Late Quiet Riot frontman Kevin DuBrow was honored this week with a shrunken head ceremony at Las Vegas’ Golden Tiki.
You possibly can see images from the ceremony beneath.
A number of different rockers congregated on the Sin Metropolis bar on Wednesday to have fun the event, together with Lifeless Daisies singer Glenn Hughes, ex-Kiss guitarist Bruce Kulick, Slash bassist Todd Kerns and Quiet Riot guitarist Alex Grossi.
DuBrow is in good firm on the Golden Tiki, which has additionally honored Sammy Hagar, Vince Neil and late Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul with their very own shrunken heads.
DuBrow appeared on Quiet Riot’s greatest albums, together with 1983’s chart-topping Steel Well being and its High 20 follow-up, 1984’s Situation Crucial. The band fired DuBrow in 1987, however he returned in 1991 and stayed with them till he died of an accidental cocaine overdose on the age of 52 in November 2007.
Quiet Riot launched their most up-to-date album, Hollywood Cowboys, in 2019. The band is engaged on a brand new studio challenge, which is able to reportedly function former drummer Frankie Banali, who died in August 2020.
“It has been revamped,” lead singer Jizzy Pearl not too long ago informed Classic Metal Show. “Principally, Frankie’s drum tracks have been – that sport, Operation, the place you are taking the tweezers? We pulled his drum tracks and have written all new music for that.”
Pearl is joined by Grossi, drummer Johnny Kelly and classic-era bassist Rudy Sarzo, who introduced his return to Quiet Riot final yr. Sarzo mentioned Banali’s spouse informed him that Banali wished him again within the band.
“I used to be already traumatized by Frankie’s passing, so it was a call that I needed to take numerous time to consider it — let the mourning interval [pass],” Sarzo informed Eddie Trunk final yr. “So, the time got here after I was prepared to just accept the fact, that it is our accountability, of us left behind, to hold on with the legacy and have fun it. In order that’s after I determined. I mentioned, ‘Okay, it is time for me to return dwelling.'”
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