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JROCK Houston - Rock@Chaoticrifsmagazine.Com Magazine Staf Credits Interviews JROCK Houston - [email protected] KATZ – [email protected] Graphics: Leith Taylor - [email protected] Text Editor: Leith Taylor Copyright 2011. Chaotic Rifs Magazine September 2011 - Issue 19 2 Warrant’s Jani Lane Tribute …….6 Phil Soussan……8 WARRANT DRUMMER James Kottak……10 Counterfeit Molly……19 The Influence……20 Be The Ant……22 Live Wire – David Grant……24 Head Cat……28 Wings In Motion CD Review……33 Don Jamieson……34 Jaison In LA……40 Copyright 2011. Chaotic Rifs Magazine September 2011 - Issue 19 3 Talkback By JRock Houston Jani Lane is just the latest of many Rockers to leave the world way too young. I thought in light of this that this month's TALKBACK SECTON would take a look back at some other Rockers who checked out way too young. Let's take a trip down memory lane: 12/1/93 - Singer: Ray Gillian dies from Aids related complications. While he never appeared on record with Black Sabbath he was briefly a member of Black Sabbath's touring band when he briefly replaced legendary Singer: Glenn Hughes in the band. Following his gig with Sabbath Gillen briefly worked w/Ex Thin Lizzy/Whitesnake Guitarist: John Sykes in Blue Murder but eventually Gillen left Blue Murder and formed BadLands w/Ex Ozzy Osbourne/Ratt Guitarist: Jake E. Lee. Badlands released two albums before Gillen decided to leave because of friction that developed between Lee and Gillen. After Ray Gillen's death BADLANDS released a 3rd and final album called DUSK which was an album's worth of material of unreleased studio outakes. Diehard fans should try and get their hands on this release. Interestingly enough a few years after Ray Gillen's death December 1st was declared World's Aids Day. 2/5/ 98 - Slaughter Guitarist: Tim Kelly was killed in a car accident. Kelly played on Slaughter's first four studio albums and two live releases. Kelly was traveling down an Arizona highway at the time, hit head on and died from massive head injuries. The other driver who hit Kelly's car and killed him and had been drinking and had three different types of drugs found in his system. The Driver who killed Tim Kelly only received a 3 year jail sentence. How's that justice for you? 3 years for a human life. Since Kelly's death he was replaced in Slaughter by Guitarist: Jeff Blando who remains with the band to this day. Slaughter's final studio album was REVOLION and Drummer: Blas Elias has since left the band and joined The Blue Man group in las Vegas but both Mark Slaughter and Dana Strum remain in Slaughter as well and the band still performs from time. 3/26/2002 - Drummer Randy Castillo who had played with Lita Ford /Ozzy osbourne/Vince Neil/Motley Crue after it was discovered that he had cancer in his jaw. For a while the Cancer seemed to be in remission but then it was later discovered that the Cancer had come back and he would eventually lose his battle with that ugly Cancer. At the time of his death Randy's final album that he had just released was Motley Crue's New Tattoo. For a 10 year period Randy Castillo was the Drummer and one of the main songwriters in Ozzy Osbourne's solo band. At the time of his death Castillo was rumored to be working on a new band with his Ex Ozzy bandmate Bassist: Mike Inez who has since found great success as the Bass Player for Alice In Chains. 4//5/2002 - Alice In Chains Singer: Layne Stayley dies from a drug overdose. At the time of his death Alice In Chains had been inactive for many years because of Stayley's drug addiction which was the band's reason that they were unable to tour. When Stayley's death was first announced the surviving members of the band weren't sure if they were going to carry on or not. Eventually Alice In Chains decided to carry on when they found a new Singer in William Devoe. 6/6/2002 - Ex Ratt Guitarist: Robbin Crosby dies from Aida related complications and a Heroin Overdose. Robbin Crosby played on the first 5 Ratt albums and was one of the band's principle songwriters in the band. He co-wrote many of the band's biggest hits to date. In 1990 Robbin Crosby was let go by the rest of the band because of his heroin addiction. Following his departure from Ratt Crosby made several attempts to get his musical career going again but never succeeded in doing so. His drug addiction always seemed to get in the way of that happening. As he stated in Ratt's BEHIND THE MUSIC SPECIAL his drug addiction which caused him to become HIV infected from use of a dirty drug needle cost him his career, his life, his sex life. He went on to say that he was living in a one bedroom shack in North Hollywood. Robbin Crosby is one of many musicians who achieved his dreams and lost everything he had because of drugs. Robbin Crosby's story is just one of many to come to such a tragic end. Since his death many of his fans and former Ratt bandmates have gone on the record of saying what a great guy Crosby was and how vwey much his Copyright 2011. Chaotic Rifs Magazine September 2011 - Issue 19 4 death has effected them and how much they miss him but nobody was able to save Robbin Crosby from his drug addiction which is what eventually cost him his life. 11/25/2007 - Quiet Riot Singer: Kevin Dubrow is found dead in his Las Vegas home. It was announced that the cause of death was an accidental cocaine overdose. Following the announcement of Dubrow's death Quiet Riot Drummer: Frankie Banalli announced that he had decided to disband Quiet Riot and that Quiet Riot would not continue without Kevin Dubrow. Banalli stuck to that until 2010 after going through old video footage of QUIET RIOT. It was at this time in 2010 that Frankie Banalli announced that he was going to ask Quiet Riot fans to help him fund a documentary about Quiet Riot and Kevin Dubrow. The necessary funds were raised and the documentary is currently being put together for a 2012 release. In 2/2011, Quiet Riot returned to live action with their new Singer: Mark Huff who was discovered in a Van Halen tribute band 5150. Banalli has said that his reasons for putting Quiet Riot back together is because he missed playing the Quiet Riot songs and so he could pay tribute to the musical legacy of Kevin Dubrow every night. The band pays tribute to Dubrow in concert each night when they perform "Thunderbird" and dedicate the song to both Dubrow and the band's original Guitarist: Randy Rhoads. 2/5/2010 - Dirty Looks Bassist: Greg Piankar is stabbed to death in a bar fight. Dirty Looks was a great band who had a real AC/DC vibe but unfortunately the band never broke out in a major way. Dirty Looks is a band that had a lot of promise but unfortunately, Lady luck never was on this band's side. I think Dirty Looks would make for a great episode of VH1's Behind The Music because in addition to Greg Pinakar's death on 9/27/2011 Lead Singer: Henrik Ostegaurd died from Liver failure. At the time of Henrik's death Dirty Looks had just re-released their first 3 albums and there was talk of a new studio album to be made but of course that was never to be. 5/16/2010 - Singer: Ronnie James Dio loses his battle with stomach Cancer. Within minutes of his death being announced fans and fellow musicians start posting their thoughts/tributes to the legend that was Ronnie James Dio all over the internet. Ronnie James had a 40 plus year career having played in Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio, and Heaven And Hell. At the time of his death Ronnie was playing in Heaven And Hell which was basically the Dio era fronted Black Sabbath that was forced to use a different name after Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne threatened legal action if the band used the Black Sabbath name. The band had a bright future ahead of them. Since his death Ronnie's Wife and Manager: Wendy has continued to oversee Ronnie's legacy. Her latest effort to do so is the Dio Diciples which is the surviving band members with Singer's Tim Owens and Toby Jepson who play Ronnie's music from rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio to continue to keep the music of Ronnie James Dio alive and well. 8/11/2011 - Ex Warrant Singer: Jani Lane is found dead in a California Motel room and it seems that the Singer's death was brought on after years of heavy drinking. While at the time of his death Jani Lane was no longer a member of the band: Warrant he was still to many the face and voice of that band because Jani Lane wrote all those Hit songs that the band had. At the time of his death Lane seemed to be on the urge of making a comeback. It was reported he was working on a new solo album, had written songs for Alice Cooper. Jani Lane's final public appearance was on VH1's THAT METAL SHOW. While he appeared to be a little frail on that show he seemed to be in great spirits saying "Hey I'm just glad to be here" .
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