Filling In the Noize I’ve played guitar in Quiet Riot off and on since 2004, and permanently since 2010. Before my band mate and drummer Frankie Banali passed away from cancer in 2020, he made it clear he wanted Quiet Riot to continue. He also personally selected Johnny Kelly as his replacement. Kelly is best known as the former drummer of Type O Negative, and he had already filled in for Frankie during some of the band’s 2019 and 2020 shows when he was too ill to perform. Kelly has also been touring and recording with Danzig since 2002, and he distinguished himself as a replacement for Will Hunt in Black Label Society in 2011, and for Vinny Appice in Kill Devil Hill in 2014. The band is looking forward to realizing Banali’s wish to keep rocking, so I took the opportunity to ask Kelly some questions about what it […]

September 2021 Issue