Pics And Impressions From The Days Of Confusion Gig With Queensryche Options

[Cosmin Lupu]

Hey guys Thought I'd share some impressions from the gig we had with Queensryche:



Were you ever put in the situation in which the headliner wasted TOO much time with the soundcheck and the organizer didn't take the time to tell the opening acts that they should equally share the remaining concert time? That's exactly what happened this Sunday... Conclusion? The band before us played almost it's full set and we found out that we could only play 3 songs out of the 8 song playlist that we had which was fitting the time allotted. The performance went very good and we sold a lot of merch, but the uncoolness of the organizer went even further. He went to the PA mixing board and tried to level down the master gauge in MID PERFORMANCE Only in Romania

Truth is.. my friend Cezar was about to hit the man in the face when the Queensryche tour manager intervened and we had a talk with him. It seems that the guy had a lot of diplomacy in his arsenal and he managed to cool us down. We exchanged contacts and he said that they will try to make it up by inviting us along when they come to Europe close to Romania so that we may be their opening act again in better conditions.

Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do to the organizer, as we will most likely bump into him again in many occasions. There are 5-6 of them in the whole country and they are all alike. They have no clue on what they are doing and they are only there for the money, which - not surprisingly - is not that big as a result of their lack of professionalism.

What would you do?

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Cosmin Was this a Queensryche with Jeff Tate, or another QR , without him?

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[Cosmin Lupu]

Cosmin Was this a Queensryche with Jeff Tate, or another QR , without him?

It was the QR with Todd LaTorre not the Jeff version

I'm sorry to hear the gig was so problematic. That really sucks that nobody communicated the reduced time slot situation to the supporting acts. There's no excuse for bad communication.. all it takes is somebody to relay a message.

Hopefully more shows with QR will transpire !

Aye mate - as I said, the organizers here are nothing but a bunch of amateurs ...

I'm sorry about this bad experience mate. I have to say that these type of things also happens in Argentina. Shows organizers don't use to take care of the opening acts. This happened to my band once that we played on the beach, as the first bands started late and played more, they wanted us to play 3 songs. But we didn't... I think that we played around 6. One of the managers of the last band disconnected my pedal-board just before the last song was starting... I realized and connected it again.. We had travelled 6 hours to be there, we weren't going to play just 3 songs. It happened in 2009, here is a pic:

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Another things that an organizer did us was to make us start playing when the people still wasn't entering to the place. We played the first the first minutes of the first songs for nobody... and then people could get into the venue. This is something that happens very often here.

It's a shame that has to happen to you as well mate - out of what I can see, it's a common thing all over the world unfortunately, but we can use these shared experiences in this thread, to see how we can cope with such situations and make the most for our bands!

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