Arnell had carved out a career writing jingles for an ad company before teaming up with Loeb to buy a studio, Greene Street, in Manhattan’s SoHo district. Over the next decade, Arnell and Loeb would play a pivotal part in Riot’s career – sometimes for the good of it, sometimes not. The more laidback Loeb was one part hippy, one part hustler as a kid he had run around with future Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley. Arnell was a chain-smoking hipster with a machine-gun repartee who wouldn’t have seemed out of place in the creative department of a Mad Men-style ad agency. At that time in the Big Apple, if you were a rock band who weren’t called Led Zeppelin, you faced an uphill struggle to get noticed.īut Riot had what most other rock’n’roll hopefuls didn’t: a go-getting management team in the shape of Billy Arnell and Steve Loeb. New York in the mid 70s was in the grip of disco fever: glitterball hedonism and white powder were the order of the day.Įlsewhere, the burgeoning punk scene had taken root at infamous dive CBGB, spearheaded by the likes of The Ramones, Patti Smith and Television. In a taste of what was to come, their timing was atrocious. They knew they had more to offer they certainly hoped they had more to gain. Reale and Speranza were writing their own material, for starters. Like Speranza, Reale had served time in several going-nowhere teenage bands, serving up Humble Pie and Foghat covers to drunken schoolfriends at backyard parties. Whoever he was hanging out with, that’s who Guy was going to be.” When he joined Riot, he became the singer of Riot. Guy was very adaptable he was like a blank slate. “He was singing with a Top 40 band in Brooklyn – he could take it or leave it. “Mark told me that he had to talk Guy into joining the band,” recalls future drummer Slavin. But his unobtrusive manner suggested that he wasn’t necessarily cut out for a life in rock’n’roll. A wiry Italian-American with a striking afro-style hairdo, Speranza looked at first glance like the archetypal 70s rock god-in-waiting. It was Reale who founded the band in his native Brooklyn in the summer of 1975 with bassist Phil Feit, drummer Peter Bitelli and vocalist Guy Speranza.
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A tall, skinny Montrose fanatic with thinning hair – which he later covered with a series of wigs – the unassuming but quietly ambitious Reale would be the only constant member throughout the band’s history. The band have continued to record as well as tour following DuBrow's death, and in 2014, they released their first album in eight years titled Quiet Riot 10, which was followed by Road Rage in 2017.If one man was the driving force behind Riot, it was guitarist Mark Reale. Banali revived the band in 2010, and the current lineup consists of himself on drums, lead vocalist James Durbin, bassist Chuck Wright and guitarist Alex Grossi, with no founding members remaining.
Despite several lineup changes and brief breakups, Quiet Riot continued to record and tour until DuBrow's death from a cocaine overdose in 2007. Their most commercially successful lineup consisted of DuBrow alongside guitarist Carlos Cavazo, bassist Rudy Sarzo and drummer Frankie Banali, and in 1983 released their breakthrough album Metal Health, which is known for being the first heavy metal album to top the Billboard album chart. The original line-up featured Rhoads and Garni with lead vocalist Kevin DuBrow and drummer Drew Forsyth.
100 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. The band's name was inspired by a conversation with Rick Parfitt of the British band Status Quo, who expressed desire to name a band "Quite Right," and his thick English accent made it sound like he was saying "Quiet Riot." The band is ranked at No. They then changed the name to Little Women, before settling on Quiet Riot in May 1975. The band was founded in 1973, by guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni under the name Mach 1. Quiet Riot is an American heavy metal band.
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