Frankie Banali

Frankie Banali (2010)

Frankie Banali (* 14. November 1951 in New York City ; † 20th August 2020 in Los Angeles ) was an American rock - drummer .

life and career

Frankie Banali celebrated his greatest success with the multi- platinum metal band Quiet Riot . In addition, from 1994 he was the manager of the band. He played drums in the heavy metal band WASP , Blackthorne and Billy Idol . Banali was the drummer for Faster Pussycat and Steppenwolf for a short time .

In mid-2010, Banali and his fiancée Regina Russell started an online fundraiser via Kickstarter.com for the production of a Quiet Riot documentary; the film premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival in April 2014 .

Banali died of pancreatic cancer on August 20, 2020 at the age of 68 .

Discography

With Hughes / Thrall

• Hughes and Thrall (1982)

With Quiet Riot

• Metal Health (1983)
• Condition Critical (1984)
• QR III (1986)
• QR (1988)
• Terrified (1993)
• Down To The Bone (1995)
• Alive And Well (1999)
• Guilty Pleasures (2001)
• Rehab (2006)

With WASP

• The Headless Children (1989)
• The Crimson Idol (1992)
• Still Not Black Enough (1995)
• Unholy Terror (2001)
• Dying for the World (2002) (With Stet Howland)
• The Neon God: Part 1 - The Rise (2004)
• The Neon God: Part 2 - The Demise (2004) (not mentioned)
• Reidolized (The Soundtrack to The Crimson Idol)

With Blackthorne

• Afterlife (1993)

Web links

• Frankie Banali in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Frankie Banali in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} : Quiet Riot drummer Frankie Banali dies. In: Rolling Stone , August 22, 2020. Retrieved August 22, 2020.
2. ↑ Frankie Banali / QUIET RIOT Documentary. Retrieved August 22, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Quiet Riot: Well Now You're Here, There's No Way Back. Retrieved August 22, 2020 .