QUIET RIOT: More Tour Dates Announced

QUIET RIOT has lined up the following tour dates:

May 19 - Myrtle Beach, SC - Club Kryptonite
Jun. 02 - Waterloo, IA - Byrnes Park
Jun. 07 - Solvesborg, Sweden - Sweden Rock Festival
Jun. 22 - Laredo, TX - The Revolution
Jun. 23 - Green River, WY - Flaming Gorge Days
Jun. 30 - Sarasota, FL - Suncoast Offshore Grand Prix
Jul 03 - Delhart, TX - Kxit Presents
Jul 04 - Del Mar, CA - State Fair
Jul 13 - Pryor, OK - Pryor Creek Festival Grounds
Jul 14 - Vernon Hills, IL - Village Of Vernon Hills
Jul 15 - Edinberg, TX - Baseball Stadium
Jul 20 - Springville, IN - A.B.A.T.E. (The Boogie) Of Indiana
Jul 21 - Thackerville, OK - Winstar Casino
Jul 27 - Houston, TX - Houston Speedway
Jul 28 - Royalton, MN - Halfway Jam
Aug. 03 - Clearfield, PA - Clearfield County Fair
Aug. 04 - Sterling Heights, MI - Freedom Hill
Aug. 18 - Greensboro, NC - Coliseum
Aug. 25 - Oklahoma City, OK - Bricktown Event Center
Aug. 31 - Atlantic City, NJ - House Of Blues
Sep. 01 - Henderson, NV - Henderson Pavillion
Sep. 2 - South Woodstock, CT - Woodstock Fair
Sep. 7 - Grand Junction, Co - Rock Jam
Sep. 8 - Pueblo Of Acoma, NM - Sky City Casino
Sep. 20 - Biloxi, MS - Hard Rock Hotel And Casino

Deb Rao of Glam-Metal.com recently spoke to QUIET RIOT drummer Frankie Banali about the band's latest labum, "Rehab", and the upcoming tour. A couple of excerpts follow:

On how "Rehab is doing:

"The fan and critical reviews of 'Rehab' have been great, but sales are another matter in the disarray that is the music business these days. Had we had the opportunity to release 'Rehab' through other channels I think the result would have been improved. At the end of the day what is important to me is that we did the record we wanted to do and loved doing it. No regrets! In concert, the new material is doing suprisingly well in a world where none of these new songs have received any airplay at all. We are playing 'Free', 'South of Heaven' and 'Old Habits Die Hard'. We just dug deep into the music, bands and era that molded our musical tastes and let that be our guide, inspiration, muses if you will. We wrote, played and recorded exactly what we wanted to with the right musicians to achieve the desired and end result."

On the band's longevity:

"Like QUIET RIOT or not, we have done so much as a band regardless of who was in it or not in it at any particular time to stop now. It's a career that we love, not a job that we hate. I am forever grateful to the fans for helping me realize a childhood dream and to be able to continue to make music and play music. If it wasn't for the fans, we would not be able to have toured and recorded as QUIET RIOT for the last 23 years and I hope we can continue to do so for many more years.

"We were incredibly lucky to have been at the right place at the right time in 1982/1983 and to receive the support that we did from MTV then. We were so fortunate to have been signed to a label, record, have a song like 'Metal Health/Bang Your Head' as a representative song for who we were at that time which then became the hit album, and lucky to have had a hit single with 'Cum On Feel The Noize'. Again, it's the fans that continue to contribute to our success at any level.

"Many of the bands of today are dropped right after their debut album, because they do not sell enough albums. I really don't see the longevity of bands breaking into the music business today. Many of the bands of today are one hit wonders, and never heard."

Read the entire interview at Glam-Metal.com.