80s Metal Band Tried To SABOTAGE This 70s Cover, It Went To #1 Anyway!

Coming up, the story of Quiet Riot and their classic 80s hard rock hit Cum On Feel the Noize which was of cover of the UK hit by Slade. Singer Kevin Dubrow and drummer Frankie Banali HATED the song and tried to sabotage it, but instead it became a top 5 hit and pushed their 1983 album Metal Health to #1 on the charts in one of the most competitive years in music history. they put hard Rock and Heavy metal on the charts. It’s a hard rocking quid pro quo story chock-full of sabotage and intrigue.

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So here we are, back again with another episode of Breakthrough and the quiet riot story. where we take a deep dive into songs, albums or events that really kicked open the door to an artist or band’s career, today it's quiet riot history. Today we’re getting wild, wild, wild with a rock anthem that kicked open the 80s for a hard rocking good time and further opened the door for hard rock and metal bands on the pop charts. it’s Quiet Riot’s 1983 monster smash Cum on Feel the Noize.

So, although Quiet Riot came into their own in the 80s, the band that got the world banging their heads with Metal Health was actually in their second incarnation. Their initial run took place in the late 70s with an almost entirely different lineup. And mostly in Japan for that matter... well, at least commercially.

Quiet Riot 1.0 formed in LA in 1975, led by singer Kevin DuBrow and legendry guitarist Randy Rhoads. Rounding out the band, was Kelly Garni on bass and Drew Forsyth on drums. But they had a hell of a time gaining any traction.
All the record companies, and a lot of them big names, straight up passed on this hard rock act. RCA, Capitol, everyone passed, sometimes two or three times.

So partly out of desperation, Quiet Riot’s managers negotiated a deal with Sony Japan. Thereafter the band issued a pair of Japanese-only albums... The self-titled Quiet Riot in 1977 and Quiet Riot II in 1978. It wasn’t their ideal audience, but it wasn’t like anyone in the industry was clamoring to give them a shot in the US. So, you take what you can get, I guess.

Not surprisingly, there was some friction in the band as they kept chasing that ever elusive big break.

Apparently, the relationship between Kevin DuBrow and Kelly Garni was on the brink of ruin while they were recording of Quiet Riot II. As the story goes, one night Kelly made a series of, let’s say, ill-advised decisions. After getting drunk for six hours at his house with friend and bandmate Randy Rhoads, he shot a gun into the ceiling. I guess they were in an argument over firing Kevin from the band.

A rough and tumble fistfight-slash-wrestling match also ensued so Randy left. Kelly then decided that he had a bullet with Kevin’s name on it and headed out for the recording studio to gun him down. But because Kelly was too wasted to drive, the cops pulled him over before he got far. He was charged with a DUI and felony possession for a concealed weapon.
As you might expect, that was the end of Kelly’s tenure with the band.

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