Thanks for the great interview. I saw Quiet Riot with Randy long ago and the interview reminded me that Randy was a star before he ever joined Ozzy. Keep it up.
Hi Drew, good to see you back. Yes, fantastic interview and we'll be bugging you for the rest of your life if you don't give us the rest of it. Cool that we can respond like this, excellent.
Randy Rhoads was incredible but I nevr really liked the stuff he did with Quiet Riot. It was cool to read about it. Vids were awesome to. Hail Randy Rhoads.
Great interview as always, but Kevin's 'memory' of what happened with me and QR is full of shit. I NEVER leaked out anything, and kept my mouth shut as I was told to do. I couldn't afford for anyone to know about this. What REALLY happened, is that while I was over at Frankie Banali's house, showing him how fast I learned their setlist of some 24 songs or so, (woodshedding like a M.F. in 72 hours of receiving the tape, from Frankie), the doorbell rang, and a couple of chicks who 'might' have known me, saw me there, and I believe THAT is how it got leaked out.
Why would I shoot myself in the foot, when the possibility to tour with QR was a potential about to happen for me? Remember, I was still with SIN, in the middle of recording OUR stuff too, so I couldn't afford the word to get out either way. I just figured I could take a break from SIN, go do these dateds with Quiet Riot, and use that to my advantage in getting SIN more Press coverage.
I walked into the studio one day and F*cking DANA STRUMM even says to me, "So, you'regoing to try out for Quiet Riot, huh"? I was like "WHERE THE F*CK DID YOU HEAR THAT FROM?!?!?" Dana said "Oh, it was going around", and he warned me not to do it, and that Q.R. was going downhill and not worth joining anyway slagging Kevin Dubrow, and that SIN was a MUCH better bet. THAT's how it all went down. Dubrow's full of Sh*t. Which is a shock to me, because when he first met me when I just arrived in L.A. from N.Y., and he found out I was good friends with
A & M Records' Hernando Courtright, He was all of a sudden, like "My Buddy", and was, from then on, always nice to me. He even tried to get me to do cocaine with him at his 'mansion' one night while I was hanging out with Q.R. as they were 'grooming' me for the new bassist position. As a 'cover' they kept secretly referring to it as 'chocolate', in front of other people.
I even went over Carlos Cavazo's home once or twice and we jammed together on the Q.R. setlist, and CARLOS seemed satisfied, at the time with my progress of learning their setlist so fast. It's easy to see from Kevin's own mouth which ALWAYS gets him into trouble with EVERYONE, in the interview, that he thought he had something over me with that B.S. of 'keeping up with the old guys', which it was never about. They were desperate at the time because they didn't want to lose that South American gig, and, Truth be told...it was KEVIN DUBROW, who (and I don't know how he got my phone number in the first place), called me up at 2 am, all drunk and asked me if I was interested in joining Quiet Riot!!! I can't keep having these dopes handing out all this B.S. misinformation...I had no problem with 'arrangement deals' with them, That's also a load of crap. Thanks. Cheers, Rik
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"Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish to the crowd" --I Ching--
"Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish to the crowd" --I Ching--
I just wanted to thank you for this interview. Kevin was a great man and you really seem to capture something special. I know he's up there with Randy jamming away. Thank you for the great interview.
