Carlos Cavazo
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Carlos Cavazo is a Mexican
-born American
guitarist
best known as the guitarist for Quiet Riot
during their commercial peak. Born July 8, 1957, Cavazo is originally from Mexico City
where their first band with his brother Antonio Cavazo was called Speed of Light. He and his brother, along with drummer Stephen Quadros and singer Doug Ellison, went on to create the Los Angeles band Snow, which performed regularly at the Whisky A Go Go and the Starwood Club, as well as the Santa Monica Civic and the Pasadena Civic auditoriums. In 1980 Snow released a 10" record that received airplay on Southern California radio stations KROQ and KLOS.
His father Roberto, originally from Mexico City
, married a belle from the South and owned an energy plant. Cavazo went on to record instructional DVDs and in recent years has joined a new band in the Hollywood Allstarz alongside former Rainbow and Dio bassist Jimmy Bain as well as Black Sabbath and Dio drummer Vinny Appice. He has also played with 3 Legged Dogg, and is currently with Ratt
.
in the reformed Quiet Riot in 1982 he remained with the band into the 2000s until the band split up. However, when vocalist Kevin DuBrow
reformed the band to record the 2006 album Rehab
, Cavazo was not included.
(Black Sabbath
, Dio
, Heaven & Hell), bassist Jimmy Bain
(Rainbow
, Dio), vocalist Chas West (Bonham
, Foreigner) and guitarist Brian Young (David Lee Roth). They released one album, Frozen Summer in 2006.
as one of the guitar players in Ratt
. Ratt are currently on an indefinite hiatus.
guitarist Anthony Gallo
for an American
Independent Film entitled "Across the Tracks
" (written and Directed by Sandy Tung
). for the song "Higher". Produced by Mark T Eisenstein, Russ Castillo (Pink Floyd
) and Gary Ferguson (Drummer for Eddie Money
). It was Brad Pitt
s film debut also starring Rick Schroder
. There was no Soundtrack for the film.
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
-born American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
best known as the guitarist for Quiet Riot
Quiet Riot
Quiet Riot is an American Heavy Metal band. They are best known for their hit singles "Metal Health" and "Cum On Feel the Noize". They were founded in 1973 by guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni, under the original name Mach 1, before changing the name to Little Women and finally Quiet...
during their commercial peak. Born July 8, 1957, Cavazo is originally from Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
where their first band with his brother Antonio Cavazo was called Speed of Light. He and his brother, along with drummer Stephen Quadros and singer Doug Ellison, went on to create the Los Angeles band Snow, which performed regularly at the Whisky A Go Go and the Starwood Club, as well as the Santa Monica Civic and the Pasadena Civic auditoriums. In 1980 Snow released a 10" record that received airplay on Southern California radio stations KROQ and KLOS.
His father Roberto, originally from Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
, married a belle from the South and owned an energy plant. Cavazo went on to record instructional DVDs and in recent years has joined a new band in the Hollywood Allstarz alongside former Rainbow and Dio bassist Jimmy Bain as well as Black Sabbath and Dio drummer Vinny Appice. He has also played with 3 Legged Dogg, and is currently with Ratt
Ratt
Ratt is an American heavy metal band that had significant commercial success in the 1980s. The band is best known for songs such as "Round and Round," "Wanted Man," "Lay It Down," "You're in Love", "Slip of the Lip", "Back For More", "Dance", "Body Talk", "I Want a Woman", and "Way Cool Jr." Ratt...
.
Quiet Riot
Replacing Randy RhoadsRandy Rhoads
Randall William "Randy" Rhoads was an American heavy metal guitarist who played with Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot. A devoted student of classical guitar, Rhoads often combined his classical music influences with his own heavy metal style. While on tour with Ozzy Osbourne, he would seek out...
in the reformed Quiet Riot in 1982 he remained with the band into the 2000s until the band split up. However, when vocalist Kevin DuBrow
Kevin DuBrow
Kevin Mark DuBrow was an American rock singer best known as the lead vocalist of the Heavy Metal band Quiet Riot from 1975 until his death in 2007...
reformed the band to record the 2006 album Rehab
Rehab (Quiet Riot album)
Rehab is the 11th album released from the heavy metal band Quiet Riot in 2006. It is their first studio release since 2001's Guilty Pleasures. The album is a departure from their "party-rock" past and offers a more mature sound...
, Cavazo was not included.
3 Legged Dogg
Cavazo was a founding member of 3 Legged Dogg, a supergroup made up of drummer Vinny AppiceVinny Appice
Vincent Samson Appice , also known as Vinny Appice is a rock drummer of American Italian descent and the younger brother of drummer Carmine Appice...
(Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath are an English heavy metal band, formed in Aston, Birmingham in 1969 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward . The band has since experienced multiple line-up changes, with Tony Iommi the only constant presence in the band through the years. A total of 22...
, Dio
Dio (band)
Dio was an American heavy metal band from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Formed in 1982 and led by vocalist Ronnie James Dio, after he left Black Sabbath with intentions to form a new band with fellow former Black Sabbath member, drummer Vinny Appice. Naming the band Dio made sense from a commercial...
, Heaven & Hell), bassist Jimmy Bain
Jimmy Bain
James Stewart 'Jimmy' Bain is a Scottish bassist most famous for playing in the bands Rainbow and Dio with Ronnie James Dio. He has worked with Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott, co-writing on his solo albums....
(Rainbow
Rainbow (band)
Rainbow were an English rock band, controlled by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore from 1975 to 1984 and 1994 to 1997. It was originally established with American rock band Elf's members, though over the years Rainbow went through many line-up changes with no two studio albums featuring the same line-up...
, Dio), vocalist Chas West (Bonham
Bonham (band)
Bonham was a British hard rock band founded by drummer Jason Bonham in 1989, the son of the late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham. The band's most successful line-up included singer Daniel MacMaster, bassist/keyboardist John Smithson and guitarist Ian Hatton....
, Foreigner) and guitarist Brian Young (David Lee Roth). They released one album, Frozen Summer in 2006.
Ratt
In 2008, Cavazo replaced John CorabiJohn Corabi
John Corabi is a heavy metal singer and guitarist who has worked with such bands as Angora, The Scream, Mötley Crüe, Union and ESP , Ratt , Twenty 4 Seven , Zen Lunatic, Brides of Destruction, and Angel City Outlaws John Corabi (born on April 26, 1959 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a heavy...
as one of the guitar players in Ratt
Ratt
Ratt is an American heavy metal band that had significant commercial success in the 1980s. The band is best known for songs such as "Round and Round," "Wanted Man," "Lay It Down," "You're in Love", "Slip of the Lip", "Back For More", "Dance", "Body Talk", "I Want a Woman", and "Way Cool Jr." Ratt...
. Ratt are currently on an indefinite hiatus.
Work in Film
in 1991 Cavazo collaborated with his brother Tony and former Suicidal TendenciesSuicidal Tendencies
Suicidal Tendencies is a U.S. crossover thrash band founded in 1981 in Venice, Los Angeles, California by Mike Muir, its leader and only permanent member. The band is sometimes credited as one of "the fathers of crossover thrash"...
guitarist Anthony Gallo
Anthony Gallo
Anthony "Bob" Gallo is an American lead and rhythm guitarist. He started out at age 16 in the early eighties punk scene and progressed into heavy metal and rock. His career has spanned over 30 years, playing and recording with Megadeth drummer Nick Menza, L.A...
for an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Independent Film entitled "Across the Tracks
Across the Tracks
Across the Tracks is a 1991 American independent film drama about track and field. It was directed and written by Sandy Tung.-Plot:Across the Tracks is the story of two brothers who have gone very different ways in their past, and who now must learn to deal with each other again. Joe is the older...
" (written and Directed by Sandy Tung
Sandy Tung
Sandy Tung is an American independent film director, writer and producer. He was born on Staten Island, New York. He received an MFA in filmmaking from New York University...
). for the song "Higher". Produced by Mark T Eisenstein, Russ Castillo (Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
) and Gary Ferguson (Drummer for Eddie Money
Eddie Money
Eddie Money is an American rock guitarist, saxophonist and singer-songwriter who found success in the 1970s and 1980s with a string of Top 40 hits and platinum albums...
). It was Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt is an American actor and film producer. Pitt has received two Academy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one...
s film debut also starring Rick Schroder
Rick Schroder
Richard Bartlett "Rick" Schroder, Jr. is an American actor and film director.He debuted in the 1979 hit film The Champ, going on to become a child star on the sitcom Silver Spoons...
. There was no Soundtrack for the film.
Quiet Riot
- 1983 Metal HealthMetal HealthMetal Health is the third studio album by American heavy metal band Quiet Riot. It was released on March 11, 1983, bolstered by the #5 hit "Cum on Feel the Noize" and the #31 hit "Metal Health". It knocked The Police's Synchronicity out of #1 in the US. The album went on to sell over six million...
- 1984 Condition CriticalCondition CriticalCondition Critical is the fourth studio album by Quiet Riot. The album was released in 1984. It was also given an infamous two-word review in Rolling Stone magazine: "Condition terminal."...
- 1986 QRIII
- 1988 Quiet RiotQuiet Riot (1988 album)QR is the sixth studio album released in 1988 by the American heavy metal band Quiet Riot. The album featured a major line-up change. Singer and founding member Kevin Dubrow had been fired before the recording sessions began, and replaced by Rough Cutt lead singer Paul Shortino...
- 1993 TerrifiedTerrifiedTerrified is the seventh album Quiet Riot recorded for Charles Band's movie Dollman vs. Demonic Toys, and was released on Moonstone Records, the soundtrack off-shoot of Band's film company Full Moon Entertainment.It features bassist Kenny Hillery, former mate of DuBrow and Cavazo's in the band Heat...
- 1995 Down to the BoneDown to the Bone (album)Down to the Bone is Quiet Riot's eighth album recorded at Ocean Studios, Burbank Calif., The Track House, Van Nuys, Calif., and Paramount Studios, Hollywood, California.-Track listing:All tracks by Frankie Banali, Cavazo, DuBrow except were noted...
- 1999 Alive and WellAlive and Well (Quiet Riot album)Alive and Well is a the ninth studio album by heavy metal band Quiet Riot. It was a reunion of the classic 80's Quiet Riot lineup of Kevin DuBrow, Rudy Sarzo, Carlos Cavazo, and Frankie Banali...
- 2001 Guilty PleasuresGuilty Pleasures (Quiet Riot album)Guilty Pleasures is the 10th album by Quiet Riot released in 2001. It is the last to feature guitarist Carlos Cavazo and bassist Rudy Sarzo.-Track listing:All songs written by Kevin DuBrow, Carlos Cavazo, Rudy Sarzo, and Frankie Banali....