Fates Warning

right? Queens, right.

Um, Oh, Fates Warning? Fates

Warning, yeah.

Oh, it'll be interesting.

So we do love having some longer tunes.

There's probably some of Joey's Fates Warning influence in there a little bit.

But at the end of the day, we kind of said, OK, let's see what we could do with a shorter song time, but still kind of have a song where it feels like it goes through a lot of different arrangements.

So I think we were able to achieve that, which is really pretty remarkable.

Anyway, Genesis had all of this in spades, right? They had the musical textures and the performance chops and the vocals, everything but that dramatic foreboding.

So fast forward to 2023 when I had the sudden burst of middle-aged nostalgia and I went back and listened to Fates Warning's early catalog with fresh ears, and I still absolutely loved it.

But the original singer, John Arch, left the band after Awaken the Guardian, and nothing they did after that moved me in quite the same way.

So I said to myself, where can I get more of this stuff? Like the old Face Warning, the original stuff.

It's a guilty pleasure band for me.

Fate's Warning was another to get Queensryche.

I can still listen to those bands today and still enjoy it just like I did when I was a kid.

Queensryche, McKenna.

Yeah.

Redemption played, which is a prog metal band, and their singer now is the guy from Evergrey, but Ray Alder from Fates Warning showed up, because he used to be in Redemption and sang like 80% of the show.

And yeah, it was really cool for Tom from Evergrey to kind of step aside and say, hey, man, let's share the stage together.

It was actually really cool.

Okay

... listen, the soundtrack includes good music from Slayer, Fates Warning, Agent Orange, Burning Spear, which is a killer reggae band, um-

Mm-hmm

... uh, Hallows Eve, and, and again, The Wipers, like we said.

The very end of that song that is so fate's warning.

About as Fates Warning as anything I've ever heard that's not Fates Warning.

I'm going to use that as the outro.

But

And I took it and I went back to LA.

I didn't get to sign bands, but I needed a break from that because A&R is not it can be really difficult because a band gives you their artwork and you don't like it and you have to try and tell the band you don't like their artwork i'm an artist friendly guy so i had a problem with that there were a couple of covers that came out over the years that i wish never came out but there's nothing i can do about that so i went there and did i got to work with dri fates warning lizzie borden We put out UFO Ain't Misbehaving.

One of my favorite things ever was Phil Mogg came to LA and Brian like, can you take care of Phil Mogg for a couple of days? I'm like, what? And I go pick him up at his hotel and he's like, I'm not doing anything until we get beer.

It's like nine o'clock in the morning and wait for the package store.