QUIET RIOT Performs Without Drummer FRANKIE BANALI At Texas Festival
May 31, 2019 20 Comments

QUIET RIOT Performs Without Drummer FRANKIE BANALI At Texas Festival (Video)
QUIET RIOT performed without drummer Frankie Banali at the Wildflower! Arts & Music Festival in Richardson, Texas. The May 17 show apparently marked the first time ever that the band played without any of the members from its classic lineup: Banali, singer Kevin DuBrow, guitarist Carlos Cavazo and bassist Rudy Sarzo.

Banali was reportedly unable to make the gig for an undisclosed reason and was replaced by Johnny Kelly (DANZIG, TYPE O NEGATIVE). Completing the group's lineup at the festival were James Durbin (vocals), guitarist Alex Grossi (guitar) and Chuck Wright (bass).

Banali resurrected QUIET RIOT in 2010, three years after the death of founding member and singer Kevin DuBrow.

QUIET RIOT initially featured the late guitar legend Randy Rhoads and went through some early lineup shifts before securing the musicians that recorded the band's multi-platinum-selling 1983 album "Metal Health".


Wright has been a part of QUIET RIOT, on and off, since 1982, having initially been involved in the "Metal Health" recordings (he played bass on the tracks "Metal Health" and "Don't Wanna Let You Go"). Grossi was in the last version of the band, from 2004 through 2007, before Kevin passed away, and was asked by Banali to return in 2010.

QUIET RIOT went through two vocalists — Mark Huff and Scott Vokoun — before settling on Jizzy Pearl in 2013. Pearl announced his exit from QUIET RIOT in October 2016 and was briefly replaced by Seann Nichols, who played only five shows with the group before the March 2017 arrival of "American Idol" finalist Durbin.

The name of the group is now Not Quite Frankie Banali's Quiet Riot

Banali isn’t an original member anyway.

What prestigious venue was this at?

A Jack In The Box?

Comes a point where people need to set aside the name. Molly Hatchet was/is a damn good example. The fact that they carried on with no original members for years was an abomination and a slap in the face of the originals..... even though they gave their blessings.

Reminds me of when I saw Foreigner play sans Mick Jones.

The original prognosis was very scary. I had quite a battle on my hands and it took a lot, but I am thankful to say that after several rounds of chemo and other treatments I am on the mend.

Frankie Banali has announced he’s been diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. The announcement was made through Mitch Lafon’s Twitter account, and includes this from Frankie:


Sending much mojo Frankie’s way. Fuck cancer.

Oh man, that's a rough form of cancer.

I hope Frankie makes out OK.

This...and stage 4 means it's more than one place.

Just to re-post from the concert thread from earlier this year, when I saw Quiet Riot, I was pleasantly surprised by both how good they were, and how much the too cool for school Heavy Montreal audience was into it. Sure, it's not the line up as we remember it, but the songs stand up, and they weren't treated like a cover band. And while it was an earlier slot, they played the same stage as Anthrax and Steel Panther, so there's still room for them.

cause Metal Health will drive you mad...

Who was the singer when you saw them?

There's only one way to save Quiet Riot now.

I had seen the Quiet Riot documentary that came out a few years ago but have to admit that most of that train-wreck has already been purged from my memory. The only thing I have a definite memory of is how they fired one singer because he would do a "Yeah, yeah, yeah" instead of a "hey, hey, hey" (or something like that) and Banali was livid because everyone know that in the particular singalong you have to do a "hey, hey, hey." Seems to me there was something regarding Banali's wife or girlfriend in the documentary...if so, I wonder if she is now the owner of a band name?

This is crazy. Even though Frankie gave his blessing it's better to lay this one to rest.