Randy Rhoads
Randy Rhoads vs. Eddie Van Halen
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Eddie Van Halen although Randy was great too. However it's well known that when a performer dies (especially young and tragically like Randy) their legend increases, so I take Randy's reputation with a pinch of salt.
Rhoads was a great player with a ferocious tone, but Eddie's playing just has a spontanaeity to it. Prime Van Halen songs sound rough and raw, almost like they were recorded in one take. However after Women and Children first I find their albums pretty inconsistent.
Rhoads was a great player with a ferocious tone, but Eddie's playing just has a spontanaeity to it. Prime Van Halen songs sound rough and raw, almost like they were recorded in one take. However after Women and Children first I find their albums pretty inconsistent.
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EVH!
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Hard to say between the two of them although Randy who was also a guitar instructor as well may have been technically better than Eddie?. Lemmy of Motorhead once said in a Classic Rock magazine article several years ago that Randy was good but not much better than most of the 'metal' guitarist's who were round at the start of the 1980s also Lemmy went on to say that Randy's reputation has got bigger since his death.
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No surprise here, I voted for Mr. Fingers (as Dave once called him) hisself, Eddie Van Halen.
Rhoads style was too one-dimentional for my liking. There are only three songs on Ozzy's first two albums that have any heart and soul, hooks, rhythm and melody: "You Can't Kill Rock & Roll, "Believer", and "Tonight". Everything else is just noise. And not the kind of noise I like.
Eddie, on the other hand, always had versatile riffs and tempo, and blazing, yet technical, solos. And on VH's albums with Dave, there was plenty of heart and soul, fills, hooks, rhythm and melody.
The biggest observation I can make between Eddie and Randy is Eddie could make his guitar sing. I can't say I ever heard Randy do that. And if he (Randy) did, I guess my ear didn't like what he was singing -- save for the three songs mentioned above.
But that's just me.
Rhoads style was too one-dimentional for my liking. There are only three songs on Ozzy's first two albums that have any heart and soul, hooks, rhythm and melody: "You Can't Kill Rock & Roll, "Believer", and "Tonight". Everything else is just noise. And not the kind of noise I like.
Eddie, on the other hand, always had versatile riffs and tempo, and blazing, yet technical, solos. And on VH's albums with Dave, there was plenty of heart and soul, fills, hooks, rhythm and melody.
The biggest observation I can make between Eddie and Randy is Eddie could make his guitar sing. I can't say I ever heard Randy do that. And if he (Randy) did, I guess my ear didn't like what he was singing -- save for the three songs mentioned above.
But that's just me.
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