Rudy Sarzo remains best known for his work with Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, and Whitesnake, and has played with several well known heavy metal and hard rock acts including Manic Eden, Dio, Blue Oyster Cult, Geoff Tate's Queensryche, Devil City Angels, and The Guess Who.
17 Facts About Rudy Sarzo
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Rudy Sarzo emigrated to the United States in 1961 and was raised in Florida.
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Rudy Sarzo recalled the show being "quite ambitious for a club band", and after the show he bumped into vocalist Kevin DuBrow and the two formed a friendship.
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Rudy Sarzo landed in LA the next day, rehearsed with the band and was offered the job, which he accepted.
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Shortly after joining Quiet Riot, Rudy Sarzo began teaching bass guitar at the Los Angeles music school Musonia at the request of bandmate Randy Rhoads, whose mother owned the school.
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From March 1981 to September 1982, Rudy Sarzo rose to fame as the bassist of Osbourne's band, having been recruited on Rhoads' recommendation.
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Rudy Sarzo's playing can be heard on Osbourne's Speak of the Devil and Tribute live albums.
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In stark contrast to the chaos surrounding everyday life on the road with the hard-drinking Osbourne, the experience was so positive that Rudy Sarzo ended up recording most of the Metal Health album with his former band and he made the decision to officially rejoin Quiet Riot once the Diary of a Madman tour had concluded.
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Months later when Osbourne and Quiet Riot found themselves on the same bill at the 1983 US Festival, Osbourne flew into a drunken rage upon seeing Rudy Sarzo, punching him in the face before being hauled away by security.
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Rudy Sarzo later reconciled with the Osbourne camp after leaving Quiet Riot in 1985.
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Rudy Sarzo was a member of Quiet Riot during the peak of the band's success, and he appeared in numerous MTV videos and was voted 1983's Top Bassist by the readers of Circus magazine.
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In 1992, Rudy Sarzo had an uncredited role as a bass player for the fictional band Exorcist on the Tales from the Crypt episode "On A Deadman's Chest".
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Rudy Sarzo would rejoin Quiet Riot on multiple occasions and recorded albums with them in 1999 and 2001.
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In February 2004, Rudy Sarzo joined Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force for the US 30 city "Attack Tour".
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On September 1,2012, Rudy Sarzo joined vocalist Geoff Tate's version of Queensryche, after Tate parted with his longtime Queensryche bandmates under bad terms.
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On January 18,2017, Rudy Sarzo was inducted into the "Hall of Heavy Metal History" for his long and influential career.
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In 2006, Rudy Sarzo authored a book titled Off the Rails, a biographical account of his time in Ozzy Osbourne's band in the early 1980s.