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.

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.

@chrispetersen4863

2 жыл бұрын

Ozzy has been blessed with a series of amazing guitarists. I love Randy, and Jake E. Lee stepped into some really big shoes after Randy passed and filled them really well, in my opinion. Sad how badly he was screwed over on song writing credits, etc. Seemed to be a pattern of that from the people who worked with Ozzy, sadly. Randy will always be the top of the pyramid for me though. RIP Randy.

@charlesmerfeld2988

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome

@charlesmerfeld2988

2 жыл бұрын

Check out Brad Gillis live at midsouth coliseum excellent recording

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Жыл бұрын

your friend led you down the right path, but Randy was a co founder of Blizzard of ozz with Bob Daisley and ozzy, I hate that people think Randy was Ozzy's guitarist in his solo band. This is not accurate.

@choobachooba3140

Жыл бұрын

@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle not only the that he effing wrote music for first two albums. One could say it was Randy Rhodes album with Ozzy doing the vocals. But what can you do ... people eh. Also Sharon.

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

@gumballthechewy

Жыл бұрын

Man, I feel the exact same way! I'm influenced by other bands, as a whole, more so than Randy, but he is the biggest single inspiration to me!

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Жыл бұрын

I am not sure how anyone who plays guitar, cannot appreciate the greatness of Randy, and the inherent genius of his writing.

@FortessofShred

Жыл бұрын

I was born the day he died. Tripped me out when I learned that.

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!! 🙏🙏🙏

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

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.

@haywoodyoudome

2 жыл бұрын

He made a video of that already. Go watch it.

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Жыл бұрын

actually Crazy train is tripled...and each solo is slightly different. I mean it was pretty genius

@2216sammy

3 ай бұрын

Randy took a ton of time working out all his solo's which is far far easier than other methods . Randy triple tracked his solos and used tons of effects .

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 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

@atomovedin3970

Жыл бұрын

I seen him Feb 12th in Cincinnati on that tour, was going to get tickets for the Dayton hara arena show but he passed before that one.

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/

@rubievale

2 жыл бұрын

He didn't really write that. He was sued by the actual composer, Leo Brouwer, because Randy basically lifted the whole thing and claimed he wrote it. Check out Etude VI by Leo Brouwer if you don't believe it. Brouwer only dropped the lawsuit when Randy died.

@VinceRhoads

2 жыл бұрын

@@rubievale You're talking about Diary of a Madman, not Dee

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Жыл бұрын

I remember hearing Dee and being confused.....how did that song end up on that album, same with goodbye to Romance, which by the way has to be heard with only the vocals with the guitar, Randy is playing some incredible guitar under the keyboard part.

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Жыл бұрын

@@rubievale he wrote Dee, he wrote it in the 70s for his Bob. As the guy said you are thinking of Diary of a Madman intro, and that was intended to be a warm up exercise. But Ozzy heard him playing it and told him to use it in a song. Randy lifted 30 songs and he changed it somewhat with the picking and tempo. Randy did write Diary of a Madman with Bob daisley, as Leo learned, no one owns a sequence of notes. The genius is Randy writing a complete song around that intro which is the least important part of the song. No he never tried to sue that is a myth.

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Жыл бұрын

@@VinceRhoads right but this guy makes it seem like Leo owns sequence of notes, and Randy took a part of Etudes 6 and wrote a song around it which is the genius. The intro is meaningless

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

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Жыл бұрын

when I was a kid, it was RHoads or van Halen, and Rhoads was for the heavier metal guys like myself. But both all time great players/ writers.

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

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Жыл бұрын

you and millions of others

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

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Жыл бұрын

I love watching videos like this

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

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.

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Жыл бұрын

I saw the Musonia a couple of years ago, his brother gave me an hour of his time and it was amazing, he would have given me more but i had to leave.

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'.

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Жыл бұрын

he was a musician's musician

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.

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

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 🙏

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.

Randy Rhoads…there are no words!!!

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

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.

Such an incredible musician who was cut down in his prime

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

Randy is my favorite. Great video!

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.

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Жыл бұрын

the unmixed version, also on youtube. is much better than The Tribute album.

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'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 Vid Mike.

Awesome! Rad! Great video Mike.

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.

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 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. 🤘🏼🎸

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 KZread, 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

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 🎸.

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.

Great video!

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.

That book a MUST own for guitarists of any level.

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!

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.

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

"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! 🤘😎

@countvond233

2 жыл бұрын

Tommy Aldridge said that and more about the Sabbath song. He was NOT a fan. He had to play the same three Sabbath songs every show because that was still part of Ozzy's draw. Randy would just play off the cuff. Tommy said it was a train wreck most nights on those tunes. That Paranoid solo is so over the top it ain't funny. Randy just going for it and hoping for the best ( or in reality, giving zero fucks). I still laugh at how amazing it is and that it could have gone very, very bad...

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.

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?!?!

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

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

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.

Sick Guitar!! and Randy was is Amazing

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

That is a GREAT tab book, too.

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

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

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.

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.

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Жыл бұрын

if you love Tribute, and who doesn't, listen to the unmixed live version on youtube, it is much better than the album.

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.

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

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🤘🏾🫨🎸

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

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Жыл бұрын

the best teacher a kid could have....

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

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

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.

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.

Before I started playing guitar I'd heard Black Sabbath's first album once or twice but had no idea who Ozzy was. When I started learning my guitar teacher (who was an incredible player himself) trusted me enough to let me borrow his copy of Diary Of A Madman on vinyl. I remember being absolutely blown away by the solo in Over The Mountain and it just got better. The fade-out solo to Tonight is still haunting to listen to. Incredible to think the Diary album was supposedly "rushed" and some of Randy's solos on it were still being ironed out. At least that's what I remember reading somewhere. Though it may be that Randy was a bit of a perfectionist and just ran out of time to write even better solos for some songs. The solo to Little Dolls kind of feels a bit unfinished, as though it's a work-in-progress, but is still a great solo. About a year after learning guitar I'd learned most of the songs on Diary, though I couldn't play the solos very well! It wasn't until a few years later that I bought Blizzard and Tribute on CD. Music was expensive back then! I also bought the same Tribute tab book you show in the video. What a fantastic reference. I had no idea it even existed until I randomly spotted it in a music shop one day in the mid '90s. Looking forward to picking up Guitar World.

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

Жыл бұрын

From randy's last interview... "How about the solo breaks in “Over the Mountain,” where you play the fast, unaccompanied licks? The first lick in that section is played like this It’s in E minor. Then the next break is just a series of real quick pull-offs to open strings , with a tremolo bar dive added at the end. That’s all there is to it. There’s just one real lick in it; the rest is just, oh, noise."

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.

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

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...

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

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

My first Randy exposure was at a friends house when he said "hey, this is creepy, listen to this!" and played Mr Crowley. I had grown up (to a ripe old age of 12 at the time!) listening to KISS and was blown away at something this different. I was an immediate Randy fan and tolerated Ozzy. A few months later I was reading another friends Circus magazine, or Hit Parader, or one of those, and found out that Randy had been killed a few months before I had heard him for the first time. I was extremely bummed out. I have that book as well! I still reference it trying to learn a little more Randy. I also figured out following the numbers on Dee with no clue how to actually do anything. Weird how guitar was before the Internet.

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.

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

I had a similar experience. My parents bought me a guitar at a police auction one summer and there was a magazine called "Guitar for the Practicing Musician" (later it became Guitar World) and it had the tab for Crazy Train. So I spent the rest of that summer learning it along with the other songs that I don't remember, and when school started again in the fall I would sit and play during lunch and whenever someone asked me to play something they knew, I played Crazy Train. That made me as popular as the jocks.

R. I. P. Randy ✨👑✨🎸✨🔥✨

Thank you ☺️ for telling me all about the osmonds.

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.

Randy Rhoades is still the greatest ever! 🤘🎸🤘

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

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.

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.

The solo in over the mountain is crazy good.

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 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.

I also learned many Randy riffs including "Dee" from that same book...We were probably studying that book about the same time (early 90's?) but my story took place in Wisconsin.

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.

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

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.

Nice String Butler lol I have one on my Studio, but I honestly still have problems keeping it in tune. I also have a Graphtech (sp?) nut and bridge, but I’m wondering if I maybe didn’t file the nut good enough to keep the guitar in tune.

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

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.

I had that same book

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.

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

Loved this cuz' I just read my copy of the same magazine👍 Ya spider room freak!! lol!!🕷🕸

Yea Randy, Eddie were two guitar gods I started to be inspired and influenced heavily once I got into guitar and started to dig deeper into older Rock when a neighborhood friend who was like 6yrs older than me.. well his older brother was like 3 or 4yrs older then him. And he was the one who introduced me to Metallica, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Pink Floyd (well my dad was into them and had classic rock vinyl albums so I was familiar with Pink Floyd and like AC-DC, Foreigner) but the more heavier stuff he had that Dimevision/Watch It Go 3 Pantera VHS home video that the older brother showed me....I even remember him handing me Morbid Angel "Domination" album and telling me to keep it but he didnt have the CD cover I just had this slime green CD because I liked "Dawn Of The Angry" i couldnt believe that was actually a human drumming the double bass like a machine throughout the whole song just about....lol my 1st time hearing Death Metal I was like 10yrs old and I remember not even really being into Metallica they scared me because I had no idea what the band members looked like and their music (at the time) was so hard I was like "who are these mysterious guys?" Until I saw Enter Sandman on MTV later on lol now I love all those bands!!

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