![]() ![]() The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. "I said they wouldn't dare throw anything at Alice Cooper, they know how dangerous he can be, Alice will come after them in their dreams!"īLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. ZODIAC MINDWARP went on and they got covered, there wasn't one bottle thrown at us. "The funniest thing was, I said I guarantee they would not throw anything at us. The cool thing about it was, all we were told was they were going to throw bottles at us! "I thought it was about time someone wrote a book," says Ian, who lives in Plymouth, "so in 2004 I started writing, I contacted (festival organisers) Mean Fiddler and it just escalated from there."įor the last two-and-a-half years Ian has been collecting memories from festival-goers and performers alike, from old veterans such as VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR and STATUS QUO to more recent artists such as OASIS and FOO FIGHTERS.ĪLICE COOPER, who headlined the Sunday for the festival's 25th anniversary in 1987, has this particular gem: The author is Ian Carroll, a 41-year-old father-of-one who's enjoyed virtually every Reading Festival since 1983. We had sort of a conscience, you see.BBC News reports that BLACK SABBATH, ALICE COOPER and SLIPKNOT are among the artists whose memories will be shared in a special book about the legendary U.K. "We'd help ourselves to some trinket if we saw something that we liked. "We would put eggs under the pillows on their beds, hiding things that would smell, like meat, under the bed," Garni told Louder Sound. Rhoads and Garni also had a penchant for crashing Hollywood parties and wreaking havoc on the homes of unsuspecting hosts. Garni retaliated by whipping Rhoads across the face with an extension cord. During the brawl, Rhoads struck Garni in the head with a telephone. Garni, feeling that Rhoads had taken the joke too far, came to blows with his friend. " took me aside and informed me that he had gone into the bathroom, locked the door, crawled out the window and then stuck the garden hose into the window and turned it on," Garni recalled in an excerpt from his autobiography, "Angels With Dirty Faces," quoted in a Guitar World feature. This is the untold truth of Randy Rhoads.Īccording to longtime friend and bandmate Kelly Garni, Rhoads loved a good prank, and, at times, his jokes could get out of hand. However, Rhoads' wild ride to the top would come to a tragic end on March 19, 1982, when he lost his life in a freak plane crash in Leesburg, Florida. The two albums Rhoads recorded with Osbourne, "Blizzard of Ozz" (1980) and "Diary of a Madman" (1981), became instant metal classics and made the young musician the guitar hero of a generation. Randy Rhoads would prove integral to Osbourne's musical and personal revival. Mired in drugs and alcohol, Osbourne was on a decidedly self-destructive path when manager Sharon Levy (aka Sharon Arden) engineered his comeback. ![]() Ozzy Osbourne, recently fired from Black Sabbath, was at the lowest point in his career in 1979. No fan of Sabbath's music, Rhoads nonetheless decided to give the gig a shot. Hoping to break out of a musical dead end, Rhoads auditioned for former Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne in 1979 at the urging of bassist Dana Strum. Although Quiet Riot regularly packed LA clubs, the band seemed to be going nowhere.
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