How QUIET RIOT Got So POPULAR & Changed METAL

the story of how 80's era rock band Quiet Riot made metal history in 1983 with their seminal album Metal Health

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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, it came with conditions they weren’t entirely happy about. So much so, they tried to sabotage it. Instead, it resulted in the band making music history and paving the way for other similar sounding bands to achieve success.. Today, let’s explore the dramatic rise and steep decline of Quiet Riot in just a few short years.

The history of Quiet Riot begins with guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Kevin Garni. The duo enlisted vocalist Kevin Dubrow in 1973 and formed a band named Mach 1 before changing their name to Little Women. Garni admitted in an interview with Metal Voice that himself and Rhoads were not really fans of Dubrow, but the frontman was very insistent and he was driven like them, so they decided to give it a shot. Dubrow by this point didn’t have a ton of experience, just singing in garage bands. He had seen the beatles in 1964 on th ed sullivan show and thats what kick started his interest in music followed by seeing rod stewart in the 70’s. As for Dubrow, he wasn’t very taken with Rhoads when he first met him telling the star tribune.

“I mean this guy was weird. I swear he looked like a girl with that long hair down to his waist.He had this incredibly long thumbnail on his left hand too. I didn’t know what to make of this guy. But once Rhoads started playing, Dubrow was stunned.

As for Garni and Rhoads not liking him, Dubrow admitted “Rhoads only wanted me to take up time between guitar solos.” Dubrow also added the pair wanted someone who was good with chicks, someone who wasn’t a pain in the ass and someone who wasn’t ugly. IT wasn’t uncommon for Dubrow to compare his appearance to Rod Stewart in interviews.They rounded out their lineup with drummer Drew Forstyhe and the band soon rebranded themselves Quiet Riot by 1975. This lineup of the band is sometimes referred to as Quiet Riot 1.

As for where the name Quiet Riot came from Dubrow claimed to the chicago tribune that musician Rick Parfitt from the british group status quo suggested the name Quiet Riot took inspiration from 60’s era british groups like humble pie, the who, the faces, and the beatles.

It wasn’t long before Quiet Riot became one of the hottest bands in LA scene alongside Van Haen bythe late 70’s, but record labels wouldn’t bite. Van Halen, however got a deal with Dubrow admitting they deserved it more, telling the record newspaper “they had a better rhythm section. Our original drummer was lousy.” He added that ‘we were so desperate to get a deal we were trying to adapt our sound towards what we thought record companies were looking for. Consequently it got to the point that we didn’t know what we were doing.

And record labels didn’t reject the Quiet Riot once, but several times. However,. Quiet Riot’s manager got the band a deal with Sony who who released the group’s first two records in Japan. - their self titled 1977 record and Quiet Riot 2 in the subsequent year. Dubrow shed some light on why they exclusively released their records n japan telling an interviewer “A lot of it has to do with image. The japanese people are really into the theatrical type of thing. We had a really pretty boy look in those days. The band was a lot younger and the japanese were very into that sort of thing.” You’er maybe wondering, why not just release the records in the US s well. Well, Sony, felt Van Halen was the official LA band. Despite this, the band did some exposure in LA. They were sometimes heard on radio program Rodney on the ROQ [Bingenheimer’s show on L.A. radio station KROQ] alongside punk bands like the Adolescents or the Circle Jerks or whatever. Rodney played “Slick Black Cadillac from their second record.

To support their first two albums, Quiet Riot toured with journey and black oak arkansas. Dubrow in 1983 looked back negatively on both albums telling an interviewer “Those albums were crap, Back then we were playing this hard crunching music in pers