Ultimate Rhoads

So the tunes are growing on me a bit, Joe plays some killer scalar solo's...Not much melody, but great technique...Good guitar tone as well...

So I bought the new album by Joe...really for a couple of reasons, the video excerpts here, plus I listened to his interview with Eddie Trunk, seems like a real nice guy, I also saw him live with Ozzy.. Farmikos sounds like a modernized Alice n Chains, there are some ripping diminished licks, but ot...

Great Pic! RR's music never get's old and always inspires me to pick up my Axe...Thank you RR, gone but never forgotten!

I plan on attending the 35 anniversary...I was actually born right across the street at at St. Bernadine's and have been to the crypt many times!

Only a reunion, he was done with the OZ and their antics, including having to ask to get paid at one point. Some anniversary shows, perhaps..But he would have kept making music, I definitely believe he would have returned to the teaching arena, he really loved that and learned a bunch and wanted to ...

I think we all realized that the individual claiming he took the shots, came clean and was only 8 years old at the time...Poor taste to post that if you ask me..However, these pics are really cool, my favorite is the solo spotlight pic...stage is all black, spot light on RR with PDV...Very cool!

So if it was the wrong tune for him, why did he bother? well I obviously can't answer that but I guess if some one asked him to do an ozzy song he thought "yeah cool". He wouldn't be the first singer who has done a song they shouldn't have....my point was before implying the guy can't sin...

There's an article in the new guitar world that I read last weekend, small excerpts from Lynch, Morello, Laiho and Doug Aldrich who all talk about the songs they did and how Bob Kulick came up with the idea..In there, Kulick says that Zakk Wylde and I quote directly from the magazine "who alway...

Vocal on Crowley are, and I'm being kind, HORRIBLE..Not sure who told this guy he could sing, but he needs to go back to the car wash! um "go back to the car wash" really?? ... never heard testament then??. Chuck can sing dude, just this is totally the wrong type of music for him So if it...

By the way, Alexi does a pretty bitchin job on Crowley. Probably the high light of the album. I did enjoy his playing. He has some chops for sure. Agree, good guitar work, but his sound is so compressed, tonality is very mechanical...Vocal on Crowley are, and I'm being kind, HORRIBLE..Not sure who ...

His new band Farmikos is pretty interesting....His interpretation and use of the diminished runs on this new CD are pretty cool..Good tonality as well..

EVH has turned his life around, a lot of the things he does we typically never hear about, Donations of guitars/amps to schools, musicians, charity work. ..So I guess if you believe in AA...Yes, he will always be an Alcoholic...but that appears to be in the rear view mirror and EVH's historical cont...

I've read the small quote that tito was referring to....Nothing else other than hearsay of when they actually met...I think Randy asked EVH about how his guitar stayed in tune with using the tremolo bar (Ed famously oiled the nut)...Nonetheless...I know there is respect there

Where is that quote from Sobolewsk? Very intriguing, I have no doubt that RR was on EVH radar, let's face it, your trying to get a record deal, and they didn't sign bands based on their lead singers antiques, you were aware of the local competition.. While EVH must be and rightly so given credit for...

Sum of the parts...EVH, DLR...EVH, SH...good teams....Rhoads, Daisley, OZ, magic for that period.....Chemistry cannot be underestimated..I mean look at Chickenfoot....All star line up...songs, a couple of them make my "average" evaluation...other than that...I'll pass...