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>But has anyone heard the Quiet Riot Rhoads?
As a matter of fact the radio station I am on has a copy of QUIET RIOT "The Randy Rhoads Years" in the record library. I have heard it many times and there is one track in particular called "Laughing Gas"…this song’s solo contains bits and pieces of Crazy Train, Say Goodbye To Romance, Revelation Mother Earth and DEE…and for the record most of the songs from the that CD are live and Randy KICKS ASS on all of them!!
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>This album is so much better than Heaven & Hell wich was ok.(but not >much else)
Man I don’t know about HH being ok. That album kicked ass like nothing else! Die Young ok? Better hear that one again Jason. No need to tell us about Blizzard, I think we all know the deal. Ken
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> But has anyone heard the Quiet Riot Rhoads? It sounds like a different guy to > me.WAY too restrained and not fiery at all. I’ve talked to some people who saw > him play live w/QR in the LA club scene (around 1977) and they said he always > shredded an unaccompanied solo that kept him in competition with those two > other local guitar gods slugging it out in the club circuit: EVH and Geo. Lynch > (then of "Exciter"). QR was too bubblegum to allow Randy to truly test his > mettle/metal. Thank goddess he quit his teaching job and gave Ozzy a try!
I’ve got one word for Rhoads in Quiet Riot – bleah! The songs are terrible – they sound like Runaways demos. What schlock. Not that post-Rhoads QR was much better, but when you listen to QR and then Ozzy, you can’t even tell it’s the same guy. Amazing. — MC To reply, remove the f***spam from my address.
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My favorite track on Blizzard is Revelation Mother Earth. It has all the pathos of grand opera and a jaw-dropping solo that remains one of the most _dramatic_ in metal history. Rhoads was not only an innovative player, but a gifted composer who exploited his harmonic and melodic materials towards wonderfullly creative and affective ends. I love everything he did with Ozzy. But has anyone heard the Quiet Riot Rhoads? It sounds like a different guy to me.WAY too restrained and not fiery at all. I’ve talked to some people who saw him play live w/QR in the LA club scene (around 1977) and they said he always shredded an unaccompanied solo that kept him in competition with those two other local guitar gods slugging it out in the club circuit: EVH and Geo. Lynch (then of "Exciter"). QR was too bubblegum to allow Randy to truly test his mettle/metal. Thank goddess he quit his teaching job and gave Ozzy a try! michael
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This album is so much better than Heaven & Hell wich was ok.(but not much else) While Ozzy took off on his Crazy Train with Randy Rhoads. The great Suicide Solluttion as well as many other favorates as well. Mr.Crowley. I love it! He had so many great ideas that Black Sabbath’s other members would not listen to him about it must have been like a really good feeling making it and have people to listen to his wonderful ideas.