MXR® Randy Rhoads Special Edition Distortion+ (Featuring Kirk Hammett, Zakk Wylde, and Phil Demmel)
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
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In just a few short years, Randy Rhoads revolutionized the art of the rock 'n' roll guitar player, merging fluid, classically inspired legato passages and melodies with searing, violin-like leads and super-saturated riffs.
One of the most crucial components of this riveting sound was the MXR Distortion+-Randy harnessed its raw energy to slam his high-gain amplifier with a torrent of harmonics to create the sonic signature that would etch an indelible mark on music history.
We celebrate his monumental legacy with this recreation of his own MXR Distortion+. For the first time in 42 years, the Rhoads family unveiled Randy’s pedalboard for the MXR design team at the family’s music school in Los Angeles-the Musonia School of Music. There, history was made as the MXR design team carefully opened the pedalboard, closely inspecting and documenting all they could from this rock ’n’ roll artifact. The engineers painstakingly spec'd Randy’s vintage Distortion+, with the direct involvement of sister Kathy Rhoads, and created this signature model to produce the same overdriven tube-like tones heard on Randy’s most beloved hits. And, of course, it’s only fitting that it comes with a custom finish inspired by Randy’s legendary Flying V guitar.
“We are very proud of and honored by this special signature pedal. It is a true tribute to Randy’s musical legacy.” -The Rhoads Family
Kirk Hammett, Zakk Wylde, and Phil Demmel joined our celebration of Randy’s legacy, with each reflecting on their discovery of his work and how it affected them as guitar players at the start of their journeys.
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I was 10 years old, riding with my dad is his truck when he popped in Blizzard of Oz. Crazy Train started with the "Riff"....I remember being in shock as to what i was hearing. I looked at my dad in stunned amazement and said, "What is making the noise?" He said "Thats a guitar and the guy playing it is Randy Rhoads." I told my dad I wanted to learn to do that, and he took me straight to sam ash. Bought me my 1st guitar, amp, and signed me up for lessons no questions asked. Forever shaping the rest of my life. I owe a lot to both Randy and my father for gifting me the world of music. Randy will always be my biggest inspiration. RIP you legend and here's to hoping your music lives and inspires forever.
the intro to Crazy train when the guitar comes screeching in is the only time listening to a song scared Steve Vai
He influenced millions
This pedal should not be a limited edition, it should always be in the inventory so as not to let the spirit of the great Rand Rhoads die.
Hopefully, it becomes a Jonny Rotten cliche.
A Limited Edition, With an Unlimited supply.
I need one of those damnit!!! Why am i just finding out about this now? I get all the bullshit from Sweetwater, Guitar Center, ZZounds, Pro Star Audio, Musicians Friend, but they never mentioned shit about this. God help the next gear advisor who calls me. LOL
AMEN
I mean people still know who he is and he hasnt had this pedal out till now so i dont think his “spirit” depends on a pedal 😂😂😂
@@Glamosapien Exactly, it's a MXR Distortion+ pedal which they've made gazillions of today. RR is way bigger as a guitar icon than this pedal. I've knew about Randy since Ozzy's first record, but just in later years learned he used this quite known back in the day pedal. Kinda like Hendrix' "spirit" would've died if it weren't for the reissues of his Fuzzface pedals etc.
I had the privilege of seeing Randy play on February 9th 1982 at Wing's Stadium, Kalamazoo Michigan on the Diary of the Madman Tour. I will never forget that concert watching Randy Play 10 feet away! He was & still is my Icon/ Hero of the guitar!!! 🎸🎸 RIP
we posted the bootlleg to that show in thelegacy group, amazing show
Damn i can't even imagine, I saw his band quiet riot, with Kevin Dubrow
Randy was 25 years old when he died....and has influenced untold millions.
The only place you will see people check their ego at the door. This is why Zakk and Kirk are truly my heros. Not only will I strive to one day play as well as they do. But also to be as humble and inspirational as they are in everyday life. We can all learn something from these men. Rest in piece Saint Rhoads.
No one beats Randy Rhoads!!! He's almost perfection!! Every single note is there for a reason. 🎸 Randy Rhoads never died. His music is still here today and forever!!! ❤
I like how Zakk describes learning Randy's songs as going to "St. Rhoads University". Very well put.
Randy marked me for life. I was a kid studying guitar when a friend sent me the Tribute album to give it a listen. I became instantly a fan and became inspired to have a degree in music. Everyday I thank Kathy (Randy's sister) and the rest of her family for keeping his legacy alive. God bless Randy for giving us such beautiful songs.
he influenced millions.....sad sad story.
Kathy is doing an amazing job keeping the legacy of her brother alive. Rhoads nation is thankful and grateful.
Still burns my soul to this day that Randy died. Such an amazing musician that was taken way too soon
I lived in san bernardino california for many years,, like 3 blocks away from randys grave,,i used to go sit and say hi to randy on my lunch hours from work sometimes, i took my guitar once 😊 he is missed..RIP Randy.
every music and Rhoads nation fan should go and visit it, done it twice now. We all miss him
I'm going to visit in March! I'm so excited!! Randy will FOREVERMORE be my favourite guitarist! ♥️🤘🏼🎸🎵🎼🎶♾️🙏🏼⭐🕊️FLY FREE RANDY🪽🪽🌌🌠🌌🚂🛤️🥹♥️💯🇺🇲🦅🙏🏼⭐
The goodbye to romance solo will always be one of my all time favorite compositions
fantastic solo
I love the tonight outro solo … well of course diary of a madman too
Especially the tribute album version
sounds even better isolated....the isolated guitar tracks gave me a whole other appreciation for the song
@@ProdByZVY isolated guitar track to that song on the legacy page
I love that even though this video is supposed to be a commercial about this particular guitar pedal, it's actually a really nice tribute to a guitar legend who influenced gazillions of musicians, and that left us way, way too soon. RIP Randy Rhoads, and kudos for making this kinda commercial/promotion material as respectful as here. (I'd love to see Zakk and Kirk riffing some Rhoads stuff as well, but yeah)
Thanks guys for honoring a legend!!! Jim Dunlop and the crew killed it!!!
all time A leaguer
1981. Long Island, N.Y. - This dude who I never heard of before comes out with a flying V and BLEW ME AWAY!!! ---Never forget it!!!!!!!!!!!
Nassau show, we posted the bootleg a week ago
Thank you MXR! I've been a fan for 40 years (which is nearly my whole life)! It is BEYOND overdue! I've been waiting for this pedal for over two years, since I first heard the rumors! PROUDLY ordered mine at midnight this morning when the orders went live!
Glad you got one. It's out of stock right now on Dunlop's site! I dread the scalpers on eBay. Haven't even looked there yet...
@@RolanTHUNDER it sold out....and they do not plan anymore. The losers on EBAY marketing it up are a disgrace to his legacy
Zakk and Phil 👍👍👍 Hammet👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎. Randy will always be an inspiration!!!!!!!!
My favourite Randy solo is the outro to Tonight. It just flows but sends you to another place. Flying high again soli is another.
Phil Demmel and Zakk are obviously TRUE fans of Randy.
And so is KIRK!!!
Phil was in front of Randy at Day on the Green; July 4th 1981. That would have blown my mind.
@@MALoadedDiaper I saw the first diary of a madman show December 28 1981 at the Cow Palace San Francisco. My first concert 12 years old...and it was a doozy. Ozzy fanatics are nuts.
Wait till you hear Paul Gilbert play every single riff by Randy 😂 that man is a freaking Juke box. I think the only reason they didn’t call Paul is because he is not a Dunlop artist.
@@ibinTZYDid you know that Paul threw his hat in the ring when Ozzy's team needed a temp guitarist after RR's accident? I believe Mike Varney received the tape. He indeed had the chops, but he was just too young.
Randy was a Genius! God bless him! His music was Amazing 🙌🏻
Revelation Mother Earth is one of the masterpieces when it comes to a solo. I remember writing that out on a sequencer on apple IIe (from a guitar magazine transcription) and recording the output to cassette. I grew up playing violin, started bass when I was 14, and that solo has an emotional tension and release that is not present in too many pieces.
And, Over the Mountain was the song that got me into metal when a friend played me the vinyl. Both solos from these tracks are a song within a song. Randy was and is amazing.
So cool that so many years later, the greats are still preaching how next level Randy was. One of the most unique and identifiable players every to have picked up the instrument. The worst part for me listening to Randy is I get so eff'n sad as I loved everything about his playing and he was such a fire breathing dragon, and he got taken sooo early in life from not only his family and friends, but from the world of guitar. He was so young and already one of the best to ever do it. One of the great rock and roll tragedies that he did not get more time to keep developing. I get sad as with Randy, there was no doubt he was still growing after already being one of the best. Long live his recordings to blow away and inspire guitarist for many years to come.
I was 9 yrs old when Randy passed. Unfortunately I didn't have the privilege of listening to his music until I was 12 or 13 yrs old. Just wasn't on my young radar. But once I did, I was fascinated and hooked.
great tribute to one of the greatest to ever do it, Randy changed the game
I use to work in Leesburg, FL. Really close to the site of the plane crash, every now and then I would drive by that area after work just to play some Blizzard of Oz and think about what could of been if that terrible piece of rock and roll history had never of happened.
MXR RR Been a fan since i heard the first riffs of Ozzy’s Blizzard of Oz I been playing drums since 1976 BlackSabbath, Ozzy , Floyd , Zepplin, and 1979 came around unbelievable music was coming out and I had to learn it all there wasn’t any such thing as cell phones , internet I sat in my room for hours everyday learning all the new stuff coming out and still today rocking out at 54 I sure miss the 80’s better times a lot better times then now 2024
has now brought to the front stage the Randy Rhoads new signature Distortion plus pedal what a treat I had to have one bought yesterday I have the original yellow as well to , My Guitar is marked RR
i had a guitar strap made in honor of Randy
Thank you Kathy and family for this I truly get goose bumps when I listen to album I do have all the original first press LP’s Thank you trullu inspired God bless The Rhoads Family 🤘🇺🇸
To me, like what they said in the video, Randy Rhoads was just a fantastic guitar player. He did have a great look. Randy influenced so many players. He also knew how to do other techniques but he was classically trained so it made him think in other ways and the way he composed with the help of Daisley and Kerslake.
Rhoads and Lynch both played with conviction!!! You can play the notes but without being invested in the notes you're playing, they won't sound right. You've got to believe!!
Lynch a notch below Randy
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle🤣🤣🤣 wrong!
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle More than a few notches below Randy...
F*******CK YEAH!!! Thank you MXR. El Maestro lives on!
Oh thank you, 1st of the month is gonna be RIPPING!
RR Forever 🎸
I used to be a pedal gick now i haven't had one in 10 years or so..but now that i see this....man i got to have one.One of the greatest to ever play the guitar and maybe the best looking pedal ever!!!
I still have and use my 1977 block distortion + that I bought new back in June 1980, it’s been serviced once, but still sounds amazing
Best guitarist EVER ❤‼️
I just bought mine I can't wait to put it on my pedalboard and hear this pedal 🔥 🎸 🔥
Did you actually get it? I ordered several of multiple sites and they were all canceled.
As much as his recorded stuff hit me [the fade out on Tonight esp]... the epitome of guitar tone to me was Tribute. That squeal on Revelation Mother Earth on the second verse.... the feedback... it kills me every time. Those guys in that era were giants.... but to me RR was more my speed. I want one of these just out of respect. Randy motivated me to practice every day. Thanks to the team for this collaboration
Randy its one of the best
Blessed to see Randy on the Blizzard tour in Phoenix in June '81. Motorhead opening. I was 15.
Great vid
Randy Rhoads! The best guitarist to ever EXIST! 🎸🎸
Lmfao
Reason I got into guitar 🔥 Got mine on order!!!
Sweet!!!
Awesome! Beautiful tribute ❤❤❤❤
What a really beautiful video. I’m stoked I managed to get a pre order in Canada. Wasn’t really sure about needing it but I’m glad I have one on the way.
Used to listen to the Tribute live album as a 7 yr old and on ALL the time. Same with the other Rhodes records. Wasnt a huve fan of the few guitarists after Randy, til No Reat For The Wicked came out. I dont care what anyone says, Zakks first record with Ozzy was a fucking MASTERCLASS of sick riff writing and soloing with feel. No More Tears was almost as good but didnt have the ferocity of Wicked. Ozzmosis had like 5 amazing songs on it, was a good record too. Randy was one of the ones that made me love guitar. Been playing since 1991. People laugh when i say who the main person that influenced me to play outside of Hetfield. It was Billy Joe from Green Day. Before u laugh, lol, i have good reason. I grew up with him and Mike Dirnt in Rodeo, Ca. My older brother was buddies eith em and i used to tag along and watch them practice. As a 12 yr old, watching a band play in a garage in the 80s was just awesome. Billy is actually a much better guitar player than most people have ever heard or seen. Anyways, i grew up in thr Bay Area thrash era and seen Metallica at Day On Thr Greens in Oakland, Ca and Machine Heads OG lineup, well with Kontos etc and Primus etc. Went to same summer school that Hammett went to school and Exodus i believe, DeAnza High. Mike Patton was dating my friend Rays sister Katy for a min. PussHead that did all Metallicas artwork for shirts in the 80s lived arounf the corner from ny grandma in Pinole/Tara Hills. Was a happening time. I didnt realize how good i had it then, it was inevitable i become a musician, lol
Randy Saint Rhodes will always be my favorite guitar player ever 🎸 👍
all time A leaguer
Just preordered mine. THEY ARE LIMITED!!!!!!!!!!
I don't see it anywhere. Is this one of those things that unless you're glued to your phone constantly, you have no chance to get it?
@@Scott__C Sweetwater has it but IDK if they’ve already sold out
@@elitecombatfitnesscentral6170says no longer available
I ordered from Sweetwater. Was told out of stock until September. I waited a couple of years since it was rumored, I can handle another month
@@elitecombatfitnesscentral6170 Sweetwater was alotted 450 units. I paid for mine last week, #126.
About time!
I guess it's a result of his composition chops, but the range of emotion Randy was able to communicate through his solos is unmatched in hard rock/metal. Aggressive at times, but more often than not, brings tears to my eyes.
Man, they nailed that plug your guitar into an AM radio with a 3 inch speaker tone!
Hahaha yeah but I did see Randy play diary of a madman tour and he sounded great..not at all like on the albums.
They are chasing his live tone ...Randy used this live and I had different tone just about every album
The album tones are really not that great… Don’t know what exact happend but it sounds like everybody’s first cheap practice amp…
@@Bls-of1ldwell there's only 2 albums dude, so......
I think most people can remember where they were when they first heard Randy Rhodes playing on Blizzard of Oz, he made that much difference.
I was 10 years old and got Blizzard of Ozz for Christmas...and Moving Pictures. Was a great year for great music!! RIP RR!
great year for you as well apparently, two great albums. Blizzard of ozz the debut album by Blizzard of ozz and top selling metal debut in history
I got to see the Moving Pictures tour in 1981, and the Diary tour in 1982, sadly with Brad Gillis, not Randy.
The equipment lists in both tour programs listed the Distortion + as the distortion of Choice.
I bought my first D+ shortly thereafter.
@@markgarner2725I saw the first show of the diary tour in San Francisco at the Cow Palace. It was my first concert I was 12 . Yeah it was amazing but Ozzy fans are crazy
@garycastronova7939 I was planning to catch the Diary tour in Baton Rouge in late January of 1982. Unfortunately, a local televangelist, Jimmy Swaggart, a man with great influence at the time, managed to get the concert canceled. (This was right after Ozzy bit a bat and then got arrested for peeing on a monument outside the Alamo.)
Six weeks later, Randy was dead.
I cursed Jimmy Swaggart and reveled a few years later when he got busted for picking up hookers on Airline Highway in New Orleans.
Swaggart's ministry collapsed a few years later when he got busted with another prosttute. 🤣
"Unique" is the HARDEST thing!
I am getting that pedal no matter what
My favourite guitarists ever bar none.
Hope to get this pedal soon and plug into my Marshall.
Feck! The size of Zakk 😮
Sooooo excited!!! Just picked mine up!!!! 🎸🎸🎸🎸✅✅ Can’t wait!!!
Great 👏🏻💯👍🏻
I tried to buy one the day this video came out and didn't find one.
MXR should really sell this as a full time product and make tons of money.
Great job MXR
Yes, it is a way of life .
cant wait to get one
Just remember those isolated guitar tracks for Blizzard, Live Mr Crowley and Diary of a Madman are all out there now, you hear it in a different way, so many subtle things.
Bring back the rockman x100.
Still got mine. Had to send it out to get components replaced though. They added an external power thingy for me. Works perfectly. The place is trying to figure out how to hook it up to a pedalboard.
lol I seriously laughed at this comment amongst all of omg Rhoads comments.
Pre ordered mine 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Now we're talking! I need to get that RR pedal
The distortion+ was probably the first pedal i ever bought, and i'll never sell it. It is instant rock, but it does one thing, and it will not clean up like a fuzz pedal can.
It's in the hand folks
What? no it isn't, it's all in this pedal. When they buy the pedal they will sound just like him. MXR is selling them a dream. Bunch of sorry fan boys
It will be torture for folks😂
Randy was an angel sent here to inspire, like Hendrix.
The GOAT
I’ve always wondered what could have been. Personally i believe Evh was on the same level at the time and I personally think there could have been a friendly feud between Evh and Rhodes and I won’t be surprised if they tried to one up each other and push each others limits. They were both revolutionaries.
I love that Zakk and Kirk both remind people it was a band called Blizzard of ozz, and not the lies the Osbournes revisionist history promotes. Kirk taking a little unintended swing at Lord Iommi
Just pre ordered from guitar center, sweetwater was already out of stock as of 3:30 pm eastern time on 8/20/24
Hello and well done Guys at MXR/Jim Dunlop ! You had the right idea to dress the Distortion Plus with a polka dot suit to homage Randy ! I took my first M104 in early '90 than my second is a CSP104+ reissue no AC/DC and no led ! Now I need Randy's one ! 👑🎸🔥
Was in high school and everyone was all quiet and not talking and i walked up to a dude and said why is everyone quiet? He said randy died,i thought he was a student,i said did i know him? He says he was ozzys guitar player,he was killed in an accident yesterday in Florida,they were on tour and the pilot was flying buzzing the tour bus and clipped the bus and the plane crashed into a house and randy was in the plane and randy was killed instantly,he handed me his walkman and said listen to this,crazy train came on and i was like holy crap,been a fan since,have alot of ozzys solo stuff w zakk wylde jake e lee and randy,his guy was leslie west first,my bucket list is to visit Randy's grave before i die and pay respect to a man who changed metal forever,RIP randy..
When i learned the riff to crazy train i understood why so many people have become obsessed with a piece of wood with metal strings attached.
Zack would make a great Billy Gibbons impersonator if he had a different hat,one that looks like my car wash mitt!! A repainted distortion + at 10 times the price!! Bend over, Jim Dunlop is here!!!!!!
This sucks because people that don't even play bought this up by the dozens now they have them on eBay for $500 when Dunlap originally sold them for $99
America 2024 price gouge everyone for everything.
Sad part is the true Randy fans will never get to experience the sound, I'm talking those of us who went to see the Diary of a Madman tour in 1982
Since I began playing in 1986, the ONLY distortion pedal I've used is the MXR Dist +.
There is no other.
I'm with you, brother!
I started playing in 1979. This was before Randy hit the scene. (I was first inspired to play by some guy named George Harrison, but I quickly got into the heavier stuff.)
I had a Ross distortion* at the time. (* The Ross was basically a clone of the script logo D+ as used by Randy and so many others then.)
The D+ appeared on my radar in 1981 when I first saw Rush. Alex Lifeson's equipment list was in the 'Moving Pictures' tour program, and the D+ was there.
Then, in 1982, I caught Ozzy's Diary tour in New Orleans. Sadly, it was Brad Gillis, not Randy, on guitar. The tour program was printed before Randy left us, so...
Again, I saw the D+ listed in the gear lists.
In 1984, I bought the then-current D+. It was a new iteration called the 'Series 2000.' It was one of the last of the original MXR-brand pedals before they went bankrupt and were revived by Dunlop. That pedal into my little Fender Champ was insane. Three decades later, one of the pots started dying, so I bought the Dunlop D+, linked up the two, and used a Sharpie to mark my preferred settings on the FNG.
I just bought the 15w EVH Iconic Series 5150 amp, and I can't wait to add the MXR Rhoads D+ to the signal chain.
Years ago, I rewired a Strat with the same pickups in Randy's polka-dot V. I call it "Stormbringer." It's a beast.
RR+EVH= Guitarmageddon, baby! 🎉
I posted a link today to the Randy Rhoads isolated guitar tracks on the legacy page...they are incredible, both albums and the live EP
FINALLY!
I had wondered what Phil Demmel had to do with the making of this pedal....Kathy keeps bringing him up. I heard recently he's the reason this pedal even happened! If this is true....it's legendary at this point! I own #0467! Great fucking pedal. Dunlop really knocked it out with this one!
It's funny to see Kirk promoting R.R here . His favorite player was always Michael Schenker . I believe Zakk Wylde much more in really being into Randy's stuff .
Kirk played an entire Randy solo on one of his albums, from "Randy's Believer" I have to find the song from Metallica. Till the late 90's Metallica NEVER mentioned Black Sabbath and Randy Rhoads. Later after 1991 they started coming clean. It's very very obvious they wanted to sound like Sabbath. Listen to Kirk's solo in Orion. He started with Tony Iommi's NIB solo. Even Randy's Over the Mountain guitar solo starts with Black Sabbath, by Black Sabbath main riff. Randy plays it twice to give the song a dark feel to it. Or Sabbath feel to it. RIP Randy 🙏 . He's still is the greatest up there with Eddie Van Halen and Tony Iommi. Yeah Tony the only guitar player to create an entire genre of music by himself:Heavy Metal!! 🎸
I'm currently experimenting with it, but Jim Dunlop's pick is very hard, so it's easy to get a Randy Rhoads sound.
I wish radio stations would play Crazy Train off of the Tribute album.... It's SO much better than the album version.
It would be great to see a video about the pedal 😉
Awesome.
Lol at the unplugged marshall amp 3:42
Probably running into a quad Cortex emulating the pedal into a plexi 😂
Long
Overdue.
RR paired an MXR 10 band eq with the D+, that’s an extremely important component to hit sound.
Best Randy Rhoads product ever is the Marshall 1959rr Super Lead 100W amp
When I think great tone, I think Randy Rhoads...
Most people forget Randy was only 25 when he died!
Patiently awaits the new YJM malmsteen MXR
I want one!
as if I didn't have enough already, now I'm going to need another board lmao
I just realised how much Kirk sounds like Mr. Mackey, the teacher from South Park. _mmmkaaay_
LOL
I love MXR, been using them for 20+ years. Dunlop has the best customer service I've used in any product (admittedly I haven't needed to use them in years but...)
With that said, I bought a used block letter Distortion+, and it was… terrible. The distortion was harsh and muddy. Due to the controls being really interactive, I couldn't use it for anything.
Roll the gain down and it rolls off all the top end and upper mids and the volume drops. Roll up the tone and you basically lose the bass, which is all that's audible. I tried different values, diodes… I ended up raping it for parts for the next couple years and repurposing the enclosure. Maybe I got a bad one or a bad version. It's the only one I've tried.
Placed my order with Sweetwater already 😁
I haven’t seen it on there all day. How did you find it?
@@jasonlewis5350 It’s sold out now, Guitar Center has some in stock on their website though
@@jasonlewis5350 ,it was there this morning around 8 am eastern standard time.
It does look like it's no longer there. Maybe Sweetwater sold out their supply. I was lucky enough to have one put on hold. I paid for it and already have a receipt.
@@jasonlewis5350Since Sweetwater showed they sold out, I pre-ordered mine from Musician’s Friend. It looks like they’re still available for order, right now.
@@jamesmarcin4787sweet water was limited a certain amount of pedals I think, if you weren’t glued to the release and waiting since 12 am release, ur chances of getting this were pretty slim
The break up on the album on the crazy train riff..Sounds like a pulley rattling on a steal line.
Need to use a doubler with it as Randy Triple Tracked every thing
So hard to find and buy one that not even Zakk and Kirk has one to demo in this video? 😂
@3:04 the only part where you’re actually going to hear the product