The Randy Rhoads Years Music Cd

Quiet Riot - The Randy Rhoads Years

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The Randy Rhoads Years      Artist : Quiet Riot      List Price : $11.98 USD        Your Price : $11.98 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1993-10-26      Studio : Rhino / Wea      Label : Rhino / Wea      Avg. Customer Rating : (21 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for The Randy Rhoads Years      Great Music. Great Preview Of What Was To Come      Rating:      Great album. A must for all randy rhoads fans. ****** The first two Quiet Riot Albums w/ randy rhoads are available online for download only. each album is $1.80 i think. the web site is musicmp3.ru. Search for quiet riot and you'll find the original two albums that were only released in japan. good stuff as well. i bought them and they sound good.***** check em out     Customer Reviews for The Randy Rhoads Years Cd      A REAL TREAT FOR RANDY RHOADS FANS      Rating:      I've always admired Randy Rhoads playing ability, but never actually heard the earlier Quiet Riot material, because it wasn't released in the US. I finally managed to track down cd quality bootlegs of QR1 and QR2 and can compare them to this album. Like some of the other reviews here have already stated, there are songs on here newer than QR 1 & 2, which is very cool. They were of the caliber that had they been released at the time, they probably would have a minor hit. I especially enjoyed the original version of Slick Black Cadillac. I happen to like it better than the version which appeared on the Metal Health album, which recorded by different musicians alltogether. In comparing this album to the actual earlier recordings, I like this one better, because the sound is dramatically improved. The older albums weren't mixed very well, and the bass is very muddy sounding. The drummer was also not particularly good. I'm a drummer, so maybe I'm a little critical, but the drummer overplays is erratic and plays inconsistently. I get the impression he didn't ever play the song the same way twice, which for a drummer is a bad habit. The vocals were rerecorded sometimes with completely different lyrics. This point has been controversial, but honestly in my opinion this is a good thing because some of the lyrics in the originals, were absolutely terrible. Wholesale changes were made to a couple of songs, but again, the newer versions sound much better. They even changed some of the choruses and moved the refrain parts around. Again, it made the songs much better because the originals weren't that great. So in this respect, I'm glad they did take liberties with the vocals. For me the most pleasant surprise was hearing Randy apparently channeling Glen Buxton. I had read once that Randy Rhoads was a huge Alice Cooper fanatic, which is cool because I am also a fanatic of that band. I can really hear the influences of Glen Buxton and Michael Bruce, the guitarists of that legendary band. The song "Look in any Window" is so heavily influenced by very early Cooper Albums like "Pretties for you" or even "Freak Out Song," which I point out was sadly taken out of print for many years. The entire guitar sound both rythym and lead, sound like early Cooper. I love it! There is "Alice Cooper" sprinkled in virtually every song he ever recorded, so it was especially cool to see how this was such a huge part of his overall style so early on. My last comment is those who make harsh assessments of this album. These guys were 17 to 19 years old when they were recorded. Except for Randy, they all were just learning their instruments and begining to develop writing styles. Randy was going to be a star no matter what, but I feel that had they had better lyrics, they could have been huge.