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Well a buddy lent me this video called Dimevision to watch. Now I had known since the early 90's who Darrell Abbott was but always thought he was a really hard core thrash guitarist and never really paid much attention to him since I'm old school rock player, 70's, early 80's stuff I liked the most.
Anyway I'm watching Darrell tearing up stuff, acting stupid and shooting people with fireworks and then the video shifts to him in the early 80's and he must have been maybe 18 at the time in a Dallas club just playing the hell out of Ozzy tunes and then breaks into a solo that combines Eruption, spanish fly, battle axe and his own stuff at a fast speed.
Well to say the least I was impressed. In the ealy 80's I used to do eruption as my solo to impress the crown but Darrell did the whole shred thing really well and I never knew he played the Randy Rhoads stuff so well too. His playing back then sorta sounds a bit like Zakk Wilde too.
I guess that just goes to show sometimes how little we see in some players.
Also he was using the Randall SS amp stack and getting this really good guitar tone. He had almost the same distortion sound George Lynch had in the early Dokken dayz. I have to admit that I never thought much about these old Randall SS amps but now makes me wonder if I had been missing something back then as I was using the Peavey SS gear in those days.
I've seen many Randall amps in pawnshops and always just walked on by and never paid attantion to these at cheap prices but I guess the next time I see one maybe I'll check it out.
Any Comments on the Randall gear? Just curious
SLO
Anyway I'm watching Darrell tearing up stuff, acting stupid and shooting people with fireworks and then the video shifts to him in the early 80's and he must have been maybe 18 at the time in a Dallas club just playing the hell out of Ozzy tunes and then breaks into a solo that combines Eruption, spanish fly, battle axe and his own stuff at a fast speed.
Well to say the least I was impressed. In the ealy 80's I used to do eruption as my solo to impress the crown but Darrell did the whole shred thing really well and I never knew he played the Randy Rhoads stuff so well too. His playing back then sorta sounds a bit like Zakk Wilde too.
I guess that just goes to show sometimes how little we see in some players.
Also he was using the Randall SS amp stack and getting this really good guitar tone. He had almost the same distortion sound George Lynch had in the early Dokken dayz. I have to admit that I never thought much about these old Randall SS amps but now makes me wonder if I had been missing something back then as I was using the Peavey SS gear in those days.
I've seen many Randall amps in pawnshops and always just walked on by and never paid attantion to these at cheap prices but I guess the next time I see one maybe I'll check it out.
Any Comments on the Randall gear? Just curious
SLO
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