Conference napalm::guitar

    I've been looking forward to this album for years.  Ozzy has often
    mentioned in interviews that he had some prized tapes of concerts
    with Randy but didn't want to release them too soon after his death
    out of respect for the family and friends of Rhodes.  (He didn't
    anyone to turn Randy's death into a commercial success.)  So far
    as I know, the proceeds from this album are being donated to some
    sort of charity in Randy's memory.
    
    I have some bootlegs of Randy in concert that were VERY dissapointing.
    I'm hoping these tapes are as good as Ozzy has said.
    
    To my mind, the solos in "Flyin High", "Crazy Train" and "I Don't
    Know" are classics.  This guy had tremendous potential.

    	db

    
    I just bought the cassette the other day and am listening to it
    right now.  All I can say is WOW!  The playing on this is just
    fantastic.  This is a good one for all the people who think that
    all the fast playing metal guitarists out there lack the soul and
    the feeling to be considered great musicians.  On just about every
    solo on this album, Randy pours his heart out and you can hear the
    feeling that he's pulling out of the guitar.  I've never realized
    how much of a genius we lost until I listened to this. 
    
      Also, Ozzy still sounds damn good, even doing some old Sabbath
    tunes (Iron Man, Children of the Grave, and of course, Paranoid).
    There is a great little guitar solo at the end of Suicide Solution.
    I think the one that tops them all though is Mr. Crowley. This
    just has to be heard to be appreciated, so I will stop babbling.
    
    
    SM

    Wow is the word.  I thought some of the stuff sounded a bit "rushed",
    if that's possible for a speed-metal player, though.  He was so
    incredibly fast that even playing 1/32 notes he was getting ahead
    of the band.
    
    I saw him live once at the Cape Cod Colliseum (alias the "sweat pit").
    He was a totally amazing soloist.
    
    

    I was listening to some Ozzy yesterday on the way home, and I sometimes
    forget how incredible Randy Rhodes is.  Can someone tell me more about
    Randy, like ho he came to play with Quiet Riot (ack!) and how Ozzy got
    a hold of him. I know how he died (what a terrible waste), but don't
    know much else about him.
    
    I saw an add once for a guitarist (Guitarist wanted in Guitar Player) 
    that insisted that the submission (tryout) tape have Suicide Solution
    on it.  Kinda freaked me out.
    
    jc (Freaked out by the lead in "I Don't Know")

    I HAVE BEEN A HUGE FAN OF OZZY AND RANDY RHOADS FOR MANY YEARS HE WAS
    THE GREATEST GUITAR PLAYER I THINK THE WORLD WILL EVER KNOW. WELL
    ANYWAY I HAVE LIVE VIDEO OF OZZY AND RANDY WITH RUDY SARZO AND BOB
    DAISLY PLAYING ON SOME LATE NIGHT SHOW CALLED AFTER HOURS IN NEW YORK.
    THE QUALITY OF THE VIDEO IS NOT VERY GREAT BUT IT IS LIVE FOOTAGE OF
    RANDY RHOADS PLAYING SOME AMAZING GUITAR. OZZY SAID THERE WAS NO LIVE
    VIDEO OF RANDY,THAT IS BULLSHIT I HAVE IT AT MY HOUSE IN COLORADO
    SPRINGS. IF YOU ARE AN OZZY OSBOURNE,RANDY RHOADS FANATIC LIKE ME
    PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS NOTE.
    
    
          T.JENSEN

    
    Randy roolz!!!

    Randy Roolz!!!

    Randy Rhodes is GOD!

    
    
    Randy Rhoads? Whose he? Didn't he invent a keyboard or something....
    
    
    J :-)
    

    Joe Satriani roolz.  Rhoads is dead.

    Randy does ROOL and since I'm not into comparing guitarist in a
    competitive way, I'll let the remark the remark about the greatest
    guitarist the world has even known slide without mentioning Morse.
    
    ;-)
    
    	db

    Randy was an amazing guitarist.  Very musical and inspired.  It was an
    incredible shame to lose him.

    I have a copy of a video that sounds like the same one described
    earlier.  Has Randy with early Quiet Riot playing in a club.  They did
    a killer version of the QR song "Slick Black Cadillac"!  There's also
    some footage of Randy playing with Ozzy on a TV show. 

    I was a huge Randy fan many years ago and I paid like $30 for this
    video, which is obviously a home copy MANY generations old.  The
    quality is abysmal, but it's still interesting viewing.
    
    FWIW, I'm also in Co. Springs.

    Greg

    
    It was the Tribute album that made me pick up a guitar in the first place
    ( remember that Buck ? 8^) ). Randy was WAY ahead of his time and
    should be right up there in the hall of fame with Hendrix.
    
    -Tony

    I MADE A MISTAKE ON MY COMMENT ABOUT THE RANDY RHOADS OZZY OSBOURNE
    VIDEO. THE CORRECT LINE UP ON THAT VIDEO IS RANDY RHOADS,OZZY
    OSBOURNE,RUDY SARZO AND TOMMY ALDRIDGE NOT BOB DAISLY,HE WAS ONE OF
    OZZYS BASS PLAYERS BUT NOT ON THAT VIDEO,RUDY SARZO PLAYS BASS ON THE
    VIDEO AND TOMMY ALDRIDGE PLAYS THE DRUMS,I WILL LEAVE VOCALS AND
    GUITARS UP TO YOUR IMAGINATION.
    
    THE ORIGINAL OZZY OSBOURNE BLIZZARD OF OZZ BAND LINE UP WAS LEE
    KERSLAKE ON DRUMS,BOB DAISLY ON BASS,RANDY RHOADS ON GUITAR AND OZZY
    OSBOURNE VOCALS OF COURSE. THIS IS ALSO THE SAME LINE UP ON DIARY OF A
    MADMAN,THESE ARE THE GUYS THAT DID THE ACTUAL RECORDING THAT YOU HERE
    ON THE ALBUM. THE INSIDE COVER OF DIARY OF A MADMAN SHOWS A PICTURE OF
    OZZY OSBOURNE,RANDY RHOADS,RUDY SARZO AND TOMMY ALDRIDGE, THIS WAS THE
    BAND OZZY BROUGHT ON TOUR NOT THE SAME DRUMMER AND BASS PLAYER THAT
    RECORDED ON THE ALBUM FOR WHAT EVER REASON. IF YOU KNOW,REPLY AND LET
    ME KNOW.
    
    
    
         RANDY RULES
         
         T.JENSEN

    THIS IS IN REPLY TO THE DUDE WITH THE RANDY RHOADS PLAYING WITH QUIET
    RIOT VIDEO. THIS IS A VIDEO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE I KNEW IT EXISTED BUT
    NEVER KNEW ANYONE WHO HAD IT.
    
      MY VIDEO OF OZZY AND RANDY HAS 4 SONGS MR. CROWLY,I DONT KNOW,SUICIDE
    SOLUTION AND CRAZY TRAIN IS YOURS THE SAME.
    
    RANDY RULES
    
    T.JENSEN

    I AM A GUITAR PLAYER, RANDY RHOADS WORK ON DIARY OF A MADMAN AND
    BLIZZARD OF OZZ INFLUENCED ME TO BECOME A GUITAR PLAYER. I THINK THE
    GUITAR ON OVER THE MOUNTAIN IS AMAZING ALSO THE SONG DIARY OF A
    MADMAN.THESE TWO RECORDS WILL NEVER BE EQUALED BY OZZY OR ANYONE ELSE
    FOR THAT MATTER.THIS IS JUST MY OPINION,DON`T GET PISSED.ALL
    OF THE SONGS ON OZZY OSBOURNE,RANDY RHOADS TRIBUTE SOUND INCREDIBLE,I
    HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED HOW RANDY GOT THAT KILLER GRINDING SCREAMING
    DISTORTION SOUND OUT OF THAT LES PAUL.I OWN A LES PAUL AND I HAD TO
    PUT AN EMG 81 IN THE BRIDGE POSITION JUST TO GET SOME BALLS OUT OF IT
    FOR CRUNCH.IF ANYONE KNOWS WHAT TYPE OF DISTORTION RANDY USED PLEASE
    REPLY.
    
    
    RANDY RULES
    
    
    T.JENSEN

    Randy plugged his Gibson Les Paul Custom into a custom-made
    pedal board, which housed the following FX (in this order):
    
    Crybaby Wah --> MXR Distortion + --> MXR 10 Band EQ --> MXR Analog
    Delay --> Volume Pedal --> MXR Stereo Chorus
    
    The stereo chorus unit went out to two 100wt Marshall half-stacks (the
    older model Marshalls without the master volumes).

    TOO BAD RANDY DIDN'T TEAM UP WITH A BETTER SINGER/SONGWRITER.  THE NEW
    OZZY IS OK, BUT THE OLD OZZY BACK THEN WAS WRETCHED.

I dunno about that.  I like old Ozzy/Sabbath as much if not more than
the new stuff...  I like Zakk a lot, but I liked Randy and even Iommi
a lot too.

Randy is a god...

But Ozzy played a pretty big role in ALL their developments as guitarists
(he gave them a start)...
jc

    I COULD LIVE WITHOUT THE LYRICS AND SYMBOLISM THOUGH.

    >I COULD LIVE WITHOUT THE LYRICS AND SYMBOLISM THOUGH.
    
    
    TRUE, HOWEVER, IF YOU GOT THE LP'S AND JUST LISTENED TO THE MUSIC
    (GUITAR PLAYING), YOU MIGHT ACTUALLY LIKE IT.
    
    B.

    Sorry about the bold face screaming comments,I'm not very familiar with
    computers.Thanks for the info on RANDY'S effects and amplification.
    I work second shift so it will probably be tough to find the guy with
    the QUIET RIOT,RANDY RHOADS VIDEO.I also don't know my way around this
    place very well.I do know that I come in the east lobby when I get to
    work.
    
    RANDY RULES
    
    T.JENSEN

Don't worry about it mon...  You aren't the first person who's 
been new to NOTES - We all had to start somewhere.  

Besides RANDY DOES RULE!
jc

    why ruin good music with lyrics and vocals?
    
    Re: Ozzy again
    
    Isn't "Diary of a Madman" the one that has a picture of Ozzy writing in
    some book?  My very reliable sources tell me the "black magic
    hieroglyphics" across the 4 edges of the album are very legitimate. 
    Either Ozzy is into it for more than $$ or he consulted with someone
    who is.  I vaguely remember their meanings, but most dealt with Satanic
    curses and spells, etc.
    
    Mike

    RE: -1
    
    I'd be interested in hearing what they say,  what about the glyphs on
    the "Speak of the Devil" album?  There's quite a few on there.
    
    As for lyrics, to each his own, whether or not you like them... 
    
    Chad

Well - I stand slightly corrected.

The song "Mr. Crowley" is abut a witch-dood.

Apparently the story goes this Mr Crowley sold the castle that Jimmy Page 
owns in England and it's supposedly cursed.  John Bonham died in Jimmy's
castle, as did Robert Plants son.  Myth has it that both times, black smoke 
was seen rising from the chimneys, even though no fire had burnt there.

Hmmmm....  Scary stuff eh kids ??

I thought Mr Crowley was a song about a lonely old man.

Is what I said true ? (Buck ??  JensenT ??)

jc

    I don't know anything about the tales of deaths at Page's castle, but
    the song "Mr. Crowley" is definitely about Alistair(sp) Crowley, an
    avowed Satanist and author.  However, if you read the lyrics to the
    song, Ozzy seems to claim that Crowley was a phoney and/or was foolish
    for his beliefs. 
    
    Greg

    re: Mike
    
    You think Ozzy really designed the "Diary of a Madman" album cover
    himself?  Seems more likely someone else did it.  He might not have
    even known if the runes on it meant anything or not.
    
    gh

    re...JC
    
    Aleister Crowley's castle is called Bolskine Castle in the North of 
    Scotland.It over looks Loch Ness,where the monster lives.He was a self
    proclaimed Satanist and practiced black magic.He was also an intense
    drug fiend and wrote lots of "erotic" poetry.
    
    
    
                                                  Staynz

    Satan designed that cover, working through some poor mortals.  You guys
    are so shallow ...
    
    Jerry (uh, bartender, I'll have a Danzig coctail ... TO GO !)

    Crowley was also a Satanic "evangelist".  He tried to make Satanism a
    legal alternative to Christianity on more than one occaision.  He even
    referred to himself as the beast.
    
    Mike

       Alister Crowley was the author of the real SATANIC BIBLE,Anton
    Levey's satanic bible is a joke compared to Crowley's.Meaning human
    sacrifice,Satan inspired conjuring of demons and spells.He believed
    that when he died,if he had accomplished what satan had inspired him to
    do while he was on earth,he would become the ruler of hell when he
    died.
       I beleive all of this is very real but don't get me wrong I'm not a
    satanist.
       I have a good copy on a cassete of QUIOT RIOT 2 but a couple of the
    songs are have skips and scratches in them.If the dude with QR 2 has a
    good copy of this record please reply in my comet mail account if it
    would be alright to let me copy this record.
       Back to SATANISM and OZZY. Ozzy was facinated with satanism and the
    occult.He had plans to build a black temple on his property but never
    did because his second wife,and current wife,Sharon,wouldn't let him.
    The subject never came up again.
    
    Take it easy
    
    RANDY RULES
    
    T.JENSEN

    
    The glyphs are real, since I've seen them in a witchcraft book
    before.  Most of the experts say that witchcraft and Satanism
    are two very different things - but I'm not sure if these are
    "Satanic" glyphs or not.  Basically, I think people who waste
    their time taking these practices seriously are a bit warped.
    
    The story I heard about the Page-owned Crowley house was that
    Aleister had had the place purposely built on the foundation of
    a church that had burned to the ground with the congregation in
    it.  Then he proceed to have wild, Satanic orgies there.  If
    I hear one more story about Crowley's house I think I'm gonna
    hurl!  They become more ludicrous all the time.  People love to
    enhance stories like this quite a bit upon passing it on to the
    next eager listener.
    
    Aleister also commissioned an artist to do the designs for a Tarot
    deck (known as the Crowley-Thoth deck).  Many Tarot readers refuse
    to work with this deck for one reason or another (many claim it
    doesn't feel right to them).
    
    Anyway, even knowing all this, I still think Ozzy is only using 
    the imagery for hype and money.  Lotsa teens have a morbic fascin-
    ation with this crap.
    
    guy

    RE: .45
    
    Coop, John Bonham didn't die in Aleister Crowley's old castle, he died
    in Jimmy Page's HOUSE, which is a whole different place: it's in Windsor,
    England. In fact, it's a very respectable place - originally owned by
    Michael Caine, now owned by Womack & Womack...
    
    Nick

    Sorry about the craters in this topic, I moved the notes I thought
    related to the "lyric" discussion to note 2554.

>                                -< Conjecture >-
>    You think Ozzy really designed the "Diary of a Madman" album cover
>    himself?  Seems more likely someone else did it.  He might not have
>    even known if the runes on it meant anything or not.
    
    Greg, I realize not many artists have a say in what goes on the album
    covers.  I also realize that an artist with Ozzy's level of revenue
    must have had tremendous leverage at CBS records (or whatever his label
    was).  I don't believe someone with Ozzy's success rate would not have
    had major input into his covers.
    
    Mike

    For those interested in hearing more Randy, there was also an Ozzy
    "Live EP" with a few songs on it.  I liked that one a lot!
    
    Greg

    re: Mike Heiser
    
    >Greg, I realize not many artists have a say in what goes on the album
    >covers.  I also realize that an artist with Ozzy's level of revenue
    >must have had tremendous leverage at CBS records (or whatever his label
    >was).  I don't believe someone with Ozzy's success rate would not have
    >had major input into his covers.
    
    Well, believe this.  After the Diary of a Madman lp (of which Rhoads
    was killed mid-tour for that album), Ozzy wanted to release a live
    album featuring Randy's playing, history, life, etc. (the album which
    eventually became TRIBUTE).
    
    Well, CBS already had the next album concept in the bag.  The album
    would be titled "Speak of the Devil", and they already had that
    (stupid) cover concept in mind.  Ozzy absolutly *refused* to release
    the live Rhoads tapes on an album marketed as "Speak of the Devil", as
    he felt it would have been an insult to Randy and his family, as well
    as the fact Ozzy wanted the randy tribute to be special (eg, he wanted
    more artistic control over the entire package).  
    
    Well, CBS noting that Ozzy's former band, Black Sabbath, were about to 
    release a a-record live album (with Dio on vocals, titled "LIVE EVIL")
    of old Sabbath covers, informed Ozzy that his next album, titled
    SPEAK OF THE DEVIL (with stupid cover concept by record co.) would be
    a 2-record live album of old Black Sabbath covers.
    
    Howz that for artistic control??
    
    PS - Fwiw, Ozzy wanted until 1987, when he finished his contract, to
         release the Randy Rhoads TRIBUTE album (a full 5 years after
         Rhoads' death).
         

    Re: Buck
    
    That's interesting! It tells me that CBS was more interested in
    marketing the Satanism angle.  It also tells me they played Ozzy as a
    pawn and he was willing to go along with their requests.
    
    Mike

    
    I just lost all respect for Ozzy.....;-)
    
    guy

    Also, at the time Randy was playing with him, Ozzy didn't have the
    album sales to make many demands at all.  He was fresh out of Black
    Sabbath, which had done well, but was unproven as a solo artist.  His
    first album did *ok*, had a hit with "Crazy Train", but as I recall
    wasn't terribly exciting in terms of sales.  I think it sold a lot more
    after Randy was killed.
    
    I agree though, I think Ozzy was nothing but a pawn.
    
    gh

    RE: Mikey H.
    
    >It also tells me they played Ozzy as a pawn and he was willing to go
    >along with their requests.
    
    He pretty much had too.  For a couple of reasons...one, he accepted the
    CBS deal moreso out of need.  Ozzy was "fired" from Sabbath, and at the
    time was also in the midst of a *serious* substance abuse problem.  He
    definitely did not have the resources or mental capacity to be making
    wise decisions, or in the position professionally to make grandios
    requests in his record contract.  When CBS signed him, they def. got
    the better end of the stick by taking advatage of his personal situation.
    
    Just more of the same in the music biz, tho...

       The title of the album SPEAK OF THE DEVIL in the UK ENGLAND
    whatever,is TALK OF THE DEVIL.If anyone knows of or has this album from
    England with the different title of TALK OF THE DEVIL please respond to
    my comet account.I would like to buy it from who ever has it and is
    willing to part with it.I think all that old BLACK SABBATH stuff is
    great.
    
    Take it easy
    
    T.JENSEN
    

       If any one has a copy of THE TWO SIDES OF OZZY OSBOURNE,released
    only in Japan,I would like to get my hands on that also.It has a song
    on it with Randy Rhoads playing guitar called You Looking at Me Looking
    at You,it's a cool song,I have a good copy of it.It's a studio
    recording,it sounds great with the usual excellent guitar solo from
    Randy.The same record also has a song called One Up The B Side with
    Jake E. Lee on guitar,it jams.This is also a very hard to find song.
    Both of these songs are on THE TWO SIDES OF OZZY OSBOURNE.One side
    features Randy with Ozzy,the other side is Jake with Ozzy.
    
    Take it easy
    
    T.JENSEN                                    RANDY LIVES FOREVER
                                                 THROUGH THE MUSIC
    

       The writing from hell on the SPEAK OF THE DEVIL album cover around
    OZZY's puking head says HOWDY, DIAL A DEMON PRODUCTIONS IN CONJUNCTION
    WITH GRAVEYARD GRAPHICS PROUDLY PRESENTS THE MADMAN OF ROCK, TAKE A
    DUMP IN EL SATANO'S TOILETTO, REAL TASTY. I read this in an imported
    book on OZZY from England called DIARY OF A MADMAN just in case you're
    wondering how I know this.
    
    T.JENSEN
    
    

    I've heard about half a dozen different stories about "Tribute" - about
    half making Ozzy out as the good guy, and about half making him out
    as the opportunist at Randy's expense.
    
    The most reliable publication I've seen such a story in, Guitar Player,
    says that it was Delores Rhoads (Randy's mother) who actually stopped
    Ozzy from putting out an album (or at least that's how I remember it).
    
    I don't know what to make of Ozzy Osbourne.  In print, he paints
    himself as a devout Christian and all that, and believe me, I'm no
    Tipper Gore fan, but it seems like everything he's ever done had such
    a very clear-cut satanistic reference that's it's hard to give Ozzy
    any benefit of the doubt.
    
    I mean, look at the cloesup shots of him in his new video. 
    
    It doesn't bother me at all that he does this, it only bothers me that
    he denies it.

    
    The only thing I find interesting about Ozzy is that he's still
    popular.  He's more of a cartoon now than he was when he was singing
    with the Sabs. At least the Sabs stood their ground and managed to
    influence every teenager within the Seattle city limits, while solo Oz
    seems to be simply following the pack.
    
    His lyrics are so inane it's hard to figure out *what* he might be
    talking about, but there definitely some pseudo-Christian views in
    early Sabs material, references to the occult were largely in the
    horror movie vein (i.e. mess around and you'll end up in deep s**t) and
    lots of paeans to drug use ("Sweet Leaf", "Snowblind", "Paranoid",
    etc.).
    
    						Barfbaghead

    I think I mentioned this in H_M, but Ugly Kid Joe did a cover of
    SweetLeaf on their "Ugly As They Wanna Be" EP.  UKJ rips that song
    UP !!  Check it out today!  They do a real "Jazz/Funk" thing in the
    middle of it.  
    jc

    Whatever Ozzy's motivation for releasing "Tribute", I'm glad he did. 
    It was nice to hear a little more of Randy Rhodes' playing even though
    he was gone.
    
    I agree about Ozzy being like a cartoon, or a puppet, after leaving
    Sabbath.  Notice that Sabbath also seemed to catch the same disease
    after he left, ride the "satan" banddeathwagon.  Oh well, what can you
    say?
    
    Greg

       Disregard what I said in .65, it wasn't quite right. 
    
       The writing around the pictures on SPEAK OF THE DEVIL is called
    `Runes', as used in J.R.R. Tolkien's book `Lord of the Rings'.
    
       The entire cover design for SPEAK OF THE DEVIL was by Steve Joule
    who at the time was under the impression that the album was going to 
    be a live one with Randy Rhoads, not a bunch of old Sabbath tunes.
    
       The front cover around Ozzy's puking head says:
    HOWDY. DIAL-A-DEMON PRODUCTIONS IN CONJUNCTION WITH GRAVEYARD GRAPHICS,
    PROUDLY PRESENTS THE MADMAN OF ROCK DUMPING IN EL SATANOS TOILETTIO,
    REAL TASTY...
    
       The center of the cover with Ozzy and the midget says:
    A TRIBUTE TO RANDY RHOADS, AXEMAN. `THAT KID WAS MY LIFELINE, Y'KNOW?
    HE WAS SUCH A DYNAMIC PLAYER AND I'D RATHER NOT TALK ABOUT IT ANYMORE
    BECAUSE IT CUTS ME UP EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE'. RANDY RHOADS REST IN PEACE
    AND LOVE.
    
       The picture of the band in the circle on the back of the cover says:
    OZZY OSBOURNE, ROCK AND ROLL MADMAN.
    
       All the rest of the stuff on the back cover is meaningless
    scribbling to fill up the space, except, if you look closely, you'll
    find the words No Hidden Messages within all of the scribbling.
    
    Randy Rhoads lives forever through the music.
    
    T.Jensen

    Re: -1
    
    how about on "Diary of a Madman"?

       What you find underneath the lyrics on the inside cover of Diary Of
    A Madman is just more meaningless scribbling, except this time Ozzy did
    the scribbling. The rest of the symbols I will find out what they mean
    and what they are.
    
    
    T.J

    
    re: .71, .72
    
    I'm not sure what the symbols on Diary of a Madman say (probably
    more nothingness), but they're not from J.R.R.Tolkien like the
    others.  Just wanted to clarify.
    
    guy

       You are correct sir! The symbols on Diary Of A Madman are NoT from
    any J.R.R. Tolkein book. The symbols at the top of the inside cover
    above the lyrics mean nothing more than Friday and Saturday, according
    to Steve Joule, who also designed the Diary cover and inside cover and
    the Blizzard of Ozz cover's. What a joke on all the bible beaters and
    the PMRC. This is the true work of the devil!NOT!
    
    T.J

    A nice grayscale of Randy was put on a.b.p.m today.

    Help!! Greg/Buck...I'm desperate to get my hands on the TAB music for
    "Dee" and any other RR stuff...
    
    Can anybody help???
    
    Cheers Dieter Schanzer (UK)  /
                                (
                                 )
                                / KanK

         Saw this note regarding R.R., so I thought I'd add this.
    Recently I came by "Quiet Riot - The Randy Rhoads Years"  
    This is a re-done job of the old QR inports with Randy
    on them.  I read an article in one of those guitar rags
    a while ago concerning this project.  Kevin DuBrow, the
    singer there, gave all the info.  I guess he did quite 
    a reassembling, if you will, of these tunes.  According to
    this article, Dubrow said that on one of the tunes Randy
    always wanted to use a wah-wah pedal but at the time didn't
    have the cash to afford one.  So what did K.D. do to accomodate
    this?  He actually played back this portion of this particular
    song, pluged it through a wah-wah, and played the wah with
    his foot and re-recorded it!!!!   Can you believe it?
    Any other comments?  I wish I had more about this, but I
    lent out the mag.  Any other comments?
    
    Kev --
    

    I have this tape of Jimi and Buddy Miles and me jamming in the basement
    of my high school back in 68.  The only weird thing is that Jimi passed
    out before we started recording, so when we remastered the tapes, I
    played the guitar parts because I knew he wanted some guitar on the
    tapes.
    
    Been thinking about having Kevin DuBrow do the vocals that Jimi was
    planning on doing.
    
    							Brian

    Kevin DuBrow takes one from the Alan Douglas book of posthumous record
    production bag-o-tricks. Roll over Beethoven.

         By the way, on another track off "The Randy Rhoads Years"
    Kevin Dubrow didn't like the way he originally sang the song
    so he re-recorded his vocal track up to his "exacting" standards
    for this project.  
         I once read that Randy didn't even like the QR I+II albums.
    He said that they were too pop-orientated.  Nice of Kevin 
    DuBrow to take it upon himself to re-release all his chopped-up
    tunes Randy hated.  But then again, $$$$$$$$$$$$.  There you 
    have it folks!
    
    Kev --
        

    
         Made a trip to "Headlines" (my favorite store for a 
    number of reasons) in downtown Nashua, New Hampshire over
    the weekend.  There I ran across an ultra-rare Ozzy
    performance with Randy on guitar preserved on VHS.  Needless
    to say, I snagged it on the spot.  The tape is entitled
    "Ozzy & Randy:  After Hours" and features live performances
    of "I Don't Know", "Suicide Solution", "Crazy Train", and
    "Mr. Crowley" as well as some interview stuff from '81 and
    a couple of live Sabbath numbers from 1975.
         The overall quality of the videotape is medium at best.
    However, to see Randy jammin with Ozzy, Rudy Sarzo, and Tommy
    Aldridge is a rarity that's well worth it.  Next time you see
    the video for "Crazy Train" check out the guitar solo section
    where Randy flies into the frenzy of hammer-ons.  Note the
    blue curtain backdrop behind the group.  It's this "After
    Hours" performance where they took that short clip from to
    slide into the MTV video.
         "Headlines" is a cool place to check out.  They got quite
    a few rare concert tapes along with some that are not so rare.
    If you're into something different, then this place is for you.
    
    Later,
    Kev --