Quiet Riot Fans: Commence Weeping

[Subby]

http://www.tmz.com/2007/11/26/quiet-riot-singer-found-dead-in-his-vegas-home/

Quiet Riot Singer Found Dead in His Vegas Home

Posted Nov 26th 2007 1:04PM by TMZ Staff (http://www.tmz.com/bloggers/tmz-staff)
Filed under: Music (http://www.tmz.com/category/music/), R.I.P. (http://www.tmz.com/category/r-i-p/)

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Las Vegas Metro Police have confirmed to TMZ that 52-year-old Kevin Dubrow, lead singer for 80's metal band Quiet Riot, was found dead in his Las Vegas home.

We're told one of Dubrow's neighbors found the singer Sunday around 5:20 PM. The Clark County Coroner confirms to TMZ that they are currently examining Dubrow's body to try to determine the cause of death.

Fellow band member Frankie Banali posted this message on his website (http://frankie-banali.com/): "I can't even find words to say. Please respect my privacy as I mourn the passing and honor the memory of my dearest friend, Kevin DuBrow."

Quiet Riot was the first metal band to top the Billboard charts and are perhaps best known for their cover of "Cum on Feel the Noize"

[sachmo71]

:(

[Pumpy Tudors]

I had no idea that Mark Linn-Baker was the lead singer for Quiet Riot. Just damn.

[Kodos]

Time to play some QR on the ol' iPod.

[Kodos]

For the non-assclowns in this thread, here is a good source of info on the shooting as the story progresses: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/redskinsinsider/

Perhaps you'd care that he was dead if he played for the Redskins?

[JonInMiddleGA]

Sigh :(

[Subby]

Perhaps you'd care that he was dead if he played for the Redskins?
I do care - that's why I posted it.

[CamEdwards]

How wrong is it that I'm more bummed out about this than when Kurt Cobain died?

[korme]

Who was the original Come on Feel the Noise?

[Kodos]

Slade.

[thesloppy]

Some years ago (but long after they had faded) Quiet Riot came to a nearby college town and the tickets were $20, to which my response was "Who the HELL is going to pay $20 to see an aging Quiet Riot??!" A few days later I learned the key to this concert was that it also came with 'All the Beer You Can Drink', which is something I didn't even know you could offer at a concert. Now that, my friends, is genius, and I am sad that QR's trailblazing ways failed to catch on with the rest of the touring music world, and now never will.

[MizzouRah]

:(

8th grade...

[Groundhog]

I honestly don't think I know a single Quiet Riot song... maybe if I heard one I'd recognise it.

[Kodos]

Come on feel the noise
Girls Rock Your Boys
We'll get wild, wild, wild!

[JonInMiddleGA]

I honestly don't think I know a single Quiet Riot song... maybe if I heard one I'd recognise it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_Riot

Although since their hits all occurred before you were four years old I'm not sure any of them are going to register much unless there's some station playing classic metal somewhere in your life.

Probably the best bet for you to have heard them is in some of their video game appearances
Quiet Riot's track "Metal Health" is used as the title theme to the video game Showdown: Legends of Wrestling. The same song also appears in the soundtrack to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, while their version for Slade's "Cum On Feel The Noize" is featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, both playing on Rock radio station V-Rock. It was also used in the Crank soundtrack. It was also used in a scene for the film Footloose.The song "Bang Your Head(Metal Health)" is in the game Guitar Hero: Rocks the 80s is a playable song.
or in their appearance on The Simpsons
In the 2005 episode of The Simpsons entitled "The Father, The Son, and The Holy Guest Star", the band is depicted as converted to a religious band called Pious Riot. When Bart calls them "a crappy rock band from the 1940s", Kevin DuBrow responds, "We've played more state fairs than The Beatles."

[st.cronin]

I always confused them with Twisted Sister.

[Kodos]

Understandable, since they were nothing alike.

[BYU 14]

:(

[Subby]

Quiet Riot was a major staple of early MTV - my friends and I all liked them and I am pretty sure one of my fifty or so rock buttons was Quiet Riot (they were big in junior high...no self respecting jeans jacket wearer went without!)

[Lorena]

Aww what a bummer. My cousin introduced me to Quiet Riot when I was just a youngster (6th grade maybe?).

[Kodos]

I do care - that's why I posted it.


My bad. I thought you were making fun of his death.

[Honolulu Blue]

:(

I've been away, so I missed this the first time around. I'm still banging my head about it. (get it?)

Now we know the cause of death - "accidental" cocaine overdose. This is one of the articles stating such (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071211/people_nm/quietriot_dc_1). Another rock 'n roller succumbing to the temptations inherent to the lifestyle, or something like that.