“So Lonnie Marq and myself sat down at SALSA AND BEER and had a heartfelt moment of honesty and cleared some years of resentment ( witch we had never done before) I then sat down with Mick the original guitarist and asked if he’d come back, he had no desire to do so, and understandably so.“
— Jimmy D’Anda

LOS ANGELES, California — As first reported by Metal Sludge as a rumor, it has now been confirmed that Jimmy D’Anda has returned to the drum-throne for BulletBoys.

Metal Sludge ran our article; ‘BULLETBUZZ … BulletBoys are Rumored to be Welcoming back Original Drummer Jimmy D’Anda’ over the weekend, and now the rumor has proven to be factual.

D’Anda took to his official Facebook on early Monday October 13th 2025 to tell his fans the big news.

D’Anda writes: “Good morning rockers and rockettes! I thought long and hard about my future in rock n roll , Everyone knows it’s a monumental task for bands to reunite, especially bands that have been fractured for years… Having said that,I felt that there was unfinished business with my old band BBOYS and after losing OZZY , that shook me to my core … So Lonnie Marq and myself sat down at SALSA AND BEER and had a heartfelt moment of honesty and cleared some years of resentment ( witch we had never done before) I then sat down with Mick the original guitarist and asked if he’d come back, he had no desire to do so, and understandably so. I reached to several guitarist but none had the fire of guitarist Frankie Lindia ( DLR /RATT/Atomic Punks) so please welcome him to the fold! … we’re in rehearsals at the moment and hope to work on new tunes … … ps, any comments of hate or shit talking get you wished in to the corn field.”

D’Anda also shared a handful of up-coming tour dates.

OCT. 24th LYNCH MOB/BULLETBOYS @ “TOKEN LOUNGE” WESTLAND. MI
OCT. 25th LYNCH MOB / BULLETBOYS @ “APlex” ALPENA, MI

DEC. 19th WARRANT / BULLETBOYS @ “ARCADA THEATER” ST CHARLES, IL
DEC. 28th BULLETBOYS @ “THE WHISKEY A GO GO” HOLLYWOOD. CA

The new statement from D’Anda also notes the addition of guitarist Frankie Lindia who formerly appeared with the David Lee Roth band, Stephen Pearcy‘s (RATT) solo band and Atomic Punks (Van Halen tribute).

With this latest updated from D’Anda, it appears the band will simultaneously release Fred Aching on drums and Jake Faun on guitar.

Back on April 22nd 2022, Metal Sludge shared our article, ‘BULLETBLAST … Jimmy D’Anda talks BulletBoys implosion: “I don’t think I need to point any fingers because everyone knows who it’s about”’ where D’Anda went public in an interview with Vinyl Writer Music.

The Los Angeles native had a few choice statements regarding his departure from BulletBoys a few months earlier… D’Anda went onto say: “There comes a time in everyone’s life when people start saying shit about you, and you’re like, “I’m in a band with you, dude.” And someone is trying to get you kicked out of the band to replace you with another drummer because he’ll play during COVID but I won’t play. There’s so much fuckin’ bullshit; I didn’t sign on for this. I really don’t need to be here; for that matter, I don’t need to be anywhere. Because you know what? I swear to God, I’ll tell you right now, I’ll go back and work at fuckin’ Guitar Center and be happy. I don’t need to have stress and anxiety in my life. I did it when I was in BulletBoys when I was a kid; I was nineteen or twenty years old. I was put through fuckin’ hell during that time because I was a kid. I got hazed all the time by these guys. By all of ‘em. Mick, maybe not as much, but definitely Marq and Lonnie. I went through a lot of shit. I hoped that people were in a better place, and there was a while there I thought that maybe everybody was, but then you start hearing people, “Oh, you know he said this about you,” or, “You know, he’s doing this now…” After a while, it’s like, “Wait. Hold up, hold up, hold up.”

D’Anda added in the 2022 interview: “And here’s what’s funny – nobody knows this – I quit the band in September and then I called the manager and said, “Larry, I think you should keep going on with BulletBoys.”  He goes, “Jimmy, I’m gonna try.” I go, “Yeah. I’ll even help you guys find a drummer,” because I wanted to try to leave them in a better place than I found them. Then little by little, I’m starting to hear other comments and other things are being said. Then COVID, of course, during that time period is just running rampant and there’s too much other nonsense going on. It should be much easier; it shouldn’t be this hard. And so, by the time the last two shows were coming around, it was emotional. When I played that last show with them at Monsters on the Mountain, I walked off stage and I literally exhaled really large because I realized thirty-three years of my life with this band had come to an end. It’s over. There’s no doubt in my mind. Because there was always a question mark over the last ten or fifteen years; maybe I could do it; maybe we could go back; maybe we could actually be friends a little bit, enough to actually have a career, make some good money, and make music. I know that’s not gonna happen now.”

So, Larry asked me to stay on for the last three or four shows, and I did. And then during that time, it just became such a fiasco and there’s so many negative things that are happening. It’s such a bummer. It’s like, “You know what? I didn’t want this to end like this, but apparently, this is how it’s gonna end now.” So, then I quit, and then the Whisky show rolls around and there was more drama. And then Larry, the manager, quit. Then Mick called me, and he goes, “Dude, I did not sign on for this. This is just way too much fuckin’ bullshit.” He couldn’t deal with it, so then he quit. I’ve only heard through the grapevine that Lonnie quit; I haven’t talked to him yet, but I heard he was like, “Dude, there’s no way I’m going back. Just me and Marq is not gonna happen.”

Again, listen, I’m sad for the fans, too. I’m sad that I didn’t get a chance to go out and show people, “This is what I was known for.” Don’t get me wrong, I love playing with George, but going out and playing songs I was known for was gonna be a nice little treat. Listen, there’s a reason why people get divorced from their wives and their husbands. I left one wife, which is George, to go back to an ex-wife and then realized, “Oh, no. Wrong one. Sorry!” Listen, man, honestly, I wish everybody the best. Everybody go out there and live your best lives. Stop being a fuckin’ dick, go work your ass off, make money, come home to your family, and be a good person. There it is.”

Metal Sludge sends good vibes to all of BulletBoys and a big welcome back to Jimmy D’Anda.

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