Ozzy: I play fair with my bands

[ELVIS]

I hated Ozzy at this point, but he's actually singing live and doing a hell of a job...

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Wine is fine
But whiskey's quicker
Suicide is slow with liquor
Take a bottle drain your sorrows
THEN IT FLOODS AWAY TOMMOROW!!
Evil thoughts and evil doings
Cold, alone you hang in ruins
Thought you'd escape the reaper
You can't escape the master keeper
'Cause you feel life's unreal and you're living a lie
Such a shame who's to blame and you're wondering why
Then you ask from your cask is there life after birth
What you saw can mean hell on this earth
Hell on this earth!!
Now you live inside a bottle
The reaper's travelling at full throttle
It's catching you but you don't see
The reaper is you and the reaper is me
Breaking laws, knocking doors
But there's no one at home
Made your bed, rest your head
But you lie there and moan
Where to hide, suicide is the only way out
Don't you know what it's really about
Wine is fine
But whiskey's quicker
Suicide is slow with liquer
Take a bottle drown your sorrows
THEN IT FLOODS AWAY TOMMOROW

[ELVIS]

This one is for Sesh...

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Too bad the audio is messed up. I searched for the best version I could find...

Cool YouTube image...

[ELVIS]

Ozzy does a gret job in both of those clips...

Jake is awesome as well!!!

[ELVIS]

I'm relieved ozzy can spell fun...

[ELVIS]

I always thought it was cool he was playing a hardtail strat and making it sound as though he had a whammy...

my '55 is a hardtail and i'm trying my best to hold on to it...

[FORD]

Why is it that every recording I hear of Ozzy from the Jake era has the goddamn keyboards mixed too loud?

I know Jake was no Randy, but he was good enough NOT to bury under a synthesizer.

[Seshmeister]

Indeed.

Hell, to catch Gary Moore back then, circa Victims Of The Future, before he virtually gave up on rock for his blues revue stuff...

You got Ac/Dc, who probably turn in a great show regardless of whatever album is out, Van Halen with Roth, Accept touring on the heels of Balls To The Wall, Motley Crue before they became a bad joke a la Theater Of Pain, Dio touring for The Last In Line, Ozzy doing the Bark At The Moon stuff...

I would have stayed for the whole thing. Would have been drunk as a skunk by the end of it, though.

The UK leg was played on the radio in full over a few weeks APART from Van Halen who refused permission and Dio who didn't play the UK leg.

We taped it but fuck knows where those tapes are now. Jake said he was terrified beforehand going on between Van Halen and Gary Moore but he played a blinder. I used to listen to that tape a lot, Revelation Mother Earth was particularly good.

Given it was on BBC Radio at the time there must be a bootleg out there somewhere...

[Seshmeister]

Why is it that every recording I hear of Ozzy from the Jake era has the goddamn keyboards mixed too loud?

The BATM period wasn't too bad for that but all the Ultimate Sin shows are like that. Kind of like Vai era Roth.

Fashion or not I hated it at the time too, some sort of late 80s fad.

[ELVIS]

They had do something to cover Phil Soussan and Randy Castillo's lame attempts...

If you actually listen to the keyboards, Don Airey has some cool Moog stuf happening throughout the songs...

[Seshmeister]

It was another guy on the tour whose name escapes me.

It's not good when he is blasting out the riff to Crazy Train or I don't know. It's the same idea as what Tuggle did on Van Halen songs, hellish and clueless.

I played keyboards in bands a bit around 87/88 and any time they did a cover like that I would stop playing or maybe do a little low in the mix string pads just to fill stuff out.

These people like Tuggle were fucking tasteless idiots.

[Seshmeister]

I hated Ozzy at this point, but he's actually singing live and doing a hell of a job...

Well why did you hate him then????

This was during his peak 81-85!

[ELVIS]

Well, the costumes, Phil Soussan and Randy Castillo made me sick, many of the songs sucked at the time (although I like them more now) and the original heavyness seemed to be gone...

[ELVIS]

But, I still wore my original Blizzard shirt faithfully!!!

[binnie]

What's wrong with Randy Castillo?

[ELVIS]

He sucked, for starters...

[Seshmeister]

I think you are talking about Ultimate Sin Ozzy rather than BATM Ozzy.

[ELVIS]

yeah...

[ELVIS]

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[ELVIS]

Is Ozzy actually singing in this clip ??

He even acts like the real Ozzy...

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The bass player is horrendus...

[Diamondjimi]

It's fuckin pathetic how Gus G is dry humping the shit out of that annoying Zakk Wylde pinched harmonic shit. He has the chance to make a name for himself, yet he's stinkin the joint with those fucking shit assed, done-to-death, squeals... Just another one of Ozzy's interchangable clones...

Time for Ozzy to pack it in...

[ELVIS]

Jake did it first...

[Seshmeister]

Is Ozzy actually singing in this clip ??

He even acts like the real Ozzy...

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The bass player is horrendus...

Where is the energy in the music, it's a dirge?

Why can't the Ozzy camp find good musicians to carry him any more?

[Seshmeister]

Jake did it first...

Did what?

Jake played the fuck out of Ozzy music.

Nothing Ozzy has done in over 20 years since Jake left has come close to that level.

[Doctor Dude]

Did what?

Jake played the fuck out of Ozzy music.

Nothing Ozzy has done in over 20 years since Jake left has come close to that level.

Ain't that the truth. I lost interest in Ozzy shortly after Jake left the band.

Although it was interesting to watch Zakk's transformation from a clean shaven kid with a lot of potential to a drunken grizzly bear.

[binnie]

He sucked, for starters...

C'mon dude, there's no way he 'sucked'.....

[Panamark]

I reckon "No rest for the wicked" was a keeper...

If we add the Ozzy solo albums that were great.
easy six pack...

Throw in the original and the best Sabbath, its
a fucking anthology.......

[Seshmeister]

C'mon dude, there's no way he 'sucked'.....

He had all the songwriting skills of the latest teenage boyband dancer.

20 years and hardly one single decent song!

That's a hell of a legacy.

If you don't believe me believe Ozzy.

Look at the number of Zack songs in his 20 fucking years that are in Ozzys set.

Have you ever heard Black Label Society? Their songs make Chickenfoot sound like they are groundbreakingly original...

As far as his lead playing goes, his one trick pony style got old quick and then very very very old.

[Panamark]

Agree Sesh,
but you are totally overlooking my post....
Shall I name the albums ?

Really, it seems Ozzy gets 2 great albums from each solo
guitarist, add his original work with Sabbath and it is
an Anthology !!!


His last 3 albums, (its probably more like 5-6)
sucked hairy haggis leftovers

[Seshmeister]

He didn't get 2 great albums out of Zack.

No Rest was ok when it came out but it's really just a collection of half a dozen decent verse riffs with songs wrapped around them.

[binnie]

Sorry Sesh, I think you've mistook who I was talking about. I was responding to Elvis's comment about Randy Castilio, not talking about Zakk.

[Panamark]

Ok, this could be a historical first disagreement on such matters,,
I love " No rest fot the wicked" have the full vinyly here if anyone
wants to see it...... Its great, I calll Shenanigans on Sesh !!!!!

[Panamark]

Im quick to say no more tears as the second, but wanna think about it

[Seshmeister]

Ok, this could be a historical first disagreement on such matters,,
I love " No rest fot the wicked" have the full vinyly here if anyone
wants to see it...... Its great, I calll Shenanigans on Sesh !!!!!

I haven't listened to it in a while. I actually bought it on tape originally but I think I have the mp3 version of it on my server thing.

It's probably great drinking music, I did say it was fine, maybe as good as the Ultimate Sin, but not up to the same standard of the 1st 3 solo albums IMHO.

[ELVIS]

Ok, this could be a historical first disagreement on such matters,,
I love " No rest fot the wicked" have the full vinyly here if anyone
wants to see it...... Its great, I calll Shenanigans on Sesh !!!!!

I like that album as well...

[Seshmeister]

Have you ever played Miracle Man to your cult leader?

[ELVIS]

My pastor is not a cult leader, but no. I'm sure he would enjoy it though...

[ELVIS]

My favourite Jake era song...

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[Seshmeister]

Not as good or original as this.

Can you imagine Zak writing something like this? He wouldn't know where to start...

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[ELVIS]

I like that as well...

I find those two songs similar...

[ELVIS]

I think Waiting For Darkness is better mainly because of Bob Daisley and Tommy Aldridge...

Thanks for posting...