Quiet Riot/Inntowner Bar/Thunder Bay/March 1996
So winter 1996 and QR is showing up to Tbay long past there prime but kinda back together with 3/4 of the original Line up consisting of Kevin Dubrow (R.I.P)/Frankie Banali/Carlos Cavazo and some dude who I had never seen before or after for that fact on bass! They were plugging there Greatest Hits release from that year so someone booked em here and well they packed out the place on a weeknight which was good to see because you never know but with Tbay being a Nostaglia town so no surprise than.
Me and TBone secured tickets and went and wow here they come In from outside (straight from there tour bus)with a roadie up a few set of stairs and launch into Mane Attraction and rip into Slick Black Cadalliac and wow these guys are putting on a show feeding me and TBone what we wanna hear and than after Cadailliac ends. Someone in the crowd shouts at Dubrow chirping to him ” Play that Bang Your Head Number” Dubrow says something along the line a of ‘hey pal,this is my band,my show, my songs I will choose to and maybe play that song when and if I want too’ it was pretty close to that. TBone and myself were like WTF…hahahaha…who,pissed in Dubrows cornflakes??! The band than soldiered on you know played the hits,well for them anyways being Cum On Feel The Noise and yes of course Metal Health. They also played Mama Were All Crazee Now,Party All Night. Thunderbird (dedicated to Randy Rhoads) ,Let’s Get Crazy, Down To The Bone,Sign Of The Times . All in all a good show except we were punished meaning TBone called it,Dubrow had his candy striped mic stand on the side of the stage so he used a regular mic stand. No candy mic stand for the Tbay crowd!
After the show was classic rock 101. The stairs that the band entered which was about three steps up to the stage the same roadie handed em all robes which all band members put on and the roadie held the flashlight for them to go down the three steps out the door onto there tour bus! I wish iPhones were around back in 96 man that woulda been great footage! A former arena band trapped in a bar bands body!
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All in all, a good show from the sounds of it! I loved the robes and the helper roadie… James Brown did the same thing when we saw him.
I’ll bet Mike knows who the bass player was.
Was there an opening act? The title says Inntowner?
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Inntowner was a bar here….I gotta fix that thanks …it’s now a parking lot!
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Only a few days a year a band could play a parking lot in TBay!
So no opening act? Just QR?
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Yep,just QR….
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Cool! Poor Sebastiab Bach, though. Never got the call that night…
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So Dubrow got annoyed cause someone requested a song that he ended up playing anyway? Classy. I think the future generation of performers could learn from that skilful fan interaction.
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Yeah it bothered him….he was laying down the law that night. Hahaha…
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Haha not a good idea to get pissed off at your (remaining) fans! Always cool to see a “big” band in a small venue though.
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Oh yeah it was a hoot!
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Maybe he was offended that the dude yelling at the stage didn’t even know the song’s proper title. If yer gonna yell a song request at the stage, at least know what it’s called!
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Good point!
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I would have SO got that one right too.
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The dude you’ve never seen before on bass is “original member” Chuck Wright who is in the current Quiet Riot.
HMO will get why I said “original member”.
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Nope it was not Chuck Wright I know that for a fact Mikey. It was some kinda Mexican looking dude. Held his own…..
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Seriously???
Marco Mendoza?
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I don’t think so but it was some guy I had never seen, he was younger than them …..
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I always wondered why they didn’t just get Tony Cavazo. Probably a power balance thing, probably they didn’t want two Cavazos in the band…
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Who knows but yeah like I said never ever seen the guy before or after and I think if u were to talk to him he would tell u the same about Thunder Bay!
Hahahaha
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“‘hey pal,this is my band,my show, my songs I will choose to and maybe play that song when and if I want too’”
…and their career went down the shitter.
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As Mr Keeps Me Alive sez…..BINGO!
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Gotta say I love your title. Classic. Still laughing remembering the robes and the flashlight. Lame but cool at the same time. A big band having trouble with their fading Spinal Tap-ish career.
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Oh yeah I will one day review the other QR show were we went deaf!
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