Randy Rhoads

I work at NASA, and for obvious reasons, I need to remain anonymous.

Let's just call me Randy, after the legendary guitarist Randy Rhoads.

I've always been drawn to the mysteries of the universe, and little did I know that one fateful day, my life would take a mind-boggling turn.

It was during a routine space mission, monitoring the vastness of space from the control room, when something extraordinary happened.

it's you know one of us reasons i suggested to take this approach is that it's such a strong gear for heavy music but if we were to be like really strict with our top 10s we'd have about 15 albums between us that's how good it is there is no shame in blizzard of oz being at number five killing joker number nine yes i mean

it's like the good thing about blizzard of oz is like i mean it's great it's ozzy's comeback you know it um repositions him again makes him relevant but it's all about randy really when in terms of influence if you're going to talk about Blizzard of Oz, it's the guitar solos and the playing on it by Randy, and it's, again, it's criminal that we only got two albums out of him.

But I think it's one of the problems is maybe Randy gets more kudos later on after he's passed away, because at the time he's basically being overshadowed by Van Halen.

In terms of being that one guitar guy, that one guitar band, virtuoso, you know.

And I don't necessarily think Van Halen is a better guitar player than randy rhodes if i'm listening to solos i'm going to listen to mr crowley or revelation the problem with that

But they dropped Back in Black.

It's fucking mental.

Another thing I'll credit Back in Black for doing was, you know, going back to, we were talking about Blizzard of Oz and Randy Rhoads and how, you know, metal music in general, the connection point is often the lead guitar, right? People just going wild on the guitar.

Yeah, that is Jake Lee on the guitar box filling some big shoes.

Why were we talking about Randy Rhoads this past week? I don't think it was a birthday or anything.

I don't know.

Talking tunes, man.

Talking tunes.

We'll stumble into that every once in a while.

But Jake Lee filling those big guitar chops after Randy Rhoads' airplane accident there in 1982.

That's back at the moon, 1983.

While developing material for his 1980 solo debut album, Blizzard of Oz, Ozzy Osbourne and his band moved into an old millhouse in Wales that was part of Rockfield Studios.

One night, Ozzy, guitarist Randy Rhoads, bassist Bob Daisley, and a drum tech tried messing with a Ouija board.

Daisley recalled the board spelling out a name none of them recognized, followed by a chilling warning, Randy, you are going to die.

They then immediately ended the seance.

graduation day and it isn't so much sung as kind of stated but you're right this one begins euphorically and it sets a different tone for this act in this side it's a rock and roll coming of age but as I mentioned the perils of the lifestyle are there we hear about not one but two fatal plane crashes and Leonard Skinner won, and he doesn't see them because of that.

But then we've also got Ozzie and Randy Rhoads referenced, because Randy Rhoads died in the plane crash as well.

And there's another rock and roll death reference with Bon Scott, who died from alcohol poisoning.

Yeah.