If you scroll down a couple entries, there’s a picture of Michael Wilton and Mike Stone jamming at a music store in New Jersey. And over the years, the guys have made lots of appearances at music stores to autograph stuff.

But this… this is different. April 17 in Snoqualmie, WA, and May 30 in Phoeniz, AZ, Geoff Tate will be making in-store appearances… at Whole Foods. Where he’ll be autographing… bottles of his new wine.

I can’t think of anything better to say than “Bartender, bring another drink for their favorite son.”

As if it weren’t enough for Queensryche to be going through guitarists as if they were Spinal Tap drummers, “Rustvold” over on rec.music.artists.queensryche pointed out that Geoff Tate Band guitarist Scott Moughton has been getting quite a bit of publicity this week.

Not, unfortunately, the good kind of publicity.

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