Rudy Sarzo announces his return to Quiet Riot, after 18 years of absence.
Rudy talked about his return in a new episode of SiriusXM’s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk“:
“I am returning home, going home to Quiet Riot at the beginning of 2022, next year.
”Next year marks 50 years of my journey with Quiet Riot because that’s when I met and I started playing with Frankie Banali, another founding member of the ‘Metal Health’ version of QR. To me, that was a turning point [for me] as a musician.”
He added:
“After Frankie told me in 2019 that he had pancreatic cancer, and then he started his fight, it was a daily fight. I mean, he would be taking multiple treatments to fight it, and he would be touring. And so it was really an exhausting thing. So we stopped kind of hanging out as much because, obviously, he was too tired. So we would text each other a lot, every day, and stay in touch. […]
“I was already traumatized by Frankie‘s passing, so it was a decision that I had to take a lot of time to think about it — let the mourning period [pass]. I had to do that. So, the time came when I was ready to accept the reality, that it’s our responsibility, of us left behind, to carry on with the legacy and celebrate it. So that’s when I decided. I said, ‘Okay, it’s time for me to come home.'”