Lucky you, never got to see Randy play live, I saw Ozzy a couple years after the accident at the Texas Jam.
I grew up just outside San Antonio and was lucky to have a great Radio station during the 70's and early 80's. "The Godfather" Joe Anthony was a DJ and programming director and went out and found new and emerging bands that wasn't been played in the states. Bands like Rush, Triumph, Judas Priest, Scorpions, Legs Diamond, Saxon, and tons of others that people hadn't heard of......yet. During their early years some of these bands struggled to get bookings in the states yet and were surprised that the shows in San Antonio would be sold out and that the crowds knew the words to all their songs.
Joe wouldn't just play a couple cuts, he'd play the whole albums of new bands, just play the entire album sides randomly, just because he wanted to and thought people would dig it. No rules, he played what he wanted and what the people wanted, anything rock/metal Joe played it. We got heavy doses of bands like Budgie, UFO, Pat Travers, Triumph....... Triumph's "Fight The Good Fight" was actually our graduating class song....lol