Riot - Live at My Fathers Place - Long Island, New York 9-15-1981 (Full Show) 

OMFG!!! I was at this show!!! It was a crime that these guys were not more famous. Btw I’m almost 60 now and God wiling still rocking❤

One of the most criminally under rated American Hard Rock / metal bands of all time!!! Fire Down Under is without a doubt the best American Hard Rock / Metal album of all time and this is one of my all time fave live clips on all of RU-vid!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guy Speranza = amazing singer /// Mark Reale = a total genius, Rest in peace .

Guy sings for an Hour and actually gets better where most singers get worn out. amazing singer

my first show was riot, frank marino, and triumph at the san antonio convention center arena. i still remember walking into the arena and seeing riot not 20 feet away, tearing it the fuck up. guy speranza was a rock star...it is something i hope i never forget...

Narita - one of the most underrated albums of all time.

Fire Down Under, every track is a hit on that album.

This is the best Riot lineup. I listened to them from day one . Back in the day we had to buy albums,by the song titles and how the album cover looked. This was one of them. Guy's vocals were amazing.

This is exactly how I wanted my band to sound 30 years ago but finding musicians this talented was much more challenging than I thought

this incarnation of Riot is one of the greatest bands of the world.

This album ranks in my top ten hard rock even metal albums of all time along with Rainbow Rising Krokus One vice at a time Iron Maiden Killers Motorhead Ace of Spades Judas Priest Point of Entry and ACDC Back in Black and of course MONTROSE first album. What a great time for rock! I saw them a few times open for KISS but only once with Guy Sperenza and he had such a great voice. This version of the band was the best. This concert is so great so rare and they play mostly FDU! and Narita! I listen to this once a week at least. RIP GUY and Mark! rock legends!

Some bands become very influential and respected without ever achieving long term commercial success...RIOT is one of those bands.

I WAS AT THIS SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

40 years later, this Band kicks the shit out of anything just about. Mark was a shredder. These guys were amazing.

A band like RIOT comes around once in a lifetime...I was 16 in 1981, remember buying FIRE DOWN UNDER, I WAS HOOKED...they should have been up there with DEF LEPPARD, MOTLEY CRUE, VAN HALEN, G-n-R....the were so underrated, never got the attention and acclaim they deserved, never got to see them live, but the are by far MY FAVORITE ALL TIME BAND AND FIRE DOWN UNDER IS 1 OF THE BEST ALBUMS TO COME OUT ...HANDS DOWN, BAR NONE, RIOT WAS A ROCK n ROLL MACHINE...only wish I could have saw them live, but this is the next best thing, finally found FIRE DOWN UNDER on CD, lost my original cassette back in the day, i listen to it at least 2..3 times a week, if not more, my favorite band, favorite album... LONG LIVE RIOT...SHINE ON FOREVER...THE MOST UNDERRATED BAND OF ALL TIME...SHINE ON MARK, GUY, AND RHETT,....SHINE ON🤘

One of The Greatest NY Bands of all time! Rest In Peace Mark! You will never be forgotten!

Wow, this is a lost treasure. I first heard this band when I was in basic training at Lackland AF base in 1981. Fire Down Under is one of the top ten rock albums of all time.

I saw them open for Rush in Birmingham Alabama on December 1st 1981. I bought their album Fire Down Under the following week. I still listen to it regularly, to this day.

Still after more than 40 years in my top 3 of favorite metal / rock bands of the Eighties.

Whoever grew up in NY at this time like I did was very lucky ,amazing band ,classic venue!

This lineup is the definitive version of this band. Leming and Slavin were always in the pocket, and Ventura added so much as a songwriter and second lead. RIP Guy and Mark, you are missed.

Sadly the only time i got to see them was in may 82 opening for rainbow and the scorpions in Rochester ny. It was the night before my hs English regents the next morning at 8. I lived in Utica and took the bus to see the show. I got back to the city around 6am and barely made it in time for the test and barely passed! Rock and roll!

Such a kickass band!! Still cranking Riot in 2021!!

Speranza seems to be the total underground rocker, something like a street guy opposed to a rock-star of the time. Not a hint of show-off and his vocals are not over-exaggerating. Killer performance. Thanks for the upload, priceless.

I was at that show, and I can see me when they pan the audience !~!!

Got to see Riot in New Braunfels, Texas back in the 70s. They were and still one of my favorite bands. They had a strong following in San Antonio, Texas thanks to KMAC and Kiss

Thank god there was some video documentation and live recordings of what i and many regard as the greatest of bands who were for whatever reason dissed and nit given passage to global success, the musicianship is workd class and still holds up perfectly today , i listen to the first 3 albums as if it were yesterday and they still sound as perfect as the day i fisrt disocvered riot as a teenager in australia which was like living on mars for metal music .. god bless guy and mark in heaven and i thank them and the rest for endless years of listening pleasure ...

Mark Reale and Guy Speranza, Riot at its best. A never equaled mix of power and feelings.

Fire Down Under is definitely in my top 10 favorite albums

Amazing footage!!! Guy Sperenza the best singer for Riot to me! this is incredible stuff, wish there was more from this era.

When Mark Reale died, he was buried here in San Antonio. He's home and resting. Shine on brother.

Does not get any better than this here. Long Live RIOT!

Thousands of hours listening to Riot during my lifetime. My favorite lineup here!!!

One of the most marginally under rated bands in the rock and roll history. If all those things are not enough, they ( and we, why not) lost three irreplaceable talents, nice human being. One of the saddest and tragically fate in the rock and roll. Watched this one performance gives me mixed feelings : good to hear and see, but touch me deeply so sad about all have happen for all these guys in the band.

Riot are crucial to feel and understand US Metal. This is true History, and you know, truth never lies.

Even 38 years later fantastic!!

Outlaw ultra kicks megasuper ass. Iron Maiden got a little familiar with Swords and Tequila when writing 2 minutes to midnight.

I´ve been totaly sold for this band since they released there first album in 1977 " Rock City" when i was 15 !! And i´m 62 years old these days - and they are still incredible to listen to!!! Amazing!!! R.I.P Speranza and Mark Reale. 🤘🏻Rock on!!

1981, better music...letter times... Better everything. If I could go back I would in a heart beat

Riot is one of my favorite north american band. Mark Reale and Guy Speranza monsters!! RIP.

Riot was GREAT ! I got to see them live once. One of my favorites !!

Awesome! One of my favorite bands.

I saw the classic lineup open up for Rush, Dec 21,1981 @ the BBA, East Rutherford, NJ. Sandy Slavin did a fantastic drum solo, and Riot kicked some serious ass! One of the best concerts ever...

I still don’t know how the hell I missed these guys back in the day. Must be because I grew up on the west coast. I heard Eddie Trunk talking about them over the last couple of years and finally gave them a listen. I just added a vintage copy of Fire Down Below to my vinyl collection. I can’t stop listening to it! Gotta be one of the best rock albums ever, start to finish.

This video is pure fucking gold. Guy is one of my all time favorite vocalists Fire Down Under is one of the best all time metal albums......the band this line up was pure fucking straight in your chest rock.

Love it, you guys rock!!!

Raw and brutal. Their passion captured live. All members are on fire. I've seen this video tens of times. One of the best. This is a band of brothers delivering a high energy performance. Rock on.

Guy had the voice! So thankful to have this music to listen to. 🙏🏼

I strongly believe if Guy just hung in there for another year or so these guys would have made it to MTV and made it really big !!

Fuckin great. Always were, always will be. Remembering my own teenage band daze in the late 70's when we would basically sneak into the Rock Palace or Zappa's to see a set or 2. At that time, Riot was a local band (on the rise) that we tried to emulate by covering their songs and copying their stage presence. Well trying to anyway! Fire Down Under was difficult (to say the least) for a bunch of tenderfoots! I was only playing bass for a few years back then so we did the best we could. Ever hear the phrase, "fake it until you make it"? lol- Good times. RIP Mark & Guy.

I read somewhere that in 1982, Scott Ian called Guy Speranza and asked him to be the lead singer for Anthrax!! He declined the offer though saying he was done with the music business! But can you imagine?! Holy shit that woulda been really interesting to see!! 🤘🤘🤘

I watch this video at least once a month here. One of my favorite bands of all time. Hands down FDU is one of the greatest hard rock/metal albums of all time. I was lucky enough to see this tour in Chicago just weeks before Guy quit. 39 yrs later, still one of the best concerts I have ever seen

This footage is golden. These guys are in the stratosphere. This is just so damned good. What an enormous talent. Just mind-boggled by these guys. What a treasure.

Classic and the most very underrated band of all time! I bought Fire Down Under back in 1981 and it's still one of my favorite albums of all time.

What I've learned over the years is that the record label they were signed to really didn't promote them like they should have. RIP Mark Reale one of the most underrated guitar players of all time. His solos were lengthy and yet he had an uncanny knack for keeping them fresh and inspiring

De los 80's, una de las mejores bandas del hard Rock, Lastima del deceso de dos grandes de la banda! RIOT más allá del reino de la muerte!!!

THANKS FOR POSTING,,,,,,, MY 1ST CONCERT FIRE DOWN UNDER ,,,, RIOT OPENED UP FOR TRIUMPH (ALLIED FORCES) AUSTIN TEXAS ,,,,AWESOME,,,,,,

Ridiculously tight performance. These guys knew what the hell they were doing. It's like they were separated at birth from "On Through The Night"-era Def Leppard. (And we know where DL went from there...) Hard to believe Guy left a band this hot, not long after this gig.

I had tix in either 81 or 82... Saxon was the headliner, then Riot. Joe Perry Project was third, then Randy Hansen. Opening the show? Some up and comers called Motley Crue .... Biff, Saxons singer had a sore throat so they scrapped the whole show... Concord Pavillion was the facility. Great place to see a gig. I never saw Motley Crue or Riot, but saw the other 3 at various times... RIP Guy and Mark...

this cant ever be lost in time

Criminally underrated band. What a voice Speranza had. Live he sounded close to LP quality. Saw them live at The Heavy Metal Holocaust festival in the UK in '81. An amazing blend of melody and metal.

What a vocalist he was.

Lucky to have seen Riot at the first Monsters of Rock at Donnington. They were awesome.

Fucking Awesome! I drove like 8 hours to see them opening for Rush on the Moving Pictures tour in Jacksonville, Fl.. It was the last date opening for them before they headed across the pond for a tour of Europe. They were awesome!. Where are all the rock bands!

I was a teenager in the 80s and Fire Down Under is one of the greatest unknown albums of all time. This is treasure. The first time I"ve seen them live.

kick ass live concert from underrated american heavy metal band riot. live Long Island, New York 9-15-1981. this rocks. man what a band,

Sandy was a total beast behind that kit. Dude looked totally possessed with just one mission in mind; drive this music like a boss and kick every ass in this joint tonight. He was the real fucking deal.

Simply the BEST!!!! Fire Down Under is the ultimate Heavy Metal album of all the times. The energy of this band belongs to another World and they gave it to all of us. Thanks to RIOT and really Thank You for sharing this treasure.... Run For Your Life!!!! Trive

Pure Gold, a rare treasure from the past for us to enjoy, thanks to people like this. Thank you and thanks to Riot V for keeping these great songs alive today!

"Fire Down Under" stands as one of the best hard rock/heavy metal albums of all time. I love this band.

I first heard of Riot in 1981 at the tender age of 21 and fuckin loved my one and only cassette tape of Fire Down Under! I thought swords and Tequila was the best hardest rockin song for the longest time. Now at 60 I’m revisiting them and wondering what I missed! Still get my old blood pumping!

I fucking LOVE this lineup. what great sound they had. Rock On People!!

RIOT... amazing now and amazing then, incredible musicians that should be the biggest metal band on the planet !!!!

A masterpiece. This album was a top 5 in the 80's in my book, from top to bottom.

Incrivel ver Guy Speranza e Mark Reale capitaneando a banda Riot, fora Kipinn leminng Rick Ventura LA Kouvarius😎🎤🎸🥁

Absolute gold. Guys voice just awesome! So unknown for how good they were.

One of the most influential rock albums of all time 🤘

Haven’t heard these tunes in 30 years. Sends chills down my spine! Awesome, thanks for sharing!

So many memories came rushing back to me, I love and miss the 80’s, I wore this album out, thank you for sharing, Riot is truly missed! RIP

Takes me back to rollin’ the boonies in my 79 El Camino with my best friend Abe, jamming’ Riot for all within a one mile radius, getting 💨 and enjoying youth!!!

I saw this live back in the day.Such a treat to see this again.I wore out this Tape when I was 19 . A truly under rated and under appreciated power band.thanks so much for posting this.

Hope the publishing is owned by the writers; which would include estates of those dynamic, creative, amazing members who have gone on to play at their Father's Place in the sky. Long time fan after purchasing the FDU album, searched for any & all material Riot recorded. When Guy departed he took the soul of the band (IMO). I am grateful for this live footage post and the power of technology so that Guy & the band can be seen & heard forever.

My favorite band of all time. This Riot line-up.

I cant belive how good this is

9-15-2018 wow 37 years later Riot what a hard rockin band so sad they didn't get the respect they deserved.....thanks for sharing,

Imagine how great Guy would have been if he actually wanted to be a lead singer. In the Riot Documentary they say he quit the band because he never really wanted to do it. Pure natural talent.

Sad we only got 3. Great songwriting, and performing all around. Love a bit of Riot 👍

My Father in Law introduced me to these guys and wow. He was a singer in Rochester NY and opened for Metallica's Kill Em All tour in Rochester. He only seen these guys live once but loved covering their songs! I wish I had a chance to see them live

Guy Speranza was just a Beast!!! As good as they were musically he just floored me with every song vocally

Great show. Unfortunatelity they cancelled their europan tour as special guest from Ozzy at this year. R.I.P Guy Speranza and Mark Reale.. ......and Rhett Forrester.

Love Riot .... Killer Old Footage

Exelente banda. Pudo haver llegado muy lejos. Los sigo oiendo hasta el dia de hoy. Muy tecnicos para tocar

"Fire Down Under" (1981) - Oh, my most awesome teenage high school years. 😎👍🏻

This was great to see! I missed Riot that time I regret. I can never get enough of Guy Speranza's voice - what an attack and sense of melody! Good lyrics too. I Wonder why Narita is so difficult to find - songs like Waiting for the Taking and 49'er are immense :-)

Brasileiro aqui nessa bagaça ! Que banda ! Uma pena que poucos conheceram , que vocal que batera e esses riffs de guitarra puta que pariu que adrenalina ,fire down under!

I used to hang out with Mark at Sneakers in San Antonio all the dayum time! R.I.P. Mark , you were one cool dude! LOL!

This show is pure gold, one of my favorite bands....thanks for sharing

They are in my Top 5 metal hall of fame. An extraordinary album such it is near impossible to pick a best... Ridiculously good machine gun fast dueling guitars, add Guy's incision, add drums... Riot are almost their own genre...no lies here... bejeezus! I will never steer too far from my aging Riot cassettes and CDs. All gold.

This kicks so much ass.

I am Russian and I respect this group very much! Rock is alive!!!