![]() Last October, Randy was posthumously inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame during the 2021 ceremony. "The day that Randy Rhoads died was the day a part of me died," he added. "I just bathed my wounds with alcohol and drugs." "I lost a dear friend in my life - I miss him terribly," Ozzy said. Rhoads's death had a tremendous impact on Osbourne's life. "He had patience with me, which was great. "One thing that he gave to me was hope, he gave me a reason for carrying on," Ozzy added. He was like a gift from God - we worked so well together. In his "Biography: The Nine Lives Of Ozzy Osbourne" special, Ozzy stated about first meeting Rhoads after his departure from BLACK SABBATH: "I knew instinctively that he was something extra special. Rhoads and two others were killed on Mawhen the small plane they were flying in at Flying Baron Estates in Leesburg, Florida struck Osbourne's tour bus, then crashed into a mansion. ![]() "He wasn't very excited about, but it was in the perfect place," Reason explained, "because every time he stomped on his wah wah pedal, he stomped on it as if he wanted to crush it." But they would always come to see QUIET RIOT and Randy play."Įlsewhere in the film, Rhoads's guitar tech Brian Reason recalled how he used to stick a picture of Eddie Van Halen to Randy's wah pedal. Because I know Randy never went to see them play. Meanwhile, QUIET RIOT fan club president Lori Hollen said that at some of the band's early shows, "we would see David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen there, which was always interesting to me. ![]() I think all the guitar players in town kept up on each other." To a large degree, bands were judged on their guitar player. Randy's friend Kim McNair also spoke about the Rhoads- Van Halen rivalry in "Randy Rhoads: Reflections Of A Guitar Icon", reflecting: "This was the years of guitar heroes. I've copied some other people, you know?" "But I don't really think he did anything that I haven't done. Because he said everything he did he learned from me. The film contains archive audio of Van Halen discussing Rhoads, saying, "He was one guitarist who was honest, anyway. The rivalry between Rhoads and Van Halen was explored in the documentary "Randy Rhoads: Reflections Of A Guitar Icon", which was released this past May. Maybe they had a falling out or whatever, but they were rivals." "To be honest, Randy didn't have a nice thing to say about Eddie. "I heard recently that Eddie said he taught Randy all his licks … he never," Osbourne told Rolling Stone. Although both Rhoads and Van Halen later became some of the most influential guitarists of the 20th century, playing with a similar flare and incorporating finger-tapping into their fleet-fingered solos, Eddie found commercial success before Rhoads, due in part to the fact that VAN HALEN landed a record deal years before QUIET RIOT did. Rhoads's pre- Ozzy band QUIET RIOT had been gigging on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California at the same time as VAN HALEN. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Ozzy Osbourne discussed the supposed cross-town rivalry Randy Rhoads, the first guitarist Osbourne worked with after BLACK SABBATH, had with Eddie Van Halen.
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