there are rumors out there about a lawsuit and Darth Hideous allegedly forging a contract changing the payments but Mama Rhoads had the original contract and they settled it in court. She also sued to get control of Randy's likeness which forces the Osbournes to confer with the family for anything involving Randy.
And it's strange that Randy's brother and sister speak so highly of ozzy after he and Sharon pulled that sbit....I wouldn't have been as forgiving myself.
I'll never forget that crash. It was very different back then with no internet, and news traveled much slower. The rumor at my school was that Ozzy had died in the crash. Someone's mom heard it on the news and got it mixed up. So for weeks, I thought Ozzy was dead. It wasn't until the next issue of Hit Parader that I learned Randy was the one who had died. As upset as I was over thinking Ozzy had died, it was devastating to learn that Randy was gone.
I was in 5th grade but do remember that, and a few weeks earlier John Belushi had gone. I remember that prior winter a kid bringing Diary of A Madman to school. A 5th grader. Too awesome. Then it was like all over -just like that.
@@Twotontessie I was a huge Judas Priest fan and my buddy used to always tell me Ozzy was better. One day he slapped a set of headphones on my head in the school hallway and told me I had to hear this. It was Crazy Train. Funny that I still remember the first time hearing it. Early 80s was such a magical time to be into metal.
@@Twotontessie Those were some good times. I was just talking to my wife about that, how we middle schoolers were into Ozzy and the rock/metal at the time, in the early 80s. We wore our 3/4 sleeve concert shirts to school following whatever concert happened the night before. I cannot fathom the crap kids like now, says this 53yo kid!
I was 16 & it was my turn to do the dishes at home & I could hear the 6:00 news in the living room my parents watched every day & yes I also thought I heard them say Ozzy was killed. The next day I found out it was Randy.
@zachfarrell234 Glenn and K.K were the shit back then. I loved Priest too. Sabbath, Nugent, Ac⚡️Dc, all that stuff. But when my friend came back from an out of state trip with the new Blizzard of oz album... I became a lifelong Randy fan forever more!
Brad Gillis did a great job of helping Ozzy do the tour. He had a great guitar solo for Suicide Solution and someone had them cut the solo off the record! It was soaring and beautiful. I only got to hear it on the King Biscuit Flour Hour recording that I taped back in the day. Brad deserves far more credit than he gets!
If you do a little search on TH-cam you'll find a story about that pilot. He had been working for Ritchie Blackmore and Ritchie fired him. He said he thought that the guy was crazy and that he had an evil dark energy and he just plain old did not want him as a driver let alone fly with him.
Yeah they even theorize that the guy piloting the plane was also going through a nasty divorce and its "possible" maybe he may have intentionally crashed the plane into the house he damn near killed Ozzy and Sharon on the bus he clipped it as we all know who kmows ? And also heard a witness said he thought he seen Randy having a confrontation with the pilot right before the crash...so again this si all rumor as we will never know of course they all got killed. RIP Randy Rhoads.
the most thorough story ive heard on this. I was fortunate to see the Blizzard of Ozz tour in Springfield Mass 5/4/81 with the Joe Perry Project and Motorhead.. I was 15 and it was a great show
I got a ticket for my 17th birthday for the show in Knoxville Tn. Ozzy wuz frunk as duck!? Spittin and skreemin BUT Randy stole the show! Every note wuz perfect. Even the tribute album was a letdown as he'd become a master. I love yall
I think of Randy all the time. I remeber when he died. Still echoes in my soul. Got to talk to his Mom once. Sweet and kind ! Miss you Randy. Forever gone, not forgotten ❤
To be frank, the only people that I think about frequently who are dead, are my own family, my mom, dad, grandparents, aunts, uncles, old friends and those recently deceased ancestors I barely knew. There are people I miss to some extent that I didn't personally spend time with, but generally I truly miss my relatives far more than some celebrity or other famous persons, as I don't have time to continually mourn for those I barely or never knew.
When my brother went to collage I was 5 he left behind speak of the devil and the record player, no speakers. At school in music class I learned about phonographs and the teacher said if you make a cone out of paper and put it on a needle you can hear a record. That night I sat in the dark and played the record and held the cone to it and I finally heard Ozzy. I later became a musician. Ozzy said when he first heard the Beatles the world suddenly was in color. Ozzy did that for me that night.
That was the best breakdown of this tragic event that I've ever seen, so thank you for all that research. It's nice to be getting some answers, all these years later. RIP Randy
Where’s part 2?! This was really expertly made. Seriously, I applaud what you’ve done here, the last minute or so really pulled at the old heart strings, and all without the use of any tacky “emotional” background music that’s supposed to make you cry. We’re waiting for part two, but for now… FLAWLESS VICTORY
Video was very well done,,thank you. I was just getting into Heavy Metal I was 13 when Blizzard came out. Growing up on 1970’s rock the time was right for Heavy Metal. Randy was an incredible talent like I had never heard. His guitar made you focus on every note. Combined with the talent around him it represents the coming of a decade where Metal came into the forefront and Blizzard of Oz along with a few other albums created a loyal fan base to this day. I was in my bedroom when the news came up on our living room tv. Plane crash takes the life of Guitarist Randy Rhoads I went back to my room and cried. To this day it always bothers me. The accident should have never happened.
very little to add other than I saw Ozzy in May of 1982. We knew Randy had died and Brad was playing guitar. I was only 12 and my dad had been nice enough to take me and my best friend to the concert. It was San Diego at the Sports Arena. Hard to imagine continuing on after such a nightmare. Still an Ozzy and Randy fans 40 years later.
@@philipreedwallace yeah! I had a really young dad who loved music. He just got back from Vietnam and was about 20 when they had me. So when I was 12 he was only 32. But we also saw Kiss in 1979! How cool. I am about to turn 55 in July. Sucks to get old. But I am happy I grew up when I did! I remember seeing the Who and Stones in 81-82 and thinking they were so old. If only I knew.
I was at this tour , I was 16 and we were in the front row. We paid around $16.75 for tickets , sick show with a castle that he hung a midget from. I'll never forget seeing the show , incredible and great time! Ozzy rules , I've seen him solo and with Sabbath over 25 times since....
My first concert was Ozzy w/Randy, Rudy, Tommy and Don at the San Diego Sports Arena on Jan 4th 1982. Then I saw Black Sabbath w/Ronnie James Dio there in April, I believe. I was only 16 and had no concert experience before that year. So even with the death, when it was announced Ozzy was playing the Sports Arena again in June, I thought it was a new tour. You know, bands put out an album a year back then. So I go to the exact show you're talking about and it's the same setlist, exact same concert, but with Brad in place of Randy. Talk about depressing. I love Brad in Night Ranger, but obviously Randy owned those songs. Also, I remember going back to school at Point Loma High School after Randy died and the school had been vandalized with spray paint tributes to Randy Rhoads. They painted the side of a building on a hill and the main area in the middle of the school on the ground. They misspelled his name Roads at one place and Rhodes at the other. Still to this day it drives me insane how so many people can't spell his name right. It was very strange having the guitarist from my first concert die 10 weeks later. Stevie Young (AC/DC) was the only guitar player in the band Starfighters that opened the Randy Rhoads date. Was it Axe that opened the Brad Gillis date? It all kind of blends together after all these years. My 4th concert was Ted Nugent with Blackfoot opening that same year. It was a real breath of fresh air not seeing any f^&king crosses on stage!
Losing Rhoads so early was a real tragedy. There's no telling what trajectory his music might have taken. I'm not metalhead or a huge Ozzy fan but it was clear to anyone with ears that Randy Rhoads was an exceptional musician who was forging his own style. Knowing that he intended to go back to school and pursue a music degree just adds to the feeling of loss and the mystery of what might have been. Unfortunately, in this timeline, we only have a small body of work from his early career. For all we know, the wardrobe designer may have gone on to achieve great things. I'm sure she was loved and missed as well. What a damn shame.
@@ytr3488 What does that mean? I thought Randy Rhodes was great. I loved Blizzard of Ozz back in the day but I'm not really into that stuff anymore. For me it was a phase. How is that cliche rhetoric? I'm not putting anyone down for liking it. I married a metal head. It's just not my thing but I know enough about music to know how good Randy Rhodes was.
@@ytr3488 It's good to point out to old burnouts that stuff can and does change.. Skulls and burning flesh! I'm 70! Let's get loaded! It's stupid. That's why people who've liked some metal say "I'm not a metalhead". We don't need that crap
Randy was an interesting guy. I think had he not died he would have left the band after the tour, went back to school, and would become either a guitar teacher or music professor, doing session work on occasion. I honestly feel Rhodes would have walked away and never played live again, outside of the occasional one-off or possibly some solo stuff.
So true. If rock is your religion like it is mine, you never get over it. Some of the people who killed themselves one way or the other you don't have as much sympathy for. But this one just tortuous. Or Ronnie Van Zant. Dude. Your plane's engine has had fire shooting out of it. Don't be an idiot. Get a different plane. FXCK!!!
I think SotD is a pretty solid record. Gillis breathed new life into songs that I had been listening to forever and he seriously kicked ass in the process.
SOD is a great album, Brad did a great job. Sharon father was behind the limited release of SOD . Sharon is Yoko Ono . The bus/ private pilot was at fault, he should never been flying . Horrible.
I had never heard Tommy Aldridge side of this story. I like the fact that most of this recounting is done through actual quotes, even if not everything lines-up. Well done.
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle Full In Bloom is the best channel hands down , this guy knows how to tell the story his flow is perfect , I’ve been listening for a couple of years with over 200 Full In Bloom videos what a great channel
Aldridge also said he threw a big bag of blow into the woods before the cops and fire trucks arrived.Not his but he knew where it was in the bus. What a mess.
Wow. I forgot all about that until you mentioned it. And also, Bob Daisley said sometime when they were in the UK recording, they were messing around with a seance or something, and it spelled out ~Randy, you're going to die.~ It's in his book I guess. It's all just a bit much. I wish it never happened.
@@Twotontessieya, Daisley was very professional in his work, I think he was mostly (if not entirely) sober, and kept a diary or a journal all those years.
I had just seen them in concert in Norman Oklahoma a few weeks before his death. I still think about it quite often, how I was so lucky to see Randy play in one of his last shows. It was an excellent show. I was 17 years old.
Randy Rhoads' guitar playing, his music writing, are some of the primary reasons for why I started playing guitar. I am still inspired and influenced by his playing, even though I now play bass as much as guitar. The thought of the music he might have created if not for the insanity of this senseless event.
He was amazing. Rhodes and Iommi are why I started playing guitar way back when. I moved over to vocals when I noticed I couldn't handle lead guitar duties. I wish you all the best! Keep on jammin'!
I was in 9th grade when Randy passed, i was a fan then as i am now. When I dwell upon what happened to Randy I literally get sick to my stomach, even now.. its just so cruel what happened. RIP my friend.
All these years of browsing through, just about, every group of pics imaginable of Randy, thinking I've probably seen them all, I have never come across the one @14:10 of Ozzy, Rudy, Kevin and Tommy as the pallbearers carrying Randys coffin. It just about brought me to tears.
I like Speak of the Devil a lot Brad Gillis was fantastic, of course I wish it were RR though , great story and your flow in telling the story is excellent and thank you for keeping Randy’s name alive .
I played in a pretty popular 80’s hair metal band and god has blessed me with some hits I can retire on and I have a story about Randy that not few people know about !!
@@fullinbloom played in a band called trauma then Saigon kick , and did studio work with Cinderella and shotgun messiah , and grew up with Bobby blotzer in Pittsburgh and dated Nicole , Brett Michaels sister !
@@fullinbloom sounds good I’m going out to a jazz show tonight but an interview would be AWSOME! And all stories can be validated through my band or Janis wife Bobbi brown and Joe Lynn and Rob zombie and a whole shit ton of people !
@@fullinbloom hey brother I tried to email you and give you some background about me and my friends I pulled out old photos of me and Jani and his wife Bobbi and me with Brett and Bobby blotzer and Warren from ratt and I started crying when I came across a picture of me and Kevin debrow , that man and me lived together before they got signed brother we were so broke me and Jani invented bologna on hand samiches cause we couldn’t afford white bread ! I have so many memories like the movie the DIRT !! I was literally in that room drinking with Nicole ( Brett’s sister ) when that mirror fell on David Lee Roth head ! And they don’t tell you what happened after that !! Brother I reached out to some people and asked if it would be ok to tell old stories and everyone said it was cool so ask me anything and I will take you to the hair metal days like you never heard !! Everyone from getting stoned with Chris Holmes to going to Disney world with Tommy Lee and the wives ! And all the great friends and brothers and sisters I loved and lost along the way ! Like the night I spent with lita ford ! We literally walked and talked all night ( nothing funky ) or the night I had dinner with Mickey and grace slick ! Or hangin out with my best friend and who I cry for everyday Jani ! 2 Mo after he and Bobbi came to my wedding he died ! I swear to god if he would have just came to me that night I would have done something to save him ! How many people can say I preformed the song HEAVEN for my wedding party night with Jani lane singing back up ! Now that’s pressure ! Or me and doc McGhee and how Motley Crue almost killed him ( me and doc are still very close he just got off the road with KISS ) and yes he did the whole tour with the band !! But I saved up and I’m living off some hits I wrote to retire completely and I look for new bands with that certain something and if they are serious I introduce them to the right people !
Another great video. I’m only slightly into the assorted artists featured on this channel, but the way it’s executed is so fun and interesting. Whoever narrates these vids and does the interviews has a unique knack for presenting the content in an easily digestible and enjoyable manner. Very well done. As always.
That was absolutely amazing! I’ve never heard this story in its entirety since it happened, only the basics that people thought there was an accident in the plane and that’s why they hit the house.
Glad I watched this. Randy isn't just a guitar hero. He's a real hero. RIP Randy, the devil tried to take them all, but you made sure it was just you and the old maid. Redemption
WOW- all of this has been in the ether for 42 years, and we've gotten it in bits and pieces. But having it organized and in sequence like this is like hearing for the first time- a completely different experience. But not unusual for the mighty FIB!
I went to Leesburg and got to visit with Jerry Calhoun at the ECA warehouse. Fine man. He admired Randy and the two of them talked electric trains previously on the '81 tour. Jerry told me to walk around the house and take my time. Super peaceful place and beautiful grounds. Crazy that tragedy happened there. It's not a sad place at all. If I heard Randy he was telling me, "Dude. Thanks, I'm good. Please get a hobby and make good use time...". RIP Maestro. RIP Jerry.
I know for a fact that Ozzy was totally crushed when Randy died and although he carried on, he never quite got over it but people are going to believe what they want to believe.
Burton was part of the 27 club. It's just not about the age of the person but numerology. Burton died 9/27. SRV is another who died 8/27. Rhoades died 3/19/1982 = 3+1+9+1+9+8+2=33.
When I was 22 years old, Ozzy Osborne was coming to the Sam Houston Coliseum on February 17th (1982). Since first hearing Ozzy’s “Blizzard of Oz” solo album, his new guitar player Randy Rhoads had become my guitar hero. I didn't know much about him, nor did I even know what he looked like, because Ozzy's album pictures really didn't distinguish who was who in the band photo. To this point, I had assumed that the dark-haired guy (Rudy) was the guitar player I had recently come to idolize. Anyway, my girlfriend Mindy and our housemate Chris quickly found a way to score some tickets for the show. I figured if we showed up at the arena early enough, we might get a chance to meet the band before the show. It was a warm afternoon in Houston when Chris, Mindy and I arrived at the concert hall. We made our way around to the loading dock side of the building to look for tour buses or any other sign of band life. The road crew had already arrived and was setting up the elaborate stage for the “Diary of A Madman” tour. Surprisingly, the atmosphere was very relaxed. We were able to simply walk in and observe at our leisure without anyone hassling us. This went on for the better part of the afternoon. As we loitered about the premises, I befriended Randy’s guitar tech. He informed me that the band would be showing up around 5pm to do a soundcheck. In the meantime, he invited me into a makeshift dressing room to have a look at Randy’s guitars. They were sitting on guitar stands right in front of me. Just feet away from my hands were Randy’s signature cream Les Paul with the snakeskin strap, along with three custom made “V” shaped guitars. His polka-dot V, white pinstripe V and a black one, the latter two sporting the name “Jackson” on the headstocks. At this point, I was not really familiar with his guitars. And this was also long before Jackson Guitars became a household name. Needless to say, I was quite intrigued by them. Luckily, I had the presence of mind to bring a disposable camera with me. I asked the guitar tech if I could take a few pictures of the guitars. He didn’t mind, so I began to snap away. Just as I was photographing the assortment of guitars, a rather large and in charge road manager walked in on me and freaked out. “What the f#$k are you doing in here??? Gimme that efffing camera, those are custom made guitars!” he barked. The guitar tech tried to quell the big fellows concerns, but he would have no part in negotiating any compromise. “Gimme the effing camera if you wanna see the show” he demanded. As a 22 year old punk kid, I was in no position to argue, so I reluctantly gave the Paul Bunion looking troll my stupid camera. The guitar tech apologized for the road managers over-reaction and allowed us all to stay and hang out. Like clockwork, the tour bus pulled into the loading dock at 5pm. Tommy Aldridge, Rudy Sarzo and Randy Rhoads soon stepped out. Randy was wearing blue jeans, a black pleather jacket with no shirt under it with a white towel draped around his neck. Absent from the group was Ozzy, who apparently didn’t do soundcheck with the rest of the group. I quickly made my way over to who I thought was Randy and asked for an autograph. Slightly unprepared, I only had a small piece of paper that I had found nearby for them to sign. Rudy signed one side of the paper and Randy Rhoads signed the other side. I managed to make some small talk, at first thinking that Rudy was actually Randy. Up to this point, (As I said, I wasn’t entirely sure what Randy actually looked like). “Man, you’re a great guitar player” I said. Rudy looked at me sort of puzzled and pointed me in the direction of the actual Randy Rhoads. Needless to say, I felt like a douche. Randy was very unassuming, soft-spoken and frankly humble. He happily complied with my autograph request. He had to lean the small piece of paper onto the side of the cinder block wall in order to write his signature. He simply wrote, "Randy Rhoads". After several minutes, the band disappeared inside the arena and we followed along like lemmings. During their soundcheck, I stood directly in front of Randy Rhoads as the band ran through the song “Mr. Crowley” in its entirety. Randy was playing his cream Les Paul and never sounded better. I was in awe that afternoon, watching this soon to be legend warming up for the impending show right before my eyes. Except for my girlfriend Mindy, Chris and myself, (and a few road-crew guys), there was nobody else in the arena. A few short weeks later, Randy, twenty-five years old, was killed in a plane crash in Leesburg, Florida. I was davestated. His autograph remains framed on my studio wall to this day. Also, a few weeks earlier on March 5th, John Belushi died of a cocaine overdose. You could feel a chill in the psyche of the masses around Houston who had just absorbed the news of both of their untimely deaths. Both tragedies were a stark reminder of my own mortality...I'm nearly 65 now.....Can you imagine what would have been captured on my disposable camera had i been allowed to keep it??? That tour manager did a great disservice to the world. I hope he's reading this! Jeff Dyer - Uncle Sally
I’m was 16 in 1981 and Randy was my guitar idol .. I just bought a white Les Paul but a (epiphone) I’m just now trying to learn to play at 59.Thanks for the Story .. I seen Rush,REO speedwagon and Jerry Reed back stage..
'Speak of the Devil' was the first album I had bought, the double vinyl gaffed, the day it was released. It was the 2nd time I went into a record store. This time I was available to by a couple of records. I bought Ozzy and the Kinks 'Give the people what they want'. Still love them as much as I did when I purchased both at 12. Both made an impact. I still can't imagine what it would have been like to tour after that crash and still put out the live album in the same year as an adult. All of those who survived and followed in 1982 had to go through a literal hell. Cheers to Brad Gillis for coincidently making one of the greatest live and "live" albums for guitar I have ever heard. Love and appreciate Randy and Brad's contributions to the early Ozzy machine immensely. They make it memorable.
Speak of the devil was my first exposure to Sabbath. which is probably why I struggled with classic Sabbath. Brad made it heavier. However, it cannot compare to Tribute as bad as that album is in retrospect now that we know it could have been so much more and they edited that spotlight solo to make it sound worse. But imagine Rhoads getting ahold of those Sabbath songs and putting on a clinic
Wow... I remember the day I heard the news & was in a serious state of shock as I loved Randy's major contribution to Ozzy's new band & future. This is the first time I've heard detailed accounts from those at the crash site, as to what went down that day. I went to Ozzy's "Bark at the Moon Tour" concert in Fresno California & as much as I enjoyed that night I could only feel the loss of Randy' which stayed with me a long time.
So do I, My buddy and I were skipping class and smoking a joint in back of the high school and one of my buddies that knew I was a huge Randy fan pulled up in his chevelle and said, I got bad news, Randy Rhoads just died in a plane crash, I said, Bullshit! I'm serious, its on all the rock stations. Like you, I was in a state of shock, I never went back to school that day.
I saw bark at the moon tour at the San Francisco (daly city) Cow Palace probably the stop before Fresno show . Motley crue was scheduled to open which would have been so much better of a show but instead we got to see slade get booed on stage to no mercy . I've felt that move was another of Sharon's daggers ultimately to the fans because ozzy & the crue were having way too much offstage fun drugging & drinking which is documented . I was in the 6th grade & that was my 1st metal show . Good show but I feel ozzy got off easier & didn't work as hard knowing he wasn't following a young & hungry motley crue shout at the devil era .
I had just got Diary for my 11th birthday and immediately fell in love with the guitar sound. I spent the rest of 1981 learning about Randy Rhoads, and was a huge fan at 11! I begged my mom to let me see Randy at a scheduled concert in June 1982, she finally agreed and got me tickets. But in 1982 there was no internet or social media, so I went through February 1982 with T-Shirts that I drew Ozzy on and even one where I drew the Polka dot flying V going through the word Ozzy. March 1982 was weird, I was in school when someone told me Ozzy died in a plane crash, I wasn't believing it, but somehow my mom's boyfriend at the time picked me up from school and told me Ozzy was alive, I remember feeling relieved, he then said but supposed the guitar player you like died, I begged him to get a newspaper, but there was nothing in it. I cut school the next day and walked to every record store in the town of Long Beach NY. Finally I stop at a news store and as I walk in, wearing my Ozzy with Randy's guitar shirt, a guy walking out said, oh kid sorry, Randy was great, I said what happened, he said Randy died in a plane crash, I remember saying No No, the guy said kid go home, the world lost a gem last week. Yeah, I found out Randy Rhoads died a week after on Friday March 26th...Don't have my homemade shirts, but remember walking home with this ache in my chest. Later on my dad told me I had a broken heart. Never felt that pain again, and saw Brad Gillis in June play Randy's songs, I sang along, but booed the solo, as the other few thousand people at that show did. Kinda felt bad for Brad Gillis, and Bernie Torme. Filling the shoes of Rhoads, a rising phenom that was gone way too soon. Anyway, that's my rant. Long Live the GOAT Randy Rhoads
I also got it when it came out and I thought the guitar tone sounded terrible ha ha ha. It was very thin and didn’t have any Bend whatsoever and always sounded like it was going through a phaser. Which leads me to believe that it was out of phase with the rest of the tracks. But it’s an amazing album.
Went through something similar, i was 15 and had tickets for the speak of the devil tour at Leeds Queens Hall, by that stage of the tour Pete Way had joined the group on bass, it wasn't the same without RR on lead 😜
I love that album.... The time period that was released and the sound of the album for 80s rock... Brad gillis jammed on it.... I had a fantastic JVC boombox and had bought that album on cassette....🤘🤘
No, Randy absolutely did NOT want to play on what became "Speak of the Devil," and realistically, putting out a live record of all Sabbath songs only 2 years into Ozzy and Sharon trying to establish him as a solo artist made zero sense at the time. Of course, when Randy died, Don Arden tried to force Ozzy to put out the live recordings with Randy, and Ozzy refused. Thats why "Tribute" didnt come out until 1987. Ozzy would only release that recording with Delores Rhoads' blessing
but that is the thing they were trying distance themselves from what few new, it was a band called Blizzard of ozz. And Randy thought it was a step back. It tooks a few years for the Osbournes and Rhoads family to come to an agreement, apparently Delores had to take the hammer to the Osbournes after Randy died.
@@WilliamLeonard-f9o Tony had a sound that was like no other and tuned his guitars for maximum affect and dynamics... combined with Ozzy and his lyrics and Sabbath was like nothing else at the time. Creative and powerful... Randy was a different breed working to take guitar playing itself to the next level. And he did... but unfortunately he didn't live long enough to enjoy the success that he deserved for his contributions.
Randy Rhoads and the Blizzard band made a huge impact on me in high school. Over the Mountain blew my head off, so I got busy learning all the guitar parts to everything Randy. I was consumed. I even learned the keyboard intro to Mr Crowley on the guitar! I still remember where I was when I heard he had passed. His short career made a huge impact in Metal, and inspired many, many young guitarists. Rest in peace brother.
I remember reading that when Randy was alive, there was actually consideration that half of the show would be Sabbath the other half would be originals from Blizzard of ozz. and the album would be called a History of Ozz. this was to fulfill their recording contract with Jet. Randy leading a mutiny is classic......Ozzy firing that guy....
Oz was so likable. So much charisma. On the other end was his dark side. Didnt treat the others in the band very well sometimes. They were basically the reason for his solo career taking off. I wish I did not hear these dark things. We all know Sharon was underhanded.
First of all I want to say "thank you" to all the people that is part of this channel. Over the last 5-6 years the internet has permitted the truth to arise, and I mean the truth because I believe not only me, but thousands of Ozzy's fans had a different version of the real facts. Getting to hear all of these interviews and narrations has led me to disappointment, 30-35 years ago I would think of Ozzy as a hero, nowadays I think he is a dark and greedy person, worst than Mr. Scrooge, and now I appreciate musicians more than ever, for their hard work and contribution to music, Ozzy talks about Randy like he was his best friend or something, but the truth was brutally different, and I realize now how terrible must be to work with someone like Ozzy. Randy was in a crossroads, and I am so sure he badly wanted out of Ozzy.
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracleagain, let us be reminded that Lucifer was the head musician in heaven. Apparently you don't know Jack about the music industry and all the satanic overtures right out in the open. It was stupid accident of negligence or so we are led to believe. How many other artists have died at a young age in questionable circumstances.
Excellent stuff, my man, well done. Such a needless tragedy. This idea that Randy died in a plane crash brings to mind all the others who have died in like manner from Buddy Holly, Ricky Nelson, Otis Redding, etc. But Randy's crash was so needless as he wasnt even traveling from point A to point B. Such an utter shame. And is there any doubt whatsoever had Randy lived Sharon would have screwed him over too? I mean, there's a question that doesn't really need a question mark.
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle Well she claimed in one of her books that Randy allegedly screwed her . ( if you get my drift?) Although she said it was just a one night stand fling. Ironically she was quite matronly looking then.
So one person says he saw the plane crashing and exploding immediately, and the other guy that he woke up, saw the hit bus, then the house, ran to it to enter the garage and then it explodes and he flies Hollywood style from the shock wave? Something doesn't add up.
I grew up in Orlando. I was getting ready for the concert that day that house and land is out on 46 in Lake County. I’ve been out there. My parents knew the people that owned the bus company. We live like 20 minutes away. I’ve been out there after the crash and other people used to go out there after the crash and play music and just hang out until the people that own. The land got sick of people coming out there and made it almost impossible. never felt anything weird just sad.
Randy was the best guitarist I've ever seen live and I have seen Tony Iommi, Edward VH, Steve Vai, Zakk, Jake E Lee, DiMartini, George Lynch, Steve Lynch, Paul Gilbert, a plethora of LA guitarist hotshots in the 80s in their respective bands and none moved me the way Randy did the times I watched him with Ozzy.
@@BillDerBerg Wow thats certainly the list. Ive seen vai/satriani and zakk recently but Randy... I iwsh I was alive back then haha. What do you remember from the shows you saw Randy?
@@krupkamusic The best was the Blizzard of Ozz tour with Motorhead opening. It was far more energetic and much less theatrical than the Diary of a Madman show and hearing Believer played live before they even recorded it for Diary was awesome.
I hope there is a hell and I hope Aycock is there right now. Every time I hear the song Dee, I get a lump in my throat imagining the incredible things he could have done musically
Oh I see you have Rudy Sarzo’s book Off the Rails in the credits I have a signed copy , what a fantastic read from a fantastic human being all Rudy does in helping animals .
Ritual sacrifice. Sharon was behind it. You dont play hardball with contracts with the devil (arden family) and you dont give ultimatums. Thats what sealed Randys fate. He was almost forced to sign his soul away from the beginning and felt immediate remorse for it.
I graduated highschool in Ellsworth Maine 1979 hadn't seen a concert yet didn't know Ozzy+Def Leppard in Bangor Maine, still wished I had seen, Randy+Ozzy was the best, loved Def Leppard as well rock on Man
I had tickets to see Ozzy and his band on the Diary tour. A week or two prior, Randy was killed. I assumed the tour was over, but then I heard that they were getting a substitute guitarist. The show I saw, with Bernie Torme on lead, was the first show back. We heard a rumor that they were planning to rehearse at the venue (Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, PA) in the days leading to the show. We cut school the day before the show and hitched a ride to the Lehigh University campus, where Stabler Arena was located. The rumors turned out to be true, and we spent the afternoon sitting outside with a few dozen other fans, listening to the band working on the songs. Torme may not have been a perfect fit for the music, but damn if he didn't do the work and learn the whole set in a matter of days
@@joshburns6625 we all knew what had happened, and we all knew there was a replacement guitarist. This was early in Ozzy's solo career, and my friends and I were mid teens. This was only my second or third concert (my first three concerts were Sabbath, Ozzy, and Judas Priest, but I can't remember whether I saw Ozzy before or after Priest). I could barely see the stage from my nosebleed seats, so on a visual level, Randy's absence didn't have much of an impact. I was also too young and inexperienced to analyze Torme's playing like I would do today. As far as I could tell, he did a great job. But most importantly, everyone there seemed to have his back, and Torme got a lot of love from the crowd. We all understood the heaviness of stepping into Randy's shoes, and the crowd was there to celebrate and support his efforts. We were grateful for him, and it felt like a celebration of life rather than a funeral
i was at that recording of the speak of the devil at the capitol theater in new york one of the best shows ive ever seen.n ive seen alot.the band was spot on..
With all the people that are saying that they sold their soul these days. I think that Randy Rhodes, Stevie Ray Vaughan, dime bag Darrell, and other incredible guitar players. I think it's because they made Satan jealous. Randy is still number one!!! 🎸♥️🎸
@@thomastucker5686 Eventually we all will know . Used to not believe myself until I saw an angel of God . Thought I was going to die because of my doubt .
@@ArielGibson757 People claim to meet all sorts of gods, demons, ghosts, angels and also make other ridiculous claims similar. Just because people make claims and believe their claims, doesn't make the claims any more likely to be true and when it comes to the god idea, it is a thinking disorder. Magic is not the answer for any question.
If Randy had lived he would still not have been in Ozzy’s band. Ozzy can’t hardly have a guitarist for over about 3 albums before Sharon an Ozzy kicks them out. Longest one has been Zakk but even he is in and out of the band. It’s best to think what might have been with Randy, but not what he would have been with Ozzy.
I've heard all kinds of ways the crash happened. Rachel was in front with the pilot and may have had a medical event and fell over to the pilot's controls during an otherwise normal bank. She may have panicked and stepped on the pedals on her side. Jerry said Andy would never hurt anyone but he was flying a plane (Bonanza) that is notoriously unforgiving.
It's not without hindsight typing this , though I was only in 8th grade, I remember hearing the other rocker kids saying Randy died. At this point I had no name recognition with Ozzy's guitarist. Soon after that day I traded my Def Leopard cassette for Blizzard of Oz cassette with my best friend's older sister. I soon realized the expertise of Randy Rhodes.
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle in many ways for sure. I thought to myself when 12/13 that Ozzy was writing lyrics for adults,maybe young adults, "I've watched all the drop outs ,who make their own rules". Def Leopard was definitely more highschool,hit parader, style, but I love me some High And Dry , my favorite Def Leppard album. Even when hearing the orchestration of Randy's chords and solos, I could tell it was from an educated premise,clean to dirty changes. I'm still waiting for the DvD that goes with the tribute album,it's real, the footage exists.
6 หลายเดือนก่อน +22
This is the first time, on hearing additional details, I feel the pilot may have intended murder-suicide. RIP Randy, you were a beautiful human being.
The whole thing with all these small details coming out gives a premeditated conspiracy to murder
5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1
@@krupkamusic It's hard to exaggerate the turmoil or chaos in the life of a coke addict who is trying to save his marriage. The fact that he felt compelled to take his wife on the road while working his job says everything to me. The driver was desperate and likely very fragile. As far as we know, his wife could have told him the night before that it was really over. It could have been covered up by the Osbournes just to avoid a negligence lawsuit.
I saw them just just before this that year in Houston. Not the last show but the one just before the last. Randy dropped a pick and I jumped the barricade and grabbed it off the edge of the stage before guards threw me back over the barricade.
0:17 The numbers don't add up. The album sold 500k copies within the first 2 months & than it took 9 years to sell 500k more? Was someone pocketing money, not counting sales? Someone please help me understand.
This happens quite often. There's an initial "surge" if sales purchased by fans, etc. and then other people learn about the release after becoming fans, etc.
Dont forget Randys family had to sue those 2 detestable people to get his Royalties, that witch and ozzy didnt want to pay
there are rumors out there about a lawsuit and Darth Hideous allegedly forging a contract changing the payments but Mama Rhoads had the original contract and they settled it in court.
She also sued to get control of Randy's likeness which forces the Osbournes to confer with the family for anything involving Randy.
Dirtbags.
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle Cool Loved Randy but not a big fan of the osbournes Thank You
shes a real demon in Rudy's book he said that Sharron raped Randy.
And it's strange that Randy's brother and sister speak so highly of ozzy after he and Sharon pulled that sbit....I wouldn't have been as forgiving myself.
After all these years this is still so heartbreaking. Rest In Peace Randy and Rachel 🙏🏻
Randy had way more class than Ozzy or Sharon will ever have!
well they are two lowlifes..but Randy was a humble and classy guy
Ozzy is deffinately cursed... everyone around him gets sick
I hate Ozzy and Sharon..not the music but the 2 of them..2 evil ppl.
@@filmaker256 When people say he is possessed by the devil, they mean married to Sharron.
@@SomeGuy-xf9bc😅 pretty much.
Rest well, RANDY and Rachel .
There is no rest for the wicked.
@@intrepidgator Explain the evidence available, if any, that they were wicked.
I'll never forget that crash. It was very different back then with no internet, and news traveled much slower. The rumor at my school was that Ozzy had died in the crash. Someone's mom heard it on the news and got it mixed up. So for weeks, I thought Ozzy was dead. It wasn't until the next issue of Hit Parader that I learned Randy was the one who had died. As upset as I was over thinking Ozzy had died, it was devastating to learn that Randy was gone.
I was in 5th grade but do remember that, and a few weeks earlier John Belushi had gone. I remember that prior winter a kid bringing Diary of A Madman to school. A 5th grader. Too awesome. Then it was like all over -just like that.
@@Twotontessie I was a huge Judas Priest fan and my buddy used to always tell me Ozzy was better. One day he slapped a set of headphones on my head in the school hallway and told me I had to hear this. It was Crazy Train. Funny that I still remember the first time hearing it. Early 80s was such a magical time to be into metal.
@@Twotontessie Those were some good times. I was just talking to my wife about that, how we middle schoolers were into Ozzy and the rock/metal at the time, in the early 80s. We wore our 3/4 sleeve concert shirts to school following whatever concert happened the night before. I cannot fathom the crap kids like now, says this 53yo kid!
I was 16 & it was my turn to do the dishes at home & I could hear the 6:00 news in the living room my parents watched every day & yes I also thought I heard them say Ozzy was killed. The next day I found out it was Randy.
@zachfarrell234 Glenn and K.K were the shit back then. I loved Priest too. Sabbath, Nugent, Ac⚡️Dc, all that stuff. But when my friend came back from an out of state trip with the new Blizzard of oz album... I became a lifelong Randy fan forever more!
Brad Gillis did a great job of helping Ozzy do the tour. He had a great guitar solo for Suicide Solution and someone had them cut the solo off the record! It was soaring and beautiful. I only got to hear it on the King Biscuit Flour Hour recording that I taped back in the day. Brad deserves far more credit than he gets!
If you do a little search on TH-cam you'll find a story about that pilot.
He had been working for Ritchie Blackmore and Ritchie fired him. He said he thought that the guy was crazy and that he had an evil dark energy and he just plain old did not want him as a driver let alone fly with him.
How strange, I never heard that story.
Blackmore has always seemed to have a good intuition about things.
Yeah they even theorize that the guy piloting the plane was also going through a nasty divorce and its "possible" maybe he may have intentionally crashed the plane into the house he damn near killed Ozzy and Sharon on the bus he clipped it as we all know who kmows ? And also heard a witness said he thought he seen Randy having a confrontation with the pilot right before the crash...so again this si all rumor as we will never know of course they all got killed. RIP Randy Rhoads.
He's a bit of a magician
@@alwilson3204I think I read it in an article somewhere… you can probably Google it.
the most thorough story ive heard on this.
I was fortunate to see the
Blizzard of Ozz tour in Springfield Mass 5/4/81
with the Joe Perry Project and
Motorhead.. I was 15
and it was a great show
Cape Cod collesium if you can remember that! Was a great place to see big acts as it wasn't a gigantic venue
3:33 🚌🤪💨 🚶🚶🚶 👀 wow did not know that.
Brad, did a great job!! Has it really been 42 years since we lost Randy? I remember it, like I was 16 again
I got a ticket for my 17th birthday for the show in Knoxville Tn. Ozzy wuz frunk as duck!? Spittin and skreemin BUT Randy stole the show! Every note wuz perfect. Even the tribute album was a letdown as he'd become a master. I love yall
I think of Randy all the time. I remeber when he died. Still echoes in my soul. Got to talk to his Mom once. Sweet and kind ! Miss you Randy. Forever gone, not forgotten ❤
To be frank, the only people that I think about frequently who are dead, are my own family, my mom, dad, grandparents, aunts, uncles, old friends and those recently deceased ancestors I barely knew. There are people I miss to some extent that I didn't personally spend time with, but generally I truly miss my relatives far more than some celebrity or other famous persons, as I don't have time to continually mourn for those I barely or never knew.
When my brother went to collage I was 5 he left behind speak of the devil and the record player, no speakers. At school in music class I learned about phonographs and the teacher said if you make a cone out of paper and put it on a needle you can hear a record. That night I sat in the dark and played the record and held the cone to it and I finally heard Ozzy. I later became a musician. Ozzy said when he first heard the Beatles the world suddenly was in color. Ozzy did that for me that night.
That's pretty cool!
*college
Hopefully you put on a Van Halen album after that discovery to hear what real hard rock/metal was.
LOVE this new longer doc type video. Love the interviews as well. Love this channel
That was the best breakdown of this tragic event that I've ever seen, so thank you for all that research. It's nice to be getting some answers, all these years later. RIP Randy
Where’s part 2?!
This was really expertly made. Seriously, I applaud what you’ve done here, the last minute or so really pulled at the old heart strings, and all without the use of any tacky “emotional” background music that’s supposed to make you cry.
We’re waiting for part two, but for now…
FLAWLESS VICTORY
Video was very well done,,thank you. I was just getting into Heavy Metal I was 13 when Blizzard came out. Growing up on 1970’s rock the time was right for Heavy Metal. Randy was an incredible talent like I had never heard. His guitar made you focus on every note. Combined with the talent around him it represents the coming of a decade where Metal came into the forefront and Blizzard of Oz along with a few other albums created a loyal fan base to this day. I was in my bedroom when the news came up on our living room tv. Plane crash takes the life of Guitarist Randy Rhoads I went back to my room and cried. To this day it always bothers me. The accident should have never happened.
this was an excellent video by the way. Really great details and a few things I'd never heard. Thank you!
very little to add other than I saw Ozzy in May of 1982. We knew Randy had died and Brad was playing guitar. I was only 12 and my dad had been nice enough to take me and my best friend to the concert. It was San Diego at the Sports Arena. Hard to imagine continuing on after such a nightmare. Still an Ozzy and Randy fans 40 years later.
You’re my age. I can relate. My step mom took me to see KISS in 1979. Missed Ozzy in 1984.
June 24th. I checked my ticket stub!
@@philipreedwallace yeah! I had a really young dad who loved music. He just got back from Vietnam and was about 20 when they had me. So when I was 12 he was only 32. But we also saw Kiss in 1979! How cool. I am about to turn 55 in July. Sucks to get old. But I am happy I grew up when I did! I remember seeing the Who and Stones in 81-82 and thinking they were so old. If only I knew.
I was at this tour , I was 16 and we were in the front row. We paid around $16.75 for tickets , sick show with a castle that he hung a midget from. I'll never forget seeing the show , incredible and great time! Ozzy rules , I've seen him solo and with Sabbath over 25 times since....
My first concert was Ozzy w/Randy, Rudy, Tommy and Don at the San Diego Sports Arena on Jan 4th 1982. Then I saw Black Sabbath w/Ronnie James Dio there in April, I believe. I was only 16 and had no concert experience before that year. So even with the death, when it was announced Ozzy was playing the Sports Arena again in June, I thought it was a new tour. You know, bands put out an album a year back then. So I go to the exact show you're talking about and it's the same setlist, exact same concert, but with Brad in place of Randy. Talk about depressing. I love Brad in Night Ranger, but obviously Randy owned those songs.
Also, I remember going back to school at Point Loma High School after Randy died and the school had been vandalized with spray paint tributes to Randy Rhoads. They painted the side of a building on a hill and the main area in the middle of the school on the ground. They misspelled his name Roads at one place and Rhodes at the other. Still to this day it drives me insane how so many people can't spell his name right. It was very strange having the guitarist from my first concert die 10 weeks later. Stevie Young (AC/DC) was the only guitar player in the band Starfighters that opened the Randy Rhoads date. Was it Axe that opened the Brad Gillis date? It all kind of blends together after all these years. My 4th concert was Ted Nugent with Blackfoot opening that same year. It was a real breath of fresh air not seeing any f^&king crosses on stage!
This is well written. Had me on the edge of my seat.
3/19/82 is probably the saddest day in the history of rock music. Such a gentleman. Randy had SO MUCH talent to gift us all
Losing Rhoads so early was a real tragedy. There's no telling what trajectory his music might have taken. I'm not metalhead or a huge Ozzy fan but it was clear to anyone with ears that Randy Rhoads was an exceptional musician who was forging his own style. Knowing that he intended to go back to school and pursue a music degree just adds to the feeling of loss and the mystery of what might have been. Unfortunately, in this timeline, we only have a small body of work from his early career. For all we know, the wardrobe designer may have gone on to achieve great things. I'm sure she was loved and missed as well. What a damn shame.
Comments like yours are nothing but old cliche rhetoric. Not a Metalhead nor ozzy fan. LOL
@@ytr3488 What does that mean? I thought Randy Rhodes was great. I loved Blizzard of Ozz back in the day but I'm not really into that stuff anymore. For me it was a phase. How is that cliche rhetoric? I'm not putting anyone down for liking it. I married a metal head. It's just not my thing but I know enough about music to know how good Randy Rhodes was.
@@ytr3488 It's good to point out to old burnouts that stuff can and does change.. Skulls and burning flesh! I'm 70! Let's get loaded! It's stupid. That's why people who've liked some metal say "I'm not a metalhead". We don't need that crap
He wanted to go back to college and study classical guitar.
Randy was an interesting guy. I think had he not died he would have left the band after the tour, went back to school, and would become either a guitar teacher or music professor, doing session work on occasion. I honestly feel Rhodes would have walked away and never played live again, outside of the occasional one-off or possibly some solo stuff.
I’m old and still chop onions when listening to Randy.
I still get sick over Randy's death!
Same here
So true. If rock is your religion like it is mine, you never get over it. Some of the people who killed themselves one way or the other you don't have as much sympathy for. But this one just tortuous. Or Ronnie Van Zant. Dude. Your plane's engine has had fire shooting out of it. Don't be an idiot. Get a different plane. FXCK!!!
I get enraged.
I think SotD is a pretty solid record. Gillis breathed new life into songs that I had been listening to forever and he seriously kicked ass in the process.
This is one of those things in life that the passage of time hasn't made any easier. I feel exactly the same way about John Lennon.
Randy lives in my Heart.
He lives in brooklyn under the name randi rhodes, and he's now a she.
Mine too.
And his stolen life force lives on in ole Ozzy and Sharon
SOD is a great album, Brad did a great job. Sharon father was behind the limited release of SOD . Sharon is Yoko Ono . The bus/ private pilot was at fault, he should never been flying . Horrible.
I had never heard Tommy Aldridge side of this story. I like the fact that most of this recounting is done through actual quotes, even if not everything lines-up.
Well done.
this guys does great videos there is no fluff...all facts
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle Full In Bloom is the best channel hands down , this guy knows how to tell the story his flow is perfect , I’ve been listening for a couple of years with over 200 Full In Bloom videos what a great channel
Aldridge also said he threw a big bag of blow into the woods before the cops and fire trucks arrived.Not his but he knew where it was in the bus. What a mess.
@@Twotontessiesort of amazing and weird while all of that commotion was going on Tommy had the equanimity to discard evidence
@@TwotontessieJeez!
In another interview I remember Aldridge saying he told Randy, "Randy - the only way you're going to get out of these contracts is if you die."
Wow. I forgot all about that until you mentioned it. And also, Bob Daisley said sometime when they were in the UK recording, they were messing around with a seance or something, and it spelled out ~Randy, you're going to die.~
It's in his book I guess. It's all just a bit much. I wish it never happened.
Same here. And true, that’s in his book. Great read. You can’t put it down once you start.
@@DeepBlueAndRedShadows I'm sure it's a good read, but i'd honestly only buy it if it had a lot of Randy stuff in it. ...umm, does it?
@@1wickedgroove if we are talking about the Daisley book it’s very good and incredibly detailed like reading a journal
@@Twotontessieya, Daisley was very professional in his work, I think he was mostly (if not entirely) sober, and kept a diary or a journal all those years.
I had just seen them in concert in Norman Oklahoma a few weeks before his death. I still think about it quite often, how I was so lucky to see Randy play in one of his last shows. It was an excellent show. I was 17 years old.
February 25, 1982 you were lucky.....
How good was he live? I post those bootlegs all of the time of the shows on Diary of a Madman
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle It's been 42 years ago but I still remember it like yesterday. It was incredible and his solo was killer.
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle Beyond lucky, it's like having seen Hendrix.
Randy Rhoads' guitar playing, his music writing, are some of the primary reasons for why I started playing guitar. I am still inspired and influenced by his playing, even though I now play bass as much as guitar. The thought of the music he might have created if not for the insanity of this senseless event.
He was amazing. Rhodes and Iommi are why I started playing guitar way back when. I moved over to vocals when I noticed I couldn't handle lead guitar duties. I wish you all the best! Keep on jammin'!
Wow, great video. First time I'm hearing these details. Quite a story.
I was in 9th grade when Randy passed, i was a fan then as i am now. When I dwell upon what happened to Randy I literally get sick to my stomach, even now.. its just so cruel what happened. RIP my friend.
Definitely signed a blood contract he wanted to get out of and the Arden’s wouldn’t allow him to
All these years of browsing through, just about, every group of pics imaginable of Randy, thinking I've probably seen them all, I have never come across the one @14:10 of Ozzy, Rudy, Kevin and Tommy as the pallbearers carrying Randys coffin. It just about brought me to tears.
I like Speak of the Devil a lot Brad Gillis was fantastic, of course I wish it were RR though , great story and your flow in telling the story is excellent and thank you for keeping Randy’s name alive .
I played in a pretty popular 80’s hair metal band and god has blessed me with some hits I can retire on and I have a story about Randy that not few people know about !!
What band were you in?
@@fullinbloom played in a band called trauma then Saigon kick , and did studio work with Cinderella and shotgun messiah , and grew up with Bobby blotzer in Pittsburgh and dated Nicole , Brett Michaels sister !
Shoot me an email at fullinbloom@yahoo.com if you want to do an interview.
@@fullinbloom sounds good I’m going out to a jazz show tonight but an interview would be AWSOME! And all stories can be validated through my band or Janis wife Bobbi brown and Joe Lynn and Rob zombie and a whole shit ton of people !
@@fullinbloom hey brother I tried to email you and give you some background about me and my friends I pulled out old photos of me and Jani and his wife Bobbi and me with Brett and Bobby blotzer and Warren from ratt and I started crying when I came across a picture of me and Kevin debrow , that man and me lived together before they got signed brother we were so broke me and Jani invented bologna on hand samiches cause we couldn’t afford white bread ! I have so many memories like the movie the DIRT !! I was literally in that room drinking with Nicole ( Brett’s sister ) when that mirror fell on David Lee Roth head ! And they don’t tell you what happened after that !! Brother I reached out to some people and asked if it would be ok to tell old stories and everyone said it was cool so ask me anything and I will take you to the hair metal days like you never heard !! Everyone from getting stoned with Chris Holmes to going to Disney world with Tommy Lee and the wives ! And all the great friends and brothers and sisters I loved and lost along the way ! Like the night I spent with lita ford ! We literally walked and talked all night ( nothing funky ) or the night I had dinner with Mickey and grace slick ! Or hangin out with my best friend and who I cry for everyday Jani ! 2 Mo after he and Bobbi came to my wedding he died ! I swear to god if he would have just came to me that night I would have done something to save him ! How many people can say I preformed the song HEAVEN for my wedding party night with Jani lane singing back up ! Now that’s pressure ! Or me and doc McGhee and how Motley Crue almost killed him ( me and doc are still very close he just got off the road with KISS ) and yes he did the whole tour with the band !! But I saved up and I’m living off some hits I wrote to retire completely and I look for new bands with that certain something and if they are serious I introduce them to the right people !
Another great video. I’m only slightly into the assorted artists featured on this channel, but the way it’s executed is so fun and interesting. Whoever narrates these vids and does the interviews has a unique knack for presenting the content in an easily digestible and enjoyable manner. Very well done. As always.
dude does a great job
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle The best !
Excellent interview, one of the best you have done.
As this video was playing, I drove past the exit to Leesburg.
have you been to the crash site?
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle i have driven by it, yes.
That was absolutely amazing! I’ve never heard this story in its entirety since it happened, only the basics that people thought there was an accident in the plane and that’s why they hit the house.
Glad I watched this. Randy isn't just a guitar hero. He's a real hero. RIP Randy, the devil tried to take them all, but you made sure it was just you and the old maid. Redemption
WOW- all of this has been in the ether for 42 years, and we've gotten it in bits and pieces. But having it organized and in sequence like this is like hearing for the first time- a completely different experience. But not unusual for the mighty FIB!
Yeah, messed up, shady pilot, should have hired someone more competent
no it's all out there in Rudy's book....and his theory about randy saving the band that day, who knows.
😮This was AMAZING thanx so much!!
It never gets easier to hear. But, Sharon and Ozzy had to get someone immediately to fill in. I couldn’t have done it.
When will people learn? The Devil is NOT your friend. He shall always take his due.
the hell does that even mean?
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle it means your a Shlapper
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle There's a podcast called Fuck Around And Find Out....quite interesting.
When will people learn... that "the devil" only exists in fairytales?
In this case... flesh and blood?
Ozzy and Sharon play the role of "satan"
Reigniting Heavy Metal took a sacrifice
He gave His soul for Rock N Roll
Speak of the Devil Here comes Sharon
I went to Leesburg and got to visit with Jerry Calhoun at the ECA warehouse. Fine man. He admired Randy and the two of them talked electric trains previously on the '81 tour. Jerry told me to walk around the house and take my time. Super peaceful place and beautiful grounds. Crazy that tragedy happened there. It's not a sad place at all. If I heard Randy he was telling me, "Dude. Thanks, I'm good. Please get a hobby and make good use time...". RIP Maestro. RIP Jerry.
You have the greatest voiceover voice of all time !
That’s cause it’s AI
@@analogsignal Oh, thank you so much. I thought it was my huge steak dinner and a few shots that made me feel queasy listening to that voice.
I don't believe this was accidental
me neither...and I think Don Airey knows more than what he lets on
The driver/pilot was angry because he thought his ex was banging Ozzy.
I thought sod was a great album back in the day.🇨🇦
I don’t think Cliff Burton was either. Or Kurt. Or Taylor Hawkins, or any of them. Crazy man
I know for a fact that Ozzy was totally crushed when Randy died and although he carried on, he never quite got over it but people are going to believe what they want to believe.
Burton was part of the 27 club. It's just not about the age of the person but numerology. Burton died 9/27. SRV is another who died 8/27. Rhoades died 3/19/1982 = 3+1+9+1+9+8+2=33.
When I was 22 years old, Ozzy Osborne was coming to the Sam Houston Coliseum on February 17th (1982). Since first hearing Ozzy’s “Blizzard of Oz” solo album, his new guitar player Randy Rhoads had become my guitar hero. I didn't know much about him, nor did I even know what he looked like, because Ozzy's album pictures really didn't distinguish who was who in the band photo. To this point, I had assumed that the dark-haired guy (Rudy) was the guitar player I had recently come to idolize. Anyway, my girlfriend Mindy and our housemate Chris quickly found a way to score some tickets for the show. I figured if we showed up at the arena early enough, we might get a chance to meet the band before the show.
It was a warm afternoon in Houston when Chris, Mindy and I arrived at the concert hall. We made our way around to the loading dock side of the building to look for tour buses or any other sign of band life. The road crew had already arrived and was setting up the elaborate stage for the “Diary of A Madman” tour. Surprisingly, the atmosphere was very relaxed. We were able to simply walk in and observe at our leisure without anyone hassling us. This went on for the better part of the afternoon.
As we loitered about the premises, I befriended Randy’s guitar tech. He informed me that
the band would be showing up around 5pm to do a soundcheck. In the meantime, he invited me
into a makeshift dressing room to have a look at Randy’s guitars. They were sitting on guitar stands right in front of me. Just feet away from my hands were Randy’s signature cream Les Paul with the snakeskin strap, along with three custom made “V” shaped guitars. His polka-dot V, white pinstripe V and a black one, the latter two sporting the name “Jackson” on the headstocks. At this point, I was not really familiar with his guitars. And this was also long before Jackson Guitars became a household name. Needless to say, I was quite intrigued by them. Luckily, I had the presence of mind to bring a disposable camera with me. I asked the guitar tech if I could take a few pictures of the guitars. He didn’t mind, so I began to snap away. Just as I was photographing the assortment of guitars, a rather large and in charge road manager walked in on me and freaked out. “What the f#$k are you doing in here??? Gimme that efffing camera, those are custom made guitars!” he barked. The guitar tech tried to quell the big fellows concerns, but he would have no part in negotiating any compromise. “Gimme the effing camera if you wanna see the show” he demanded. As a 22 year old punk kid, I was in no position to argue, so I reluctantly gave the Paul Bunion looking troll my stupid camera. The guitar tech apologized for the road managers over-reaction and allowed us all to stay and hang out.
Like clockwork, the tour bus pulled into the loading dock at 5pm. Tommy Aldridge, Rudy
Sarzo and Randy Rhoads soon stepped out. Randy was wearing blue jeans, a black pleather jacket with no shirt under it with a white towel draped around his neck. Absent from the group was Ozzy, who apparently didn’t do soundcheck with the rest of the group. I quickly made my way over to who I thought was Randy and asked for an autograph. Slightly unprepared, I only had a small piece of paper that I had found nearby for them to sign. Rudy signed one side of the paper and Randy Rhoads signed the other side. I managed to make some small talk, at first thinking that Rudy was actually Randy. Up to this point, (As I said, I wasn’t entirely sure what Randy actually looked like). “Man, you’re a great guitar player” I said. Rudy looked at me sort of puzzled and pointed me in the direction of the actual Randy Rhoads. Needless to say, I felt like a douche. Randy was very unassuming, soft-spoken and frankly humble. He happily complied with my autograph request. He had to lean the small piece of paper onto the side of the cinder block wall in order to write his signature. He simply wrote, "Randy Rhoads".
After several minutes, the band disappeared inside the arena and we followed along like lemmings. During their soundcheck, I stood directly in front of Randy Rhoads as the band ran through the song “Mr. Crowley” in its entirety. Randy was playing his cream Les Paul and never sounded better. I was in awe that afternoon, watching this soon to be legend warming up for the impending show right before my eyes. Except for my girlfriend Mindy, Chris and myself, (and a few road-crew guys), there was nobody else in the arena. A few short weeks later, Randy, twenty-five years old, was killed in a plane crash in Leesburg, Florida. I was davestated. His autograph remains framed on my studio wall to this day. Also, a few weeks earlier on March 5th, John Belushi died of a cocaine overdose. You could feel a chill in the psyche of the masses around Houston who had just absorbed the news of both of their untimely deaths. Both tragedies were a stark reminder of my own mortality...I'm nearly 65 now.....Can you imagine what would have been captured on my disposable camera had i been allowed to keep it??? That tour manager did a great disservice to the world. I hope he's reading this! Jeff Dyer - Uncle Sally
Amazing story! Thanks for sharing it.
I’m was 16 in 1981 and Randy was my guitar idol .. I just bought a white Les Paul but a (epiphone) I’m just now trying to learn to play at 59.Thanks for the Story .. I seen Rush,REO speedwagon and Jerry Reed back stage..
Words cannot express my love and appreciation for Randy. His existance have had a massive impact on who I am as a person.
'Speak of the Devil' was the first album I had bought, the double vinyl gaffed, the day it was released. It was the 2nd time I went into a record store. This time I was available to by a couple of records. I bought Ozzy and the Kinks 'Give the people what they want'. Still love them as much as I did when I purchased both at 12. Both made an impact. I still can't imagine what it would have been like to tour after that crash and still put out the live album in the same year as an adult. All of those who survived and followed in 1982 had to go through a literal hell. Cheers to Brad Gillis for coincidently making one of the greatest live and "live" albums for guitar I have ever heard. Love and appreciate Randy and Brad's contributions to the early Ozzy machine immensely. They make it memorable.
Speak of the devil was my first exposure to Sabbath. which is probably why I struggled with classic Sabbath. Brad made it heavier.
However, it cannot compare to Tribute as bad as that album is in retrospect now that we know it could have been so much more and they edited that spotlight solo to make it sound worse.
But imagine Rhoads getting ahold of those Sabbath songs and putting on a clinic
Funny that mention of that Kinks album. I bought that too when I was a little kid. I didn’t know anything just that rock was already my religion.
Wow... I remember the day I heard the news & was in a serious state of shock as I loved Randy's major contribution to Ozzy's new band & future.
This is the first time I've heard detailed accounts from those at the crash site, as to what went down that day. I went to Ozzy's "Bark at the Moon Tour" concert in Fresno California & as much as I enjoyed that night I could only feel the loss of Randy' which stayed with me a long time.
So do I, My buddy and I were skipping class and smoking a joint in back of the high school and one of my buddies that knew I was a huge Randy fan pulled up in his chevelle and said, I got bad news, Randy Rhoads just died in a plane crash, I said, Bullshit!
I'm serious, its on all the rock stations. Like you, I was in a state of shock, I never went back to school that day.
I saw bark at the moon tour at the San Francisco (daly city) Cow Palace probably the stop before Fresno show . Motley crue was scheduled to open which would have been so much better of a show but instead we got to see slade get booed on stage to no mercy . I've felt that move was another of Sharon's daggers ultimately to the fans because ozzy & the crue were having way too much offstage fun drugging & drinking which is documented . I was in the 6th grade & that was my 1st metal show . Good show but I feel ozzy got off easier & didn't work as hard knowing he wasn't following a young & hungry motley crue shout at the devil era .
The autopsy report on Randy was
Horrific.
He was identified by his jewerly and bits of burnt clothing .
The world lost one of the greats that day.
Well, he only weighed 90lbs, there wasn't much to begin with
@@adrianwalton6117
Lol
I had just got Diary for my 11th birthday and immediately fell in love with the guitar sound. I spent the rest of 1981 learning about Randy Rhoads, and was a huge fan at 11! I begged my mom to let me see Randy at a scheduled concert in June 1982, she finally agreed and got me tickets. But in 1982 there was no internet or social media, so I went through February 1982 with T-Shirts that I drew Ozzy on and even one where I drew the Polka dot flying V going through the word Ozzy. March 1982 was weird, I was in school when someone told me Ozzy died in a plane crash, I wasn't believing it, but somehow my mom's boyfriend at the time picked me up from school and told me Ozzy was alive, I remember feeling relieved, he then said but supposed the guitar player you like died, I begged him to get a newspaper, but there was nothing in it. I cut school the next day and walked to every record store in the town of Long Beach NY. Finally I stop at a news store and as I walk in, wearing my Ozzy with Randy's guitar shirt, a guy walking out said, oh kid sorry, Randy was great, I said what happened, he said Randy died in a plane crash, I remember saying No No, the guy said kid go home, the world lost a gem last week.
Yeah, I found out Randy Rhoads died a week after on Friday March 26th...Don't have my homemade shirts, but remember walking home with this ache in my chest. Later on my dad told me I had a broken heart.
Never felt that pain again, and saw Brad Gillis in June play Randy's songs, I sang along, but booed the solo, as the other few thousand people at that show did.
Kinda felt bad for Brad Gillis, and Bernie Torme. Filling the shoes of Rhoads, a rising phenom that was gone way too soon.
Anyway, that's my rant.
Long Live the GOAT Randy Rhoads
I also got it when it came out and I thought the guitar tone sounded terrible ha ha ha. It was very thin and didn’t have any Bend whatsoever and always sounded like it was going through a phaser. Which leads me to believe that it was out of phase with the rest of the tracks. But it’s an amazing album.
Don't feel bad for Brad, he's an Butthole!
Are you aware of randi rhodes?
Went through something similar, i was 15 and had tickets for the speak of the devil tour at Leeds Queens Hall, by that stage of the tour Pete Way had joined the group on bass, it wasn't the same without RR on lead 😜
Without a doubt one of my favorite live albums…
Thanks again
I love that album.... The time period that was released and the sound of the album for 80s rock... Brad gillis jammed on it.... I had a fantastic JVC boombox and had bought that album on cassette....🤘🤘
God Bless you Randy you are a god among men and the 🐐🎸
Beautiful job and looking forward to part 2!
Rest easy King Randy👑
... You live on through what you left the world🙏
No, Randy absolutely did NOT want to play on what became "Speak of the Devil," and realistically, putting out a live record of all Sabbath songs only 2 years into Ozzy and Sharon trying to establish him as a solo artist made zero sense at the time. Of course, when Randy died, Don Arden tried to force Ozzy to put out the live recordings with Randy, and Ozzy refused. Thats why "Tribute" didnt come out until 1987. Ozzy would only release that recording with Delores Rhoads' blessing
but that is the thing they were trying distance themselves from what few new, it was a band called Blizzard of ozz. And Randy thought it was a step back.
It tooks a few years for the Osbournes and Rhoads family to come to an agreement, apparently Delores had to take the hammer to the Osbournes after Randy died.
Well it's always about the $$$ especially where Sharon and Ozzy are concerned.
Randy wasn't a big lover of Black Sabbath material. Randy's playing abilities was more above that of Tonys.
@@WilliamLeonard-f9o Tony had a sound that was like no other and tuned his guitars for maximum affect and dynamics... combined with Ozzy and his lyrics and Sabbath was like nothing else at the time. Creative and powerful...
Randy was a different breed working to take guitar playing itself to the next level. And he did... but unfortunately he didn't live long enough to enjoy the success that he deserved for his contributions.
@@frankrichards3089It's all Sharon. Ozzy is a believer in Jesus. Sharon is a Christ killer.
Randy Rhoads and the Blizzard band made a huge impact on me in high school. Over the Mountain blew my head off, so I got busy learning all the guitar parts to everything Randy. I was consumed. I even learned the keyboard intro to Mr Crowley on the guitar! I still remember where I was when I heard he had passed. His short career made a huge impact in Metal, and inspired many, many young guitarists. Rest in peace brother.
Over the mountain . Great musicianship & the solo is my favorite of all solos !!!
I remember reading that when Randy was alive, there was actually consideration that half of the show would be Sabbath the other half would be originals from Blizzard of ozz. and the album would be called a History of Ozz. this was to fulfill their recording contract with Jet.
Randy leading a mutiny is classic......Ozzy firing that guy....
anytime i hear about this i get so many thoughts. it's suspicious, peculiar, and just unbelievably sad.
Yeah I know what you mean. 🤔
Oz was so likable. So much charisma. On the other end was his dark side. Didnt treat the others in the band very well sometimes. They were basically the reason for his solo career taking off. I wish I did not hear these dark things. We all know Sharon was underhanded.
THIS. Its harder for me to like OZ as much like the details are unexcuseable behaivour physically.
First of all I want to say "thank you" to all the people that is part of this channel. Over the last 5-6 years the internet has permitted the truth to arise, and I mean the truth because I believe not only me, but thousands of Ozzy's fans had a different version of the real facts. Getting to hear all of these interviews and narrations has led me to disappointment, 30-35 years ago I would think of Ozzy as a hero, nowadays I think he is a dark and greedy person, worst than Mr. Scrooge, and now I appreciate musicians more than ever, for their hard work and contribution to music, Ozzy talks about Randy like he was his best friend or something, but the truth was brutally different, and I realize now how terrible must be to work with someone like Ozzy. Randy was in a crossroads, and I am so sure he badly wanted out of Ozzy.
Probably Sharon's doing. Although he enables her.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Randy was sacrificed.
The cabal is darker than people realize.
👍
why do hacks degrade the memories of people with such stupid takes
Be an adult
@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle do your research on those got rich and famous and powerful too....
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle look! They made an emoji of people like you! 🐑
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracleagain, let us be reminded that Lucifer was the head musician in heaven. Apparently you don't know Jack about the music industry and all the satanic overtures right out in the open. It was stupid accident of negligence or so we are led to believe.
How many other artists have died at a young age in questionable circumstances.
Thanks for another informative video 👍🏻
Philadelphia USA 🇺🇸
RIP Randy❤🎉🎉🎉
very detailed and sad video. got chills remembering.
Excellent stuff, my man, well done.
Such a needless tragedy. This idea that Randy died in a plane crash brings to mind all the others who have died in like manner from Buddy Holly, Ricky Nelson, Otis Redding, etc. But Randy's crash was so needless as he wasnt even traveling from point A to point B. Such an utter shame. And is there any doubt whatsoever had Randy lived Sharon would have screwed him over too? I mean, there's a question that doesn't really need a question mark.
Read the comment above from Brianlittle9202.
many think she would have screwed over Randy.....and Ozzy would have let it happen
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle Well she claimed in one of her books that Randy allegedly screwed her . ( if you get my drift?) Although she said it was just a one night stand fling. Ironically she was quite matronly looking then.
I blame everyone present at the airstrip for not stopping the “joyride”
Absolutely .
So one person says he saw the plane crashing and exploding immediately, and the other guy that he woke up, saw the hit bus, then the house, ran to it to enter the garage and then it explodes and he flies Hollywood style from the shock wave?
Something doesn't add up.
Yeah, you're a conspiracy theorist. That's the answer.
@@markcheetah4960 Two different stories and youre calling me conspiracy theorist because I say it doesnt add up.
Wild
I grew up in Orlando. I was getting ready for the concert that day that house and land is out on 46 in Lake County. I’ve been out there. My parents knew the people that owned the bus company. We live like 20 minutes away. I’ve been out there after the crash and other people used to go out there after the crash and play music and just hang out until the people that own. The land got sick of people coming out there and made it almost impossible. never felt anything weird just sad.
Too my ears & taste, randy Rhoades was the best guitarist, I've ever heard.
Yes, he was 😊
He was amazing
Randy was the best guitarist I've ever seen live and I have seen Tony Iommi, Edward VH, Steve Vai, Zakk, Jake E Lee, DiMartini, George Lynch, Steve Lynch, Paul Gilbert, a plethora of LA guitarist hotshots in the 80s in their respective bands and none moved me the way Randy did the times I watched him with Ozzy.
@@BillDerBerg Wow thats certainly the list. Ive seen vai/satriani and zakk recently but Randy... I iwsh I was alive back then haha. What do you remember from the shows you saw Randy?
@@krupkamusic The best was the Blizzard of Ozz tour with Motorhead opening. It was far more energetic and much less theatrical than the Diary of a Madman show and hearing Believer played live before they even recorded it for Diary was awesome.
I hope there is a hell and I hope Aycock is there right now. Every time I hear the song Dee, I get a lump in my throat imagining the incredible things he could have done musically
Oh I see you have Rudy Sarzo’s book Off the Rails in the credits I have a signed copy , what a fantastic read from a fantastic human being all Rudy does in helping animals .
I love Rudy Sarzo. And Tommy Aldridge. With Randy they were my favorite lineup.
@@markcheetah4960My favorite live line up !
@@markcheetah4960And Rudy is an animal rights activist 👍🏻🤘🏻
One of my few regrets is not seeing Randy when I had the opportunity.
I wish I could go back in time and see him but I listen to the bootlegs everyday that are on youtube
Ritual sacrifice. Sharon was behind it.
You dont play hardball with contracts with the devil (arden family) and you dont give ultimatums.
Thats what sealed Randys fate. He was almost forced to sign his soul away from the beginning and felt immediate remorse for it.
I graduated highschool in Ellsworth Maine 1979 hadn't seen a concert yet didn't know Ozzy+Def Leppard in Bangor Maine, still wished I had seen, Randy+Ozzy was the best, loved Def Leppard as well rock on Man
I had tickets to see Ozzy and his band on the Diary tour. A week or two prior, Randy was killed. I assumed the tour was over, but then I heard that they were getting a substitute guitarist. The show I saw, with Bernie Torme on lead, was the first show back. We heard a rumor that they were planning to rehearse at the venue (Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, PA) in the days leading to the show. We cut school the day before the show and hitched a ride to the Lehigh University campus, where Stabler Arena was located. The rumors turned out to be true, and we spent the afternoon sitting outside with a few dozen other fans, listening to the band working on the songs.
Torme may not have been a perfect fit for the music, but damn if he didn't do the work and learn the whole set in a matter of days
Bernie did an admirable job not easy....and the band not really wanting to go back to work but they knew they had to
I just wondered something. I wonder how fans felt going to the upcoming show following the crash. Looking up at the stage and not seeing Randy.
@@joshburns6625 we all knew what had happened, and we all knew there was a replacement guitarist. This was early in Ozzy's solo career, and my friends and I were mid teens. This was only my second or third concert (my first three concerts were Sabbath, Ozzy, and Judas Priest, but I can't remember whether I saw Ozzy before or after Priest).
I could barely see the stage from my nosebleed seats, so on a visual level, Randy's absence didn't have much of an impact.
I was also too young and inexperienced to analyze Torme's playing like I would do today. As far as I could tell, he did a great job.
But most importantly, everyone there seemed to have his back, and Torme got a lot of love from the crowd. We all understood the heaviness of stepping into Randy's shoes, and the crowd was there to celebrate and support his efforts. We were grateful for him, and it felt like a celebration of life rather than a funeral
One of my favorite Ozzy albums post Sabbath!!!
The two studio albums are better than SOTD
RIP Randy
He was a good Christian and an amazing guitarist
He would have taken the reins and would have been the best guitarist in the world
many think he was at the time...certainly in hard rock and metal
It puts a Pit in my stomach still to this day every time I hear this story . Fn tragedy , it’s hard to put into words .
Another life cut short...RIP.
i was at that recording of the speak of the devil at the capitol theater in new york one of the best shows ive ever seen.n ive seen alot.the band was spot on..
With all the people that are saying that they sold their soul these days. I think that Randy Rhodes, Stevie Ray Vaughan, dime bag Darrell, and other incredible guitar players. I think it's because they made Satan jealous. Randy is still number one!!! 🎸♥️🎸
Satan is a fictional character just like the god character. There is no magic, for guitar players or anyone else.
@@thomastucker5686 the pick of destiny!
@@thomastucker5686 Eventually we all will know . Used to not believe myself until I saw an angel of God . Thought I was going to die because of my doubt .
@@ArielGibson757 People claim to meet all sorts of gods, demons, ghosts, angels and also make other ridiculous claims similar. Just because people make claims and believe their claims, doesn't make the claims any more likely to be true and when it comes to the god idea, it is a thinking disorder. Magic is not the answer for any question.
@@thomastucker5686 God is! So is satan...
Nobody dies an atheist....please get saved...be blessed 🙌
RIP Randy. Gone way too soon. To think of the guitar battles between Randy and Eddie. Heaven is surely got some great talent.
Heartbreaking 😢
I was 18
This whole thing makes u wonder if there is more to the story of Randy’s death
there will always be questions but at day's end just horrible bad luck
The sheep will ignore their intuition and all the facts paint a darker picture
Sacrificed?
Some say the same about Cliff Burton.
If Randy had lived he would still not have been in Ozzy’s band. Ozzy can’t hardly have a guitarist for over about 3 albums before Sharon an Ozzy kicks them out. Longest one has been Zakk but even he is in and out of the band. It’s best to think what might have been with Randy, but not what he would have been with Ozzy.
I've heard all kinds of ways the crash happened. Rachel was in front with the pilot and may have had a medical event and fell over to the pilot's controls during an otherwise normal bank. She may have panicked and stepped on the pedals on her side. Jerry said Andy would never hurt anyone but he was flying a plane (Bonanza) that is notoriously unforgiving.
Tommy Aldridge and Don Airey's recollections of when the plane exploded are completely different. Who's right?
Don witnessed it , Tommy is telling the story from inside the bus
It's not without hindsight typing this , though I was only in 8th grade, I remember hearing the other rocker kids saying Randy died. At this point I had no name recognition with Ozzy's guitarist.
Soon after that day I traded my Def Leopard cassette for Blizzard of Oz cassette with my best friend's older sister.
I soon realized the expertise of Randy Rhodes.
going from Def leppard to Blizzard of ozz is like going from simple arithmetic to calculus
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle in many ways for sure.
I thought to myself when 12/13 that Ozzy was writing lyrics for adults,maybe young adults, "I've watched all the drop outs ,who make their own rules".
Def Leopard was definitely more highschool,hit parader, style, but I love me some High And Dry , my favorite Def Leppard album.
Even when hearing the orchestration of Randy's chords and solos, I could tell it was from an educated premise,clean to dirty changes. I'm still waiting for the DvD that goes with the tribute album,it's real, the footage exists.
This is the first time, on hearing additional details, I feel the pilot may have intended murder-suicide. RIP Randy, you were a beautiful human being.
no real evidence showing that, it was most likely a horrible accident
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle Yes there is, from what I've read.
The whole thing with all these small details coming out gives a premeditated conspiracy to murder
@@krupkamusic It's hard to exaggerate the turmoil or chaos in the life of a coke addict who is trying to save his marriage. The fact that he felt compelled to take his wife on the road while working his job says everything to me. The driver was desperate and likely very fragile. As far as we know, his wife could have told him the night before that it was really over. It could have been covered up by the Osbournes just to avoid a negligence lawsuit.
When I heard the news I was already on the field in the Miami Baseball Stadium. UFO, The Foreigner4 tour and then no Ozzy Osbourne.
I'd like to know what happened to Don Aireys photos from that day.
He did develop the photos he does have them.
@@sethwhite5386 - I heard he had to see a psychiatrist about the incident.
I saw them just just before this that year in Houston. Not the last show but the one just before the last. Randy dropped a pick and I jumped the barricade and grabbed it off the edge of the stage before guards threw me back over the barricade.
So what did Randy sign that "could come back to haunt him"?? Did he sign his soul over to old scratch? is that why he died in a plane crash?
Good question ? Contracts are more than money .
Its still one of my favorite live albums. I saw the tour with Brad Gillis right after the plane crash.
God Bless Randy Rhoads.
0:17 The numbers don't add up. The album sold 500k copies within the first 2 months & than it took 9 years to sell 500k more? Was someone pocketing money, not counting sales? Someone please help me understand.
This happens quite often. There's an initial "surge" if sales purchased by fans, etc. and then other people learn about the release after becoming fans, etc.