This page is about the song. For other uses, see the Laughing gas

Laughing gas

Laughing gas is a common name of Nitrous oxide, particularly when used as an anestheticLaughing gas may also refer to:* Laughing Gas , a 1936 comic novel by P. G...

 (disambiguation).

"Laughing Gas" was a song performed by Quiet Riot

Quiet Riot

Quiet Riot is an American Heavy Metal band. They are best known for their hit singles "Metal Health" and "Cum On Feel the Noize". They were founded in 1973 by guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni, under the original name Mach 1, before changing the name to Little Women and finally Quiet...

 at all the live performances while Randy Rhoads

Randy Rhoads

Randall William "Randy" Rhoads was an American heavy metal guitarist who played with Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot. A devoted student of classical guitar, Rhoads often combined his classical music influences with his own heavy metal style. While on tour with Ozzy Osbourne, he would seek out...

 played with the band. It was never recorded onto an album until a live bootleg performance was enhanced (with rerecorded vocals) and placed on The Randy Rhoads Years

The Randy Rhoads Years

The Randy Rhoads Years is a compilation album from Quiet Riot that features songs from Randy Rhoads' time with the band in the late 1970s. It features previously unreleased material and some remixed songs from Quiet Riot's first two albums which were released only in Japan...

. The improvised solo was just over 6 minutes long and contained clips from future songs of Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy Osbourne

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is an English vocalist, whose musical career has spanned over 40 years. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead singer of the pioneering English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, whose radically different, intentionally dark, harder sound helped spawn the heavy metal...

 including, "Goodbye to Romance", "Mr. Crowley

Mr. Crowley

"Mr Crowley" is a 1980 heavy metal song performed by Ozzy Osbourne, released on the album Blizzard of Ozz, Osbourne's first solo effort following his firing from Black Sabbath. It peaked at number 46 on the United Kingdom charts. Musicians playing on the song are guitarist Randy Rhoads, bass...

", "Dee

Dee (song)

Dee is a short instrumental by Randy Rhoads from Ozzy Osbourne's album Blizzard of Ozz.-Details:"Dee" shows the classical music influences that made...

", and "Crazy Train

Crazy Train

"Crazy Train" is a song written by Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads and Bob Daisley. It was released as the first single in 1980 on Osbourne's first solo studio album, Blizzard of Ozz. The song was recorded in 1980, a year after leaving Black Sabbath, and later included on the live album Tribute,...

". The solo outlined Randy's talent and productivity level at such a young age. This solo also contained a reference to William Tell Overture

William Tell Overture

The William Tell Overture is the instrumental introduction to the opera Guillaume Tell by Gioachino Rossini. William Tell premiered in 1829 and was the last of Rossini's 39 operas, after which he went into semi-retirement, although he continued to compose cantatas, sacred music and secular vocal...

 and this certainly got the crowd roaring.

When Rhoads left the band, this song was never again performed.

With Ozzy

This solo was regularly performed, in different incarnations, with Ozzy on tour. It usually came after "Suicide Solution

Suicide Solution

"Suicide Solution" is a song by Ozzy Osbourne. It is track five on the album Blizzard of Ozz released in 1980. Guitarist Randy Rhoads wrote the riff to the song , and Bob Daisley helped co-write the lyrics...

", although Randy had to cut back the solo to just 2 minutes. One such incarnation of the solo appears on the Tribute album. Interestingly enough, the solo on the live album was from a different show (Montreal)than the rest of the album (Cleveland), and was haphazardly spliced in over the original for unknown reasons.