• 1973-

  Kevin DuBrowLead vocals1973-2007

  Randy RhoadsGuitar1973-1979

  Kelly GarniBass1973-1978

  Drew ForsythDrums1973-1980

  Rudy SarzoBass1978-2003: 2021-

  Carlos CavazoGuitar1982-2003

  Frankie BanaliDrums1993-2020

  Alex GrossiGuitar2004-

  Chuck WrightBass2012-2021

  Scott VokounLead vocals2012-2013

  Jizzy PearlLead vocals2013-2016: 2019-

  Seann NicolsLead vocals2016-2017

  James DurbinLead vocals2017-2019

  Johnny KellyDrums2020-
• Quiet Riot is a classic glam-style heavy metal band that formed in Los Angeles in 1973 and played the Hollywood club scene around the same time as Van Halen. They didn't get very far in the '70s but their 1983 album Metal Health was the first metal album to hit #1 in America.
• The most long-standing member of the group was lead vocalist Kevin DuBrow, the only founding member still around in the Metal Health era. The band ejected him in 1987 and released one album without him before breaking up. DuBrow reunited the band around 1990 and was in all of their lineups until his death from a drug overdose in 2007. The band has carried on with various lineups since.
• Original member Randy Rhoads left Quiet Riot to join Ozzy Osbourne's band and completed two well-regarded albums with Ozzy as lead guitarist before dying in 1982 in one of the most famous freak airplane accidents in rock history. Rhoads was killed when he went up in a small plane piloted by their tour bus driver, who crashed when attempting to buzz the tour bus.
• Bassist Rudy Sarzo also left Quiet Riot to join Ozzy Osbourne's band at Rhoads' recommendation, then came back to Quiet Riot after Rhoads' death. During his time with Quiet Riot, he was in a lot of MTV videos and achieved a bit of fame on his own after leaving Quiet Riot to form his own group, M.A.R.S.
• In an interview for Greg Prato's book MTV Ruled The World - The early years of music video, Rudy Sarzo mentions that MTV was fundamental to the success of "Cum On Feel The Noise," saying: "I would say that everybody that had a cable system watched MTV, and our video was on every half hour. We went to number one, and we had to bump off 'Thriller' to get to number one."
  
  Sarzo also confides in the same book the experience of performing in the 1983 Us Festival (the one hosted by Steve Wozniak in San Bernardino). Still covered in sand and dust from an El Paso concert, the band maneuvered to California with a skeleton crew and almost limped into the festival while everybody else was helicoptered in. Sarzo's guitar was knocked out of tune and he didn't have time to fix it before stage time, so if you listen to both "Cum on Feel the Noize" and "Metal Health," you can hear the bass guitar's faulty tuning.
• "Cum On Feel The Noize" was the band's most successful single, reaching #5 in 1983, the best placement for a metal song to that point. The song was written and originally recorded by British glam rock band Slade, who released their version 1973. Quiet Riot's version actually boosted sales of Slade's original a decade later.
• They show up in a 2005 episode of The Simpsons as Pious Riot, having changed their name after finding religion. "Cum On Feel The Noize" becomes "Come On Feel The Lord":
  
  Come on, feel the Lord
  Heaven's your reward
  We'll get saved! saved! saved!

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