Randy Rhoads

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Saw him live a few months before he passed.......amazing.
 
R.I.P. the main reason i ever picked up the guitar and started my love affair with music.
 
I'm a little late to this thread but am about the biggest Randy fan boy ever. I had an interesting talk with a guy last week who knew Randy well and worked with him. Everyone here knows of the guy I spoke to. He was commenting that Randy was truly as nice as everyone makes him out to be, but he certainly wasn't an angel. Also shed some light on the family and the difficulty getting anything Randy related released. That was eye opening to say the least.
 
Randy is and will always be my favorite guitarist. He was truly one of a kind and every time I listen to his music (the OZZY stuff), I am still amazed. His playing is definitely timeless!!! I am glad I had the chance to see him February 8th, 1982 at Cobo Hall in Detroit.
 
I saw him live on my 15th birthday with Def Lep opening. I will forever be thankful to the girlfriend who took me to that show for my birthday.
 
I saw Randy on both of his NY appearances with Ozzy on the Blizzard tour and had tickets to both NY area appearances for the Diary tour but he died about a week and half before the shows.

Ive always liked and respected RR but was never inspired by him. At the time, I didnt play guitar yet and was a full on EVH fanatic. I still loved Randy but guitarwise, my head was in the Eddie camp...

RIP ...
 
Chubtone":3dsf6wag said:
I'm a little late to this thread but am about the biggest Randy fan boy ever. I had an interesting talk with a guy last week who knew Randy well and worked with him. Everyone here knows of the guy I spoke to. He was commenting that Randy was truly as nice as everyone makes him out to be, but he certainly wasn't an angel. Also shed some light on the family and the difficulty getting anything Randy related released. That was eye opening to say the least.
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I'm a Randy nut to a certain degree, he's my biggest influence next to Yngwie. One element I hate is the Randy nuts that are way too extreme in everything Randy. I don't care what hair spray he used or how many times he took a dump in a day LOL. Randy was a great guy, no question about it but a lot of these types put him seated next to Jesus on the right had of God. Randy was a fairly normal and liked to have fun like the rest of us back then and he did drink and occasionally sort a line or two of coke. I somehow don't see Randy sitting in a bar with angel wings on pissing in his drink and handing it back to the server asking them to taste it because he thought it tasted funny :D

Great player, great guy and still to this day can give me goose bumps. I would have loved to hear his solo work as my speculation is he would have been in on the early neo-classical instrumental phase like Yngwie, MacAlpine and Vinnie Moore. At least that is what the Band Jam later in the Diary tour and his classical music love hinted to. For me Randy is what led me to classical music, the darker side showed up on Blizzard and Diary albums vs pop stuff with QR. Sure we had Uli and MS with classical elements to their stuff but so did Randy ;)
 
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