Great White & Quiet Riot in Mount Pleasant

Great White is an American hard-rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1977. Blues-based guitar work and melodic metal brought the band a broad audience through the albums Once Bitten and ...Twice Shy, and songs including “Rock Me,” “Save Your Love” and its cover of Ian Hunter’s “Once Bitten, Twice Shy.” In 1984, Great White opened North American dates on Judas Priest’s Defenders of the Faith Tour. Three years later, the band supported Whitesnake on arena dates while touring Once Bitten, followed by its own theatre and arena concerts after ...Twice Shy. Great White has also performed at Rocklahoma in Pryor and M3 Rock Festival in Columbia, two recurring events devoted to hard rock and metal.

Quiet Riot is an American hard rock and heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1973 by guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni. The 1983 album Metal Health, led by its title track and a cover of Slade’s “Cum On Feel the Noize,” made the band widely known. It became the first heavy metal album to top the Billboard 200. In 1983, Quiet Riot performed on Heavy Metal Day at the US Festival in San Bernardino and later opened selected dates on Black Sabbath’s Born Again Tour. In 1999, the band toured on Rock Never Stops alongside Ted Nugent, Night Ranger and Slaughter.