I didn't know this

Randy Rhoades [ yes THAT Randy Rhoades ] was a founding member of Quiet Riot.

In 1979, he decided to leave the band because he was frustrated they couldn't get a recording contract in America.

That same year, Ozzy Osbourne was fired from Black Sabbath and was looking to put together his own band.


And the rest is history

a reply to: DAVID64

Yeah I knew he was in QR before Ozzy.

You gotta wonder where he would be now if he didn’t get killed in the plane crash?

I doubt he would have stayed with Ozzy all this time.
And Ozzy has never been as big as he was with Randy, IMO.

I was never a huge Ozzy fan after Randy died, I always thought The Ultimate Sin was the last good Ozzy album.

a reply to: DAVID64

Randy and Rudy Sarzo were both in Quiet Riot, both played with Ozzy together on tour. We used to play a couple of songs from the Randy Rhoads days of QR. You can definitely hear Randy licks. He recorded a couple of albums with QR but they were only released in Japan.