I believe that OASIS covered it also.
Quiot Riot had a great sound in concert, far better performance then most & after seeing them play live you leave with a different (better) view of the band as a group.
Even though he was not in any of the studio albums, the influnence of Randy Rhoads is very obvious in there music and as a founding member of the group it's almost sad that he left the band before they really got started but could not turn down the opertunity to play for Ozzy Osbourne. Thats another interesting story all together.
A must-have is the Quiet Riot recordings that have Randy Rhoads on guitar because there are few people that ever had a sound that was truly performed by a master of his trade. If he had not died at such a young age it would be amazing to hear what he could have produced after the influence of touring with Ozzy.
Expanding a little:
I went to see Quite riot playing as the opening act for Yngvie Malmstein where they played there normal set from the newest album at the time & it was pretty good but the headliner was suposed to be much better & was what we all payed to see. It was the tour for "Rising Force", which is a masterpiece of a blend between speed metal & classical guitar. There is no doubt that Yngvie is definatly a master with the guitar & can produce sounds you would not believe without hearing in person.
When Yngvie came out and started playing the introduction for his set, somone threw a beer bottle at him & it brok the pickup on his Stratacaster Guitar which made him so angry he told us all to F OFF & left the stage after only playing for about 3 minutes, very disapointing but I would have done the same given the circumstances.
Quiet Riot came back out & played for the entire time Malmstein was slotted for, then came back out and played for about 45 more minutes completly exausting there own music library and start playing cover songs which is where it really got good!!! That was by far the best live performance I have ever seen from anyone & they did a rendition of "Dazed & Confused" that was note-for-note absolutly perfect and sounded exactly like Led Zepplin.
