Originally Posted by: Andrew SaThe whole story behind Randy...he was young and absolutely amazing...Randy was just awesome, my favourite guitarist and a player whose songs are generally very sentimental to me(and many others)...he played with Ozzy in his solo debut line-up(from 1980-1982) and saved the old mans carreer...Ozzy even admits this.

Randy died in 1982, but he is certainly not gone...he influenced me more with one lick in 3 seconds than Pope John-PaulII did in 18years...and he was dead 4 years before I was even born...RIP

(I'm sure he is ripping it up with Dime, Jimi, Stevie and Paul Jeff Buckley)