You had me worried until the very end when the bonus riff was my absolute favorite Randy Rhoads riff. Well done sir, awesome selections!

Yes! Riffs on "Diary of a Madman" song are brilliant.

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

arguably the best album ever written and recorded

@johndef5075

Ай бұрын

That song still gives me chills❤

You are by far without a doubt one of the best guitarist and guitar teachers on KZread plus your playing alot of my favorite guitarist's and you are spot on I hear absolutely no mistakes whatsoever , perfectly clean playing !!!

@LicksOfTheBeast

10 күн бұрын

I don't know if I'm deserving of such high praise, but I appreciate that very much, thank you!! 🙏🏻🤘

Brilliant stuff,.Nico ! RR was something special !.

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

all-time great

Man your channel is the best!!

@LicksOfTheBeast

Ай бұрын

Hey thanks so much, man!! 🤜🤛

Love the analysis on the great Randy Rhoads.......a great solo does not mean much if the song is not as great too. His rhythm playing is underappreciated. People forget he never tried lead until he was a teen despite playing guitar for 6 years already.

The RR tribute album is what I modeled my guitar playing after growing up

@timp.9582

Ай бұрын

That album is timeless, man

@dive-bomb

Ай бұрын

@@timp.9582 best versions of a lot of sabbath and ozzy songs to me

@LicksOfTheBeast

Ай бұрын

I hear ya....RR tribute is still a great live album and it had a big influence on me as well! For the Sabbath stuff, I think Brad Gillis might have done the best job, overall. His playing on Speak of the Devil is just phenomenal! 😃

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

You should really get your hands on Bat's head Soup which is the Cleveland show used form tribute but unedited it is so much better, The spotlight solo got hacked up on Tribute and they fixed the mistakes which you should never do on a live album. The genius is how one handles a mistake. Plus the countless bootlegs out there

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

@@timp.9582 but it s not as good as it could have been, they should have used a Diary show, and they should never have hacked up his actual solo. Bat's head soup is better than Tribute, the live show from May 11, 1981 is on youtube I highly recommend it

Steal Away just an awesome song filled with awesome riffs. And No Bones movies is like a heavy metalized 60's pop rock, that worked out realy well; its the wrench in the gearbox of a metal setlist but, man, it's such a fun tune.

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

the genius of Steal Away the night is the double and triple tracking he does especially on the solo, but not on the entire solo, Sounds like 10 guitars on the end part of the solo... No Bones Movies was added in place You Looking at me, looking at you to get Lee a writing credit

My favorite cover song channel, alway’s well articulated !

@LicksOfTheBeast

14 күн бұрын

Thank you!! 🙏🏻🤘🏻

Very important video and brilliantly done! You struck a nerve about mental illness too. I remember Anthrax got it in the neck for 'Madhouse'. Two of my relatives both passed now were greatly affected by it and I was concerned growing up about it too. Me and my eldest sister do suffer with issues but not to the extent of my elder relatives thank God. It was a different time back then with little to no understanding of what it was and how to best treat people who suffered. Sorry for the low tone! Keep up your amazing content. It's always a great privilege to see your take on the music we all love!

@LicksOfTheBeast

10 күн бұрын

Not a low tone at all! I think it's a topic that needs to be destigmatized so that progress could be made in terms of coping, treatment, coexistence, etc. I do plan on making a proper video about this in the future. 😊

@christschinwon

10 күн бұрын

@@LicksOfTheBeast nice one 👍👍👍🤟🤟🤟

The reason I wanted to play guitar in the first place.

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

millions have the same story

Randy’s riffs and song writing is 👌.

I welcome every single one of your videos with excitement ❤

@charlesfarrugia7898

Ай бұрын

Me too.

@LicksOfTheBeast

Ай бұрын

Much much much appreciated!!!

Love this! Great job, brother!

I like what you said at the end about listening to Randy's stuff and learning....George Lynch did an interview not too long ago where he talked about how much Randy grew from Quiet Riot to being in Blizzard of ozz, and he said he could listen to those two albums and take a deep dive and learn a lot.

Beautiful video! Always up for a Randy Rhoads' video, my fav guitarist of all time :') You should analyze some of his work with Quiet Riot as well! Not as "dark/synyster" but still wonderful

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

he is an all time A leaguer

I think you perfectly covered the one thing about Randy that was 100% better at compared to EVH. Randy certainly would have found even more fame after moving on from rock music.

Great analysis! I've always loved his unorthodox but incredibly sonorous guitar moves, like the ones he does in Over The Mountain. I also really dig Jake E. Lee's playing...🤗😎 I love your videos, as they always stir me up for a productive guitar practice session...in the hopes of one day becoming (almost) as great as yourself...😃

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

Jake is awesome too

That riff for No Bone Movies is such a underrated gem. Not crazy about the song itself but that riff is pure 🔥

Sounds awesome mate I like the quiet riot stuff too

I love those two albums. I Saw Ozzy with Randy in the palladium in New York City. You do A wonderful Job explaining those great albums. I wish I can jam with you.

@LicksOfTheBeast

Ай бұрын

That's just insane that you got to witness that live!

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

the show that actually has video, which show did you go to that day, they played two shows.

@charlesfarrugia7898

Ай бұрын

@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle I went to the second show.

Bonus riff is probably my favorite Randy riff ever!

Randy ❤

The best investment any RR enthusiast can make is buying the Tab book for the Tribute album. One thing is studio Randy, and a whole other monster beast when live. Btw, the new Marty Friedman album called Drama is a MUST listen for us guitar players. You will not regret it.

@LicksOfTheBeast

Ай бұрын

That's one tab book that was transcribed quite well from what I remember. I had it back in the day and it was one of the books I had taken with me when I had moved back to Italy... Unfortunately it was destroyed when a male kitten peed all over it 😅😂😂 So it's been 20 years since I've seen it, but from what I remember, the fingerings weren't always right, but I think a lot of the notes were pretty accurate.

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

no, it used to be that, but really the investment is the bootleg is a bootleg called Bat's Head Soup, unedited and has the actual spotlight solo not the hatchet job on Tribute. I believe every Randy Rhoads fan/blizzard of ozz fan should listen to the bootlegs of the shows so they can hear how much he was evolving as a player and how he changed every song every night. He would try stuff out here and there from the early days trying out various solos. I post the bootlegs of each show in the legacy group.

@UltraPvnk

Ай бұрын

@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle yup, good advice

Randy ...❤🙏

people forget that RR had 2 albums with quiet riot. Some of the Ozzy riffs sound like glam metal or glam pop which to me sounded like stuff that RR would have composed with QR.

@LicksOfTheBeast

Ай бұрын

There are definitely bits of QR songs on both Ozzy albums. Slightly reworked, of course, to make them fit the band's sound better and also because Randy was evolving rapidly.

@backtoshallabal6662

Ай бұрын

@@LicksOfTheBeast absolutely! Force of Habit a QR song is Suicide SOlution!

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

you know he used some of the riffs from the QR songs....and solos. They do not sound glam metal. Blizzard of ozz was a metal band, changed the game

@HocusPocusFocus69

17 күн бұрын

Correct. But that's the genre that he came from...so naturally that tendency is going to come up.

Randy = Instant Click

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

absolutely.....

Ok, if you are trying to be my favorite person, ya doing a good job lol. Randy is still my guitar hero.

@LicksOfTheBeast

Ай бұрын

Hahaha 🤣 welll... I am trying to make this channel a place where one could hang out and get their dose of heavy metal guitar goodness so I appreciate that a whole lot. Thank you!! 😊

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

we all have Randy as a guitar hero

Fantastic

Would love to see a breakdown between the way Randy played the 3 Sabbath songs and the way Tony did....

@HocusPocusFocus69

17 күн бұрын

Tony couldn't touch Randy's solo for Children Of The Grave!

Amazing ❤❤❤❤

Just heard Tonight recently. Great riff but the solo at the end is just crazy. I was like wtf is he doing?😅❤

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

scratch solo....amazing solo. That song should have had a video and been huge, a well crafted song, even my wife likes it and she hates Ozzy's voice and him as a person

Awesome!!

His Quiet Riot work was decent as well

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

people should listen to those two QR albums to hear how much he grew and how he took some of his own ideas and developed them. You could hear the budding superstar..

AC/DC or Boston. I think Bob Daisley is the reason Randy was able to progress so much from the Quiet Riot days.

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

Bob helped with the business side of things for Randy, he did not teach Randy anything musically. The difference is with Quiet Riot the label was dictating terms and KEvin was involved. Ozzy handed the keys to the car to Randy and let him go with the direction and riffs. Bob helped put songs together for sure, but Randy's explosive growth came between the recording of BOO and DOAM as he took classical guitar lessons and stopped partying

@HocusPocusFocus69

17 күн бұрын

Randy admitted that QR was holding him back.

Nico, what do you have to say about your adrian smith jackson USA sig? I am wondering how it compares to a charvel USA, wich would u pick and why. Appreciate.

Great overview of some really tasty Rhoads riffs

I would love to see you analyze Def Leppard's Hysteria by Phil Collen and Steve Clark and/or Ghost's Square Hammer by Tobias Forge. Preferably the live versions from In the Round, In Your Face and Ceremony & Devotion, respectively.

@LicksOfTheBeast

Ай бұрын

I am planning to cover something from both Phil and Ghost - maybe not those songs but it'll be something cool. I think. I hope. 🫣😁

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

dude come on stay focused on the great Randy Rhoads.....he can do B-leaguers later

Wow, i have this same rr5 jackson but with gold truss cover that i bought at ebay years ago. Nice hair man. I used to be like you. Now no more, so i willl go to the capilar surgery in florianopolis, clinica capilar brasil, and have have nice hair again. Hehehe😅

Brent Barker Music does some great RR covers on his channel, Nico. Nails the energy and phrasing.

When you mentionned AC DC i was sure you were going to play no bone movies 😊

@LicksOfTheBeast

10 күн бұрын

🤘😁🤘

@ThibautKurt23

10 күн бұрын

@@LicksOfTheBeast and sometimes Randy Rhoads riffs reminds me hard rock riffs a la AC DC. no bone movie, steal away (the night), Suicide Solution, Flying High Again, Believer (yes it sometimes reminds me of Dazed and confused by led Zeppelin) or little dolls. But when I analyse the riffs , they are definately metal.

Diary is the ultimate scary riff

🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽

You're on an Ozzy phase!

@LicksOfTheBeast

Ай бұрын

Hahahaha the guy did have some killer guitar players!

@charlesfarrugia7898

Ай бұрын

@@LicksOfTheBeast and don't forget. Ozzy had good drummer's too. Staring with Tommy Aldridge. And carmine appece.

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

@@charlesfarrugia7898 Lee Kerslake probably the best musician among the drummers as he did melodies and piano when helping to write Diary of a Madman album

Randy Rhoads Scale is Aeolian add Chromatic Guide note or Non-Diatonic Note, look how many chromatic guide notes & adding in non-diatonic notes he adds to his riffs and licks which you should make a lesson just about how Randy Rhoads uses adding in chromatic guide notes & adding Non-Diatonic Guide Notes.

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

Might be interesting to compare his growth as a player from BOO to DOAM as he became more diatonic. Everyone involved in that writing and recording of the album DoAM talk about how his playing was night and day from BOO.

Sorry to say 2 things in same video, but what do you use for an amp? is a computer program thing??

@user-ft4jo8ev1v

Ай бұрын

It says in the description

@LicksOfTheBeast

Ай бұрын

For most of my videos, I use audio plugins. This one also features a Traynor 50W combo amp on the parts where I'm explaining. If you're ever curious about the gear I use, it's always mentioned in the description of every video 🙂

Bob Daisley helped him with compositions. I say that bcuz his composition skill with Quiet Riot were pretty lame. But I do think he is the best soloist ever!

@LicksOfTheBeast

Ай бұрын

QR was an entirely different thing and I don't know how much Randy was playing what he wanted to vs what he (and DuBrow) thought was necessary to break through. Bob Daisley definitely was involved in the composition and songwriting but I don't know if he had any actual input on Randy's riffs beyond the possible suggestion of a different chord on a certain spot.

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

No they showed the talent, but Randy was not driving the car with Quiet Riot, he talks about this. The producer did not want guitar focused songs, they were pretty much told what kind of songs to write including disco like songs. Kevin also was following the direction of the producer,. But you can hear some of those ideas, solos and riffs in the Blizzard of ozz music, Bob pretty much wrote lyrics and helped with bridges or pulling the best out of Randy. But a lot of the songs for BOO came already written by Randy like Crazy train He is probably a better rhythm player than lead player, which says how good he is on rhythm

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

@@LicksOfTheBeast you are correct, Randy was not really writing the music he wanted for Quiet Riot, the label and producer has a lot of input. They settled because they wanted to get signed so badly

laughing gas randy rhoads lesson guitar??

@LicksOfTheBeast

29 күн бұрын

In the future, yes. But it won't be the laughing gas (QR) version because that's not the one most people know. Still lots of similar bits though.

Supposedly Randy stole the riff for Flying High Again from George Lynch. I don't know the truth of this, it's just something that has been spread around the Internet for years.

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

no, that is completely wrong. George alleges he showed Randy how to do the solo...which makes no sense, since Randy was in the U.K. and wrote that in 4 weeks. George maybe showed him the technique, but that is all Randy. Even Randy's brother talks about the solo and how he thinks he embodies who Randy was. No one has ever talked about Randy taking the riff from George.

@jeffallen3382

Ай бұрын

@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle I've been hearing this for years! Don't tell me no one is talking about this! 🤣

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

@@jeffallen3382 weird, I have been a Rhoads admirer since 1982 and never heard anyone ever talk about Randy taking the riff from George, George is on record saying he showed Randy the technique for the solo. Interesting Bob Daisley has on his website and book talking about how Randy came up with the ideas for each song You're promoting nonsense and got the story wrong. Show me one website that has anyone talking about Randy taking the riff from George, something he has never said

@jeffallen3382

Ай бұрын

@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle oh noooooo! Someone said something bad about your beloved guitar god! You just proved me right by saying George was the one who 1sr played that. #gfywithasharpstick

@Red-mp3to

Ай бұрын

This isn't true at all. Another troll. Just go away....

"No Bone Movies" was always my least favorite Randy song. It always seemed a bit out of place.

@LicksOfTheBeast

Ай бұрын

It definitely sticks out... But I still like it. And it's got a slide guitar solo which is really cool to hear from Randy! Also a little nod to Zeppelin's Rock and Roll at the end. 😁

@villageidiot9867

Ай бұрын

One of my favorite Ozzy songs.

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

it was a song added at the last minute to give Lee Kerslake a writing credit, it replaced You Looking at Me looking at you, but still a fantastic song.

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

@@LicksOfTheBeast the band wanted to write a song to get Lee a writing credit....but still an awesome fun little song. It was inspired by the band going to a porno movie and Randy called them bone movies.

@ericmoreau4568

Ай бұрын

@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle And the main riff is as sleazy as one too!

No he ain't

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

no he ain't what

I Don’t Know is a terrible riff.

@Micah_Blitz11

Ай бұрын

Ok

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

that's ridiculous..it is one of the best riffs ever fantastic song

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Ай бұрын

@@Micah_Blitz11 hacks are gonna hack

@Red-mp3to

Ай бұрын

Poor baby....are you crying cause this video isn't about EVH. Go cry somewhere else troll...

@LicksOfTheBeast

Ай бұрын

🙇🏻🙇🏻🙇🏻