Randy was perfect for Ozzy. He has been my favorite guitar player/ musician, since Blizzard came out. Blizzard and Diary introduced Randy to the world, and changed my world forever!!
Dude stop! It's easy to say that now. Moore was better player than Randy. I saw them both. Randy was a "Better fit" in terms of personality. Because he had patience to deal with a drunken lucky fool who married into the Arden empire. However, in terms of ability? Gary Moore all day every day (jaw dropping shit). Ask Dana Strum. Even when Ozzy took Randy to England, he was still trying to get Moore. Either way it all worked out.
When I was 22 years old, Ozzy Osborne was coming to the Sam Houston Coliseum on February 17th (1982). Since first hearing Ozzy’s “Blizzard of Oz” solo album, his new guitar player Randy Rhoads had become my guitar hero. I didn't know much about him, nor did I even know what he looked like, because Ozzy's album pictures really didn't distinguish who was who in the band photo. To this point, I had assumed that the dark-haired guy (Rudy) was the guitar player I had recently come to idolize. Anyway, my girlfriend Mindy and our housemate Chris quickly found a way to score some tickets for the show. I figured if we showed up at the arena early enough, we might get a chance to meet the band before the show. It was a warm afternoon in Houston when Chris, Mindy and I arrived at the concert hall. We made our way around to the loading dock side of the building to look for tour buses or any other sign of band life. The road crew had already arrived and was setting up the elaborate stage for the “Diary of A Madman” tour. Surprisingly, the atmosphere was very relaxed. We were able to simply walk in and observe at our leisure without anyone hassling us. This went on for the better part of the afternoon. As we loitered about the premises, I befriended Randy’s guitar tech. He informed me that the band would be showing up around 5pm to do a soundcheck. In the meantime, he invited me into a makeshift dressing room to have a look at Randy’s guitars. They were sitting on guitar stands right in front of me. Just feet away from my hands were Randy’s signature cream Les Paul with the snakeskin strap, along with three custom made “V” shaped guitars. His polka-dot V, white pinstripe V and a black one, the latter two sporting the name “Jackson” on the headstocks. At this point, I was not really familiar with his guitars. And this was also long before Jackson Guitars became a household name. Needless to say, I was quite intrigued by them. Luckily, I had the presence of mind to bring a disposable camera with me. I asked the guitar tech if I could take a few pictures of the guitars. He didn’t mind, so I began to snap away. Just as I was photographing the assortment of guitars, a rather large and in charge road manager walked in on me and freaked out. “What the f#$k are you doing in here??? Gimme that efffing camera, those are custom made guitars!” he barked. The guitar tech tried to quell the big fellows concerns, but he would have no part in negotiating any compromise. “Gimme the effing camera if you wanna see the show” he demanded. As a 22 year old punk kid, I was in no position to argue, so I reluctantly gave the Paul Bunion looking troll my stupid camera. The guitar tech apologized for the road managers over-reaction and allowed us all to stay and hang out. Like clockwork, the tour bus pulled into the loading dock at 5pm. Tommy Aldridge, Rudy Sarzo and Randy Rhoads soon stepped out. Randy was wearing blue jeans, a black pleather jacket with no shirt under it with a white towel draped around his neck. Absent from the group was Ozzy, who apparently didn’t do soundcheck with the rest of the group. I quickly made my way over to who I thought was Randy and asked for an autograph. Slightly unprepared, I only had a small piece of paper that I had found nearby for them to sign. Rudy signed one side of the paper and Randy Rhoads signed the other side. I managed to make some small talk, at first thinking that Rudy was actually Randy. Up to this point, (As I said, I wasn’t entirely sure what Randy actually looked like). “Man, you’re a great guitar player” I said. Rudy looked at me sort of puzzled and pointed me in the direction of the actual Randy Rhoads. Needless to say, I felt like a douche. Randy was very unassuming, soft-spoken and frankly humble. He happily complied with my autograph request. He had to lean the small piece of paper onto the side of the cinder block wall in order to write his signature. He simply wrote, "Randy Rhoads". After several minutes, the band disappeared inside the arena and we followed along like lemmings. During their soundcheck, I stood directly in front of Randy Rhoads as the band ran through the song “Mr. Crowley” in its entirety. Randy was playing his cream Les Paul and never sounded better. I was in awe that afternoon, watching this soon to be legend warming up for the impending show right before my eyes. Except for my girlfriend Mindy, Chris and myself, (and a few road-crew guys), there was nobody else in the arena. A few short weeks later, Randy, twenty-five years old, was killed in a plane crash in Leesburg, Florida. I was davestated. His autograph remains framed on my studio wall to this day. Also, a few weeks earlier on March 5th, John Belushi died of a cocaine overdose. You could feel a chill in the psyche of the masses around Houston who had just absorbed the news of both of their untimely deaths. Both tragedies were a stark reminder of my own mortality....Can you imagine what would have been captured on my disposable camera had i been allowed to keep it??? Jeff Dyer - Uncle Sally
Legends 🙌 on guitar 🎸. The late Mick Ronson went to LA in 1982. He added handclaps to the song Jack and Diane by John Cougar. He was happy 😊 with that. Ronson went to Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦. He played with The Payola$ and recorded with Lisa Dalbello. Ronson was an unsung all-star 🌟. At 1 of the England concerts, a young English man watched Van Halen closely. A few years later, that same guy, who happens to be Andy Taylor, joined Duran Duran.
There are a lot of errors with the stories because he believes stuff at face value when true research disputes it, if you're reading quotes from ozzy or Sharon great chance that's not what happened.
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle If there is so many errors in Kar’s uploads why are you here ? Why do you care ? You troll around like your the boss and I’m sure you’re opinions might be correct or not but maybe you should skip Kar’s future uploads .. Peace..
@scottwhite2757 to correct it...because I'm a Rhoads fan one if the reasons EvH apologist glossed me The Rhoads scholar on Van Halen News Desk as I educate them on reality and correct their mistakes as well. No one is trolling. You think I'm being insincere? No I'm correcting bad takes and lauding thise who grasp reality.
This was a fantastic video. By the end of the recording of Diary of a Madman Randy Rhoads had truly developed his own style and was definitely all his own. I go back and listen to both records with Randy and it almost gets better even after 4 decades. We were truly blessed to grow up in an era that gave us both Randy Rhoads and Edward Van Halen. I remember reading a brief interview or an article with Randy's mom's quotes in it. She said Randy was really really impressed by EVH. I don't compare the two. I'm smart enough and more importantly grateful enough to just appreciate the amazing music both gave to the world to enjoy. Long live rock and roll!!!
those first two Blizzard of ozz albums age like win , get better with age. Imagine writing that last album in just 4 weeks, and not havin the time to update some of the guide solos. Randy appreciated ed and the rest of their peers like George Lynch. I wish Ed had said something nicer about Randy after he died but Ed went pure hack
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle Totally agree with you. Those records are incredible. We were so blessed to be around for it. I don't know why Ed had that attitude but I know Edward respected Randy's guitar playing a lot. Such a shame.
@@BlueBarchetta67 Gary always wanted to work solo and do his own thing and of course drug use was a problem but not the main reason why he quit the band.
Yes officially Black Sabbath fired Ozzy Osbourne in 1979 but Osbourne had left the band in 1978 to start a solo project. So anyway looks like Ozzy didn't want to stay with Black Sabbath and wanted to start his own band. Especially when Black Sabbath failed touring with Van Halen.
Got to see all 3 of these geniuses ( Moore once in 1987, Rhoads on first 2 Ozzy tours, & Eddie a half dozen times ) Loved the "Led Clones" collaboration between Moore & Osbourne.
and who did you enjoy the most, I mean after Randy who was the superior live player *the first two Blizzard of ozz tours......... Ozzy tours commenced after March 19, 1982
I saw an interview with Gary Moore from 2008, he said Ozzy was begging him to join his band. But Gary said to him “nah man I not long just left Thin Lizzy, there was too much drugs happening with the guys in that band and that’s why I left.. I can’t go through that again, I’d rather start my own band.” Probably a good thing he did start his own band, because Gary came out with some cool hard rock albums, like Corridors of Power, Run For Cover etc, it was good shit 👌🏽
I read that. Gary did not want to be involved with highly unstable people. He had been around. Randy was just getting started. I saw Randy in Birmingham two weeks before he died. I was about three back right in front of him. It still makes me angry and sick and sad and all kinds of pissed off about him not being here. Think of all the great music we would all have in our heads right now. We were all cheated. Big time.
Could you imagine Eddie playing for Ozzy? Sharon: "Okay Edward, Ozzy is the star so the spotlights will be on him. You just go over there and stand by your microphone and play guitar. No jumping or moving around because it will detract attention away from Ozzy."
According to Ozzy, Eddie kept calling him by phone begging him to join VAN HALEN over the years and Ozzy kept replying to Eddie saying: STOP DRINKING EDDIE.😅😊😅😊
that is almost the stupidest thing that i have ever seen on the entire internet. EVH played music with freakin Michael Jackson and Brian May and Allan Holdsworth. at no time would he have ever given Ozzy the time of day.
At the start yes... Gary was spot on....I think he was right to go his own way..... he could have made millions with Whitesnake or other mega bands .... but went solo but sadly fell victim to his own success later and overconsumption of booze .... which can be a drug or addiction whatever way you look at it like Phil and Scott did with heroin....so ironic. Gary was never a fitness gym freak and it crept up on him in his final 1-2 years. All I can say as a 1980s Gary Moore fan is.... wtf. Success and fame can be lethal.
Bro, ozzy didnt wake up one day to see the writing on the wall for sabbaths career, he was fired. If not for Sharon, he'd be all done,noth8ng but a memory..he owes that 2nd career to sharon and randy
I hear the talent, but Randy Rhoads just doesn’t move me. Gary Moore is phenomenal as well, but again I just hear it and it’s impressive, but emotionally it does nothing for me. EVH is different however. Especially those DLR records. That tone is second to none, and I love how when you hear Eddie, you never know where it’s going. I guess it’s his improvising that impresses me. That and the balls out attitude of his early playing that really made EVH special.
Eddie might have played faster and wowed everyone with his tapping technique that he ripped off from Frank Zappa but he couldn't play with any kind of emotion and feeling worth a damn .that is the main thing Rhoads and Moore had over Eddie .Randy had much much much better songwriting skills than both of them though .
That solo sounds like Randy had the Paganini thing down about the same time that Yngwie did. I always wondered what Randy would've thought about that first Yngwie album. I could see Randy doing an instrumental album like that
I agree incredible guitarist and sound.. i have many favorite guitarists and i try not to compare them for that reason, nice Ozzy landed Randy so we have those great solo's..
Its weird, i somehow see the other two as slightly better, while i prefer the way Gary played much more. I guess its because i feel how he played more than the other two. I like the blues more than that sweep picking sht. And God love em, neither of those guys could play the blues like Gary at all.
@@BubbaZen10. I could not say it better, Gary’s playing is one of a kind, hits me in a way that only Gary can play, like the blues good lord how he played the blues incredible.. just think about what Randy could of gave us. but sadly all 3 are gone and all 3 were incredible in their own way. have a great day BubbaZen10
@@scottwhite2757 you too man! I was blessed to see two. I saw Eddie 3 times back in the old days. Once right in front of him for Diver Down. And I'm pretty sure i saw Gary open for RUSH or someone like that. I never got to see Randy.
@@roscianyt no he wasn't ask Tommy Aldridge, you must have completely whiffed on what i was implying he couldn't write like Randy that would to the average reader would mean Randy was better.
I do love all three mentioned rip but Gary Moore was the best of them & wrote some epic material during the 1970's and 80's@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle
Yes officially Black Sabbath fired Ozzy Osbourne in 1979 but Osbourne had left the band in 1978 to start a solo project. So anyway looks like Ozzy didn't want to stay with Black Sabbath and wanted to start his own band. Especially when Black Sabbath failed touring with Van Halen.
Parts of this just aren't actually correct .Sharon might have went to LA and got Ozzy sober and back from the dead but she was not in charge of ozzys everyday affairs of putting a band together at that time her brother was David and even he didn't have as much to say as his father.it was his father that once ozzy came back to England told ozzy he thought he should keep the band a all British band which they did try several out but it was ozzy that said Randy was the guy and Arden said well ill get him over here . But while in LA auditioning guitar players with Dana Strum in a studio and the rehearsal hall Garry Moore had rented out and was letting Ozzy try out musicians .Sharon wasn't on those tours with Van Halen and Black Sabbath period .and she also wasn't around when they wrote Blizzard of Ozz and not there for the first part of their uk tour .she has always taken credit for things she wasn't even there for .Randy lived with Ozzy and Thelma his first wife during the very beginning and didn't really take over Ozzys tours and affairs till quite awhile after they had tours the uk .she might have actually came in around the time they went back in Ridge Farm to record Diary or shortly after .she has told stories of how much of a magical time it was in the studio during the writing and recording of Blizzard and she wasn't there at all period. Bob and Lee and even Max Norman has said this publicly. Yes she eventually took over as a manager and was hooking up with Ozzy but not at first .
She also told her Father to drop the band from the label to save money...Sharon and Ozzy keeping the revisionist history channel alive. It was Bob Daisley who told ozzy he neeed to drop the two scrubs he was jamming with and to get a world class musician and that is when ozzy went back to Randy.
some interesting stuff....some bollocks. Gary Moore did not leave Lizzy because of anything to do with EvH...it was he was sick of playing with (his words) coked out amateurs
Ozzy realized it was over for sabbath so he decided to leave 😂😂😂😂😂 he was kicked out, his best friend had to fire him. Ozzy then holed up in a hotel room and pretty much gave up on music. He was devastated.
Ozzy had left Black Sabbath in 1978 to start a solo project. So obviously Ozzy didn't want to stay with Black Sabbath, so they had to fire him. Max Norman said that the Ozzy he knew was a smart guy who knew exactly what he wanted. He was not the way he is often portrayed in the media.
@@karsguitarchannel6088 I had heard the 3 month break in 1978 was because his father passed and had suggested he start blizzard of ozz before passing. Sabbath members were all over indulging in drugs and alcohol and were at each other’s throats so Ozzy left. He said it was like a bad marriage, you just want to hurt each other. They begged him to come back after 3 months then rewrote a lot of the songs for never say die since he refused to sing songs written by the guy from fleetwood mac. One of those songs became an instrumental because of it, the song was breakout. Ozzy even said they should change the name to jazz sabbath. After they finished the never say die tour the rest of the band was tired of Ozzy’s behavior and the fired him and made Bill Ward do the dirty work.
"and Ozzy realized that it was over for Black Sabbath and he left the band ...." really? because for all of these years (45 years?) later we have been led to believe that the Black Sabbath guys kicked him to the curb because he was a drunken sot who could barely even stand up any more.
Why does everyone always try to insist Randy was some Eddie Van Halen wannabe ? Randy liked Eddie as a player but not as a person .the day Eddie blew Randy off when Randy went back stage to show his respects to Ed and Eddie wouldn't even talk to Randy .Rhoads lost all respect for Van Halen that very moment and used a Van Halen or Eddie flyer for a dart board lol
Ozzy never deserved Randy Rhoades, now Ozzy wants all this sympathy, what ? Money can't buy you health, so no sympathy from me, eat your money it may save you
I usually try to avoid these kind of debates but it's like comparing a Lamborghini to a Ferrari. All three had tremendous talent and I don't believe Gary went to the blues because he couldn't keep up in the shredding. It was his preference and he returned to his roots. If you listen to Gary's hard rock in songs such as Murder In The Skies with the long shred intro and The End Of The World, he can shred with the best of them. Michael Schenker said that Gary Moore was one of the best. You can't deny guys such as Gary, Stevie Ray Vaughan or Rory Gallagher who are blues based, aren't very talented and I'm not saying you are. I just don't think the more faster you play, the better you are. Let's just say all three are extremely talented and the guitar world lost three legendary guitarists. Btw, EVH is my all time favorite guitarist.
Most of the fastest shredders can’t write a song to save their life. Look at the endless BADASS riffs created by Iommi and Page. Iron Man and Heartbreaker alone are 2 of the most badass riffs of all time. Iommi is THE ultimate riff master above all. Even Page.
exactly, for been a over weight putz..ozzy also lied to Randy, told him he was in the band and went to the UK and told Bob Daisly he rather works with Brits and had this other guitar player who Bob found waiting in a room with cocaine lines...
@@mikehunt576 he did not really lie to him as much as he probably did not remember all of the details at the time. Bob is the one who told Ozzy he best find world class musicians after that fateful encounter and jam with Ozzy. The label more told Ozzy they wanted a U.K . only band
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle he lied 100 percent, the whole Ozzy is dysfunctional and on another plane thing is his trick of pretending he has no clue, Ozzy used this tactic to save his skin many times with black sabbath when mafia would come and talk gibberish about why he should donate money incase someone breaks his legs., or if he wanted a gram of coke and not pay Randy Rhoads or the lies he told Randy's mom to keep using his gear with a back up guitarists until one of the thousands of new lawsuits started, Ive been close to Ozzy, he is literally old school, while Randy gave a huge impression dont forget Ozzy was black sabbaths iconic singer for decades, generations of music, etc, wives, etc, very charismatic but....its a ruthless business, brutal..around Ozzy I saw a singer who was surrounded by professionals trying to decide the next move all the time, you have a singer, the number of musicians who are willing to pay with their own gear for free is beyond reality, you play as a guitarists as soon as you tour of take photos you have the major music gear companies and etc etc offering you money, free stuff and more., knowing you could care less lol Some see Ozzy as someone who can sing here right now on the sofa type, meaning he can do 2-3 shows a day, assuming he is naive or able to see out arenas..while others see him as someone more less as a public figure with value so not just music companies float over to him, he had tv shows etc. Randys mom was very offended for years though, the family wanted everything to be good but the Ardens (Sharon Arden later Osbourne, Don Arden all where in on screwing the band from the second Ozzy view I mentioned, they fired the original line up, never credited anyone, randys family never saw money, lawsuits one after the other, the only people around Ozzy that get paid are the road crew, drug dealer and Sharon
@@mikehunt576 What we know is the lawyer who was tasked with getting them a U.S. distribution deal screwed them over when he only signed Ozzy to CBS, this led to the end of the band name and empowered Darth Hideous to fire Lee and then Bob. THere are only rumors of lawsuits, but the Rhoads family does publicly have a good relationship with the Osbournes, but it has been suggested that Sharon tried to forge a contract after Randy died, and that Delores had the original contract and had a big shot lawyer muscle up on the Osbournes and she also fought and won to control of her son;s likeness which leads many to believe this is why the Osbournes refuse to release or allow video footage of Randy, and they allegedly did sell videos to help Don arden out of bankruptcy.
@@mikehunt576 People should see Ozzy for who he is, an lucky guy who won the music lottery with an iconic voice, and who can align himself with talented musicians who can write great songs. However as a live musician he could never match what he did in the studio
Gary Moore was not as nimble as EVH and or RR.... being completely NIMBLE makes the decision in all life aspects. Bree lee PROVED the more NIMBLE the more DANGEROUS!
That guitar solo Randy played was influenced by Van Halen's Eruption. In 1982, Randy admitted that he played things similar to Van Halen's to impress the crowd and he also admitted that Van Halen was an influence. Randy's friend Rudy Sarzo said that Eddie Van Halen and Gary Moore were Randy's top favorite players. When Randy played his solo spot, he didn't copy Eddie's 'Eruption' note for note but he used some ideas from 'Eruption'. And of course what Randy recorded with Ozzy were his own stuff. The point is that when Eddie came out with Eruption in 1978, he set everyone on fire like Hendrix!
@@karsguitarchannel6088 no, what he said is the kids want flash and he hates using licks people associate with Ed, but other people came up with before Ed. Ed made stuff more popular. How was the spotlight solo influenced by Eruption when Randy was doing that solo in the clubs long before Eruption was released? If you listen to the actual spotlight solo, not the edited version on Tribute, but the Cleveland show, it sounds nothing like anything Ed ever did with Eruption. It maps more to his solo in the clubs with Quiet Riot. He didn't copy Ed on anything, he used licks associated with Ed that Ed had made popular.
He said that much later but in 1979 he was matey with Eddie Van Halen. But looks like years later Gary got very competitive with Eddie Van Halen and that's why he made that statement.
it doesn't matter what Gary said about Ed - obviously Ed did not peak after one album - in fact Ed was at the top of his game every time that he was captured on a recording. every freakin time.
@@jamesha175 Peak or no peak that first album was his best .second was his second best .and come to think about it Woman And Children First was his 3rd best .hey you kno wat ? I think that's why he said that cause all his best work started at the beginning and went down hill (well not like shitty bad) but not as good as the one before .it was forsure that way all through the Roth era .best to least is First to last .lol
@@jamesha175 I guess if you look at it like that he did peak with his first record but I lot of guys do even though a player should get better as time goes on kinda like Randy Rhoads. That first record was amazing but his second record he got way better .I mean seriously he did .imagine had he not got killed he would have been well the best .think Eddie put more time into getting his tone better and amps better . guitars better instead of putting all that time into his music .again just Imagine had he done that it's hard to tell just how much better he might have gotten
a lot of people thought van Halen was making a dysfunctional Sabbath look bad. Actually the guy who rppped off Sabbath was not Arden it was a guy he used to work with Patrick Meehan grant, Meehan worked with Arden and then went their own way
I saw that episode and I would also think that anyone that bought tickets for those Black Sabbath concerts would have thought they got their money’s worth.
Randy's style was nothing like Eddie's. Alot of tapping Randy played with one hand. His playing and more important song writing was more mature, melodic
That solo sucked ass ha ha ha I played better than that when I was 16 in 1987 I was influenced by EVH as well, but some how my leads and solos wrent sloppy like RR live. It sounded so amatuer. LOL people have messiah complex way too much. RR was not that GREAT. just really good he looked cooler than he sounded.
It's amusing to people when someone comes onto a comments section to talk about how someone isn't that great, which is a sign to educated and logical people he was great enough for you to come and try and be dismissive. Randy being sloppy is still more precise than Ed live. So you are saying you upgraded the precision. Ed was a sloppy player live at times.....and he did not really know how to get from A to B because he did not have the level of knowledge Randy did. He wrote two great albums and one of them is the top selling metal debut of all-time, he founded a legendary band with Bob and Ozzy
@@feelingsogood6073 thos nobody does not understand, Randy's greatness goes up when someone decides they need to be dismissive do people waste time talking about how Kirk hammett isn't that great...no because no one thinks he is
Ive never understood how Randy Rhodes got such a great reputation he sounds unpolished raw and amateurish compared to Ed and those people who think Randy Rhoads is better than SRV or Gary Moore are just voicing their opinions like i am. When they mention Randys background as a teacher and schooled musician no nothing about what makes a guitarist riffs and songs popular. A great example of lousy barely any talent musicians i think of KISS one of the worst rock bands musically of all time. But ! KISS sold a ton of records and sells out large venues because “there is no accounting for taste or the lack of”
He wanted Gary Moore before he ever heard Randy Rhoads. But wanting Gary Moore and ending up with Randy Rhoads is like wanting Mila Kunis and ending up in bed with Blake Lively ,,an upgrade