I am a pianist with no conceivable guitar skills whatsoever so I may be just pulling this out of my ass, but to me what has always separated Randy from everyone else is how "clean" he plays. Every note has a distinct start and finish and they never run together. To my layman ears, the level of precision that you hear when Randy is playing is unmatched by anyone else I have heard, Eddie Van Halen included.

Delores Rhoads once said Randy’s posture and how he held the guitar and positioned his arms/hands was all by design too. He was astute and always improving his skills. He never put the guitar down and wanted to continue to learn from other teachers until the day he passed. As polished as he was he was still very humble. I miss him every day and hope to see him on the other side. God Bless and Rest In Peace Randy and Delores.

My opnion Randy is the best of all time

NEVER interrupt a Randy Rhoads lead.

The outro for Mr. Crowley is so well put together that it feels like it could go on forever. I, for one, would still be listening to it if it did.

Never ever ever pause on a Randy Rhoads solo ever again! You're a guitar teacher, you should know this. 💜💜

St. Randy!!! Just came across your channel. It's awesome!

Randy was classically trained. His knowledge of scales and music theory is evident in his compositions.

I’m one of the lucky ones , I actually got to see Randy play live in May 1981 and was blown away at the Orpheum theater in Boston ! Absolutely love Randy it totally sucks that he was killed so young !!!

Randy is the goat truly

Randy played with emotion, precision. A wicked fire breathing attack with gentle undertones of elegance. Hendrix & Randy !!!

I played electric guitar as a passion because Eddie Halen Halen, Randy Rhodes, Steve Vai ,and TheDooo have inspired me to play guitar. The songs that inspired me was Mr. Crowley, Eruption, For the love of god, and ascend. RIP to both Eddie and Randy. We will never forget how many lives you guys impacted. Rock on in a better place.

Got lucky. Saw Randy play in Hamilton Ontario. Wicked!

I saw him live twice in 1981. He made the guitar a part of him! Great showman! Wish we could have got more music from him! He’s the reason I play!

Man, appreciate the video. Randy was and is still my favorite guitarist. Eddie is a very close second. RIP to both of them. They, along with Tony Iommi, we're the reason I picked up the guitar. Thanks man.

Can't forget "Childen of the Grave" on the Tribute album. Such an amazing and beautiful song, and solo.

Randy Rhodes was a gift from the Guitar Gods! EVH and Randy will live on as legendary in the world of rock and roll. SRV was unreal and the best blues guitarist I have herd.

When it comes to EVH and RANDY RHOADS, they are two completely different players. EVH is a lot of tapping, bending, kicked in the Ass harmonics and he invented so many things that changed hard rock guitar forever including the brown sound and how he achieved it. He was the pioneer for the brown sound that changed the entire game! But after DLR left I kind of gave up on VH for awhile. I just couldn’t comprehend VH without Diamond Dave. But in the end, EVH’s guitar playing on those albums was still dope. Randy was more of an astute player as we all know he was a great teacher for many years. He was constantly playing all day and night his girlfriend Jody once said. He would just stand there whirling out scales while he talked to you at the same time. His left hand and fingers had absolute magic in them! He was a perfectionist with his playing and knew music theory inside and out. Like EVH, Randy took rock guitar to a whole new level with the classical knowledge and flavor in his playing. I saw both (EVH 3 times) and Randy once. Jan-15-1982 Met Center, Bloomington Mn. That arena was well known for its great sound when live rock bands played. I must have seen 100 concerts there growing up. When I saw Randy Play he drew you in as people stared in amazement at what Randy was doing. It seemed everyone was so drawn into Randy that they would forget about Ozzy as he forgot lyrics and was most likely drunk and coked up as was his usual routine As Randy’s polka dot flying V nearly dwarfed his small athletic frame what you were hearing and seeing felt like a freight train barreling down on you. There was a Blizzard that Friday night and myself and 3 other friends didn’t even know if we could get to the show on time or at all. We finally coaxed a friends mom into driving through that Snow and gusting winds. I remember feeling an eerie sensation that The Blizzard Of Ozz was in town 👹. We were all hearing about the antics Ozzy was doing in his shows and the media reporting animal abuses etc. It was effing epic how I felt and the memories I still have of that show being only 12 years old. I was an early adolescent trouble maker smoking lots of pot and enjoying my early years. I have 3 older siblings that introduced me to all the greatest music. I remember when I dropped the needle on the vinyl of Van Halen’s debut self titled album, I was completely blown away by EVH’s blistering sound, and the wicked sounding intro to Running With The Devil with the car horns as they slowed the tape down, Then Michael Anthony’s staccato bass runs, Alex’s drumming, and DLR’s screaming vocals. It felt like I had run a marathon just after hearing the first two songs! I can’t believe it was 1978. A long time ago now. I was only 9 years old. But I was introduced to all of this early on. My first concert was the Bay City Rollers in 1976, Bhahahahahahahaha😂. They were so cheesy looking back now. You see, my mom had to drag me along to all of these shows because I wasn’t old enough to stay home alone. My siblings were 8,6, and 2 years older than me, so I got to see many bands at a young age. I think it was the doobie brothers I saw next around that same year. With Van Halen I saw them during the Fair Warning tour, Diver Down, and 1984. EVH was so good and those concerts in Van Halen’s early years were so damn good! So, just 2 months after seeing Randy in January I was riding the school bus home from school when someone said Ozzy died in a plane crash! I was like, Huh???? WTF. Is Randy ok? Nobody knew and I was oblivious to what happened. I was getting a bad feeling in my gut because I wasn’t sure what happened and who were alive or dead???? So as soon as I got off the school bus I ran home so I could turn on the radio to find out what happened. When I heard the DJ say RANDY RHOADS WAS DEAD my heart sank, it was like being punched in the gut! I didn’t want to believe it.🥵 I kept trying to hear if maybe it was a false report, but it wasn’t. Randy was gone taking with him all of the incredible music that was yet to come. That was one of the worst days in music history. We all lost something when Randy was killed. The world was a much better place with Randy in it. I felt so sorry for everyone, especially his mother Delores. It was hard to move forward, but we had no other choice. I finally just got pissed off at the whole event. Then when Bark at the moon came out I couldn’t even get myself to listen to it. NO disrespect to Jake E Lee, he’s a fine player, but it wasn’t Randy. And I couldn’t move on from him. I didn’t want to, and to this very day I still have that feeling. What could have been…….. Anyhow, I’m rambling way too long. One other tidbit. I had a 1968/69 Les Paul Black Beauty. That guitar was the greatest playing and sounding guitar I ever owned. Randy was my hero and I loved him so much I sent it to Gibson in 1996 to have it refinished in Randy’s White/ cream colored aged look. I know guys, looking back I took all of the value out of it. But it was sooooooooooo good! I used it as my number 1 for many bands I played in around the Twin Cities bar circuit. OK, I will end this now. I find it very interesting to hear other guitar players journey’s, especially seeing the younger generation hear 70’s/80’s hard rock for the first time. It was the best of times for our generation, the baby boomers and GEN X. Anyhow, I love your channel Brandon and I will be checking in often😊. You young guys keep our music going and pay it forward to your kids!!!! R.I.P. Randy Rhoads, and R.I.P. EVH. You’re both are sorely missed😪…. God Bless to all of you…….. -AJ

At 9:30.... the look on Ozzys face is like... OMG he's Killing It!!!!!

Who pressed dislike ffs.. Randy Rhoades is one of the top and guitar idol... Also this guy is awesome player and teacher

That was so awesome! You have so much knowledge and insight!

Do more, more, more and more of Randy Rhoads!

i wish people would react to the randy rhoads tribute album version. the best in my opinion, he is better live than in studio to me.

I was just chkng out some things and I ran across this man, and his guitar playing show, love love love this dude with a rock n roll passion! Where have I been, missing out on allllllllll the fun!

I remember hearing Randy Rhoads play for the first time in 1981 (or 82?) when my friend dropped the needle on Over the Mountain. Changed my life.

the reason i started to play guitar was case of Randy Rhoads my god a small guy with small hands and he sounds like that his big on the classic very sick

YES. lol MY FAVORITE SONG EVER and Favorite Guitarist. Ive watched every reaction on youtube to Randys playing. This song is literally the reason I picked my guitar back up and started playing again and Im so close to nailing this song on guitar.

Randy had great rhythm sense and his solos were very melodic and musical even when doing fast legato runs which in the hands of most 'shredders' can sound muddy and rushed. - it's why he's remembered and still revered to this day.

I had the privilege of seeing Randy's last concert in Knoxville TN. He died later that night!

Many guitar players double track their rhythm parts in the studio. Randy was one of the few that was able to double track his guitar solos

I enjoyed your reaction. You really know what you're talking about, and I want to have a few beers with you.

Dude hardly ever watched himself play. He knew what good sounds like. I showed a video to my buddies years ago, they could tell he was great just by the way he held his left hand.

Randy's top of the guitar mount rushmore...man just think what could of been I guess we should be blessed with what he left us.its always a pleasure to hear him play.

Randy, Eddie, Steve Vai. What is sad that we have no musically gifted composers left anymore except Steve. What has happened, what has changed? Where is the music I grew up on, that I rushed out to buy? It is time that somebody will bring back what has been taken away.

Such a clean player ..you can actually hear every note. Fuck.

Randy Rhoads Eddie Van Halen and David Gilmour are my top 3 guitarists imo

Eddie actually took alot from Randy. Both amazing, but randy was a more talented guitarists without bells and whistles. What Eddie did was pioneer pickups and amps. Randy > Eddie. Both greater than 99% of all guitarists.

Thanks, Brandon...GREAT commentary and reaction to my favorite guitarist! I totally agree that when it comes to Rock Guitar, Randy and Eddie are the TOP 2 all-time!

Hey Brandon Paul, yeah it’s me again… I freaking love EVH, ok some of the best guitar solos I’ve ever heard, but I must take the opposite view of Eddie’s view that Randy “stole my licks” I think Eddie was one of the greatest guitarists ever, but Randy, at such a young age and such a high quality of classical, magical talent of his mother and the incredible ability of Randy to translate his songs into a new sound, I’m sorry Eddie, I love your playing, but Randy DID NOT copy or steal your style. You couldn’t possibly play what Randy did, and Vice-Versa… 👏👏👏 Love ya both 🎸🎸

Randy was taught by his mother who was a magical classical piano teacher, but she didn’t teach him how to play guitar, she taught him everything about the piano and classical music. He translated what his mother taught him onto guitar 🎸 and his mother saw that Randy loved playing his guitar, so she sent him off to guitar lessons. It wasn’t very long before Randy’s guitar teacher told his mother, “I can’t teach him anything else” because he has far surpassed what I can teach him. “He plays stuff that I can’t teach” and with that, Randy started teaching his own students but at the same time was playing in his band. Quiet Riot… but then Ozzy asked him to audition. Ozzy said within 10 seconds, “you’re in the band” but then the rest is history and came to a conclusion with Randy’s death at a very young age. 😢🤔😢🇦🇺

For being a guitar teacher, one would think you would know that you DO NOT pause the video in the middle of a solo. Either way, no one compares to Randy, including Eddie. He was one of a kind. RIP Randy. And Eddie too.

Yes spot on nobody ever has or ever will make it scream like RR and EVH truest legends gone too soon but the musics lives on

you can talk, you can opinion .... but never pause Randy man .... never!

"Hit me, Randy! Give it to me, baby!" lmao 🤭

I would be more than happy to watch you react to the other 3 songs randy played on the after hours clips! 😁👍🏻

Came back to watch this again. It's been 41 years now that Randy has passed and his playing still gives me chill bumps! I know that Tommy didn't play on BoO and DoaM, but I feel like there was an amazing rhythmic syncopation with Randy and Tommy. Tommy's staccato style drumming fit perfectly with Randy's playing. I recently watched a video where Tommy mentioned that he was offered the job before BoO was recorded, but he had to turn it down because he was under contract with Gary Moore.

It’s great to hear a professional react to Randy Rhodes and give him the credit he deserves. He was a phenominal guitarist that doesn’t get the credit he deserves just because he died so so far before his time.

R.R. IS MY ALL TIME FAVORITE

I read in Rudy’s book that Randy would change how he played, especially the solo’s to best fit the sound of the venue he was playing in, amazing

Have you checked out the Randy Rhoads jam solo live in Minnesota?! If you haven't...you really need to! Absolutely mindblowing!!! Imo that Minnesota jam solo was an indication of the direction that Randy was headed in the neoclassical genre!

I agree with him being in the top 2 guitarists. But I place him at number one, for the sole reason that there is just so little of it out there. Not just that there's so little live footage, but that it's such a small catalog... from someone so young. We missed out on so much. it's really a tragic story. If he was around as long as Eddie Van Halen has been around, who knows what kind of stuff we would have been able to hear. Fun fact: yesterday is the 40 year anniversary of the release date of Blizzard of Ozz.

Hay Brandon.. excellent job first one you're natural.. I don't even play guitar but it was interesting the whole time and of course I love Randy

I'm a drummer..love randy.

You said it at 2:42 and I say it all the time. "Randy is the best and it's not even close....still" We have the same 1 & 2 RR & EVH. Put which ever one you want 1st and you won't be wrong but Saint Randy is always one for me. We were robbed of what could have been when he died and that always bums me out when I think about it. He had the highest ceiling still to reach of all the musicians who died young including Jimi and I love Jimi but Randy was just getting started. God bless Randy Rhoads!

Such a legend. He was buried with one of eddies guitars

The immortal Randy Rhoads🫡

One of my faves

You are amazing and very talented. You are the best and love the video. Randy Rhodes kicks ass.

Great discussion of Randy’s style dude. It’s cool how you talk about the modes and etc like a true fan. I’m looking forward to your other videos!

Fun fact you talked about the wall of Marshalls.. while he used a marshall head and the cabinet was a marshall he actually preferred Altec speakers and replaced the celestions with Altec

Fantastic Randy rhoads

Randy Rhoads forever!

Awesome Brother! And even though we've discussed this solo and others in our lessons including the "coolness and guitar theory" stuff... I find myself still hangin on to every word of your review. And my ear is starting to hear 9's / 2's much more due to your training! Rockin Bro!!

Great analysis man

Eddy and Randy, fully agree! ❤ I'm getting a little emotional thinking of these two and not able to see them anymore. The same with Neil Peart. God, I miss hem so much...😢

That’s what puts Randy above anybody especially evh, randy never played the same stuff exactly he always changed it up and always played extremely well live . (And just think always changing the form show to show basically ,that’s so incredible, anybody who plays knows how hard it is to play live and to keep changing what your doing and have it sound near perfection !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

amazing guitar riff! is slash on the legendary list

He really was a student of the classical.....and a true composer....and I dont think we've seen anybody like him since.....

You should check Chris Oliva Savatage.. he really is the one who got me interested in playing guitar

I remember when news came out that his plane crashed, my heart sank. I remember thinking rock guitar will never be the same for me.

This was awesome . Randy was and still my favorite guitarist of all time due to that feeling and vibe he resonates with the listeners .was lucky enough to see Randy live in 1981 in Tampa Florida on the Blizzard tour .and I'll tell anyone Randy was the main attraction in this band .such a unbelievable strong stage presence . Would love to see you do a guitar review from my second favorite guitarist Vivian Campbell original guitarist for Dio .any solo off the Holy Diver Album .Really amazing record in my opinion a true Heavy Metal Guitar Masterpiece .

Cool seeing another but same prospective as mine. I absolutely loved how he helped define metal music using a classical style. Definitely one of my main inspirations🤘

my new guitar teacher lol.

On me randy rhoads is number 1 guitar🎸 player of all time

brilliant first reaction. YOu have covered quite a few items I didn't see. I have looked into this performance quite a bit and have a few points of interest. - The sound is really solid for the event being at a small TV station, It was recorded quite well using a mobile truck outside. - This was before time stamps and so the video syncing is sometime good, sometimes terrible. - The lines that appear on some versions are because they were playing at a full volume at it was shaking the tubes in the cameras. - This likely is a slightly altered version by Ozzy's production people that fixed some of Ozzy's voice issues - Shortly before this performance Ozzy asked for some mouthwash and latter accidentally chugged it all. (likely mistook it for something else) I have a number of questions though which you might be able to enlighten me - Why does Randy go to the blue screen when looking for some feedback near the end? - I see two Marshals but it appears that only one is mic'ed but the non-mic'ed one has cables going to it. - Any good guesses on what is the amp setup.

Randy rules!

Great job, Randy is such an A leaguer all time great. I'd love to hear someone compare Children of the Grave off tribute to Tony Iommi's version..

Great review. I couldn’t describe that lick that you referenced other than a chromatic scale improv. as well. Hey that’s what happens when you are trained classically. A lost art.

for your consideration, the 8:10 descending scatter... I wonder if Randy and Berton from The Knack were friends or at least acquaintances because Berton does that same descending fury in My Sharon, and Randy does it in I Don't Know with the heavy palm mute. It feels as though "I'm here and I have to get there, lets just thrash a few notes on the way from where I am to where I'm going....." Specifically at 3: 48 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eLhifdeku9vRdnU.html

Hey Brandon, just in case some people do not know this. You probably know but didn’t mention it on the video but for anyone interested when Randy starts his outro solo doing those triplets it sounds like an octave effect he might be using, but it’s not. On some of his solos the keyboard player would do harmonic runs with him just like on those triplets. It gave it a nice sound sometimes, But other times I wished the keyboard player would stop playing as it would cover over Randy too much….

Great break down of the guitar by Randy!

Ozzy w/Randy- Tonight, both solos but especially the 2nd. Very good video, cool idea!!

Very Good job on your 1st reaction video U really understand Randys playing and describe it well I wouldnt mind u doing "Revelation mother earth"

Good inshights here. I liked intervallic talk on nineth and seventh

You would love the guitar work done by Acacia Ridge. I know they reamp their guitars through the same EVH behind you and I think it would make for a great reaction vid.

Brent Barker music, great stuff he does and can back it up. He teaches also. You should meet up!

Love the video and your reaction

Randy was a God. Taken too soon.

While I agree the Marshalls are beautiful, to my understanding, the sound is coming off of an amp he's plugged into that's off camera. I don't remember why he did that, though.

I remember this...it was call after hours....problem I got with this late show was....that randy marshall amps are not on(red power light Marshall amps are known for is off)

You should do a video on the guitar solo in "I wanna be Sedated" by the Ramones.

Why did you start almost halfway in? You also cropped the video.

its so sick how there is no dead spots in the sound!!!!!! you a think there a 2nd guitar player in there to this mean the key guy and bass player also doing there job,and yes omg randy always change things up.The same the band rush only 3 guys and wow very big sound. i steel mouth drop when it comes to randy rhoads lol. and you can hear a lot of classical that he loves in the solos wow sick

also can you explain what a blue note is? ive never heard of that i think rhandy rhodes invented the trill with whammy bar bend

No question about it. Randy Rose is definitely missed.

Randy and Eddie are my favorites too

Dude looks like Kid Rock 😭😭

Back in the day in my town/school you were either team EVH or team RR.. I was always RR. I was young when I first heard him maybe 10 years old. back in the earlier 80's. I had heard VH but it didn't move me nearly as much as RR. As I got older and really started diving into guitar playing I came back around to EVH, in thanks to my journey that took me diving into one of my all time fav's Vito Bratta, which then took me back to EVH and RR and really listening to what Eddie was doing as well as Randy. As for me Vito was an amazing mix of the two. The melodic passionate solo's with some Eddie tricks thrown in and some incredible Randy and Eddie inspired riffs as well. And let's be honest Randy was still a youngster by the time he died. Wasn't around long but yet he's still so revered and such a legend.. To me Eddie is the King but Randy is the legend.

Can you do round and round or any Warren Demartini/Robbin Crosby solo?

I agree Randy and Eddie