Randy Rhoads: Reflections of a Guitar Icon (2022) - Official Clip 5 | VMI Worldwide

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Read that Randy said he did a lot of VH licks as well so VH was an influence but just hearing them, RR was more masterful, imo. Therefore the better player.

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Randy was/is my fave and I thought blew EVH away. So much more depth and musicianship. That being said they were very different. I heard someone say EVH was like the mad scientist and Randy was the genius professor when it came to guitar. Thought that was a good analogy

You need soul to play blues and rock is similar can't say I have a favourite but these souls along with Gary Moore were excellent.

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When I heard Rhoads do the tapping stuff those few times he masterfully and orchestrativly put them in the song , I never ever thought of evh , just like when you hear evh do the tapping you never think about steve hackett or mandel

Ed knew he had something and didn't want anyone to take away his limelight. I sense there was a little bit of threat or jealousy. After Quiet Riot, Randy's talent and approach transcended very quickly. He was a growing guitarist who only made 2 albums. Randy held his own and didn't sound anything like EVH. There probably would have been a 3rd album before Randy leaving Ozzy to further his musical education. Diary of a Madman was Randy's opus and could have been backed by a full blown orchestra. EVH was truly gifted and the guitar world lost one of the best.

Try playing a dist+ pedal through the dirty channel (high gain) of a marshall 1959 see if you can control that its like fighting a dragon. The feedback if you let your hand of the guitar would kill people LOL. Somehow Randy controlled it To this day I've tried and cant. His sound was like his amps where breathing fire.

classical lol whatever.. randys full of shit.. uli roth was doing classical stuff way before him.. and randy DID always go see vh play that fatso has no clue..😅🤣 eruptiion spanish fly all have classical influneces in them.. ed was raised as a classical pianist. give me a break. a lot easier to copy a roads lick than an eddie tune /lick

EVH sounds petty.

being a fan of both my whole life I was SO disappointed to hear what Eddie said about him after he died! :(

Randy Rhoads NEVER said he learned anything from EVH. Randy probably disliked EVH because EVH was so insecure and envious/jealous of Randy's playing, which made him come off as arrogant. And you can hear it in his smarmy voice.

Van halen used the same licks on every song, not Randy- every Ozzy song was totaly new, Rhoads was better

Randy was better, more range and scope on the sound he produced.

To me they are both masters in their own rights. Eddie was a master at adding strange techniques to the guitar. The way he pushed the limits of the guitar. His sound was so growly. It had a really nice feel to it. He created some of the greatest solos that the guitar has ever seen.

Randy on the other hand was a master at composing. His style was very classical x blues based whilst Eddie was more rock. Randy's tone was roaring. It was intimidating. Randy helped create foundations for Neoclassical. His style was unmatched.

Randy and Eddie are one of the greatest guitarists of all time.

Jason Becker is still my favorite shredder though.

Both were great! As Randy Rhoads gave guitar lessons and many of his students wanted to learn to play like Eddie, so he had to learn VH's songs and style himself, including tapping. Eddie was innovative, but even he learned how to play from Clapton and Page, and he himself was influenced by Allan Holdsworth's playing.

Where is it written or recorded that RR said everything he did he learned from EVH? I've read RR saying he does some of the things Ed does during his solo that kills him. He was talking about the "flash" aspect that the kids demand. It had nothing to do with "learning from Ed".

Honestly there is no debate, Ed is the master

I think it's fair to say EVH was the earlier guitar shredder of the two as far as everything else that followed. As others have said, Eddie's style was more loose and fun. He played with more legato too I think, whereas Randy's style was more staccato. Randy also aped the finger tapping a bit as every other guitarist did for a minute back then. But what I love about Randy's playing were the harmonics and feedback in-between the measures and phrases; it's almost as good the shredding. His playing and songwriting really skyrocketed after he joined Ozzy too. He was a great guitarist when he was in Quiet Riot, but their tunes sound dated and were never really that good IMO.

Randy was a cleaner more technical guitarist Eddie.

EVH was a CREEP!!!!

Well people were tapping long before EVH, he just made it popular …R.R. Forever

Ed was just young and a little arrogant in this interview.

EVH is so full fo BS . The kid ? Randy Rhoads was a year younger than EVH hahaha .They were from the same Era basically .

Randy Rhoads was a Classisally Trained / Studied Music Theory Mastermind . He used Concerto Notes , Chords , and Phrases in his solos and Riffs . EVH didn't do either . Randy played nothing like EVH whatsoever . Randy had epic mapped out Solos filled with suspense horror . EVH was more of a Wow factor Freestyle random soloist or harmonic tapper that lacked emotion . Randy used Rapid Fire Pentatonic Blues Triplets in his solos , and more Trilling Tapping . Randy used Minor Tripplets down the fret board when changing his octaves . EVH was more a dive bomber with the Floyd Rose . Randy was more of a Hard Tail Guitarist warping the neck to get dive bombs . Randy was more dark in his compositions and used weird timing signatures in his music . These two were very different in sound , Speed , and playing approach . EVH was an Egomaniac , Randy wasn't .

With absolutely no hesitation Randy Rhoads over Eddie Van Halen RR did with his classical training & techniques what Eddie had to outsource

The idea that Randy never went to a single VH show during their meteoric rise in SoCal is laughable. Just say, "Randy did not consider Eddie a significant influence." Making ludicrously extreme assertions only hurts the speaker's credibility.

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They both saw each other play, as is covered in various interviews. I'm a fan of both...but while Randy stands tall among players like Michael Schenker, Gary Moore and Ritchie Blackmore...EVH was more than just a guitar player. He was an inventor. He pretty much invented the super-strat, popularized hot-rodded (Variac) amps to get that gold-standard tone, which--honestly--no one else really came close to. While he obviously didn't invent 'tapping', his take on it was something unique...as were the volume-swell approaches to Cathedral, tapped harmonics and slap stuff ('Mean Street'). While I'm more of a Van Halen guy, and the impact every single thing he created had on changing guitar...I think we're lucky to have lived during a time when two titanic players really expanded what was possible on six strings.

From the what guitars they played to how they played and even down to how they dressed showed the true division of the two players. EVH was more mad scientist like Doc Brown from Back to the Future while RR was more your stereotypical college professor.

I liked both. RIP Randy Rhoads. RIP Eddie Van Halen.

I love Randy Rhoads he’s my favorite guitarist of all time. Don’t get me wrong Eddie is great but for me Randy with the classical influence on his playing just did it for me. The first time I heard Randy play on Blizzard of Oz I was hooked. I always played guitar here and there but when I heard Randy is when I really started playing. I was 15 yrs old I’m 56 now and still play every day. RR forever!🖤🙏

Randy Rhoads is my favorite guitarist of all time!There are many Greats but he has my heart as well!We Love and Miss you

I was always a die hard VH fan ever since finding their first two albums in my older brother's record collection. I didn't get into Randy until after he died. Sure I heard Crazy Train on the radio and liked it. But I didn't like it enough to buy the album. I liked the riff and solo, but Randy's tone kind of sucked. Sounded too nasal. But I did buy the Tribute album and liked the live playing. I was more of a fan of the weird sounds from guitars so I preferred Eddie over anyone else. Until I heard Brad Gillis doing his whammy bar tricks. Ed was still No. 1 though. When Yngwie came on the scene, the speed was something new. But I got bored with him after his third album. It just all sounded the same. To me, nobody was better than Eddie. Until I heard White Lion on the radio in 87-88. Vito Bratta just blew me away. It was like when I first heard Eruption. Vito gets labeled a VH clone because of the tapping. But hell, everyone was doing that after Eddie brought it into the spotlight. They just single out Vito because he did it best. But Vito also had great riffs, hooks, rhythm, melodic playing and phenomenal solos. And his tone on the solo for "Little Fighter" just sounds as smooth as glass.

Eddie Van Halen wasn't anything special. Randy was way better and always will be..

The documentary could have been a lot better, I see why the family did not support it. They used old interviews , why not arrange current ones, instead of licesning stuff other people did. This is not really a documentary and the fact they did not focus on the relationship he had with his mom, and then again how much Bob Daisley meant to him and his career.

He shoud have worked with fans on this including a Rhoads Scholar like myself .

Unpopular opinion- he was not as musical as Michael Schenker. Schenker was better.

If you listen to early demos from ED ,RANDY ,it appears I.M.O. that ED had first delivered the unrestrained technique back in early 74 ,75 ,where RANDY in 74 ,75 ,sounded like MICK RALPHS on steroids, where ED was way ahead of everybody ,RRANDYS well known style came to life in 79 ,80 ,ED WAS ALREADY KILLING IT 6 YRS PRIOR ,LOVE ED ,RANDY ,MISS BOTH ,

Saying Randy never went to see VH is an absolute f'n lie, stop it.

Evh sounds like a douchebag . Yeah I’m sure RR learned his complex classical chord progressions or the acoustic finger style of Dee from you Eddie. That’s real similar to your songs which were mostly built on riffs

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Randy never used a single damn thing from Eddie. His style was entirely his own, classical based. Eddie was a trick master, Randy was a composition and melody master. Eddie’s solos never had the sort of direction or fluidity that randy’s did.

not a big fan of Van Halen like Jump that's it so for me Randy Rhoads all the way but hey they both had a crazy style

I personally never heard Randy Rhoads and thought "this reminds me of Eddie Van Halen". Like not once. Randy had classical influence and was much more dramatic and serious, rather than how Eddie's style was more fun.

Well, so much for Guitar World.

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I'm a huge Randy fan but there's no way he was ever on Eddies level , NOBODY WAS . Eddie was a mere 21 years old when Van Halen was released , Randy was around 25 years old when he recorded with Ozzy and there's nothing on those two albums that is mind blowing . I love Randy solos, about half of them but it's just the same repeated classical scales over and over again . There is no comparing these two , Eddie was always the one that was given by far the most praise by his peers and by guitar publications around the world it was him and then everybody else.

Eddie completely turned the guitar world upside down and inside out when Van Halen 1 was dropped , even the great George lynch said when he heard Eddie he said there is no possible way that's real , nobody is capable of playing like that . He was wrong .

There are lots of Randy fans but there are 10 X as many Eddie fans and it's not Eddie's tapping that makes him so awesome, a huge part of what makes him so great is his impeccable and flawless rhythm prowess and his quirkiness , nobody and I mean nobody even to this very day comes even remotely close to how incredible he was flowing between rhythm and lead . There will never be another like him , he was always on a much higher level than everybody else. It's why even todays guitar greats call him "The King"

You want melodic , check out the solo in 'Push comes to shove' 'You really got me' ' Little Dreamer ' 'Atomic punk' Hang em high' 'Secrets' 'Dirty Movies' 'The Cradle will rock' 'Dancing in the street' 'Mean street' just to name a few. You can't get more melodic than that .


"It's completely tragic that we have lost him , he was not just an innovator and stylish player with great taste , he was also a laid back virtuoso showman who just blew us all away every time . Every shredder today has lost their master teacher and guide. He shared so many tricks online and on TV shows. Immense talent , the great American Guitar player , I was hoping he might be President someday"


Pete Townsend on Edward Van Halens death.

I got that EVH phone clip years ago. I have the whole audio.