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DLR'sCock
04-09-2005, 11:45 AM
BOB DAISLEY Discusses RANDY RHOADS And Early Days With OZZY OSBOURNE - Apr. 9, 2005

Cameron Edney from Inside_Out666 recently conducted an in-depth interview with legendary bassist Bob Daisley (OZZY OSBOURNE, RAINBOW, URIAH HEEP, GARY MOORE). Several excerpts from the interview follow:

Inside_Out666: I have heard that Ronnie James Dio is a very hard man to work with. Did you find this working with him in RAINBOW?

Bob Daisley: "Not in RAINBOW so much because I think everybody accepted the fact that it was Ritchie's band, it started off being called RITCHIE BLACKMORE'S RAINBOW and then by the time the second album was released they had dropped the Ritchie Blackmore bit and just billed it as RAINBOW, but it was really Ritchie's band.

"I did a few shows with Ronnie at the end of 1998. He called me because he needed a bass player as his bass player at the time couldn't do the Scandinavian tour. Ronnie had asked me to do it. So I sat at home with some of the records and went through the tracks and then rehearsed with them. I flew to London, Ronnie was doing a show there the day I arrived which I went to and had a look at. The following night we flew to Scandinavia and did a show there. I was still jet lagged and as my dad had just died I wasn't in a great frame of mind, but Ronnie was OK to work with, I mean, he's quite particular in what he wants but he didn't seem much different to me to the time we spent together in RAINBOW. I suppose it depends on the individual, the situation etc."

Inside_Out666: Going back to the song writing, every artist has their own way of writing and composing. The fantastic list of songs that you have written during your time with OZZY OSBOURNE alone is endless let alone your contributions in URIAH HEEP, GARY MOORE and so on. For you what comes first the music or the lyrics?

Bob Daisley: "Well, sometimes I get lyrical ideas and I think 'Ahh! There's a good idea,' and just jot it down, and sometimes we might be working out chords or riffs and you think, 'Ahh! Those lyrics that I jotted down that day might fit with this.' A lot of the time you just come up with riffs and then you think well what should this song be about, the attitude of the song, 'Maybe this' or 'Let's make it about that,' and then you might write lyrics for it after that.

"With a lot of the Ozzy stuff, no matter what guitar player it was, whether it was Randy [Rhoads], Jake [E. Lee] or Zakk [Wylde] or whoever it was, we would sit down and work out a lot of the music first and then Ozzy would come in. Ozzy's quite good at vocal melodies but he doesn't write lyrics. So he would just sing any old nonsense over the top of the music that we had written and then I'd take tapes away of his melodies and his phrasing then I'd write lyrics to it.

"Some of the content of it I came up with and sometimes he'd just have a title and he'd say, 'Oh, I've got this title, write it about this.' I remember there was one of the songs from 'The Ultimate Sin' called 'Thank God for the Bomb' and I thought, 'Well, what the fuck do you write that about, it sounds like a warmonger or something. What I wrote it about was that it's the one thing that’s stopping major wars.

Inside_Out666: It's really funny I would have thought that now Ozzy was out on his own, he would have contributed a lot more in the way of writing lyrics?

Bob Daisley: "No, not at all, he's never been a lyricist even when he was in BLACK SABBATH. Geezer wrote all the lyrics. You know he would come up with one line like in 'Suicide Solution'. I came up with the title and I came up with what it was going to be about, it was about him."

Inside_Out666: Oh, really? It’s funny you say that because a few days back I was watching Ozzy's video "Don't Blame Me" where he says he wrote "Suicide Solution" about Bon Scott (AC/DC)?

Bob Daisley: "He's a fuck. He didn't write it. I know what I wrote it about. Ozzy, at the time, had been kicked out of BLACK SABBATH and this was our first album. Ozzy was drinking himself to death. He would start drinking at lunch time and carry on all through the afternoon into the evening. Sometimes when we were writing, Randy and I would go looking for him and there he'd be passed out in front of the fireplace, pissed himself, comatose. 'Yeah, this is really productive' [laughs]. 'You keep that up, Ozzy, [and] we're gonna get fuck-all done & you're gonna kill yourself.' Ozzy came up with the first line, which I think is from something else, anyway, it's not even his but he did say it, and that was 'Wine is fine but whiskey's quicker.' That was the only line he came up with and I wrote the rest of the song about him as a warning to killing himself with alcohol. Bon Scott did die during the recording of that album in 1980. I remember hearing about Bon. It was horrible, he was a mate of mine. I would certainly admit to it if I had written it about Bon Scott because we were friends but I wrote it about Ozzy. It's blatant what he does, you know, in interviews and things. 'Well, when I wrote this and when I wrote that.' That's bullshit, Ozzy, and you know it!"

Inside_Out666: I personally believe that both albums are Ozzy's best stuff closely followed by "No More Tears". But on those two albums in particular you spent a lot of time with Randy Rhoads writing and recording. If there is one person I would love to know more about, it's Randy. Can you tell us what it was like working with Randy during that time and what he was like to hang out with?

Bob Daisley: "I first met Randy in Jet Records office in London in 1979. What happened was I met Ozzy in a club in London one night. There was a band on called GIRL and I went to see them with a mate of mine because I knew they were signed to Jet Records. I'd been with Jet Records while I was in WIDOWMAKER and I was out of RAINBOW looking for something to do and I thought if I go along to see GIRL tonight at least I'll know people there from Jet Records. Ozzy was signed to Jet Records, he'd been signed with BLACK SABBATH and then BLACK SABBATH fired him but Jet Records kept Ozzy and not SABBATH.

"So, anyway, one of the Jet Records blokes introduced me to Ozzy, and Ozzy said, 'I want to put a band together, I've heard good things about you I know you've come from RAINBOW. Would you be interested?' I said, 'Yeah, certainly.'

"Ozzy and I got on great. A couple of days later, I got a phone call from Jet Records asking me to go up to Ozzy's place. At the time Ozzy was living in Stafford, he came to the station to meet me, picked me up in his car and we drove back to his house and he had a couple of mates there just local musicians, we had a bit of a play and Ozzy and I got on really well together.

"Ozzy phoned Arthur Sharpe from Jet Records, he was the one who introduced us, and I still remember Ozzy's words, 'Oh, yeah, Bob, and I get on like a house on fire, the fire brigades just left.' I had said to Ozzy, 'If you want to get really serious about this and you want it to be world-class, I don't think those other two guys are world-class. They're OK, they're nice blokes and they play OK, but I don't think it'll work out. Ozzy said, 'Hang on a minute.' He had this rehearsal room at the side of his house and he walked into where they were and said, 'Hey, fellas, it's not working out. Pack up, you can go home.' [laughs] Just like that.

"He came up to me and he said, 'I know this great guitar player in L.A. His name's Randy Rhoads.' He said he's a guitar teacher. When he said he was a guitar teacher I had envisioned this older guy with a pipe and wearing slippers and an old dressing gown on [laughs] teaching kids to play.

"They flew Randy over to London, I went into Jet Records and met Randy. I think he was 22 then and we went up on a train to Ozzy's house in Stafford. One thing that still sticks in my mind from then was we had a bit of a play together and we knew something was happening it was gelling. Randy and I looked at each other right at the same time and said to each other, 'Oh, I like the way you play.' We started putting ideas together, there weren't any lyrics and Ozzy was just sort of singing tunes over the top of what we were comin up with musically. We started auditioning drummers as we were writing the stuff as well so we were trying to get things happening while we had drummers sit in with us and some of them were good they just weren't right.

"We would go to rehearsal places, they were live-in places where you could rehearse day and night if you wanted to and you could live there. I remember staying at one of the places and it was called Transam Trucking, and I came down the next morning and Ozzy and Randy were there and they had some words put together for one of the songs on the first album. I can't remember what song it was they had spent ages on it and they had about four lines written. I read them and thought, 'God, these are fuckin awful. I better write the lyrics.'

"So I wore the lyricist hat only because Randy wasn't a lyricist and neither was Ozzy, and I thought, 'I don't want to be part of embarrassing lyrics' [laughs]. So off we went and rehearsed, started putting lyrics together and right at the very end we had Lee Kerslake audition and he was the last drummer we had on the list and we thought, 'Let's hope he's good and if he didn't work out then the record company was saying, 'We need to get you in the studio to do the album, it's getting later and later.'

"So, if Lee didn't work out we probably would have gone into the studio with somebody like Cozy Powell, somebody who could have done a good enough session on the album.

"But as soon as Lee started playing, Randy and I looked at each other and thought 'Thank fuck, where's he been.' Lee was drummer number thirty nine that we had auditioned, loads of them we auditioned. Each day we had 4–5 drummers come in.

"Jet Records would phone us up and say, 'Well, we've got another list for ya. So and so at two o'clock, someone else at three, someone else at four,' but Lee worked out great, he was perfect for the band he was just what we wanted.

"Randy's mum owned a music school and Randy started playing at the age of five which is one the reasons he was so good at it. Having the classical background really helped with Randy's style of rock guitar playing. Most rock guitar players have had a rock or blues orientated background where Randy had a lot of classical stuff mixed in there, which helped with a lot of chord structures and unusual things for rock music. We used to call Randy 'Mal' it was short for malnutrition [laughs] he was really skinny, he had an athletic build and we used to call his girlfriend Jodie 'Anna' short for anorexia but they were both really nice and they really suited each other. Randy was a very gentle person he was never aggressive or loud. He was sarcastic at times and he would take the piss out of people without them really knowing. Randy had a very dry sense of humour; he wasn't your typical pie-in-the-face American. Sometimes we would go out to restaurants and I remember one time we were in Ridge farm in Surrey England, Randy, Lee Kerslake and I went down near Brighton on the coast and there was a model railway exhibition. Randy was into model trains and so was I, so the three of us went down to see this railway exhibition. I think I’ve got photos of that with trains running in front of Randy [laughs].

"The first time Randy and I ever went to Ozzy's house to play together, I remember standing on Stafford station with Randy and at this time nobody had a clue what was gonna happen with the band, how big it was going to be or if we were going to have any success at all. All of a sudden, I had this thought that one day people were going to continuously ask me 'What was Randy like?' 'What was it like to play with Randy?' 'What was he really like?' I didn't know at the time why I was having these thoughts. It must have been a premonition of things to come."

Inside_Out666: During the middle of the "Diary of a Madman" tour I believe Lee and yourself were fired?

Bob Daisley: "No, it was only about three or four days after we finished recording the album. I'll go back to what the band was about, and that is the band was called BLIZZARD OF OZZ, it wasn't called the OZZY OSBOURNE BAND or just OZZY OSBOURNE solo band it was a band called BLIZZARD OF OZZ. Ozzy's father came up with the idea of it and Ozzy told us about it. We thought, 'At least that sounds like a band.' See, the record company was saying to us, 'Well, just call the act OZZY or the OZZY OSBOURNE BAND.' We said 'Fuck that, it doesn't sound like a band,' and we wanted something that sounded like a band. The record company has said, 'Well, on the first album we need to use the name Ozzy Osbourne.' We all said, 'We don't mind if you put the BLIZZARD OF OZZ in big writing and underneath it 'featuring Ozzy Osbourne.' We don't mind that.' We can utilize the fact that it's Ozzy's voice and that he's come from SABBATH and all that. So what did they do? They fucked us over. They put OZZY OSBOURNE in big writing and in smaller writing the BLIZZARD OF OZZ which made it look like an OZZY OSBOURNE record called the 'Blizzard of Ozz'. We thought, 'You cunts.'"

Inside_Out666: So really it’s an album with no name?

Bob Daisley: "[Laughs] Well, the first album was just supposed to be called 'Blizzard of Ozz' like BAD COMPANY's first album was just called 'Bad Company' and LED ZEPPELIN's first album was just called 'Led Zeppelin'. So when it came time to do the second album actually I came up with the title 'Diary of a Madman'. I still remember where I was. I was walking up Holland Park Ave near Holland Park where I lived in London with Ozzy and we were walking up to the shops and I said, 'I've got a good name for the next album,' and he said, 'What's that?' I said 'Diary of a Madman'. 'Oh, that's fuckin great. I love that. You come up with good things.' So I came up with that title and obviously wrote all the words for all the songs on the album. See, Sharon was on the scene then and Ozzy and Sharon were heavily involved with each other while he was married. The whole vibe of the band had changed; it wasn't like a band anymore.

"Sharon was all 'I'm gonna promote Ozzy. It's going to be OZZY OSBOURNE, that's the name the act will be called.' It was all Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzy. I think she wanted to keep Randy and promote him as a separate entity as well and make it the Ozzy show but they didn’t hint at anything until they got the album out of us written and recorded. Then about 2–3 days after we finished recording the album, we thought 'Well, we'll be going to America soon to start the tour,' and I got a phone call from Sharon just saying, 'You and Lee are out.' Just like that. So I said, 'Wait a minute, it's our band.' 'No, not anymore.' What about our royalties? 'End of story,' she says, and I said, 'We'll see about that,' and I went to a lawyer and we sued them. We got money out of Jet Records and Don Arden, Sharon's father. It finally went to court in 1986 and we got a pay-out. We thought our royalties would continue, but they didn't, and that's why we had to sue them again later."

Inside_Out666: Speaking of that lawsuit; is it still going or is it over?

Bob Daisley: "Well, it's over for the minute unless new information comes up or something different happens. See we went to the Supreme Court in America and we got denied a trial. We went to the lawyers at the end of '97 in L.A. and our lawyers said, 'You've got a really good case here,' and we should have won. The first three years, the judge that was involved in the case was saying to us, 'Go for it.' Every issue that came up she kept in (it was a female judge), and then out of the blue after three fuckin years, we didn't have a case. This from the same judge who has been behind us all this time. So I don't know if money changed hands or if strings had been pulled or backs had been scratched, but it was right at the time that 'The Osbournes' show became really big, right at the time that the Osbournes became richer than ever and more connected than ever all of a sudden we didn't have a case."

Inside_Out666: Actually with you bringing that up it makes me curious to know why you went back and continued to work with Ozzy?

Bob Daisley: "Well, that's a bit of a long story but I will give you a brief outline of what happened. In '82, when Lee and I got fired after the 'Diary' thing, we were suing Don Arden and Jet Records. Ozzy and Sharon had a big fallout with Jet Records and Don Arden, her father, so they came to us and said, 'We will help you in your lawsuit against Jet Records, we will confirm that you’re supposed to get royalties,' and they had meetings with our lawyers and so I thought, 'Oh, good, they are going to help us.' In 1983 we used to go out for dinners etc, they were helping us but I didn't realize what scumbags they were because unbeknownst to us, in 1983 they bought the rights to Ozzy's catalogue from Jet Records. So they were receiving our royalties and they didn’t even tell us [laughs]. We were still suing Don Arden and Jet Records, so we ended up suing the wrong people but he did end up paying us out up to the point in time that he owned the catalogue. But after that they were getting our royalties and we didn't know, we didn't even find out until the Nineties. They were being sly and deceitful by pretending to help us but at the same time in July '83 they bought Ozzy from Jet Records and Don Arden. I've seen the contracts. People say, 'Well, why did you go back and work with them if you knew?' But we didn't know they were getting our royalties. What we did know was that we beat Don Arden in court in 1986 and we got a payout and then we knew that he went bankrupt and he had no fuckin dough and we thought, 'Well, where are our royalties going? Maybe he's stealing our royalties and he's paying off his bankruptcy fees.' We didn't know that the Osbournes were getting them the whole time."

For the rest of the interview, visit Inside_Out666.

DLR'sCock
04-10-2005, 12:45 PM
Bump....

nosuchluck
04-10-2005, 01:01 PM
excellent read.

Hoongood
04-10-2005, 02:42 PM
Can you give us a link to the rest of the article?

DLR'sCock
04-10-2005, 03:27 PM
Here ya go...


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/INSIDE_OUT666



http://insideout666.mysite.freeserve.com

bueno bob
04-10-2005, 03:49 PM
Yay for Bob!!! :D

Seshmeister
04-10-2005, 09:33 PM
Nothing changes...

I got the new Ozzy box set a couple of days ago.

It comes with a 60 page booklet which has not a single picture of Bob Daisley in it. BD was heavily involved in everything good that Ozzy did as a solo artist.

In Ozzy's notes for a demo of 'No More Tears', just about his only decent effort since the mid 80s he says "I always thought that this song was a gift from God. Mike Inez came up with the bass riff and it just took off from there." Mike Innez got the writing credit.

Bob Daisley claims to have written it and what do you know? Bob is playing on the demo on the box set.

They must think we're dumb or maybe they just don't care.

I love old Ozzy music but this shit is hard to take sometimes.

Sharon is her fathers daughter.


Cheers!

:gulp:

DLR'sCock
04-10-2005, 09:40 PM
I think the world should know the truth about Ozzy and Sharon....

I love Ozzy, but this is so fucking wrong, and I am tired of it....

As a musician and songwriter I am appalled and disgusted by Ozzy and Sharon.

Seshmeister
04-10-2005, 10:07 PM
Ozzy wouldn't have a career if it wasn't for Daisley.

bueno bob
04-11-2005, 03:00 AM
Originally posted by Seshmeister
Ozzy wouldn't have a career if it wasn't for Daisley.

This is the truth. The old Ozzy demos PRIOR to Bob joining in and fixing everything are purely GARBAGE, Randy or no. Bob was responsible for a great deal of the lyric writing (since, as any halfwit knows, Ozzy can't write his own effectively...ask Geezer Butler about that) and came up with more than his fair share of the music for those albums.

But, you know, God forbid anybody give Ozzy and Sharon "unpleasantness" in their lives... :rolleyes:

BrownSound1
04-11-2005, 03:35 AM
And people thought Peter Grant was an asshole. :D

Panamark
04-11-2005, 03:46 AM
I think Ozzy's recent "Apologies to the fans" needed extending to Daisley and Kerslake..

Who hear has heard Blizzard and Diary remixed ??

FUCK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They must think we are all stupid...

Panamark
04-11-2005, 03:49 AM
Thanks Cock, this was really interesting reading !

bueno bob
04-11-2005, 03:49 AM
Actually, I'm glad to say I HAVE NOT heard the remastered versions, and I will do EVERYTHING in my power to ensure that I NEVER hear them.

Bob's been a big influence on my own playing, and those two albums are among some of the best early 80s metal out there, period. Doing ANYTHING to alter them is an act of pure evil.

Panamark
04-11-2005, 03:52 AM
Does anyone have boots of Jimmy Barnes doing the Ozzy songs with Kerslake and Daisley ?

I was going to go to that gig.. FUCK ! I should have gone..

WACF
04-11-2005, 04:33 AM
Good read...does not take much of a look at Ozzy's solo career to see what Bob states is the truth.
That early stuff is killer!

Panamark
04-11-2005, 07:49 AM
Originally posted by bueno bob
Actually, I'm glad to say I HAVE NOT heard the remastered versions, and I will do EVERYTHING in my power to ensure that I NEVER hear them.

Bob's been a big influence on my own playing, and those two albums are among some of the best early 80s metal out there, period. Doing ANYTHING to alter them is an act of pure evil.

Bob, Elvis sent me some of the remastered stuff. Holy Crap !!
Promise me you will never listen to it, it really is that bad.
I dont know how Sharon thought the public would not notice.
The basslines and drumbeats are totally fucking different !
Not only that, but they suck...

I feel worse for hearing it..

Seshmeister
04-11-2005, 08:06 AM
Yeah it's the rematered stuff he's put on the boxset but it says on the notes "recorded in 1980"

Bizarrely BD and Lee Kerslake still get a production credit for the Blizzard songs....

ThrillsNSpills
04-11-2005, 08:15 AM
THANKS that was a great read.
And of course the remixing of those discs was incomprehensible.
I don't understand the motive behind that move, you'd figure Oz would be grateful.

The other side of the coin is maybe Oz was so blitzed that he thought he wrote more lyrics. Shit, if the guy was capable of snorting ants.....know what I mean?

matt19
04-11-2005, 12:17 PM
daisley was great and it was fucked up what happened to them.. but i wouldnt call them garbage... with randy im sure that something would have happened... if u think about it... those songs dont really get recognition for lyrics.. . but guitar riffs and solos Randy was the best

Vinnie Velvet
04-12-2005, 09:36 AM
Originally posted by bueno bob
Actually, I'm glad to say I HAVE NOT heard the remastered versions, and I will do EVERYTHING in my power to ensure that I NEVER hear them.

Bob's been a big influence on my own playing, and those two albums are among some of the best early 80s metal out there, period. Doing ANYTHING to alter them is an act of pure evil.

Its a good thing you haven't heard them. They sound like pure shit.

I'm glad I still have my 1995 remastered CDs for Blizzard and Diary.

With all due respect to Mike Bordin and Robert Trujellio, their added mix to the songs just butchered two of rock's most famous albums.

Randy is probably rolling in his grave over this.

Bill Lumbergh
04-12-2005, 03:24 PM
Ozzy's "apology" is just PR bullshit. Now that the Osbournes is coming to an end, Sharon knows all he'll have is his hard core fan base.

DLR'sCock
04-12-2005, 11:44 PM
http://www.live4metal.com/bobdaisley2-1.jpg



http://www.live4metal.com/bobdaisley2.htm


Interview with Bob Daisley
May 26, 2004 By: John Waldo


This interview with Bob Daisley is a follow-up to one conducted by Scott Alisoglu last year. In October 2003, the court case of Bob Daisley and Lee Kerslake versus their former employer Ozzy Osbourne over royalties due from the two classic albums Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman was dismissed. We wanted to know what happened, so we went right to the source. Bob was very happy to share his thoughts with us, and as you will read, he is not a man to hold anything back. Bob has seen it all in his life, playing with legends such as Ozzy, Gary Moore, Rainbow, and Uriah Heep to name a few, and it was nice to talk with him about not only the bad, but the unbelievably good also. They say good things happen to good people, and Bob Daisley is proof of that.

For those who have not been following your legal battle with Ozzy Osbourne, can you give a quick recap of what it’s about?
Lee Kerslake and I (and Randy Rhoads) were to get performance royalties on the albums Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman and haven't been paid (we got some of the writing royalties). We sued Jet Records/Don Arden in 1986 in London and won. We thought the royalties would be forthcoming and that the credits on Diary would be amended but neither happened. Much later we found out that the Osbournes had bought the catalogue from Jet and that they were receiving our royalties so we had to sue them. That lawsuit started in 1997 and has been ongoing since.

In your opinion, why has the case been dismissed?
In my opinion, there are rats to smell - we know how powerful, rich and connected the O$bournes are.

Judge Snyder stated that in her opinion you failed to explain why you believed that you had not been properly credited on the first two Ozzy CDs. What reasons did you give her and what could you have done differently to make it clearer?
Judge Snyder judged the summary judgments totally in our favour for the first three years (three judgments) and then out of the blue, said that we didn't have a case. We presented all the record sleeves showing that we had not been credited on Diary for our performances or production credits.

You’ve been fighting this case in court for six years now, and in some aspects almost 20 years. Will you continue to pursue legal action, or accept the dismissal and move on?
We're waiting on advice from our lawyers who also think this is a crock of ....

Sharon seems to be very involved in every aspect of Ozzy’s life, both business and personal. Do you think she had a part to play in all of this, or is she just standing behind her husband?
She is the main reason we didn't get paid and have had to fight for so long.

As a fan, I was very disappointed when the re-masters of Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman came out with new drum and bass tracks. Was that the ultimate slap in the face?
It didn't surprise me/us that they would stoop to such low levels to piss us off, but to insult the memory of Randy and the record buying public is another matter. It just goes to show how important the music is to them - zilch !

You’ve had a brilliant career. Have the legal problems taken anything away from it, or at least changed how you approach projects now?
No not really, not everyone I work with are money-grabbing, greedy, rip-off assholes.

Rudy Sarzo has come out recently saying that Ozzy and Sharon treated Randy very bad, and he wanted to quit the band towards the end of his life. Did you ever see any of that when you were involved?
I didn't see it first-hand but Tommy Aldridge told me that Ozzy punched Randy in the face when he found out Randy wanted to leave. I also heard from a very good source that Sharon went into the office soon after (hours or days) Randy was killed and changed his contract. Mrs. Rhoads had to sue the Osbournes for years for her son's royalties there after. Nice little camp, eh ?

Now on to better things! First of all, I understand you are back touring with Gary Moore. You have quite a history with him, having appeared on several of his albums and tours. How did you two happen to hook up this time?
Gary wanted to do another blues album but this time with a harder edge, more along the lines of Cream/Mountain sort of thing and he knew I'd always been into that as well. We'd stayed in contact over the years and we both knew that we'd work well together.

Besides, Moore, you’ve played with a number of the greats, such as Ritchie Blackmore, Ozzy, and Yngwie Malmsteen. Did that happen more from "right place at the right time" or did you actively seek out the gigs?
More "right place..." But I guess I got a reputation as being reliable and professional as well. Plus of course the right style and approach to the music.
Along with the impressive array of artists you’ve worked with, you’ve also never been know for any one style. You’ve done hard rock with Ozzy, blues with Gary Moore, and progressive rock with Uriah Heep. Which fits the "real" Bob Daisley?
I always loved blues, even the rock stuff I liked was more blues influenced like the Yardbirds in the early days and Cream and Zeppelin later. I suppose blues with a hard rock edge is the real me but the latest Living Loud album I've just done with Steve Morse, Lee Kerslake, Jimmy Barnes and Don Airey is aggressive rock and I love it. It's the most satisfying thing I've done in years.

Has it been a plus or minus to have worked for artists that are known for ever-changing line-ups? Would it have been more satisfying for you to have been in a single band throughout your career?
Yes and no - I mean, to stay in a stable situation would have been very satisfying but I wouldn't change anything if it meant missing out on some of the great experiences I've had working with some of the people I've worked with.

Tell me about Living Loud. How did that come about?
I'd worked with Jon Lord (Deep Purple) here in Australia with my blues band the Hoochie Coochie Men and a friend of ours, Jimmy Barnes got up for a sing at the basement gig. Drew Thompson, the promoter, asked me if I'd be interested in doing a project with Jimmy - an album. I said yeah sure, and Drew began to make inquiries as to Steve Morse getting involved. I asked Lee Kerslake and he said count me in and then to complete the picture, Don Airey agreed. Jon Lord was to originally play on it as well but then wasn't available. It really did sound like a band (and not a project) and worked very well.

Was it a hard decision to include many of the songs you did with Ozzy, or was that going to be done from the start?
Many years ago I spoke to Lee Kerslake about doing a tribute to Randy by doing some of our songs with people guesting on an album - like Ronnie Dio, Gary Moore, Steve Vai etc. etc., and when this opportunity came up we jumped at it. I must emphasize here that us doing those songs had nothing to do with the Osbournes bastardising the originals, this was not retaliation.

Is this a one-time thing, or will there be more Living Loud releases?
Everybody that was involved loves the album and we worked so well together, so I'm sure this won't be the last.

Are there any spots in bands you’ve turned down that you wish you’d taken, or offers you would have liked to come your way?
I'd love to work with Jeff Beck; he's always been one of my favourites.

I saved the hardest question for last. You have three albums to leave as your legacy. Which ones do you choose?
Living Loud, Wide Open by Kahvas Jute and the Blizzard of Ozz.

Thanks for giving us your time, Bob, and good luck with all your future projects.
All the best.

DLR'sCock
04-12-2005, 11:45 PM
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Here is the list of albums straight from his site...


http://www.bobdaisley.com/recordings.htm
click link for full list...



The Ozzy stuff...only...
1980 Ozzy Osbourne - "Blizzard Of Oz" album released on Jet records. Band originally called Blizzard Of Oz.
1980 Ozzy Osbourne - "You Lookin' At Me (Lookin' At You)" B-side of single
1980 Ozzy Osbourne - "You Said It All" live B-side
1980 Ozzy Osbourne - "Mr Crowley" live 12" single
1980 Ozzy Osbourne - "Suicide Solution" live B-side
1981 Ozzy Osbourne - "Diary Of A Madman" album released on Jet records
1983 Ozzy Osbourne - "Bark At The Moon" album released on Epic records 1983 Ozzy Osbourne - "One Up The B-side" B-side for 12" Bark At The Moon
1983/84 Ozzy Osbourne - "Bark At The Moon" 12" single B/W "One Up The B-side" and "Slow Down"
1984 Ozzy Osbourne - "So Tired" 12" single B/W "Waiting For Darkness", "Bark At The Moon" live, "Suicide Solution" live and "Paranoid" live. Released on Epic.
1985 Ozzy Osbourne - "Ultimate Sin" album released CBS records (writing only - music & all lyrics)
1988 Ozzy Osbourne - "No Rest For The Wicked" album released CBS
1988 Ozzy Osbourne - "Miracle Man" 12" single B/W "The Liar" (picture of Geezer Butler on release of this record but I wrote and played on it). Extra track was "Crazy Babies".
1991 Ozzy Osbourne - "No More Tears" album released CBS Sony (performance only - all tracks)
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Seshmeister
04-13-2005, 07:33 PM
Originally posted by DLR'sCock



I saved the hardest question for last. You have three albums to leave as your legacy. Which ones do you choose?
Living Loud, Wide Open by Kahvas Jute and the Blizzard of Ozz.


I haven't heard those two other albums but it's impossible that they are anywhere near being close to being as good as Diary...

ALinChainz
04-13-2005, 07:40 PM
Rudy Sarzo has a book coming out soon recalling the time he spens in the band with Ozzy and Randy.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=769&e=2&u=/nm/20050413/music_nm/music_sarzo_dc

DLR'sCock
04-24-2005, 07:26 PM
bump

Seshmeister
04-24-2005, 07:31 PM
Originally posted by ALinChainz
Rudy Sarzo has a book coming out soon recalling the time he spens in the band with Ozzy and Randy.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=769&e=2&u=/nm/20050413/music_nm/music_sarzo_dc

It's called Spic of the Devil...

Full Bug
04-24-2005, 10:29 PM
Great and interesting read, thanx....