Don't worry Randy to this day you still influence guitarists your work never was forgotten and never will be 🖤🤍🖤

Saw them on that tour. The '80's were the best decade to be a guitarist!!! Great job, brother!!!! Great music!!!!

Awesome!!!

damnnn thats awesome. smooth playing

Mr. Crowley riff my favorite. R.i.p.

You didn't stop Randy for you inspired many guitar players

When I was 22 years old, Ozzy Osborne was coming to the Sam Houston Coliseum on February 17th (1982). Since first hearing Ozzy’s “Blizzard of Oz” solo album, his new guitar player Randy Rhoads had become my guitar hero. I didn't know much about him, nor did I even know what he looked like, because Ozzy's album pictures really didn't distinguish who was who in the band photo. To this point, I had assumed that the dark-haired guy (Rudy) was the guitar player I had recently come to idolize. Anyway, my girlfriend Mindy and our housemate Chris quickly found a way to score some tickets for the show. I figured if we showed up at the arena early enough, we might get a chance to meet the band before the show. It was a warm afternoon in Houston when Chris, Mindy and I arrived at the concert hall. We made our way around to the loading dock side of the building to look for tour buses or any other sign of band life. The road crew had already arrived and was setting up the elaborate stage for the “Diary of A Madman” tour. Surprisingly, the atmosphere was very relaxed. We were able to simply walk in and observe at our leisure without anyone hassling us. This went on for the better part of the afternoon. As we loitered about the premises, I befriended Randy’s guitar tech. He informed me that the band would be showing up around 5pm to do a soundcheck. In the meantime, he invited me into a makeshift dressing room to have a look at Randy’s guitars. They were sitting on guitar stands right in front of me. Just feet away from my hands were Randy’s signature cream Les Paul with the snakeskin strap, along with three custom made “V” shaped guitars. His polka-dot V, white pinstripe V and a black one, the latter two sporting the name “Jackson” on the headstocks. At this point, I was not really familiar with his guitars. And this was also long before Jackson Guitars became a household name. Needless to say, I was quite intrigued by them. Luckily, I had the presence of mind to bring a disposable camera with me. I asked the guitar tech if I could take a few pictures of the guitars. He didn’t mind, so I began to snap away. Just as I was photographing the assortment of guitars, a rather large and in charge road manager walked in on me and freaked out. “What the f#$k are you doing in here??? Gimme that efffing camera, those are custom made guitars!” he barked. The guitar tech tried to quell the big fellows concerns, but he would have no part in negotiating any compromise. “Gimme the effing camera if you wanna see the show” he demanded. As a 22 year old punk kid, I was in no position to argue, so I reluctantly gave the Paul Bunion looking troll my stupid camera. The guitar tech apologized for the road managers over-reaction and allowed us all to stay and hang out. Like clockwork, the tour bus pulled into the loading dock at 5pm. Tommy Aldridge, Rudy Sarzo and Randy Rhoads soon stepped out. Randy was wearing blue jeans, a black pleather jacket with no shirt under it with a white towel draped around his neck. Absent from the group was Ozzy, who apparently didn’t do soundcheck with the rest of the group. I quickly made my way over to who I thought was Randy and asked for an autograph. Slightly unprepared, I only had a small piece of paper that I had found nearby for them to sign. Rudy signed one side of the paper and Randy Rhoads signed the other side. I managed to make some small talk, at first thinking that Rudy was actually Randy. Up to this point, (As I said, I wasn’t entirely sure what Randy actually looked like). “Man, you’re a great guitar player” I said. Rudy looked at me sort of puzzled and pointed me in the direction of the actual Randy Rhoads. Needless to say, I felt like a douche. Randy was very unassuming, soft-spoken and frankly humble. He happily complied with my autograph request. He had to lean the small piece of paper onto the side of the cinder block wall in order to write his signature. He simply wrote, "Randy Rhoads". After several minutes, the band disappeared inside the arena and we followed along like lemmings. During their soundcheck, I stood directly in front of Randy Rhoads as the band ran through the song “Mr. Crowley” in its entirety. Randy was playing his cream Les Paul and never sounded better. I was in awe that afternoon, watching this soon to be legend warming up for the impending show right before my eyes. Except for my girlfriend Mindy, Chris and myself, (and a few road-crew guys), there was nobody else in the arena. A few short weeks later, Randy, twenty-five years old, was killed in a plane crash in Leesburg, Florida. I was devastated. His autograph remains framed on my studio wall to this day. Also, a few weeks earlier on March 5th, John Belushi died of a cocaine overdose. You could feel a chill in the psyche of the masses around Houston who had just absorbed the news of both of their untimely deaths. Both tragedies were a stark reminder of my own mortality....Can you imagine what would have been captured on my disposable camera had I been allowed to keep it??? That Tour managers action is a loss for the entire world. Jeff Dyer - Uncle Sally

Hey! That's king diamond's (is it not?)

Someday you'll learn how to play music

Get the strat. Embrace the tone.

Thanks for sharing!

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Good stuff my friend!

Nice

Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching today’s video!

Well, that was nice. Back to watching cat videos.

Barre chords are annoyingly fun to learn..

Good work

He reminds me of Garth from Wayne’s World

Randy was an innovator and for me he was right up there with Eddie..I think that Randy would have went on to do alot of different things guitar wise...From what I have read he was getting tired pretty quickly with the whole Ozzy thing..in fact I think he said it was getting weird with some of the fans wanting Ozzy to do the animal sacrifices and all of that crap..But I think he would have done alot of ground breaking stuff that would have just blown our minds...🎸🎸🎸

Imagine what could have been….

Legends never die❤

What a life

So legendary and memorable

He was young, so I’ll forgive the fake “British” accent.

Soft spoken, didn’t need drugs, great friend. Even though he trailblazed.. he was to good for this world. Heartbreaking his last moments were fighting to save himself tho

Think of 80s metal with Randy still alive. Another level.🙏🌊💯

what a legend rip

He's up there jammin with Jimi, SRV, and Eddie.

He was so sweet and humble.

Ozzy loved this dude, goddamn 💔💔

You can tell he was a kind humble geeky kind of man but a musical genius

He is shy and humble just like Hendrix was

His hands are always playing 😢

He looks like syd Barrett ,Rip for both legends

He’s my favorite!GOAT.We love and miss you Legend

That poor young man was just trying to start his career its so sad. He had such an inspiring, wonderful gift. You're still reaching millions Randy!

Now he's playing for God!

If you listened to his lionist playing your would never expect this very humble personality !!!!! WOW !!!!! I MEAN WOW !!!!!

I would’ve never of thought of him carrying himself like this. He was clearly very humble and polite. Happy abt that

Gee this is old I'm old

Such an amazing person. When I hear him speak, he reminds me a bit of Michael Jackson, someone who perfected their art. He was the Mozart of guitar. Not surprised he wanted to go into classical music and persue a degree.

It blows my mind every time he says "I dont want to stop here, you know" for real

wheres the footage from 0:13 to 0:17?

To say that Randy was a great guitar player is an understatement. He was a great musician and we were robbed of any great music he would have given us because of some a-hole that decided to snort some coke before flying the plane that Randy happened to be in the time. Long live rock and roll

Nota fora

Amazing musician and guitar player. A big loss. RIP

He was so timid and shy. It’s a damn shame at how short his life was, Randy could of truly changed the guitar world.