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). According to a brief update from the band an April release is planned for their debut album. Fans are invited to go to this location to preview some tracks and post comments.

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.