New QUEENSRŸCHE's guitarist Parker Lundgren married singer Geoff Tate's
daughter Miranda earlier today (Saturday, July 18), according to a posting on
the band's MySpace page.

Before joining QUEENSRŸCHE, Lundgren (pictured below), 23, played several shows
with the QUEENSRŸCHE frontman last September and joined Tate and QUEENSRŸCHE
guitarist Michael Wilton for a rare all-acoustic set at KISW's annual Holiday
Hangover Ball on December 12, 2008 at Showbox SoDo in Seattle, Washington.

Parker's addition to QUEENSRŸCHE's touring lineup was officially announced by
Tate in a fan club podcast in February, with Geoff adding that the group was
"glad to have him."

In a recent interview with the German Empire, Lundgren stated about how he
landed the gig, "I kind of expected it. I saw what was happening with the band.
I got wind that [former QUEENSRŸCHE guitarist] Mike Stone might be leaving so I
learned a lot of the material beforehand. I never really played with Whip
[Michael Wilton, guitar] or Ed [Jackson, bass], and Scott [Rockenfield, drums]
and Geoff wanted me to be in the band. Whip didn't really know me and he had a
bunch of people that he wanted to play in the band. Of course, they know a lot
of great musicians they've met over the years. He probably called a lot of
guitar players, but the time frame was really short. So there wasn't a whole lot
of opportunities because nobody can learn three albums in a month; it's really
tough."

On what it's like to be on tour with Geoff Tate, who was Lundgren's future
father-in law at the time of the interview, Parker said, "I am sure people out
there cringe at the thought of touring with their father-in-law, but when your
father-in-law is Geoff Tate, it's not bad at all... It's like dating your best
friend's sister. That's the kind of relationship... There are certain things you
are not going to say in front of them, but everyone in the band and the crew, we
are all good friends. We tour the road, have fun together. This last tour Geoff
brought out three of his daughters, his wife and their three dogs. It's like the
whole family is on tour; it's like a vacation. We separate family and business
and everything has been great so far."

On whose idea it was to create the "Dude, I'm totally nailing Geoff Tate's
daughter" picks (see image below), Parker said, "It happened from an interview
that Geoff had. He said that there's two different ways to explain that I was
joining the band. One was to say, 'He auditioned and he's playing the solo
project, then he's seeing Geoff's daughter and ends up playing with
QUEENSRŸCHE.' Or Parker can say, 'Yeah, I auditioned for QUEENSRŸCHE, I got
the gig and I'm totally nailing Geoff's daughter — high five.' [Laughs] Susan
[Geoff's wife and QUEENSRŸCHE's manager] thought that was the funniest thing
ever. So she said that I should put it on my guitar pick. At first I thought, 'I
don't know about that.' But everybody thought it was fun; it was cool with the
whole band. Geoff thought it was hilarious, too."