On a latest episode of the “Speak Louder” podcast, hosted by veteran music journalist “Metallic Dave” Glessner and lifelong arduous rock/steel 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 exterior 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 stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “You hear individuals say issues like, ‘Oh, if Randy hadn’t received on that aircraft, he’d be nonetheless with us,’ and blah, blah, blah. And ‘if’ is a little bit phrase with such an enormous that means. ‘If he’d accomplished this,’ or ‘if he hadn’t accomplished that’ and all the remainder of it, as his personal brother, Kelle, stated, ‘Yeah, and if he hadn’t received on that aircraft, he may have walked throughout the road to get a bottle of pop and received 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 principle of what occurred that fateful day to trigger the aircraft crash that resulted within the deaths of all three individuals on board. He stated: “In my private view, I believe that Rachel, the wardrobe girl, seamstress that was within the aircraft with Aycock and Randy, I believe 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 believe she had a coronary heart assault, stomped on the twin management, despatched the aircraft plummeting. These planes with a V tail like which can be very arduous to tug out of a dive. And I believe that is what occurred. I do not assume that they had been buzzing the bus that shut like that. And I do not assume Aycock was out of his thoughts on cocaine or something like that. I believe 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 believe it was [a] single-engine [plane]. I am fairly positive it was single engine. I believe 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 stated, ‘Oh, I do not actually wanna go up.’ I wasn’t there, however that is what I’ve discovered since, that she did not wanna go up as a result of she stated, ‘I’ve received a coronary heart situation.’ And [Aycock] stated, ‘Okay, I will hold it calm. I will hold it good. I will not do something foolish.’ However once they received up there, that is what occurred. And I believe that she had a coronary heart assault up there. The post-mortem proved that she had had a coronary heart assault. So I believe 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 accomplished numerous it — I imply, I do not know what number of lifetimes’ price of flying in a single lifetime — and I’ve by no means actually loved it. I at all times really feel a little bit anxious flying. So it is not one thing I’d select to do. ‘Oh yeah. I will go up for a joyride.’ [I would probably say] ‘Nah, I will sit this one out.'”
Daisley wrote/co-wrote the lyrics/music for a great 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 in the course of the 2021 ceremony.
Randy, who performed in Ozzy‘s band greater than 4 many years in the past, obtained the Musical Excellence Award at that 12 months’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 impression 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 possibly can examine Randy‘s songs in a university-level musicology class and bang your heads to them in a 7-11 parking zone.”
Additionally providing a video tribute was METALLICA‘s Kirk Hammett, who acknowledged about Randy‘s dying: “Rapidly, the curtain got here down unexpectedly and the present was over earlier than it actually, actually received 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 data “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 dying was an enormous shock to the world and Ozzy wrote in his autobiography “I Am Ozzy” that he virtually stop music after Randy‘s passing.
Shortly after Rhoads‘s induction into the Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame was introduced, Ozzy advised Rolling Stone: “I knew him for a really brief period of time. However what he gave me in that brief period of time was immeasurable in fucking greatness. To get anyone 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 ceaselessly in gratitude for that. God solely is aware of the place that man can be as we speak. 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 received there in the long run. 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 satisfied 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.”