How is the tour going with Alice Cooper and Heaven and Hell?
Oh, it’s great. It’s like my dream tour; I love these two bands. My idea of what Black Sabbath is was always with Ronnie James Dio singing; they wrote three albums that were incredibly influential to Queensryche when we started out. What are some of you favorite songs from that era? I love “Falling Off the Edge of the World,” “Sign of the Southern Cross,” and “Mob Rules,” of course. But those records are really the records that we were listening to back when we first started out as a band. Those were the songs that we were referencing and talking about, which led us to write our own songs. And actually Alice Cooper was the first concert I ever saw when I was a kid. I saw the “Billion Dollar Baby” tour. It really kind of baptized me into the rock world. How did you have to modify your show to fit the bill? Well, quite dramatically, really. We have 40 minutes, so it’s pretty fast and furious, to the point where we play most of the songs people are probably familiar with. If they’re not Q
