Quiet Riot's Turbulent Decade - From History Makers to Playing Second Fiddle

The turbulent history of the band Quiet Riot who made history in the 80's with their US debut Metal Health. Within just a few short years they'd play second fiddle to groups like Poison who they toured with.



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Quiet Riot in just a short few years would make music history while also having a career tumble. Today let’s take a look at the decade that proved to be bittersweet for the band Quiet Riot.
Founded by guitar prodigy Randi Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni, Quiet RIot would be a band that initially struggled to get record label attention, with label thinking their music was not modern enough for the times. So it was a surprise when teh band got their opportunity to sign with a major label, they tried to sabotage the opportunity. Formed in 1973, Quiet Riot’s founding members would find frontman Kevin Drubrow and drummer Drew Forsyth. . They would first call themselves Mach 1 before changing their name to Little Women. They eventually settled on the name Quiet Riot and by the later part of the decade they became one of the hottest bands in LA. While they would sign with Sony Records, the label opted to only release their first two records in Japan, feeling that van halen was the official LA Band and Quiet Riot couldn’t compete with them. So the band never got a fair shake stateside early in their career. Adding to the issues was tension within the group. Garni nearly killed Dubrow in a drunken brawl, while Rhoads didn’t like Dubrow. The founding members soon left teh group. Rudy Sarzo soon joined as bassist and Rhoads left to join Ozzy Osbourne’s band. Sarzo who played with Rhoads for a little bit in QUiet Riot would admit that once Rhoads left the group he thought quiet riot was done. Sarzo soon left and joined Ozzy’s band as well, but it was following Rhoads untimely death in a freak accident, that Sarzo rejoined quiet riot. Replacing Rhoads was guitarist Carlos Cavazo and instrumental to the band’s first big break in America was producer Spencer Proffer. Proffer would admit one day to driving around LA and hearing the band Slade’s 1973 song Cum on feel the noise.’ He loved the participatory nature of the song. He had a deal with CBS records and thought that hif he could find a band to record the song, he could get more attention from the label. He soon got in touch with some friends of his in LA who told him about a band named Dubrow, Quiet Riot had temporarily changed their name during this time. Dubrow was playing anthemic rock and Proffer witnessed this, attending one of their LA Shows. Proffer and Dubrow would meet following the gig and they worked out a deal. Proffer had a studio named pasha and he offered the band free studio time to record three of their own tracks if they did a cover of cum on the feel noize. Dubrow reluctantly agreed, he didn’t like the idea of doing someone else’s songs. The band came up with a plan to sabotage the recording of the song, thinking if it was unusable, then Proffer could use their other three songs and get them a label deal. By this point in time, their deal with CBS records was finished. So sabotage the song, the band agrees not to rehearse it ahead of time playing it together for the first time in the studio. It turned out Proffer loved teh version the band cut and used it. With a demo recorded, Proffer talked to CBS records gave them the demo he recorded, but they were unimpressed. However he did receive the money to finish recording an album’s worth of material. CBS also hated the name dubrow so they changed the name back to quiet riot. The band recorded their first us record metal health which came out in 1983, but getting the first single metal health played wasn’t easy. Proffer had to personaloy plead with program directors at stations to spin the single, which they finally agreed to do. MTV aired the video for the song at 3in the morning and the song blew up. Cum on feel the noize followed and the album would become the first metal album in history to top teh charts in america. It would go six x platinum. Wanting to repeat the same success the band pressured by their label released their follow up album in 1984 condition critical that featured similar artwork to it’s predecessor and als ocontained ano