OZZY OSBOURNE / MR CROWLEY - My Experience (reaction) 

Randy studied classical style guitar and blended his style with his solos with perfection. He started with Quiet Riot and joined Ozzy for only two amazing albums. After his death he was rated number one guitarist for eight years in popular rock magazines. He will remain number one with me for most influential guitarist of all time

"One just doesn't stop Randys Solo." SHAME.

Randy Rhoads 🤘👏💋

Randy Rhoads was one of the best of all time. He died in a plane crash at the age of 25. If you listen to more ozzy during this period, you can hear the great Randy Rhoads. He was a classically trained pianist and picked up the guitar and transfered his energies into the guitar. Listen to "YOu can't kill rock and roll" and you will understand the greatness of Randy Rhoads. He was Ozzy's best friend and "saved" him after he got fired from Black Sabbath. Ozzy's vocals and Randy's guitar work crafted some of the finest hard rock music of the time.

Randy Rhodes was classically trained. He brought a very different classical approach to rock. He was very skilled at 25,Randy Rhodes was considered to be one of the best... and who knows how good he could have became? R.I.P. Randy🤘

Dude... NEVER pause a Randy Rhoads solo. That sir is a hanging offence.

This song is about Aleister Crowley, a British practitioner of black magic in the early 1900s. Known as "The Wickedest Man Alive," Jimmy Page based some of the Led Zeppelin album covers on his work. The song helped Ozzy play up his mock-Satanic image, which he often did for effect. This his something he did in his band Black Sabbath, who likened their music to horror movies.

The guitar God you just witnessed, Randy Rhoads, is easily top 10. He is one the biggest influences on my playing and so many others. Along with Rithcie Blackmore, he really brought classical influences into heavy metal with the chord progressions and modal scalar lines. He was taken from us too soon and we never got to see where Randy would have taken us. Peace...

That is awe inspiring guitarwork right there. I wonder how many guitarists were inspiried by this. RIP Randy...

RIP. RANDY RHOADS......guitar legend and hes defintely a top 10 guitarist

Dude you are witnessing greatness in the making!! That moment in time can never be repeated! OZZY keeps looking around scratching his head like he’s confused because his band is so amazing! Watch at the end when he turns around looking at the drummer killing it!

for a lot of people seeing him playing guitar like that was like Michael Jackson doing the moonwalk.

Randy Rhoads the guitarist, is hands down one of the great guitarists of all time. Top 5 for sure. Sucks he only got to do 2 albums with Ozzy before he died young in a plane crash in 1982. God only knows what music he would have created had he lived.

I'm doing fine, thanks for asking. "The guitar solo by Randy Rhoads after the second strophe became one of the most known in the rock music. It was ranked on 28th place in the list of the best guitar solos by the readers of Guitar World."

that comment you made about Ozzy;s outfit was hilarious especially in the context that Ozzy was banned from San Antonio Texas for like a decade for pissing on one of the buildings in the Alamo complex, (the news always said it was the Alamo itself), he was always like "I dunno, I was all fucked up"

I couldn't click this one fast enough! That was Randy Rhoads on the guitar, and as for where he ranks, that depends on who you ask. People who know the truth will tell you that he's right at the top. He was taken from us not long after this was filmed. He used to be in Quiet Riot (before Mtv) with the bass player in this video.

Dude, you nailed it as to getting the feeling of the sound being classical in certain aspects like the violin, etc. The style of Randy Rhoads was from a classical influenced background due to being brought up that way. Mad Mad Mad respect to Randy Rhoads....4 Life!

He's playing the guitar with effects added to it to make it sound like a double harmony. A lot of Metal guitarist use effects to enhance the sound of the riff or the solo. Randy Rhoads was one of the greatest ever. Even without the effects his playing inspired millions of guitarist over the years.

the muffling your hearing is the combination of ozzys birmingham, uk accent & the effects that he uses to get the specific tone you hear... that and this was early 80s so the tech used to play the song and record it is ancient, contributing to the degraded sound.... to randy rhoads fans, myself included, this recording is sacred, holy even... \\m// rip rr

Love your reactions even though you are sometimes at a loss for the right words to convey your thoughts or ideas. Most time I think your listeners can understand what your trying to say. I know I usually do. Keep on keeping on bruh, I'm loving it.

Randy Rhoads was an awesome guitarist. He was a fan of classical orchestral music and it came through in his playing. This is why you are asking "...where are the violins?". Much of the early 80s Metal was abstract and just for fun.

sorry , can't help you with the bass line question , cause when randy rhoads is playing a solo i can't focus on any other instruments

Love the look of disbelief on Ozzy's face when he watches Randy's solo...

I love how Ozzy seemed to love to watch his own band play and seemed to chuckle because he couldn't believe that he was playing with those guys. As for the band, those were all incredible musicians, great bass player, great drummer and the larger than life Randy Rhoads. Randy unfortunately died in a plane accident that was a prank gone wrong. His work has inspired so many guitar players that are huge today, it's unreal. He certainly was a master of his craft. Incredibly skilled with an impeccable taste. Great note selection, great phrasing and melody building. Randy was something else. The thing is, with his classic guitar training he speaks to a wide audience which makes it perfect to get other people into metal.

Best reation channel. Happy to be onboard. Keep it up bro...

The guitarist, Randy Rhoads, was/is considered to be very good. Unfortunately, he never reached his full potential, as he was killed in a small plane accident while on tour for Ozzy's second solo album "Diary of a Madman at the age of 25.

It was cool you pointed out how Randy played the guitar like an orchestra. He was classically trained in guitar. He had even told Ozzy he no longer wanted to play rock and roll music and wanted to move onto playing classical music. His mother was a well known classical music instructor. The man who taught Randy how to play told his mother he had taught Randy everything he could and Randy had simply grown into something he pretty much was not qualified to be instructing anymore. I can only imagine the work he would have put out had he lived a longer life. You could hear his progression as a guitarist from the Blizzard of Ozz album to the Diary or a Madman album.

Great reaction vid. We really enjoy your vibe and Randy Rhoads is an amazing guitarist. He lives on forever thru his music. RIP

I saw these guys a month before Randy was killed...this gives me chills....Great review!

Holy shit! I actually almost suggested this to you the other day. Thrilled someone else did and you took them up on it! Randy Rhoads was one of the best rock guitar players that ever lived.

Aleister Crowley was a British 19th Century Magician Occultist. The newspapers at the time called him "The Wickedest Man In The World."

How hammered were you for this video? Loved it, that’s Rock n Roll my friend!

Damn, that was an outstanding recognition of Randy having classical sound to his playing. Would have been awesome to have him playing with an orchestra

As a guitarist and metal guy ..Mr Rhoads is considered one of the guitar gods... for one man to have such a huge impact on the genre in a short time is astounding.. there are many parallels between metal and classical music

Part of the reason this had that raw sound was because Ozzy coming off being fired put this band together, they needed songs to tour, they actually hit the studio and pumped out both Blizzard of Oz and Diary of a Madman at the same time so they had songs to play live. The released them separately but when they played here, they were a really new band, playing a song they haven't played thousands of times. Good call on noticing the rawness.

Yea man..The late great Randy Rhodes on guitar..He was the best in his error!!!..He died too young in a plane crash on March 19th 1982..This performance we just watched was 1981.

I do play guitar, but the guitarist, Randy Rhodes, is definitely in the top 15 -- even when compared to some of the monster shredders today. Randy is one of the first shredders.

There isn't anyone like Randy, the man just had something that'll never be replicated in the way he had it. If only he was alive today

Well you nailed what we all know to be true about Randy. He really felt the music and delivered to you his feeling seen through the lense of music. And when he did play he made it sound like a whole orchestra. I miss you Randy and i only discovered you later in life.

The thing about RR is that he's one of those rare people who changed music in almost no time. He only performed on 2 studio albums, yet his work is considered groundbreaking. His tone, use of classical scales, technical precision, the man was on his own planet. And nobody has ever sounded like him again. React to Over the Mountain or Diary of a Madman. He was on fire in Diary. Revelation has a sick outro. Steal Away is another one. RR kills it on that one.

When Ozzy was having guitarists audition for his solo band, most the guitarists we're just trying to play like Tony Iommi from Sabbath, but Randy was a classical guitarist and auditioned using his acoustic guitar, and Ozzy immediately wanted him in the band. He always incorperated his classical style into the metal he played, so that's why it might almost sound like an orchestra when he plays.

Good ears. Randy Rhoads was classically trained. In my mind he was a driving influence on the metal guitarists that followed. Eddie Van Halen changed the game before RR but EVH also stands alone in style and sound.

Randy Rhoads RIP Took the rule book, tore it up and rewrote it! One of the greatest without question!!! Such a brutal way to leave the world when your art was so magical!!

Randy was next level. Back then and even today. Very few guitarists can write a such a tasteful solo like he did.

Not sure if I understood your question right concerning strings in general vs the guitar in particular but my 2 bits there: There are some crazy skilled musicians on whichever instrument you pick. Stéphane Grappelli, Giles Apap, and Paganini (too bad he died before anyone got the idea of recording anything at all but he was his time's rock super star) on violin can easily compare, musicianwise, to Randy Rhoads here, or Malmsteen for that matter. Mozart on the piano was a rock'n'roll monster in his days together with many classical composers. I'm pretty sure if Paganini or Mozart lived today, they too would have ridiculous outfits on stage with fans screaming down on the floor to the blistering display of skills.

Randy Rhodes RIP Gone to soon. One of the best!

U were 100% correct about the "rawness." Ozzy himself said that he had no clue about music theory/song writing. It was just the members purely expressing themselves.

R.I.P. Randy! You are still missed all these years later... 💔💔💔

Cool. I am the first to give it the like / thumbs up. Doing good. Hope you are good man. Ozzy is cool. The guitarists is one of the best in history RIP RR. It's Mr. Krowl eee This song is killer. Fucking great stuff. In real life in Briton Mr Crowley was a devil worshiper. It's about Allister Crowley. Google him. You are so right about being believable. It's the feel. The drummer is also one of the best on earth. The lead guitar in this song is like a song with in a song. Has a classical influence. Randy the guitarist was a little man, but a fucking giant on guitar! He's playing it with a classical influence. He does have killer musicianship. Ozzys wife had those outfits made I think.. Randy is no 1 man. Number 1 no doubt in my opinion. RIP Randy. killed in a plane crash at only 27.

Hell yes Randy freakin Rhoads !! Dig the polka dot V with the bowtie inlays on the neck

The guitarist, Randy is classically trained and influenced that's why he is so dope it's a fusion of that training and rock music! One of the greatest.

Randy Rhoads is hands down one of the best guitar players that ever lived his family owned a music shop in Hollywood or a little town close by. One thing it was said about Randy Rhoads is whenever they were on tour every city he stopped in he would pull out a phone book and make an appointment for a classical guitar lesson he said in an interview one time then when he would get to the shop and they realized who he was he actually probably gave more lessons than and he ever actually took.

Great review bro....keep me coming...great personality

Sabbath was my very first concert. 1971, and I was 14..Their debut album had come out only the year before..Shit...I think the price of admission was 4 bucks!..Goddamn, I'm old!

Randy was a classically trained guitarist. Good ear. RIP Randy.

Randy Rhoades was one the best guitarist of all time, like Jimi Hendrix he died young BEFORE he reached his peak. Randy learned classical music early on such as Beethoven,, Bach, Mozart, and then transferred that knowledge to rock after falling in love with it. His solos are unique and bad ass. Ozzy's career was definitly elevated by Randy's talent.

So cool you get the feel and how great of a composer the late great Randy Rhoads was.! He was the best imo. Long live Randy Rhoads!🤘🎸🔊

Pretty sure Ozzy (the singer) said that Randy Rhodes (the lead guitarest with the pokie dot guitar) said he locked himself in a room and didnt let anyone in or didnt come out until he figured out the solo for this song that is how dedicated they were to the music RIP Randy Rhodes he died on an airplane going to Ozzy's birthday part to celebrate. Watch anything with Ozzy talking about him, he said they were like blood brothers and he died at such a young young age its so sad but at least we have a few songs to remember him by

Best part is Ozzy watching Randy like "damn that's good!"

Ozzy had a guitar player named Randy Rhodes and the dude was a prodigy. You need to check out Diary of a Madman! You can hear the dude's skills in the song and he just blows you away!!!!

The exceptional guitarist is Randy Rhoades. A very sweet normal guy, I had the good fortune to know, the last four years of his life. Randy left an indelible mark as a musician, and a dear friend to Ozzy. His death was a tragedy to all who love him ❤️

The song is about someone called Mr Crowley!!

Let's talk about Mr Crowley's drums and drummer " said no one ever.

Hello yeah. Damn really takes my old ass back to better days 💯❤️.. loved Izzy through 80’s to the 2000’s He’s a rock legend to me 🤘

The keyboard player is playing a Minimoog (the top keyboard) for the low snarly bassy sound and a Roland keyboard for the light airey string sound. Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman used to say that the Minimoog had a sound that could cut through concrete.

Never gonna be anyone like Randy Rhoads. What a natural talent

dude I'm so impressed with all of you out there who could hear an organ and think it's a piano I can't do two things at once either!

Sir, I really appreciate what RU-vidrs like you are doing with reactions videos because it broadens the Outlook on all music genres as a whole, and people should at least have an appreciation for all art forms of the craft, especially the art of shredding ( all my metal heads out there will know why I used that phrase ) and true greatness out of bands like pantera, or Metallica or Megadeth to name just a few came from a long line of musical influences from great artists and musicians like the ones you reacted to in this video. The growth of music we all love and cherish today would have been impossible without such influences. And any musician on the planet should agree with me when I say that if you ever, EVER!! Cut off a Randy Rhoads solo like that again, may the metal gods strike you dumb, deaf and blind so that you may never enjoy a single musical note again in your life! Completely unexceptable! And I'm going easy on you by saying this to help you in the future so this act of ignorance isn't misconstrued as blatant disrespect, I'm not as angry as most will be because i realize you dont know any better, your new to this area of music which some people take very seriously. I'm asking you to please be careful about doing things like this because it is like Blasphemy in some circles and I like your videos and want to continue viewing them but I would rather you bitch slap my mother than watch you commit another unspeakable act like this. Again, I respect what you are doing and i appreciate your videos but this world was only blessed with great musicians like Randy Rhoads, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray and Dimebag for a very short time unfortunately, so show them the respect they deserve! Thank you..

Randy was Classicaly trained and Violin is a Classical music Instrument.

He has a neo-classical influence in his playing, blended with the more traditional pentatonic/blues style.

The guitarist Randy Rhoads, in my opinion, was a pioneer and one of the all time greats even though he died early. Crazy outfits in metal back in the 80's

Randy Rhoads is a legend. Ozzy was my first concert. I was 16. Randy Rhoads would die in a plane crash two months after I saw them. Rock and Roll.

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THIS WAS GREAT And yes Randy is in the top 10

Quite a few of the shredders on guitar were big fans of Niccolò Paganini from the late 1700's/early 1800's and you can hear his influence to this day whether they are aware of it or not as many of their hero's were fans of him.

Randy Rhoads top 5 for sure, his catalog is short that is his flaw. When he was here he wa a guitar god.

i can remember the first time i heard this, at the time i was learning to play guitar. well my guitar overheard this and it bought a bus ticket and left town

Randy Rhodes played violin and many other stringed instruments. He also studied classical music which is where he gets his beautiful melodies. He was a monster. And the bass line was written by one of the best in the business. If not for Randy and the bass player, OZZY's solo career would not have happened.

Probably mentioned earlier Randy is a classically trained guitarist. He learned guitar to play classically before getting in rock. One huge tip off is how he comes down on the string and fret straight down for the cleanest sound. I saw a show on Randy that said he was planning on leaving Oz and return to school to get his degree in classical music (guitar). Love his playing!! Even Ozzy is taken by what was happening at the end! Every city they went to Randy would look up a guitar teacher. He said everyone could teach him something new.

Randy Rhodes was a classically trained guitarist, learned classical guitar from his Mother who was classically trained musician. When Randy started playing rock music with his band Quiet Riot he incorporated a lot of his classic guitar into his playing. You are right, the scales and arpeggios used by classic guitarists and violinists are somewhat the same. Randy Rhodes and his first band played a lot of the same clubs that Van Halen played in So Cal back in the late seventies, so both Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhodes got to see each other play a lot, they have very similar styles.

He was trained on classical guitar. One of the greatest guitarists of all time.

Randy was a God, beyond Heavy Metal. He grew up in his parents music school and taught classical guitar to a lot of people out there. A lot of the biggest guitarist were influenced by him. I'm an Ozzy Fan, but even will tell you he wouldn't have made it through his first two solo albums without Randy. RU-vid Randy Rhoads Biography and lot will come up, or Randy Rhoads Influence. Peace.

Not a lot of people know this, this was recorded live for a tv show. Tommy (drums) and Randy (guitar) kept adlibing fills and runs. You even see them exchange glances signifying the game. Towards the end, Randy breaks from the normal solo and they both go off on the totally improvised outro. Even Ozzy can be seen looking at the two of them like....wtf?? Truly unknown moment. Oh, by the way, it's pronounced like brow lee. Like eyebrow. Alistair Crowley, an alchemists in early 19th century. He's only known as the wickedest man ever because that's what the hypocritical churches labeled him as.

I miss Randy. Hands down one of the best guitarists to ever live. It was a massive tragedy when he died so young. Ozzy still can’t talk much about Randy even today without losing it. They were best friends and Randy is essentially responsible for Ozzy not going down a hole of drug abuse and likely dying after Black Sabbath.

Randy Rhoads the guitar player of this band. Is an incredibly accomplished musician. His mother was a classically trained musician and she taught him. He went on to teach other people. He joined the band Quiet Riot. And then left Quiet Riot to perform with Ozzy Osbourne. He taught Ozzy Osbourne many things how to sing in the correct key. How to transpose music. He is actually a legitimate music master. And your question was absolutely 100% legitimate... unfortunately we lost him to a plane crash I believe in nineteen ninety two or three

how are you feelin!!!! Keep it up! Ozzy Rules, grew up listening to this!

This is my favorite version of this solo. And the outro solo is fire.

i can honestly say i have never pressed PAUSE in the middle of a randy rhoads solo.

I was lucky enough to see Ozzy with Randy twice. They really seemed to enjoy playing together.

Randy Rhoads combined the techniques and scales used to play Bach or Beethoven with metal guitar. Dude was a musical and technical genius on the guitar. Listen to the song "Dee" off the same album to see a completely different side of Randy Rhoads, he wrote it for his mom.

Great video to react to, Randy Rhoads is my favorite guitarist, love this video thanks for doing this reaction. R.I.P. Randy

Guitarist was using some of the classical music runs and progressions as part of his solo, Eddie Van Halen would also use classical music in his solos sometimes. Some groups will do classical music with contemporary instruments, Jethro Tull did Bouree, Frank Zappa did Bolero. Good musicians can use all music as inspiration.

RRT, Hey I know this is several years after you posted, but I just came across your reaction video of mr. crowley. The song is about Aleister Crowley, an occultist from Britian. He at one time practiced magik (he spelled it with a k). I don't know much about the man. As for your question about the violins and orchestra, that is the classical sound that Randy Rhoads brought to guitar playing in heavy metal. Keen observation on your part. Randy was definitely a musician and artsit, not just a guitar player. His mother had taught him and his siblings at a young age. She had a school where she taught, It is still around today, and run by Randy's brother and sister. I am amazed at how inovative he was at playing gutiar. He was certainly like no other, and heavily influenced at lot of guitar players. He never thought that he arrived, and always wanted to continue to grow and learn classical music.

Well how you doing RRT i hope hope good bro just was checking in with you here to hangout min i look forward to your videos especially wen its been ruff day hahaha crack beer and set back for few mintes away achill from long day of drama but later man keep up the great work

I am a cellist and i would say biggest difference with guitars and classical string instruments is guitars have frets. So as long as you press the string in between the frets you will be in tune as long as the string itself is in tune. With classic instruments you have to hold the string down in the correct place for the note to be in tune which ups the difficulty. Want to hear some amazing violin check out vivaldis summer. Very difficult and fast violin.

Great review right here. I feel like everything you said was very honest because you just don't know much about the band or the instruments. That is not an insult, you come across as genuine. Some funny comments in there too. To answer your question about guitar vs violin - the guitatist in this video is one of the greatest of all time. The way he played was, in my opinion, beyond what you will see from even world-famous concert violinists or other symphony/orchestra musicians. Not only does he have to write every note he plays, play it perfectly at virtuoso level, but he changed the way people play guitar until this day. At the time of his death he actually had plans to go back to college to study classical guitar so he would have been one of those symphony musicans playing alongside violinists and cellists. About the bass, i believe thats rudy sarzo in the video. He toured with Ozzy but didn't write those bass lines. He was renowned for his playing ability but not so much writing.

There's a Rush song named "Losing It" and it has electric violin as a lead instrument. There's some live shots from a recent tour of theirs that has some good audio, or check out the album version or official live version from their R40 tour release of the song Losing It.

doin great thanks brother!

Randy Rhoads. He become a legend at the age of 25. His style of playing is known as neoclassical rock/metal.

You nailed it my man , the guitarist is Randy Rhoades he mixed classical music with metal he is rated as one of the greatest ever, sadly he is gone there will never be another , by the way think of the bird OWL , mr crOWLy .