Ultimate Rhoads

Whats peculiar is the whole classical guitar obsession with RR. If you read classical guitar sites today, its really much more depressing than the rock scene which is pretty bad too. Famous classical guitarists drawing no more than 60 people kind of stuff. The tenured guys in universities can't draw...

The guitar hero of 2015 had better crank out riffs the calibre that exist in 'Enter Sandman' and 'Iron Man'...the ones that get banned at Guitar Center...every couple of months to get any record label even remotely interested in your abilities. Many of these game changer riffs could be played by a b...

I don't think guitar hero is even possible today. Dave Grohl's guitar band 'Foo Fighters' is about all that can work. A bunch of guitarists to replace the hero. The public doesn't give a damn about shredding. Its actually a big negative now. Indulgence and all that. Take the fucking tremolo unit (pr...

You don't just find distinctive singers like Robert Plant, David Lee Roth, Bono, Ozzy, Henley, Cobain, Stevie Nicks...etc through auditions. Do you really believe that there aren't guitarists with the same skill set and drive as Randy Rhoads, Ed Van Halen, and Jimmy Page? Now somebody could say Davi...

Ed's back on the shit again: "Wait till you hear his [sonny boy Wolfgang] record. It just started, [it'll be released] probably end of the year. This is not pop talkin', this is real talk: It blew my mind." Anyone wanna bet that Diamond Dave is on Wolfgangs "solo" album? Ed is so...

It looks like the band Chickenfoot is calling it quits after a couple of albums. I think their music is really mediocre. The guy who runs the Van Halen news site says VH's recent album 'A Different Kind of Truth' is the best rock album in the past 20 years. I also find that music to be really medioc...

Hagar only sold Van Halen due to curiosity. Same as Glen Frey's solo career. Ed actually did try to just plug in singers as he saw fit and do everything himself. The result was disaster. Nobody is going to buy "songs" like 'Eruption'. When George Harrison ran through his backlog of beatles...

I've changed my mind about van Halen. Its pretty obvious that David Lee Roth is the mastermind of van Halen. van Halen sells because of David Lee Roth and no-one else. Getting back to Randy Rhoads...I think its pretty much the same old story....people went to see ozzy, not randy. Its the guitarists ...

He pretty much raised the white flag and surrendered when he chose to go to university. My point is that Rhoads didn't believe he could be successful being the owner of his own band because the singer makes it work, not the guitarist. He's not alone. Example: Jimmy Page. He's supposed to be the crea...