Remembering Randy.

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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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Yes, all those guys on the scene at the same time is quite amazing. Add in Carlos Cavazo as well and then you have respected scene guys like Greg Leon who never made it big. And then you had the LA crew that followed those guys like Jake, Warren, Amir Derakh, Crosby etc... Amazing.

However much like Randy would allude to in regards to EVH, he really pushed the envelope of that scene.

I was going to post some things but there's a ton out there on Youtube regarding early Lynch - just search George Lynch Xciter. Also search Carlos Cavazo and Snow. On Lynch, Xciter was George's band that followed The Boyz, basically the same people.
 
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There is one guy on youtube who keeps posting all these bootleg jems.. former student who knew Randy. It's thanks to that guy we have so much live audio to listen to. Show after show, he rarely had a stinker. Just all guns blazing.

EDIT: This guy here.. he had stated before he has video as well but feared the Osbourne's would come knockin to get it pulled from YT.

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Kapo_Polenton said:
There is one guy on youtube who keeps posting all these bootleg jems.. former student who knew Randy. It's thanks to that guy we have so much live audio to listen to. Show after show, he rarely had a stinker. Just all guns blazing.
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I always like listening to Randy's take on Paranoid, there's a ton of them out there. Some good, some not so good but this one is the best. We all know he hated playing this stuff so I always kinda take it as RR's way of giving Sabbath the finger.

 
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That first blues lick in Mr. Crowley solo! Up until that point I had never heard that lick sound so massive. The saturation on the notes from the layering was intense. My kid brain could absolutely not figure out THAT sound. That took my knowledge of playing and sounds, etc to a higher level from that point on.
 
Kapo_Polenton said:
Love the non floyd classics like this one and the pokadot. Tuning stability issues maybe but it's part of the tone and the look. What model is that?
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2010 Jackson Custom Shop Concorde Tribute Relic, one of 60 produced after Delores Rhoads finally gave Mike Shannon & Tim Wilson access to the original to make an exact replica. I was able to purchase it new through a friend at dealer cost for $8k. Retail price was $12,619.56 (Randy’s birthday)
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2010 Jackson Custom Shop Concorde Tribute Relic, one of 60 produced after Delores Rhoads finally gave Mike Shannon & Tim Wilson access to the original to make an exact replica. I was able to purchase it new through a friend at dealer cost for $8k. Retail price was $12,619.56 (Randy’s birthday)View attachment 393623
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That's an investment! What an axe though. Love it.
 
Randy was so incredibly gifted that he once composed a lead solo (1st one in Mr. Crowley) which decades later, actually earned the praise of one @braintheory ! Then again, there wasn't much mention of that song's second lead break so maybe Randy wasn't so great after all. :confused:....:D
 
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thegame said:
Randy was so incredibly gifted that he once composed a lead solo (1st one in Mr. Crowley) that decades later, actually earned the praise of one @braintheory ! Then again, there wasn't much mention of that song's second lead break so maybe Randy wasn't so great after all. :confused:....:D
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That 1st solo is my favorite guitar solo of all time still overtaking when I first heard it as a teen Stairway To Heaven's solo. It's just so spontaneous and the way fits in the rest of the song still gives me goosebumps. Somehow even though a lot of is just basic pentatonic licks it just works like nothing else. I can't explain it or say anything in terms of theory/analysis to say why it's great and that's part of the magic

The 2nd solo is great too, but sounds to me a lot more predictable/formulaic/structured and not as impactful/surprising to me the way it transitions to the solo from the melody before. Doesn't have the same spontaneous inexplicable magic of the first one. I remember in an interview Randy said he went through a few revisions for that one and it sounds like it to me. More calculated, classical composed, while the 1st is more just this flow-y spontaneous bluesy on steroids outburst of emotion for me. The Crazy Train solo is also one of the most memorable for me and in both songs had a lot of tasteful fills (aka not EVH-esque lol)

Anyway, Randy was my favorite guitarist growing up with electric guitar as a teen. I guess this is my contribution to add here lol. Also, Altec 417B's are one of my all time favorite speakers, even though he didn't use that version. Altec's are incredible! I
 
braintheory said:
That 1st solo is my favorite guitar solo of all time still overtaking when I first heard it as a teen Stairway To Heaven's solo. It's just so spontaneous and the way fits in the rest of the song still gives me goosebumps. Somehow even though a lot of is just basic pentatonic licks it just works like nothing else. I can't explain it or say anything in terms of theory/analysis to say why it's great and that's part of the magic

The 2nd solo is great too, but sounds to me a lot more predictable/formulaic/structured and not as impactful/surprising to me the way it transitions to the solo from the melody before. Doesn't have the same spontaneous inexplicable magic of the first one. I remember in an interview Randy said he went through a few revisions for that one and it sounds like it to me. More calculated, classical composed, while the 1st is more just this flow-y spontaneous bluesy on steroids outburst of emotion for me. The Crazy Train solo is also one of the most memorable for me and in both songs had a lot of tasteful fills (aka not EVH-esque lol)

Anyway, Randy was my favorite guitarist growing up with electric guitar as a teen. I guess this is my contribution to add here lol. Also, Altec 417B's are one of my all time favorite speakers, even though he didn't use that version. Altec's are incredible! I
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It took me longer to read that than the solo is long!
 
thegame said:
It took me longer to read that than the solo is long!
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That's another thing so great about his best solos! Crazy Train's solo isn't even 30 seconds long yet says so much in that time and the 1st Crowley solo is not much longer. Yet there's all these other shredders with so many notes yet so little to say with them

Him and Marty really are the only 2 I've still heard with fast (ish) leadwork that evokes some emotion for me
 
I've been going back & re-learning Mr Crowley recently, for like the 10th time :ROFLMAO:

There's a few of those licks I always just noodle through my own version, knowing the originals are infinitely better.
 
cobrahead1030 said:
I've been going back & re-learning Mr Crowley recently, for like the 10th time :ROFLMAO:

There's a few of those licks I always just noodle through my own version, knowing the originals are infinitely better.
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Some spots are pretty tough to decipher even when slowed down on YouTube. Zakk Wylde did some of his own thing for some of those spots, but still sounded great to me what he did instead
 
braintheory said:
Some spots are pretty tough to decipher even when slowed down on YouTube. Zakk Wylde did some of his own thing for some of those spots, but still sounded great to me what he did instead
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Actually there's a handful of runs from Randy solos, where what I play is closer to the Zakk versions from live DVD's.
 
Kapo_Polenton said:
There is one guy on youtube who keeps posting all these bootleg jems.. former student who knew Randy. It's thanks to that guy we have so much live audio to listen to. Show after show, he rarely had a stinker. Just all guns blazing.

EDIT: This guy here.. he had stated before he has video as well but feared the Osbourne's would come knockin to get it pulled from YT.

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Listening to Providence 1981 right now . This is one of the better sounding audience recorded shows from the Blizzard tour . This was the first date with Def Leppard on this bill

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