Quiet Riot How they Tried to Sabotage Come on Feel the Noise

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