{"id":18109,"date":"2019-01-14T13:31:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T18:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=18109"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:48:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:48:43","slug":"album-review-quiet-riot-one-night-in-milan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=18109","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Quiet Riot &#8211; One Night in Milan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Quiet Riot \u2013 One Night in Milan<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Release Date: January 25, 2019<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Frontiers Records<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quiet Riot is one of those bands that I just find myself shaking my head over.\u00a0 Tsk Tsk.\u00a0 Some things are just best left alone and I will say predictably like many that Quiet Riot died with Kevin Dubrow.\u00a0 Drummer Frankie Benalli (who isn\u2019t even an original member in actuality) has continued to drag Quiet Riot\u2019s legacy through the mud after more failed attempts than I can count and trying to find success in carrying on without any original members since Dubrow\u2019s death and honestly, it\u2019s every bit as sad as it sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Since Dubrow\u2019s death in 2007, Banali has recruited Mark Huff, Keith St. John, Scott Vokoun, Jizzy Pearl, Seann Nichols, and now we have American Idol dude, James Durbin.\u00a0 Quiet Riot\u2019s line now consists of original member Frankie Banali on drums, bassist Chuck Wright, who has been involved in the band since the recording of \u201cMetal Health\u201d. Alex Grossi on guitar who has been in the band for 14 years and the new singer is James Durbin, who was on &#8216;American Idol&#8217; during the tenth season.<\/p>\n<p>Quiet Riot will be releasing a live album this year called One Night in Milan.\u00a0 Looking at the track listing, I\u2019ll be honest and say that this actually looked really promising as this was a great collection of songs.\u00a0 The album kicks off with \u201cRun for Cover\u201d and after hearing this I had two thoughts; the first being that the production of this album is stellar.\u00a0 The second thought was this is one of the saddest performances I\u2019ve ever heard.\u00a0 This literally sounded like a recording of a QR tribute band.\u00a0 Wait, I believe that\u2019s pretty much what this is.<\/p>\n<p>Grossi\u2019s guitar playing is spot on and that dude is a fucking monster guitarist.\u00a0 Why is he wasting his time in this freak show?\u00a0 Surly he can find better paying gigs with his talent.\u00a0 I think Chuck Wright is just finally happy to actually have his face associated with Quiet Riot.\u00a0 Banali\u2019s drumming?\u00a0 Whew.\u00a0 I mean, the guy is a solid drummer but he needs to remember that rule of KISS (keep it simple stupid) as the delivers some seriously cringe worthy drum fills that even a non musician could pick out.<\/p>\n<p>James Durbin singing for Quiet Riot would be pretty much like replacing Bruce Dickinson with Bret Michaels of Poison.\u00a0 The thing that made Dubrow\u2019s voice so distinct and iconic was that he had attitude, conviction, and most importantly power.\u00a0 Durbin possesses none of these qualities and doesn\u2019t even come close.\u00a0 The absolute worst was when they broke out \u201cThunderbird.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even Benali\u2019s touching story about how it was about Randy Rhoads could save this fucking trainwreck.\u00a0 In the original version of this song Dubrow\u2019s voice was so emotional that you could almost hear him holding back the years.\u00a0 Durbin\u2019s take on this song was so fucking lame that I kept waiting for Randy Jackson commenting with shit like, \u201cYo dawg, that was pretty pitchy.\u201d\u00a0 It was so bad I couldn\u2019t even finish listening to the track.<\/p>\n<p>If you actually find yourself with the need to own a new Quiet Riot live album, the album comes out on January 25<sup>th<\/sup> on Frontiers Records but honestly, I couldn\u2019t imagine any real QR even going for this crap.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure the CD will make a great coaster or even something for you to throw at someone in self defense but musically and artistically this album has zero redeeming qualities.\u00a0 Now I\u2019m going to go listen to Metal Health, Condition Critical, and QR III and remember the Quiet Riot that I grew up loving.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DGwP2JUSSlQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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