FREAKSHOW Members To Guest On 'Metal Crypt'

May 5, 2009

FREAKSHOW members Markus Allen Christopher (guitar/vocals; M!SS CRAZY) and Jeff LaBar (guitar; CINDERELLA) will be interviewed separately on the "Metal Crypt" show this Wednesday, May 6. The interviews will air at the following times:

3:30 p.m. EST - Markus Allen Christopher
5:00 p.m. EST - Jeff LaBar

You can listen to the program live via the Internet at this location.

FREAKSHOW is the new project featuring Markus Allen Christopher, Jeff LaBar and former QUIET RIOT drummer Frankie Banali. The band released its self-titled debut album last month via Retrospect Records. The CD artwork can be viewed below.

Banali recently spoke to Backstage Live magazine about how his involvement with FREAKSHOW came about. "My initial musical involvement was a very straightforward affair," he said. "Markus asked me when I would be available to come in and lay down drum tracks and I let him know what my available times were. Once we sorted the time frame out, he sent me, I think, three or four songs that he had as drum machine demos that were very well done. I flew up to San Jose, where Markus is based out of, and started to work. He had budgeted three days for pre-production and three tracking days. We completed the pre-production in one rehearsal, just he and I, and then I recorded the 10 tracks in two evening sessions. One was a seven-hour session including set up, miking, getting drum sounds and tracking the drums for seven of the songs. The next evening I recorded the next three songs in about two hours. There was a problem with the recording drive which wiped out the very first song I did on day one, so early the next morning before flying back to L.A. I had to go back in to the studio, set up the drums again and re-cut the first track. The Pro Tools system can sometimes be Pro Fools! There was one additional track, the eleventh one, which was just Markus singing and playing acoustic guitar. I had him send me a MP3 of it and I took that into a studio in L.A. and added congas, shakers, tambourine and a timpani and sent the files back to him. He liked it and added it when he mixed the record."

For more information, visit the band's MySpace page.

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