with the new singer. I thought it wouldn’t be good without Geoff, but boy I was wrong. They were flawless…and the mix was perfect . I bought there EP also. And enjoyed how they have evolved through the years. Walking in the Shadows is one of my favs. Just an incredible band.
I saw them recently too and was stunned. It was amazing
The very first time Ragdoll toured the states we played a festival with them that turned out to be Geoff's last gig with them. Weird vibe. Played the same festival a few years later with them and Todd was UNREAL on lead vox.
@@LeonTodd Have you listened to their last album, The Verdict? Sound just like the good old QR again. Todd is perfect for the band.
I still remember being a senior in High School and hearing Queen of the Reich on the radio when it first came out. Spent the next 2 weeks trying to figure out the bands name to get that EP. Still an epic song almost 40 years later.🤘🏼
Leon:
**Plays Take Hold of the Flame**
Ryan:
***starts sweating***
Thank you for doing this vid! Queensryche does not get the hype it deserves! I know it’s not the most referenced, but something about the way the vocals harmonize with the guitars in “Breaking the Silence” just kills me every time.
Love that you did this! And yes a Queensryche clean arpeggiated chords video would be great. You certainly have the gear for it! Also agree on Empire, one of my favorite albums ever, with Della Brown at the top of that list.
Della Brown is a masterpiece!
Ha, when I started this up I said "Man, he better not miss having Jet City Woman on there" . Low and behold :)
What’s interesting is, like yourself, I was introduced to Queensryche with Operation Mindcrime. There just is no way of describing the first time I heard the intro to Eyes of a Stranger. The way they use arpeggiated chords with distortion. For me, they were the first band that made distortion beautiful.
My top 5:
Walk in the Shadows
Revolution Calling
The Mission
Della Brown
Anybody Listening?
One extra off of Promised Land:
One More Time
I guess my post was TOO long, cos it didn't come up. I just have so much to say about Queensryche that's it's hard to keep it short So I'll try again, and restrain myself.
LOVED your video! Musicians give the best analyses of songs because of their knowledge, and in your case, good taste. PLEASE do MORE on Queensryche!! And you must realize there's NO WAY to pick ONE favorite QR song! So here are a few:
ANYBODY LISTENING?
WALK IN THE SHADOWS
TAKE HOLD OF THE FLAME
THE THIN LINE
JET CITY WOMAN
SILENT LUCIDITY
BREAKING THE SILENCE
THE MISSION
EYES OF A STRANGER
I DON'T BELIEVE IN LOVE
SPREADING THE DISEASE
ROADS TO MADNESS
SCREAMING IN DIGITAL
NM 156
NEUE REGEL
ONE MORE TIME
REAL WORLD
To name a few....
I really enjoyed your comments, and you have a sincere and likable personality. Can't wait for more!
Absolutely love this!
Finally, someone gives The Mission the love it deserves. Great choice and great playing.
Thank you kindly!
My favorite tracks are Screaming in Digital, Resistance and Spreading the Disease. FWIW, Queensryche almost singlehandedly made the BBE Sonic Maximizer standard equipment for guitar racks back in the 80's. It's a hallmark of their guitar sounds.
This video made me so very happy! I have to be careful, when writing, not to outright, steal their stuff. So great!
I think the happiest I've ever seen an audience was when Geoff's solo band played *that* riff from The Needle Lies. 🤯🤘
that empire intro riff is such a great one. a head turner whenever you play it
They've been a massive influence on me. Both as a writer and guitarist, and as a singer. Eyes of a Stranger is probably my favorite or one of them. Geoff's voice is so unique to me in his style, tone and accent. I can hit the notes, but that uniqueness of his voice is something that can't be duplicated. When I was younger and did covers, I always tried to get my voice as much like the singers as possible. That's easier with some, as a singer has his own natural voice that you just can't stop from being there. Which is why now, if I were to do a cover, I would do my own version of it. I never considered them progessive as much as others though since they stay in 4/4 so much. I have always seen them as Cinematic Hard Rock. And original in their way.
I feel lucky to have seen them on the Mindcrime tour with the full stage production. One of the greatest concerts I’ve ever been to. Just a shockingly good show both in sound and spectacle.
That would have been amazing. I've watched the Livecrime DVD quite a lot over the years
Man, I couldn't click on this video fast enough when I saw Queensryche, plus Leon??? Hellya. 🔥
Knew it had to be Queensryche today, after comment in yesterday's Q&A. Lots of anticipation looking forward to this video...and boy did you deliver! :) Another vote here for a dedicated video to just those amazing clean parts. It's two fold: those pristine shimmering clean sounds, but also those chord arrangements. Would love a video on this!
dude, your selections were SPOT on!!!
Thankyou!
Loved this. Grew up when Queensryche was starting out. First hearing the EP, as you said, it sounded like Seattle's own Iron Maiden. Seeing them live (opening for Kiss on the Warning tour), I couldn't believe two guitar players could play harmonized guitar riffs/solos so well. On Walk in the Shadows, I love the little harmonized parts during the verse - after each vocal. The intervals they came up with were nuts.
Awesome unexpected choice but “the mission,”,probably my favorite song!
One of my favorite bands and one of the best rock bands ever imo. Well done Leon 👏
Killer video LT !! One of my favorite bands all time !! Thanks !!
Love this! Thanks for bringing them back!!
My pleasure!
One of my Favourite bands period !!!! awesome Leon .
Thanks for covering the rhythm guitar section too ❤
Amazing Leon!
You did a fantastic job man I don’t know what else to say this was just inspiring and awesome.Killer video LT🤟🏻Rock on
Great vid, great memories from the band!
In fact, I'll be seeing them tomorrow in Orlando, FL ! They're 1st DNA Tour show to kick off their tour !
Exactly what you said... that's how I discovered Queensrÿche as well. My Favorite band... all time.
I'm impressed man for your lics that almost sounds like original..
Awesome mate. Last two weeks has been a diet of mindcrime and empire which is also my favourite. Love all the riffage etc. but della brown gets me all the time. Some of the best recorded clean and acoustic sounds period!!
Watching your video made me realise how much their guitar playing is in my songwriting. The different chord textures, escaping the typical power chord format is very present in my writing and I had no idea where that came from. Now I know. Thanks a lot for another great video, Leon.
Great Leon, sound amazing ... Regards from Spain/Italy
The Mission is my favourite song on Mindcrime, although my favourite Mindcrime riff to play is the opening riff to 'I Don't Believe in Love
Hahaha I might be right there with you!
Excellent Video Leon! I remember way back in the day a friend showed me a few new tapes ( Cassette's lol) he just bought of a few new bands he said I need to check out , one was Queensryche"s EP" that had Queen of the Ryche on it. I was Blown away as a kid and could not stop listening to it. I've been fan since then, they were a force to be reckon with in their prime.
Very cool!
That run from their debut EP to Empire is near perfection. I started listening to them when The Warning was released, one of the rock stations in Columbus, OH had "Take Hold Of The Flame" in their rotation. When I heard they were opening for Kiss on their Animalize tour I begged my mom to go...and I did. I saw them next on the Rage For Order tour opening for Ratt in Jackson, MS.
Couldn’t agree on your top 5 anymore!! Well picked 🫡
Have been waiting for this video for a while now brother. Jet City Woman!!!! My favorite track man, absolutely love playing it! The Operation Mindcrime record happens to be one the best IMO. Very well done on the double tracked guitars.
Thanks my man!
Queensryche you picked a fantastic band there. First time I saw them 1984 the warning opening for Kiss animalize. Queenryche very odd chords that sound fantastic. I saw them last year but not the same with a different line up! Thanks for the video
Amazing videos Leon......very inspirational. Iv'e played drums for 35 years and only got into guitar 4 years ago and Queensryche along with Iron Maiden, Van Halen, and RUSH are my favorite bands. This is eye opening to me! keep them coming please!
That's awesome!
So many killer riffs on Mindcrime. One of my favorites is "Spreading the Disease". My dad had a VHS of their iconic Mindcrime live show. I would watch it every night when I was 8 years old. He also had a Dokken one that rocked so hard. He still plays a George Lynch signature that he found out after he bought it had his autograph on the back of the head. His health is failing now, but he still wants Dio's "Last in Line" played at his funeral. Love him to death and I'll always be drawn to the music he loved. Legend of a dad ❤
Your Dad sounds awesome, send him my well wishes!
@@LeonTodd Thanks I will! 😊
About time you did some Ryche. Heck yeah.
That hamer sounds incredible. Great playing and tone, Leon
Thank you kindly! Hope you're well mate
Nice to see some love for the 'Ryche!
Great video! Bummer I’m only just now discovering it. Couldn’t agree more - Queensryche is also one of my all-time favorite bands - Was lucky enough to see them play live back when they were touring for Empire & playing the complete Operation Mindcrime album. Very influential band in my guitar path without a doubt. Thanks for putting this together. :)
It's so good!
Man! Thank you so much for honoring the mighty Queensryche. Hard to pick up just one song, but "The Killing Words" always comes back to mind
The Mission is my fav... gr8 vid sir
I still have the first print of Empire Album Vinyl, I bought without knowing anything about the band, just out of the reviews of the, by then, printed rock magazines. It blew my mind and while many people still think OM is their peak, for me it is Empire. it was DeGarmo''s album,, it is a piece of art in itself and that jet City Woman track is indeed my favourite, and its solo, one of my favourite solos of all time with such an amazing musicality.
Your demo of Walk in the Shadows... Just wow. Rage for Order is absolutely outstanding.
You had me with the admission to be a Queensryche influeced Guitar Player. Walk in the Shadows sealed the Like Button and the comment. It shows how great de Garmo-Queensryche were with all the love on the reaction channels they are getting. Good job, Leon. PS: And playing this lovely Hamer, you want me to like you hard, man.
Never actually listened to Queensryche, but i will definitely give it a shot, the riffs sound awesome, and the guitar tone is just making me drool, so awesome
One of the very few times I got into a band from the getgo was Queensrÿche...the glory days of university! I cannot listen to "...Mindcrime" unless it's start to finish, which isn't hard. It's like a great movie waiting for all the bits to turn up and before you know it it's over...such a ride. I don't know the truth of this but I was in a band while at university, and we got to know the local PA guys, and they always used "Empire" as the starting point to EQ everything...the claim being it was that well produced. Like I said, don't know if it's true but it was always a great time hearing that album through a 40,000 watt PA system in one of the university venues👍
I kill for a video like this with JUST Op Mindcrime riffs.
i remember not long after i started playing i had a crisis, thinking i had no business playing. i listened to operation mindcrime at the suggestion of friend and the title track made me think "yeah, I'm doing the right thing here. gotta learn this"
Empire was the Ryche favorite album on the US west coast
Great !
Great Band
One of my all time favorite Metal bands
Great selected ones 🙏🏻👍🏻
Brilliant work. My first introduction was to Empire with Anybody Listening, Jet City Woman and Another Rainy Night being my first favorites. My TOP deserted island album picks would be Rage For Order, Operation Mind Crime and Empire. Thankyou for this video. Love from Perth Western Australia.
Nice to know there's at least one other Queensryche fan in Perth beside myself!
Favorite guitar moment: The trade-off solos in "Walk In The Shadows", favorite song (it's actually 4 in a row... and I think they should be played together every single time hahaha) "I Don't Believe In Love / Waiting For 22 / My Empty Room / Eyes Of A Stranger"........... this band still gets my blood pumping after all of these years. I love them (minus the large group of bad albums they released). I just saw them 2 weeks ago and they played a near dream setlist. Was an incredible show - even with the absence of DeGarmo and Rockenfield. Todd really brings his A game vocally.
My favorite opening of all time!!!
Jet City Women and Another Rainy Night are two of my all-time favs!!!
So glad you've done this video Leon, I've followed you channel for years learning how to get the best from my AX8, then moving onto getting a III and an FM3
But Queensryche, F~~king awesome!
I got my parents to get me Empire for my birthday in 1992 after seeing the really cool looking ESP's Chris and Michael were using not long after I started playing, I'd never heard a song, but just the way they were described and looked in magazines like Kerrang made them sound so cool
My parents also got me the Video Mindcrime compilation at the same time so I got a dose of Operation Mindcrime too.
If you've seen the animation at the beginning of the LiveCrime show where the Nikki is playing his walkman and an electric shock goes into his brain - Well that was me, I f~~king adore those albums.
Chris DeGarmo was such a huge influence. He really was the soul of the band for me.
Promised Land was great, more introspective. I'd not liked Hear in The Now Frontier when it first came out but went back recently with fresh ears and there's some really great stuff on there.
The past few albums with Todd have been really good too
What a great band QR were at their peak!
Your parents - deadset legends
@@LeonTodd No question about that mate!
Maybe do a video looking at QRs live tones, Chris always got this big tone that always had plenty of clarity to it
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Amen! Queensryche are amazing. I saw them open for Iron Maiden in NYC at Radio City, Chris DeGarmo back pedalling across the stage while playing the solo to “The Lady Wore Black”. And I saw them open for Metallica during the Mindcrime era.
Far out that would have been incredible to see.
I know why I love your playing and your Ragdoll music. You pretty much love all the bands that I loved in my youth and still to this day. Queensryche is an absolutely ICON band. My favorite tune is probably "I don't believe in love." To pick just one is very hard, but I'll go with that one right now. Love your playing and your videos Leon. Keep up the great work. God bless and rock on 👍🎸😎
I almost did "I Don't Believe in Love" but went with The Mission for the Mindcrime song. They write songs that grow with you as a person.
QR is one of the best bands in history, I believe. I've seen them in concert many times, and every show is incredible. It's sad they broke up, I'll never understand the pettiness of fabulously successful musical bands. Most bands would feel success if they had 1 good album. Be that as it may, all of QR's music is good to great but Mindcrime and Empire are legendary albums, and QR probably has several other good and great albums. They really are incredible.
5:00 for Rage I'm going "The Whisper" and "Surgical Strike" OM I'm going "Spreading The Disease" "The Needle Lies" "Breaking The Silence"
Empire I'm going "Empire" "Resistance" "One And Only"
Yes please do the QR clean arpeggiated version of 5 minute licks.
I'm with you Leon... Queensryche was a band me and my fellow musician friends always cranked up loud... and it wasn't just one song it was all of them...
Would! Stuff like Eyes of a Stranger are so eerie and beautiful.
cheers fellow 'Ryche nerds. :) thanks leon. always love to hear me some 'ryche.
Such an awesome band! It's sad that we'll never get to experience the classic Queensryche again, but I think it's great that the band, in it's current form, is releasing enjoyable music again after all those miserable years at the tail end of the Tate era. Maybe they should have pulled the plug on Queensryche right after the split with Geoff - or they could have carried on as Rising West - but I've always tried to be positive about the new Queensryche, and so far I think it's worked out pretty well, even though it clearly sounds and feels a bit different now. I do wish we would see mr Rockenfield back again, but realistically that's probably never going to happen.
We played a festival with them a few years ago and Todd was amazing on vocals, such a powerhouse
Yes -people have only positive words for Todd La Tore and I feel the same.The band is maybe not in their heyday,but they are going onward and thats for every respect.
@@LeonTodd Yes, Todd sure brought back the fire that had been missing from the vocals for over a decade. Geoff had just stopped caring, and it showed. In all fairness I think Geoff has improved since then. He seems to treat the classic Queensryche material with a bit more respect while performing with his new band. He might not hit all the high notes (or even try to), but at least he seems to take it seriously again.
That’s a dope Hamer! I had an old USA Californian when I was like 19 with the holographic paint. Queensrÿche called the music store I was teaching/working at back then and asked if they could use all of our Mesa Boogie amps FOR FREE for their show in town that night. I hung up. Went and saw them play and it was pretty decent so I guess they figured it out.
So that's how they could afford those headset mics on the Livecrime video!
@@LeonTodd haha hell yeah, they probably called Sea World and borrowed theirs.
This was a great band the original lineup was the best they were off the hook 👌 Love it 😀
Yea yea great video and all, could you PLEASE CUT THE LITTLE HANGING E STRING?
Its killing me 😂
First thing that comes to mind was Silent Lucidity. Enjoyed a lot of ballads during those years but really pursued contemporary jazz, fusion, and yes...classical music!
That bass tone is THE Spector tone!
I had never heard of Queensryche until a bass player friend took me to a show right as Operation Mindcrime was released. It was a mid-sized club show, only partly full, and they were absolutely phenomenal - one of the best 3 shows I've ever seen. I knew none of their songs, but from about 30 seconds into the set I was completely dumbstruck - didn't move an inch. When they finally let up, I realized I was holding the same beer that I bought when we came in, still full and warm. Thinking about their sound and energy still gives me chills - they were THAT good. The next day I started learning their material.....
Great video. "The Mission" is truly deserving of the overused word epic. For free hypnosis, watch the string ball that is dangling and spinning under the Hamer head stock. PS "I don't believe in love" but do in those inimitable clean tones.
As I'm listening to Rage for Order for surprisingly the first time ever, a comment you made popped into my head. Something to the effect of you hear an amazing album and then immediately go check out the band's entire catalog. As a person who bought Empire as a new release at age 13, this just simply wasn't possible. There was no way anyone without a real job could afford buying them all. It was a constant issue to have your interest in music being restrained by your budget. At least from a fan perspective, things like the streaming services we have today are a wonder my teenage self couldn't have imagined.
I just want to say thanks for this great video,you really put your heart and soul into it.100% agreed on everything you said-Queensryche was one of the most agile band of their time.Just one more thing-"Promised land' is also very convincing record(yet so dark) and different than their previous work,but I like it just as much maybe even more.'Promised land" and 'Hear now in the new frontier' came at point in time when musical landscape was radically changing and it was not easy for bands of heavy orientation.
Great riff cover
Man. I had to watch again this vid was so good and sounded so good.
Brother I've decided the bridge pickup by Seymour Duncan custom 5 and the ada mp1 are the king of tone. 😂❤️🤘
Just wanted to say hello and listen to how well you recorded this and learn a couple of these. ❤️🤘❤️
Good choice! Sounds like a perfect way to spend the weekend.
I need to listen to Queensrÿche