Damn this world for taking him away so soon and after more than 40 years still so missed by so many still touching hearts RANDY RHOADES you are missed so much
I thought I read somewhere that Randy did not even really try to learn the Sabbath songs, he gave them a listen and figured them out and but added and changed stuff
Yes i am definitely interested in listening to anything you have thats prior to the Diary Of A Madman Tour . First off i want to say this video is the best quality sound I've heard from any bootleg recordings out there .and trust me i have heard all of them thats out there for the public to hear .i saw Ozzy with Randy on the Blizzard Of Ozz Tour (9-81 Tampa Florida) like just weeks after this particular shows recordings .and it sounds exactly like the show i heard .and seriously your recording is practically as good as anything that was professionally released .as good as the Randy Rhoads Tribute Album and as good as the 3 song Ozzy Live EP release from Jet Records . I would love to hear this entire show if you have it and any more recordings from the Blizzard Tour that have this kind of quality .The reason im only concerned with shows from the Blizzard tour is because in all honesty the bands sound went down hill beginning on the Diary Tour .now partly might have to do with the poor soundboard recordings but i think it has to do more with the change of the venues sound systems but i think thats due to the bands live sound changed drastically .the band decided to include keywords live on every single song on the Diary tour and the keys were way to loud along with Ozzys vocals .so loud it was to the point where it was drowning out Randys guitar parts and the rest of the band also .they changed something major in the sound systems where it just sounded awful .in the beginning the band only really used keys on Mr Crowley and Revaluation Mother Earth .ozzy hated keyboards and didn't want them in the band but Randy wanted them and thought they enhanced the music and Bob coming from Deep Purple and Rainbow also liked them .if you go back and listen to all the bootleg recordings from their first Uk shows from late 1980 and their first US and North American Tour there were no keyboards being used live on all there songs and the ones that did have them used were at a low volume level .even on the After Hours TV Studio Session if you go back and watch and listen its only Mr Crowley that you can hear them being used and i think that was a much better sound like a true 4 piece Metal Band .but .all this changes starting on the Diary Tour.
Thanks 'barkattheozz666' for this!!! It takes me waaay back to 1982 when I saw Ozzy for the first time with Randy and I still have the concert ticket stub to this day that was $7.50 and I even still have the Ozzy in concert ad from the local newspaper for the same concert. Even the stage that Ozzy brought with him was amazing to me the way it looked like a cool old castle! Oh yeah, me and a friend made an Ozzy 'banner' from a bed sheet that we hung on the railing at the concert. The permanent markers that we used for the banner had bled thru the sheet onto the cement floor in my parents basement and is still there to this day! OzzY & Randy forever!!!! ROCK-ON!!!
It's the same thing he plays on the actual Blizzard of Ozz album, but with more oomph. It's a sweep-pick into a pull-off lick on the B,G,D,A strings, but with his wah-wah pedal kicked forward for more treble and attack. There's also a harmonic that comes out from the sweep of the pick into the first note, which really stands out on this version, compared to others.
Tommy Aldridge and randy had the most incredible chemistry together ! I really think Aldridge is very underlooked because of how great randy was but damnnn he could make any half decent guitar player sound good !!!
Well in Randy one of the greatest to ever do it, and as Tommy has said Randy made him better forcing him to raise his game as he played on the notes and would change stuff up
Randy possessed his guitar. His guitar possessed Randy. Together they became intricate, unparalleled pure artistry. Anyone can shred. What Randy does in Children of the Grave is beyond where anyone has ever performed since. So many motions and impossible licks in this song. Nothing else comes close. Chills 40 years later.
scary part...Randys just "winging it'...and doing it LIVE!!...... he didnt really care for the Sabbath material. When you take someone elses song and do this??. Sorry, Rhoads was the greatest to ever do it.
I could not agree more. The way he played Children of the Grave is insane. No words I can say do justice the way he played that song. Legendary from the first to last note. The best guitar player I ever heard that's for sure.
What's amazing is that Randy had a subtle chorus effect on his guitar throughout this show and this effect was nearly stripped out for the Tribute album. Kind of a slap in the face as Randy used this effect quite a lot. The effect is there in the Tribute version just way more subtle than what he actually had probably due to Ozzy doubling his vocal's after the fact among other production editing.
He was often compared to Eddie van Halen, but while Eddie is fun and seriously kicking ass, Randy is making the grave, deep and dramatic side of music palpable.
Can someone shed done light on this for me, I've listened to about 6 live recordings of Randy playing this song now, they are all over RU-vid. Every version I've heard besides this one, from the tribute album , he s basically just playing as fast as he can and it just doesn't have any of the melody that this version has. Did he know this was gonna be recorded and thought it out a little more?
Wish Randy would have recorded more Tony Iommi's riffs. I can only imagine Fairies Wear Boots and Symptom of the Universe. 🎸. Heck Van Halen played them all.
I don’t care what anybody says, but Randy was the GREATEST guitar player to of ever walked on this planet! Period. He died when I was 13. And I still listen to him almost every day. he was just a kid at 25 when he left us. I just couldn’t fathom what he’d be like today now in 2022. Just 3 words, Beyond breath taking!!!!!
Whether he was the greatest is always subjective, but he is not a wrong answer to the queston as to whom is the greatest of all time, simply a brilliant player. in the last couple of days I have listened to the isolated guitar tracks on youtube and you miss so much when the other guys are playing. He was doing a lot of little things, such a melodic player. Of course there is that 1978 guitar lesson someone just posted of him
I hear Randy play thse Sabbath and songs and I wonder at what point, Tony does the right and sign over all songwriting and performance royalties to Randy's estate.
