My Riot by Roger Miret

Author:Roger Miret
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lesser Gods
Published: 2017-10-06T15:20:53+00:00

Chapter 20

The first show we did for Cause For Alarm was with Lou at CBGB. Youth of Today opened for us. We took the stage and did a song from Victim In Pain before announcing that we were playing some of the new material. There was a mixed reaction. Fans were psyched to see us perform our new songs with Alex, but they didn’t know how to take the music, especially the hardcore kids. They were confused. They were used to United Blood and Victim In Pain, and suddenly we were playing these crazy metallic songs full of guitar solos. We only did two more shows with that lineup since Lou had commitments to Carnivore. It was time to find another drummer.

Alex still seemed troubled and unhappy, even after we named the album after his old band and even after he and Rob had free reign to add all this metal to our sound. We played a show in Montreal, which was cool, but Alex wasn’t feeling it. He was bummed that Louie was leaving. He wasn’t happy with the record. I felt like he wanted it to be more metal and wanted us to evolve into a straight-up metal band like Metallica. At least that’s what I thought until I found out 25 years later that he never felt like a full band member. We didn’t do anything to make him feel more comfortable when we did that show with him in Montreal. When we finished our set, people wanted to hear more, so we played songs from United Blood that Alex didn’t know. He just stood there on the side of the stage and felt awkward. He was pretty upset about that, but we had no idea since he never told us. After the show, Alex quit.

To this day, I feel badly about it, and looking back, I wish we could have felt more comfortable playing together. We wanted to please our fans, but we ended up distancing a good friend. That was never our intention. Alex is a good guy and a bro. He went through a lot with us and helped us make a legendary record.

Kabula was bummed because he lost his songwriting partner. It was time to rebuild. We auditioned drummers first, and that’s how Joe “Fish” Montanaro came into the picture. He had no idea how we rolled. He showed up for the audition and was really good. He nailed all the beats and tempo shifts and injected some stylistic fills into the songs. It was clear he could play, but he had no idea about how we toured or what our lifestyles were like.

Joe wasn’t hardcore. He was a big guido from Howard Beach. Long before he joined the band, his dad worked for the Mafia as a bookie and numbers guy. But he did something that upset his boss, who took him “for a ride.” Police found him cut up in pieces inside a metal drum. It was a typical Mafia hit.

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