No!!! Zakk ruins ALL Randy era, Jake era, Joe era tunes and not to mention ALL the Ozzy era Black Sabbath tunes with those ANNOYING & OVERPLAYED PINCH HARMONICS!!! Randy would to hear Zakk playing his stuff like he does. Now on the other hand, Zakk's SOLO efforts, it's fine. Because its ALL Zakk's stuff.
That sounded like shit. You definitely need lessons Zakk. Randy the master king of the guitar is laughing at you for butchering his great work on guitar
Can't say he is not a very accomplished guiter player but I never liked his tone, he seems to want to put in too many notes, his licks are noise not tasteful and most of all, his pinch harmonics are awful. It just goes to show how amazing Randy was.
Zakk you are the man.Hear me the most talented gifted. Man to rock I I was a young buck at. The the stone pony. I had short conversation. I will never forget. "SDMF"
Zakk Wylde: the artificial/pinch harmonic master... Anyone can pick his playing out after only a few seconds, because that's about as long as Zakk can handle not playing a harmonic.
I agree to a point, but this .... In my opinion was pretty bad. Look at all the added fluff he put into this. It made the song totally different sounding and took the timing off by quite a bit. He could have added his own style without ruining one of my favorite riffs.
Randy Rhoads is my favorite guitarist of all time, and I have to say that I actually like hearing Zakk Wylde add in his own style when he is playing some Randy Rhoads classic, there is nothing wrong with adding in your own style many people do it.
exactly man, if he was copying it exactly everyone would say yeh nice but get ur own style. why would any other guitarist wanna be a replica of another. randy is randy and zakk is zakk.
as a guitarist,i do respect your opinion and imput,BUT...to put him on the pedistool of the most successful muscian?sorry mate but i disagree.please take a look at malmsteen,buckethead, hannaemen,DIME! Michael angelo batio,satriani,vai,dude he list goes on.dont take it as me looking for a fight,but..to try help you find quality guitarists of a much higher calibre.
will you guys ever get, that this is zakk, not randy. and 'c tuning' (though he actually uses d tunings) and pinch harmonics are zakks trademark. he is not randy. get it goddammit.. go and listen to the randy stuff if you don't like zakks interpretation.... \m/ R.I.P. Long live the king
Hey look, another asshole shitting on Zakk with bullshit justifications. For one thing, it's D tuning and he tunes down a step because Ozzy's vocals need it. For another, listen to any of Randy's live performances, he loved inserting fills and even P.H. squeals. Also, Randy's versions of the Sabbath songs are nothing like the originals, which Zakk-haters always forget. Randy altered the songs as much as Zakk does, maybe even moreso, but people ignore it because... ?
Randy's guitar had the body of the gibson flying V but the actual company that made it was Sandoval Guitar's. Also Zakk's copy is a GMW if I remember correctly.
I don't know if you know music, but here a tip for you. In 1982 Ozzy sang all his musics in E because he was young. Today he can't do that anymore. So all these songs must be tuned again 1 step down. Don't be sad, it's knowledge, you earn with time. Sorry about my english. By the way is Rhoads not Rhodes.
Zakk is better then all of you. He's one of the most succsessful musicians of all time, being with ozzy over 20 years, theres a reason he was with ozzy for so long. hes got chops and hes created hundreds of great and amzing riffs, and songs, with BLS, Pride n Glory, and helped write with ozzy. and did a solo album; book of shawdows. Hes more sucsefful then any of you will ever be, hes also one of the most kind hearted, and respectful artists I have ever seen. so show some respect.
Come on guys... That's the same as if you were hating on Vai because of the tremolo or on Slash because of the bends... The pinch harmonics are like his trademark.. Anyway I would like to see you playing for over 20 years with ozzy and like 13 or more with BLS and invent such awesome riffs.. well none of you would..