On a latest episode of the “Speak Louder” podcast, hosted by veteran music journalist “Metallic Dave” Glessner and lifelong arduous rock/metallic vocalist Jason McMaster (DANGEROUS TOYS),former OZZY OSBOURNE bassist Bob Daisley spoke about how Randy Rhoads, the then-lead guitarist for Ozzy, and two others had been killed in March 1982 at Flying Baron Estates, simply outdoors Leesburg, Florida, when their small aircraft struck Osbourne‘s tour bus, then crashed right into a mansion. Within the aircraft had been 25-year-old Rhoads, 36-year-old pilot Andrew Aycock and 58-year-old band seamstress Rachel Youngblood. That they had died after the Ozzy band’s tour bus pulled as much as the famed airstrip typically utilized by celebrities, en path to their subsequent gig.
Bob mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “You hear individuals say issues like, ‘Oh, if Randy hadn’t bought on that aircraft, he’d be nonetheless with us,’ and blah, blah, blah. And ‘if’ is a little bit phrase with such an enormous which means. ‘If he’d completed this,’ or ‘if he hadn’t completed that’ and all the remainder of it, as his personal brother, Kelle, mentioned, ‘Yeah, and if he hadn’t bought on that aircraft, he might have walked throughout the road to get a bottle of pop and bought hit by a truck or one thing.’ And who is aware of? When your quantity’s up… As my grandfather used to say, ‘If I knew the place I used to be gonna die, I would not go there.’ … It occurred, and it was meant to occur. And that was Randy‘s time. And as unhappy and tragic because it was, it’s what it’s, and nothing can change it.”
Bob went on to share his idea of what occurred that fateful day to trigger the aircraft crash that resulted within the deaths of all three individuals on board. He mentioned: “In my private view, I feel that Rachel, the wardrobe woman, seamstress that was within the aircraft with Aycock and Randy, I feel she had a coronary heart assault, and the post-mortem proved that she had had a coronary heart assault. It was a dual-control aircraft. I feel she had a coronary heart assault, stomped on the twin management, despatched the aircraft plummeting. These planes with a V tail like which might be very arduous to drag out of a dive. And I feel that is what occurred. I do not suppose that they had been buzzing the bus that shut like that. And I do not suppose Aycock was out of his thoughts on cocaine or something like that. I feel Rachel had a coronary heart assault and she or he despatched the aircraft plummeting and he could not pull it out of the dive and it simply clipped the bus and bang, it is throughout… I feel it was [a] single-engine [plane]. I am fairly certain it was single engine. I feel Randy was within the again and people two are within the entrance. So the dual-control aircraft was Aycock piloting and Rachel sitting subsequent to him on the twin management.”
Bob added: “Randy did not like flying. And Rachel had mentioned, ‘Oh, I do not actually wanna go up.’ I wasn’t there, however that is what I’ve came upon since, that she did not wanna go up as a result of she mentioned, ‘I’ve bought a coronary heart situation.’ And [Aycock] mentioned, ‘Okay, I am going to hold it calm. I am going to hold it good. I will not do something foolish.’ However once they bought up there, that is what occurred. And I feel that she had a coronary heart assault up there. The post-mortem proved that she had had a coronary heart assault. So I feel that was what was behind the entire tragic occasion.”
Requested if he thinks he would have gotten on that aircraft had he nonetheless been within the band on the time of the crash, Bob responded: “I’d sit it out. I am not an enormous fan of flying. I’ve completed a number of it — I imply, I do not know what number of lifetimes’ value of flying in a single lifetime — and I’ve by no means actually loved it. I all the time really feel a little bit anxious flying. So it is not one thing I’d select to do. ‘Oh yeah. I am going to go up for a joyride.’ [I would probably say] ‘Nah, I am going to sit this one out.'”
Daisley wrote/co-wrote the lyrics/music for portion of Ozzy‘s early solo catalog, together with the albums “Blizzard Of Ozz”, “Diary Of A Madman”, “Bark At The Moon”, “The Final Sin” and “No Relaxation For The Depraved”. He additionally served as a bass participant on “Blizzard Of Ozz” and “Diary Of A Madman”, earlier than he was fired from Osbourne‘s band after the recording of the latter.
Rhoads was posthumously inducted into the Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame through the 2021 ceremony.
Randy, who performed in Ozzy‘s band greater than 4 a long time in the past, acquired the Musical Excellence Award at that yr’s occasion, which was held at Cleveland, Ohio’s Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.
The Musical Excellence Award is given to artists, musicians, songwriters and producers whose originality and affect creating music have had a dramatic influence on music.
Rhoads was inducted into the Rock Corridor by RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE guitarist Tom Morello who acknowledged in a video message. “Randy Rhoads is a peerless expertise. He revived Ozzy Osbourne‘s profession as his gunslinger sideman. And it was Randy Rhoads‘s poster that I had on my wall… You can examine Randy‘s songs in a university-level musicology class and bang your heads to them in a 7-11 car parking zone.”
Additionally providing a video tribute was METALLICA‘s Kirk Hammett, who acknowledged about Randy‘s demise: “Impulsively, the curtain got here down unexpectedly and the present was over earlier than it actually, actually bought going.” Longtime Ozzy guitarist Zakk Wylde spoke extremely about his predecessor, saying “Randy, fingers down, sits at” the spherical desk of greatness within the Corridor Of Fame alongside Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Web page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Eddie Van Halen.
Rhoads performed on Osbourne‘s seminal information “Blizzard Of Ozz” (1980) and “Diary Of A Madman”. He influenced many musicians and is taken into account one of many best guitartists of all time. His demise was an enormous shock to the world and Ozzy wrote in his autobiography “I Am Ozzy” that he virtually give up music after Randy‘s passing.
Shortly after Rhoads‘s induction into the Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame was introduced, Ozzy informed Rolling Stone: “I knew him for a really quick period of time. However what he gave me in that quick period of time was immeasurable in fucking greatness. To get someone like Randy Rhoads to play on two albums, and for these two albums to sound nearly as good because the day they had been recorded, is one thing else. And I am eternally in gratitude for that. God solely is aware of the place that man can be right now. The actual fact that he’s not right here to breathe the air is only a fucking crime.
“Thank God that he is getting acknowledged by the Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame. He lastly bought there ultimately. I am unhappy that his mom was not alive to see it, as a result of he was very near his mother. I do know his brother, Kelle, and his sister, Kathy, are going to be actually happy about it. It reveals that he isn’t been forgotten. He was a devoted, true musician, and he was a beautiful man. I nonetheless take into consideration him on a regular basis.”
