Trying to decide if QR or the Crue sounded better (or worse) there....
Trying to decide if QR or the Crue sounded better (or worse) there....
Eat Us And Smile - The Originals
"I have a very belligerent enthusiasm or an enthusiastic belligerence. I’m an intellectual slut." - David Lee Roth
"We are part of the, not just the culture, but the geography. Van Halen music goes along with like fries with the burger." - David Lee Roth
QR was always a way tighter band than Motley. Tommy's a great drummer, but Carlos and Rudy are better at their respective instruments than are Mick and Nikki IMO.
Of course I'm slightly biased...
I'd like to see Nikki Sixx play a bass upside-down. Rudy Sarzo FTW!
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”― Stephen Hawking
I've read Nikki's account of auditioning for QR, but Dubrow's recollection was... vastly different, let's just say...
Frankie Banali is one of the best rock drummers alive. PERIOD.
Frankie sucks balls.
Prove you can play better or STFU, Krustofferson you failed male prostitute.
Motley was so upset with their performance they tried for ages to prevent it from being released. QR did pretty well.
Stay Frosty, muthas!
Frankie gots a good fucking drum sound.
Never got to see them live. Met Kevin once in the back room at FM Station. Saw Carlos play a club gig a couple of years ago at a benefit show.
Have seen Rudy a lot of times with everybody he has played for, lol. His fucking tone on this is ok, but has no fucking balls. It should sound like it is rumbling the fucking place.
I need to read that book. I somehow think it's full of stories like,"We were so wasted on heroine that we would just piss on ourselves in bed and even shit in bed because we were too wasted to move." or "We wouldn't bathe for days and if you took off our leather pants it would smell worse than a barnyard. That being said, the groupies still wanted to suck our cocks and did."
Let's compare NOTES!
I think Motley Crue is the winner!
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I thought that out of all the bands, these guys sounded best and had the highest energy.
What a horrible intro...
But after that and the first song they sound good and way better than the Motley performance...
But Mick Mars mops the floor with Cavazo any day...
Every solo on every Motley record is catchy and memorable and Mars always does a pretty good live job...
The only thing entertaining about Quiet Riot is Kevin Dubrow, RIP...
Triumph kicked ass in the daytime...
Triumph was awesome..good call..
If Quiet Riot played like this at the US Festival --- they would have won over more fans:
Fucking Geez the poor fucking sap with that fat chick on his shoulders at 1:33 of the QR link must have a stellar chiropractor.
Can't Control your Future. Can't Control your Friends. The women start to hike their skirts up. I didn't have a clue. That is when I kinda learned how to smile a lot. One Two Three Fouir fun ter thehr fuur.
They always seemed like a novelty item to me. Motley came out when I was old enough to not care about such things and never really payed attention to them. I had been into KISS in my grade school and Jr. High years. By the time I was in high school I was past the costumes and makeup thing.
Christ. Vince Neil sounded like shit just as much as he does.....ever.
He sounds like a whiny 13-year-old.....idiot....
Vince Neil sucks live.
Not that he's really any great shakes in the studio, either, but when he has to sing in a live situation it gets that much worse.
He sucked at the Us Fest. He sucked when I saw them in 1984...Neil is a hack. I'd say the same of Nikki Sixx, but he wrote quite a few of their songs...although they ARE Motley Crue songs, so maybe I'm giving him too much credit...
Tommy Lee was always the most interesting thing going for that band, although I liked what Mick Mars did, guitar-wise: Mars certainly didn't reinvent the instrument, but I like his goofy style.
Scramby eggs and bacon.
Saw QR once in 1983. It was my first hard rock concert I got to go to without a chaperone. They opened up for Black Sabbath on the Born Again tour. Suffice it to say Black Sabbath blew Quiet Riot out of the water...like, in a big way to the point where it was embarrassing.
However, got shows of them at the US Fest and at Dortmund (same year), and unless there was some major post-show production, the Dortmund show was pretty good far as QR went.
Still say the original Quiet Riot was the only version that mattered.....
Eat Us And Smile
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