Quiet Riot bassist Rudy Sarzo, who this year officially re-joined the band after an 18-year absence, is featured in a new interview with Diary Of The Madmen - The Ultimate Ozzy Podcast. Listen below.

During the chat, Sarzo reveals that the band will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of their Metal Health album, released in March 1983, with a tour in 2023.

Says Rudy: "Next year we're gonna be celebrating the recording of the album, Metal Health. But the following year, in 2023, we're going out promoting the 40 years of Metal Health."

Asked if he thinks the band will perform the album front to back, Sarzo replies: "It's an interesting thought. I guess if you're gonna present it as performing it front to back and it's not sequenced properly for front to back, even though we'll probably wind up doing that and we do kind of like an arrangement of, like, for example, we do — we have been doing this for over 20 years now, starting with the riff to 'Metal Health', that's how the set begins. We started doing that way back, kind of like a teaser. Then we go into the first song of the set. And then at the end we do 'Metal Health'. It's kind of like what they call an overture, except the overture is bits and pieces of all the music in a classical performance."

2022 marks the 40th anniversary of Quiet Riot, with Rudy Sarzo, recording the landmark Metal Health album, which has sold over 10 million copies and spawned the hits "Cum On Feel The Noize" and "Metal Health", and on the follow-up record Condition Critical. Sarzo appeared in the most notable music videos in the MTV age and toured with the band until 1985 and again from 1997 to 2003. During his years out of the band, Rudy Sarzo was a member of Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, Dio, Blue Öyster Cult, Queensrÿche, and The Guess Who.

Sarzo previously stated: "I'm excited to be back home and celebrate the Quiet Riot legacy, which began 40 years ago next year with the recording of Metal Health, the first heavy metal album to reach #1 on the Billboard top 200 albums chart."

Stay tuned for updates.

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