Randy Rhodes. British whammy bar inventor.

[MartinBarre]

http://www.readjunk.com/articles/top-25-most-tragic-deaths-in-music-history/

13. Randy Rhodes:
Randy Rhodes was a British guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne’s band and a good friend to Ozzy. Ozzy’s nickname for Rhodes was Whammy because he was such a klutz: knocking guitars down, tripping over wires, and other clumsily things. One day while tripping over something, he thought of the idea to develop a guitar leveler for the guitar called the whammy bar. Randy Rhodes had a tragic airplane accident in Florida where he died instantly. He was flying a small plane near his tour bus while other members were sleeping, and ended up flying into a mansion instead. Rhodes awesome guitar playing was sorely missed. Zach Wilde ended up taking over guitar duties after that.

[MartinBarre]

Unless Tim Burton really was Cliff's older brother, the whole thing must be a joke. Weird.

[toejam]

And other clumsily things!

[Codex]

some of those are funny. the comments from those who think the article is real are funny too.

[MartinBarre]

some of those are funny. the comments from those who think the article is real are funny too.

I thought it was real at first, until I started reading the ones about people I'd heard of.

[BayRocker]

Best part is that at the end of the story just below the John Lennon piece, is this sentence in small print, "This is a fake story and we’re trolling. If you can’t figure this out, well sorry."

Yet people keep posting the inaccuracies...

[BLOOD SPLATTER]

I thought "Randy Rhodes" invented the electric piano for fender...

[atomic charvel guy]

it's all bullshit, i mean, ok Rhodes did indeed play for Ozzy but he was really known for being the benefactor of the "Rhodes Scholarship" for students who win the
incredible chance to study at Oxford or other clumsily Universites. It's the oldest fellowship in the world. I hate it when things get skewed on the internet. fuckin' assholes.

[Snoogans]

Yes, but did you know that his original nickname was "Rocky" Roads 'cos he was the first ever to put marshmallow and nuts in his ice cream....

[atomic charvel guy]

hi Snoogs! yeah his own nuts

[Newc]

Wasn't he also the Colossus of Rhodes before he fell into the sea and washed ashore on SoCal?

[lepard]

Randy also invented these:

[lepard]

and this place was named after him:

[toejam]

Randy Rhoads rode on a road to Rhode Island, then he took a boat and rowed away.

[atomic charvel guy]

you're part of the problem Camel Toe Joe, it's Rhodes Island. jerkoff...