"Heavy metal band Quiet Riot has been anything but a quiet riot since the 1980s, when the combination of the group's energizing music and frontman Kevin DuBrow's loudmouth tendencies catapulted the Los Angeles-based band into contagious rambunctiousness and, eventually, superstardom. Appropriately led by the Slade classic ""Cum on Feel the Noize,"" Quiet Riot used the song as their anthem to inject the American rock scene with some of that infamous hair band bliss.Quiet Riot began as the project of Kevin DuBrow (vocals) and Randy Rhoads (guitar), who disbanded their project Violet Fox to focus on the new group in 1975. Adding original members Kelli Garni (bass), Drew Forsyth (drums) and Rudy Sarzo (bass) to the mix, Quiet Riot began phase one of their eventual music takeover with local performances in L.A. nightclubs. Shoved to the sidelines in the ‘70s because of the disco craze of the time, Quiet Riot released two lukewarm albums before splitting up for a few years, resurfacing again for 1983's Metal Health. The long-awaited Metal Health was an absolute hit and an instant success, driven by the band's gritty rendition of ""Cum on Feel the Noize."" The album landed at number one on the charts and went platinum five times, but it was sadly the climax of the Quiet Riot chronicle.The rest of the 1980s were a tumultuous time for members of Quiet Riot, who witnessed the demise of their fan base and realized most of it was due to DuBrow and his hasty comments to fans and critics alike. Mutinies, lawsuits and resignations followed in the late ‘80s, but just when America thought Quiet Riot was finished, the resilient metal band came back in 1997, producing a shaky but still successful string of albums before 2007, when DuBrow's death ended the saga of the nation's not-so Quiet Riot."
