{"id":2339,"date":"2012-11-21T08:20:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T08:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/11\/21\/geoff-tate-why-i-dont-enjoy-singing-queen-of-the-reich-anymore\/"},"modified":"2012-11-21T08:20:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T08:20:57","slug":"geoff-tate-why-i-dont-enjoy-singing-queen-of-the-reich-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/11\/21\/geoff-tate-why-i-dont-enjoy-singing-queen-of-the-reich-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"GEOFF TATE: Why I Don’t Enjoy Singing ‘Queen Of The Reich’ Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"


“Actually, it’s not very popular at all. It’s funny, actually \u2014 a lot of people don’t know about that song. A lot of people don’t care about that song. It’s an early song that was written and it shows. It’s funny the reaction you get, because it’s a lot of blank stares. In fact, it’s the same stare you get when you play a new song that nobody’s heard before. People just aren’t that familiar with it. Given there are a few hardcore fans that might know that song, or like that song, and know what it is, but the majority of the people there don’t. So it’s not really a song that I enjoy singing, strictly because, lyrically, it’s pretty adolescent. It was the first song written thirty-some-odd years ago and obviously I cannot relate to it anymore. I think, for performance, it’s always best for the performer to really believe in the material they’re singing or playing. If you don’t believe in it, it’s really difficult to get behind a song, do it well and do it at a level that comes across with any kind of believability. For me, I honestly can’t relate to the whole dungeons-and-dragons lyrical content of that song; it’s really cartoonish and juvenile to me.”<\/p>\n

Source: Rock Show Critique cited at E-prog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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