Quiet Riot singer dies at 52

[Torgo]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/26/obit.dubrow/index.html

Man, that sucks.  Quiet Riot was my favorite band in 1983 when I was 8 years old.  I got to meet Kevin Dubrow in person back in the late 90's when QR played in a little club in the town that I live. I got to help them carry stuff up the steps as there wasn't an elevator at the Top Floor club and they couldn't find a few of their roadies. 

[RapscallionJones]

Have they released the cause of death yet?  I remember seeing him on VH1 a couple of years ago and he was very clearly wearing a long-hair wig.  After hearing this news, I suspected that he may have had cancer or something.  He didn't look well in those old interviews.

[AndyC]

Sad news. Always depressing when the stars of my youth drop dead. I still maintain that Cum on Feel the Noize is one of the top candidates for the greatest heavy metal song of the era. Powerful, catchy tune, not-too-subtly suggestive lyrics, on-key screaming and most important of all, it was pure fun, good for partying, driving fast, working out or whatever. They don't make songs like that anymore.

Now, the people who made the songs are going. Granted, rock stars do die. But there is a difference between being suddenly killed by an excessive lifestyle and simply having it catch up to them as they age. It's a reminder that none of us are getting any younger.

[Torgo]

Have they released the cause of death yet?  I remember seeing him on VH1 a couple of years ago and he was very clearly wearing a long-hair wig.  After hearing this news, I suspected that he may have had cancer or something.  He didn't look well in those old interviews.

They have only said that it appears that he collapsed in his house but I've since heard that they somehow botched the initial autopsy so a cause of death is still not known.

[Yaddo 42]

They were the headliners at the annual Fourth of July celebration on the river either this year or last year. By all accounts they still rocked.

Sad news for his friends, family, and fans. He burned a lot of bridges in his prime, but seemed to have developed a sense of humor and persepctive about himself in more recent years. Just my casual observation from seeing him on TV and hearing that ESPN radio commecial the band did a while back.

I figured the wig was mostly for the act/stage persona. Seeing their old videos, Dubrow was probably losing his hair in the band's prime from looking at his hairline.

I liked some of their stuff, I'll take their versions of the Slade songs over the originals any day. Besides they get cool points for being name checked by Ben Folds:

I'm rockin' the suburbs
Just like Quiet Riot did
'Cept that they were talented

[CheezeFlixz]

Quiet Riot was my favorite band in 1983 when I was 8 years old.

J.H.C. I'm getting old.

[Torgo]

Quiet Riot was my favorite band in 1983 when I was 8 years old.

J.H.C. I'm getting old.

Heck, I feel that way and I'm just turning 33 next year. Darn whipper snappers!

[Yaddo 42]

I remember when MTV first began making a big deal out of world preimere videos, playing them at the top of the hour every hour. Quiet Riot's video for "Mama We're All Krazy Now" (not looking up the proper Slade-ish spelling right now) was one they hyped the hell out of.

I'm a little older than Torgo, so I was the perfect age to get MTV for the first time right about the age I was getting into music myself rather than just taking in what people older than me listened to. For about a year and a half, Quiet Riot was all over that channel.

Fixed spelling.

[CheezeFlixz]

I still have a MTV t-shirt they sent out to people when they first hit the air waves way back in 1981. I was the tender age of 18 when it first aired.

[raj]

Well it appears now to have been an accidental cocaine overdose.  Sad.

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[Torgo]

I figured that it was probably some kind of accidental drug overdose.  What a waste..............

[Allhallowsday]

Disgusting and sad; you're right Torgo, what a waste.