Quiet Riot How they Tried to Sabotage Come on Feel the Noise
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- Quiet Riot: How the Band Tried to Sabotage Come on Fell the Noise
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Founded in 1973 by guitar prodigy Randy Rhoads and his friend bassist Kelly Garni, Quiet Riot was a band who struggled to get noticed. Record labels continually passed on the band associating their sound with dinosaur rock, but when the group was offered their first big break they tried to sabotage it. Let’s explore what happened in today’s video.
Two young musicians Randy Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni would end up recruiting singer Kevin Dubrow in 1973 and formed a band named Mach 1 before changing their name to Little Women. They would eventually land on the monicker Quiet Riot. It wasn’t long before Quiet Riot became one of the hottest bands in LA scene in the late 70’s, but they struggled to get much traction in America. They initially signed a deal with Sony records who released the group’s first two records in Japan. The band’s label felt Van Halen was the official LA band so they got little support stateside. Also adding to the problems was the constant infighting within the group. Rhoads wasn’t a fan of Dubrow and had a different frontman in mind, while Garni and Dubrow would come to blows. Garni would eventually depart the band after he allegedly attempted to kill Dubrow after a drunken episode. Rudy Sarzow soon took his place & Rhoads grew frustrated with the band’s lack of commercial success and infighting leaving the band to Join ozzy osbourne. I’ve done a whole video on Rhoads career and untimely death, link is down below.
Once Rhoads left bassist Rudy Sarzo would admit in the book Nothin but a Good time that he felt the band was finished. Sarzo would then follow depart the band and join Ozzy’s band, but following Rhoads death in 1982 he would rejoin Quiet Riot. Replacing Rhoads would on guitar would be Carlos Cavazo.
It would be record producer Spencer Proffer who seemed to be the band’s saving grace. He would reveal in the book Nothin But a Good Time I was driving around LA ….& I heard the 1973 slade version of come on feel the noise on the radio on a pop station. It jumped out of the radio... This was anthem participatory rock. It invited people to participate. I said holy shit if i find a band to sing this song then i might be able to get CBS who i had a deal with to pay attention to me.
Proffer would end up calling his contacts in LA who referred him to a band named Dubrow at that point in time Quiet Riot had temporarily changed their name to Dubrow. Dubrow were known as a band that would do anthemic kind of rock. He would attend one of the band’s shows in LA where they played to a small audience of about 20 people but he witnessed the group playing songs like Bang Your Head and Party All Night, songs that invited the audience to sing along. Following the show he chatted with Dubrow who knew who Proffer was and that he had his own studio called Pasha. Proffer would end up cutting a deal with Dubrow telling them he would give them studio time if they covered come on feel the noise and in return, he would let them record three of their own songs. By this point the band was done with Sony and all the other labels had already passed on them so they agreed to the deal.
During a weekend in the studio with Proffer the band cut the first four songs that would eventually make it on their landmark record, 1983’s Mental Health. Even though the band agreed to Proffer’s deal, Dubrow didn’t want to do a cover of come on feel the noise. According to drummer Frankie Banali he had no issue with doing a cover song, but he would reveal in the same book “Kevin was livid at the idea. He saw himself as the consummate songwriter. He didn’t need to do outside material.” Meanwhile Bassist Rudy Sarzo would add “I witnessed the conversation between kevin and frankie in the studio about how to sabotage that song.” The band felt that if they sabotaged the track, Proffer would forget about it and use the other three songs the band was planning on recording.
In order to sabotage the track, the band would agree not to rehearse the track and play it for the first time in the studio in front of Proffer. Ba
Hearing Quiet Riot's album being pronounced "Mental Health" will drive you mad.
I know bro absolutely killer this guy is and sounds like a virgin fraud
It probably just rolls out of the tongue like that lmao. How many times one says mental health vs metal health?
Metal Health.
I just banged my head
@@orionsshoe2424 yea, I was metal mad
“Metal” health, dude. Lol
@Carleton Rutherford I'm betting it's not intentional. If you watch enough of his videos, there are always a couple spelling, grammatical, or pronunciation errors in his written and/or spoken parts.
And it’s “Cum On” not “”Come On” like in his title 🙄
Yea, I like the story and research but, dude, you’re settling for a B- on these reports. Get the annunciations and spelling correct. You’ve done the hard part and we appreciate it. Now just nail the small, easy details.
@@davidwilliams8031 Well said! Now...is he listening?
Yeah, if he said "mental" 1 more time, I was about to go "mental"....
How am I spossed ta feel the noise if you're conducting your riot quietly?
come on!
Yeah, its not really an aggressive name. That always bothered me
Thats the joke or so I always assumed.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That's the thing, it's a deaf riot, hence why you have to feel the noise.
Dubrow had one of the best voices in metal. Underrated and seldom mentioned
No, Noddy Holder from SLADE had, Kevin did a mean copy version. Paul Stanley of KISS was a huge SLADE fan in the 70's and when you listen to some 70's KISS-songs you'll understand.
Udo is the metal vocal king
Too bad he seemed like a tool
Pity he sees to come across as a bit of a dick.
Seems very common occurrence, record companies having no clue and a band/singer becomes big....does make me wonder how much great music has been missed that we will never know about
Think about the stuff that should have been hidden as well rather have been released
A great example of this might be a band called Zebra. They were an incredibly popular live band that people were labelling as the next Led Zeppelin before they released their first album.
Then, they released their first album...
yeah, nelly was literally told by record execs that Ride Wit Me is not a hit
Can only imagine all the great music that was recorded and shelved by the record company, never to be released or heard
@@emailchrismoll ayyyy must be the monayyy!!
Correction: Metal health, Kelly Garni and yes i know "Come" is spelled wrong, but this is youtube.I once got flagged for a video because I used a bad word
...and "noise."
I am glad you mentioned slade a great British band that tried and failed to crack the American Market in 1975 a good story would be about slade drummer Don Powell who had a car crash that killed his girlfriend and left him with long term memory loss
Metal Health is the first album I bought with my own money.
Me too. A cassette at a flea market.
Same!
i was too young to know what an iron mask or a straitjacket was but i still got the album 😄
My mom bought it for me for Christmas in 83 , I couldn't wait to RIP the plastic off it and play the hell out of it . I was 13 , best time to grow up .
I was 5 years old head banging in my back yard, Quiet Riot Bang Your Head Blasting on my boom box. These guys and Def Leppard were the the shit. Kiss was lame to me. Unfortunately, it took until Metallica One video popped up on MTV b4 i stopped listening to Pop music and then I never looked back. Couldn't stream stuff back then and no internet so if it wasn't on the radio, you had to know cool people to introduce you to great music. But Quiet Riot was the best... and it still holds up in 2021
Slades Noddy Holder & Jimmy Lea were very happy with the profits thank you very much !
I still like Slades version better but Quiet Riots version is what turned me onto Slade so I appreciate their (QR) version as well. Would be interested to see you cover the legal battle over QR covering the song and the rights to it. I seem to remember Slade got the hard shaft on that one which is too bad because they were a great band.
there was a lesser known Irish hard rock band called Mama's Boys. They covered Slade's "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" the same year as Quiet Riot.
@@bossfan49 I remember that one. The Runaways also did a cover of it.
Agreed
I respectfully disagree!! Quiet Riot version is better, hands down!!! They actually were an amazing band, first ever to go platinum!!! Metal wise, and Kevin as a front man and God rest his soul 🙏, Mr. Frankie Banalli was absolutely fantastic!!!!! 💯
@@kevinchandler179 you wont better slade, best live band of the 70,s early 80,s here in england top top band
Seen them in early 2000's...they had Kevin and Frankie Benali still in band..sounded great..at the REICHER in Baltimore..Those guys started something big for 80's metal when their album went #1. Much respect.
C'mon Everybody and check out SLADE. They where the real deal and had an awesome singer ho has been copied a lot, but never has been beaten.
Maybe start with 'Get Down and Get with It'.
If they have had the same production-tools of bands in the 80's they would have ruled the world. same goes for The Sweet.
Thank you so much. Don't care about Randy, as he made it bigger later. SLADE RULE. Thought that Quiet Riot was America's Tribute to Slade. All one has to do is listen to the Slade originals, plus Get Down, Skweeze Me, Far Away & later classics like Rock Preacher, Run Runaway & even Wall Of Sound. Those are songs worth listening to. Not DuBrow's versions.
Great bands
We have. Slade is no great secret. Its just thier version is thin and in 1983 it needed some balls.
@@buzzcrushtrendkill, you're right. But it's Slade their song, not their version.
@@johanlotigiers Slade got royalties from publishing and thier single Run Runaway was all over MTV the following year, so it was a win-win.
I've always unironically loved this song 0_0
I just finished a book 'Nothing but a Good Time'. It was detailed history of the Hair metal scene of that time.
FYI- Kevin Dubrow’s brother is one of the doctors on the E show “Botched”.
Yeah, He's Plastic Surgeon Terry Dubrow!
TIL
I was watching the show and didn't realize he was his brother until they said it. I was shocked
I was just around 13 years old and me and my friend loved this song and went to a record store called the Record shop and bought the tape and then a few 33’s albums for my friends moms” which was probably a great couple of songs and we went to his from porch which was on the top floor of the apartment and then we had put the tape in and pushed play and sat on his couch which was on the porch and it was raining and we smoked a joint and rocked out to the whole album We loved the whole album but the song Big Black Cadillac!!!! Was the shiat!!!! Just saying y’all!! God bless you all today Shalom
Very brief 80's Metal history lesson for those who werent there. Quiet Riot took that song to the masses outside the UK and it fit perfectly with their own other song hits "Metal Health" (Bang your head) and others. 👉Regardless, TRUE credit for Heavy Metal's success starts with Van Halen (1978 huge debut) then Judas Priest, Ozzy, and Scorpions (all had iconic "Metal" songs in 80) Iron Maiden in (82) then Motley Crue, Def Leppard and other bands changed the game with so many great albums in 1983! 💯 Metal bands back then we're always inspiring others and trying to outdo other bands, it was a amazingly FAST competition in the 80's! Back then bands cranked out new albums every 2yrs and toured constantly! 💪 Not 4-6yrs like now. QR just opened the door to the masses (not good) in 83 and the fact that their album was the first Metal album to break the Billboard Hot 100 and reach #1 proves it. Bon Jovi pushed "Metal" as far as it could go mainstream in 86 with their #1 hit album "Slippery When Wet". But by 90, nearly everything was tried, and Warrant took the "Heavy" part out of Metal and destroyed it with their pop crappy "Cherry pie" song! 🤮 In 91 Nirvana reset the music industry and the rest is 90's Alt-Rock history...to be told later... 😁
That was well written and agreed upon. Maybe Iron Butterfly and even a little Led Zeppelin started the engine to release VH and 2 years later the classic “Back in Black” brought Heavy Meatal to a whole other level Guns/Roses “Appetite for destruction” was like glam rock and grit all in one and the last of that type of heavy metal from 78-87-88, had a good run. Than yea that whole grunge scene came in that was it…..now it’s all Rap, “pop country” (not old school Charlie Daniel’s country) and crappy pop.(at least in other decades pop songs had a charecter the one hit wonders, now just blah)
Quite Right
I found a cassette of Quiet Riot: The Randy Rhoads Years at a Pick 'N' Save in 1997 when I was thirteen. I was totally stoked, and very surprised to find such an obscure gem there of all places. I remember I was also having a bit of a bummer day before that, too. I was pretty new to heavy metal, and had read about Rhoads being in Quet Riot, but figured I'd never get to hear any of that stuff. It was all live stuff, but the quality was superb. I still have the cassette and listened to it a couple years ago. It's interesting because you don't typically (ever?) hear Randy Rhoads playing in major in his work with Ozzy, but I think everything on that tape was in major. His style and tone are unmistakeable, regardless, but it's pretty clear playing with Ozzy gave him the opportunity to really shine in his very unique way that he probably couldn't have with any other band.
Edit: well, Crazy Train was obviously in major, so I guess he did play in major with Ozzy. Parts of the song Diary of Madman are, as well, I believe.
Quiet Riot,a great group I remember in 1983 when I was17.Back in my high School days😁
Yep. I was class of 83. Bought this album too.
@@kristinasativa Yes,the good ole days now 😁
I used to be a fan but after watching these masterpieces I am a whole air conditioner now
12000 BTU baby....
Original version was composed by SLADE.
They hated it so much they did a second Slade cover. And coincidentally they had a song called “Stomp Your Hands and Clap Your Feet” which so happens to be a title of a Slade album. Not a very good sabotage tactic...
They saw the record sales and rethought things. LOL.
@@gordons-alive4940 I think you’re right. They only regretted it later on because their legacy was two Slade cover tunes and the lame Spinal Tap flavored “Metal Health”. After that there was really nothing of note. So the “we planned on sabotaging that cover song” story sounds like a bunch of bullshit backpedaling to gain back credibility.
That was also due to the producer. He said "That first one did so well that you HAVE to do another one on the next album!"
Personally, I think the Mama's Boys cover of Mama Weer All Crazee Now was better than the QR cover.
@@theelectrodefunhouse4651 No, it's not. This has been known since the album came out.
If it works it works.
In one interview I saw, DuBrow referred to Noddy Holder as "one of the greatest rock song writers ever".
And he was 100% correct.
That's likely true but Noddy Holder also had the best rock voice maybe ever? His top end is peerless, and loud too. Dubrow is slightly flat on "Come on Feel the Noise"
Metal Health has been one of my favorite records for the last 20 years
Dubrow was an agree guy. At a show in Lansing Michigan (1997 or 98) he went off on a fan for flipping off the band during a song. The fan was drunk and didn't seem to mean it in a negative way. Dubrow went TF off, stopped the song in the middle, and told bouncers to throw the kid out.
Quiet riot, Ratt and Def Leppard were the shit in 83. Grew up on those albums
Metal health, out of the cellar and pyromania were on full blast that year
They were a fiery, but mostly quiet riot.
Thanks CNN!
@@mikemurray3962 🤣😂
lmfao
That song is such a beast. Just a perfect match for the vocals, easy to sing and just poppy enough to appeal to the main stream audience.
In my book Slade will always remain one of the best & my favourite bands ever!
& that’s also where I got The Roaring Silence from.
"Slade Alive" is one of the greatest live albums ever. I still listen to it to this day. It's a shame though that Slade became a glam band. Their music turned to shit after that.
@Jessica Jujubean They were huge here in Australia. There's an AC/DC performance on UK TV called Rock Goes To College, and it sounds so much like Slade on "Slade Alive". It's pure raw heavy rock. In fact, Noddy Holder was offered the job of replacing Bon Scott, but turned it down due to his loyalty to Slade.
@@mauharley Yes brilliant album. Another one of their live albums I love just as much is SOS. Slade On Stage.
I'm 40 and grew up in Metro Detroit, I never knew about them, apparently they're super influential on a ton of different genres of Rock. Have you heard of The Crack? Their an early '80s "oi!" band. Look up "don't just sit there" or "my world". Really positive, inspirational sing-along type stuff!!
@Christopher Bingham But don't you think that when you cover a song you draw people to the original? I get that quiet riot is super cheesy but I also think that's their charm.
It’s “METAL Health,” not “MENTAL Health!” No letter “N!!”
It makes me mad when a non quiet riot fan mispronounces it…
It’s metal health
I came to the comments to see if anyone else caught that!
@Carleton Rutherford I still think his biggest mistake is on the Sonic Youth piece where he said - twice - that Lee Ranaldo was the bassist and Kim Gordon was the guitarist. Lee did play bass on one song off the “Confusion Is Sex”
LP and Kim Gordon played guitar when they were a five-piece in the 2000’s but other than that … as an old (in every way) Sonic Youth fan, that error was inexcusable.
Guys, NOBODY CARES
@@benjagain399 I dunno… kinda seems like you do a little bit… but point taken.
Great info video! Im proud to say I own that original record still. My favorite is Don't want to let you go.
Quiet Riot rules!
You know that a band is severely underrated when Grunge doesn't upload a video titled "The Tragic Real Life Story Of ________________"
Good stuff! I’m 45yrs old & must say this bands album metal health forever changed my music intrest. I remember hearing alot of beetles, boston, led zep, bad co, guess who, etc etc from my folks at a young age but when metal health came out i thought holy sh!t!!!! & the rest is history 🤘
that's badass dude!! i'm just discovering this album after iv'e already gone through the metal loophole listening to technical death metal lol. started off with nirvana and classic rock, heard metallica for the first time and that changed the course of what i enjoyed. seems like i missed some good 80s stuff that im revisiting now.
Funny that Kevin said he didn’t need to do any outside material…Then they proceeded to do another cover version on the next album
Come out and feel the noises it's an fantastic cover song. 😀👍🤘🎸
Wow. awesome story! Thanks!
2:58 sounds like you said "mental health"
Yeah he makes a lot of mistakes in all of his videos but he seems to not care.
I had Quiet Riot’s first two Japanese albums. I liked them but when Randy went and played with Ozzy his playing blew my mind. I got Metal Health when it was released and it reminded me a lot of their first two albums just better produced.
Metal*
@@beeragainsthumanity1420 thanks I fixed it
@@jlarrybrewer1149
By your story, I figured you for sure just slipped up...wasn't trying to troll.
Welcome
@@beeragainsthumanity1420 No man it's cool, I appreciate the assist
Slade had a Top 40 hit the following year with the song "Run Runaway", after the huge success of Quiet Riot's cover of "Cum on Feel the Noize".
I don't think that had anything to do with the çover and more run runaway is a good sonh
Man said mental health…
“Mental” Health?? Come on man.
Damn man you even wrote it as "Mental" in the description.
The owned this song! I never knew
It was a cover. Love this band because if this song and so much more!
What great time to be alive 80s for sure dudes!
Funny how SLADE tried to conquer the Amercan market in the 70's with songs like 'C'mon Feel The Noize' but no record company was interested. They where huge in Europe and the UK at that time.
They had some hits in the 80's in the US with 'My Oh My' and 'Run Runaway'.
Funny how Kevin DuBrow his voice is almost iddentical to Noddy Holders.
Their cover version of 'C'mon feel the noize' also is. Better production, therefore it's metal :-)
I'm from Belgium, so I look at this video and Quiet Riot from a hole different angle.
Yes its crazy SLADEs song never got popular in the US until Quiet Riot did it, but give credit where credit is due that Producer knew WTF he was talking about! Quiet Riot took that song to the levels it never reached anywhere outside the UK and it fit perfectly with their other song hits "Metal Health" (Bang your head) and others. 👉Regardless, real credit for Heavy Metal's success goes to Van Halen (1978 huge debut) then Scorpions, Ozzy, and Judas Priest (all had hit songs in 80) Iron Maiden in (82) then Motley Crue, Def Leppard and others changed the game with so many great albums in 1983! 💯 Without Motley Crue in the 80's, Metal could of got soft too fast in the US, with less bass, less drums, and less anthems. QR opened the door to the masses (not good) and the fact that their album was the first Metal album to break the Billboard Hot 100 and reach #1 proves it. Metal bands back then we're always inspiring others and trying to outdo other bands, it was a amazingly FAST competition in the 80's!💪But by 90, Warrant ended Metal with their pop crappy "Cherry pie" song! 🤮 Nirvana reset the music industry in 91 and the rest is 90's Alt-Rock history. Thats a quick 80s Metal history lesson.
@@Wize817 , you forgot KISS in the 70's.
Its METAL health not mental health.
The album was "Metal Health", no mental health
He keeps saying "Mental Health" LOL!
Did you say "mental health?" 😂
I fucking never picked up on that. Always thought it was Mental Health. Crazy.
People don't remember How big quiet riot was and how much of an influence they were. They opened the door for so many groups. For about six months they ruled the music scene
Tidbit: First heavy metal album to go number #1 on the Billboard charts. ☝️
Amazing how Quiet Riot has been around for a long time (well with the requisite break ups/constant lineup shifts).
And Frankie Banalli gets my respect 200% for working on and touring for "Hollywood Cowboys" while being treated for pancreatic cancer.
Mixed feelings on Banali. There was a docu film a while back about QR. First half was about the breakthrough of the band through QRIII. The entire second half was about Banali trying to reform the band for touring- auditioning new guitar players and vocalists. He came off as kind of a self proclaimed martyr. Kind of whiny. Come to find out....HE made the documentary with his girlfriend who was a film maker and it was largely crowd funded.
I’m still a big fan
Bang your head. QR popularized the term headbanger. That song was brutal.
Imagine the quality of the output if certain members didn’t leave I’m talking about Rudy of course… dang, Cuba has them some top-tier musicians (except for *coughs and shudders delicately* Pitbull).
Suzy is a Headbanger came out in 1977 so it was around the punk scene at least a bit before hair metal broke out.
I remember waiting for Cum on Feel the Noise to come play on a show called Friday Night Videos.
That and Photograph by Def Leppard.
Friday Night Videos....for those of us who didn't have cable.
That darned Mandela effect. It used to be Metal Health
I wouldn't consider them exactly Hair Metal. But they directly broke down the wall and hundreds of Hair Bands ran to the top.
Definitely not hair metal. Not girly like Poison, etc and not pop-ish like Bon Jovi or what Def Leppard would become. Metal...maybe in a group with bands like Dokken, but with more of a party vibe. Not quite as heavy or as wild as WASP.
Thanks for another interesting video
Think of how many incredible acts the know better than you types at the labels have shut out over the years. Screw the record companies. Long live the Internet.
I always liked QR!
Holy crap... He even has it written as "Mental Health" in the description! Come on!
Randy was very supportive of Dubrow saying he wasn't going anywhere when Garni wanted him gone. Also Randy hated Sabbath. His mom talked him into joining Ozzy because opportunities don't come along often is the way I understand the history.
The album name is NOT Mental Health but METAL HEALTH!!!!
I saw classic QR as Kevin and Frankie in one camp and Rudy and Carlos in another. I went to a show in the 90's long after the QR heyday. Kevin was interesting as a front man. He had little stage patter. Being so experienced I was surprised he was not more skilled at talking the audience up. He said a few things between songs and plowed through the set. On the night I went to see the band Frankie did not seem to be in a good mood. Rudy and Carlos appeared very mellow and nice. The crowd was a little rough. It was a small club and that crowd was not folks you wanted to tangle with but overall the show was good and Quiet Riot gave their all. I did not stay around for the signing merch after the show but I thought the record they were plugging was vintage QR and quite good and the single "Vicious Circle" solid. RIP Kevin and Frankie.
The UPGRADE QR did to "Cum On Feel The Noise" made it THE ROCK ANTHEM of 1983-84! I did NOT KNOW that "Slade" did it 10 years before!
I love this song!
Why is there a bunch of blurry shit in this video!?!? 🤔🤔🤔🤔
I just noticed. *Come on feel the noise* is actually *Cum on, feel the noise.* Listening to that song as a child and then now as an adult puts a whole new context to its lyrics.
I really enjoyed Oasis' version of the track, too! I also thought er, "The Bro" was a perfectly catchy band name. ;
Metal Health drove me mad for metal records. I still bang my head. PLAY LOUD
Convenient these hair-metal bands now say they hated their biggest hits. All they had to was have some integrity and never make songs they didn't like.
I recommend listening to Quiet Riot albums at full volume while you bang your head against the wall for eight straight hours. That'll clear out any cobwebs.
The William Regal story 😂 if you know, you know 😆
hate to say it, but Cum on Feel the noize is an amazing cover and got me into them. sometimes that is all a band needs to gets listeners, that one song.
It's METAL HEALTH! Literacy is essential!
Metal health not mental health other wise good video.
William regal tried to kill kevin dubrow over his cover of "Cum feel the noise" apparently he made the mistake of telling Regal "we made those guys a lot of money" regal responded "don't you mean they made you a lot of money", Regal being a hardcore slade fan apparently tried to beat him up on air, this was when Kevin was doing his radio show!
Believe it or not, I actually have an old Crate GX20 amp that Carlos Cavazo jammed on back in his LA club days...
Lmao. They tried to sobatage it by... playing it well? Interesting. That's real clever. 🤣🤣🤣
The smart thing would been to try to play better than Slade. However, you can't argue with whatever they did. Caused them to fall ass-first into successl.
I think this story is a bit overplayed.Sure,they didn't want to do a cover...but if they wanted the finished product to be terrible,it would have been.Somewhere in the recording process,the rest of the band warmed up to the idea obviously
I have the 45 record keep rocking
From their documentary they said that the record label forced the cover songs on them. Thinking about it today, I think the record label forced it on them because the label already owned all rights to those songs. Just my opinion but I doubt slade still owned their songs and might have gotten screwed out of the rights.
They were forced to do cover songs because they couldn't write hooks good enough to get radio play. Slade, on the other hand, could write hooks in their sleep.
I never knowed that Randy Rhodes started The Quiet Riots!🤯
Man, Cum on Feel the Noize was ENORMOUS when I was in 8th grade. Just HUGE. In my suburban New Jersey Junior High School, anyway. Also on MTV and the NYC radio stations we got. It was played endlessly on rock stations and top 40 stations alike. The only other "metal" band I recall getting that kind of airplay was Def Leppard. I remember lots of guys (and the sluttier girls) wearing Quiet Riot Mental Health tee shirts. It was big in a way that songs or band can't really be any more. I don't remember them doing much after that, however.
"Metal Health (Bang Head)" was their only other single that came close. Their second album was meh. And the third album was heavy laden with synths. They went into that album knowing they were going to break up.
I compared the Slade versions to Quiet Riot after this, Slade seems to have a more traditional rock sound , Quiet Riot seems to be more vocal based, there's obviously some cool stuff going on there, there's guitar too, but it seems mixed a lot lower than the vocals relative to Slade.
Sorry, their TWO biggest hits were covers of SLADE!!!!! songs. I am happy that they did not want to do it. Slades version was better
Their 2nd biggest hit was "Metal Health (Bang Your Head)".
@@bossfan49 better song than the two Slade songs in my opinion
@@gameboycat05 Certainly better than "Mama We're All Crazee Now"
That is Slades song not quiet riot...
First heard Cum On Feel The Noize on a 45 in Kindergarten in 1983. Fast forward to 1995, decided to go thru dad's LP collection and found the Metal Health album and was hooked. Then in 2002 or 2003 I saw them live at It'z in FayetteHELL NC. Dubrow got some cute chick to come up on stage and show her tatas.
Sid: Now that you’ve covered the first heavy metal album to go #1 on the Billboard charts, can you cover Skid Row “Slave to the Grind” - the first heavy metal album to *debut* at #1?
Add the soundscan development and I think it would make for a good story.
MENTAL??health? I expect that from don’s Lemons or Brian Potato Head Stellter
Van Halen didn't want to cover material either, but it was their key to success also.
I remember buying the Slade album in 1973. Slade never made it big in the states I guess they were a tad early.
"Run Runaway" (1984) was the highest charting of the few singles received in the US.
I dig Rock trivia.
Still have their original album. Somewhere.
Kevin Dubrow may have hated Cum on (Feel the Noise), but i'll listen to it anyday, over any of today's top 40 hits!! 😄😄😄😀😀😀😀
I just found out Slade wrote that original song TODAY. Wow
Could you do the rise and fall of Joe Meek? Amazing story of a pieneer of music with a tragic ending.