Randy Rhoads: Never Duplicated

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The anniversary of Randy Rhoads death is coming up. He was a mere 26 years old when he died and only played professionally for a few years. In that short time he influenced numerous guitar players and spawned the Neo-classical movement. He set the standard for metal and guitar mastery with his work and was playing better at age 17 than most people play in their lives. Since his death it has been debated how good the man really was, but now there is no doubt as a raw double track of him playing "Crazy Train" has been found and released. It is the sickest display of skill I've ever heard. The song is played in full without effects, without drums or click track, he plays the thing twice so the tracks can be panned side by side and does so perfectly in time. Even if you don't like metal you have to appreciate the skill involved with this. The song is iconic and its clear after you listen to this that it is Randy's playing that makes that song, not the effects, not Ozzy, its all Randy. He could have played the song like it is in the link and been good. Its nnder that Ozzy described hearing Randy play for the first time as "God entering my life".

Randy Rhoads Isolated Track