TODAY WE REMEMBER THE LIVES OF 2 PIONEERING ROCKERS WHO’S LIVES WERE CUT SHORT…ON THIS DATE IN 1982, RANDY RHOADS, THE GUITAR MASTER WHO CO FOUNDED QUIET RIOT AND LATER BECAME THE GUITARIST FOR THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS OZZY OSBOURNE, DIED IN A FREAK PLANE CRASH WHILE ON TOUR WITH OZZY AT A STOP FOR THE TOUR BUS TO GET WORKED ON…RHOADS, WHO HATED FLYING, TOOK A RIDE WITH A PILOT WHO WAS ALSO THE TOUR BUS DRIVER WHO DECIDED TO BUZZ OZZY’S TOUR BUS…THE WING HIT THE BUS CAUSING THE PLANE TO CRASH INTO A NEARBY HOME KILLING RHOADS, THE PILOT AND THE TOUR COSTUME DESIGNER…RANDY RHOADS WAS JUST 25 YEARS OLD 

FLASH FORWARD TO THIS DATE IN 1990, AS THE GRUNGE ROCK MOVEMENT OUT OF SEATTLE WASHINGTON HAD BEGUN TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD OF MUSIC, ONE OF THE MUSICIANS THAT WAS AT THE FOREFRONT, LEAD SINGER OF THE PIONEERING BAND MOTHER LOVE BONE, ANDREW WOOD SUCCUMBED TO HIS ADDICTIONS WHEN HE DIED AT THE AGE OF 24, 3 DAYS AFTER BEING DISCOVERED UNRESPONSIVE AT HIS HOME DUE TO A HEROIN OVERDOSE LEAVING HIS OTHER MOTHER LOVE BONE MEMBERS, JEFF AMENT AND STONE GOSSARD AND HIS FRIEND SOUNDGARDEN’S CHRIS CORNELL… WHO, ALONG WITH EDDIE VEDDER, MATT CAMERON, AND MIKE MCREADY FORMED TEMPLE OF THE DOG IN WOOD’S MEMORY AND RELEASED THE SINGLE “HUNGER STRIKE” AND OUT OF THE TRAGEDY CAME PEARL JAM…ANDREW WOOD’S LEGACY LIVES ON…BUT THE “WHAT IF” REMAINS REGARDING RANDY RHOADS AND ANDREW WOOD… 2 HUGE LOSSES FOR THE WORLD OF ROCK ON THIS DATE…TODAY’S ROCK REWIND IS A TWO-FER…FIRST WE WILL ROCK OUT WITH MAD RESPECT FOR THE GUITAR MASTERY OF RANDY RHOADS ON THE OZZY SINGLE THAT RHOADS CO WROTE “MR CROWLEY” AND THEN WE PAY HOMAGE TO ANDREW WOOD WITH TEMPLE OF THE DOG’S “HUNGER STRIKE”…IT’S ROXY’S ROCK REWIND ON 105.7 THE X