Quiet Riot were hard rock staples throughout most of the ’80s, and the group became the first metal band to reach No. 1 on the Billboard charts in 1983 with their classic, “Metal Health.” The album spawned the hit title track and the band’s classic cover of Slade’s “C*m On Feel the Noise.”
The band was in the midst of a career resurgence when singer Kevin DuBrow sadly died of a cocaine overdose in 2007. The band famously released the hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking documentary, “Well Now You’re Here, There’s No Way Back,” in 2014, and Quiet Riot has continued in various forms to this day despite the 2020 death of drummer, Frankie Banali.
Still, no recent lineup has been able to replicate the success of the classic “Metal Health” lineup. Surprisingly, however, 3/4 of said lineup have just popped up again in an unreleased track called “I Can’t Hold On.”
Recorded in 2003, the powerful ballad features DuBrow, Banali and longtime Quiet Riot bassist Rudy Sarzo. Current guitarist Alex Grossi, who co-wrote the track with DuBrow, rounds out the lineup. The song was lost until last year when it was discovered on an old iPod.
“I had completely forgotten about it until it turned up on an old iPod last summer” Grossi said. “The way it came to life almost 20 years later is truly special.”
Sarzo talked to Ultimate Classic Rock about recording his bass parts for the track. “I was all by myself, but [spiritually], Frankie and Kevin were in the room with me,” he said. “I know their musical tastes so well, and what they liked. That helped [shape] my perception of what my contribution should be – so everybody’s happy.”
The video for “I Can’t Hold On” features archival footage of the band and photos taken by Banali’s widow, Regina, and it’s definitely a tearjerker. The video is posted below. Web Is Jericho also published a previously-unreleased interview with Banali following his passing in 2020.
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