Their Producer Randomly Started Shredding Randy Rhoads Mid-Session | Corrosion of Conformity

Pepper Keenan, Woody Weatherman, and Bobby Landgraf of Corrosion of Conformity on one of the better surprises from the Good God / Baad Man sessions — the moment producer Warren Riker picked up a guitar a few weeks into recording and started ripping Randy Rhoads solos out of nowhere. Nobody in the room knew he could play like that. Riker — whose production credits include Down, Fugees, and Cathedral — turned out to be a lifelong guitar shredder underneath the producer credentials. Pepper describes him as a "typical Jersey suburban metalhead kid turned record producer." Which, when you think about it, explains a lot about why the record sounds the way it does. This clip is from Episode 33 of The Sonic Road Podcast, recorded backstage at The Roxy at Mahalls in Lakewood, Ohio on May 10th, 2026 — hours before COC's show in