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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Black Sabbath are undoubtedly one of, if not, THE band, which created the > genre of heavy metal. There are already a handful of tribute albums > dedicated to Sabbath and countless bands who were inspired by Sabbath. Ozzy > has repeatedly said he hates being classified as a heavy metal artist > however since it has become so diverse. Alice In Chains and Bon Jovi are > considered heavy metal. See his point? If you look at his albums lately, > they really aren’t heavy metal. His albums contain a diverse mix of gentle > ballads to hard rocking songs with ear splitting guitar licks. There are > fans of metal who listen to Metallica or Slayer but hate Ozzy. Then there > are those who would give their next born child just to be able to meet the > man. These are our own personal tastes, but I think there is probably a > song on every one of his albums that everybody could enjoy. Classify his > music as you will, the man deserves some credit for his part in music > history. > True, he has led a life of ups and downs, much of it under the influence of > various drugs (though he is now sober). He has made McDonald Happy Meals > out of various flying animals. He has been accused by just about every > religious organization to be a devil worshipper, a promoter of Satan’s > music. Yes, Ozzy’s life has been surrounded by highs and lows, and it is > quite likely that when he dies he will be remembered only as a lunatic > madman. Who is the real John Osbourne? Nobody but him really knows. The > John Osbourne that I know and like is just an ordinary man who plays a > role. He enjoys making kids happy and going crazy on stage. Sure he has > made some mistakes in the past, and the media propagates these because he > is a world famous celebrity. John Osbourne eats and sleeps the same way you > and I do, and he has feelings just as we do. His wife is conservative, > dresses in stylish attire and conducts herself as a professional manager. > She is not a groupie, nor does she conduct herself in any appropriate ways. > Sometimes, because she is the wife of Ozzy she is not taken seriously, but > this woman is every bit competent as the next manager out there. The two of > them have made some excellent business investments which have enabled them > to lead a very wealthy life. They have also helped small bands get off on a > good start. Take for example, Motley Crue. While the Crue was still a club > band, Ozzy allowed them to tour with him and thus helping them become more > popular. > It is painfully obvious that he is getting old though. He no longer jumps > up and down like a wild man, no longer runs back and forth from one end of > the stage to the other. His later concerts show him either standing at the > mic, hopping up and down or walking from one end of the stage to the other. > His voice can no longer make all the high notes it once did, and he will > sometimes mouth curses at his frustration with this. Nobody knows what lies > ahead down the road for Ozzy Osbourne. The one thing I do know however is > that his shows continue to sell out, his albums continue to sell millions > and millions. I wonder what will he be doing when he is eighty years old. > I think even if it was Ozzy doing karaoke in a wheelchair > at a small bar, the crowds would still come out to see him. His fans and I > can only hope he will be around to entertain us for some time to come. > We love you Ozzy! > And that my OZzy friends is the "Truth" by ~~George the man!
YFIO~
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Black Sabbath are undoubtedly one of, if not, THE band, which created the genre of heavy metal. There are already a handful of tribute albums dedicated to Sabbath and countless bands who were inspired by Sabbath. Ozzy has repeatedly said he hates being classified as a heavy metal artist however since it has become so diverse. Alice In Chains and Bon Jovi are considered heavy metal. See his point? If you look at his albums lately, they really aren’t heavy metal. His albums contain a diverse mix of gentle ballads to hard rocking songs with ear splitting guitar licks. There are fans of metal who listen to Metallica or Slayer but hate Ozzy. Then there are those who would give their next born child just to be able to meet the man. These are our own personal tastes, but I think there is probably a song on every one of his albums that everybody could enjoy. Classify his music as you will, the man deserves some credit for his part in music history. True, he has led a life of ups and downs, much of it under the influence of various drugs (though he is now sober). He has made McDonald Happy Meals out of various flying animals. He has been accused by just about every religious organization to be a devil worshipper, a promoter of Satan’s music. Yes, Ozzy’s life has been surrounded by highs and lows, and it is quite likely that when he dies he will be remembered only as a lunatic madman. Who is the real John Osbourne? Nobody but him really knows. The John Osbourne that I know and like is just an ordinary man who plays a role. He enjoys making kids happy and going crazy on stage. Sure he has made some mistakes in the past, and the media propagates these because he is a world famous celebrity. John Osbourne eats and sleeps the same way you and I do, and he has feelings just as we do. His wife is conservative, dresses in stylish attire and conducts herself as a professional manager. She is not a groupie, nor does she conduct herself in any appropriate ways. Sometimes, because she is the wife of Ozzy she is not taken seriously, but this woman is every bit competent as the next manager out there. The two of them have made some excellent business investments which have enabled them to lead a very wealthy life. They have also helped small bands get off on a good start. Take for example, Motley Crue. While the Crue was still a club band, Ozzy allowed them to tour with him and thus helping them become more popular. It is painfully obvious that he is getting old though. He no longer jumps up and down like a wild man, no longer runs back and forth from one end of the stage to the other. His later concerts show him either standing at the mic, hopping up and down or walking from one end of the stage to the other. His voice can no longer make all the high notes it once did, and he will sometimes mouth curses at his frustration with this. Nobody knows what lies ahead down the road for Ozzy Osbourne. The one thing I do know however is that his shows continue to sell out, his albums continue to sell millions and millions. I wonder what will he be doing when he is eighty years old. I think even if it was Ozzy doing karaoke in a wheelchair at a small bar, the crowds would still come out to see him. His fans and I can only hope he will be around to entertain us for some time to come. We love you Ozzy!
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I enjoyed reading this very much George. Well done. I didn’t know very much about him until I read your article.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> "IF I’d done everything they’d said I’d done I’d be dead by now!" > chortles Ozzy Osbourne, reflecting on three decades of mayhem, madness and > near-Olympian feats of self-destruction. Ozzy is nothing if not a true > original whose reputation more than precedes him. Indeed, like his wild > personality, it exceeds him. > Since leading Black Sabbath out of Birmingham, England in the late > ’60s, he’s managed to become the heavy metal archetype, the Madman of Metal, > and as the latest feather in his cap, the hysterically dysfunctional dad > overseeing The Osbournes. To say the least, Ozzy’s influence is, in early > 2003, ubiquitous. His broad swath cuts across nearly every Rock crop that’s > come to fruition in his wake: speed metal, grunge, NWOBHM, "nu metal", you > name it. Everyone from Metallica to Nirvana to Marilyn Manson has cited Ozzy > ’s influence as a part of their musical DNA. His fans call him the > "Godfather of Heavy Metal" and not without good reason. Though typically > modest in his appraisal of the nickname, make no mistake, sans Ozzy the > decibel-driven, louder-than-thou music as we now know it would not be. > From Sabbath’s earliest days playing the Midlands circuit in 1969 till > that fateful day a decade later when Ozzy was unceremoniously dumped in Los > Angeles by his bandmates Sabbath was simply a group of four talented > hoodlums from the back streets of Aston, a down-trodden, bombed-out (from > German blitzes during the Second World War) outskirt of Birmingham, who just > wanted to make music, travel the world, live the high life, and maybe make > some dough in the process. They did it all and more, and thirty years on > their inimitable music remains "the blueprint of heavy metal". It was a > great run, those innocent Seventies daze, but by ‘79 Ozzy Osbourne barely > knew himself: he was at the end of his tether, spent-physically, mentally, > and musically, and saddled with a case of the blues. He was just coming to > from a wild, ten year rock ‘n roll party and waking up wasn’t pretty. > So, coming on 1980, a rudderless Ozzy found himself considering his > next move, but he was very insecure and his nasty, acute addictions didn’t > allow a clear train of thought. In fact, highest on his list of "what’s > next" was, unbelievably, moving back to Birmingham to go on the "dole", > slang for England’s welfare system. But, during Ozzy’s legendary six-month, > binge-crazy stay at the Le Parc Hotel in West Hollywood, a star-crossed > knock on his door changed everything. It was his manager’s daughter, Sharon > Arden, who had dropped in unannounced to collect an unpaid debt owed to her > dad. At this point, Ozzy was a first-class mess but deep down his > vulnerable, lovable, charming personality remained intact. She was smitten; > he was infatuated. It was a quick courtship. That said, he needed a big, > swift kick-in-the-arse to get his career back on track. So, under the > condition that he would promise to get his act together Sharon agreed to > take him on as manager. > In late 1979, during the first and only guitar audition in for the > first Ozzy band, in walked Randy Rhoads, a tiny, almost androgynous-looking > phenom the likes of which only grace the Rock world once or twice a > generation. Rhoads’s inimitable melding of hard rock and classical guitar > styles instantly rejuvenated Ozzy, who had found a kindred musical soul, and > the Ozzman rose to the occasion by recording two seminal albums, Blizzard of > Ozz and Diary of a Madman, in 1980 and ‘81, respectively. European and > American tours commenced but tragedy struck March 19, 1982: a freak plane > accident took the life of the 25-year old gun-slinging guitarist, shattering > Ozzy’s delicate handle on his nascent solo career. He pondered hanging it > all up, but Sharon realized a complacent and despondent Ozzy would only > hasten his own demise. Ozzy Osbourne was not finished. > He continued on with Jake E. Lee as axeman extraordinaire for the next > couple of albums, released a live Tribute to Randy Rhoads (culled from the > only professionally-recorded shows featuring Ozzy & Randy), and then decided > to freshen up his act with a new partner. When Ozzy met 19 year-old Zakk > Wylde during a routine guitar audition he knew he’d found his man: tall, > blonde, and chock-full of spitfire chops Zakk was the hard-driving player > Ozzy was looking for. The duo teamed up to record Ozzy’s heaviest album to > date, 1988’s No Rest For the Wicked, for which a most memorable video was > produced: Ozzy donned a mask resembling then-scandalous televangelist Jimmy > Swaggart, surrounded by a throng of 75 piglets…in a barn! Those crazy > Eighties! > At the beginning of the Nineties Ozzy was at a crossroads: he was > father to three small children but was still battling demons he’d first met > back in the early ’70s. And, musically, he wasn’t being stimulated. Although > all of Ozzy Osbourne’s records, including those recorded with Black Sabbath, > were at least Platinum-certified in the States (ie. one million sold) it had > been nearly a decade since Ozzy had an across-the-board smash album. The > beginning of 1991 marked a new decade and it helped usher in some overdue > changes to the Ozzman’s infamous lifestyle. Ozzy gave up drink and drugs for > good; he undertook a vigorous exercise regimen that left him looking like > rock ‘n roll’s Charles Atlas; and he used his newfound clarity of mind and > energy to foster his creative juices. Ozzy’s earnest efforts to better > himself paid off in spades: No More Tears, released in September 1991, would > end up being his biggest-selling album to date, selling over 6 million > copies worldwide. It remains the only Ozzy album to feature five singles, > including the Top Ten hit "Mama, I’m Coming Home", Ozzy’s road ode to Sharon > and the kids. Starting with the "Theatre of Madness" tour in late ‘91 and > continuing non-stop for 14 months Ozzy touched down on every imaginable part > of the globe during his "No More Tours Tour". The kicker was the finale in > Costa Mesa, Calif. when the original Black Sabbath reunited for a four-song > encore. The writing was on the wall: it seemed certain that Ozzy was about > to take a long break, his first extended vacation from the stresses and > rigors of rock ‘n roll. Indeed, he took almost all of 1993 and ‘94 off to > spend with Sharon and young Aimee, Kelly, and Jack on his English farm > estate. > After the long-labored Ozzmosis album was released in 1995 Sharon made > an attempt to get Ozzy booked on a popular Stateside festival tour. But, the > booking agents literally laughed in her face. Ozzy was "washed-up", not a > part of the "new rock brigade", they claimed. Foolhardy is the man who > crosses the venerable fair maiden Osbourne! Sharon summarily organized an > all-hard rock and heavy metal concert package with Ozzy as kingpin, replete > with two stages-one exclusively dedicated to nurturing "baby" bands-and a > metal-friendly concourse area dubbed "The Village of the Damned". Born in > October 1996, the Ozzfest was an instant success: the two initial trial > shows sold-out and fans were abuzz about their newfound "heavy metal summer > camp". (That other festival, well, it piddled-out, quietly, the next year.) > Since that inaugural Ozzfest virtually every band who has meant something in > the loud rock universe in the subsequent years has been featured on one of > its bills: Tool, System of a Down, Limp Bizkit, Queens of the Stone Age, > Pantera, Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, the list goes on. Ozzy and Sharon built > an empire the fans had come to love and their subjects, the loyal Hessian > masses, arrive, without fail, in droves every year. Over the last seven > years over 3.5 million fans have attended; no other touring festival comes > close to matching that impressive benchmark. > With that kind of legacy and financial success, who’da thunk that Ozzy > ’s greatest-and certainly most unexpected-success was yet to come? The > answer is "no one"! Just as his first studio album in six years, 2001’s Down > To Earth, was on the verge of release MTV descended on the Osbournes’ > Beverly Hills manse for a two-week stint, taping everything and anything for > a planned one-time special on the life inside the Osbourne fishbowl. After > the success of Ozzy’s Cribs episodes, which were the water-cooler talk of > the MTV offices, an executive decision was made to go in a little longer > this time, to see what the cameras would capture. Well, the rest is history: > the highest-rated basic cable show ever elevated the Madman and his clan to > "A list" Hollywood (though they were not-and are still not-the celebrity > hob-nobbing kind) and all of its attendant perks. The zenith was spring > 2002, during which a tidal wave of surreality hit the surf: on April 12, > 2002 Ozzy received his beloved star on the world-famous Hollywood Walk of > Fame; in May, he dined with President Bush in Washington D.C.; and most > incredibly, he performed at Queen Elizabeth’s Jubilee the next month > alongside his idol Paul McCartney and Rod Stewart, Brian May, and other > "Sirs" of the English mantle. Come again, now?!<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns > = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> > Ozzy Osbourne, once the bat-biting, backward-masking, brain-frying > uber-rock ‘n roll rebel, had come full circle. He was now viewed by > mainstream America as the cuddly, outrageously funny, father figure of > television’s biggest hit since the tragedy of September 11. Not in a million > years would anyone, especially Ozzy, think that a scenario such as that > would come to pass. But it has, and
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"IF I’d done everything they’d said I’d done I’d be dead by now!" chortles Ozzy Osbourne, reflecting on three decades of mayhem, madness and near-Olympian feats of self-destruction. Ozzy is nothing if not a true original whose reputation more than precedes him. Indeed, like his wild personality, it exceeds him. Since leading Black Sabbath out of Birmingham, England in the late ’60s, he’s managed to become the heavy metal archetype, the Madman of Metal, and as the latest feather in his cap, the hysterically dysfunctional dad overseeing The Osbournes. To say the least, Ozzy’s influence is, in early 2003, ubiquitous. His broad swath cuts across nearly every Rock crop that’s come to fruition in his wake: speed metal, grunge, NWOBHM, "nu metal", you name it. Everyone from Metallica to Nirvana to Marilyn Manson has cited Ozzy ’s influence as a part of their musical DNA. His fans call him the "Godfather of Heavy Metal" and not without good reason. Though typically modest in his appraisal of the nickname, make no mistake, sans Ozzy the decibel-driven, louder-than-thou music as we now know it would not be. From Sabbath’s earliest days playing the Midlands circuit in 1969 till that fateful day a decade later when Ozzy was unceremoniously dumped in Los Angeles by his bandmates Sabbath was simply a group of four talented hoodlums from the back streets of Aston, a down-trodden, bombed-out (from German blitzes during the Second World War) outskirt of Birmingham, who just wanted to make music, travel the world, live the high life, and maybe make some dough in the process. They did it all and more, and thirty years on their inimitable music remains "the blueprint of heavy metal". It was a great run, those innocent Seventies daze, but by ‘79 Ozzy Osbourne barely knew himself: he was at the end of his tether, spent-physically, mentally, and musically, and saddled with a case of the blues. He was just coming to from a wild, ten year rock ‘n roll party and waking up wasn’t pretty. So, coming on 1980, a rudderless Ozzy found himself considering his next move, but he was very insecure and his nasty, acute addictions didn’t allow a clear train of thought. In fact, highest on his list of "what’s next" was, unbelievably, moving back to Birmingham to go on the "dole", slang for England’s welfare system. But, during Ozzy’s legendary six-month, binge-crazy stay at the Le Parc Hotel in West Hollywood, a star-crossed knock on his door changed everything. It was his manager’s daughter, Sharon Arden, who had dropped in unannounced to collect an unpaid debt owed to her dad. At this point, Ozzy was a first-class mess but deep down his vulnerable, lovable, charming personality remained intact. She was smitten; he was infatuated. It was a quick courtship. That said, he needed a big, swift kick-in-the-arse to get his career back on track. So, under the condition that he would promise to get his act together Sharon agreed to take him on as manager. In late 1979, during the first and only guitar audition in for the first Ozzy band, in walked Randy Rhoads, a tiny, almost androgynous-looking phenom the likes of which only grace the Rock world once or twice a generation. Rhoads’s inimitable melding of hard rock and classical guitar styles instantly rejuvenated Ozzy, who had found a kindred musical soul, and the Ozzman rose to the occasion by recording two seminal albums, Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman, in 1980 and ‘81, respectively. European and American tours commenced but tragedy struck March 19, 1982: a freak plane accident took the life of the 25-year old gun-slinging guitarist, shattering Ozzy’s delicate handle on his nascent solo career. He pondered hanging it all up, but Sharon realized a complacent and despondent Ozzy would only hasten his own demise. Ozzy Osbourne was not finished. He continued on with Jake E. Lee as axeman extraordinaire for the next couple of albums, released a live Tribute to Randy Rhoads (culled from the only professionally-recorded shows featuring Ozzy & Randy), and then decided to freshen up his act with a new partner. When Ozzy met 19 year-old Zakk Wylde during a routine guitar audition he knew he’d found his man: tall, blonde, and chock-full of spitfire chops Zakk was the hard-driving player Ozzy was looking for. The duo teamed up to record Ozzy’s heaviest album to date, 1988’s No Rest For the Wicked, for which a most memorable video was produced: Ozzy donned a mask resembling then-scandalous televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, surrounded by a throng of 75 piglets…in a barn! Those crazy Eighties! At the beginning of the Nineties Ozzy was at a crossroads: he was father to three small children but was still battling demons he’d first met back in the early ’70s. And, musically, he wasn’t being stimulated. Although all of Ozzy Osbourne’s records, including those recorded with Black Sabbath, were at least Platinum-certified in the States (ie. one million sold) it had been nearly a decade since Ozzy had an across-the-board smash album. The beginning of 1991 marked a new decade and it helped usher in some overdue changes to the Ozzman’s infamous lifestyle. Ozzy gave up drink and drugs for good; he undertook a vigorous exercise regimen that left him looking like rock ‘n roll’s Charles Atlas; and he used his newfound clarity of mind and energy to foster his creative juices. Ozzy’s earnest efforts to better himself paid off in spades: No More Tears, released in September 1991, would end up being his biggest-selling album to date, selling over 6 million copies worldwide. It remains the only Ozzy album to feature five singles, including the Top Ten hit "Mama, I’m Coming Home", Ozzy’s road ode to Sharon and the kids. Starting with the "Theatre of Madness" tour in late ‘91 and continuing non-stop for 14 months Ozzy touched down on every imaginable part of the globe during his "No More Tours Tour". The kicker was the finale in Costa Mesa, Calif. when the original Black Sabbath reunited for a four-song encore. The writing was on the wall: it seemed certain that Ozzy was about to take a long break, his first extended vacation from the stresses and rigors of rock ‘n roll. Indeed, he took almost all of 1993 and ‘94 off to spend with Sharon and young Aimee, Kelly, and Jack on his English farm estate. After the long-labored Ozzmosis album was released in 1995 Sharon made an attempt to get Ozzy booked on a popular Stateside festival tour. But, the booking agents literally laughed in her face. Ozzy was "washed-up", not a part of the "new rock brigade", they claimed. Foolhardy is the man who crosses the venerable fair maiden Osbourne! Sharon summarily organized an all-hard rock and heavy metal concert package with Ozzy as kingpin, replete with two stages-one exclusively dedicated to nurturing "baby" bands-and a metal-friendly concourse area dubbed "The Village of the Damned". Born in October 1996, the Ozzfest was an instant success: the two initial trial shows sold-out and fans were abuzz about their newfound "heavy metal summer camp". (That other festival, well, it piddled-out, quietly, the next year.) Since that inaugural Ozzfest virtually every band who has meant something in the loud rock universe in the subsequent years has been featured on one of its bills: Tool, System of a Down, Limp Bizkit, Queens of the Stone Age, Pantera, Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, the list goes on. Ozzy and Sharon built an empire the fans had come to love and their subjects, the loyal Hessian masses, arrive, without fail, in droves every year. Over the last seven years over 3.5 million fans have attended; no other touring festival comes close to matching that impressive benchmark. With that kind of legacy and financial success, who’da thunk that Ozzy ’s greatest-and certainly most unexpected-success was yet to come? The answer is "no one"! Just as his first studio album in six years, 2001’s Down To Earth, was on the verge of release MTV descended on the Osbournes’ Beverly Hills manse for a two-week stint, taping everything and anything for a planned one-time special on the life inside the Osbourne fishbowl. After the success of Ozzy’s Cribs episodes, which were the water-cooler talk of the MTV offices, an executive decision was made to go in a little longer this time, to see what the cameras would capture. Well, the rest is history: the highest-rated basic cable show ever elevated the Madman and his clan to "A list" Hollywood (though they were not-and are still not-the celebrity hob-nobbing kind) and all of its attendant perks. The zenith was spring 2002, during which a tidal wave of surreality hit the surf: on April 12, 2002 Ozzy received his beloved star on the world-famous Hollywood Walk of Fame; in May, he dined with President Bush in Washington D.C.; and most incredibly, he performed at Queen Elizabeth’s Jubilee the next month alongside his idol Paul McCartney and Rod Stewart, Brian May, and other "Sirs" of the English mantle. Come again, now?!<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Ozzy Osbourne, once the bat-biting, backward-masking, brain-frying uber-rock ‘n roll rebel, had come full circle. He was now viewed by mainstream America as the cuddly, outrageously funny, father figure of television’s biggest hit since the tragedy of September 11. Not in a million years would anyone, especially Ozzy, think that a scenario such as that would come to pass. But it has, and Ozzy Osbourne, the Madman, the Prince of Darkness, the Architect of Metal, continues to see himself first as a singer and entertainer-he still rocks your socks off every summer at Ozzfest, in what is now his 33rd year as a professional musician. His music-70 million records sold worldwide-speaks for itself. He’s earned his revered status, so indulge yourself with this set of Ozzy’s "essential" tunes. After all, everyone’s got a little bit of Ozzy in ‘em.
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>I agree about Jake E Lee. I never liked him. Espeacially since I noticed >in the Ultimate Ozzy video that they had to over use the keyboards during >Crazy Train and Mr. Crowley, to cover up his lack of guitar playing on >Randy’s solo’s. > That’s why not many people talk about >Jake E Lee, he never accomplished anything to leave his fans wanting >more…’Bark At The Moon’ almost made it. ‘Shot In The Dark’ never came >close. Too bad Ozzy and Randy couldn’t have done just one more album. >Oh well.
I disagree, Jake E. Lee has to be one of the most underrated guitarists of all time, and the main reason is that people don’t ever seem to give his playing a chance and also he always lived in the shadows of a guitar playing genius. Bark at the Moon is probably my least favorite album but it does have some killer tracks on it like Waiting for Darkness, the title track, and No You See it, Now You Don’t. However The Ultimate Sin rules! There is some killer guitar playing on this album and I will say that Killer of Giants is one of the best post Randy Ozzy songs of all time, the melody and changes in this song are GREAT. There are some great leads on this album and its too bad that Ozzy ignores it live with the exception of SITD. Jake may have left you not wanting more but he left me really looking forward to the next album after The Ultimate Sin.
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there is none better…anyone have the g//z/r cd? why doesn’t anyone ever talk about jake e. lee?
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> there is none better…anyone have the g//z/r cd? > why doesn’t anyone ever talk about jake e. lee?
Yeah! I got the G//Z/R disc, and I have to say that I was a little disappointed in it. The music is some of the heaviest I’ve heard in a while but the lyrics and the singing (no offence to Burton C. Bell or Geezer) seem to make the songs almost comical in places. Detective 27 is just plain silly, but songs like Drive Boy Shooting do make up for it. I’ve never really listened to Fear Factory but I’d imagine if you are into them you should be into this disc. And Jake’s contribution to the Ozzy legacy is very weak at best, after all there are only two songs that he played on that are still on the set today (Bark at the Moon and Shot in the Dark of course). I think people just tend to forget about him. Rick.
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> there is none better…anyone have the g//z/r cd? > why doesn’t anyone ever talk about jake e. lee? >Yeah! I got the G//Z/R disc, and I have to say that I was a little >disappointed in it. The music is some of the heaviest I’ve heard in a >while but the lyrics and the singing (no offence to Burton C. Bell or >Geezer) seem to make the songs almost comical in places. Detective 27 is >just plain silly, but songs like Drive Boy Shooting do make up for it. >I’ve never really listened to Fear Factory but I’d imagine if you are >into them you should be into this disc. And Jake’s contribution to the >Ozzy legacy is very weak at best, after all there are only two songs >that he played on that are still on the set today (Bark at the Moon and >Shot in the Dark of course). I think people just tend to forget about >him. >Rick.
I agree about Jake E Lee. I never liked him. Espeacially since I noticed in the Ultimate Ozzy video that they had to over use the keyboards during Crazy Train and Mr. Crowley, to cover up his lack of guitar playing on Randy’s solo’s. I guess I, like many others, was in my prime during the Randy Rhoads years with Ozzy and I feel nobody else can come close. I was an 18 YO punk, I lived and breathed Randy’s solo’s, I drank my days and nights away to Randy’s playing, To me nobody was as great a guitar player as Randy. Today I’m pushing 32, I’m a Counselor with a Masters degree, and I still feel the same fucking way! That’s why not many people talk about Jake E Lee, he never accomplished anything to leave his fans wanting more…’Bark At The Moon’ almost made it. ‘Shot In The Dark’ never came close. Too bad Ozzy and Randy couldn’t have done just one more album. Oh well. Party on, Jerry.