ZerovoreZ Zen I hear you. I actually saw an article that said Slash and November Rain was the greatest solo ever. WTF. is wrong with people. I think Revelation Mother Earth is a one of Randys most under rated and Diary of Madman is perhaps his greatest composed song ever. So sad he pass at such a young age. He was just getting started.
***** Yes and he was the first to do so. I often wonder how is work would have grown had he lived. He was so young and just getting started as a professional, Very sad
The reason I play guitar to this day. Not trying to sound cliche but his music just touched me from the first time I heard it. Rest in peace Randy you are still missed by your fans
I bought my fist guitar 2 dayd after he passed, I was 14yrs old. Eventually learned every song on blizzard and diary. Still play some of them to this day to impress my grandkids.
Just imagine being Ozzy, on top of the world, writing timeless songs in collaboration with a virtuoso that will endure for all time...and then it was over.
According to a video I saw on Randy he was leaving Ozzy at the end of tour so he could return to school to complete his degree in Classical music. And, he didnt like the drugs and all that with Ozzy.
3:22 tells so much of a story. So melodic. I don't know if Randy knew how deep of a feeling this lick instilled in all of us. And ends with holy balls at 3:57 Thank you, Randy!
Van Halen's first 4 albums were great. Randy and Ozzy's Two albums are still Epic, knowing what Eddie was capable of I'd still take Randy over Eddie any Day Just like I take Roth over Sammy
Are you kidding me? The Pink Floyd guitar solo in Comfortably Numb is superior because it fits the mood of the song perfectly instead of just throwing it in there for the sake of having a guitar solo.
@@AtomGill saw Malmsteen with Lita Ford around 85. The guy is a wizard on guitar. But of all the guitarist in the world, I've never heard better arranged solos than RR. He was in the stratosphere.
It always cracked me up how big a Les Paul looked on Randy. Like a fucking ES or something. It's amazing the influence and style he brought in 14 months between Blizzard and Diary. A true genius. Imagine what he would have done...
He was absolutely going to quit and go back to get his degree at U.S.C. for classical music after the live album - which he did not want to do. Randy hated playing Sabbath songs. Randy, was one heck of a nice guy. He just wanted to open a school and teach.
Only someone with a heart like Randy's could own a song about Mr. CROWLEY and make it sound so very sad and touching... I cry every time I hear these solos.
Enjoy taking the Crazy Train straight to hell cuz that's where he Ozzy and many others are sadly headed. We know who the song is about. The only sad thing about it is how many people have been duped by the master of lies and deceit and destruction. Wikipedia excerpt: Anton Szandor LaVey (born Howard Stanton Levey; April 11, 1930 - October 29, 1997) was an American author, musician, and Satanist. He was the founder of the Church of Satan and the religion of Satanism.He authored several books, including The Satanic Bible, The Satanic Rituals, The Satanic Witch, The Devil's Notebook, and Satan Speaks.
Interestingly enough, Ozzy told him to improvise the solo from Mr Crowley. Randy spent a lot of time trying to come up with a solo to this song, and Ozzy told him everything he was coming up with sucked. So he told Randy to not plan anything, just go in and play....to improvise. It made Randy very nervous, but he did it, and this is the version that was kept. Brilliant!
In the years between ride the lightning and master of puppets James Hetfield was very melodic and has a similar orchestrated sound as well. Very intricate and when Kirk hammet added the dual chorus sound was just amazing. I’ve always been influenced by RR Hetfield and Darrell Abbott
I got to see Ozzy and Blizzard of Oz tour with Randy Rhoades in 1980 during a stop in Dayton Ohio, it was one best concerts I ever been too. As a youngster. everyone wanted to play like him.
Eddie said that his own playing was the equivalent of "falling down the stairs and landing on your feet". I think Randy's playing was more structured. He crafted amazing stuff in the studio and then went crazy live. He was brilliant, and we can only guess at the music that he would have given us, had he lived.
Bob Daisley has a bunch of unheard Randy recordings from the 2 records he did with Ozzy. I hope someday he releases them. I would love to hear the outro solo to Tonight isolated and in its entirety.
Ozzy and Sharon treated Bob Daisley badly. Bob sued them over unpaid royalties that he felt entitled for his song writings. Doubt if Bob would be willing to release the precious trove of recordings anytime soon.
I know it's been 2 years but I hope you know you can listen to the end of tonight in an interview Ozzy has with someone who has the original recordings
Demonic sorrow that's because Eddie basically did. VH put out 6 discs in the 80's and that's not even counting VH 1&2 where Eddie was redefining rock guitar where as Randy was dead within the first 3 months of 82! That's not a slam on RR by any stretch but he simply didn't get the same amount of time as Eddie not to mention as well Rhoads would've been done after that tour as he put his notice in,so we don't know what else he would've or even could've done to the end of the decade.
One of the most important and influential guitarrists of all time!! Thanks for your fantastic legacy and for all "monsters" that you created!! R.I.P. Master, Mr. Randy Fucking Rhoads!
So few guitarists can play with such speed while retaining a melodic aspect to their solos. His playing was remarkable. I love that we can all enjoy something like this.
Rhoads would be universally recognized across all genres as one of the all time greats, if he had never gotten on that damn plane. He was just getting started. As it was, only in hard rock/metal is he given his proper due.
I remember when I was very young, about 4 years old. I'd walk by my brothers room who is a really big Ozzy fan, but anyway, I'd walk by his room and I'd hear the roaring guitar of Mr. Crowley. I was so frightened but so awestruck by it and it just blew my mind how a guitar can sound so loud and roaring. Randy has such an intimidating tone.
Guitar notes that can bring a tear to an eye is composed with love and heart. I got the upmost respect for Randy Rhoads. A true genius in composing classical into metal. God... What an age to pass away..
It is just wrong that he died so young, one can only imagine the music he had yet to make. Rock or classical, whatever was in his heart (he talked of taking a break from rock and focus on classical just before his death). He would have taken things to new places.
Frederik Eilertsen hey dumbass Rhoads did NOTHING..Steve Howe from YES did this style of playing Years before Rhoads was nothing more than a good Guitarist and thats were it ends he wasn't anything more ..end of story
@@angelojrichetti7705 I agree and those 2 ozzy records are overated aswell. Dying young and tragically made randy Rhodes super famous and overated if he lived and made a couple of bad records he would be forgotten by now. Rip to him that's just the reality Imo. Iommi was far more creative and made some of the best riffs and solo's off all time.
We are the blessed ones, I stood right in front of Randy twice the last time was 3 weeks and 6 days before his passing in Leesburg, Fl.. Hey it’s nice to meet you my friend ….
Saw him play 1 month before he passed. Awesome does not describe his playing till you hear him live and realize that the guitars he played are almost bigger than him but the tones he got were larger than life itself no one has ever duplicated that.
This is the only song that I can sit and listen through the whole song with just an isolated guitar from Randy...it's that good!! It's a song on it's own without anything else. Randy Rhoads is a genius!
Truly an inspiration! It’s like if Randy was telling a Story with all his riffs and solos. A very talented musician. First song I ever learned was Dee. Rip brotha! #goat
What I LOVE about Randy's recordings (other than the amazing and tasteful playing) is that he doubles the guitars (sometimes more) but they aren't PERFECTLY in sync. It seems so much of today's metal (and music in general) corrects every little nuance "to the grid". The little differences are erased and, for me, it is those little differences that make the whole track much more interesting. It provides a wider stereo field (this, btw, is an old orchestration trick) and makes it feel like more than one person is playing. With modern drum replacement and guitars perfectly in sync it creates a wall of sound that doesn't work as well for me. Of course, in Randy's day, to correct these differences was much more time consuming. You basically had to punch in until each phrase was perfect. Today, just go to lunch and let the second engineer cut and paste and tweak on the computer. So much of the music's soul is lost in that process.
David Whiting Randy was not perfect and that's the point. But the differences I am talking about aren't even "mistakes" or glaring differences (though some of those do exist), what I mean are the small differences of playing the part again. NO ONE plays it precisely the same. But in today's metal, guitar and drum tracks are often surgically "repaired" so that they are so close as to be indistinguishable by anyone. THAT is the problem. When you have 12 violins play, they all don;t play exactly the same. There are very subtle pitch and rhythmic differences (along with timbral differences due to different instruments, technique and even mic position).... This is what creates the "ensemble sound". This is what is created in Randy's recordings.
The reason you hear that in Randy's playing is because of how he recorded. He would place 3 mics at varying distances from the amp and so get that slightly doubled sound in an analog manner. Bob Daisley tells a story about why he thinks Randy is the GOAT: he literally could play any piece he mastered exactly the same way every time.
Mr. Crowley is the most my favorite Randy's guitar play while he played music with Ozzy! I can feel his passion, strong energy , emotion, and his everything! Thank you very much for sharing his guitar play. I enjoyed it a lot!😍🤩👍🎸
when you combine 2 amazing genres like classical and rock, the result can be a either a disaster or a beautiful thing. Fortunately, Randy showed us that there is hope for greatness in this mix.
His small build and presumably small hands are not what stopped him from being a lot more flashy than this. Being a classical guy, he just loved melody and wisely preferred meticulously composed solos over the flash and style that ultimately dug the grave of 80s rock guitar. But that takes nothing away from his talent as an improviser. He was such a complete musician, the full package indeed.
Wow we get the full ending. Awesome. It just goes to show what an incredible metronome player he was those sixtuplets really show his command of guitar. Most interesting is u get a sense of how they engineered this from a recording standpoint. At first I heard what seemed like punches for each phrase during the solos. However after a couple of listens it’s actually a ton of compression and I hear a lot of boosting at 1khz and 4khz. Very interesting also hear the analog reverb on that guitar and some nature echo from that barn studio they were recording at. Sounds like multiple mics on the Marshall. Very interesting when the layers are peeled back.
Damn I'm so glad I found this gem. God Randy was the very best......... Damn!!! Thank you so much for posting. Now I hear how wrong I've played this for twenty five years....
The sound is a bit shrill, and if you recreate it in your bedroom without a bassist and a drummer its going to sound awful. But if you put a les paul custom through a dimed a marshall with a distortion+ and a band backing you its epic.
Amazing. The speed, accuracy and dexterity. He was truly one of the greats. Sorely missed, especially considering you can only imagine what kind of music he'd be making today. Actually, it's hard to imagine.
Ahead of his time , his music was beautiful so unique my favorite of the 80s metal shredders sorry Eddie you were amazing, but Randy was so different and he was flawless in his skills. Long live his music and his memory. 🎸💯🤘
Randy , God bless to this day your guitar music brings me to a place of solace . Your touch on Your solos is sacred to me and still can bring tears to my eyes . I think there are a few that can cover your music . They imitate it and sound good but nobody can duplicate the rawness nor the fury you could emulate through your guitar R.I.P.
I will never forget the first time I heard this solo. Changed my life forever and gives me goosebumps to this day. He was just getting started when he died.
His structure is mind blowing. He makes that Les Paul sound like an orchestra, but that SOLO!Talk about expression! Nobody will ever touch his work. Period. The beauty of his playing can bring tears to your eyes. R.I.P Great one.
So sweet, so incredibly melodic, sounds so perfectly harmonious yet so sinister. Randy was a true musical prodigy and master of his instrument. Some of us feel Randy has proven himself to be the best guitarist ever mainly from just his 2 albums of work with Ozzy. At 24 he had attained as high a level of proficiency on his instrument as anyone ever has...but I think it was his timing ability (picking, time signature & tempo shifting) that made his music so live, so absolutely amazing and better than any other player I've ever heard! He practically godfathered a new genre of heavy metal music, was a major influence to rock guitarists ever since and STILL is today. Randy resurrected Ozzy's career straight out of hell, with the speed & subtlety of a thermonuclear explosion, while handicapped by Ozzy's unique but awful vocal range…his other band mates’ best, was barely more than a hindrance to the young master’s skills. Playing the guitar however, wasn’t his only talent. Oh yes, as great of a guitar player as he was, I think Randy was an even better composer. His classical training and musical knowledge, composition skills and understanding how to apply musical theory, was used to create his masterpieces, that makes him second to none and I think pushes him over the top, makes him the best ever. If a piece makes you emotional, feel like crying…that’s primarily from the arrangements and composition itself… minors, modes, etc… tone is secondary… I always get a laugh when some people commented elsewhere about how guys like EVH are the more musically superior players to Randy Rhoads…or faster or whatever …of course Eddie is fantastic, I like him a lot, no doubt a legendary guitarist, an innovator, sound effects wiz, blues pentatonic style, but Eddie VH is not in the class of a Randy Rhoads or is as knowledgeable of a “musician” of real music, like RR. Some even compare The Edge, or Dave Mustaine, even Kurt Cobain (WTF?), as “technically” (?) better guitarists than RR??? Holy fucking idiots, Batman!!
This description perfectly fits Jason Becker except he was only 16 years old when he wrote his song "Altitudes" I 100% guarantee you all will thank me by blessing you with one of the best guitarists along with his teacher who was even better. Both of them have surpassed Rhoads for sure just LISTEN TO HIS SONG.
You have to remember that Randy brought classical and metal together like they were never merged before... I mean Blackmore did it but Randy brought it to the masses. Humble, sweet, modest, and most of all, a great songwriter. Ozzy was smart to record those first two albums together or we wouldn’t of had Diary of a Madman. Thank you Randy for making being a guitar player in the early eighties challenging and fun.
You can really feel Randy’s spirit this time of year. ❤️ Rest In Peace man. You really did more to the world then you would ever realize. Your music had energy and power. It had structure and order as well as chaos and fluidity. It had sadness and despair as well as love and illumination. Thank you.
Hair on my arms are standing up...as tears run from my eyes! Randy Rhoads is unbelievable! Thanks for sharing this, man what talent at such a young age, can only image what he planned for that 3rd Ozzy album, he wanted to make it better than the first 2! God I can't wait to meet him up in "God's Tavern" and hear him play...(but not for another 40-50yrs..lol)
