Billy Sherwood won’t be remixing the new album from Geoff Tate’s Queensryche. Just days after it was announced that the 1990s Yes vet would get involved with that troubled project, he’s pulled out — citing a host of other obligations.
“I’ve withdrawn from mixing the Queensryche project,” Sherwood confirms, via Facebook. “Scheduling issues became a conflict.”
While that kind of comment is often bandied about by someone simply looking to pursue other things, Sherwood is, in fact, eye ball deep in work.
He’s still mixing the forthcoming Prog Collective 2, a highlight of which will be some of the final recordings from Peter Banks, the late Yes guitarist; even while producing William Shatner’s new solo effort. Sherwood is also set to tour with Eddie Jobson of UK fame, among other things. For instance, he says a Doors tribute album is in the works for Cleopatra.
“While I was excited about taking the QR gig,” Sherwood adds, “reality is there is not enough time in my schedule at present, and so I wish them luck on the project.”
Sherwood — who has done previous engineering and production work with Yes, Nektar and Paul Rodgers, among others — was asked to remix the forthcoming Tate-led Queensryche album, called Frequency Unknown, after Deadline Music said fans complained about the sound on advance album samples. Deadline has since said that both the original mix and a forthcoming remix will be released.
Tate fronted the original Queensryche for some 30 years before being fired last year. His old group is also touring and recording as Queensryche, with singer Todd La Torre as its new frontman.
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