Room 237 at the Holiday Inn in Southfield, Michigan is pretty much like any room at any other Holiday Inn. Towels and occupants are changed, but not much else. On November 11, in the late afternoon, the occupants happened to be Kevin DuBrow and Carlos Cavazo (musicians), a couple of guys named Warren and John (managers) and myself (me). I carry a pen.

DuBrow was finishing up a phone conversation with CBS, a company hot to release Quiet Riot's second single. CBS wanted "Breathless" (the studio cut off Metal Health) to be the B-side; DuBrow favored-make that insisted on-an unreleased live version of uBang Your Head." He told me CBS's idea was "a fucking rip-off." as in everybody's already got the album with the same song. I agreed. Things are tough all over.