RANDY RHOADS Remembered
March 19, 2011, 13 years ago
Southern California Public Radio has posted an article regarding the 29th anniversary of OZZY OSBOURNE/QUIET RIOT guitarist RANDY RHOADS' death. An excerpt can be read below:
“Saturday is the 29th anniversary of the death of heavy metal guitarist Randy Rhoads. A Burbank boy, born and bred, his solos on Ozzy Osbourne records rank among the best in hard rock history. Each year a graveside gathering remembers Rhoads and reunites the extended family that keeps his flame burning.After a plane crash claimed his life, Rhoads lay in peace at a San Bernardino cemetery. He's been dead longer than he was alive, but he's still a guitar god thanks to his recorded virtuoso work on songs like ‘Crazy Train’.
Each year, Mountain View Cemetery welcomes back men with tattoos and long hair. On motorcycles. With guitars. Men who have lived hard. Workers set up an awning for the hours visitors stay. Usually, someone brings a TV. Concert footage plays on a loop.
Last March, these men — women too — sat in folding chairs facing Rhoads' skinny, tiny sister Kathy Rhoads D'Argenzio, who received their love.
"I appreciate that. You guys holding the fort down and still being there and keeping his memory going and alive," Kathy tells them.She gets vows of fealty in return: "We will always do that. Always, always."
Behind Kathy, crinkled handbills, concert posters and signed photos are taped to the marble of Rhoads' tomb. Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne sent a flower cross.”
Read the whole article at this location.
As previously reported, Bay Area Rocks conducted an interview with Kelle Rhoads, brother of Randy Rhoads, recently at the Musonia School of Music in North Hollywood, California. A video tour of the school and the interview can be viewed below.
Delores Rhoads - the mother of Randy's and Kelle - has owned and operated the Musonia School Of Music in North Hollywood, California, since 1949, according to Wikipedia.
