[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Randy Rhoads Appreciation (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 3/19/2017 2:50:26 PM EDT
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I bought Blizzard of Ozz because Crazy Train was on it... before I got to track #2, I thought track #1 was so awesome I had to listen again.
That was the first "good" guitar solo I ever learned, and I could still mostly play it today had I not just fucked up my fingers with my table saw 
<----- his picture gets posted with each of my posts. RIP Randy
 OZZY OSBOURNE - "I Don't Know" 1981 (Live Video) |
 Over the Mountain |
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As much as I dig Randy's work (and Tony's before him), the guy who's axxe really kicked it for me is Zakk Wylde. OK fine, although he visually represents the drunken biker image......his riffs took things to another level. http://images.gibson.com/Lifestyle/2014/Zakk-Wylde-Photo-Anne-Erickson.jpg "Goodbye to Romance" is one of the greatest songs ever written. |
 Goodbye to Romance (Live 1980) |
Learned a lot from his playing back in the 80s.
 Revelation (Mother Earth) I never liked the first part of this song but the build up at the end is fantastic. |
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As much as I dig Randy's work (and Tony's before him), the guy who's axxe really kicked it for me is Zakk Wylde. OK fine, although he visually represents the drunken biker image......his riffs took things to another level. http://images.gibson.com/Lifestyle/2014/Zakk-Wylde-Photo-Anne-Erickson.jpg |
 Ozzy Osbourne/Randy Rhoads-Children Of The Grave (Live Montreal) Kevin Dubrow of Quiet Riot mentioned Randy playing a copy of this recording for him and how it blew him away when he heard it. Randy said something to the effect of "I just threw in some Chuck Berry licks". Skip to 3:30 and have a listen. Amazing how influential Chuck was. |
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As much as I dig Randy's work (and Tony's before him), the guy who's axxe really kicked it for me is Zakk Wylde. OK fine, although he visually represents the drunken biker image......his riffs took things to another level. http://images.gibson.com/Lifestyle/2014/Zakk-Wylde-Photo-Anne-Erickson.jpg
ETA: I see I'm not the only one annoyed by that shit. |
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldKyNA7uZS0
Kevin Dubrow of Quiet Riot mentioned Randy playing a copy of this recording for him and how it blew him away when he heard it. Randy said something to the effect of "I just threw in some Chuck Berry licks". Skip to 3:30 and have a listen. Amazing how influential Chuck was. 
I couldn't get over how awesome the solo was the first time I heard it, which was right after learning to play the original.  Randy Rhoads - Paranoid - Best Version |
Zakk has forgotten more about playing the guitar than 99.999999999% of the world's population will ever know. I'm a huge fan (see avatar....... ). That being said, I miss this version of Zakk:
 Zakk Wylde - "I Don't Know" - 5-1-93 - Rochester, NY - House Of Guitars Now us grownups are going to get back to jamming some Randy Rhoads! |
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I attended the Crazy Train Concert in ST. Louis, I guess it was 1982. No light show, just what you seen in the video clip you posted. A year or two later I seen them again on the Diary of a Madman tour. Lights, explosions,castle, and a giant hand holding Ozzy. Amazing what a hit record will do.
I remember back in 82 someone was interviewing the band. Ozzy talked about auditions for guitar players and that Rhodes was the only guitarist who played his own music he said everyone else played Black Sabbath tunes. 
I was 16 or 17 back then and was a big Black Sabbath/Ozzy fan. |
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Here's a deep cut, from the Quiet Riot years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaiSGv0G0R4
Not the best song, but def. a great solo. Randy reused a part of it for You Looking At Me (Looking at You). |
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I remember thinking it was really cool that Brutal Legend replaced the save logo with an "RR" on 3/19. Just a cool touch.
When I was a Frosh in college, I was thinking I might do jouralism so I made all sorts of phone calls and got interviews with Randy's sister, and Bob Daisly for example. Submitted it to my college paper, and they were like "meh, can you write an article about the Dead Kennedy's or something?" |
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I remember thinking it was really cool that Brutal Legend replaced the save logo with an "RR" on 3/19. Just a cool touch. When I was a Frosh in college, I was thinking I might do jouralism so I made all sorts of phone calls and got interviews with Randy's sister, and Bob Daisly for example. Submitted it to my college paper, and they were like "meh, can you write an article about the Dead Kennedy's or something?" |
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My favorite RR guitar masterpiece.
Both these guys nail it...  OZIELZINHO - Mr. Crowley (Instrumental)  Mr Crowley - Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoads guitar solo tribute by Charlie Parra |
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Nice thread and killer username Op!
I just ordered my son a Jackson RRXMG Rhoads yesterday, its going to be a gift I'll be holding for Christmas! A little ways off I know, but he already got a LTD EC-1000 and Marshall DSL-40 tube amp this past Christmas, so it'll be hidden til then. Got a black with white pinstripes coming Wednesday. Originally had a white with black pins ordered but it got damaged during shipping and the place that is clearing the Rhoads out at a big discount is now sold out of that color. Errgh. 
Specs: 24 frets, neck-thru, floyd rose special, EMG 81/85 pickups. Plans are to swap the EMGs for Seymour Duncan Black Winters and to install an Original Floyd Rose in place of the Floyd Rose Special. a |
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@NagOrzo15-1 do you still have it? Quoted:
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I remember thinking it was really cool that Brutal Legend replaced the save logo with an "RR" on 3/19. Just a cool touch. When I was a Frosh in college, I was thinking I might do jouralism so I made all sorts of phone calls and got interviews with Randy's sister, and Bob Daisly for example. Submitted it to my college paper, and they were like "meh, can you write an article about the Dead Kennedy's or something?" Looks like I don't. It was written on a typewriter -- one of the thermal transfer jobs with the little LCD window. Remember those? I just went in the garage and dug through the right box for that stuff, but didn't find it. I know I was in the right box, because I did put my hands on the below. 
Here's the story on this. I wrote Guitar World's New York offices seeking permission to have a local shop make a giant color blow-up of a RR photo from their June '87 Randy collector's edition. They wrote back saying, basically, "watch your ass, but fine with us for one time personal use...." I did make a blow up, but not as large as I first thought... it was prob. 24 x 36 -- that shit was expensive... It was a pic of Randy holding his black Les Paul with a sort of pink background. At one point, I had it in a display frame with a quote had from the sister (I wanted to interview Delores, but of course at that point it hadn't even been 10 years and she still got just way too much attention from Ozzy/Randy fans... ). Also had an extra tribute LP album insert I had in the frame. Looked pretty neat, actually. I'm annoyed to realize now that thing probably ended up with an ex-fiance (which means probably in the garbage, sigh) after I caught her cheating and broke up with her a few years later. Anyway, it was through a phone call I made back to the G.W. editor to thank them for the permission in that letter that I wound up getting connected with Bob Daisly. I think it was a thing where it was scheduled and I had to call a number, then someone called me back and put me on the phone with him for a couple minutes. The angle I was taking for the article I wrote was "ten years later" Now, remember Bob had been fired by the time Randy died during the Diary tour, but he told me about getting the phone call and being pretty fucked up. He had some cool stories about the studio time when Bob worked with Ozzy and Randy for the Blizzard album. (One thing I remember was that he said Randy wrote like four different solos for Crazy Train, and a couple of the alternatives are on tape somewhere... fucking amazing to think about even now, hope someone saved that shit... ). Gotta tell you, I felt worse after that call than did talking to Randy's sister... She was more stoic (it was a short call and she was probably honestly annoyed more than I felt good about), but Bob was pretty emotional and clearly had a lot of genuine affection for Randy. Cool that he shared it with a college freshman, to be honest. As I was typing this, I just round two Ozzy concert ticket stubs tucked into the magazine depicted in that photo: November 23, 1991 at the Mammoth Event Center, Denver (sponsored by KBPI radio), and June 23, 1992 at Red Rocks, Morrison CO, sponsored by the Rocky Mountain News/News 4. I have a couple Z.W. guitar picks from the Mammoth show somewhere... we were right up front for that one and it was a small venue. Damn, wish I had kept at least my notes from the interviews. I wish I had recorded them. I wish I had gotten to see Randy play live and in person. Sigh. |