I Can't let Shaun have all the fun...

wareagle · Post by **wareagle** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:45 pm

awsome! GIMME MORE!!!! lol

NicDots · Post by **NicDots** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:56 am

Milwaukee 1982

Sarab · Post by **Sarab** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:30 am

I'll have to ask the president of The O.F.C. if he knows that person with the Rudy book or if he's seen any of the pictures before.
Great find, Nic!

Silver Rhoads · Post by **Silver Rhoads** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 3:19 am

Holy crap, this is a MIND BLOWING thread! I have never seen that photo of Randy offstage, looking at the camera upclose! The girl in the photo is named Debbie. I contacted the person from the MySpace page and I let you guys know what they say. They obviously met them and went on the bus. Debbie is pretty cute too. I can color correct those old Blizzard shots to get rid of the red color cast and try to bring them back to their natural state. I'd be happy to post them again if you guys would like to see them cleaned up. Oh wowwww.

wareagle · Post by **wareagle** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 3:32 am

yeh that would be awsome... im prety sure my reaction would be...Oh Woooooooww lol. i woulda loved to meet randy. not only the musical genius i know of but sounds like a fun guy.

NicDots · Post by **NicDots** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 4:32 am

Thanks to Shaun for pointing these out!

Silver Rhoads · Post by **Silver Rhoads** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 5:46 am

Got rid of the green cast in this photo:

Cleaned this one up just a little:

I wish I had the originals to get a higher resolution scan. I believe this looks closer to what the original once looked like, getting rid of the red color cast from aging. Linda asked that she receive proper credit for her photos. Photos below by Linda Chadwick.

Tommy on the tour bus, talking on the phone:

All the Blizzard tour shots:

Linda Chadwick, the owner of these photos, told me her story about meeting Randy and I am posting here for you guys. Enjoy!

Linda's story:

What happened backstage with Randy and Rudy that day were so funny at times, and pretty much overwhelming because we were so young.

Like I said I do want to stress that they actually were perfect gentlemen, everyone was...treated us like ladies and were never really improper in any way. I know most people want to hear the opposite but to me guys in a rock band treating someone respectfully is a pretty big story right there. But I'll try and write down just a few humorous and nice things for you so you can pass it on.

Randy was so tiny! My best friend Debbie is a very short person and Randy was shorter then her. Rudy and the others teased Randy, saying that he had to run around in the shower to get wet. Haha! He took all of the teasing with a giggle and a blush never getting angry. We talked basically about the tour and touring in general. We talked about the days he was with a band called Quiet Riot, but of course I had never even heard of a band called Quiet Riot at the time because they had not hit it big time yet. When they did I was pleased to have a picture. I will actually look through my piles of pictures and try and find that one. As for pictures, Randy and Rudy didn't want their pictures taken up close in the bus, which I was adamant about following their rules. After the show though, the guards led us back to the backstage area so we could say our goodbyes because they were pulling out and that is where I quickly snapped the picture. We were also lucky enough to sit and hear them discuss the music on a very deep level. Randy and Rudy both had their instruments and were playing them in the bus, but had headphones on so no one could hear. Randy was the first to take his headphones off and lean across to put them on me so that I could hear him playing, then afterwards Rudy did the same. We were constantly being interrupted by one of the largest roadies I've ever seen running head first into the front of the bus. Tommy, the bus driver, and all of us felt the bus jiggle everytime and would burst out in laughter. The roadie's head was bleeding after he finally stopped. Odd, huh? They kept telling us that Ozzy had the flu and that Ozzy and Sharon had been fighting alot lately. We were able to witness that when they arrived in a limo. Sharon had a black eye.

Anyway, I remember the day Randy died. I cried so hard. I had never lost a Rocker in the Rock world. It hurt that we got to experience the real person that he was. And he was 'real' in the sense that he wasn't the least bit fake or stuck up. That was nice!

Post by **The Flying Dutchman** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:17 am

NicDots wrote:"GO FUCKIN' CRAZY!"

You bet I'm going fuckin crazy right now!
Where are all those great pics comming from so suddenly!

THANKS!

Cpt Matt Sparrow · Post by **Cpt Matt Sparrow** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:45 am

I am not exagerating in saying that the sudden influx of new pictures are some of the best Randy shots I have seen. I am excited and I am not into RR photos!

Thank you so much Black Pearl comrades!

Matt

Fozzy41 · Post by **Fozzy41** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:13 am

They are amazing.
We seem to go years without seeing any new photo's of Randy and then all of a sudden we get freakin loads of amazing unseen shots, they are without doubt some of the best I 've seen, especially the last two.

NicDots · Post by **NicDots** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 4:53 pm

I am assuming these shots were taken on the same day. I would hope Rudy wouldn't wear that holy terror of a t shirt more than once.

GUITARIDOL5682 · Post by **GUITARIDOL5682** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 5:50 pm

Yeah Nic that is from the same shoot, i thought this was the Disneyland session but i checked the pics from then and they have different clothes on even Rudy LOL!!. Rudy mentions this photo shoot by 'Sounds magazine' and its backstage before the gig at the DOTG Oakland Coliseum. Its all mentioned in his book.

Cornelius · Post by **Cornelius** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:10 am

Wow! These are amazing. Thanks for uploading these, and thanks to Silver Rhoads for cleaning up those murky shots.

Silver Rhoads · Post by **Silver Rhoads** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:43 am

Cornelius wrote:Wow! These are amazing. Thanks for uploading these, and thanks to Silver Rhoads for cleaning up those murky shots.

It's my pleasure. I just updated my post with the actual story directly from Linda Chadwick, who owns those photos. It's a great story.

GUITARIDOL5682 · Post by **GUITARIDOL5682** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:07 am

Hey Silver Rhoads that was good to get some feedback from Linda about those photos and imagine that Randy doing a personal jamm for you just inches away. Silver ask her if she can remember what show this was from ? i don't think it has been mentioned ? and see if she has anymore photos from that time. Tell her thanks very much from UR. cheers

Is this another Rare pic ?
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... D=30946146
Could someone do me a huge favour and enlarge this & post it up please. The photo that is