Queensrÿche - Big Log - Making of Promised Land 

I was the video editor on this gig and I can tell you it was a blast go through the raw footage and see the making of the album. Mark DeGarmo was the director/producer and he deserves the full credit for the way it turned out. Not only did he shoot/direct and produce the video but he directed the offline edit and online finish as well. There was many hours of classic footage and clips that had to be left out for time and content. It is hard to grasp how many hours and sweat it takes to write and produce an epic album like this.

Chris DeGarmo is such a beautiful human being!

Τheir last really amazing album...and my second favourite one after 'Rage.." For ten years ,1984-1994, the greatest band on the planet.

This band created their own genre with each album release. This album is no exception - and it has no peers, no successors. It is stand-alone and the peak. One could surmise they outdid themselves. Mindcrime was a story, a movie you could sit back and watch the characters develop while they interacted with themselves, their destinys and their tragedies. Promised Land enters you - you host it. It invades and explores you, and you allow it. You wonder, while listening, how it knows so much about you - and you are compliant while watching it dig even deeper. Reaching the darkest places. A certain unease crops up here and there, usually between songs, but then you feel safe to allow the next journey. Is music supposed to make you feel this vulnerable one minute, and then this cleansed the next? Each time you listen, it seems to know more about you. A point exists where it stops learning you and begins showing you, and you realize that a relationship now exists. This is a tool with which you can purge 'life' and be re-born to a certain extent. It will cancel your failures, herald your achievements, and allow you to go forth the next day knowing that nothing can be worse than what was revealed, and nothing will be better. It just will be, and it is your duty to live it. We miss and love you Chris.

Promised Land is SUCH A GREAT ALBUM! Promised Land the song is a low-key favorite…

I was at QUEENSRYCHES first show. In Portland Oregon. Nobody was a bigger fan than me. When Chris left it was amazing how it just all stopped. My entire teens and early 20s was QUEENSRYCHE.

I remember when Empire came out in 90 I think and everyone who was a serious music lover had it. But as 94 rolled around and promised land came out I do remember it being a bit of a shock as to how different it was. It took alot of time to get used to but It ended up being one of my favourites.

Queensryche was never the same after Chris left the band 🥹 I will always be a RYCHE-N-ROLLer!! 🤘🤘🎸🎸❤

This is the best Queensryche lineup, and Promised land is my favorite Q.R album along with Rage for order. Been a fan since 1,983.

Never saw this before. Thanks 4 putting it out there. Dazzling album. Spectacular conclusion to the best streak I think any rock band has had, from the '83 EP through this album in 94 they just kicked so much ass. Creative geniuses.

Geoff has the greatest voice

The last great Queensryche album and what a gem. Sad this great recipe couldn’t have continued on for decades more.

I saw them live on the Promised Land tour. It was more of a Rock opera than a concert. It was AWESOME! I also bought this for PC.

Nothing lasts forever you've got to realize it and enjoy it while it's happening. 🎸

An interesting insight into their last Queensryche album.

Este disco es magnífico! El mejor compositor Chris DeGarmo. La mejor banda de Metal Progresivo y a la vez romántica... Queensryche 💕🎸

I loved this band in back in the 80s and early 90s

I had the game that this video came from. It was a ridiculous Myst clone, but worth it to get the song "Chasing Blue Sky" as a reward for finishing it.

20:30 demo for full-band "Someone Else"

Saw them in Dallas on this tour. Second to none. The musicianship, theatrics, the whole gig was incredible.

Many bands have at least one album that is a masterpiece. Queensryche put out three.

18:30 'Whoa a pick!'. Funny to get excited by those little bits of plastic when there are $100 000 of guitars sitting around.

I remember playing the video game and seeing some of these videos throughout!! Loved that I got to catch this tour and see this lineup 3 times...first was them opening for Def Leppard when they did 'In The Round' with Hysteria!

Weird to hear Geoff say "I am now, what I used to hate"

Its so terrible how these guys treated 1 another in the breakup. Everyone of them is responsible for it regardless who we side with... its so sad something that not only was a MASSIVE part of my early life n probably yours too, but my toughts of a band that were truly brothers.. all for 1 n 1 for all type of band and to see it all end like that sucked... like a parent's devorce, and were caught in the middle, only forced to decide which of the 2 am i gonna end up with and which 1 am gonna feel im forced not really liking anymore... how does 1 turn their love to some kinda hate so to speak.. for lack of a better term, and who am i gonna point the finger at and blame? I understand that people change, things they enjoy change.. everything changes.. ok i get that but dam did it reall have to go down that way? Maybe.. but we all know.. we that are of some age can tell you in the end what level of regret are we gonna have to face? I can GUARANTEE YOU each one of them will feel so sorry inside.. when all the anger n bitterness subsides really what were left with is crushing regret.. and its sad. Us as men will hold something in for life.. thats just how were built i guess.. and normally the bigger the hurt the lessor we are to ever deal with it outwardly, with anyone... ever.. we'll take it to our grave. Theres no winners here.... but thank God for what they did give us as the 1 and only original QUEENSRYCHE.

And if you compare to the latest releases of the Qr camp you can see the importance of CdG, GT and SR.

One of my favourite albums of all time. It’s intense.

Excellent little documentary. Thanks for posting this.

what a great album one of there better ones for sure

Absolutely, I couldn't agree more.. Their last great record to me..

best album ever!!

Glad to be from Seattle

I installed Fiber for Geoff's house about 15 years ago, and I was too polite to take my chance. I wanted to drag him into such conversation, and to keep my job, I could not. But he was a decent guy, having me in his home. I expected worse.

The primary loss of Chris deGarmo, was the initial loss of chemistry, that the band never recovered from. The loss of his input meant that the fundamental line up became totally disjointed. It wasn`t any of the remaining guys faults, but was just too big a loss to recover from.

That was actually really interesting.

Maybe 10 years ago I purchased a unpaid storage locker that belonged to a company called Media X out of Santa Cruz Ca. This locker contained a bunch of stuff but most importantly it contained all the stuf it took to Crete this video game. Eventually I sold the majority of this stuff to a mega fan but kept 6 or 7 8mm video tapes of interviews and green screen footage. Some really goofy stuff. Hours and hours of behind the scenes footage and much of it was used in the game as master footage. These are the original tapes and have been I viewed since the making of this game. If anyone’s interested email me at rotopix at gmail

Waiting for the feeling to subside ......

ROCKENFIELD.TATE.WILTON.DEGARMO.JACKSON=QUEENSRŸCHE.😊🤘🏻

Great stuff, the last great album queensryche made😈

Fantastic album! Dark and moody. It is probably my second favourite Queensryche album behind the majestic Mindcrime.

*Holy Crap ! This is really Awesome*

So coool video, many thanks. 💖

7:24 Wilton: I eat this shit every morning.... The budget then was only for recording the album, not for eating food...

Does anyone know which SPECIFIC San Juan island Big Log was located on?

Whats the track from 1:23 - 2:15? Lovely sound.

Where exactly is biglog? I grew up in bellingham, friday harbor? Orcas island? Just curious where this music i love was made. It Definitely has the marine fog ambience

This band ain't the same With out Chris degarmo

Everything is great; we’re one big happy family. Lies!

So anyone else catch how they said Geoff Tate slept in his own cabin away from the other members and about 500 yards away from the studio and was able to recorded from there to the studio whenever he felt like it from this same cabin completely separate from everyone else in thw band? Seriously?! Love Geoff's vocals but that some self centered ego BS!

Thank you for the musik...😆

still don't know if I hate or love this album

I had that video game they were playing with the helicopter! I can’t remember the name of it!!!

It seems like they started taking themselves a little bit too seriously during this time.

This was in the "cut-out" bin,with Oingo Boingo.I opted for the Boingo.

The last good album

Sigh...

First mistake - that location. Go to the Carribean Islands

They made a horrible album. you have an eddie, scott, WILTON DEGARMO and the greatest singer that ever existed. and you lay an egg

The real Queensryche