Wednesday, April 1st, 8:30pm to 10:00pm Pacific time.

Call in number to ask Queensryche questions: 1-800-344-7625

The first two segments will be interview, and the rest of the show will
be QR performing live.

Those who are fortunate enough to work on our show are aware that we have a pretty cool gig. Alright, maybe cool, cubed. We do close to 100 shows a year and they’re all different, every one of them, we never know what’s going to happen and they’re done with some of the most interesting and intelligent people on the planet. Occasionally, we think we know what’s going to happen beforehand and then each show takes on a life of its own. There’s an old saying, “luck is the residue of design”. If you establish possibilities of what could happen, of what you want to have happen and then of it actually taking place, then your “luck” is going to be a whole lot better. Occasionally a show, before it’s actually even taken place, displays particular potential for greatness. This is one of those shows, without hesitation. First is the subject material itself. The forthcoming album by Queensryche, “American Soldier”, is as gripping, compelling, captivating, gut-wrenching and candid tour de force of storytelling as one might imagine and yet it’s also hauntingly beautiful, through the caring, the sense of duty and of brotherhood displayed by the American soldiers who serve as narrators. Then you add music, passionate and stirring, moving and heartfelt, which puts the genius of Geoff Tate lyric’s in full delight. When is the last time you got misty listening to a Rock album? Get ready; this is a heavy duty out of body, out of country experience you’ll embark upon. Add to this a live, full band, plugged-in, turn up the juice, electric, it goes to eleven, incendiary performance, featuring new songs and some of Queensryche’s best loved creations from the past with your calls, some calls from real, honest to god, life-on-the -line American heroes and we’re thinking this looks pretty good on paper. Oh yeah, it’s the national radio preview too. This is looking like a good plan, some real potential here.

A funny thing usually happens with shows like this though, you hope they’re going to be special and then they actually begin. They take on a life of their own, unplanned gems from fleeting moments begin to collect and intrigue and suddenly there is a realization that something truly special is taking place. Cool to the power of three. The last time Queensryche performed live in our stellar recording studio (we don’t do the show from a radio station) was the stuff of immediate legend. People who weren’t there have since claimed to have been. Attendance tripled. With the supercharged atmosphere of American Soldier as the back drop, as the raison d’être and the energy of a live performance, this show has been circled on our calendars since the beginning of the year. Take a visit to Queensryche.com and listen to Tate explain in depth how the songs took shape, what he and the band were trying to achieve, how they got there, the inspiration of the songs and the era they represent. This is a statement that spans decades, fronts, continents, personalities, experiences and a range of emotions as dramatic as the Cascades. The Seattle based band is without equal or compare.

You might want to check this one out. Maybe we’ll get “lucky”. It’s Queensryche on the next ROCKLINE!