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After touring extensively in 2011 with his band QUEENSR\u0178CHE, lead singer Geoff Tate has announced that he will do a handful of acoustic solo dates, billed as GEOFF TATE AND FRIENDS, beginning on Friday, January 27 at The Canyon Club in Agoura Hills, California. <\/p>\n
What can fans expect on the brief run of dates? According to Tate, he’ll be “playing acoustic renditions of songs from my solo album as well as some of my favorite QUEENSR\u0178CHE songs.”<\/p>\n
And that certainly gives him a lot to choose from. <\/p>\n
The dates are as follows: <\/p>\n
Jan. 26 – San Diego, CA – Anthology
Jan. 27 – Agoura Hills – Canyon
Jan. 29 – San Juan Cap – Coach House
Jan. 31 – Grass Valley, CA – Center for the Arts
Feb. 01 – Chico, CA – El Rey
Feb. 02 – Napa, CA – Uptown
Feb. 04 – Snqoualmie, WA \u2013 Finapalooza<\/p>\n
When asked about QUEENSR\u0178CHE’s plans following the band’s last scheduled concert of 2012, which will
take place on January 13 at the Peppermill Concert Hall in Wendover,
Nevada, Tate told the Seattle station KISW 99.9 FM earlier this month, “Nothing. We’re taking a year off and we’ll be working on a new album. [We’ll be going] back to the studio.”<\/p>\n
QUEENSR\u0178CHE’s new album, “Dedicated To Chaos”, sold 8,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to
land at position No. 70 on The Billboard 200 chart. The band’s previous
CD, the epic concept album “American Soldier”, opened with 21,000 units back in April 2009 to enter the chart at No. 25. This was roughly half the first-week tally registered by QUEENSR\u0178CHE’s “Operation: Mindcrime II” album, which shifted 44,000 copies in the United States in its first
week of release back in April 2006 to debut at No. 14 on The Billboard
200 chart. <\/p>\n
QUEENSR\u0178CHE’s 2003 effort, “Tribe”, sold 20,000 copies in the first week while 1999’s “Q2K”, opened with sales of 28,000.<\/p>\n
QUEENSR\u0178CHE’s top-selling album by far is 1990’s “Empire”, which was certified triple-platinum in October 1994 for sales in excess of three million copies in the United States. The original “Operation: Mindcrime” release (1988) attained platinum status in August 1991, while 1994’s “Promised Land” reached the same plateau in December 1994.<\/p>\n
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