@@kaitlinblankenship5988 I could be wrong, but I believe that Ken was referring to the previous post, from HWG 10IAR .. Whatever the case, you're right Kaitlin,the world would be a better place with Randy Rhoads
I guess the dislikes are people who can't play like Randy don't be pissed neither can 7 billion others play like Randy miss him I saw him n Ozzy I thought Ozzy went to another planet and brought back an alien Randy seemed like he came from another planet
I knew Randy back in the mid 70's we played the Starwood In West Hollywood! He was always friendly and he loved to play guitar and perform! Like Hendrix the world lost agreat talent!
and finished with Dee...*-* usually,when I see great guitarrists, it makes me think:"Damn,I wish I played like him"... but, when I see Randy , it makes me think , "Damn....I wish he was alive!!"
How old was he in his video? I think he was 20.How talented he is!I can hear some classical melodies in his solo.He is my idol.His guitar skills were outstanding, he was a magician.RIP Randy Rhoads...
I heard him do a similar solo when playing with ozzy at the swing auditorium in San Bernardino, Ca in 1981. Not too far away from his burial place. R.I.P. Motorhead opened for that concert.
The 60s had Hendrix. The 70s had Eddie Van Halen/ honarable mention Tony Iommi. The 80s had Randy Rhoads. The 90s had Dimebag Darrell. Those are the guitar gods in my book.
Honorable mentions to Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen and Eric Johnson. Hard to leave out Eric Johnson for the iconic "Cliffs of Dover": ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZUECcou-34A.html
OM friggin GOD....been waiting on this for tooooo long.....any guitar stud wanna step up.....by all means....I'm 55 ,and haven't heard ANYTHING that comes close!
when i watch eddie van halen and steve vai playin´ im allways pwnd after that, but when i look at this i know absolutly know whos my favorite guitar player. Randy Is GOD
In every band there is always one member who stands out and provids some extra entertainment ,with Metallica it was Cliff Burton and with Quiet Riot it was Randy Rhoads both left us too soon.
Greatest guitarist ever! I did a 2 part doc on the History of heaby metal and some poser tried saying that Randy tapped out his triplets like Eddie Van Halen. Randy was a class A Guitarist from birth, Eddie Van Halen played piano then jumped to guitar later on. Randy was asked if he was influenced by Eddie once at a guitar tech. Randy laughed, said n, then said that they bothed played in the same area, a polite way of saying Eddie was influenced by him. God bless his beautiful soul
I disagree with that claim strongly! Eddie had classical roots as did randy, but started on guitar. They both had their own styles. Randy was more classicaly influenced and technically knowlegable. Were Eddie was self taught and came up with his own style of playing invention a style everybody today now uses. Tho it wasnt just a flashy trick tapping rhe fret board. Was just how he played. Both amazing musicians. R.i.p both
@@traviswhite771 Don't get me wrong, I love Eddie, but, he was a 1 trick pony, came out of the starting gates strong, ground breaking sound and style, but was the same wthroughout his career, Randy perpetually got better, Rudy even said, listen to the latest live as possible caause he was always getting better and taking lessons on tour, Eddie drank and snorted and never tried to get better, and why should he, everyone was already prasing him, but he is a rock star and randy a true musician
+Kissteria595 Created 2 albums in short notice, was about to make a third, got killed in a plane crash. Really no competition between Eddie and Randy. Randy died, so it's not fair, as we do not know how he would've evolved.
You people are so uneducated about guitarists, uli jon roth, michael schenker and steve morse were playing like this long before eddie or randy were in their bands
Lol. Which doesn't explain why Randy was stealing Eddie's riffs for his own stage show. Who's the real guitar god then? It's cool that Randy was paying tribute to Eddie's unearthly playing, but let's not forget who Randy was lifting those Eruption riffs from. Randy is like Satriani, Stevie Vai, and Malmsteen, in that he is able to play sweet, powerful, and masterfully. But what set Eddie apart was that he not only could play like those folks, but he could also lay down iconic, brutal, stadium rock riffs that others to this day are still covering. In that respect, Eddie Van Halen was in the same league as Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and Jimi Hendrix in terms of his overall contribution with his uniquely new way of playing and his ability to compose riffs that entire songs were build around. He wasn't just a speed solo hack. EVH was at the very top of the history of Gods of guitar music. Rhodes was a fantastic player to be sure. But let's not confuse both their levels of ability and contribution.
Apparently Eddie Van Halen was kind of a dick to Randy. I read somewhere that Randy met Eddie back stage one time and asked how his guitar stayed in tune without locks on his guitar. Eddie refused to tell him because it was his secret. But despite all the things he and his band mates said about Randy, Randy actually saw Eddie at his local music store waiting in line to buy a copy of Diary of a Madman. And, apparently Eddie went to go see Randy more than Randy went to go see Eddie.
Randy Rhoads is my all-time favorite guitarist. He showed everybody how they SHOULD be playing guitar, and how to fuse all kinds of music into one sound seemlessly without sounding out of place. He fused his classical training into his guitar not just to play ridiculously fast notes i.e. Malmsteen, but to allow himself more when freestyling and improvisations. When he died, he was about to quit Ozzy and teach at Julliard. Many students lost out on a great teacher when he died way too soon!
That’s a relatively small guitar. My seven year old niece can wear one. Shows you just how small Randy was.. tiny little dude but every part of himself he could express sound with was larger than life. Rip dude!
Imagine a time and area where you could see Randy Rhoads, Eddie Van Halen and George Lynch! Too bad we got ripped out of seeing Randy's full potential!
He hasn't changed it because who TF cares about Quit Riot? Yeah, they had a couple of hits after he left and were big for about fifteen minutes in the early 80s, but how many people remember ANY of their names now? (I don't, and I was there for it!) But anybody who knows guitar knows about Randy Rhoads! Lesson: If you're good at what you do, _DIE YOUNG!_ Otherwise you'll hit middle-age and fuck it all up, and then people will be saying "Hey, remember that guy who used to be... ?" [Response: "Who?"] Next thing you know, you're a judge on 'America's Got Idols' and before you know it you're claiming the moon landings were faked as you campaign in support of d****d t***p.
Randy shows real versatile expression, and shame on those nit pickers, without living through this period you will never know the true context of Randy's impact on the kids of the day. He was the reason millions of kids took up guitar, and guitar world was a snobs paradise, Randy Rhodes was not a sacred cow back then, he was hot news for us tho, an amazing kid - so confident, we were awestruck, he'd entered a realm, thanks to being endorsed by Ozzy, and this is a real gem - Randy pre-Oz fabulous
Randy gave and Randy was taken away :'( I wasnt born when he was soloing himself into fame such a young age of raw talent I can't imagine if the plane crash never happened and if he was still here today I started listening to him and Ozzy at a young age in the 90s my older brother gave me Randy's tribute album the sound of his guitar just stuck with me throughout my life remains my favorite guitarist
I remember I used to own the original album of Quiet Riot with Randy on it. When I moved to Hawaii I stored my albums at my aunts house, and she later decided it was a good idea to store the albums in the rain. AGHHH!!! over 300 albums collected from early 70's to late 80's all ruined
Absolutely right. In the 80s, for the long years after Randy died all us fans BEGGED for video of him. Anything, even a scrap of something. Then the After Hours recordings were released at some point and they went around. Years later RU-vid was born but it still took a while before any decent Randy footage emerged. But here it is. At long last. If only footage from Randy's classic days with Ozzy were to finally appear. I mean that's what we all want to really see- that live footage. We know it's out there.
@Pumkinone "well known"? As a fan of hard rock for more than 30 years and a huge fan of both Rhoads and Van Halen, I have never heard of such a story and I highly doubt it is true. How about some documentation to support your outrageous claim? It is not believable that EVH would walk off a stage anywhere because he felt dwarfed by anyone. Google searches for this alleged incident all return nothing.
No he wrote Metal health. it's far better! and every song he wrote with Ozzy had 17-33 chords. stairway to heaven has 27. most of Led zepp wasn't filled with so much. But then again theres only one Jimmy page. Zeppelin will be around forever or until the fall of man. Randy was the best in his era.
An interesting note, the concert at the Swing auditorium was on 6/25/81,a plane stuck the auditorium on 9/11/81. The auditorium had to be torn down because of the damage.
he wasnt leave ozzy forever.he just want to study classical guitar some time.surelly he would back after a while,and he would been even a better guitarist.
@milkman52879 Yeah, I think so, too. Randy said it just killed him that he did some things like van halen did , like the live solo he did here. I still love it though as well as Eddie's eruption. Then Jeff Watson of Night Ranger did 8 finger tapping, then Stanley Jordan( jazz guy) did 2 handed playing, then Vai and Satriani took it further, then Vai and Michael Angelo used double backward neck guitars. I still like eddie and randy's tapping the best.
@magicmanyea I love heavy metal and death metal, but I still think it's got a long way to go before we get music that is as good as Van Halen , Ozzy, Queen , Zeppelin, Rush, etc... I like Slayer, and some early Metallica, but most of what's out there is disappointing to me. The technique's better, but I don't think the newest Drop Tuning bands can write songs yet. I've discovered Sabbath, and I wish I had heard them earlier. Is Triuvium, Shadows Fall , Children of Bodom, Lamb of God any good?
practice like Neil Peart, and they make the same pay as someone like Alex Van Halen who never continued to learn & practice. If he had the same work ethics in the real world the would be on the unemployment line, quick! I love VH when I was young but the more I grew & learned I started to loose repect for them. Great song writers always though. Yeah, an America is musically supressed by the main stream music media. Lot of great talent, none make it to the spotlight here anymore :(
