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Like many artists, QUEENSRŸCHE frontman Geoff Tate considers himself anti-war. Even though his father was is a war veteran who fought in both Korea and Vietnam, Tate has always felt that killing is wrong and that there should be alternatives to war and human bloodshed. Then he had his first real conversation with his dad about being in battle, and he was mesmerized by what he heard. Not only did his father open up about the struggles and sacrifices being a soldier, he revealed that most men in the military, if given a choice, would opt not to fight.

Intrigued, Tate spent several years recording interviews with his father’s military friends, then soldiers they knew and eventually decided to write a Queensrÿche album with his bandmates based on the conversations. American Soldier, the group’s twelfth record will come out in March and feature personal, gripping stories about the triumphs and tragedies of combat ranging from tales from World War II veterans to recollections from soldiers in Iraq.

This spring, Queensrÿche will present much of the material on an extensive US tour that starts April 16 in Seattle’s Snoqualmie Casino.

For our last podcast of 2008, we called up Tate and talked to him about American Soldier and the more we talked, the deeper the conversation became. Pretty soon we were discussing the recent presidential election, the way the government trivializes rock music, the slumping economy and the failure of the music industry to confront the threat of illicit downloading.

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