Toxicology reports indicate that Kevin Dubrow died of an accidental cocaine overdose last month in his Las Vegas home. I'm kind of surprised, I expected a fossil like Dubrow to go to that elephant graveyard know as the Entwistle suite...and then expire. Looks like there was no need to book a room, since Dubrow already lived in Vegas.

Dubrow stated on Quiet Riot's Behind the Music that he never really liked cocaine, he just liked the way it smelled. In hindsight, this quote isn't as humorous as it once was. According to his interview with fullinbloommusic.com, Dubrow used to be a model of clean living back in the '70s.

"FIB MUSIC:  I guess they would even bill the drugs to the musicians as well?

Kevin:  I don't know, you know? This was way before any drug use on my part. I was so naive on what was going on....these guys were all staying up all night and I was eating Winchell's Doughnuts and staying up. I didn't know what anyone else was doing; it was years later that I realized what was going on. I once said to Randy, how come I never saw anyone doing any of this and he said, "everyone always knew how much you hated drugs, no one ever wanted to do it in front of you". That's so weird to hear.

FIB MUSIC:  You hated drugs back then?

Kevin:  Oh Yeah. I frowned upon them.

FIB MUSIC:  So how do you end up having your legendary cocaine habit?

Kevin:  You know, my cocaine habit was nothing compared to other peoples.

FIB MUSIC:  Then how do you get involved in it; do you remember when you first tried it?

Kevin:  We did a show at the Starwood and someone said, you wanna do some blow and I said sure, fuck it. It was really that simple. But my use of cocaine was no greater than any members of Motley Crue or Van Halen. It was less if anything.

FIB MUSIC:  At what point in your career do you start using?

Kevin:  The year before we made it is when I first started to get high, because it was getting frustrating having the record business not getting what we were doing. Any person with any common sense understands that this business is not built on winners. "

I'm not going to bore you with "Cum On Feel the Noize" like some obvious schlep might. Behold the majesty of Quiet Riot with Randy Rhodes captured on really crappy tape.