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Two Stories, One Band — The Quiet Riot Origin Mystery [Highlight From Episode 358] · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Rock's Greatest Stories all in one podcast. Here's one from
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  Speaker 1: a recent episode of Booked on Rock. Kelly Garney, founding
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  Speaker 1: member and basis for the band Quiet Riot, talk about
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  Speaker 1: how you first meet Kevin, who was described to you
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  Speaker 1: as a really tall, black haired Rod Stewart type and
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  Speaker 1: you were not impressed at first.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's me and Randy were constantly on the lookout
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  Speaker 2: for a singer, and we had been all night at
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  Speaker 2: a very infamous Hollywood club, Rodney Bingenheimer's. We went there
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  Speaker 2: quite a bit. We even played there at least once
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  Speaker 2: that I can remember. And we also, believe it or not,
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  Speaker 2: rehearsed in that club during the daytime. So we were
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  Speaker 2: hanging out there. You know, it got to be too
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  Speaker 2: late to really go home, and by that point, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we were our parents had pretty much given up on
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  Speaker 2: setting curfews and grounding and all that.
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  Speaker 1: It just they gave up on that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it didn't exist in our world. We didn't worry
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  Speaker 2: about that. So we needed somewhere to stay. There was
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  Speaker 2: a girl there named Hilary who was a good friend
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  Speaker 2: to everybody, and she said we could stay at her
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  Speaker 2: place for the night, So we stayed over there. And
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  Speaker 2: we shared a bed, and when we woke up in
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  Speaker 2: the morning, I woke up first, and I heard her
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  Speaker 2: in the kitchen on the phone and she was talking
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  Speaker 2: to some girl who went to a concert the night
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  Speaker 2: before and met this guy and that was Kevin Deborough
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  Speaker 2: and so she was talking about him, and so I
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  Speaker 2: heard this that he was a singer. First said he
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  Speaker 2: was a singer. More said he was a singer. So
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  Speaker 2: I heard dad, and I said, work on this. So
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  Speaker 2: I went in there and got out of bed and
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  Speaker 2: went in there, and I said, Hey, there's a singer.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody who And she said, oh, my friend met this
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  Speaker 2: guy and he says he's a singer and he's sort
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  Speaker 2: of a Rod Stewart type. And I went, ah, well,
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  Speaker 2: I said, we'll get his number if he can. She goes, okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and so she got his number, and that's how we
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  Speaker 2: were born.
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  Speaker 1: You went to his house right his mom answered the door.
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  Speaker 2: We went to his house. Yeah. We had been very
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  Speaker 2: nearly killed in a car crash on the way there.
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  Speaker 2: So we stopped at the liquor store. Even though we
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  Speaker 2: were very underage. Nobody cared back then, and we bought
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of booze because we were unnerved by the
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  Speaker 2: near fatal experience we had, and we showed up on
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  Speaker 2: his doorstep a bunch of kids with all these bags
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  Speaker 2: of booze. You know, Hi is Kevin here, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and his mom's just like, oh boy, you know. But
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  Speaker 2: she was cool and it's still cool to this day.
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  Speaker 2: I still know her and she's wow, a wonderful person.
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  Speaker 1: So was it kind of sort of like an audition?
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  Speaker 1: Did you say, hey, let's hear what you got or
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  Speaker 1: I think I remember the book that he was giving
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  Speaker 1: you stuff but there was no audio to it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you did do that, but but he also has
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  Speaker 2: his version of things that he always would tell magazines,
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  Speaker 2: and then there's my version. Take your pick on who
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  Speaker 2: you believe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, But it was like a video of him
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  Speaker 1: performing somewhere but no audio.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there was video of him with no sound on it.
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  Speaker 2: It was eight millimeter, which didn't have sound that didn't
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  Speaker 2: come along until super eight. And he, you know, he
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  Speaker 2: was just jumping around. He looked kind of goofy to
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  Speaker 2: me and Randy. I mean, we really wanted to get
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  Speaker 2: like an Alice Cooper type of guy. We wanted somebody weird,
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  Speaker 2: and this guy wasn't that weird. And plus we his look,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we had pretty long hair and stuff, and
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  Speaker 2: and his whole look just you know, it wasn't us.
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  Speaker 2: And so we left after drinking a bunch of that booze,
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  Speaker 2: which he didn't have any because he didn't drink, and
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  Speaker 2: we had him sing along to some records. He was, okay,
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  Speaker 2: you know, hard to tell, you know, singing along to
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  Speaker 2: our record, but just in general, he wasn't our type.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, we said, don't call us, we'll call you.
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  Speaker 2: But he did not heed this advice and called us
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  Speaker 2: constantly wanting to know when we were going to start
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  Speaker 2: rehearsing and putting a band together. And I said no,
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  Speaker 2: Randy said no too, but he kept calling and he
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  Speaker 2: was relentless, and finally Randy caved and said, okay, you
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  Speaker 2: can come over, and so he came over. His version says,
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  Speaker 2: and remember this is what he always said in magazines.
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  Speaker 2: He said, Randy showed up at his house with an
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  Speaker 2: amp and his guitar, which we've never ever done that
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  Speaker 2: for anybody ever that we went to see, you know,
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  Speaker 2: drums or singing. She had to prove yourself to us. First,
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  Speaker 2: we knew what we had, but yeah, Randy showed up
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  Speaker 2: with a guitar and an app played for him. Kevin
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  Speaker 2: was was amazed at Brandy's talent and oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: look at this. And then he sang for us, and
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  Speaker 2: he sang so great. You know, we said, okay, let's
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  Speaker 2: do it. You know, my version is certainly more brutal,
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  Speaker 2: but this has a happier touch.
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