I WAS AT THIS SHOW, 17 YEARS OLD. DEF LEPPARD OPENED UP THE HIGH AND DRY TOUR, BEFORE PETE WILLIS LEFT THE BAND.THE OCEAN STATE THEATRE.THE 80S KICKED ASS. CONCERTS EVERY WEEK.!!!!!!!!
Randy was a melodic player and loved to embellish when it was allowable in the song . This was one of the reasons he was such a great song writer and composer . What first attracted me to Ozzy was not so much his guitar player at first , it was his song structure and the way he played within that structure . There's never been anybody that's come close to the gifts he had as a complete musician since his death . Most guitar players can riff and throw some chords together and make a decent tune , some are better than others and some are prolific riff masters . What Randy had was beyond all that . RR had the ability to compose music . That is a gift
An envy that will taunt me until I die is toward the incredibly fortunate people who got to see my/our super hero live. You all must feel incredibly blessed.
I saw Ozzy with Randy in Beaumont TX in the early 80's and I remember how a lot of people there were old Sabbath fans and they really wanted these songs played! Randy rocked them! Fans loved it
WOW. For someone who claimed to NOT be a big Black Sabbath fan, he centainly kicked the shit out of them Sab tunes live. Played them like he owned them.
isaakiloureiro youtube the Randy Rhoads Tribute of "Children of the Grave"; there's a bit of variation to this version, but well done, played, and remastered. :)
For someone who said that he really didn't like songs from Black Sabbath he really played the songs with a mind set to play them perfectly if not better than the original
Who would of thought that finding a picture of a crazy looking guitar in a Fender catalouge would lead to this? Eddie Van Halen had a very flamboyant, cheeky and fun style of playing... Randy just scares the fuck out of you with those creepy neo classical scales and quieter demeanor....
I'll tell you, The Providence Civic Center (Dunkin Donuts Center now,wtf) was always a rock and roll palace back in the day. Seen many concerts there. Alice Cooper / JAmes Gang 1974, QUEEN / THIN LIZZY , Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, The WHo, Boston, KiSS, Cheap Trick, TuLL, T.Petty, BAd Company, eyyyy the list goes on.. My brain hurts
@PurpleSnowFox - in actuality there is VERY little video footage of Randy with Ozzy. There are NO complete shows only pieces. What you see on the bonus DVD with the expanded Blizzard of Ozz is almost all there is aside from some footage filmed in Texas at a Soundcheck and the alternate Palladium '81 footage shot by famed guitarist & collector Al B. Romano.
Iommi Invented Metal , Randy Refined it for his time , but either version is timeless look at all the 60 year olds argueing with 20 year olds about it rofl my moms turning 70 this year and she introduced me to Sabbath . enjoy it
@infinity small This is defiantly Randy. He has a distinct style about him, one Wylde tried to cover and came close, but nobody can touch. If you listen to Randy's old stuff, and the tribute album. You can hear his perfect fills. A lot of which are the same scale patterns. And absolute spot on arpeggios. A lot like Zakk Wylde's pinch harmonics...just a style that can't be copied.
Let's be fair to Tony Iommi, he is missing his finger tips on 2 or 3 fingers (sorry I forget, exact). More than that, he's not a technical player at all. He wrote amazing Riffs. In fact, without him, Metal would not have turned out the way it did. The entire 80's were about that Intro guitar riff. The genre used it as pop music uses a chorus.
+Zak Edwardz a little bit of fortune for tony was a favoulouse riffmaker for this incident hold his skills, he work with fantasy and a simple idea but precious songs with 2 typical variations , rhandy was so different , his skills in the composition of the song and the solo's classical flavour make it a perfect guitar hero
If Toni Iommi hadn't chopped his fingertips off , they would have never had that metal sound . He had to loosen the strings so it didn't hurt his fingers so much . Plus Geezer Butler's nightmare about a big black shape didn't hurt either .
@PurpleSnowFox - the Phoenix Bros. have been talking about this footage for years with very little evidence they have what they say. One would think they'd have released it or sold it to Ozzy years ago just the guy with his Palladium footage on the new DVD.
Nato i belive this would have been recorded at ppac.Rhoads was killed just before he was scheduled to play the civc center for the diary album.I was at this show,a little known band named Def Leppard opened.
Let's get real ,the original was good for the time. Randy could not stand Black Sabbath, so he was going to just rip this song up and make it more updated and put his genius touch on it !
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In response to Anthony Ritch's comment below, you are WAY off dude. If you know your ass from a hole in the wall about Randy Rhoads, it widely known that Randy did NOT care for Sabbath and hated doing these songs live. For 2 important reasons. 1) He didn't like Black Sabbath and 2) He didn't like doing cover songs in general because he was such an accomplished musician.
1970borntorun Disagree. Saw him live and play guitar myself and this doesn't sound like someone who dislikes playing a cover song. Randy had to spend countless hours coming up with and perfecting the sweet fill licks and awesome solos for the BSabbath songs. Some of which surpass his original Ozzy stuff. The Children of the Grave solo from the KBFH is one of the best solos of all time.
No dude. You totally missed the point of what I meant, I didn't say he didn't play Black Sabbath songs really well, and that he blew away the originals, which he did. What I meant is that Randy didn't LIKE to play covers, and anyone who knows anything about Randy knows he never cared for Black Sabbath prior to joining Ozzy.
biodot88 Sorry brother, it's true Randy mentioned several times not being a "Sabbath fan" & also the solo's are amazing..yes..but Randy improvised these for the most part. He was just that good. He came up with signature licks & after 100 plus shows, they got dialed in, but nearly every song Randy played that he did not write, he played a different solo every night. To the point, he was not a sabbath fan.
Randy really disliked playing these Sabbath tunes. He did whatever he could to add spice to them because I'm pretty sure he just got bored playing them. He must have realized that he had to do these songs but he just didn't like to play them at all.
Damn, to think if it wasn't for that coked up bus driver & bad amateur pilot, we could have had RR on "Speak of the Devil" instead of Brad, although he did a good job.
