Geoff Tate is performing the QUEENSRŸCHE albums "Rage For Order" and "Empire" in their entirety on the "Empire 30th Anniversary Tour", which kicked off last month in Norway. Fan-filmed video footage of Tate's entire January 24 concert at Kulturhus in Gjerdrum, Norway can be seen below. "Rage For Order" video (clip 1) 0:00 Walk In The Shadows 4:34 I Dream In Infrared 8:45 The Whisper 12:17 Gonna Get Close To You 16:20 The Killing Words 21:58 Surgical Strike 25:25 Neue Regel 29:52 Chemical Youth (We Are Rebellion) 33:58 London 39:06 Screaming In Digital 42:50 I Will Remember "Empire" video (clip 2) 0:00 Best I Can 5:46 The Thin Line 11:30 Jet City Woman 16:57 Della Brown 23:56 Another Rainy Night (Without You) 30:06 Empire 35:07 Resistance 40:54 Silent Lucidity 46:45 Hand On Heart 51:59 One And Only 58:00 Anybody Listening? Encore: 1:05:53 [Band Introductions] 1:07:32 Last Time In Paris 1:11:29 Eyes Of A Stranger 1986's "Rage For Order" introduced a much more polished look and sound for QUEENSRŸCHE. The album featured keyboards as prominently as guitars, and the group adopted an image more closely associated with glam rock or glam metal than with heavy metal (of which glam metal was a subgenre). A video was filmed for the song "Gonna Get Close to You", originally recorded in 1984 by DALBELLO. Released in 1990, "Empire" included the hit ballad "Silent Lucidity", which reached No. 9 on the Billboard singles chart, helped propel "Empire" to No. 7 on the album chart and earned two Grammy Award nominations. Tate told MisplacedStraws.com that he will take the "Empire 30th Anniversary Tour" to "as many countries as I can and playing the album in its entirety, which I've never done before. So that'll be real fun. In fact, I think there's some songs on that album that I've never, ever played live before, so it'll be a treat — for me, as well, I think, for the audience too," the former QUEENSRŸCHE singer said. "I'm really looking forward to that." Tate told Eonmusic that one song from "Empire" that was rarely performed live is "Anybody Listening?" "When QUEENSRŸCHE was together, we never really put that song in our set," he said. "We just had a hard time playing it, for some reason; it just never jelled or felt right. And I'd really like to play that song again, and play it right." In April 2014, Tate and QUEENSRŸCHE announced that a settlement had been reached after a nearly two-year legal battle where the singer sued over the rights to the QUEENSRŸCHE name after being fired in 2012. Original QUEENSRŸCHE members Michael Wilton (guitar), Scott Rockenfield (drums) and Eddie Jackson (bass) responded with a countersuit. The settlement included an agreement that Wilton, Rockenfield and Jackson would continue as QUEENSRŸCHE, while Tate would have the sole right to perform the albums "Operation: Mindcrime" and "Operation: Mindcrime II" in their entirety live. Tate has been replaced in QUEENSRŸCHE by former CRIMSON GLORY singer Todd La Torre. Geoff recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of "Operation: Mindcrime" on European and U.S. tours. Tate's post-QUEENSRŸCHE band OPERATION: MINDCRIME released three albums over three years as part of a trilogy: "The Key" (September 2015), "Resurrection" (September 2016) and "The New Reality" (December 2017).
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