FREAKSHOW - Self-Titled

From San Jose, California  |  Release Date: October 27, 2023  |  Catalog #: ER00056

Ronnie Borchert - Lead Vocals & Guitar
Carlos Cavazo - Guitar & Backing Vocals
Greg Chaisson - Bass Guitar & Backing Vocals
Stet Howland - Drums & Backing Vocals

1. Get It Ready
2. Wendi
3. You Shine
4. So Shall It Be
5. M.S.M.
6. Tell Me You Love Me
7. Full-On Shred
8. It Hurts Me
9. Ice Cold Hands
10. Lovin’ You, Lovin’ Me

From San Jose, California  |  Release Date: October 27, 2023  |  Catalog #: ER00056V

Ronnie Borchert - Lead Vocals & Guitar
Carlos Cavazo - Guitar & Backing Vocals
Greg Chaisson - Bass Guitar & Backing Vocals
Stet Howland - Drums & Backing Vocals

1. Get It Ready
2. Wendi
3. You Shine
4. So Shall It Be
5. M.S.M.
6. Tell Me You Love Me
7. Full-On Shred
8. It Hurts Me
9. Ice Cold Hands
10. Lovin’ You, Lovin’ Me

FREAKSHOW - So Shall It Be - LIMITED EDITION GOLD VINYL BUNDLE

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FREAKSHOW - Self-Titled

From San Jose, California  |  Release Date: October 22, 2021  |  Catalog #: ER00031

Ronnie Borchert - Lead Vocals
Leff LaBar - Guitar
Tony Franklin - Bass
Frankie Banali - Drums

1. Welcome To The Freakshow
2. Everyone
3. You Who Wins
4. It’s Really Over
5. Burning Me
6. Four Leaf Clover
7. Looking Back At Me
8. Mindgame
9. Mistreat Me
10. Ripper
11. Mistaken

RONNIE BORCHERT

JEFF LABAR (March 18, 1963 - July 14, 2021)

Best known as the guitarist for glam metal band Cinderella. LaBar linked up with Cinderella in 1985, after founding guitarist Michael Schermick departed. He joined the Philadelphia band as they were signing to Mercury/Polygram and remained in the band through 2017. In 1986, they released their debut album, Night Songs. The LP’s breakthrough single “Nobody’s Fool” reached Number 13 and the album hit Number 3 on the Billboard best-sellers chart and set them up as one of the decade's big-sounding bands. They subsequently toured with Poison, David Lee Roth, and Bon Jovi. Cinderella emerged in the mid-1980s and immediately captured the heavy metal high ground through their innovative MTV videos that proved so popular. Initially, they were more glam rock than hard rock but as time went on a heavier more blues-based sound became their “sound” helping them to sell 15 million albums world-wide.

Frankie Banali (November 14, 1951 - August 20, 2020)

Most widely known for his work with heavy metal band Quiet Riot ranked at No. 100 on VH1’s Greatest Artist of Hard Rock. Quiet Riot’s most commercially successful lineup consisted of drummer Frankie Banali, Kevin DuBrow alongside guitarist Carlos Cavazo, and bassist Rudy Sarzo, and in 1983 released their breakthrough album Metal Health, which is known for being the first heavy metal album to top the Billboard album chart. The band had several hit singles which charted on the Billboard Hot 100, including “Cum on Feel the Noize,” “Mama Weer All Crazee Now,” (both cover songs of the British glam rock band Slade), and “Bang Your Head (Metal Health).” Frankie also played drums on eight W.A.S.P. albums, Heavy Bones, among many others familiar guitar virtuosos Alex Masi, Gary Hoey, Atsushi Yokozeki, Bob Kulick, and Kuni.

TONY FRANKLIN

Born into a musical family, Franklin first took the stage at age 5. He got his big break in 1984 as bassist in the supergroup The Firm, with Jimmy Page, Paul Rodgers, and Chris Slade. Prior to his work with The Firm, Franklin toured and recorded with English folk/rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Roy Harper, appearing on eight of his albums between 1982 and 2013. In 1996, Franklin played on long-time friend Donna Lewis’s album Now in a Minute, which spawned the worldwide smash hit single “I Love You Always Forever.” Substantial touring followed the release of the single throughout the U.S., U.K., Japan, Europe, and Canada. In 1997, Franklin toured the world with Whitesnake as part of the “Last Hurrah” tour. While maintaining his music career, from September 2003 through July 2011, Franklin served as Artist Relations Manager for Fender Musical Instruments Corporation and SWR. He returned to music performance full-time in mid-2011, when he joined Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s band for the tour supporting the guitarist’s 2011 album, How I Go. Franklin can be heard on Shepherd’s album, “Goin’ Home,” released in Summer 2014. Franklin’s television credits include the Late Show with David Letterman, Beverly Hills 90210, The Rosie O’Donnell Show, Good Morning America, Top of the Pops (U.K.), VH-1, MTV, Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush (Finland), dozens of Japanese programs and more. Sony released Tony Franklin: Not Just Another Pretty Bass, Franklin's first sample loop library, in 2006.

CARLOS CAVAZO

Cavazo formed Speed of Light with his older brother Tony in 1973 in Anaheim (Hills), Orange County, CA, Carlos would have been part of the first graduating at Canyon High School, however, he left school his senior year to pursue music. The band would evolve into Snow by 1978 with the addition of vocalist Doug Ellison and drummer Stephen Quadros. Snow built up a loyal following on the L.A. club circuit over the next couple of years and in 1980 released a self-financed eponymous 5-song EP.  Replacing Randy Rhoads in the reformed Quiet Riot in 1982, he remained with the band into the 2000s until the band split up. Cavazo was a founding member of 3 Legged Dogg, a supergroup made up of drummer Vinny Appice (Black Sabbath, Dio, Heaven & Hell), bassist Jimmy Bain (Rainbow, Dio), vocalist Chas West (Bonham, Foreigner) and guitarist Brian Young (David Lee Roth). They released an album, Frozen Summer, in 2006. Until spring of 2018, he was a member of Ratt, replacing John Corabi in 2008.

GREG CHAISSON

Chaisson got his start in a popular local Phoenix, Arizona band called Ghost Rose, but his first recordings of note came with Surgical Steel and St. Michael, two early 1980s Phoenix bands that both featured his future Badlands bandmate, Jeff Martin. St. Michael would contribute the song “The Beauty, The Power” to the U.S. Metal Vol. IV compilation while Surgical Steel appeared on Metal Massacre II with “Rivet Head.”  Chaisson then made the move to Los Angeles, CA where he joined one of the last incarnations of Steeler where he was replaced by his younger brother, Kenny, when the band morphed into Keel. Chaisson would join a succession of L.A. bands, including Legs Diamond, Hellion, and Terriff (with future Ozzy guitarist Joe Holmes). In 1986, he unsuccessfully auditioned for Ozzy Osbourne’s band where he met Jake E. Lee, who invited him to try out for Badlands a couple of years later. After the demise of Badlands, he joined Sircle of Silence, featuring one-time Accept vocalist David Reece, but left before the first album was recorded. In the ensuing years, Chaisson kept busy recording with the Blindside Blues Band, Die Happy, Red Sea, Pat Travers, and Darrell Mansfield, among others. In 1994, he released a solo album, It’s About Time, which featured former Badlands bandmate Eric Singer on drums, ex-St. Michael guitarist Jim McMellen, and Riverdogs alumni, Rob Lamothe and Marc Danzeisen.

STET HOWLAND

Howland has an incredible resume of bands he has played with from played for from RUN21 (1987 - 88), Impellitteri (1988 - 1990), W.A.S.P. (1991 - 2005), and several others in the late 1990’s and throughout the 2000’s such as Belladonna, The Howlin’ Dogs, Joetown, Killing Machine, Carnival of Souls, and Temple of Brutality. In February 2006, he announced his departure from W.A.S.P. to concentrate on his own projects, but also played in Blackfoot, as well as for Lita Ford and her album Wicked Wonderland. In 2010, Howland founded the reality-based rock ‘n’ roll television series Stet TV. Howland then played with a band titled Where Angels Suffer, with Chris Holmes (guitar; ex-W.A.S.P.), Ira Black (guitar; ex-Lizzy Borden), Steve Unger (bass; ex-Metal Church), and Rich Lewis (vocals; Randy Piper’s Animal). On July 2, 2011, Howland joined 10,000 Views, a Fort Myers, Florida based powerhouse rock band. Other current members of 10,000 Views are Timmy Johnson (lead vocals/rhythm guitar) and John Hyatt (lead guitar/vocals). In April 2017, Howland joined heavy metal band Metal Church after the departure of previous drummer Jeff Plate.