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Randy Rhoads Biography

Randy Rhoads is one of the most popular and richest Guitarist who was born on December 6, 1956 in Santa Monica, California, United States. He was a heavy metal guitarist who played with Heavy metal guitarist who performed with Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot and who was a major influence on neo-classical metal., Quiet Riot, and who had a significant influence on neoclassical metal.

Quiet Riot was co-founded by Rhoads, Rhoads and Kevin DuBrow co-founded Quiet Riot..

Rhoads was born in Santa Monica, California. The youngest of three children, he had a brother named Doug and a sister named Kathy. Doug, who performed under the name “Kelle”, is also a musician. Their parents, Delores and William, were both music teachers. In 1958, father William left the family when Randy was 1 year and 5 months old and remarried, and all three children were subsequently raised by Delores, who also opened a music school in North Hollywood called Musonia to support the family. Delores had received a bachelor’s degree in music from UCLA and had played piano professionally.

As a tribute to Rhoads, Marshall Amplification released the 1959RR at NAMM 2008. The amp is a limited-edition all-white Marshall Super Lead 100-watt head modeled after Rhoads’ own Super Lead amp. Marshall engineers looked extensively at Rhoads’ actual amplifier and made the 1959RR to those exact specifications, down to the special high-gain modification Rhoads requested when he visited the Marshall factory in 1980.

His mother is Delores Rhoads.

Name	Randy Rhoads
First Name	Randy
Last Name	Rhoads
Occupation	Guitarist
Birthday	December 6
Birth Year	1956
Place of Birth	Santa Monica
Home Town	California
Birth Country	United States
Birth Sign	Sagittarius
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Ethnicity, religion & political views

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Rhoads met future bandmate Kelly Garni while attending John Muir Middle School and the two became best friends. According to Garni, the pair were unpopular due to “the way we looked”. “Every time we showed up for school it was usually problematic so we pretty much avoided it. We weren’t nerds, we weren’t jocks, we weren’t dopers, we were just on our own”. Rhoads taught Garni how to play bass guitar, and together they formed a band called The Whore, rehearsing during the day at Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco, a 1970s Hollywood nightspot. It was during this period that Rhoads learned to play lead guitar. “When I met him he didn’t know how to play lead guitar yet at all. He was just starting to take lessons for it and really just riffing around”, said Garni. With this band, Rhoads spent several months playing at backyard parties around the Los Angeles area in the mid-1970s. The pair formed a cover band called Violet Fox (after his mother’s middle name, Violet), with his older brother Kelle on drums. Violet Fox, who were together for approximately five months, staged several performances in the Grand Salon at Musonia. Among their setlist was “Mississippi Queen” by Mountain, and songs from the Rolling Stones, Alice Cooper and David Bowie. After Violet Fox dissolved, Rhoads formed various other short-lived bands such as The Katzenjammer Kids and Mildred Pierce. The Katzenjammer Kids featured a male lead vocalist who wore dresses on stage, a situation that typically did not go over well and at times led to violent reactions from the audience.

Randy Rhoads Net Worth

Randy Rhoads is one of the richest Guitarist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Randy Rhoads's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He taught his friend how to play the bass, and then formed The Whore. He earned his B.A. He studied music at UCLA.

He was the original guitarist of the He was the original guitarist in the Ozzy Osbourne band, but Jake E. Lee replaced him. group, but Jake E. Lee took his place.

Randall William Rhoads (December 6, 1956 – March 19, 1982) was an American heavy metal guitarist who played with Quiet Riot and Ozzy Osbourne. A devoted student of classical guitar, Rhoads combined his classical music influences with his own heavy metal style. He died in a plane accident while on tour with Osbourne in Florida in 1982. Despite his short career, Rhoads, who was a major influence on neoclassical metal, is cited as an influence by many guitarists. Rhoads is included in several “Greatest Guitarist” lists.

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According to Garni, he and Rhoads frequently listened to Long Beach radio station KNAC because it was “the only radio station that would play anything of interest to us”, and it was through KNAC that Rhoads discovered much of the music that influenced his playing. The home of a neighbourhood friend with a high quality stereo and large record collection became a regular hangout for the pair, and there they smoked pot and listened to more obscure (at that time) hard rock music such as early Scorpions records. Live bootleg recordings were very popular at that time, and Rhoads began to take note of the differences between studio recordings and the live versions, particularly the different licks guitarists incorporated when playing live. He began to memorize these licks and taught himself to play them later when he returned home. Rhoads’ brother states that a July 11, 1971 Alice Cooper concert at the Long Beach Auditorium that the pair attended was a defining point in the guitarist’s life. After the concert was over Kelle said “Randy was mesmerized. He was catatonic just staring at the stage. Later that night Randy said “I can do this. I can look like this. I can be this. Something clicked that night and I think that kind of showed him what he could do with his talent.” Garni concurs, calling Rhoads’ discovery of Alice Cooper “a game changer”. Glen Buxton of Alice Cooper and Mick Ronson were two early rock influences on his playing.

Quiet Riot quickly became one of the most popular acts on the Los Angeles club circuit, and by late 1976 were signed to CBS/Sony Records. Rhoads’ “polka-dot theme” became the visual focal point of the band, as many fans began showing up at Quiet Riot shows wearing polka-dot bow-ties and vests, emulating what the guitarist wore on stage.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Aldridge, who Rhoads had regarded as his favorite drummer since seeing him perform on television with Black Oak Arkansas in the 1970s, has said that working with a musician as talented as Rhoads “was inspirational. It was life-changing”. From a musical standpoint, he has said that playing with Rhoads was the high point of his career, stating “It was very exciting. From a musical perspective, it was probably the high-water mark of my career. Working with people like Randy Rhoads, guys like that, they kind of grab you by the scruff of your neck and lift you up to their level.”

Upon returning to England, Osbourne was introduced to ex-Rainbow bassist Bob Daisley by a Jet Records employee named Arthur Sharpe in a pub, and the pair hit it off and decided to work together. Unhappy with the guitarist they were initially working with, Osbourne mentioned to Daisley that he had recently met a talented young guitarist in Los Angeles by the name of Randy Rhoads. The new group’s management intended to keep the lineup all-British and was reluctant to hire an unknown American guitarist, but manager Don Arden eventually relented. Rhoads flew to England only to return home a couple of days later, being turned away by English customs at Heathrow Airport when he didn’t have the necessary work permit. A representative from Jet Records was dispatched to clear the matter up but he never arrived, and Rhoads spent the night in a holding cell before being handcuffed and put on a plane back to the United States the next day. Osbourne subsequently called him to apologize, and arrangements were made for Rhoads to return to England with the proper paperwork. Rhoads flew to England on November 27, 1979, and met with Osbourne and Daisley at the Jet Records’ offices in London. The trio traveled by train to Osbourne’s home, Bulrush Cottage, which also housed a rehearsal space. It was here that Rhoads lived with Osbourne, his then-wife Thelma, and their two children, during his first weeks in England. Years later, Osbourne said in his autobiography that he could not understand why a musician as talented as Rhoads would want to get involved with a “bloated alcoholic wreck” like himself.

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Shortly before leaving Quiet Riot in 1979, Rhoads presented hand-drawn pictures of a polka-dot Flying V-style guitar to Karl Sandoval, a California luthier. The guitar Sandoval built for Rhoads became one of the guitarist’s trademark instruments.

Top Facts about Randy Rhoads

1. Randy Rhoads was born on December 6, 1956 in California.
2. He played guitar for Ozzy Osbourne from 1979-1982.
3. Rhoads’ signature playing style blended classical and heavy metal.
4. His most famous guitar solo is on “Crazy Train.”
5. Rhoads died tragically in a plane crash at age 25.
6. He influenced many notable guitarists, including Zakk Wylde and Tom Morello.
7. Rhoads was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
8. He only released two studio albums with Ozzy Osbourne.
9. Rhoads’ family established the Musonia School of Music in his honor.
10. His legacy continues to inspire new generations of musicians today.

Facts & Trivia

Randy Ranked on the list of most popular Guitarist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Randy Rhoads celebrates birthday on December 6 of every year.

In 1979, ex-Black Sabbath vocalist Ozzy Osbourne was in Los Angeles, attempting to form a new band. An acquaintance of Rhoads’ from the LA club circuit, future Slaughter bassist Dana Strum, phoned Rhoads relentlessly to coax him into auditioning. Rhoads initially told Quiet Riot bandmate Rudy Sarzo that he was not really interested in auditioning, but finally agreed to go simply to get Strum off his back. Rhoads got the call for the audition just before his final show with Quiet Riot in September 1979. The day before Osbourne was scheduled to return to England, Rhoads agreed to audition for Osbourne at a Los Angeles studio with his Gibson Les Paul guitar and a practice amp and started warming up. Osbourne, who was very inebriated on that day, said of the audition “He played this fucking solo and I’m like, am I that fucking stoned or am I hallucinating or what the fuck is this?!” Osbourne has maintained that he immediately gave him the job. Rhoads recalled later, “I just tuned up and did some riffs, and he said, ‘You’ve got the gig’; I had the weirdest feeling, because I thought, ‘You didn’t even hear me yet’ “. After the audition, Rhoads returned to Musonia and told Sarzo that he had never actually met Osbourne, who was drunk and remained in the studio’s control room the entire time. According to Rhoads’ own account, it was Strum who emerged from the control room to inform him that he had the job. Rhoads was, however, scheduled to meet Osbourne the following night in his hotel room. In the years following, Osbourne has maintained that his first encounter with Rhoads and the subsequent audition took place the following day at the hotel, and it seems that, in his inebriated state, he combined the two events in his mind. The fact that Osbourne immediately began rehearsals with another guitarist upon returning to England, and did not mention Rhoads until after that guitarist had been fired, seems to confirm that his account of events is inaccurate.

Did Sharon sleep with Randy Rhoads?

Sharon admits to having sex with Rhoads Around the same time, to promote her book, Sharon went on the ‘Howard Stern Show’ and revealed that she had indeed slept with Rhoads but Ozzy and she were not in a serious relationship at the time she had the affair.

Who died in the plane crash with Randy Rhoads?

On March 19th, 1982, a joyride went horribly wrong, and the music world lost one of the most explosive players to ever pick up a guitar, Randy Rhoads. A small prop plane carrying Rhoads, Rachel Youngblood and pilot Andrew Aycock crashed in the morning hours at in Leesburg, FL, killing all three on impact.

Is Randy Rhoads the best guitarist ever?

Randy Rhoads: #36 of Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All-time | Ozzy osbourne, Guitarist, Best guitarist.

What was Randy Rhoads last words?

18. Randy’s last conversation with Ozzy was telling him to quit drinking so much. His final words to Oz were, “You’ll kill yourself, you know? One of these days.”

When was the last time Ozzy Osbourne cheated on his wife?

The Osbournes reconciled their three-decade long marriage in September 2016 after splitting that May amid reports that he had an affair with his hairstylist, Michelle Pugh.

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