Quiet Riot isn’t really Quiet Riot as there are absolutely ZERO original members in the band. The closest thing they have is Frankie Banali who was in the band during their 80’s heyday. For starters, this is not a good thing. Next, the album was supposed to be released back on April 21st with then lead singer Seann Nichols, however, Seann left the band (or fired) in March prior to its release.
So Quiet Riot needed a new lead singer. They quickly added former American Idol alum, Jason Durbin to be the new singer. They smartly decided to delay the album release and re-record it with their new lead singer. All that is fine as James has released a couple good solo albums; however, his last one was a little subpar. Despite that, I had a little bit of hope as I do like James Durbin.
Now here is something weird. They went back in an actually re-wrote all the songs, but kept the same song titles probably because the artwork and design of the album was already done and Frontier Records didn’t want to spend anymore money. My first question is how bad were the original songs that you had to completely re-write them. That definitely doesn’t bode well.
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