Randy Rhoads The Quiet Riot Years 90 Minute Dvd 2013 Torrent
Xiaoqi Hauge
Maybe some Boomers will have more insight into this? I'd never listened to the band Quiet Riot during the Randy Rhoads years until this afternoon. (Mr. Crowley popped up on a random playlist and got me curious.) The song "Laughing Gas" features a guitar solo starting at the 2 min. mark that sounds familiar. He's tapping, he's doing frenetic runs, he's doing whammy dive bombs. The recording is from 1977. Van Halen's Eruption didn't come out until 1978. But it's one of the most revolutionary rock guitar solos ever? Should I be feeling disillusioned?
Yes, but Van Halen often gets credited with totally changing the game with Eruption. Rhoads is known as one of the greats, but doesn't have the same reputation. At least that's my perception. Seems unfair! It's more than just the tapping; the overall sound and flow of the solos sound very similar to me.
"According to biographer Andrew Klein, Rhoads was "devastated" after seeing Van Halen play for the first time. "Everyone was always telling him how great he was," Klein told Peter Lindblad of Backstage Auctions. "Then he saw Eddie and it opened his eyes, and he got a major reality check. It was healthy for him. ... He thought Eddie was great. He wanted to be great also."
Randy Rhoads was always the first to admit Van Halen's influence on his music. Still, he felt that his use of Van Halen's techniques ultimately held him back. "I have my own personality on the guitar but as of yet I don't think I have my own style," Rhoads told Guitar World's John Stix in 1982. "For instance, I do a solo guitar thing in concert, and I do a lot of the same licks as Eddie Van Halen. Eddie is a great player, but it kills me that I do that."
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Grunge was repackaged garbage, excuse me garage, rock as MTV searched around in vain for a 90's sound.
If not for the Cobain martyrdom, noone would even remember it. They'd remember Jane's Addiction, Chili Peppers, etc.
It would be a good conspiracy theory for EVH to have killed Randy Rhoades
Randy Rhoads Dec. 6, 1956-Mar. 19, 1982 Randy Rhoads was a very talented guitarist whose life was taken very young. He was one of the original founding members of Quiet Riot and was Ozzy Osbourne's first guitarist from when he went solo from Black Sabbath in 1979 to his tragic death in 1982. He had extraordinary talent and there are no words to possibly describe his spirit and personality.Here are some quotes by him before his tragic death and maybe some pictures: Quotes taken from an interview with John Stix, August 14, 1981
"Five years ahead? I would love to have people know me as a guitar hero. I'd like to be able to do something more instrumental. Someday maybe put out a solo album where I can dig into a lot of instrumentals."
"Both of my parents are music teachers. My mother owns the school that I taught in. My brothers and sisters are musicans. My mom pushed me all the time. She knew that I could do it. She knew more than I did. She thought I would go somewhere. She gave me the job and helped me get equipment, which a lot of parents don't do. Alot of my students had to go out and fight for it."
"It's totally strange. It still hasn't hit me yet. I've still got my past in me. I guess I'm trying to mature into it, but I don't have my feet on the ground at all. I don't even know who I am, what I am. People say this will go to your head and make you egotistical. That's a load of shit. What it does is make you totally frightened and humble."
"I've got a '64 cream Les Paul andd a '57 black Les Paul with three pickups. The Flying V was made by Carl Sandoval. He used to work at Charvel and he went off on his own. He made it for me. It has a DiMarzio Distortion Plus on the treble position and a DiMarzio PAF in the bass pickup. The only one I wasn't playing was the Charvel. That one he made for me after I joined Ozzy. The Charvel has the Seymour Duncan Distortion pickup."
"I used to have my students practice hammering up and down the neck, going through all the frets with the four fingers and picking each string once. Going from the first fret, all the way down the strings, then up to the next fret then down the next. If you do that every day, you build up a lot of strength."
"Possibly he knew a certain sound he was looking for, and all these other players tried to show off too much. I didn't get a chance to show off. I just started making a few harmonics, and maybe perhaps it was my personality, because I was really quiet and everybody was too outgoing. I still don't know."
I wasn't a big Sabbath fan, to be honest. They were great at what they did. Obviously they did it well, and made it huge. I respect that. Let's not go into it, but I wasn't a big fan. So anyway, I was kind of wary about auditioning because I'd never been to an audition. When I did come down, he said all these guys had Marshall stacks and Echoplexes. I brought a tiny practice amp. I started tuning up and he said, 'You've got the gig.' I didn't even get a chance to play."
"I guess I thought Quiet Riot would make it, but now that I'm away, I knew it wouldn't. I have to say that. It was kind of like I was growing up at the time and didn't know it. There's a lot more room for guitar in this band than in Quiet Riot. So Ozzy auditioned a lot of guitar players, and this guy called me and said Ozzy's heard everybody and he liked my playing. He said, 'You should go down and audition.' At first, I said, 'I don't know, I couldn't do that.'"
"Strange enough, one of the bass players (Dana Strum) in a local L.A. band auditioned for Ozzy on bass. They were looking for a guitar player. He was using this guy from L.A. for a while. Apparently Ozzy went through every player in L.A. I never even knew about it. I never looked for auditions or gigs. I was stuck in a rut."
"I'll tell ya, when I was 12 and 13, I started jamming, and then I said that's it. I want to do this for real. When I first got up and played in front of people, it was a fluke. These guys in Burbank used to jam on a mountain. I thought, 'I want to get up and play.' When I first did, people started clapping. I was blown away."
"The kids that we play for aren't interested in musical expertise. If I sat down and played some classical, besides those that were interested in the musical side of it, with most of the kids, it wouldn't impress them. They're headbangers. Ozzy has an incredible following with his audience, and most of his kids want non-stop..... It calls for flash. It's very heavy and everything is very powerful. The solo features are only to show off Tommy and I. At the same time, they're not supposed to represent anything like,'This is what I can do.' It's just a quick flashpot going off."
"There's just so much feeling you can put into it. Leslie West was one of my all time favorite guitar players. I loved his feel. He used a lot of classical. I can feel he's really into it when he does those little classical lines. It's melodic but mean."
"We were in a band called Quiet Riot. Rudy was in it as well. He was the bass player. We used to gig pretty often in L.A. It was all originals. We had two albums in Japan, on CBS/Sony. After teaching, I would also rehearse and do gigs with this band. I was busy playing a lot. I got this offer, and since then, I went."
"I've been playing about 18 years and I started to get a style when I started teaching. People wanted to learn everybody's licks, and at first it was okay. Then I thought 'Wait a minute, you've got to get your own style.' So I started combining what they wanted to learn and just a bit of techhnique. You hear so many different people everyday, you find yourself in it, if you can understand that. You're teachinng everybody's licks all day. I never did that, because I never had a stereo. I never copped licks off records. I started when I was really young, when I was 7. I never got to cop records because I didn't have a record player. So by the time I got to teaching, I didn't want people to carry on doing that too long."
"I started at 7 and I'm now 24. Another thing is,I tried lessons off and on, but I couldn't stick with it. I didn't have the patience. When I went back in my teens, I took classical. It did wonders for me."