US Festival '83, Glen Helen Regional Park, San Bernardino, CA, 5-29-1983 - Day 2, Part 1: Quiet Riot

To be honest, I never thought I would post albums by the likes of Quiet Riot. But Day Two of the 1983 US Festival was called "Heavy Metal Day" by the organizers, and all the acts fell into that genre (more or less). I'm simply not of fan of this music. However, I do want to post as much of the festival as I can, and this is a part of it. Posting festivals like this sometimes causes me to expand the types of music I share, which is probably a good thing overall.

I don't know much about Quiet Riot. But it seems this band had a lot of turmoil and personnel turnover. They existed for much of the 1970s, but had limited success putting out two albums, both of which were only released in Japan. After breaking up entirely for two years, the band reformed for the 1983 album "Metal Health." This was a huge success, selling about ten million copies worldwide. The album was released in February, and its popularity was still growing at the time of this concert. In November, it would briefly hit Number One in the US album charts. 

However, the band's huge success was short-lived. Their 1984 album sold far less, and all subsequent albums dropped off even more, as turmoil and personnel turnover resumed. If you want to know more, here's their Wikipedia page:

Quiet Riot - Wikipedia

The band was a very last minute addition to the festival. Bassist Rudy Sarzo later recalled, "Quiet Riot was on tour with the Scorpions. We shared the same agency, and they were playing a three-week warmup tour for the US Festival. We did that little tour with them, and the last day of their tour was in Denver. And [US Festival promoter] Barry Fey happened to be backstage, and after our set, he runs in and introduces himself. He says, 'Listen, we have a spot available for the US Festival. Would you guys be interested?' And we said, 'What is that?'" Sarzo laughed.

"He explained what it was, we looked at each other, and our manager happened to be there, and we accepted it right there on the spot. This is two days before the show. Logistically, we had to scramble to make it happen. It meant we had no road crew for the US Festival because our crew was driving our rented U-Haul truck to our gig the day after the US Festival in Detroit."

I took this music from a video file, then converted it into mp3s. I believe all of it is unreleased. The vocals were rather low, so I used the UVR5 audio editing program to boost them relative to the instruments.

This album is 41 minutes long.

001 talk (Quiet Riot)
002 Danger Zone (Quiet Riot)
003 Run for Cover (Quiet Riot)
004 talk (Quiet Riot)
005 Love's a Bitch (Quiet Riot)
006 talk (Quiet Riot)
007 Cum On Feel the Noize (Quiet Riot)
008 Slick Black Cadillac (Quiet Riot)
009 talk (Quiet Riot)
010 Let's Get Crazy (Quiet Riot)
011 Battle Axe [Instrumental] (Quiet Riot)
012 Let's Get Crazy [Reprise] (Quiet Riot)
013 talk (Quiet Riot)
014 Metal Health [Bang Your Head] (Quiet Riot)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17028237/VA-1983USFstvlDay0201QietRot_atse.zip.html

alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/sUcQaHzs

This cover photo is from this exact concert. Rudy Sarzo is on the left and Kevin DuBrow is on the right.