Flying High Again, Randy Rhoads Isolated Guitar Track, Cool

[zz666]

Checkout the bonus disc 'Ozzy Live' that came with the 30th Anniversary box set, best Randy show out there.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

I think it sounds incredible.. goes to show how cutting the tones were in the 80's vs. the mush that everyone seems to go after now. (sometimes referred to as "smooth") The double tracking solos seem to me like they might also be slightly delayed to one side in order to fill out the sonic spectrum. Besides that, as was mentioned, rush recording as this was done during a short tour break for Blizzard I thought. I'd love to be able to get cutting tones like that on recordings.

 

[petejt]

What do you think of this tone?

It has a lot of zing to it.



Sounds a little harsh on its own, but when played with a solid bass, a drumkit, and vocals- it'll roar over the crowd.

 

[petejt]

I think it sounds incredible.. goes to show how cutting the tones were in the 80's vs. the mush that everyone seems to go after now. (sometimes referred to as "smooth") The double tracking solos seem to me like they might also be slightly delayed to one side in order to fill out the sonic spectrum. Besides that, as was mentioned, rush recording as this was done during a short tour break for Blizzard I thought. I'd love to be able to get cutting tones like that on recordings.

Just turn the mids up, and point the microphones towards the speaker cones.

 

[sjk]

Love Randy, but...That was tough to listen too. Sorry.

My exact thoughts as well. Started playing guitar 3 yrs after he died and he was a huge influence on me early on. I still like to hear these old Ozzy songs occasionally but his playing does nothing for me now, groundbreaking guitar stuff for the times but for my tastes so many greater guitar players have come along since imho.

 

[moltisanti]

The thing that jumps out at me is how loud the amp sounds, that thing sounds like it was blowing the windows out

 

[SLOgriff]

Love it!!

By the way...George Lynch is the one who showed Randy that descending "tapping" lick at the end of the solo. Lynch uses a similar tapping run on the Turn On The Action solo. George used to teach at Dee Rhodes studio as well.

 

[metalmaniac93]

Love it!!

By the way...George Lynch is the one who showed Randy that descending "tapping" lick at the end of the solo. Lynch uses a similar tapping run on the Turn On The Action solo. George used to teach at Dee Rhodes studio as well.

Yeah, but wasn't the similar tapping at the end of the Tooth and Nail solo? I just read that somewhere in an intreview this year.

 

[wheelman]

Love it especially the rhythm in the beginning. I don't know shit about effects are there any on that intro riff?

 

[thiswaythatway]

Track? A little misleading don't you think? I'd like to hear just 1 guitar for a track, not 5.


And if Randy had Michaels Schenker's tone.....................then perfect.

 

[SLOgriff]

Love it!!

By the way...George Lynch is the one who showed Randy that descending "tapping" lick at the end of the solo. Lynch uses a similar tapping run on the Turn On The Action solo. George used to teach at Dee Rhodes studio as well.

Yeah, but wasn't the similar tapping at the end of the Tooth and Nail solo? I just read that somewhere in an intreview this year.

OOPS! You are right...It is Tooth and Nail, not T.O.T.A.

 

[squank]

I'll probably get flamed for this, but I don't think his tone was that great. I played the crap out of these releases, despite what is less than great tone imo.

You won't get flamed for that. The general internet consensus is that Randy Rhoads had horrible tone. There have been 9,000,000 threads about it on every forum. It seems to be mainly Monday morning quarterbacking by people who weren't really even into music at the time or kids who think amps have always had as much low end as modern amps.

At that time, I thought Rhoads live tone was incredible. It was when I saw him. I had two bootleg live tapes from way before Tribute came out and Randy's tone on them was great. Personally, I think Max Norman should be shot for taking a tone like what you hear on the After Hours show live and making it sound like the first album and to a much lesser extent Diary did.

Yes, I agree. His tone on the The King Biscuit Show (Montreal 7/31/81) was awesome. It is my favorite Randy boot and I played the crap out of it back in the day. Good thing I have a CD version of this show and many others!!

It was definitely a great show.

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/concerts/player.html?type=concert&ConcertID=20050571|5255

 

[chunktone]

Love it!!

By the way...George Lynch is the one who showed Randy that descending "tapping" lick at the end of the solo. Lynch uses a similar tapping run on the Turn On The Action solo. George used to teach at Dee Rhodes studio as well.

Diary of a Madman-1981

Tooth and Nail-1984

 

[overthemountain]

Love it! Randy was & is still a big influence on me- I think the guitars on Flying High Again just sound massive.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

Randy's descending lick is much cooler than Lynch's on the tooth and nail solo so Randy for the win even if he did "borrow" it from Lynch.

 

[soc_monki]

Love Randy, but...That was tough to listen too. Sorry.

My exact thoughts as well. Started playing guitar 3 yrs after he died and he was a huge influence on me early on. I still like to hear these old Ozzy songs occasionally but his playing does nothing for me now, groundbreaking guitar stuff for the times but for my tastes so many greater guitar players have come along since imho.

but just think of what he could (and probably would have) accomplished if he would have lived. think of how he would have evolved and how much ground he would have broken years after his Ozzy gig. personally, Randy is still and always will be my favorite guitarist ever. all the things he did in such a short time frame...sure there are players who are better, cleaner, whatever you want to say, but Randy influenced many of the players to come along since he died. me included!

would love to have seen what he could have done...

 

[Chubtone]

And if Randy had Michaels Schenker's tone.....................then perfect.

I loved Michael Schenkers tone, but he was really getting a still vintagey sounding, 70's ish Marshall tone whereas Randy was really the first one getting a very high gain, metal sound. Randy's sound was so modern for the time. I had never heard anyone play with that much gain and it truly did sound so heavy for the time.

And as for George Lynch teaching Randy that descending tapping lick, maybe he did. But George I'm sure picked up the tapping thing from Eddie. All any of them did was just move it around from there. And George did teach at Randy's moms school. Randy asked him to after Randy left to join Ozzy's band. George also turned Randy on to Karl Sandoval and Charvel guitars.

 

[Chubtone]

Love Randy, but...That was tough to listen too. Sorry.

My exact thoughts as well. Started playing guitar 3 yrs after he died and he was a huge influence on me early on. I still like to hear these old Ozzy songs occasionally but his playing does nothing for me now, groundbreaking guitar stuff for the times but for my tastes so many greater guitar players have come along since imho.

I think there are very few guitarists that came along after him that wrote better songs, cooler riffs and better constructed and composed solos.

There have been many players with better chops, but very few that combined all three of the above things in one player.

What long list of players are you referring to? Not a challenge, just a legit question trying to see where you are coming from.

I also feel players who started playing three years after he died might not have the full perspective on what sort of impact the guy had because if you started three years after, you probably weren't very good until 5 years after he died at least and by that point, everything Randy did had become a part of the heavy guitar vocabulary.

At the time Randy came out all we did was look at each other, dumbfounded, asking "what was that? how did he do that? Is that even a guitar? What blues box is he in because I can't find those freaking notes in MY blues box? Why can't my Marshall sound like that? How can I get my hair to look like that?" I mean, the whole scene changed from being EVH obsessed to being Randy AND EVH obsessed. And Randy was darker, more metal, meaner, scarier, more sinister and evil sounding and his impact was just freaking huge.

 

[Chubtone]

 

[zz666]

Hey Curt, I love the track under this, nice playing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdGabfQm ... el&list=UL