Yeah I believe in his book Sarzo said the tentative plan agreed on right before the crash was the live album then one more studio album and tour. So you can imagine the alternate reality with Daisley coming back to write the Bark at The Moon with Randy. That third album would have been nuts. And the tour …. then he would have been free. It would have been incredible to follow. So sad.
Dude that story about Randy. That's crazy. I honestly suspected that was kind of how it was. But this interview is absolutely amazing. Thank you so much for sharing it!
Darth Hideous and Ozzy have rewritten history to fit their narrative, and for whatever reason people are reluctant to expose them. Great to hear TA be candid.
OZZY OSBOURNE: THURSDAY MARCH 18TH 1982: RANDY RHOADS LAST SHOW AT THE KNOXVILLE CIVIC COLISEUM: DIARY OF A MADMAN TOUR: Upon entering the coliseum after buying my tour shirt and ticket 🎫 stub processing: I noticed the stage was set up like a medieval castle with arches and bats 🦇 flying around the top of them. There was a staircase leading up to Tommy Aldridge’s Drumkit. The top left of Tommy was where Donny Airey’s keyboards were set up. Stage right and left had to cages with which Randy Rhoads would appear from the floor stage right and Rudy Sarzo stage left. OZZY had a throne of which he would appear out of to start the show to Over the Mountain. Tommy had his drum tech dressed as an Executioner stand beside his kit with his arms crossed. The staircase had a small section that would open and a small dwarf named: Ronnie (after Ronnie James Dio the new singer for Black Sabbath-replacing OZZY) and hand OZZY towels and water between songs. Little did we all know that later in the show: the executioner would bring the dwarf out to be hung from the rafters and later he would cut off his head using a guillotine! At the end of the show OZZY climbed onto a giant mechanical hand that OZZY stood on top of and launched unspecified meat 🥩 🍖 into the audience! Of course it was all an a theatrical act as the dwarf appeared to take a bow with OZZY and the band. When OZZY smiled we noticed he put vampire 🧛♀️ teeth in! We laughed hard! I went to the show with my friend Richard and his older brother Greg who was 18 at the time. We were 13. Greatest show on earth! Richard and I were both terrified and thrilled at what we witnessed! Unfortunately the next morning all that excitement and energy was gone as we learned that Randy Rhoads perished in a plane crash in Florida. Richard and I played drums but Greg played guitar 🎸 and he definitely took it the hardest! One of the greatest guitarist of our generation and had just won the new guitarist of the year by Guitar Player magazine. Rest In Peace Randy Rhoads your music lives on! Sincerely, Gary Lagstrom RONNIE THE DWARF: PLAYED BY JOHN ALLEN: HUNG DURING GOODBYE TO ROMANCE HEAD CUT OFF BEFORE LAST SONG: PARANOID
This was a VERY good Interview Dean. Tommy saying Ozzy and Randy didnt have a very good relationship to the point of Randy actually getting punched in the face was pretty eye opening.
I have always heard rumors that Ozzy's and Randy's relationship was not what it appeared to be. I did not know until this interview that Ozzy punched Randy in the face just because he did not want to do a live album of nothing but Black Sabbath songs. I already for quite some time hated Ozzy as a person because of how he ripped off band members like Bob Daisley, Lee Kerslake, and Jake E Lee, but know hearing that he physically hit Randy also takes it a whole new level. I believe Tommy, he has no reason to lie. I still love Ozzy as a performer only and for his solo career I only love everything he put out up until No Rest For The Wicked album. I love more than half of No More Tears also, but hated everything that came out after. I used to wonder why his albums after No More Tears were nowhere close to as a good as before, than I found out that from the first album all the way up to No More Tears that Bob Daisley was involved with all of them and that was the end of their working relationship.
If you read up on it, even Ozzy is pretty blunt in that in the tour prior to his death, him and Randy pretty much couldn't stand each other and Randy was splitting after the tour regardless. The notion that they were best pals and would've done 15,000 more great albums if Rhodes hadn't died is just modern revisionism, oddly enough done more by the fans than Ozzy or his camp. For the record, I don't want to insinuate Ozzy wasn't distraught over Rhodes death or anything like that, he was, but the relationship between the two had been ugly for a long time prior to that.
I had heard about Ozzy punching Randy. I can't recall where though. I had also heard about the driver's secret coke stash. There was something in Bob Daisley's book (which is excellent and I couldn't recommend reading it more) where he told a story about him, Rhoads and a couple others messing around with an Ouija board. Apparently the board spelled out "Randy - you are going to die." They all got freaked out and poured salt all around the table and threw the board in to the fireplace.
There is no doubt Randy wanted out especially after Daisley and kerslake got shafted and the band Randy thought he had joined was no more ..if course Tommy and Rudy were brought in but I think Rudy was there to try and apease randy as he was a familiar face and friend
Damn Dean. You get the best interviews with these great musical legends. They've heard you and know you really are a fan and really know your shit more than most. Another super job brother.
I absolutely love Tommy's drumming. There's so much cool stuff he's done. I remember being a kid being totally into Whitesnake Slip of The Tongue and the groove on Kittens Got Claws between Tommy and Rudy is smokin. The live stuff with Ozzy and Randy. Just Killer. Great interview Dean. Love your channel. Keep up the great work. Some of my fav drummers along with Tommy is Jack Irons, Bryan "Brain" Mantia, Steve Gadd, Joe Morello, Rob Durham, Terry Bozzio, Michael Jerome...the list is long haha.
I saw the fifth US date of Ozzy /Blizzard in Upper Darby at the Tower- Randy on guitar stunned me- I have never heard anything like him before or since. Tommy is legend and speaks the truth here. To not release video of Randy playing for the fans because of wanting the money themselves is criminal. Greedy *&%^% Rock on!
This is an awesome get. Tommy is a legend on the drums. I will be seeing him with Whitesnake for the first time ever in about two weeks. I am really looking forward to this show. I was about to say you got to get Rudy Sarzo but I just found that one.you got to see many great shows in the past and now you get to interview many guys that are or were in those bands. That is very cool. I just now finished listening to this interview and I loved it big time!! You hit another home run brother!!! I have alot of catching up to do. I already know just by listening to four interviews that I will enjoy the rest of them. Please let me know if you ever come to Charlotte NC, because I would love to see your comedy act.
@@johnnywomack548 absolutely! Tommy was insanely amazing that night that I finally got to see him for the first time with Whitesnake. One hell of a drummer for sure.
@@deandelray please come to Florida brother! Would also be great to hear you interview Topper Headon, Michael Schenker or Andy Summers. Thanks again 🙌🏻
man Tommy is so interesting...in addition to being one of the best drummers ever he has a real easygoing nature that must have been helpful on those tours...interesting the praise he has for Copeland considering they were contemporaries...
Pat Travers Band Live Go For What You Know is a gas, a band hot as. Heat in the Street, Crash and Burn and Radio Active Albums you would love Tommy's Drumming.
I saw Tommy play with Ted Nugent years ago. He's such a hard hitter and an amazing drummer... and all you see if drum sticks and afro flying around everywhere.
I think Tommy is a little confused, they were driving the bus from Nashville which is the last show Randy did. And the incident between Ozzy and Randy I think took place a month before, when Ozzy in a drunken rage fired the band, which of course, if Ozzy had stood by that decision, Randy would be alive. Darth Hideous trying to blame Jake Duncan is pitiful...
