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Quiet Riot - Metal Health - 30 Year Anniversary
DIR By: Mac
Date: September 2, 2012, 3:14 pm
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[glow=red,2,300]Quiet Riot - Metal Health - 30 Year
Anniversary[/glow]
Holy crap, listen to the popularity of this album.
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> QUIET RIOT's landmark album "Metal Health" is getting ready to
celebrate its 30th anniversary, and Artisan News spoke to the
band's drummer, Frankie Banali, at the Sunset Strip Music
Festival about the LP and its massive success.
>
> On the topic of the album's recording sessions, Banali said,
"We were booked on available time, so it wasn't… Everybody
thinks that you went in and you had all this money [to make the
LP], and it really wasn't the case. We were going in and
recording at midnight and ending at six or seven in the morning
and coming back in the next day. But it was great. We had a lot
of hopes and we thought it was a great record. We just didn't
think anybody would agree with us, and thankfully, we were
wrong."
>
> Asked whether the band thought during the recording sessions
that "Metal Health" would turn out to be such a huge commercial
success and have such a lasting impact on the rock scene in the
years that followed its release, Banali said, "No. How can you
even imagine that? At the height of that record's release, we
were moving about half a million units a week. I mean, it was,
like, ridiculous. Now you can't even… If a record sells 50,000
copies, you're No. 1. And we were moving 500,000 a week."
>
> QUIET RIOT singer Kevin DuBrow died in November 2007 of an
accidental cocaine overdose. He was 52 years old.
>
> QUIET RIOT was perhaps best known for its 1983 cover of "Cum
On Feel The Noize". The song, featuring DuBrow's powerful,
gravelly voice, appeared on "Metal Health" — which was the first
by a metal band to reach No. 1 on the Billboard chart.
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> QUIET RIOT in March recruited Scott Vokoun as its new lead
singer.
>
> The band played several shows in early February with
ex-MONTROSE vocalist Keith St. John following the departure of
Mark Huff.
>
> QUIET RIOT's current touring lineup is as follows:
>
> Scott Vokoun - Vocals
> Frankie Banali - Drums
> Chuck Wright - Bass
> Alex Grossi - Guitar
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Re: Quiet Riot - Metal Health - 30 Year Anniversary
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: September 2, 2012, 3:36 pm
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Metal Health is an awesome album and I love it to this day. It's
crazy to think that it took Quiet Riot to do what a lot of other
bigger Metal bands couldn't do and that was to be the first
Heavy Metal band to go to #1 on the charts with Metal Health.
#Post#: 11919--------------------------------------------------
Re: Quiet Riot - Metal Health - 30 Year Anniversary
DIR By: Mac
Date: September 2, 2012, 3:43 pm
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The stars were definitely aligned. Right people, right place,
right time
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