Odin’s RANDY O on Rooming w/ Chris Holmes of W.A.S.P. in the ’80s
Odin frontman Randy O talks about being roommates with WASP guitarist Chris Holmes, the Decline of Western Civilization Part 2, Lita Ford, and more. #litaford #metallica #mötleycrüe
Chris Holmes talking about the pool scene: https://youtube.com/shorts/BoWuzYEl-HM
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@Jay-fx4tx
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
If he was "acting" then he needs to become an actor and start receiving academy awards
@mightyminx6653
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
Hey man your looking good and it seems like your healthy.. Now we gotta teach you not to sign anything unless you know what you are signing for…. lol Those blood hounds will suck you dry…lol
@JohnnyButtons
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
Motley Crue used to fill their Jack Daniels bottles up with iced tea. So many of those bands were 100% Kayfabe lol.
@LuisDHern
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
Dude, you do great interviews but you surely interrupted this guy a lot in the beginning. Let the man finish his stories…😅
@Madaxeman78
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
Chris says it was water though
@ConservativeKirbyMCMLXXV
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
For the final time…….it was REAL VODKA.
There's tons of videos where Chris says himself that it was real Vodka, which burned his eyes 👀
@dwade6322
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
Saw W.A.S.P. about 13 years ago in Maryland at the 'M3' fest. They were awesome.🤟
@ninamc6116
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
Chris was so hot!!
@cancelbubble6535
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
Odin, Odin, Odin, Odin….
@MauiOG808
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
I see Full in Bloom in my algo. I'm clickin and likin asap, cuz it's always a banger 💯
@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
Wasn't Randy in a band with Jeff Duncan (Armoured Saint)?
@LoboStyleRacing
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
That's what the end game was…for many of them.
@LoboStyleRacing
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
So Jim Ladd made Odin take a drug test…?
@heyjarrod
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
Yeah, when I was in high school, mid to late 80s, the big local bands were Odin and Armored Saint. I remember getting home after school and watching their videos on MTV. Looks like they were all maybe just around five years older than me. So, it’s been cool over the past several years getting to know all the guys from the big local bands.
Reinkus Tide too. Big time!
Plus, I just lived about a mile from where Chris Holmes and Lita Ford lived in Tujunga, later 80s. We would go to parties right up Chris’s street, Haines Canyon. Chris would usually come walking up the street with a drink in his hand, hanging out out front and talking with us. But I never saw Lita, even though a lot of people would see her around, or at the local Ralphs supermarket.
I just remember, we’d ask Chris where Lita is, and he would say, “I left the old lady at home.” Chris was the man, ha ha! I just ran into him at NAMM, had a nice chat with him until a crowd started gathering. Then I caught up with him a little more later in the day. He didn’t remember me, of course, but I told him the stories, and just talked about those days back in town. Really cool guy. Hope he recovers from this latest about he is going through.
And I just saw Lita a few months ago, she performed at the annual Ronnie James Dio benefit concert here in LA. So I talked with her as her bodyguards were escorting her out to her car, so she wouldn’t get mobbed. But I mentioned our old town, Sunland-Tujunga, and she got a kick out of that and gave me a nice smile for the picture.
@heyjarrod
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
9:15 I heard the same thing about my band, HORIZON, in 1989. That we broke the record at Gazzarri’s that February. We always heard it was Van Halen’s record. But I’m sure other bands have broken, or more likely tied it. Hard to say.
You could have the main floor packed, where the main stage was, in 1989. Then downstairs around the pool tables could be packed, and then up in the balcony would be packed to the gills.
I say this kind of jokingly—because although we did bring a lot of people since we were young band, just out of high school—the reason it was so packed was that it was also the record release party gig for Brunette. They had just gotten signed.
But we actually rented a few school buses that we filled up with kids from town, Sunland-Tujunga area, so they all made it that night.
So, who knows, a third of the people there may have been there to see us, ha ha.
@heyjarrod
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
We all know Greg, he’s also the local amp guru for a long time now here in the La Cresenta area—and beyond. So I’ve gotten to know him over the past six years or so. Man, he’s done a lot of great stuff, and still recording.
But, yeah, from the timing of it, I thought that was maybe supposed to be him, in the dirt. But the guy in the dirt, they had him looking like he couldn’t even play. So they might’ve just made somebody up. Unless some guy did come in that couldn’t play, just before Mick.
Because Greg was awesome, you could hear it in as early playing, a lotta bands sounded like him after he left them. And this other guy Andy is talking about must’ve been really good too. So they took a little artistic liberty in that scene, all good, great movie.
Great stuff, Randy!
@jackbtlr17
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
Massive l.a. band lol that's a joke
@julianschulz1620
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
I love the Odin segment in "Decline."
Always thought that song, 12 0 clock high' was killer, and the footage of them performing
was cool.
@trance9158
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
I love Odin… All your Shining love is great!!
@salvaro.2643
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
Penelope should be ashamed for what she did on Decline II. Not professional, cool or even funny. Even the Ozzy orange juice scene was fake. Stupid.
@ErWo75
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
Everyone from The Decline movie was going to “make it”. 😄
@AtacamaHumanoid
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
I hope Cleopatra pays him. I read on the Helios Creed fan page that they have a pattern of not paying their artists while continually pressing and selling their albums. Sounds like the same pattern Greg Ginn does with SST Records. Pretty annoying that record companies can get away with that.
@keepcryingaboutit
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
Right. And your music is up there with Zeppelin's Randy. I'll believe the look on Chris's mom's face before I'd believe you 😂
@susann3772
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
I remember Chris from Glendale High
@glengoodwin
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
As a bartender, the amount of times I’ve fed drunk idiots water martinis and they’ve told me it was the best they’ve ever had is countless
@scottwhite2757
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
Great interview , thank you !
@sweetmissypetuniawilson327
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
Loved Odin back in the day!
This is the first I've heard of any of them in forever!
💜❤💜
@randymoran67
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
I bought the Odin ep at the rock shop on Hollywood Blvd still have it but honestly it wasn't good
@adammassacre4715
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
Yeah i always thought that must be water because putting vodka in your eyes will cause intense, dangerous chemical burns, severe pain, and potential permanent vision damage. The high alcohol content strips away the protective cell layers of the cornea. No matter how wasted Chris legit was that would have fucked him up.
@310PPU
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
I just discovered Odin ..man those guys are awesome…. cant believe i never came across them..great jams
@kevinklingered
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
is that the assless chaps guy from decline of western civilization lol
@tymanngruter1808
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
Always good to hears someone is taking care at the right time.,
@richardsemuta1089
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
Penelope Spheeris should have waited a minute and done her movie on the thrash movement. That would have been way better than these Hollywood posers.
@frankenberry2026
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
Is there a pic of Chris and Robbin Crosby together? Cause back then they looked like twins.
@TimothyMartin-u6d
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
And we pulled the water trick on someone, the preacher was coming to my house every week to get me to go to his church, so to discourage his visits, we actually filled up a bottle of empty bottle of Vodka with water and had a kid posed drinking it while wearing women's clothing, the preacher stopped coming by that week. Dirty trick to play and that man, I did join or rather marry into his church.
@TimothyMartin-u6d
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
I have seen people drink vodka the way he did in the movie, not the pouring it in the eyes thing.
@mostlycrazyallthetime
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
Mr fullinbloom is by far the best interviewer of metal musicians
@stephaneauger1036
August 21, 2026 at 11:06 pm
shut up ! don't need to ear real or not ! rock and roll that it ! 🙂