As previously reported, FREAKSHOW is the new band featuring drummer Frankie Banali (QUIET RIOT), guitarist/vocalist Markus Allen Christopher (M!SS CRAZY), guitarist Jeff La Bar (CINDERELLA) and bassist Tony Franklin (BLUE MURDER, THE FIRM). Banali and Franklin are featured in a new interview with Backstage Live Magazine, an excerpt is available below.

Q: Freakshow is your latest musical project - how did your part in this project come to fruition?

Banali: "My initial musical involvement was a very straightforward affair. 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 Jose4 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 2 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 LA 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 LA 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."

Go to this location for the complete interview.