New Queensryche video from Mindcrime 2...

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http://music.yahoo.com/ar-262066-videos--Queensrche

Mindcrime 2 released April 4. Already ordered my autographed copy.
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Interview on their website. RC = interviewer, GT = the singer of Queensryche.

Thib, you may want to skip this.

RC: Mindcrime II, you had once mentioned, was written because of the current political climate...

GT: “As long as I’ve lived (47 years), I keep track of what goes on in society. I love the social sciences and what makes us tick as a species. We go in these cycles... this circular motion. Things come into the consciousness then go out and in time come back in. To me, we’re in a very similar situation to the late ‘80s. We have a very right-wing Christian funded government in place and they are working very diligently to change things in their favour and in their world view... which is in direct opposition to the way a lot of other people feel... who worked diligently to provide Americans with freedoms and...”

RC: Equality, stability...?

GT: “Yeah, and all those things people have suffered and died for... It’s just an amazing time to watch... all these freedoms being taken out. One by one and it’s interesting to see the polarization of the country. Nobody knows what to do and here we are again at war in the middle east. Ironically, when Nikki was first conceived – George Bush was in power and he gets out of jail twenty years later and George Bush is in power (laughs). I couldn’t stay away from that irony. The time’s are similar in a lot of ways. So, it felt right to be visiting the story again.”

RC: I gather you won’t be watching FOX NEWS on the tour bus?

GT: (laughs) “We watch Fox News to ridicule it and to remind ourselves that the media isn’t telling us the truth and that it’s biased and paid for.”
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