From the moment Ozzy Osbourne left Black Sabbath following 1978’s Never Say Die! He pulled Randy Rhoads away from Quiet Riot to launched his solo career. With his ample fretboard acrobatics, Rhoads quickly rose to become a guitar star put in the same league as Eddie Van Halen. “When I was 14 and his guitar player passed in a plane accident in 1982, I believed I was going to replace him,” Bettencourt says. Three years later, Bettencourt, having plied his trade in hair metal group Sinful, joined Extreme, the band with whom he'd make his name.