Recently Heard: Quiet Riot
May. 15th, 2008 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianQuiet Riot: Quiet Riot
Funny how my favorite Quiet Riot album misses out on all the original members - no, Carlos Cavazo and Frankie Banali, who play guitar and drum on most of the
(Slade's original
) and Cum On Feel The Noize
(Slade's original
), although I believe Rudy Sarzo had joined QR back when Randy Rhoads still played guitar with them... Anywho, no DuBrow on this, making it far less of a Quiet Riot album and more of... something else. Vocalist Paul Shortino came in from Rough Cutt
- a band that didn't impress me in the least. Color me very surprised when Stay With Me Tonight
came up on the big screen at Narsyphilis back in the day (which was a Wednesday). Shortino brings in a very bluesy sound, and if he ever used that approach in Cutt, I missed it. This was almost a David Coverdale-like feel, and it was great stuff. The whole album carries more of this vibe than of anything remotely resembling the rest of the band's catalog.While I understand getting QR back together again under DuBrow - it was his band (well, it was Randy & Kelly's band, but DuBrow was their first vocalist...) and that's what I think of as Quiet Riot. Even though this album has Carlos on guitar and Frankie on drums, and even though both of those guys get co-writing credits on every tune, there is nothing on this that would make me think the same guys are involved.
In fact, I'll go further and go back on what I opened up with to say this is absolutely the worst Quiet Riot album ever. However, it's also one of the best bluesy metal albums ever.
Multimedia (i.e. YouTube) Extra!
Watch Cum on Feel the Noize or Mama Weer All Crazee Now first, to get a looksee at what Quiet Riot is supposed to be.
Next, take a look at Whitesnake's Slow & Easy or Tawny Kitaen's Still of the Night. Completely different band, of course, and a completely different animal.
Now, for the final exhibit, I give you...
