Ozzy Osbourne/Randy Rhoads - Flying High Again Live from Milwaukee 

talsmano What experts, show one quote where somebody said that.How exactly would you determine that. That would be just pure speculation. Would he have gotten better after getting a degree in classical music, yes, and just maturing as a person would have helped, but to say he was at a certain percentage is ridiculous.

@@josephgurtler9674 Well...He recorded two albums with Quiet Riot. I believe that they were over in Japan. One came out in 1978, and the second in 1979. His style, at that time, was mostly straight-ahead Rock. For much of them, there are merely hints at what he played on 1980s' Blizzard of Oz album. For the most part, to me, he hadn't found his way yet. I would think that Randy really started working with modes while teaching, between Quiet Riot 2 and getting the gig with Ozzy. You can certainly hear it in any of those later live gigs with Quiet Riot, near the end of his tenure with that band, and it's all over those two Ozzy albums. He was still developing his style when he passed away, transitioning towards a more classical or neoclassical style. I don't know about 80%, but he was definitely still evolving, moving towards classical themes. Much of his modal playing leaned towards ascending scale runs, which he often played legato, hammering up three note per string patterns, across multiple strings (listen to "Believer" for an example). His staccato playing was more or less Pentatonics with the flat 5 added, and not so much alternate picking. I could see him adding alternate picking into his playing later, but we can't really know, because he died. He was a great player, who hadn't peaked, for sure.

From what I heard is that it was a lick that George Lynch was playing with and Randy appropriated it!