They Were the #1 Rock Band in the WORLD...1 Interview RUINED Them OVERNIGHT! | Professor of Rock

Quiet Riot led the charge for the popularization of metal music in the 80s with a landmark album of rebellion called Metal Health. Yet the sharp-tongued comments to the public by their outspoken frontman Kevin DuBrow, the jealousy of their peers, and altercations with fans, made them the most vilified band in rock. DuBrow had a self-proclaimed alligator mouth, and his reckless audacity ultimately led to him being sacked from the group that he co-founded. The story of the iconic, metal anthem Bang Your Head (Metal Health) and Cum one Feel the noize that took Quiet Riot to #1 on the pop charts in one of the most competitive times chart history, and was once sung in front of more than 300,000 people is NEXT on Professor of Rock.
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In 1968, an emerging band named Led Zeppelin was performing at the Boston Tea Party during their first US tour. The front rows of the audience were so captivated by the band's sonic power that they were literally banging their heads on the stage in time with the music. It was an incredible sight to behold. The only way to describe it was exactly what it was, and thus the term "headbanger" was forever etched into rock 'n' roll vernacular.
15 years later, in 1983, the phrase "bang your head" became a battle cry, screamed to a new generation of rock fans by a band that, just a year earlier, had been playing in a club where more people were playing pool than watching them on stage. When Kevin DuBrow, lead singer of Quiet Riot, belted out "Bang your head... “Metal health will drive you mad" at the US (us) Festival in Southern California, over 300,000 people ERUPTED with headbanger fever… If you haven’t figure it out yet, today’s story is about the first Heavy Metal album to hit #1 on the album charts…Quiet Riot and their classic title track Bang Your Head)…The album Also included CUm on Feel the Noise. Quiet Riot was one of the most popular bands on the Hollywood music scene in the late 70s, a scene that was extremely competitive. Quiet Riot had an intense rivalry with one of the other bands, a quartet based in Pasadena, California, named Van Halen.
There were many similarities between Quiet Riot and Van Halen, starting with the respective frontmen. Quiet Riot lead vocalist, Kevin DuBrow was just as cocky & brash as Van Halen’s David Lee Roth, and Randy Rhoads, the lead guitarist for Quiet Riot was constantly compared to the whiz kid namesake.. Eddie Van Halen. Both bands were snubbed by the record industry…For years neither had a deal. Although Van Halen was signed before them, landing a deal with Warner Brothers, Quiet Riot actually put out an album before Van Halen, but it was only released in Japan Randy Rhoads, Quiet Riot’s hot young guitarist, left to be the lead axeman for Ozzy Osbourne’s band, and a new crop of acts with more momentum began to take over the scene.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Poll: What is your pick for the GREATEST Heavy Metal or Hard Rock record of the rock era?

[@peterd.9978]

Master of Puppets (modern) Paranoid (classic)

[@TerrickTerran]

Blizzard of Ozz

[@funstuff1728]

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

[@Sweet--Richard.4981]

Budgie

[@RBS_]

.....loaded question, Prof. .....but I WILL attest that *"1984" by Van Halen* is the GOLD STANDARD Album that everyone (including the "Thriller" Gang) knew, owned, talked about, and set off 80's Heavy Metal's Golden period...Good Times were had, by ALL...

[@Kalepherion]

I was a kid in high school, writing for my high school newspaper...I told the teacher in charge of the newspaper that I wanted to interview a rock act. He said there was no way I could do it...challenge accepted! I used the school phone to call New York, home of their label. They directed me to their publicly people in LA. I called LA and they directed me to people in San Francisco. I got ahold of them, and put me on the guest list for backstage access in Salinas, CALIFORNIA! I interviewed Quiet Riot just weeks after Metal Health came out. It was glorious. I received an award from the local newspaper for journalistic excellence...much to my teachers dismay. I love Quiet Riot.

[@ajcurtis2813]

That is a fantastic story!

[@whatarefriends4]

Overachiever

[@annmarieknapp2480]

Okay that absolutely rocks and so do you!!! Mad respect to you. Are you a journalist now?? That was brilliant and man to pull that off before internet and from a high school news paper? Absolutely epic mad respect.

[@adamwade4764]

I saw them in Atlanta at the omni 1983 QR opened for Iron Maiden what a show

[@dennisbergendorfii5440]

Dismay? For actually doing the job of "journalist?" I would have been awestruck to be a teacher seeing one of their pupils pull off a coup like they!

[@johnblossom8447]

I was 34 and a restaurant manager in Denver in the mid 90s. Of course we had quite a few young people working there. There was a young guy, 19 years old, who was a bus boy. He was a good kid, but he came from a troubled family. He had moved out from his parents’ house at 17. The only way he could make ends meet was to have a roommate and he and his best friend shared an apartment. His best friend got in trouble and went to prison for 5 years. This young man was going to lose his apartment and become homeless. As his boss, I told him he could stay at my place until he found another roommate. He was rough around the edges. He had long hair and hadn’t finished high school, but he always seemed to be a good kid at work. Well, he wound up being an amazing house guest. One day when he was off, I came home from work to find him cleaning and listening to music. I was surprised to find him listening to a mix tape he had made and it included Quiet Riot, Twisted Sister, Van Halen and more bands from the 80s. He said he couldn’t stand rap and wasn’t into grunge. I let this kid live with me for six months while he tried to figure out his life. One day he came to me and said he enlisted in the army. He would be leaving in less than a month. I was happy for him, but was a little sad that he would be leaving. He thanked me for giving him some stability and a chance to get on his feet. He went to boot camp in August of 1996. He still stays in touch. He emails me often and texts weekly. He’s married and has two kids now. He did so well in the army he went through officer training school and is currently a captain, planning a retirement from the military. He recently shared a music playlist and Metal Health was on it.

[@CowGirlKat8691]

Great success story! Y'all had a big part in it too, imagine where he possibly ended up had y'all not gave him a leg up!

[@-.Steven]

Great Story! Thanks for sharing it!

[@mikearchibald744]

Great story, and more common than people think-people helping people out. You pay it forward.

[@danfadden]

You saw something in him and gave him a chance and it didn’t bite you in the butt? That’s a great story and who knows where he’d be today. Cheers to you sir, you are a hero.

[@mikearchibald744]

@@danfadden It would be a great story and none the worse on him if the guy didnt turn out well. Good on him, I volunteer with poor and homeless people, I'd trust most of them before any politician or somebody in a gated community. But I also haven't invited any of them home....yet.

[@laudanum669]

In 1983 I was 18 a Metalhead and managing a small indie Record Store. "Metal Health" was a big seller at the time. While I found the album OK I thought it was a bit Cheesy. Fast forward 10 years and I'm sitting at a booth in a bar with my girlfriend across from my girlfriends friend and her new boyfriend. The guy looked familiar but I couldn't place him, about 20 minutes later it came to me "He's Kevin DuBrow". We became friends that night and everything I had perceived about him was wrong. I had always thought he was some know it all blow hard, but he wasn't. Never once in all the times we hung out did I ever hear him say "Don't you know who I am"? Or pull any "I'm a Rock Star" crap. Yes, Kevin had some Demons but we all did back then. He was a genuine good guy and I miss him.

[@MitchTubeism]

Whenever I hear about Quiet Riot I think of that Simpsons episode: Dick Clark: "And that was Whitesnake!" Guitar player: "We're not Whitesnake, dude! We're Poison!" Bassist: "I thought we were Quiet Riot?" Drummer: "It says here we're Ratt!"

[@donnasmith9939]

Brilliant!

[@JClaus1221]

Course if they had been accurate along with humourous it would have been "I thought we were Deep Purple!" "No man we are Black Oak Arkansas" "No man we are Quiet Riot" "No man we are Dio" "Didn't two of use used to be Blizzard Of Ozz?"

[@jparker289]

One of the greatest 18 months of my life: Pyromania, Metal Health, Shout at the Devil, Stay Hungry and VH's 1984.

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

It’s so hard to pick just one!

[@richfrancen1809]

@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 That's why I joined the Columbia record club and got 13 for the price of 1. Those first 4, plus Out of the Cellar, Animalize, Midnight Madness, Three Lock Box, the 1st two Ozzy, Loudness, Krokus, and Slide it In.

[@paul.theeightiesluvr.1945]

​@@richfrancen1809awesome choices I had the same ones except for I also included Krokus headhunter plus Van Halen fair warning and Black Sabbath born again🎉❤

[@rayjones4616]

Agreed, plus Out of the Cellar, Thunder in the East, Tooth and Nail, Defenders of the Faith, Love at first sting, The Blitz, Midnight Madness, Vices (Kick Axe), Last in Line, In Rock We Trust...and that's just in 1984!!! What a time to be a Metal-Head!!!!

[@TheFatalT]

Those were the days.

[@TommyTheCat42]

I met Rudy Sarzo and Randy Rhoads brother & sister at an RR Remembered event and what a class act Rudy is, truly amazing person. Kathy Rhoads is an absolute sweetheart and Kelle has amazing stories about growing up with Randy… I’m honored to have met all of them!!

[@ProfessorofRock]

I need do an interview.

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

What state?

[@TommyTheCat42]

@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Rhode Island

[@HotRod12667]

I ran into Rudy at ComiCon (I don't remember what year) in LA. He was in a group called Animetal USA. Nice fellow.

[@JHillNC]

Halloween 1983, I was nine years old. I was such a huge Quiet Riot fan. My mom had a cool black leather motorcycle jacket, the real deal. And so that sparked the idea I could wear it backwards as a straight jacket, like the album cover. I didn't stop there. I cut up some cardboard into the shape of the iconic metal mask, complete with cardboard straps exactly as they were shown on the music video, so I could wear the mask. All I had to go by back then was the album cover, but then got to see different angles from the music video so I could get all the details right. Like the little chain that hangs down on one side. I made that chain out of paper clips haha! So that was my Halloween 1983 costume. I thought I was the coolest nine year old on the planet, destined to meet the band and go on tour!

[@Sir_Osis]

That’s awesome! I was a huge fan back then as a kid too. In 1984 (I was 12) I begged my mom to go to their concert with some older kids. My mom wasn’t having it. Which was probably a good idea. But since my mom is rad, she said “How bout this…Since you really want to go that bad, I’ll take you” Whitesnake opened for them. I had an amazing time and is such a fond memory. I wore that damn tour shirt till it nearly fell off me!

[@rothed16]

​@Sir_Osis question is. Did your mom like it? She become a metalhead too

[@Sir_Osis]

@@rothed16 Lol nah just a supportive mom. That show did teach her though that these concerts were harmless and not going to corrupt her son so after that I was able go to a ton of shows unchaperoned. Good times. 👍

[@refuzed74]

1983! What a great year for Metal, Along with Quiet Riot. Motley Crue's "Shout at the Devil" Ozzy's "Bark at the Moon" and Dio's "Holy Diver" among others ruled my walkman.

[@RobertSchaffer-sd2yr]

Damn I forgot all about the Walkman😅😂

[@kravin74]

Hell yeah! Bark at the Moon has always been my favorite Ozzy album. Holy Diver is the perfect, impossible it could be better hard rock album. Shout at the Devil with the black album cover with the black pentagram well it speaks for itself.

[@jotacalvo]

Don’t forget about Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden. Dang, 1983 was an awesome year to be a teenager

[@RobertSchaffer-sd2yr]

Krokus headhunter kiss lick it up Def Leppard Pyromania Accept Balls to the wall and who can forget Metallica Kill Em All

[@davidharrell5396]

I was 14 in ‘83… What a time it was!

[@ProfessorofRock]

Wow! I love it.

[@blazerhawkdarren68]

Same here. Great times

[@Autumn_Forest_]

Lucky you! I was only 8/9 (born July 1974).

[@davidharrell5396]

There was so much to listen to, as stated in the video. So many different… genres, I guess would be the word. And MTV was a must watch! lol

[@Clownmeati8]

I turned 15 in Aug 83 ..I would give up all the tech to go back to those times in a second

[@davidanderson-wn4ep]

Quiet Riot's success story really owes much to Slade. Slade was about 8 or 9 years to early, but had some real melodic gems. I still watch Slade's videos every now and again.

[@ProfessorofRock]

True.

[@FurtiveSkeptical]

Makes sense, Slade also is the original artist(s) that wrote the "Cum on feel the Noize" track, back when they were "Glam". A song that Quiet Riot had some notable success with at the time of their success.

[@AleisterCrowleyMagus]

@@FurtiveSkeptical and their other Slade cover, “mama we’re all crazee now”

[@Out_of_My_Head]

​@@AleisterCrowleyMagusWhich was the title track to their second album.

[@beenaplumber8379]

I think their early success was due to the utter starvation among fans of hard rock. There were a few amazing albums at the time - Pyromania, Eliminator, and 1984, but just 3 years earlier radio was dominated by hard rock. It was everywhere. By 1983 it was all synth pop & new wave pap. I was dying for more hard rock, and that's why I fell hard for QR and Twisted Sister, even though they sounded shallow and kitschy to me. Their guitars used crushing distortion without drowning in chorus. Choices were very limited. QR was at the leading edge of the hair band era (though their music added little artistically to what was already out there), which meant finally more hard rock was coming, though the hard rock and arena rock era that I loved was over.

[@willjones1823]

When I was 17, I was driving some friends to a nearby town. We wrecked and ended upside down. This tape was in the player and was still going when we stopped.

[@cloudbudget]

Always found the 'Feel the Noise" guitar solo to be a work of perfection. The way it builds and its powerful melodic flow forces air guitar upon me and I assume others. One of the best hard rock solos ever!!! Quiet Riot deserves its place in Rock history. What they achieved was extraordinary.

[@GoddessLadyRei]

Metal Health was the first metal cassette I ever bought.

[@tridoc99]

Same!

[@stuartandrews9826]

Also same. First cassette I ever bought.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Rock on!

[@ProfessorofRock]

@@tridoc99 Very cool!

[@ProfessorofRock]

@@stuartandrews9826 So rad!

[@neilbeigie4045]

It seemed like for months on MTV’s Friday Night Video Fights (I’m old), had Quiet Riot vs Def Leppard…Cum on feel the noise vs photograph, metal health vs Rock if ages etc. I always voted for Def Leppard, and my parents were like “What are all these .25 charges on the phone bill!” …ahh the 80s

[@auntiewewe972]

I just commented the same. I loved when they filmed the bands talking junk to each other

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

Ha!

[@stacyflood4319]

Loved Friday Night Video Fights. Never missed it. And yeah, lots of .25 charges on the phone bil😂

[@stewgaatz]

I would like to see The Professor do a video solely on the music and history of Slade.

[@poppycock6572]

In 1983, I met (I was 14 years old btw) Kevin Dubrow, Carlos Cavazo, Rudy Sarzo, David Coverdale and Neil Murray one night at a Holiday Inn in Pocatello, Idaho. They were staying there because they were playing the next night at The Mini Dome (now The Holt Arena). Everyone I mentioned was exceptionally kind to their young fans, my friend and I. Coverdale asked if we were going to see the show? My friend said that we were both broke, which was true. David Coverdale asked us to hold on a minute and went into I presume his room. We talked with Rudy Sarzo and when Coverdale came back, he gave us 6 tickets and told us to bring our friends and enjoy the show! Blew our young minds for sure! All of these guys were VERY nice to us except one.... Mr. Dubrow. I'll just leave it at that. He was awful.

[@DrWaites]

I saw the reformed band in the early 2000s in a small bar venue. They hung out with the fans afterwards and took pictures and signed autographs. Even Kevin DuBrow was friendly and humble. It was a great show.

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

They seem like such nice people.

[@brianpreston6855]

The same happened to me and my friend Darren after their show at the Newport in Columbus Ohio. All 4 of them came to the front of the venue after the show. We got to meet and shake hands with them all. All I had was my ticket stub which all signed graciously. An unforgettable and special moment with a band we had been fans of from 83.

[@luigivincenz3843]

My Dad was in the industry back in the 80's. Lived near Sunset. It confuses him how much anger they have for Kevin because when he spoke with the band and Dubrow a few times, and he was not a jerk at all , and friendly. Any band that can dislodge the Police and Michael Jackson off the top spot of the charts deserve respect regardless of some quote.

[@g-man2725]

i seen them on that tour also. Great times

[@beltalowda206]

I was that high school kid in ‘84, blasting the speakers out of my minuscule Honda Civic with my well worn copy of Metal Health. Fast forward to the 90s, when one of my HS dreams actually happened. A friend who was a local promoter in Spokane WA recruited me to drive Quiet Riot around while they were in town for a couple days. That turned into my band opening for them on their next time through and more hanging out. Those guys were fantastic. Really humble and funny. Never in a million years did I ever expect any of that.

[@S_H9260]

The first "adult" record I chose for myself was the Bang Your Head 45. Dad asked me if I was sure that's what I wanted. I said yes, but I didn't know what it was. I just liked the label, it was blue with lightning on it. It was a cool surprise when we listened to it for the first time.

[@ProfessorofRock]

I love that memory!

[@SeaMark782]

True story, I went to high school with Kevin DuBrow, Grant high in Van Nuys, CA. He was my nemesis, he was a shag haircut, with platform heals and a big mouth. We had a few run-ins, but we were all cool. But, I was friends with the Porcaro brothers, Jeff, Mike, and Steve. They didn't play a lot of hair music. Eventually, they would become Toto. We were all in school at the same time, and music was everywhere. I was fortunate to have seen Jeff Porcaro play with Steely Dan and meet the band. It's good to know the drummer. And go figure, Kevin DuBrow becomes a metal icon, life can be very strange. It wasn't the water.

[@sampate4323]

Did you ever go to the Rock Corporation ?

[@SeaMark782]

@sampate4323 No, never heard of them or it. A venue?

[@warrenmccune305]

Did you take Mr Phelps?

[@SeaMark782]

@warrenmccune305 Maybe, the name is familiar. We had our 50th reunion last year, saw Steve Porcaro, the last one left, RIP brothers.

[@WaymoresBlues]

In December '82 two things happened: I got a Sony Walkman for Christmas and got kicked out of Poly High for smoking pot and got an OT transfer to Grant High school. In early '83 I distinctly remember riding a yellow and black RTD bus down ColdWater Cyn to my new school and listening to Toto on my Walkman playing their hit song 'Africa'. Before Quiet Riot made it big I would sometimes see them hanging out late at night at the Denny's restaurant, where my best friend worked, in North Hollywood on Lankershim and Magnolia where the Emmy building now stands. Small world.

[@vornado8715]

Mental Health was the first song I learned to play in 1983. Playing the guitar created an entire career for me that I still work in today.

[@OAlem]

2 fun facts: 1. The song Metal Health features in the movie Footloose. 2. Slade, after being covered twice by QR, titled their following album Keep Your Hands off My Power Supply.

[@crankjazz]

The Slade album title was "The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome" outside of the US and Canada. Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply is a studio album by the British rock group Slade, released in America and Canada on April 2, 1984. It is a repackaged version of The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome which was released in the UK, Europe and across the rest of the world in December 1983.

[@vornado8715]

Slade’s Run Run Away was commercially successful too!

[@OAlem]

@@crankjazz That's interesting!

[@OAlem]

@@vornado8715 A fantastic galloping song with bagpipes, that sounds like it was mixed by Trevor Rabin! And My, Oh, My had a music video that got air time.

[@trance9158]

@@vornado8715 my oh my was the best tune off that album

[@vandal29]

The Wild and the Young off QR III is an outstanding song that deserves to be listed among QR's best.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Totally agree!

[@jep7080]

Definitely. Very underrated.

[@samspurgeon4222]

If nothing else, the video featuring Wink Martindale made it awesome😂

[@arrowheadtelecom6561]

Great song! Twilight hotel also. That album shouldn't have flopped so hard. I think they fell into the same gap ad Twisted Sister. Too silly to be taken to serious

[@miscovitz]

I had the amazing luck to see and meet the classic lineup of Quiet Riot in a small club during their tour in 2000. Picture this, people were literally playing pool during the show. I was right up by the stage with the few dozen other diehards and couldn’t believe it. They were great, but it must have been very humbling. I’m looking around at the other people that weren’t playing attention like, what the heck are you people doing?!?! This is Quiet freaking Riot and they’re so close you can almost be on stage with them! Anyway, they had a meet and greet and signed autographs after the show. Kevin Dubrow could not have been any nicer. Super cool, down to earth, seemed legitimately grateful that I was at the show and excited to meet them (I was 24). He was actually really handsome, friendly and just left such a good impression on me. I was very sad when I heard he died. Carlos Cavazos was also great. We talked guitars for a minute and he was also down to earth and just very cool. Frankie really wanted to get out of there and Rudy? I actually felt for him. He had this attitude like how did I end up here? I played with ozzy, whitesnake, huge stadiums and now I have some kid at the back to back club in Lafayette trying to chit chat with me. 😅 Bottom line is that they do not get enough credit. Just like Twisted Sister, they were thrown aside very quickly after they finally made it. I was really lucky to be able to see a whole concert with them from ten feet away and then have a moment with them. RIP Kevin and Frankie.

[@carlcarl6032]

I was 13 yr old and can still plainly remember exactly when and where I was when I heard that drum intro and then that legendary first strum of that beautifully lush sounding guitar followed by Kevin's screaming vocals. I can even remember what car I was in and what clothes I was wearing. That's how significant that song is.

[@robinluker6497]

My friend Al is a drummer & my favorite story he tells is when he was at a bar that his band played at. They weren't playing that night so they were just there to hang out. This was mid '90s & Quiet Riot was playing. During a break, Al sees his girlfriend talking to Kevin Dubrow. He goes over. He can see Kevin is making the moves on her. Kevin sees him & says "Sorry bro, she's going home with me!" Al is like "Ugh....Nnnnno bro!" Al said Kevin called over maybe 5 band mates. Al imitated whistling & 12 of his people show up. Seeing he's outnumbered, Kevin says nervously "My band has another set to play!" Al stepped forward, arms stretched out & says "Do what you gotta do....Kev!!!"

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks for sharing!

[@countdown2xstacy]

Haha Cool story 👍🏻

[@sinbadsailor1963]

I guess the gf had no say in the matter. mmkay

[@danabrewer3676]

I saw them three times. Metal Health, Condition Critical in the arenas and in a club in 2006 and got to meet the guys and tell Rudy he was my inspiration for playing bass back in 83 after seeing the band on tv after a late night Bruce Lee movie. One of my best moments to talk to that guy.

[@JoeBorrello]

I have an old algebra book in which some kid wrote the name of his favorite bands. But the book was published in the 1920s and the bands were Tommy Dorsy, Woody Herman, Artie Shaw, and Benny Goodman.

[@seanfitzgerald5385]

🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@xeriland]

Van Halen, Quiet Riot, and Ratt all formed the same year (1973) in Los Angeles.

[@ProfessorofRock]

That's right!

[@stingylizard]

Wow,that early?

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

OMG that’s crazy!

[@crisrose521]

Ratt did not form in 1973 . Stephen Pearcy was in a band called Firedome . After that he called the band “ Mickey Ratt “ in ‘76 and eventually “ RATT “ in 1981 and released their EP in 1982 . But all three mentioned are great bands ( Quiet Riot in its “ own right “ ) and 1973 was definitely a great year coming fresh off the heels of many great bands and songs . . ie ) Day After Day , Baby Blue , Go All the Way , Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes etc . All from 70 , 71 and 72 . Rock on 🤘🏻

[@xeriland]

@@crisrose521 Ha, I was sure someone with a pathological need to correct would show up. I didn't need your Wikipedia lesson about Ratt. Stephen Pearcy has repeatedly stated that Ratt began in 1973. Anyway, your comment tells me you know nothing about the spirit of the music.

[@jamalstephenson7140]

Metal Health is one of the songs I always listen to on my earphones when I'm at the gym.

[@toddclarke1580]

Listening to this again, reminds me of how much human element there was in this era in the recordings , no trickery or amp simulations , or auto tune . Raw guitar amps were roaring in the room, and an unmatched wild and crazy, out of control incredibly talented vocalist with forever stamina was laying down the magic. Modern recording Technology, and predictability will never let this human element be so apparent again. I am thankful for being a kid in 1983 that put the record player needle down on this , with headphones on in the dark with the glow of my stereo lights.

[@MetalWarlokk]

This album and Pyromania were my introduction to heavy metal... up to that point all I had heard was the usual radio pop. Both albums were a gift from a neighbor who was a couple years older than me, who received them as gifts but already had them. I was 12, and the rural area I lived didn't have cable available yet, so I had no exposure to MTV. It changed EVERYTHING, and I've been a headbanger ever since. 🤘🤘

[@Metalbass1979]

Man, I LOVE this channel! This album was so killer back then. I miss the 80's.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Miss 'em everyday!

[@adamtrombino106]

Honestly, 'Metal Health' was 1 of the 1st hard rock albums I ever bought (on cassette which i still have and it still works) but they introduced me to Ozzy, VH, MC ( Shout was the 2nd cassette i bought in the summer of 83) and RATT (Out of the Cellar was the 3rd cassette i bought that yr) and finally WASP. My parents were not happy about that 1. But QR led me down a rabbit hole of music at just age 8, from 'classic' Deep Purple to Sabbath, KISS and even Led Zeppelin. Sure Id heard various songs by all said groups, but I'd no idea who I was listening to. By age 10 i was a full blown metal head, all because of Metal Health.

[@drew7257]

Metal Health sold 8 million copies, probably in part because of all the deep tracks that AOR played. There honestly wasn't a bad song on that whole album.

[@autoharpmug6276]

I saw Quiet Riot in a bar(Coney's) in Indiana, Pa. in 2003. All original members. Kevin, Frankie, Carlos, and Rudy stuck around and signed autographs. Rudy signed the pickgaurd for my bass. They sounded Amazing and they were really nice guys. One of my best memories.

[@jaytrace1006]

I managed a Camelot Music store in Lincoln, NE in the early ‘90’s. One day, Kevin DuBrow and QR drummer Frankie Banali came in. I think they had a gig in town that day. I met them, but I didn’t gush over them, as most celebrities don’t like that. Anyway, both were great guys, although DuBrow had a hairpiece so big it had its own social security number. Sadly, both are gone now…

[@ponzo1967]

I was 15 when the salesman from my Dad's furniture store stopped by in his brand new 1983 Camero. We took a ride and he cranked the stereo, what comes out? Bang Your Head at full volume 🔊 I was instantly hooked on both Camaro's and Metal Health 🎶 To this day when I want to test out a sound system or I'm in the mood to really rock I put that song in and crank it up!

[@ProfessorofRock]

What a great memory! Thanks for sharing!

[@Colonel__Ingus69]

I got my license in 83 and luckily the car only had an AM radio. If I played Bang Your Head I wouldn't have had them long. lol

[@stingylizard]

The hump in the backseat🥳

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

Great one to put on.

[@internettroll7604]

First 2 albums I bought with money I earned in the early 80’s were Metal Health and Pyromania. Good memories tied to Quiet Riot.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Love it!

[@theguythatdoesthatonething2133]

Those are two great first records!!

[@jameshakola3603]

Almost sure they were my 3rd and 4th albums! Yep, definitely the ones to get that year

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

The best oxymoronic name ever!

[@winstonwolff]

Same here plus 1 black sabbath album. Those were my first 3 cassettes purchased.

[@logansfury]

As a Las Vegas resident, I am in the middle of Kevin DuBrow Infamy history. Lark Williams, an exquisite lady, has been a local Rock & Roll and Classic Rock radio DJ for decades. She was romantically involved with Kevin for some time. There was a local event downtown years back, I can't recall if it was a holiday thing or just a concert, but the big news was that Quiet Riot was playing. It was a wreck. Kevin DuBrow was far too drunk to perform, was stumbling around stage, and kept forgetting the lyrics. The audience was shouting out the correct lyrics to him at first then it became a tremendous display of booing.

[@annon.9557]

This was my second vinyl album, after Thriller. LOVED every song on this album!

[@kentnebergall3156]

Ironically, the sarcastic tone of the song they hated gave it a tangy quality that worked with the rebellion and moxie themes.

[@Katharsys73]

I had the pleasure of meeting the band back in 2001when the original Metal Health lineup reunited and toured with Poison and Enuff Z'Nuff. All of the band members, including Kevin DuBrow, were extremely pleasant and very appreciative of the fans. They signed my CD and chatted for a while, and I'm very glad I got the opportunity to tell them what an impact their breakthrough album had on my life way back in '83. Such a tragedy that DuBrow would be gone just six years later.

[@TheRecklessUploader]

Born in 76 I can remember being 10 years old and staying up all night with my cousin, smoking cigarettes out the window and telling stories while listening to quiet right in rotation with Metallica, Van Halen oh man I can still remember the cool morning air as the sun crept back in and we realized we had been up all night… bang your halead is a major part of that memory. Thanks for making great content happy to have found you.🙏😁😎

[@donseesyourshaydim7529]

Man, this channel is insanely good.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Glad you think so!

[@tb6791]

Back in Black, Blizzard of Oz and Mental Health helped kick the door open in the 80's.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Indeed!

[@leeaycock8602]

Don't forget High and Dry

[@jibbityjab2469]

Mental Health huh??.....yeah, you're a great source of info.

[@chilo8187]

@@jibbityjab2469Hope you never make a typo…

[@KellDogg1965]

I was at that US Festival in 1983! It’s still the best concert I’ve ever been to with Quiet Riot to Van Halen and Ozzy!

[@CaraHTheRealCie]

A couple of years before Kevin Dubrow died, I was excited to go to a meet-and-greet for several bands. The members of Firehouse were really nice and friendly, and I enjoyed chatting with them. The members of Quiet Riot seemed like they didn't want to be there. They seemed burned out, and after Kevin died, I had the feeling he was disappointed with his life as it had turned out.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Poll: What was the first album your bought with you OWN MONEY?

[@Sweet--Richard.4981]

Steppenwolf greatest hits

[@bartbluemusic]

LOL - my first album, that I bought with my own money, was the Beverly Hills Cop Soundtrack. I had to have "Axel F". haha!

[@jerryoxley1827]

Ironically, Van Halen 1984.

[@Code.Name.V]

Grass Roots - Their 16 Greatest Hits

[@RetiredSailor60]

I bought Metal Health, Styx, and Back In Black

[@mournblade1066]

I saw Rudy Sarzo with Blue Oyster Cult back around 2009 or so. He was "on loan" from Dio. Man, can that guy play bass!

[@ProfessorofRock]

Right? He's spectacular!

[@outbrakeu]

I saw Rudy play with DuBrow at the Starwood. It was life changing.

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

What a guy!

[@pdx816]

Seems like a really good guy too.

[@LindaSmith-td7mx]

I seen him play for alice cooper around 2005 man so awesome

[@CommanderCronus]

Thanks for this episode! I got metal health for Christmas 1983 when I was ten years old. It was the first album I ever owned.

[@quinnmehling9967]

Something that is often missed at the huge rise of Quiet Riot's popularity was that it was on the soundtrack to "Footloose". With the popularity of the movie and the sales to the soundtrack it spread like wildfire. My mother introduced me to a lot of music Led Zepplin -Metallica. Quiet Riot was on that list, also the only one she regretted.

[@tod3msn]

Kevin was overwhelmed by their success and fell prey to drugs and also was obnoxious and gave interviews that were not complimentary of other bands at the time. This was the early 80's and so his antics were known in the rock press but did not go beyond that area. I think he gave some nutty interview when Quiet Riot had a Christmas bash or some type of program on MTV. I loved their hard rock sound and thought Kevin was a great lead vocalist for Quiet Riot. I don't think his brash interviews were a big deal but it hindsight they were distracting. In the final analysis, Quiet Riot were perfect for early MTV and broke new ground for heavy metal. They were not great songwriters or musicians but made a few great metal records and made their way into early 80's pop music history.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks for you take!

[@pcno2832]

Most fans will probably tolerate that kind of thing, even if they disagree, but it makes no sense to badmouth bands with which you might have to share a stage, or even a venue, and risk pissing off their management, which might eventually be your management. For better or worse, it's that way in most businesses.

[@dukecraig2402]

DuBrow was also a first class liar, I mean it amazes me that anyone who knows about how obnoxious he was and what he was like believes that malarkey story about him supposedly having never heard Cum On Feel The Noize before they were told they had to record it and especially that they tried to tried to screw it up when they recorded it probably also believes that Elvis didn't take a dump the last 4 months of his life. Here's the truth, in 1975 Kevin DuBrow was a young rock photographer and aspiring journalist in the Los Angeles area, Slade may never have hit it off across the US but they had big success in two areas where they had a solid fan base due to getting good radio play, Los Angeles and St Louis, matter of fact the first time I ever heard of Slade was 1984 when I was in the Army and my buddy from St Louis explained to me that Quiet Riot's two biggest hits were Slade covers, in 1975 when Slade came to the US in an attempt to break through a local rock magazine in the Los Angeles area phoned DuBrow and ask him to go to the Whiskey a Go Go and cover the show for this band from England called Slade that there was all this buzz about, he did, he stayed all night taking pictures of them and the next day wrote a raving review for the magazine about them. Kevin DuBrow was an egotistical jerk, anyone who knows anything about him knows that, the only success he ever really had in life was covering two Slade songs plus he was always in the shadow of Randy Rhoads and he hated both of those facts till the day he died, he tried to downplay both of them constantly, and he fabricated that nonsense story about them trying to screw up recording their version of Cum On Feel The Noize and but nailing it perfectly anyway as a way of trying to save face after they'd run their short course in life and imploded because of his stupidity, one of his fellow band mates keeps telling that malarkey story in interviews just out of loyalty to DuBrow and figuring that his legacy deserves at least one good mark, but seriously, bands that are far more talented than Quiet Riot and with far more studio experience than them, especially when they were making their first real album, take multiple attempts and sometimes even days to get the cut they want for a song that winds up being pieced together from their individual attempts at their various parts, and I'm supposed to believe that they tried screwing it up and still nailed it like that in one take? Yea right, knowing the fact that Kevin DuBrow was there that night at the Whiskey when Slade gave their famous performance there that is well known for them having knocked it out of the park I don't believe a thing about DuBrow's version of things years later after all that time of stewing over being a two hit wonder whose career owed everything to a couple of Slade covers and having to go through life in Randy Rhoads' shadow, nope, don't believe one bit of it.

[@GODCONVOYPRIME]

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[@DrunkbutSmart]

I think that the song “Metal Health” is far better known, and far more tied in with QR’s history, than is their second cover of Slade. In fact, as a fan of eighties metal, I had never even heard their cover of Crazee Now until I purchased their greatest hits album. I was barely alive during their peak, so maybe songs have gained or lost relevance since then.

[@soonerwest]

QUIET RIOT made an impact! 1983 I was a Freshman sitting on the back of a school bus. An extremely small town Wanette, OK. A kid popped the cassette in a silver boombox. I’ll never forget what I heard. I even remember the back road the bus was on and feeling I had of Bang Your Head. Man, what music does to a person is amazing. Thank you Quiet Riot!!!

[@ProfessorofRock]

Awesome!

[@konowd]

Big gateway band for a lot of us. We really owe QR a big debt

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

It’s a life changing song.

[@kevinchandler179]

I absolutely loved them!!! Rip 🙏 Kevin and Frankie!!!!

[@xozindustries7451]

That was my first album, it really spoke to me, sad to see what happened to the band members

[@userperson5259]

Me and some friends performed Bang Your Head for our elementary school Talent Show in the library with cardboard guitars covered with tin foil. Shortly after the "I've got a mouth like an alligator" line, our performance was cut short by annoyed parents and staff. I'll never forget that!

[@rwpugh]

In 1983 I was visiting a girl in Oregon. I was 18 years old. I didn’t listen to anything heavy at that time, but I remember when I heard Quiet Riot for the first time. That album started my rock music journey. Thanks for the memories!

[@davidstrahl4896]

It was early 1996 and being married with my daughter on the way, me and my wife went to a riverfront concert in Montgomery, Alabama where they performed. It was an amazing experience and afterwards, we met the band and got them to autograph my greatest hits CD. Kevin, Carolos, Rudy, and Frankie were extremely nice and we, mainly me, just soaked up the opportunity to speak with them. One of my best concerts I have ever attended even though it was only in front of a few hundred people. The band definitely resonated with me as a teen growing up in the 80s. Fast forward to 2017, I was in the Army and home on leave from a deployment. I saw them at a festival in Junction City, kansas where I met Frankie, the only original member, and let me tell you, he was the most humble and respectful person I had ever met. We got pictures and autographs but I will never forget the impact he had on me. Awesome video! Thanks!

[@acefromspace2727]

I still remember hearing Bang Your Head for the first time as a kid. Great memories.

[@MrBiggs-wu2kf]

Awesome Video, thank you.

[@branmcg9844]

My bast friend moved to Athens,GA. During my junior year ('84)of high school, I was able to visit him at Christmas time. Good ole Jeff H. took me to see Quiet Riot and W.A.S.P. was the opener. Blew me straight away. I loved both bands at the time. Sadly, Jeff and I didn't stay in touch. We WERE ALL Crazy Then.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Wow! What a memory!

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

I hope he’s still alive!

[@311superfly]

I was in Marietta then . Iron Maiden had em open too. Guitarist from GA. Carlos rocked the Omni.

[@johnsmith-ug5tp]

Actually, Judas Priest was the band that broke 80's metal with the release of Unleashed in the East in late 79, followed up with British Steel in 80, Point on Entry in 81, and their mega hit metal album Screaming for Vengeance in 82. QR was just the lucky band that broke huge first on the LA scene as an American metal band.

[@WayneBarroncffcs]

I walked into the music store one day and saw this album on the shelf. I asked the store owner what was the deal with this band, and he played me Mental Health. I fell in love with it and bought it. That evening, I would see the World Premiere of the music video on MTV. You can say I liked them before I even heard a single chord.

[@charlieeatherton8422]

Enjoy your presentation of the story. Thank you.

[@Autumn_Forest_]

As an 8/9-year-old kid in 1983, I remember hearing QR and later similar acts and, even at my young an age, thinking how brave they were to be screaming in rebellion at someone… Was it their parents?…their teachers?…the rules and rule makers in general? I was in my first year at a strict, boring Catholic school after having been in a much more fun and open-minded public school setting. I freaking hated life at that time, but I couldn’t do anything about it - not even speak up. I was never a real metal head, but I always looked at metal bands and their rebellious looks and sounds and appreciated and admired their refusal to go with the flow and just go along with everyone else like sheeple. I have always been my own person and done whatever my heart told me to do, and maybe, in part, I owe my unwillingness to go along with the crowd, to the guys in those early metal vids on MTV.

[@Montyhugo]

Thank you!👍✌️❤️🙏👊🤘

[@Shifty_Bravo]

I'm the same age. I can say for certain that those early metal videos and songs fed into my rebellious nature. I have always seen blind servitude to authority as something I would never take seriously, but it's something I had to do to make a living. Now I'm middle aged and successful but I still enjoy going to concerts and listening to metal music. It's a balance that has kept me sane ironically.

[@AleisterCrowleyMagus]

Their incredible rudeness regarding Slade - the band that wrote and performed Quiet Riot’s only major hit except for their other Slade cover “Mama we’re all crazy now” - turned me off very quickly. They owed Slade respect, and the arrogance of it and insistence they were too good for the Slade tunes infuriated me.

[@colinlatham7905]

Well said!

[@sampate4323]

I was in a band called Rockicks. We were managed by Warren Entner. Warren also was managing Quiet Riot at the same time. We had a record deal. They didnt have a deal yet. We shared a rehearsal space with them for a short while at Sunset Gower Studios. They opened for us at the Rock Corporation in Van Nuys one night. Both bands were using our P A and mics .Somewhere early in their set Dubrow became upset wih our AKG MIC and threw it to the stage floor.My band rushed the stage and Dubrow came real close to getting his ass beat on stage. They left the stage early, needless to say. We played our set and went out to leave. Somebody had fired a weapon into the parking lot in front of the club. One of the rounds hit the right rear rim of my car , and was rolling around inside the hubcap as I was driving home. I popped the hubcap and found the spent slug. Dubrow was probably born an asshole, and probably died one. Sammy Pate jr Bass, Rockicks

[@lisazinn866]

😂😂😂

[@CoreysChannel]

I got emotional when my daughter gifted me a Cameo from Rudy for my birthday this year. Rudy really took extra time to share details surrounding MH and show gold records on his wall. Really enjoyed this spotlight! I share many core memories as you and your viewers when this album came out. Thank you~~

[@tristramcoffin926]

Quiet Riot partied at my house one night. I was knocked out asleep during the entire thing. It was '94 and I was renting a room from a couple of guys who were about five years older. I got home from work and was exhausted. My housemates said they were going to a Quiet Riot show and asked if I wanted to come. I said no and that I was tired. The next morning I was Larry (who I paid rent to) said they tried to wake me up but I was out and that the band came back to the house after the show. I always thought that was pretty funny. I slept through a Quiet Riot party.

[@rudymueller3281]

This is such a good set up for the joke. Quiet Riot. Very.

[@arcofdescent3495]

My two girlfriends and I were at the US Fest heavy metal day! Holy cow, what an event- I’ll never forget. Quiet Riot were awesome, and Van Halen were terrible (thanks to drunk Dave). I still have my US Fest t-shirt 😀

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

Dave was obnoxious enough! Lol

[@WaymoresBlues]

I still have my Us'83 t-shirt too although it has been at least 40 years since I could fit in it to wear it.

[@MEBoisv]

You chose a great sponsor. I’ve been buying all my glasses from Zenni since 2006.

[@rikfox8812]

The term "bang your head" came from when Randy was recording with Ozzy, he called Kevin from England and told Kevin, that the UK fans do something called headbangers (of the new wave of British heavy metal) bands. Kevin goes 'what's that?' Randy said they 'bang their heads' in time to the music. That's where Kevin got the inspiration to use the phrase and wrote it into the reformed 'no more booze' song and changing the lyrics. I talked to Carlos (Cavazo), and he verified that story. As for Kevin's big mouth, well, he was brutally frank and didn't pull any punches, and called it like he saw it. Very outspoken. I met him on the first night I was in L.A. at the Troubadour club, and he gave me my first warning; "welcome to L.A., remember the O'Jays song 'Backstabbers'? That's exactly what L.A. is; there's always somebody looking to stab you in the back and steal your gig. However, Kevin was always nice to me, he even called me years later to invite me to replace Rudy for their South American tour. Ironically, all the people who distanced themselves from Kevin, were all showing their true fake colors, and suddenly, were all crying over Kevin's passing away. Such is the plastic Hollywood scene. I recently worked with Carlos (and Stet Howland), in the two Freakshow videos on KZbin, until the bandleader's toxic attitude just ruined the whole experience.

[@99percentirish64]

Thanks Mr. Professor! I saw QR open for Black Sabbath in 1984.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Very cool. How was it?

[@99percentirish64]

@ProfessorofRock Thanks! Oh my gosh, it was great! That was before mosh pits, lol. However, I was on the floor, and the whole first 20 rows of people, including myself, were just moving back and forth. It was crazy, but worth it!

[@donseesyourshaydim7529]

I love watching these on Saturday mornings, just like all the cartoons I'd watch on Saturdays in the 80s

[@sariahut1]

Yes! What a great way to look at these videos! Saturday morning “cartoons” for grownups.

[@magdahernandez6370]

​@@sariahut1 Call it Professor's Playhouse

[@kelleychilton2524]

You're still watching cartoons ... admit it.😂🤣

[@magdahernandez6370]

@@kelleychilton2524 Damn str8. Some of the best folk are animated. Humanity is riddled with the cartoonish🙀😯☢️Heck, the longest running TV show in prime time history is The Simpsons. Emojis??? yep. Nevertheless I was spoofing on Pee Wee's Playhouse which was....all over the place stylistically. Covered all the bases just like the Professor when it comes to music. That's the analogy & I'm sticking to it. Have a classical day Chilton.🦸

[@sariahut1]

@@kelleychilton2524 … well… who doesn’t?!

[@emilkabban6085]

When I lived in Las Vegas, Kevin was a DJ on the radio and I listen to his show everyday. He did an awesome show!!

[@user-bl6gx9hr2n]

I was in 6th grade when this hit the big time. All us kids absolutely loved it!!!!

[@Shadooe]

Quiet Riot was my gateway into Metal and was my favourite band for about four min. Growing up in outport Newfoundland, Canada I woke up stupid early one Sat AM to watch cartoons. Back in 1984, we only got two TV stations; one wasn't broadcasting that early, and the other was showing music videos. Cyndi Lauper, Lionel Ritchie, etc... and then Quiet Riot (CoFtN). That drew me in... But the next vid was Iron Maiden (Aces High) and THAT was like tunnel vision - being pulled into the TV - and no turning back. I'm wearing a Maiden shirt at 50 in 2024 as I type this.

[@LuisDHern]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="213">03:33</a> Quiet Riot with Randy Rhoads had 2 albums prior to Metal Health: Quiet Riot and Quiet Riot II, both release in Japan in 1978 (March & December respectively).

[@dominickefrim3088]

My band opened up for them at the Coach House in Cali. Years after the highth of their fame, but i had grown up a fan so i was so pumped for that show. The Coach House was out in the middle of nowhere so the guys in the band just hung out after we sound checked earlier in the day. Got to hang out most of the day with the guys. They were awesome and very humble. Kevin Dubrow never showed up for the sound check. Didn't show up till just before they went on. Went straight into the dressing room. After the show he locked the dressing room and we never saw him again. The other guys sat around after their show to talk to fans and stuff. Pretty heartbreaking to have a hero of mine just completely not even acknowlege you exist... But the other guys in the band were everything i had expected and more.

[@Donniesquid4]

I was a huge fan and had the Metal Health and Condition Critical albums when I was in elementary school. Then in the early 2000s, they played a bar I worked at. I expected it to be packed, but sadly, it wasn't busy at all (maybe 50 people). They still put on an awesome show and had a meet and greet afterwards. They all (including Kevin) were very friendly and cool to talk to.

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

Kevin's brother is a reality plastic surgeon on the E network.

[@ProfessorofRock]

Serious?

[@jerryoxley1827]

@@ProfessorofRock Terry Dubrow is indeed a plastic surgeon on the series Botched.

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

@@ProfessorofRock Yes Terry 👍

[@Cureguy1]

I'm surprised you didn't know that professor, they look a lot alike.

[@bb-gc2tx]

@@ProfessorofRock yes hes one of most successful plastic surgeons in hollywood hes loaded

[@petersage5157]

[in the voice of Don LaFontaine] "They were a bar band rejected by every label. He was a producer with nothing left to lose. In A World gone mad with Metal Fever, get ready to Bang Your Head." That's a docudrama I'd watch. Oh, I see it's been made: _Well Now You're Here, There's No Way Back._

[@shanemahler6830]

Great episode! Love the shirt! I've seen them so many times with my son. They are just as good as the originals - and that's no small feat!

[@Imthecolumnist]

I saw quiet riot and dubrau play in a small town called Menoken ND in 92. It was a small crowd but glad I got to see them play.

[@drew7257]

Rudy Sarzo had the most success out of anyone in that band by jumping from Ozzy, to Quiet Riot, to Whitesnake, while all at their peak.

[@johnbeckwith1361]

He was originally I QR, then Ozzy but only after Roads went to Ozzy. But ya, staggeringly good choices he made.

[@charlespolenzani2219]

In the late 90s, a friend of mine's band opened up for Quiet Riot at a Bar in Chicago. Not a concert venue, a bar. And more people showed up to see my friend's band than QR. QR refused to play. What a way to get fans!

[@ProfessorofRock]

Thanks for sharing! Wow.

[@jerryware1970]

I saw Vinnie Vincent paying at a Chicago bar in the 1990s.

[@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980]

Ha! What was the band name?

[@charlespolenzani2219]

@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Highway Child and they killed it! We all stuck around for QR too! The roadies set everything up and NOTHING!

[@charlespolenzani2219]

@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 The band was Highway Child and they killed it! Most of us stuck around to see QR. The roadies set everything up and we waited... and waited... and waited... and then some guy got up on stage and said they wouldn't be performing. The roars of disapproval were legendary ;P

[@stevenwilson9865]

I was fortunate enough to see them couple times. Great show. Meet n Greet afterwards. Thank You for traveling to Indiana

[@daleb7300]

I had the opportunity to interview Kevin & Rudy for my tv show. Great memories & both guys were great interviews!

[@noizeemama3697]

I didn't know this is what killed their career. Thanks for teaching us! I knew Debrow was a jerk. Once metal was out they played at a bar/night club in my small city. They did a signing after the show. I already didn't think much of him already and then he called my friend "bossy" when she showed him where she wanted her poster signed. She thought it was funny and accepted it with honor. Maybe he was pissed that I didn't want his autograph and didn't bring anything for him to sign anyway. What I had in hand was much more precious. It was the Heavy Bones CD and I just wanted to get Frankie Banali to sign it. Banali seemed like a great human. He was kind and funny with us. The exact opposite of Debrow. When I handed him the CD to sign he said, "Wow, so you're the person that bought that album!" He promised me there would be a second one. So sad it didn't happen because they were so much better than QR was. Oh, and my online name is a tribute to Slade not QR. :)

[@Fred_Lougee]

Slade...awesome band, wish they could have caught on this side of the pond.

[@davemckee4907]

Hey, remember the head bangers ball on mtv?

[@hellradiolives]

Holy Crud, good job Prof!! I never expected that anyone would mention Quiet Riot, even though they launched 80s heavy metal. I went to Quiet Riot/WASP original tour and was a metal chick from that moment on.

[@weeklyfascination]

I was in high school when Metal Health came out. Quiet Riot was on MTV every day singing rock anthems that everyone could sing along to. Great memories.

[@slateone]

Great stuff! You need to do more episodes on Heavy Metal, though! That’s the only music that I really listened to back in the ‘80s.

[@AXXXDEAN]

When I was in middle school we would watch these films that came with a cassette player.. I snuck Metal Health into the player and when the song started the class went nuts... the teacher wasn't thrilled but after the film the class begged to turn it back on....I love both albums ( MH and CC)

[@that-avr-drummer]

I absolutely loved their videos on MTV back then!!! Any time I hear them now it instantly brings me back to my childhood.

[@robertscharlow]

Great video. I can remember hearing them for the first time in '83. They were EVERYWHERE. It was crazy. It's always been my contention that QR was THE band to break open the doors for metal.

[@jwine4145]

lol, loved the reference to Joust. Speaking of Slade, have you ever interviewed them and/or done an episode on them?

[@hgodvilla00]

I would definitely watch an interview with Noddy Holder and Dave Hill.

[@colinlatham7905]

You know how to pleeze me!

[@cellyblank9919]

This album was so HUUUUGE in '83 it changed lives! Of course I was one. The side A could be the best A side of any album in music. Even the cheap sheet metal mask was an incredibly cool creation. Metal Health inspired so many kids that it can't be denied as one of the greatest albums ever! Great episode🤩💀🤘.

[@gradywilson3006]

Back in the late 80's when Quiet Riot's star wasn't shining as brightly as it once was, a band that I was a guitar tech and sound guy for, opened for Quiet Riot for a few So Cal dates. Every last member of Quiet Riot was amazingly nice to a bunch of nobodys from a band not many had heard of. Quiet Riot blew the roof off that place, they brought enough gear for a stadium tour and they were so loud my ears were ringing even with ear plugs in for the show. They were such nice guys to everybody there, the crew, the fans, everyone. To this day it is one of my favorite concert experiences of all time.

[@cornpop1157]

My alarm clock / tape deck woke me every morning with that song..

[@Erocksoco]

I love the fact that their attempt to record the cover so poorly on purpose failed so miserably that it was successful lol

[@ProfessorofRock]

Same!

[@Erocksoco]

@@ProfessorofRock It's one of my favorite stories in music, right up there with the fact that the drummer on Louie Louie yelling fuck made it into the recording and has been played on the radio uncensored all this time lol

[@ragweedfan]

Thoughts of ,"George Costanza" doing the opposite of his instincts turned his luck around for good😂