Queensryche: Verizon Theater

[moodyblue]

Queensryche played at the Verizon Theater on October 18, in Houston, TX. This is a small venue, about 2500 (not sure how many it holds). They have many different types of seating arrangements at the Verizon. They have a lower and an upper half.

This was an awesome show. I got to see the whole show. The first half was a greatest hits set. They played 'Empire' and 'Silent Lucidity', one of my favs. I would have written down what they played, but I didn't bring a pen with me (silly me). The second half they played OPERATION MINDCRIME all the way through. They used actors to act out scenes. Pamela Moore sang the parts of "Sister Mary". The guy who acted out the guy 'flipping out', did some things in the crowd also. We were told that he would be rushing the stage and getting past the barricade and not to stop him. We were also told that he would be walking around the lobby area with a gun (a fake one). He came up the stairs where I was working a couple of times, he looked pretty creepy to me. I guess he was supposed to look like he wacked out on drugs or something like that. At the end of the show they played a song from the up coming OPERATION MINDCRIME II due out sometime in 2005.