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[jgcable]

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He was and is my favorite of all time. I owe him a ton and I try to repay him everyday when I teach 8-16 year olds his work. My star student came to me with Blink 182 and Sum41 on his mind. He played a beat Johnson Strat with bumper stickers all over it. Now he is playing a Rhoads RX10D and has pretty much mastered Blizzard of Oz. We are now working on Diary. Thanks Randy!!

[RR_YJMFAN]

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[img]graemlins/toast.gif[/img] This ones for you Randy! RIP.

[pro-fusion]

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I was only 14 when Randy died, and I hadn't yet started playing guitar, though I would start taking lessons the following summer. Being a big Sabbath fan, I had bought both Blizzard and Diary when they were new, but at that time I preferred the music on Sabbath's albums with Dio (Heaven & Hell, Mob Rules) to Ozzy's solo work. But, of course, I wasn't a guitar player yet, so I had no idea how good Randy was. I was more drawn to the thundering heaviness of Iommi's playing.

I learned of Randy's death from the small Rolling Stone Magazine obit for him in a copy that someone had brought to school a week or two after he died. I remember thinking it was sad, but, hey, I was an "Iommi guy"...

All these years later, Diary is one of my top-ten metal albums, and I'm saddened to think what might have been...

[Mr. Poon]

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I was 12 when Randy went to be with the Lord but had been playing 4 years by then, all classical. Randy was my first real influence.

I was just out in the car and the radio played the live version of Mr. Crowley- definitely had to wipe the eyes a bit. What an amazing talent- he nailed that song. We'll never know how much more he would do.

God Bless, Randy.

[Jackal]

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I'm with Sully on this too... Ace was the reason I started. Randy was the reason I continued.

Nothing, to me, compares to Randy in more than just the way he played guitar, but how he was as a human... a legend.

[Miffy rules]

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The first riff I learned is the opening riff from Crazy Train. [img]graemlins/toast.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[OnlineStageGear]

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Here is the 5' Tapestry that hangs in my basement where my band practices.



I started listening to Blizzard of Oz when I was 12 and was hooked. It was right around the time of his death so I never got the chance to see him live. He spoiled me in a way since there is really no music I have heard to date that compares to it.

R.I.P.

Matt

[xxxcreaturexxx]

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R.I.P.

[jgcable]

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I am with Sully too. I started with Ace and moved to Randy. Kiss is the reason I even picked up a guitar. Them and the guitar solo in 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago.

[DTP]

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Originally posted by jsullysix:
while ace got me started playing guitar, randy made me want to get good. sadly, i didn't discover his playing until 1983 when i picked up a friend's copy of metal health. i noticed that it said "dedicated to the memory of randy rhoads" or something to that extent. so i asked my fried kurt who randy rhoads was. he grabbed diary of a madman, slapped it on the turntable, and i heard over the mountain for the first time.

i was amazed to hear anyone play like that, and still am.

sully

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's almost my exact story... strange. The only thing different was my friend had Blizzard of Oz instead of Diary and played Crazy Train. He ended up giving me the album I loved it so much. Ace inspired me to play, but I believe Randy had more influence on my learning the instrument.

JE

[WarEnsemble]

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I can honestly say that the reason I started to play guitar was because the first time I heard "I Don't Know" from the tribute cd. The opening riff sent a shiver down my spine, and still does.

RIP Randy

[Shawn Lutz]

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Randy was the reason for me wanting to play guitar. I started when I was 17. I got to see him in February of 82 on the Diary tour. What a great player and cool person too. I think its really cool that his music is still touches so many people 22 years since the accident...

[sclogan5150]

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He changed my life forever,,, nuff said.

I never saw him play, but when I get to heaven, "I know for a fact that's where I'm going!!" I'd like to sit down with him and just listen. All I can say is God needed him up there more than he did down here.

Scott

[eaeolian]

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Every year, on this day, I drink a silent toast to the man who's melodies and style inspired me to practice when it was easier to do something else, and who was taken from us far too early.

As lovers of Jackson guitars, there's a little bit of a bond between us all this day.

Cheers, and R.I.P.

Mike

[Evol]

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Originally posted by OnlineStageGear:
Here is the 5' Tapestry that hangs in my basement where my band practices.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's awesome,you made me decide to dig out some posters I made some years back...I guess I really should get these laminated or something :







The rest of them :

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R.I.P.