10 Guitar Solos That Changed The Face Of Rock Music Forever

10. Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne

Just as the Sunset Strip was starting to come alive, every single guitarist on the block was basically trying to outdo Eddie Van Halen. For all of the glamour that was going around and bands being influenced by the likes of David Bowie and T Rex, the guitar community started to get incredibly stale, with many six stringers thinking that all they needed was to learn a couple of tapping licks to be successful. There's only one Eddie Van Halen though, and Randy Rhoads found his calling by diving into classical music.

Going through both albums that Randy made with Ozzy Osbourne, you could tell that he was still a student of music, oftentimes taking different classical lessons on his days off during the tour. For as much shred is packed into the solo for Crazy Train though, there's a lot more taste in there than you would find in someone like Yngwive Malmsteen, making the guitar almost feel like a symphony when he's playing, from the tapping licks that churned out full chords to runs so fast that he practically sounds like he's going through the sound barrier.

Seeing how this was his first time in a professional studio with Ozzy, hearing this just makes all of us wonder what could have happened had Randy not been in that fateful airplane accident just a few months later. Because of this solo was any indication, metal was only one stripe of the genius that he had.