Ex-QUEENSRŸCHE Singer GEOFF TATE Pronounces ‘Operation: Mindcrime – The Remaining Chapter’ 2025 Tour

Ex-QUEENSRŸCHE singer Geoff Tate has introduced the U.S. dates for the “Operation: Mindcrime – The Remaining Chapter” tour. The trek, which can kick off on March 18, 2025 in Tucson, will see the 65-year-old vocalist carry out the band’s basic “Operation: Mindcrime” album in its entirety for the final time.

Choose venues will do a presale this Wednesday, October 2 at 10:00 a.m. native time. All tickets will go on sale this Friday, October 4 at 10:00 a.m. native time.

Tour dates:

March 18 – Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theatre
March 20 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
March 21 – Englewood, CO – Gothic Theatre
March 22 – Wichita, KS – TempleLive Wichita
March 23 – Kansas Metropolis, MO – Knuckleheads
March 25 – Lincoln, NE – Bourbon Theatre
March 26 – Fort Smith, AR – TempleLive Fort Smith
March 27 – Dallas, TX – Echo Music Halt
March 28 – Houston, TX – Home of Blues
March 29 – San Antonio, TX – Aztec Theater
March 30 – Austin, TX – Empire Storage
April 01 – New Orleans, LA – Home of Blues
April 02 – Atlanta, GA – Middle Stage
April 03 – Jacksonville, FL – Florida Theater
April 04 – Clearwater, FL – Ruth Eckerd Corridor
April 05 – Orlando, FL – Home of Blues
April 06 – Fort Lauderdale, FL – Parker Playhouse
April 08 – Louisville, KY – Mercury Ballroom
April 09 – Detroit, MI – St Andrews Corridor
April 10 – Grand Rapids, MI – Elevation
April 11 – St Charles, IL – Arcada Theatre
April 12 – Cincinnati, OH – Taft Theatre
April 13 – Fort Wayne, IN – Clyde Theatre
April 15 – Cleveland, OH – TempleLive
April 16 – Columbus, OH – TempleLive
April 17 – Plainfield, IN – Hendrick’s Stay
April 18 – St Louis, MO – Delmar Corridor
April 19 – Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater
April 21 – Inexperienced Bay, WI – Epic Occasion Middle
April 22 – Minneapolis, MN – Varsity Theater
April 23 – Fargo, ND – Sanctuary
April 25 – Boise, ID – Revolution Middle
September 25 – Greenville, SC – Radio Room
September 26 – Myrtle Seashore, SC – Home of Blues
September 27 – Raleigh, NC – Lincoln Theatre
September 28 – Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore
October 01 – Hopewell, VA – Beacon Theatre
October 02 – Glenside, PA – Keswick Theatre
October 03 – Greensburg, PA – Palace Theatre
October 05 – Harrisburg, PA – XL Stay
October 08 – Hartford, CT – Infinity Corridor
October 09 – Newton, NJ – Newton Theatre
October 10 – Pink Financial institution, NJ – Rely Basie Theater
October 11 – Tarrytown, NY – Music Corridor
October 12 – Fairfield, CT – Sacred Coronary heart Theatre
October 16 – Patchogue, NY – Patchogue Theatre
October 17 – Homer, NY – Middle for the Arts
October 18 – North Tonawanda, NY – Riviera Theatre

In a current interview with Cassius Morris, Tate was requested if he has any want to ever create together with his former bandmates, together with guitarist Chris DeGarmo, once more. He responded: “Nicely, I believe that we had 30 good years, which is phenomenal. Most bands make a few information. What number of information did GUNS N’ ROSES make? Three? [Laughs] We had 30 years of constructing music, and we gave it a extremely good run. We had quite a lot of success. I believe we created some actually memorable albums, some actually memorable songs that may outlive us. And I do not actually have a necessity to return and attempt to recapture that with Chris or any of the opposite guys as nicely. I really feel like it is time to do different issues, and to only discover. And we gave that a terrific run. It was profitable. We did nice issues. It is time to do different issues now.”

Requested if he retains in contact with any of his former bandmates in any respect, Geoff mentioned: “Um, not recurrently, not recurrently. However generally conditions come up the place we’ve got to kind of cope with one another, and it isn’t disagreeable now. Sufficient time has passed by [and] the bridges have mended, I assume.”

Concerning whether or not it’s powerful for him to maintain having to speak about his break up with QUEENSRŸCHE greater than a decade later, Geoff mentioned: “At first, it was very difficult as a result of we had type of a bitter breakup, and I assume I used to be very indignant over the way it was dealt with. However then I began trying on the personalities concerned and realized, nicely, it actually did not have some other lifelike end result. It was gonna be what it was. However that was 12 years in the past when the band break up up. And so quite a lot of water is below the bridge now and I is usually a lot extra forgiving of individuals of their conditions. However I’ve needed to speak about it. I preserve getting requested questions on it, that type of factor, ‘You ever gonna get the band again collectively?’ that query on a regular basis. And so I’ve tried to consider tips on how to speak about it in a manner that’s trustworthy and actual for me, however but not so risky. ‘Trigger I may get very risky about it and level fingers and categorical blame and I will be very merciless, but it surely does not actually serve me to even entertain that concept. I actually admire what we had and what we did. And I am pleased with that. Very pleased.”

Again in March 2023, QUEENSRŸCHE guitarist Michael Wilton shot down Tate‘s declare that the unique lineup of the group was supplied an “obscene” sum of money for one reunion tour however that “a few folks within the band turned it down.” Michael instructed SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”: “I do not know. I did not hear about it. I by no means noticed any gives. I do know our administration by no means noticed any gives. So I don’t know about that.”

In April 2014, Tate and QUEENSRŸCHE introduced {that a} settlement had been reached after a virtually two-year authorized battle the place the singer sued over the rights to the QUEENSRŸCHE title after being fired in 2012. Fellow authentic QUEENSRŸCHE members Wilton, drummer Scott Rockenfield and bassist Eddie Jackson responded with a countersuit. The settlement included an settlement that Wilton, Rockenfield and Jackson would proceed as QUEENSRŸCHE, whereas Tate would have the only real proper to carry out the albums “Operation: Mindcrime” and “Operation: Mindcrime II” of their entirety reside.

Throughout a January 2022 look on “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”, Tate was requested if he’s hopeful {that a} QUEENSRŸCHE reunion will occur sometime. He responded: “I am actually not likely anticipating that to occur, mainly as a result of we have been supplied simply obscene quantities of cash to get again collectively and do one tour — one tour and we would by no means need to tour once more. And a few folks within the band turned it down; they don’t seem to be curious about doing it. So that will actually be, I believe, the one motivation that will get all people collectively was an obscene sum of money. However that did not work, so [laughs] there’s actually no hope for it after that, I believe… Cash will not be the motivator, and getting collectively for a creative dream is not a motivator both, so what do you’ve gotten? You don’t have anything. Clearly, each camps are pleased within the place they’re at. I do know for myself, I really like my life — I really like what I am doing and I really like touring and enjoying music for folks. And thus far, I am nonetheless kicking it, nonetheless pleased and wholesome.”

Geoff went on to say that he’s effective with the prospect of by no means returning to QUEENSRŸCHE and persevering with to pursue his solo profession and different tasks for the remainder of his time as a performing artist.

“We did maintain it collectively for years and years and years,” he mentioned. “It was a extremely, actually tightly run ship and it was very profitable and we had quite a lot of nice information and did quite a lot of world touring and made quite a lot of pals and performed quite a lot of music collectively. And we had our time, and I will aways be pleased about that point that we had. That was a time, and it does not imply that that point has to go on without end. There’s new occasions available and there is extra music to be made, there’s extra songs to be sung and extra audiences to play music for.”

Tate has gone forwards and backwards with regards to a reunion with QUEENSRŸCHE, telling The Rock Vault in November 2019 about the potential for rejoining his former bandmates: “I believe that will be one thing that is smart, and I believe it might be an attention-grabbing factor to do, if all people may get in the identical room and truly speak to one another.” Nevertheless, simply eight months earlier, he dismissed the possibilities of a QUEENSRŸCHE reunion, telling Greece’s “TV Battle” that he had “little interest in that. No. By no means. [I have] completely no purpose to,” he mentioned. “I do not want the cash. That’d be the one purpose to do it. Possibly in the event that they paid me, like, 10 million {dollars} or one thing like that. [Laughs]”

He continued: “It was an excellent factor for a very long time, after which it went actually dangerous. And I simply don’t need that type of negativity in my life. My life is so good, and I’ve such nice family and friends. I journey the world and sing songs for a dwelling. I imply, it is pretty. I’ve fantastic, constructive folks in my life, and to return and be in that damaging land once more… aargh, I simply could not do it. It is not value it.”

Tate beforehand described his time in QUEENSRŸCHE as “a wierd, unusual kind of relationship.” He instructed The Steel Gods Meltdown: “We weren’t actually pals, you understand — we had been enterprise associates. We had a beautiful entity that we shared referred to as QUEENSRŸCHE, but it surely wasn’t an equal kind of partnership so far as involvement goes. You understand, so there wasn’t an actual camaraderie amongst all people within the band… From my perspective and my involvement, it wasn’t an emotional kind of brotherhood type of factor that some folks would possibly assume existed. That wasn’t my actuality with them.”

In 2021, present QUEENSRŸCHE singer Todd La Torre instructed “Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz” concerning the possibilities of Tate‘s return to QUEENSRŸCHE: “It is humorous. I at all times hear, ‘There’ll positively be an all-original lineup reunion. Each band does it.’ And I am pondering, when you knew what I do know, I do not assume that is gonna occur. And apart from the optics of it, why? What is the level? We noticed for 15 years what it appeared like.”

In October 2021, Rockenfield filed a lawsuit towards guitarist Wilton and Jackson, alleging, amongst different issues, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary responsibility and wrongful discharge. Just a few months later, Wilton and Jackson filed a countersuit towards Rockenfield, accusing him of abandoning his place as a member of the band and misappropriating the group’s property to his personal private profit. That dispute has since been settled out of courtroom.

QUEENSRŸCHE has used former KAMELOT drummer Casey Grillo for touring and recording functions since April 2017.