Canada’s The Metal Voice recently talked with guitarist George Lynch where he was asked if he had any kind of contact with legendary Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Randy Rhoads when they were both coming up through the ranks in the Los Angeles rock scene in the late 1970s.

He said:

“We played shows together frequently. We rehearsed at the same rehearsal facility and shared the same rooms, so we had a lot of opportunities to hang out and share licks and talk occasionally. We weren’t friends or anything, but we were in the same business and we ran in the same circles and ran into each other all the time. I’d known that he appreciated my playing and liked my playing, and he would bring people to see me frequently, including his mom.

“We were both for Ozzy a number of times, and I was up for it on three different occasions, and one of them was the time that Randy got it over me. And then the understanding was that between whichever one of us got it, the other one would teach at Musonia [School Of Music, which was founded more than 70 years ago by Randy‘s mother, Delores Rhoads]. Well, I got the consolation prize. He told his mom that if anything ever happened with him that he would want me to maybe fill in if possible if I’d be willing to, so I did.”