Video Review: Queensrÿche, "Operation Live-Crime"

Fucking multiple orgasm time of what!? Since I heard that QUEENSRYCHE were going to release this vid excellence, I've been constantly on the old 'dog n' biscuit' to my mate Jill Reading over at PMI, bugging her for more information. So much so that she's had to have the thing surgically removed from her ear.

Then one day it arrived at the door. Yee haw (as old Joe Schmo would say. The weirdo)! The entire Mindcrime!

"I Remember Now" (will doctor Blair answer his bloody phone?) leads in animated form (and the language of the nurses? Angels my ass!), then zaaapo!! we're in the pipe and the atrocity begins.

Scott Rockenfield beats the crap out of his drums with such force and conviction that I reckon they don't even mic him up. Chris and Michael draw their six strings on the hysterical crowd and let rip with rip with merciless power, leaving Eddie to pound along with Scott while Geoff screams life into the story.

The whole staging is a wonder to behold. Video screens keep a celluloid account of the tale, superimposed over the show at times, teasing your imagination into creating the rest, while the band burn off a zillion calories a second.

There have been offers made to recreate a full Hollywood version of said insurrectionary tale of scandal in high places but we'll have to wait and see, get it? No? Bollocks!!

Anyway, back to the action, we left this dude about to get screwed over by the establishment (sounds familiar. I wonder if he's from Hackney?). the drama of "Suite Sister Mary" is quite breath-taking, Geoff being joined on stage by the beauteous Pamela Moore as Mary. What a voice, and the rest??

This is a total must for any QUEENSRYCHE fan, it's just what we've been chomping at the bit for. Think about it "Revolution Calling", "Spreading The Disease" (with the controversial bit about Saudi Arabia left in), "I Don't Believe In Love," "Eyes Of A Stranger," all brought to life and in your living room! Holy Schmoses, don't you just love it when something this brilliant is made available for you to play over and over again?

Peter Grant

Riff Raff

November, 1991

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