I was 15 years old. I got into Ozzy through the “No More Tears” video. A friend of mine told me “you gotta check out Ozzy’s first solo guitarist, Randy Rhoads.” So I had my mom drive me to the store and I looked for a cd. I found the tribute album. I bought it. Took it home. Put it in the player. Hit play. My life changed forever. Immediately after his unaccompanied solo in “Suicide Solution” I hit pause and ran out to the living room and told my mom that I wanted to play guitar. A few months later on Christmas Eve, 1992, I got my first guitar. Randy is my all-time favorite musician. In fact my son’s middle name is Rhoads. I still play his songs and licks on guitar almost on a daily basis. My tribute tab book looks just like yours. 😉 Thank you for this video and your other Randy videos. His influence from TWO studio albums, a little over an hours worth of music, is immeasurable. Long live Randy Rhoads.

When I started playing, my instructor taught everyone the intro to Crazy Train. Great for beginners. I was hooked. I eventually went on to learn all his live songs all from Tribute. Each song took my playing to a new level. He had more to do with my guitar growth than anyone. Have the same book. Very nostalgic.

Randy died over a decade before I was born but he's still my favorite guitarist and my biggest sole influence! His sheer talent still gives me chills when i listen. Gone extremely too soon. Great vid

It’s hard to believe that Randy has been gone for 40 years. “Only the good die young” is damn right. We missed out on a lot of great music that could have been. Rest In Peace Randy, you are sorely missed!! 🙏🙏🙏

Once I read, that Randy doubled all of his solos and it causes that massive wide sound in his soloing. I think it's pretty amazing, that he was able to play so precise.

First time I heard Randy was I was laying on the couch and Mr, Crowley came on and I'm trying to figure out who was singing because I knew I had heard him before but Ozzy had been out of the music business for a while. Then the solo came on and I was just BLOWN AWAY.! I had never heard anyone play that fast before and just all over the neck. RIP Randy

Honestly I can’t express how Randy influenced me as a musician

I remember hearing "Dee" for the first time and just thinking it was the coolest, fanciest, most behind the scenes song ever made. I still play it almost every time I pick up my guitar. Randy Rules \m/

My older sister was a huge musical influence on me growing up. We lived in Orlando, FL and the Tangerine Bowl (aka the Citrus Bowl) was a popular stop for rock shows back then. My sister saw Van Halen and The Rolling Stones there in 1980, and she promised she would take me to the next show she went to. Well, "The Super Bowl of Rock" was coming to town with headliner Foreigner and Ozzy Osbourne. Everyone knew who Foreigner was back then, but Ozzy's new band was just starting, and I had only listened to Crazy Train on the radio, so I got a copy of Blizzard of Oz and my brain melted when I heard Randy play. I was so blown away and I just couldn't wait to see him play live. I can still feel that excitement today. The day before the show, we found out that he died in Leesburg.

Randy is the reason I picked up the guitar, I saw his last show March 18 1982 and he blew me away, I used to use Dee as a warm up when I was still able to play. I played it faster and faster each time through. He really had a BIG impact on my life and I still get tears thinking about watching that last show and what he would have accomplished if he hadn’t have died. If you have not seen the new doc about him, you need to watch it. Best music doc I have seen in a long time. Btw thank you for this video I love hearing stories about how he impacted others as well. Keep on Rockin 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

Randy was my first ever guitar hero and he made me continue with guitar and made music my life and ill also qll ways be thankfull for him for that. R.I.P Randy

I remember learning Dee. I felt like I really accomplished something. Just knowing that I was fretting the same as Randy, gave me a special feeling.

For ever in our hearts and the drive behind our practice rip 🙏

Crazy train was both the first riff and first solo I’ve ever learned! Great stuff.

Never tire of hearing people share their experience regarding Randy. I feel so blessed to have heard his playing on Blizzard when I was a teenager. It literally blew my mind as it continues to do so. Thanks brother

The thing that really impressed me about Randy was his superlative humility. He loved guitar and was always striving to improve his skills and knowledge - but never egotistical about it (looking at you, Yngwie! LOL). Brilliant guitarist who exuded more love of playing than desire to be a 'guitar god'.

Without randy I certainly would not be playing guitar and the world would not be lit from his shine that still shines bright from over 40 years ago to this day

I heard Crazy Train on the radio when I was in the 4th grade. I had no idea about guitar or metal music. I asked my mom to take me to the music store to buy “the neat song about the train”. She took me, but when she found out it was Ozzy she wouldn’t let me have it. Every parent was freaked out by Ozzy in the early eighties. I never heard it again until several years later when I saw the video when tribute was released. I was 15 years old and immediately flashes back to when I first heard it in 1982. I jumped min my car and drove straight to the store and bought the Tribute cassette. That same year I got my first guitar and started trying to figure it all out. I recently turned 50 years old and have been playing in a classic rock cover band for a few years. We decided for 2023 to throw Crazy Train into our set list. It’s like after 40 years, everything has come full circle. I owe a lot to Randy as it was his playing on that song that sparked my love for rock guitar. 🤘🏼🎸

Randy Rhoads…there are no words!!!

Randy was absolutely revolutionary for me as a young beginning guitar player. So much so that I ended up taking guitar lessons for several years at Musonia, the music school Randy’s mom Delores owned and Randy taught at. I even taught lessons myself for a short time there. Like you, I obsessed over that Tribute tab book. I definitely wouldn’t be half the player I am today without Randy’s influence.

Such an incredible musician who was cut down in his prime

Just heard “Crazy Train” on the local radio station yesterday and it immediately took me back to being 13 in 1980. Still awesome sounding and fresh, I think that was the best Blizzard Of Ozz band lineup.

"So it was just me and the spiders." Dude, your videos keep this amateur self taught guitarist hopes up. Thanks man for always sharing

Your story is very similar to mine. My brother got a guitar and tried to learn but I ended up practicing on it more and surpassed him. I was introduced to Randy Rhoads and was spellbound. Taught myself D and had a ozzy diary of a madman tab book. Learned over the mountain, diary of a madman, crazy train, believer, etc… I didn’t learn that Randy had died years later, in fact I thought for the longest time that the Jake E Lee and even some Zak Wyld riffs were Randy until I learned by an older guitarist friend that Rhoads was dead. I remember being into the band mudvayne when they first popped up and an interview with their guitarist stated that he was influenced by Randy. I just couldn’t escape this guitar god. And I was never satisfied with playing simple easy boring guitar riffs ever again. I couldn’t get into punk rock because it was all too simple and sounded weak. I couldn’t get into alternative rock like korn or linkin park for the same reason. And I couldn’t get into what I called sloppy metal because although they were heavy they were simple and I could only play 0’s for so long before I got bored. Randy inspired me to not only learn to play guitar but learn to play great guitar and never settle for mediocre music like 99% of what is out there. He had ridden shooting stars and showed me how🤘🏾🫨🎸

I'm 52 and was 12 when Randy died. I still remember the day he died like it was yesterday. He has been and will always be my favorite guitarist 🎸.

That book a MUST own for guitarists of any level.

I picked up guitar around 12 years old. When I started getting better, my step dad drove to a record store to show me real guitar players. He bought me the randy rhoads tribute album and I was hooked immediately. Blew my mind

I'm probably a little older than you but I got a lot out of guitar magazines. Guitar for the Practicing Musician, Guitar Player, Guitar World. My 7th grade math teacher use to borrow my mags during class. He played blues piano but found the mags interesting (I got to jam with him the next year in downtown Chicago at a blues club!). But those mags had great articles and lessons. The most interesting was Tommy Tedesco's column on being a session guitarist and recording, like, Green Acres theme. And Elliott Easton from the Cars had a great column about melody. Also I think Brad Gillis had a whammy bar lesson or column. I know he did an instructional floppy record that came in Guitar Player mag. The internet is great for learning instantly but I wouldn't trade my early days for anything.

Great video, Mike! Randy is awesome. He definitely made an impression on me. I also love Tracii Guns..from LA Guns..who is heavily influenced by Randy. Btw, really great meeting you at Barnes an Noble. Thanks for your work

Randy Rhoads is who got me playing guitar after hearing I don't know became obsessed with the solo And had to learn how to play that song then started listening to other songs is how I got playing guitar before then never heard Ozzy before I was like 12 maybe 13 I'm 49 now still rocking

I bought that same book when I was 15. He was my idol and I loved that tribute album. I started my guitar journey pretty close to the same way you did.

The solo on " goodbye to romance " is very moving.

I was 15 when I came across Rhoads, but the guitar works on Mr. Crowley was the ones that blew me away. That was the moment that I knew I had to go out, buy a guitar, and learn to play. However, "Goodbye to Romance" was the first song that i ever played from beginning to end because the solo/the whole song was really easy.

The tribute album is what got me into playing the guitar. In my noobness, the tab book sounded pretty accurate. Who is to question someone named Wolf Marshall?!?!

My Randy story... It was 1980 and i was around 15, I was partying at a friend's house when I Don't Know come on the radio. Instantly my ears perked up and was like who the hell is this guitarist. The next day went and bought a copy of Blizzard of Ozz. Seen Randy on the Diary of a madman tour in Cincinnati on Feb 12th 1982. Was going to get tickets for the Dayton hara arena show but he passed before that. He's been my favorite guitarist ever since.

I was 13 when I added Crazy Train to my playlist, and this was kind of back before I was really into the guitar aspect of music. Last summer, when I was 15, I was more into guitar and was really captivated by the riff and solo, so I looked online for Randy Rhoads' best solos to see which songs I should listen to next by him. I listened to Mr. Crowley next, which is still my favorite studio song by Randy or by anyone, and the outro solo is my favorite piece of non-live music ever. Around October I first listened to Tribute, and that caused me to dig deep on KZfaq, looking for old live shows to listen to. My favorite piece of music EVER has to be that really melodic sounding part of his spotlight solo (I'm not really musically trained or experienced so sorry if I have bad terminology, but it's the part right before the tapping part in his Tribute solo). Now I have about 30 different live shows from him in my playlist, with my favorite probably being Rosemont or Milwaukee 1982. I really hope one day that we get maybe another tribute album, or at least a higher quality show with footage from the DOAM Tour in 1982. I've really wanted to see footage of his spotlight solo and the band jam, but sadly that's probably the only thing I haven't seen footage of, other than someone recording footage from their TV of a show in Detroit (If anyone happens to know of any footage of his solo or the band jam, feel free to put the link lol). The band jam as well literally puts tears in my eyes because of how fantastic it is. Randy Rhoads really is the greatest guitarist of all time. RIP

Man when you mentioned Mora Minnesota it brought me back to playing in the hockey tournaments they’d hold every winter there when I was a little kid.

Ahhh man, I'll never not click on a video of a guy playing a black LP custom

Remember 80s house parties w big component stereos and huge speakers as the Crazy Train intro panning back n forth across the room just before Randy tears into his intro riff...

I got into guitar “seriously” as a result of a cassette of No More Tears. When Mr. Tinkertrain kicked into the part after the intro and that first pinch harmonic jumped out, I HAD to find out who the guitarist was. Then, I got my first guitar: a 1996 Les Paul Studio. Put the EMGs in it and never looked back. That was when I was 19 or 20. I’m looking at 47 in the not too distant future.

Just finished watching the Randy Rhoades doc on Amazon when I open my KZfaq app to see this. \m/

I remember listening to the ozzman cometh in high school on the bus one day. We were on a field trip and one of my friends brought her CD player, and that was the disc she had. Hearing Randy's version of paranoid blew me away, and I started playing guitar not too long after. Great video, I'm old enough to remember Columbia House LOL.

"Well-water" 😆 (Grew up there, brother) My favorite part of Tribute was Paranoid. I remember reading that Randy was so proud of what he, Ozzy, and the band had made, it upset him that he had to play "the old stuff." You can hear that anger on Paranoid, but Randy transformed it; it's frikkin' magic. The players that keep levelling up find ways to channel that frustration, so it's been really cool to hear about how your dissatisfaction with sub-par tab lit a fire under you to keep pushing. Salute! 🤘😎

Great Video Mike. I love Randy he is definitely one of my favorite Guitarist of all time!!! I think this would make a cool new series of videos where you talk about your favorite Guitar Players and how you were first introduced to them.

Dee. The song that started my guitar journey. Dee was the song for me. Randy was and continues to be an inspiration 💛 Thank you for sharing your story bro. Always got time for hearing you talk about randy. Awesome video.

I love hearing all your old stories about guitar and getting into it!

I lived in the Tribute song book as well as the Ozzy Osbourne song book with Ozzy in the cape with a horn sticking out (Diary of a Madman). Later I expanded to Guitar Player magazine. We are very fortunate to have the internet, video content and dedicated sites today, learning the guitar is light speed faster, but, I wouldn't change one second of the countless hours spent with those books.

Randy is my favorite. Great video!

My teacher was a massive randy fan. First lesson in 1991 was major,minor scales and intro to crazy train. Only had 4 months f lessons and he had me playing the entire song, I also never left my room. Wasn't perfect but I could play with the tape. Wasn't a big ozzy fan before that but been one ever since.

Great video. Like many others here, I was electrified by Randy's playing on the first two Ozzy albums. Have to thank him for inspiring me to take up the guitar. It's been a great friend through thick and thin since the 80s.

I feel that way about Brian may he's my guitar hero, queen was my first foot steps to music and guitar then Metallica and now where I'm at now.

Man I love this channel..you're such a great player and excellent teacher..I will never be as good as you but I'm still learning a ton of licks here...we grew up in a very similar fashion and can relate to all your stories..keep it up man 🤘💀🤘

I learned how to solo from Randy. And write some pretty good Randy influenced songs too. When I first heard Crazy Train, it made every hair on my body stand up straight. I had a copy of Tribute a year before it came out as it was available as a bootleg called Bat's Head Soup. I cried listening to it in sadness that he was gone. Randy's tone and the way his solos flow melodically are unsurpassed. I use him as a measurement to compare the greatness of a solo to - wether my own or someone else's. It's especially cool, because he is not unattainably blindingly fast. He just plays all the exact right notes at the right time. So how to play a solo as perfectly as possible without being the fastest. If you asked me as a teen who I thought was better, Randy or Ed, my honest belief was Randy. He even beat Ed in the 1984 Guitar For The Practicing Musician magazine guitar wars (the most popular mag at the time) where readers voted for their favorite. The did it in steps and it came down to Randy and Ed and Randy won. People think I'm goofy but if I had to send a guitar player to play against an alien guitar player whose advanced civilization was going to take over the Earth unless our guy beat their guy, I would send Randy over Vai. That's a tough one to call, but first of all, his tone is unquestionably better in my opinion. But if you really scrutinize the two, Vai may take Randy in speed, they are about equal in control, but Randy's playing sounds more natural to me. Ozzy and Bob Daisley must have had a major influence on his writing though because I thought the songwriting on the Quiet Riot records was not that great. I would like to take it from where Randy left off. Glad you didn't get sucked into a tornado during the live stream the other day. Although there's a meteor heading this way.

The solo in over the mountain is crazy good.

I remember the Columbia House thing. I don't think I ever ordered from them, but that was a big thing. You always remind me of these things from my childhood. Pretty cool!

Dude the first tab book I ever got was Tribute. I remember being a little kid just listening to the album and trying to follow along w the tabs. Loved it

R. I. P. Randy ✨👑✨🎸✨🔥✨

I think"Tribute" was the first tab book i ever bought. I had guitar player and guitar world,but Tribute was the first tab book i ever bought. Great vid. Dee was a great outtake

Wow man, that takes me back... similar story to yours plus throw Kiss in the mix with Ozzy & Randy and learning to play guitar from all those classics. Good times :D

I learnt to play guitar from the Randy Rhoads tribute book too. Still my fav guitarist today.

The song that got me super super into randy was goodbye to romance Play along with him, you can still learn a lot by playing along with him

Great Vid Mike.

100 percent same here. I first heard crazy train at a very young age in 1982 at a memphis chicks baseball game during 7th inning stretch. I was already of fan of music by this point (my parents music basically) rolling stones, bob seger ,bruce Springsteen and elton john. When i first heard it it blew me away it sounded so different than what i was used too. Thats when i wanted to play guitar from that point on like you my first guitar was a les paul knock off harmony I got at yard sale with fender mustang amp for 50 bucks all of my yard cutting money. I played it so much i become obsessive about it. i first bought the same book tribute and i had blizzard of oz and diary on vinyl. My first cassette I ever bought was Ozzy tribute. I played so much and starting taking classes my dad saw this wasn't just a fad for me. My harmony guitar made more fret buzz and electrical ground short sound than music at this point. So i picked out a ltd eclipse guitar that was on sale for 350 bucks for christmas. I went to music store to show my dad which one to buy there where two les paul customs up at front of store off course. They where crazy expensive like 1800 to 1900 bucks on sale this was 1991 so they was a lot of money. So my dad saw those guitars and ask why i didn't want one of them. I told him to look at price and you will see why the white custom pro was my dream guitar at the time(because that's what randy played on it a lot). My dad who didn't know anything about guitars really like the way they looked. i proceeded to show him the white ltd eclipse and said this one is a lot cheaper and the one i wanted. Anyways christmas rolls around and we came to living room to open presence and sitting there was the white gibson les paul custom. I couldn't believe it i was blown away that my dad would spend that much on my hobby at the time we where at the lower end of middleclass. I also got free lessons for a year with that guitar. i took basic rock and blues at first then started diving into classical and jazz type guitar. Anyways Randy started it all for me never even thought about playing guitar until i first heard him. Personally he should of got a lot more attention vs Eddie. Unlike eddie Randy's stuff was very melodic well structured especially for rock guitar at the time. It was like each of his songs I learned where not just songs to learn but lessons on how to structure and do chord progressions. He also used the gypsy scale which was a first for me to every learn in a rock song Diary of a madman. Don't get me wrong i like Eddie and his stuff was fun to play but I felt I was taught more by Randy's stuff. It gave me way more discipline and respect for the instrument. Randy to me was always a teacher at heart with guitar.

That is a GREAT tab book, too.

I bought that book while on vacation in the USA and I'm glad I did because I've never seen it in the UK. My copy also fell apart so I punched holes in it and put it in a ring binder folder.

my 1st metal song was "shot in the dark", then i bought my 1st ozzy cassette Tribute. I became Randy's fan and metal head. Mr. Crowley is always my favorite because the 2 solos & its clean tone part are so emotional & dramatic. I was once told the Tribute guitar part was re-mixed by Jack E Lee, and I once believed it as it's so different from Studio album versions. Glad to see more footage of Randy in later years, to believe it's really Randy's work!! thank for sharing your story, and it brings back my good memory too.

Great video!

To me, it was the KING BISCUIT FLOWER HOUR recording in Montreal on July 28th 1981 that really showed R.R's greatnesss. Ozzy sounded horrible that night...and the recording quality is really not that good, but Randy simply was astonishing. I had seen the band a little over 2 months prior in Detroit, and while Randy was great that night too, what he was doing 2 months later was unreal..."CRAZY TRAIN" at times sounds like a bomb going off, ive never heard anything as heavy as what he was doing to those songs...youd swear there were 2 or 3 other guitar players on stage that night. I knew right then and there were were witnessing an amazing player....probably the greatest to ever do it...

Awesome! Rad! Great video Mike.

Randy Rhoades is still the greatest ever! 🤘🎸🤘

The Beatles is what attracted me to music, Blizzard of Oz is the reason I picked up the guitar and bass... I was nine when the album came out. I remember be stunned to silence when I heard on the radio about Randy's passing when I was 11. I remember the first time I heard the solo section of "Revelation: Mother Earth"... I was blown away. Then I heard the title track from "Diary of a Mad Man". "Dee" also sparked my interest in learning classical guitar. Your vid here has my memories churning... Thank you.

I was in a band in 1980 and my lead guitar player was playing the solos of DIARY pretty well . several years later I ran into him and we got together and he had a demo tape from his latest band and he had really good solos I mean astonishingly good . R.R. influence and legato was all over them. He was friends of DIMARTINO from ratt.

I used to play guitar with maxed out gain, low mids and high volume. Like scooped shit. Then, heard "dee" learned it, love its classical guitar sound and play it in front of my friends to their surprise. Then I also heard mr crowleys solo and noticed some classical patterns that you usually hear in music class at school. Boom, found my guitar hero.

Columbia House was a great introduction to music for many. Sonically and financially

Me and a friend of mine bought the tab book and spent hours learning it everyday when I was about 16. It was so much fun doing it.

Cool stories. I think we must be around the same age. My first influence to Ozzy was Crazy Train at the skating rink. It was always scary because the bigger kids would skate fast and run into the smaller kids during this song. I wanted to be out there though because the song was so good. When I first started playing my first tab book was also that Randy/Ozzy tribute book. I used to play on a Hamer since at the time all the new metal artists played Hamer. I still play Dee all the time, but haven’t gotten good enough to play the solos on Crazy Train or Mr Crowley. Now that I’m in my 50s I’m picking up guitar again and will learn these on my new JB pink numbers guitar.

Great to know RR was such an influence. I was fortunate (and somewhat unfortunate) to see Randy's last show in Knoxville. I was front row on the barricade, between Ozzy and Randy. Was just blown away. Next day the tragic news broke. I was totally devastated.

Sick Guitar!! and Randy was is Amazing

I think the biggest influence Randy had on me, even though I listened to, played and taught his music a ton. Was from interviews and people saying that even after he was on tour with Ozzy he continued to study classical guitar and even take guitar lessons from different instructors trying to learn more. Which as a teenager reading that this guy who is already a guitar hero of mine and playing in front of thousands of screaming fans is still humble enough to want to keep learning pushed me to do the same. right out of high school going to the U of M to study any music classes they had theory, classical, and jazz and then when I got frustrated with too many non music classes. I moved to L.A. to attend Musicians Institute and to this day I still go through books, and videos trying to find new or better ways to either practice or teach so that mindset stuck with me that you never know too much not to be able to learn more 🙂 and hopefully I've passed that on to my students also

I didn't have the book, but I did have _Tribute_ on CD. I guess it was either "Mr. Crowley" or "Revelation (Mother Earth)" that got me into Rhoads.

Been on a huge Randy Rhoads trip down memory lane myself. I'm learning the tribute album version of crazy train.

Columbia House! I forgot about that, I used to get vinyl through that subscription. Good video

where would any of us be without Randy, my first with him was Quiet Riot.

" I would be just sitting there with the spiders." XD bro... that killed me

Randall William Rhoads is my greatest influence as a musician. There was no other that could do what he did at his age. He was innovative. I still have that Tribute tab book. I like to say Randy taught me to play because I learned out of that book. God rest his soul

Tribute was my guitar bible. My local library had LP's to check out. Blizzard was one of them and also priest's point of entry.

You must be in your mid to late 40s like me, though you have the benefit of not looking like it Mike! Your story of the scary music and posters so hits home! I grew up in strict religion but our neighbor teenagers were into metal. Going into their room, hearing and seeing Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Motley Crue, and of course Ozzy was certainly influential. I wish I had picked up the guitar then...starting it post 40, my hands are very very slow on the uptake.

Blizz, Diary and Tribute were guitar bibles to me at the time. I wasn't playing guitar when Randy passed but picked it up a couple years later. Learning his solos and music gave me a greater understanding of the music theory I needed to know to play the music I wanted to play. Invaluable.

I remember when both albums came out, around the same time. Black Sabbath w/ Dio and Ozzy w/ Randy Rhoads. My friend Tommy who turned me on to Sabbath and I both bought the 2 albums. The Sabbath album was good but the Ozzy album blew us away !!! I hadn't learned to play guitar yet but Tommy could play any Sabbath song you wanted.It was just a historical, to say the least, moment.

Man you're story is so similar to mine... I discovered Guitar through Ozzys/Rhandy tribute album( specifically Crazy Train) and that tab book...I still have it and it looks similar to yours, I even reglued the cover at one point... I must have played every song 100s of times... that was my early guitar education...Later I took rock and classical lessons.

He made me play in 82 but besides Crazy Train i couldnt grasp it wout tabs and no videos back then so I learned Sabbath until I could. I have the Tribute tab book too bought in 92 after i got a decent job along w a LP Studio and Peavey Ultra amp.

I feel lucky, saw RR live first two Ozzy tours Fucking genius RIP

I've been to Mora Minnesota, I'm right by leech lake so it's not too far away

Crazy Train and Mr. Crowley introduced me to Randy but it was Revelation (Mother Earth) that made choose him as my favorite.

Your videos are great, but your shirts are always amazing.

Well, Randy was my first real inspiration, when I started to get into rock music. I wanted to play guitar, and my dream was a Jackson RR. Fortunately, when I finished elementary school, I got some money, and I bought the RR, which I still have, some 12 years later. Everything was started there. Randy was, and always be my biggest influence.

I remember sneaking into my dad's music stash looking for a particular sound. I didn't know what, just something heavy. Found Ozzy on cassette, but at some point my little sister hit record. I reached over and hit stop as fast as I could, put everything away, and waited knowing one day he would find out but I've never heard anything from it. An odd memory, but a prominent one LOL

I still have that tab book. Got it about 30 years ago

I've been to MANY concerts, but never have I encountered Christians at the doors handing out flyers and begging people not to go inside because the devil was afoot (before or after) until I went to see OZZY live. Craziest thing I ever witnessed at a show. Side note: The first Randy song I heard was 'Tonight' on a Casey Kasem radio show. I think it was Casey Kasem's show I was 10 and the album was just released. Showing my age here lol Two uncles passing the torch

I had that Tribute tab book too. I probably didn't get as much use out of it as you did.