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- From: rjs2637@ultb.isc.rit.edu (R.J. Snyder)
- Subject: Re: Rhoads on Dairy ...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.202552.23591@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- References: <144471@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <1992Dec29.175811.11976@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:25:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.175811.11976@news2.cis.umn.edu> donnell@tuna.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan) writes:
- >In article <144471@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> k-man@diego.llnl.gov (Kevin Anderson) writes:
- >>
- >>This Rhoads versus Iommi thread is interesting. The one fellow
- >>mentioned that he felt the songs on Dairy of a Madman were weak.
- >>
- >>I remember reading Rhoads commenting that that album wasn't quite
- >>finished at the time of its release. He said that many of the
- >>tracks were really just the demo versions; that he wasn't able
- >>to go in and actually put his proper parts down.
- >>
- >>But as it is, I gotta rank Moore And Rhoads ahead of Tony, sorry.
- >>
- >>K-Man
- >
- >Dairy Of A Madman? I don't have that album but it sounds interesting. Must
- >be some band from Wisconsin or something. B}
- >
- >Randy stated that there were no songs that were up to the standards he would
- >have liked them to be, although some were close. One song, and I do not
- >remember which, has a guitar solo that was just a dummy solo, that he
- >intended to replace later, but he ran out of time. Weird, since Diary is
- >the far heavier album than "Blizzard", which was completed to his satisfaction.
- >I wonder if "Diary" would have been poppier if he had finished it...
- >
- >Regardless, although Randy is the finer solist, I give the award to Tony,
- >for the simple reason of historical significance, and those incredible riffs
- >.
- ><What opinion is here, is mine and mine alone>
- >Have A New Year!
- >Pax
- > --Judex--
- >
-
- The track with a dummy solo was "Little Dolls." Just listen to it, it's
- obvious that it wasn't a prepared solo (like most of Randy's solos).
-
- RYAN
-