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Randy Rhoads was born on December 6, 1956 in Santa Monica , California. He was tragically killed in a plane crash on march 19 , 1982 in Lees burg , Florida while on tour with the Ozzy Osbourne band.His influence on music is still felt to this day and his legend grows bigger everyday.
Rest in peace, you are truly missed.
Randy Rhoads was born on December 6, 1956 at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California. He was the youngest of three children. His older brother, Kelle Rhoads, is a drummer and vocalist who also arranges classical compositions. His older sister's name is Kathy.
When Randy was 17 months old, his father, William Arthur Rhoads, left his mother, Delores Rhoads and the three kids, but he stayed in touch with Randy even up until his son's death. Mrs. Rhoads has owned and operated the Musonia School of Music in North Hollywood, California since 1949. The school of music is still open to this day. Rhoads started playing guitar at age six on his grandfather's old Gibson "Army-Navy" classical acoustic guitar. According to Rhoads' mother, he learned to play folk guitar, which was a popular way to learn guitar at the time, although he did not take lessons for very longas he picked it rather quickly. Rhoads was always evolving toward a hard rock/metal lead guitar style, but he was heavily influenced by classical music and classic rock as well. This can be heard on Ozzy Osbourne tracks like "Dee" (an instrumental he named for his mother Delores), "Mr. Crowley", "Diary of a Madman", "You Can't Kill Rock And Roll", "Crazy Train" and "Revelation (Mother Earth)".
At 14 years of age Randy Rhoads formed a cover band called Violet Fox (after his mother's middle name, Violet), with his older brother Kelle on drums. Violet Fox staged several concerts in the "Grand Salon" at Musonia, Delores Rhoads' school of music. Among their songs was "Mississippi Queen" by Mountain, as well as songs from The Rolling Stones, Alice Cooper, and David Bowie, and many others. After the break up of Violet Fox, Randy Rhoads taught his best friend Kelly Garni how to play bass, and together they formed a band called The Whore , inspiration for the name unknown , (rehearsing during the day at Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco, a famous '70s Hollywood nightspot), spending several months playing at backyard parties around Los Angeles. Together the pair went on to form Quiet RiotKevin DuBrow auditioned for singer in Rhoads' kitchen after he convinced Rhoads and Garni to give him a chance. The drummer, Drew Forsyth, was already in the band and had periodically played with Rhoads and Garni in the past.when Rhoads was 16.
Quiet Riot started out playing in small bars in Hollywood and local parties in Burbank, eventually playing at two main L.A. music clubs of the day — the Whisky a Go Go, and The Starwood. While the band had a strong fan base in the L.A. club scene, they were unable to secure a major recording contract in the USA. Eventually, however, the band was able to score a record deal with Japanese record label CBS/Sony RecordsQuiet Riot and Quiet Riot II were released in Japan.
In 1979, ex-Black Sabbath vocalist Ozzy Osbourne was forming his new band. During an interview with Raw Power Magazine editors Robert Olshever, Murray Schwartz and Scott Stephens (future singer of Liquid Blue), Ozzy mentioned he was looking for a new guitarist. Randy's name was brought up during the interview and the next day Robert asked his friend and future Slaughter bassist Dana Strum to try to reach Randy to see if he was interested. Rhoads got the call an audition just before his final show with Quiet Riot. He walked in with his Les Paul guitar and a small practice amp and started warming up; Osbourne immediately gave him the job. Rhoads recalled later, "I just tuned up and did some riffs, and he said, 'You've got the job.' I had the weirdest feeling, because I thought, 'You didn't even hear me play yet.'" Osbourne described Rhoads' playing as "incredible and life changing" Rhoads subsequently had his friend Greg Leon, who also taught guitar at Musonia for Rhoads' mother, to replace him in Quiet Riot, and then left for the UK to write songs and record with Osbourne in November 1979.
The band, then known as the Blizzard of Ozz, went into the studio to record the band's debut album, which would also be called Blizzard of Ozz. Rhoads' guitar playing had changed due to the level of freedom allowed by Ozzy and Bob Daisley and he was encouraged to play what he wanted to play. His work with Quiet Riot has been criticized as being "dull" and did not rely on classical scales or arrangements. Propelled by Randy Rhoads' neo-classical guitar work, the album proved an instant smash with rock and metal fans, particularly in the USA. They released two singles from the album: "Mr. Crowley" and the hit "Crazy Train". The British tour of 1980-81 for Blizzard of Ozz was with Bob Daisley and Lee Kerslake. After the British tour, the band wrote another LP before the US Blizzard of Ozz tour. But before the US Blizzard tour, both Lee Kerslake and Bob Daisley were fired by Sharon Osbourne for unknown reasons. For the US Blizzard tour, Tommy Aldridge and Rudy Sarzo were hired to round out the band. Diary of a Madman was released soon after Blizzard of Ozz in October 1981, and since Kerslake and Daisley were already out of the band, Aldridge and Sarzo's photos appear on the album sleeve. This was the source of many future court battles and law suits. You Said it All and You Looking At Me, Looking At You would become rare gems with the first to be only released on a handful of singles. Tribute would be released years down the road.
Around this time Randy Rhoads Rhoads remarked to Osbourne, and fellow Ozz bandmates Tommy Aldridge and Rudy Sarzo, and friend Kelly Garni that he was considering leaving rock for a few years to earn a degree in classical guitar at UCLA. In the Osbourne documentary Don't Blame Me, Osbourne confirmed Randy's desire to earn the degree and stated that had he lived, he didn't believe Randy would have stayed in his band. Ex-Quiet Riot bassist Kelly Garni has stated in various interviews that if Randy had continued to play rock, he might have gone the route of more keyboard-driven rock, which had become very popular through the 1980s.
It was at this time that Rhoads was beginning to receive recognition for his playing. Just before his death Jackson Guitars created a signature model, the Jackson Randy Rhoads or Randy Rhoads Pro (though it was recommended to be called the Jackson Concorde). Randy received two prototype guitars — one in black and one in white — but passed away before the guitar went into production. Rhoads also received the Best New Talent award from Guitar Player magazine.
Randy Rhoads' last concert was played on Thursday March 18, 1982 at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum in Knoxville, Tennessee. On March 19, 1982, the band was going to a music festival in Orlando, Florida. After driving much all night, they stopped on a property belonging to Jerry Calhoun, owner of "Florida Coach", in Leesburg, Florida. On it, there was a small airstrip lined with small helicopters , airplanes, and two houses. One belonged to the tour bus driver, Andrew Aycock, and the other was owned by Calhoun. Aycock talked the band's keyboardist, Don Airey, into taking a test flight in a '55 Beechcraft Bonanza F-35. By some accounts the manager, Jake Duncan, was also on this first flight but hasnt been confirmed. The joyride ended, and the plane landed safely. Then Aycock took Rhoads and band hairdresser/seamstress Rachel Youngblood up on another flight. Airey persuaded Rhoads to go on the second flight, despite his Randy's fear of flying. Rhoads apparently agreed to go for two reasons: the seamstress had a heart condition so Aycock agreed to do nothing risky; also, Rhoads wanted to take an aerial photo as one of his hobbies was photography. During the second flight, several attempts were made to "buzz" the tour bus where the other band members were sleeping.They succeeded twice, but the third attempt was not successful.. The left wing clipped the back side of the tour bus, was torn off an it also tore the fiberglass roof of the bus then sent the plane spiraling out of control. The plane severed the top of a pine tree and crashed into the garage area of a nearby mansion, exploding and bursting into flames. Randy Rhoads was killed instantly, as were Aycock, 36, and Youngblood, 58. All three of their bodies were burned beyond recognition, and they were identified by dental records. It was later revealed in an autopsy that Aycock's system showed traces of cocaine at the time; Rhoads' toxicology test revealed only nicotine and alcohol in his blood. The NTSB investigation also determined that Aycock's medical certificate had expired and that the biennial flight review, required for all pilots, was overdue.
He was basically flying illegally without a pilots license or certification.
Rhoads' funeral was held at the First Lutheran Church in Burbank, CA. He is interred at Mountain View Cemetery in San Bernardino, California where his grandparents are also buried.
Randy's Guitars
- 1974 Cream Gibson Les Paul Custom
- 1957 Black Gibson Les Paul Custom
- Karl Sandoval Polka Dot Flying V
- White Jackson Randy Rhoads w. black pinstripes (called the "Concord" and was a prototype at the time)
- Black Jackson Randy Rhoads
- Guild 12 string acoustic
- Mid 60s Fender Stratocaster
- Gibson Firebird 12 string electric guitar
- Martin 6&12 string acoustics
- Gibson 12 string acoustic
Randy's Effects
- Vox Wah pedal
- MXRDistortion + Script
- MXR 10 band equalizer
- MXR Stereo flanger
- MXR Stereo chorus
- Maestro Phase Shifter
- Maestro Echoplex
- Roland FV-100H Volume Pedal
- Roland Space Echo
Randy's Amplifiers
- Marshall vintage Super Lead Plexi 100w amp heads (2)
- Marshall 4x12 White cabinets with Altec Lansing speakers (2)
- Marshall 4x12 Black cabinets with Altec Lansing speakers (2)
- Marshall Plexi MKII Super Lead 100 watt amp (modded with cascade mod)
- Ampeg 4x12 cabinet with Altec Lansing speakers
- Peavey standard 130 watt amp
- Fender Harvard 1x12 amp
In 1987, a full five years after Rhoads' death, Ozzy Osbourne released the album Tribute, the only official album featuring Osbourne and Rhoads playing together in concert. Most of the album is a live performance from Cleveland, Ohio, recorded on May 11, 1981. Also used in the recording was Rhoads' guitar solo from a show in Montreal, Canada, recorded on July 28, 1981. The whole show had been broadcast on WMMS, and the King Biscuit Flower Hour, a popular radio show from which it became an extremely popular and fast selling bootleg. The songs "Goodbye to Romance" and "No Bone Movies" from the Tribute album were recorded on the British Blizzard of Ozz tour at Southampton, on the same date as the Mr. Crowley EP was recorded.
Randy was also inducted into the Guitar Center Rock Walk on March 18, 2004. In a 2006 Guitar World It has since been corected and now reads "Rhoads". article, it was mentioned that Rhoads' last name was mistakenly spelled "Rhodes" on his plaque, and by the time it was discovered, there was not enough time to correct the mistake.
As a tribute to Rhoads, Marshall Amplification , the world famous brittish amplification company released the 1959RR at NAMM 2008. The amp is a limited-edition all-white Marshall Super Lead 100 watt head modeled after Randy's own Super Lead guitar amp. Marshall engineers looked extensively at Rhoads' actual amplifier and made the 1959RR to those exact specifications, right down to the high-gain modification Randy specifically requested when he visited the Marshall Amp factory in 1980.
RANDY RHOAD'S AWARDS
- Voted "Best New Talent" by the readers and editors of Guitar Player magazine in December 1981
- Voted "Best Heavy Metal Guitarist" by the readers and editors of UK-based Sounds magazine in December 1981
- Placed 85th on Rolling Stone Magazine's 100 Greatest Guitarists of all time.
- Placed 4th on Guitar World Magazine's 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists of all time.
- Crazy Train and Mr. Crowley placed 9th and 28th respectively on Guitar World's 100 Greatest Guitar Solos of all time in their readers poll.
- Named one of the fastest guitar players in Guitar World's 50 Fastest Guitarists in the world list.
- The song "Crazy Train" placed 51 in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time" list.
- In May 2008 an application for Randy's Posthumous Star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame was submitted in the name of Randy Rhoads. Randy Rhoads' Posthumous Star was not approved in 2008 and the HWOF Star application has been resubmitted for 2009. If approved by the Hollywood Walk Of Fame Committee in June 2009, Randy Rhoads' Posthumous Star would be placed on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame in the year 2010.
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Discography
With Quiet Riot
Main article: Quiet Riot
- Quiet Riot (1977)
- Quiet Riot II (1978)
- The Randy Rhoads Years (1993)
With Ozzy Osbourne
Main article: Ozzy Osbourne discography
- Mr. Crowley Live EP (1980)
- Blizzard of Ozz (1980)
- Diary of a Madman (1981)
- Tribute (1987)
- DVD - Although the only known video footage of Randy Rhoads was a segment taken from the late night show "AFTER HOURS" , a year ago a 3 hour unauthorized DVD video compilation was released by a fan who had been researching and collecting Randy Rhoads footage for over 20 years.
Entitled " RANDY RHOADS - THE COMPLETE VIDEO COLLECTION " The 2 disc dvd set includes interviews, news segments, quiet riot concerts , and footage dating back to Randy Rhoads when he was only 19 years old.- Limited Copies may still be available by contacting
- RANDYRHOADSDVD@LIVE.COM
- All Music Quiet Riot 1977 Retrieved on July 18, 2008.
- National Transportation Safety Board MIA82FA078 Retrieved on July 18, 2008.
- National Transportation Safety Board Data from Factual Report of Accident, no longer available as a public document from the National Transportation Safety Board. Retrieved on July 18, 2008.
- Blabbermouth Induction Marred By Misspelling Shocker Retrieved on July 18, 2008
- Premier Guitar Marshall's New Randy Rhoads Amp Retrieved on July 18, 2008.
- Rolling Stone The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time Retrieved on July 18, 2008.
- Blabbermouth GUITAR WORLD's 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists Of All Time Retrieved on July 18, 2008.
- About.com: Guitar 100 Greatest Guitar Solos Retrieved on July 18, 2008.
- deviantART Guitar World's 50 Fastest Guitarists of All Time Retrieved on July 18, 2008.
- Rolling Stone The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time Retrieved on July 18, 2008.
- "The Man, The Myth, The Metal: Gibson Interviews Zakk Wylde". Gibson.com. http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/ZakkWylde/. Retrieved 2008-11-10.
- Phil Brodie Band GEORGE LYNCH Retrieved on July 18, 2008.
- FourteenG Alexi Laiho interview Retrieved on July 18, 2008.
- Metal-Rules Interview With Paul Gilbert Retrieved on July 18, 2008.
- MTV Beneath The Bucket, Behind The Mask: Kurt Loder Meets GN'R's Buckethead Retrieved on July 18, 2008.
- Guitar World 2007 article on the discovery of the third Randy Rhoads guitar (p. 64)
- Randy Rhoads at Find a Grave
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