Top 5 RANDY RHOADS Solos (RARE FOOTAGE) 

Randy Rhoads has a mesmerizing classical repertoire.

Even after he's been gone all these years, he still manages to blow me away with his solos.

When Randy said, I don't want to stop here, Still breaks my heart. I was 11 years old, when he passed away tragically. My Dad played keyboards for the Allman Brothers band at this time, and he's the one guitar idol my dad approved of, my dad told me that afternoon over a phone call that Randy died. I've never stopped dreaming of what could have been next for Randy.

I was fortunate enough to see Randy on the Diary of a Madman tour in Lansing, Michigan, in February of 1982. Randy died six weeks later. He was so incredible. I remember just staring at his fingers on the fretboard and being blown away. Such a tremendous loss.

I feel that Randy's solo for Goodbye To Romance from the Tribute album is one of the greatest live guitar solos ever recorded.

Such a shame there isn't more, and better quality footage of randy. But I guess the lack of it makes him even more of a legend, heard but not seen, only those who were there know the truth. He's almost like a mythical creature of metal

It's unfair to compare anyone to Randy. Think about how little time he was here. If given another ten years, what could he have done? My God... A virtuoso if there ever was one. RIP Randy

Randys playing was always so melodic in my opinion. Had the abilility to play super flashy technical stuff that was just crazy but it wasnt played just for show. He would tear up an amazing solo in some of the heaviest music of the time and you could sing the passages. Really incredible, game changing talent. Long live his legacy

I'm sorry. Randy was not a shredder. He was an artist. A poet on guitar. His compositions were perfect sonic bliss.

Ozzy was never as happy as he was in those days with Randy Rhodes, he just lit up watching him do his thing, he was genuinely in awe to be singing next to such a talented musician you can just see it on his face.

That over the mountain solo still gives me the chills

DEAR LORD, WHAT A TALENT 🤯🤯🤯🔥🔥🔥

Wow, Randy's playing is always so clean and mesmerizing.

I still get chills listening to his work after all these years...

This guy saved Ozzy's career and Ozzy paid him shit

nothing new,but it is good to see or hear Randy still out there! 3 years of pro work ,albums ,tours,and he is still relevant !

I was a teenager back then, thank you for the memories Randy, RIPower.

Randy taught me everything on guitar I know ,,God Bless Randy Rhoads 🎸

Incredible. Just freakin incredible. RIP

Thanks for the great tribute to Randy. I've seen all the footage before but always appreciate new compilations. The big shame is that there's definitely more footage in the hands of people.. particularly full shows...that Sharon either owns or refuses to pay a fair price for. Especially the capital theater show which the owner has and can't release without Sharon giving him the green light and paying him for it which she's too greedy and cheap to do. The Capital theatre filmed every show in black and white yet the Ozzy show just happened to not get filmed? BS!! They released the part of the palladium show shot by a fan in the reissue of 30 years after the Blizzard and that guy got paid just $600. And no credit for his footage. She's the Lowest of the low. They wouldn't even let the director of the new Randy movie use much of his music with Ozz. He got no cooperation from them or Randy's siblings for some reason which he said was bizarre and made no sense. If the Osbourne family can't control or make millions of of anything released they just refuse to let anything out with Randy and that's a crime considering how little there is to see of him with Ozz. They could have gotten the Holy grail from Bob but refused to pay him a fair price and Cause of that we'll never see any of the home movies he has with Randy as well as all the recordings he has of their shows as well as them writing Blizzard and Diary. It's disgusting that Sharon is basically the keeper of Randy's legacy, memory and history for everything he did after Quiet Riot. No one deserves to be seen in a full show more than Randy!!!

What a perfect blend of his classical background blended with hard rock. Mesmerizing talent has gone way too soon . RIP RANDY ....

Just to hear Randy talking is a treat and rare. We usually only hear his voice through his guitar, a treat also.

My favorite was "Believer". Just a monster heavy riff!! Created by a guitar genius. 🎸

His solos are musically pleasing to the ear

I've listened to so many of the live Randy-Ozzy bootlegs, and the Milwaukee 1982 show was on another level. Randy was playing so aggressively and Ozzy was just out of his mind. There was a definitely a fire in them that night. It must have been magic to be there.

He was absolutely, absolutely, and I say it again, absolutely to good for this world. People just remember, he was just a kid. I get sick to the stomach thinking what he would be like today in 2022. OMG!!

The fact that Mr. Rhodes played that solo on "Revelation (Mother Earth)" without a hint of embellishment or live show shredding, is such a confident thing...to know you wrote a perfect solo, perhaps the greatest ever (In my opinion), and just played it as is, is amazing...goosebump material...

The Best of the BEST! Thank YOU Calidore Robinson for uploading this fantastic video!

For all those that got too see Randy live....I hope you realise how exceptionally lucky you were. What an absolutely phenomenally gifted and talented man he was.😢

In my honest opinion he is the best guitarist that has ever graced the planet

Why, why, why, why!!!!! I’m still depressed about it because it was so senseless. Imagine 1 more album after Diary of a madman. Randy I know you didn’t want to get on that plane. 2 years, just 2 years and everyone still remembers you. A true gentle soul, and a true legend. God Bless you Randy.

Randy to me, is greatest. I have all this, been collecting since 1981. Thank you for the great tribute, to my lifelong hero, and biggest guitar influence......

Absolute genius taking way before his time

Randy Rhoads is the goat 🔥🔥🔥🔥🎸

The solos on Tonight are absolutely magical. All RR’s stuff is amazing to me but Tonight really just hangs with you. Hard to explain. Sounds like his guitar has emotion on that song.

I was about 13 when randy passed, all I could think was.. I hope it was Rudy or tommy, I know that’s mean, but for gods sakes , randy meant that much to me, and I was on my way to guitar class when I heard of his death. Such a small man with Hugh sound. Love u randy

This man did wonders with his guitars.

I cannot thank you enough for this footage , for a lot of it i haven't seen , so after rewatching this for i don't know how many times now , thank you beyond words 🙏🤘🤘✌️

Wow!!! Thank you so much for sharing! Love the slideshow, as well! Truly heartbreaking to think about him being taken from this world so tragically. All he wanted to do was work harder, and get better. Long live RR....long may he reign \m/ \m/

Man, this is some amazing footage! Thank you so much for posting it. There just wasn't enough of Randy playing live which has always bummed me out. This video is a great example of how Randy felt that the solo was an integral melodic part of the song and he wrote them to be a part of each piece of music, not as a place to diddle around and improv. He was really thoughtful about what was put down on the record in terms of his playing and I think that's part of why it holds up to this day. Again, thank you so much for this.

Thanks.Really cool one!!The guitar sound is wonderful!!!!!!

Brilliant! Thank you

Randy Rhoads was a true blessing he was more than just a great guitarist randy came along and showed us all that there were other chords and scales on the guitar that a lot of us had no idea how to apply these to our music Eddie Van Halen a great guitarist of our time did not use these beautiful dark melodic melodies like randy rhoads did effortlessly those were mostly mistakes when we would hit those notes we were just getting a taste of what the young genius was capable of and than sadly he went away what a really nice humble soft spoken young man he was listening to him play on the two albums cranked up even over 40 years later makes me smile and although I’m in my 60s I still say to my wife or friends did you hear that or listen yep I kinda liked that guy

Randy was the best! He was my biggest influence when I started playing guitar. He was far ahead of his time. People forget, Randy was playing like this in the mid 70’s. He was a composer and created masterpiece songs and solos.

Good job with the video. Thanks for the effort to edit and upload.

Awesome! It’s so hard to find Randy footage for some reason. There’s a couple decent sounding clips. Love the revelation one

Ever wonder what Mozart or Beethoven would've sounded like plugged into a Marshall amp? Wonder no more...

Thank you for the post! I was hoping to hear the ending solo of "Tonight"...

Awesome ❤

Now that i listened closley to Randys solos he was not at the peak of his craft before he died, and this shows how great of a guitarist he could have been. He died way before his time and this is the saddest thing.

Simply the best

Excellent content. Thank you! True story: back in the 80’s my best friend Toney & I went to almost every hard rock concert that came to our midsize hometown but we usually bought our tickets the day of the show. Once we heard the DOM tour was coming to our hometown, Ozzy first time, we bought our tickets 3 months in advance. We never did this. However 6 weeks before the show tragedy struck and took one of the best guitarist ever to play rock n roll. So sad 😢

Randy was only in his 20’s and so very humble and talented! I remember when he died, and I think a little piece of us died with him.

Randy was a young man playing some very mature music. Everything he played made sense. I haven't heard anything like him since. He was amazing!

The exploding building at the end was tacky. I saw Ozzy with Randy in Sep. '81. Life changing show for this, at the time, 15 year old. Had tix for April '82. Well, Randy had died in that plane crashing into the garage of a Florida Masion. The April show was postponed until May. Brad Gillis was the guitar player for the rest of the tour. Randy is still an inspiration.

Would love to hear what or how his playing would have evolved! Huge talent

Such musical genius. ✌

August 3 1981 you rocked my socks off best birthday present ever ! Forever grateful 🙏

Thank you for the rare footage. IMHO, Revelation Mother Earth was his finest solo. That being said, his only slide solo in No Bone Movies was really good and a different twist.

Lucky enough to see him twice. His technique and talent were amazing. If you listen to the Tribute album, he sounded the same from night to night.

Hands down, the GOAT of the genre. Not just the technical prowess, the composition, use of space, legato runs at alien speed, one guitar but still a wall of sound and the tone (incendiary).

The biggest fucking shame for Metal and guitar. The loss of this great man. I am an EVH guy no doubt. But Randy is my guy also and the things that were coming were going to shock the world. Of that I am certain. Fucking loss...hard to bear even now. At 17 I was devastated..

❤❤❤❤❤ love Randy

Randy until this day my favorite guitar player, thanks Randy for your legacy

At 14 I thought he was the best then , at 56 I still do. All those shredder s sinse , still the meanest , cleanest , ever. totally amazing

What a HUGE F’ing LOSS to all who would’ve been blessed enough to hear this young man’s gift and to all he would’ve taught. So sad still RIP Randy Rhoads!

The way he introduced classical scales into heavy metal is above and beyond anything anyone can create and it worked

Rest in Peace Randy Rhoads

I just want to take a moment to thank Max Norman for doing such a great job saving Randy's guitar tone on Tribute. Can you imagine if they'd used that terrible delay or double tracking gizmo? Great video...always good to see Mr Rhoads. So little footage.

Greatest!

The guy was phenomenal, sadly missed. You will never hear guitar playing like that again, a true maestro who's feel and sound were unparalleled.

Footage of everyone on the planet but the best guitar player ever non

The best guitarist of his time & One of biggest inspirations off all time. The reason I picked up a Guitar. I can't even imagine what he would have Became after dieing at 25 years old. Such a shame. They say only the good die young? So do the greats!

Taken far too soon in his young life. He was a legend.

He was a master !!

I was at the Albuquerque show , Tingley Coliseum if I remember right , I was 14 years old an uncle of mine took me , sad thing was I was just discovering this music , it wasn’t until a year later I picked up a guitar and found out what a genius Randy was . I still have that ticket stub somewhere $12 to see Ozzy with Randy .

I love Randy sooooo much,I had to have him tattooed on me 🥰

Tommy Aldridge said that he got his first glimpse of Randy's greatness when Randy and Ozzy showed up to one of Gary Moore's rehearsals. Randy and Gary supposedly jammed together for over an hour. Wish they had taped that! Tommy was Gary's drummer at the time.

Geniooooo total, lastima q t fuistes tan rapido y joven..

Congratulations on 6000 views for this amazing Randy Rhodes Videos.

Legend guitarist,love guitarist 🙏🍀❤️👌🎵🎼🎶✌️🎸

He was rockn roll at its best, he would of matured to one of the greatest ever!!!

He was one of short-lived talent,...pioneered heavy metal guitar riffs that showed the new way of playing heavy metal.

I was at the Rochester NY 1981 show. Great concert but too short!

In a recent interview with Zakk Wylde he was asked if audience members always having their phones during shows shooting video ever annoyed him. He said no, and felt everybody experiences live shows their own way. Then he pointed out how little footage exists of Randy Rhodes live, and said if today’s video tech existed when he was a teen he would’ve absolutely been shooting video of Rhodes playing.

Long Live RR!!!!!

Wow that I Don't Know solo is going so much faster than the studio recording. And done flawlessly of course...

*RandyRules!*

Randy Rhoads still the best of the best.

Randy Rhoads My Favourite Guitarist 🎸🤟 I Love You Friend

Tonight Solo is absolutely godly

Man, his sound was sooooo thick!!!

Tremendo 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸

That live cameraman got some amazing shots... Of Rudy.😒

I have been learning the Guitar for a few years now, but i was told if i want to improve hold the Guitar like Randy Rhodes so i did and i have improved a-lot.

GOD

He’s jamming with the best now

Everyone knows those Ozzy albums with Randy wipe the floor with those Halen tarts anyway.

#5 is the Diary tour , same show as over the mountain in new mexico.

Great ending to the video.