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  • This dude randy was and still is the best guitarist in the world...

  • I think hearing a guitarist do a sound check really shows what level he is at

  • Unreal...

  • i saw him two nights in a row for blizzard

  • I can distinguish Randy's playing from a thousand other guitarists. His sound was extroidinary. His tone was perfect.

  • he is like the luke skywalker of the guitar

  • even in warm-ups he is better than most.

  • why is there a dislike button?

  • 30 people are fucktards

  • A sound check that got half a million views - what a testimonial to Randy~

  • I love the sound of a Marshall amplifier pushed really hard, especially with a guy like Rhoads at the end of the cord.

  • if you watch ANY ozzy and randy rhoads vids from their live concerts YOU WILL SEE RANDY GETTN THAT CROWD ALL HYPED UP just by getting on stage. Sure some new bands are great but they have been aroung forever before getting anywhere. Randy and ozzy start out and instantly they great and still recognized (STILL TO THIS DAY) as the greatest band ever!!!! Even ppl who hate rock will admit that they love Randy! So HAH

  • The best ! R.I.P. Randy

  • Does anyone knows what scales he plays here?????????????

  • @MrNachoplaza

    More modal than scales. He plays a mix of Lydian/Aeolian/Mixolydian/Phry­gian modes. Throws in a bit of pentatonic majors in there as well.

  • @MrNachoplaza harnonic minor, phrygian, pentatonic and a bit of aeolian :p

  • how could you hate on randy rhoads, he was awesome

  • To hell with what the top 100 list says...Randy was #1

  • lord if i could play like he did at around 1:30 ish, idk what id do, its amazing!! thanks for the upload @axemanmr !!!!!

  • Randy saved Ozzy's ass

  • @rb21122b true, ozzy would not be any where now other than the street if it werent for randy

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  • No one will EVER pass Randy. It's a shame he got into that plane. SO much potential.

  • People Say Eddie Van Halen Is Better

  • Randy Rhoads Is Metal ! ! !

  • Im friends with Max Norman. Author Joel McIver just released a new book called CRAZY TRAIN The High Life and Death of Randy Rhoads! A must read!!

  • Priceless footage

  • randy was better than EVERY GUITARIST OF TODAY !

    Never Forget!

  • my mistake, thanks

  • On March 19, 1982 one of the greatest guitar players died in a plane crash, Randy Rhoads! He was teaching guitar lessons at his mothers music store at the young age of 12. He was 27 yrs old when he died. Still brings tears to my eyes!

  • @montedreams1 he died at the age of 25 years old not 27

    even crazier huh

  • He is built so perfect for the guitar, something leads me to believe something supernatural is behind all this. I know I sound like a faggot but its probably true

  • God killed Randy Rhoads because he was too good at guitar,, True Story

  • Randy Rhoads spirit never left, but returned to live in their hearts for me and sat on my spiritual wisdom as well !!!

  • Wow, this is crazy awesome. I thought I'd seen all the footage there was!!!

  • It really sucks that the clip ended at 2:00 where he was going to play a typical RR solo!

  • It sucks the stupidity of how we lost RR and even SRV. Talented musicians who had a lot more to play. American Idol SUCKS

  • When Eddie "shreds" it's nothing more than a compilation of solo's from every song he's ever written. Eddie writes good songs, but his solo's are quite trite. Randy is sooo much more creative.

  • @TheEVHplayeri love randy but eddie is just who he is the best

  • Randy is todays Paginni

  • hey cameraman heres a thought....film the show dumbass! not just the sound check RIP randy the best!

  • I am a drummer and have nothing but deep admiration for Randy Rhoads. He was simply amazing...

  • I saw him in Dallas with Ozzy amazing

  • Wasn't there a pathogen in the soil?

  • Randy was made to play the guitar.. That simple.

  • He was so fluid. I can't even emotionalize the situation. Here is a crazy thought - Randy was the Bruce Lee of guitar. And, vice-versa! :)

  • Randy Rhoads was amazing. Eddie Van Halen was and is amazing.

    Let's see how many people thumbs-down this comment because they insist only one was amazing!

  • if you look up the picture of randy the day he died, he was wearing that same shirt.

  • umm yeah lets see eddie done euruption cathedral and pretty much changed the way the guitar is played and randy did what crazy train look im not saying randy wasnt a good player im just saying eddie van halen was by far a better player and game changer no bad feelings her i love randy he is very good but eddie is just well eddie van halen man

  • @TheEvh68 you are a complete idiot if you think that all Randy Rhoads did was Crazy Train. At least do your research if your gonna make statements like that. I just makes you look unintelligent.

  • WOW! That was not to be seen...He was almost hiding

  • Hail for Rhandy!!! \m/

  • EVH, although a great guitarist, is not worthy enough to carry Randy's nut sack around for him.

  • yeah well that will be your little secret evh rules

  • Rest In Peace Randy. You're an inspiration to us all. You will NEVER be forgotten.

  • umm he isnt even close to mr eddie van halen but he is great

  • @TheEvh68 Wow your freaking high dude. Randy was 1000 times better than Eddie. Eddie blows.

  • @TheEvh68 Eddie Van Halen is a great player. Randy was a greater player AND musician.

  • he's just walking around saying "I'll destroy you " with his guitar

  • wow . even soundcheck vids are kewl . \m/

  • My favorite guitarist of all time next to Iommi from Sabbath and this video was uploaded a day before my birthday

  • MR. RANDY RHOADS, ENOUGH SAID!!!!!!!

  • im from this town and i only wish i was old enough to see this. but thats what i get for being born 8 years after rr's death. why must the best die young

  • Randy will be one of the most influential guitar players ever. It is stupid to compare Randy or Eddie to many players of the 90's and the 2000's. Those two are to this date the template of many guitar players. It's like comparing them to Clapton, Page or Hendrix. What they did is set a template for Eddie and Randy to play with. This two set the stage a bit higher and there are many that exceeded and a a big bunch that failed.

  • @yucastrike is spot on. In essence, all of the players he mentioned were innovative and the innovations were heard by the masses. A great player can play licks from all of the aforementioned names. A legendary player creates the licks that everyone else wants to figure out and thats what Hendrix, Clapton, Page, Rhoads, Van Halen have done and continue to do.

  • @yucastrike EXACTLY, and thank you for your comment. It couldn't be any more well stated than that.

  • Randy was Great but, Yngwie was a Fucking Monster..Paul Gilbert need i say no more.

  • @1981fairwaring I know Paul lists Randy as his influence and I'm quite sure Malmsteen does as well. The list of today's rock/metal guitarists influenced by Randy would be quite long.

  • so was eddie at the time

  • my daugther 14 years old she said ....dad is sad that people dont make this kind of music anymore

  • There's still good music out there. But it's rare.

    Tool is one good example of REAL from the heart music from this age.

    But off the top of my head... I can't really think of anything else...

    Sad.

  • yay

  • and that right tharr (*uses her Texan Drawled Spanglish accent..LOL) ...is some daggum real good music history:) hehehe !!!

  • @carmelcandy696969 The heck?!

  • this dude jam s.

  • @FortisBong i always have somebody telling me its idiot not itiot hahahahaha

  • i cant wait for more of rany in the new footage

  • weak

    

  • can randy return back to us please!!!we have plenty of uselles music "artists" like bieber madonna lady gaga!!we can give you them but please return to us randy!!R.I.P randy!!!YOU ARE THE BEST!

  • "God Bless you Randy Rhoads"

    Thanks for your awesome licks I'm a Big fan. You are a true guitar LEGEND

    thinking of you 19th March 2011.....

  • He had such a diabolical sound.

  • Sexy red shorts on that stage crew guy!

  • Stop arguin you bunch of douchebags. No one HAS to think Satriani is the best guitarist in the world and no one HAS to think Rhoads was. It's fucking subjective. The only fact I know is that Satriani has generic backing tracks with far more innovative lead playing over the top whereas everything Rhoads did was innovative.

  • This was in Beaumont, TX. Fair Park Coliseum was just off of I-10 and hosted many shows/events including Sammy Hagar, Van Halen, rodeos, monster truck shows, etc. It was torn down a few years back and is now the site of a 'housing complex'. I was 16 when this show came through in February of 1982, I was forbidden to go - DAMN IT!

  • RIP Dimebag

  • @kickalion thats not dimebag!! thats randy rhoads. rhoads puts dimebag to shame..... that'd be like me going to a dimebag video and writing, "RIP Marilyn Monroe"

  • fuck texas

  • FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE HATING ON RANDY, FUCK OFF. HE WAS BETTER THAN EVERY GUITARIST OF TODAY AND HE WAS ONLY IN HIS EARLY TWENTIES.

  • @AWESOMENESS1314 I FUCKEN AGREE.

  • @AWESOMENESS1314 don't know he was better than EVERY guitarist today...

  • @sixsixxsixxxx ehm eddie van halen??? he was way before rhoads

  • @casualguitarplayer no, not really.....

  • @AWESOMENESS1314

    Don't forget even the night of his death he was still taking guitar lessions

    so it begs the question how much better could he of gotten?

  • @AWESOMENESS1314 Damn rite

  • Wonder were Ozzy was.....probably passed out drunk waiting for the road crew to score some blow. What a lucky fucker, to always be surrounded by good/great musicians that make you look better than what you are. If RR was alive today, he'd be getting sued by Ozzy, and all hisguitar parts would have been overdubbed by someone else.

  • @drewchasia Say what you want about OO but the dude has a heart of gold. Sharon is the bitch in the family.

  • He wouldn't last 10 seconds in a hockey practice.

  • @swassontelus fuck you

  • @swassontelus go to hell! like to see you do have of what rhoads could do.

  • @jacoblroark Buddy! Relax. My comment was meant as a joke.  Obviously he has supreme talent. There is a real need for a sarcasm font on YouTube. However, that being said, have you ever dropped any puppies down a well? If you do, I will find you!!!!!! You metal heads are weak in the head. I know this because I am a metal head and to catch metal head weaklings like you, I have to know it, play it, breath it, eat it and live it, in order to rid of weakhead. Just kidding ya minnow. Peace.

  • thank god Randy dosent use a ton of arpeggggiiiooss !so sick of hearing them..randy was a true guitarist orginal!

  • @michaelpeacestewart ya sweep pick sounds weird . i have only heard it a few times sound good

  • @michaelpeacestewart he was playing dimished arpeggios throughout that whole video

  • Andrew Aycock killed him. Everyone would b out 2 kill him 2 if he weren't dead.

  • Love Randy.. Y is it Randys dead and ozzy lives? It's just not fair.

  • RR> BUCKETHEAD -RR=JASON BECKER

  • geeeez to be that guy standing there at 1:43

  • @madonnabros haha and he's like "yeah yeah i see this every day"

  • VIRTUOSO!!!!!!!!! \m/

  • I SEEN RANDY IN BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA 2 WEEKS BEFORE HIS UNTIMELY DEATH HIS MEMORY WILL LAST FOREVER

  • its amazing the way he played so easily

    A fan from Brazil.

  • At the very end, where Ozzy is sitting there. Does anyone know if that shitty car in the background was Randy's car? He had an old blue VW Scirocco that looked liked that one.

  • virtuoso indeed

  • Love to know what he would be like in modern times. Probably would of eventually been a classical virtuoso. R.I.P. Randy

  • This is great. There just wasn't enough film footage taken of him before he died. So, it's nice to see anything out there that's available. Thanks axemanmr

  • My favourits guitars

    Randy and VAi

  • Agreed ahead of his time. One can only hope they can keep up where he is now...

  • i like the white marshall cabs

  • happy birthday randy hapy birthday i never forget you

  • HAPPY BIRTHDAY RANDY!

  • im late but happy birthday randy i love u man!

  • Gone but not forgotten...Happy Birthday Randy

  • Happy Birthday Randy.

  • man that bend at 1:57 is orgasmic

  • I Think HEAVEN Is Rockin With Randy,DIO,Cliff Burton,Cozy Powell..

  • kinda eerie 

  • 'RIP Randy

  • I WANT PRO FOOTAGE!!!!

  • If I had one wish for anything Id wish for a time machine to go back to 1982 and tell Randy not to get on that plane. I was born 7 years after his death but I still know Randy Rhoads and the art he gave us. Such a caring young man who always had a smile on his face. R.I.P Randy God Bless You

  • if we have pro footage of a soundcheck.. why no concert?

  • Does anyone find this video quite... eerie? the face in one month on this video he dies. Its hard to think about it... one month really isnt that long.

  • @Deathstouch666 On your note, I wish Eddie Van Halen would leave the planet. Amazing guitarist, yes. And he used to inspire me from his 'seemingly' humble personna. But drug fiends who escape their past with pasifiers that the drug provides, simply aren't accepted in the evolution of the human species. Fuck 'em all. Weak sensitive artsie fucks. More food for me....and froggies.

  • I was too young to go to this show, but I had lots of older friends who were there. Loudest show in beaumont EVER.

  • Nice shorts guitar tech dude....lol......

  • He was so skinny.

  • This Footage was AMAZING QUALITY the way it just sorta Poped up on E-Bay almost 25 years after Randy had passed away.Wish the Rest of it would surface.If you look the Whole 10min version of this clip is Online & has Randys name spelled wrong!The guy who was selling this had appearently other Rare stuff from different artists on the "Rare Compilation" this was from.I hope the show exsists after w/Ozzys interview that cuts off

  • 26 people dont know guitar brilliance when they hear it.

  • One month and a day before he died.

  • Great Guitarist - Shit Pilot

  • @Harrysound You're a CUNT.

  • @Harrysound You're an idiot, he wasn't flying.

  • @Harrysound stupid runs in your family

  • @Harrysound Youre right,. the pilot was shit. but it wasnt randy dumb fuck. Hes also the same guy who crashed Metallica and killed Cliff

  • A moment frozen in time.

  • at 1:45 WTF are you thinkin?!?!?!

    at least look at him play

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  • When music was music

  • @vinmusicman123 you're old

  • this is amazing footage.randy was a true inspiration to me .

  • way cooler than zakk wylde

  • No one looked better than Eddie Van Halen holding a guitar ,exept Randy Rhoads.

  • @halcon7000 dont forget slash

    and jimmy page

    and kurt cobain

    and kirk hammett

    and jimi hendrix

    and zakk wylde

    and dimebag darrel

    the list goes on......

  • @MeanGreenMovies Nah;none of the above looked better than Eddie holding a guitar especially Cobain and Hammett .

  • @halcon7000 the only one :Randy Rhoads

  • @halcon7000 Randy is the ONLY guitar school grad that has come up with any cool riffs and songs.The rest like Vai,Satriani and Gilbert cant write a cool riff or song to save their mothers` life.I prefer the self-taught guitarists,they may not be technically as great but the creativity is waaay more evident.Randy was a champ ,he had the chops and the creativity. R.I.P. Randy Rhoads.RockRoyalty.

  • @PAULOcbi i personally cant stand vai satriani or gilbert at all but rhoads is a god

  • @wolfeman85 perfectly understood.You can have all the technical prowess in the world but if you cant write cool riffs and songs ur fawked.

  • @wolfeman85 well your an itiot. satch is easily a better guitarist than rhoads.

  • @crazylocoguitar dude get your fucken ears and eyes open. Randy Rhoads has WAY more fluency in his playing. You can see it and hear it. Satriani is really fucken good too of course. But too technical, all those years he was in university just made his a typewriter guitar player. If there was a guitar Battle between Rhoads and Satriani, Satriana would go home and play to a chart. Randy Rhoads had a far more vast outlook on guitar than Satriani did. RHOADS BEATS ANY GUITARIST. RIP

  • @JakeRipperguitar19 well i think your just a complete itiot. everything you just said is reverse. I like rhoads more, but at least im not a pathetic fanboy who tells people that so and so is better than so and so. Hmmmmm satriani has a far more vast outlook on guitar than rhoads ever did dolt. There is so much more feeling and satchs playing as well. Technicality is fine if you make your guitar sound beautiful. only metal guitarists able to do that are vai satch and friedman.

  • @crazylocoguitar itiot? Look who's talking!

  • @7188181 what the fuck are you talking about?

  • @crazylocoguitar Wow, you're a real moron. Did you even finish third grade?

  • @wolfeman85 i think you miss the boat on your comment. Randy was influenced by the greats before him, and it shows in his playing. No different than Satch or Vai or Gilbert. One is not better than the other, that is subjective. They all play from what has influenced them, they influenced each other, they influence us. Bottom line , they are all great.

  • @PAULOcbi Its quite obvious you know nothing about playing guitar, or any other type of instrument. Everyone is self taught, all a guitar teacher does is show them the basics and any player who is any good sits down with the instrument on their own and teaches themselves afterwords, just like all of your "self taught" guitarists. Musical theory merely explains what people are doing when they are playing music, it is not how you are supposed to play music but the science behind it.

  • @IvanMoshkov I been teaching guitar for 12 years and your trying to tell me there is no difference between the guitarist who takes 1-2 lessons and says 'o.k. I got it from here' and the guitarist who attends guitar school evryday for 4 years straight?? YOU are the one knows nothing bout guitar.Theres a big difference between the cat that learns Phrygian Dom. on his own and the kid being taught,'this is PhrygianDom. And heres a lick to practice to get familiar with the mode'.. A BIG difference.

  • @PAULOcbi The only difference between self taught and schooled players is that the latter has a vocabulary.

  • this was a month and one day befor one of the best guitarist ever died!!!!!!!

  • @21zband Sad and scary .

  • its randy himself. COOL!!!

  • ive yet to figure out how such a skinny mofo handled a les paul custom so fuckin easily i mean its almost as big as him and yet he carries it like its nothin

  • Even in warm-ups, he is better than most.

  • a true guitar innovator,style, technique,unmatched talent,r.i.p.

  • I love his Les Paul custom, Its that alpine white finish but its got an aged yellow vintage taste to it. I love it. RIP Randy

  • justo un mes antes d su muerte...fuck!!!

  • holy crap randy and i were alive in the same town for a brief moment in time

  • I like how at 1:45 the dude is just standing there like he's waiting to be called at the DMV while Randy is just shredding a