Remembering Randy.

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Was doing a case the other day and I had pandora on; Mr Crowley (Blizzard) version came on, which to me is goofy sounding from a rhythm guitar standpoint; boxy, choppy staccato ….BUT….. I told my circulator to turn on the tribute version of Mr Crowley; holy Hey-Sous! There is absolutely no contest. His live version is just incredible to my ears. I remember listening to it when it came out in the 80s and even now. His live tone is “it”.
 
alund said:
Was doing a case the other day and I had pandora on; Mr Crowley (Blizzard) version came on, which to me is goofy sounding from a rhythm guitar standpoint; boxy, choppy staccato ….BUT….. I told my circulator to turn on the tribute version of Mr Crowley; holy Hey-Sous! There is absolutely no contest. His live version is just incredible to my ears. I remember listening to it when it came out in the 80s and even now. His live tone is “it”.
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His playing on Tribute is straight fire. I never listen to Blizzard, Tribute has every Blizzard tune and they all sound better (playing, production, even vocals).
 
I never cared for his tone and never will, but the man had chops. He played his last show not too terribly far from where I grew up, or from where I live now.
 
What I can say about Randy and that time frame - if you weren't around or if you were just too young to remember, his impact was massive. Not the same level as EVH but close because what he did was open another door of possibilities.

Before RR you had EVH who blew it all up. You had great players like Gary Moore, Di Meola, Brian May, Schenker, Schon etc... but EVH had changed the game and just when everyone was getting used to that, then Randy came along and showed another path. Afterwards the floodgates opened from Vandenberg to Yngwie to Campbell to Sykes to Lynch etc...

I'd had already been playing for several years when Randy came out but he gave me focus and direction and my playing grew exponentially over the next few years. It was IMO the greatest time ever for rock guitar as the jump in players abilities was mind blowing and we can all thank EVH and RR for that.
 
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jabps said:
What I can say about Randy and that time frame - if you weren't around or if you were just too young to remember, his impact was massive. Not the same level as EVH but close because what he did was open another door of possibilities.

Before RR you had EVH who blew it all up. You had great players like Gary Moore, Di Meola, Brian May, Schenker, Schon etc... but EVH had changed the game and just when everyone was getting used to that, then Randy came along and showed another path. Afterwards the floodgates opened from Vandenberg to Yngwie to Campbell to Sykes to Lynch etc...

I'd had already been playing for several years when Randy came out but he gave me focus and direction and my playing grew exponentially over the next few years. It was IMO the greatest time ever for rock guitar as the jump in players abilities was mind blowing and we can all thank EVH and RR for that.
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Didn’t Lynch and Eddie run the strip back in the 70s. I vaguely remember an interview for ??? Who knows (possibly GL) where Randy, Eddie and Lynch would hop the bar scenes. Honestly, I never have heard Lynch in early years and I wonder how much his tone changed from 70s to the tone in 80s? Anyone have clips?
 
Randy is one of my favorite players. Such a talented guy........I just listen to this and get taken away.....


 
alund said:
Didn’t Lynch and Eddie run the strip back in the 70s. I vaguely remember an interview for ??? Who knows (possibly GL) where Randy, Eddie and Lynch would hop the bar scenes. Honestly, I never have heard Lynch in early years and I wonder how much his tone changed from 70s to the tone in 80s? Anyone have clips?
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Everything that I've read was that it was EVH, Lynch, and Rhodes. Terry Kilgore comes up as the guy that was on par with Eddie, but he was never in a band that made it.
 
shredhead7 said:
Everything that I've read was that it was EVH, Lynch, and Rhodes. Terry Kilgore comes up as the guy that was on par with Eddie, but he was never in a band that made it.
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Randy was in Quiet Riot prior to joining Ozzy.....they had at least one record out. Obviously EVH blew onto the scene in 1978. I did not know George Lynch existed untill Dokken broke onto the scene.
 
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