Geoff Tate
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"Geoff Tate" is an American singer and musician who rose to fame in the 1980s with the progressive metal Musical ensemble/band Queensrÿche. Tate is ranked fourteenth on Hit Parader/Hit Parader's list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time. He was voted #2 on That Metal Show's top 5 hard rock vocalists of the 1980s. In 2012, he won the Vegas Rocks Magazine Award for "Voice in Progressive Heavy Metal". After his farewell tour as Queensrÿche, he plans to rename his band Operation: Mindcrime (band)/Operation: Mindcrime, after the Queensrÿche Operation: Mindcrime/album of the same name.

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It's like a rush - but it's like a horrible drug because the first time you do (stand-up), it becomes a struggle to get it again. You just become like an addict. I feel compelled, almost, to try to do (stand-up) whenever I can because if I go too long without getting up on stage, I start to crave it.

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We are sorry to lose Mark as he is a superb person, with extraordinary skill, experience and integrity. We understand corporate conflicts have arisen for Mark at his company that were not foreseeable at the time of his appointment. While we regret his decision to withdraw from the board, we nevertheless defer to his judgment as to the need to do so.

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I worked over the last year and a half with a Hollywood screenwriter named Mark Shepherd. He developed a screenplay out of the story. It's incredible; I hope that it can be made into a movie soon. Our agency is shopping it around Hollywood. I think it's going to be an incredibly powerful film. It starts with one part, and then we have plans for a sequel as well.

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At the beginning, it can be devastating. But to be honest, you learn more from a bad set than you do from a good set; if you never have a bad set, you never get better. Sometimes they just don't get you, and sometimes you have to be able to adjust.

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