Max Norman on Ozzy's 'Blizzard of Ozz' - Inside the Album, Making of, Randy Rhoads, Interview 

+1 trillion.

Bob Dailey is amazing,he’s written,played and contributed to so many great songs. I just finished reading his book and he gives great insight behind the scenes in his time with Ozzy/Randy and Rainbow.

I don't think anyone rates him low

@@lanceross3633 what's the name of the book bro

@@angelripper_420 For Facts Sake

legendary because of how great they are, and how he did not have time to work those solos out

He had such a gift for melody, harmony, phrasing, and the chops to put it all together, and he had a great ear, so it's not just great playing, it's tasteful too.

Yeah, MOST people, (in particular - DRUMMERS,) THOUGHT what they WERE TOLD on the LP sleeve WAS, THAT it WAS INDEED Tommy Aldridge ON DRUMS (and Sarzo- bass) yet? It WAS ORIGINAL drummer LEE KERSLAKE! (with DAISLEY on bass). I DIDN'T found out the truth until 97 when my drum teacher at the time Kent Burnham told me WHAT THE TRUTH WAS. (As Kent was NO stranger to the Rock industry and knew/knows lotta the REAL DEAL behind scenes. Some of our near TOTAL lessons I had with him, we ended up just talking about the ol daze ,instead of practicing drums 😏🥁 LOL 😆.) Yep, TYPICAL SHARON runnin OZZY shyt goins on - Dragon leading the rat deal 🙄 And so yeah, it wasn't UNTIL poor Kerslake WAS dying, that the "Sharon/Ozzy camp" were like, nice enough to give the man HIS DAMN 🪙 GOLD RECORD AWARD!.... Yeah, GREAT music 🎼 but? HORRIBLE HORRIBLE people... "Ozzy and Sharon"😒. But yeah! LEE KERSLAKE! 🥁 I found THAT out in 97 (after believing the incorrect) SINCE those albums inceptions so... And yeah, then it was "me myself and I" that HAD to explain the truth to EVERYONE else as well, for YEARS, obviously until the net REALLY eventually took OVER. Read ALL the books, articles, talked to people in the know about the WHOLE 80s OZZY band thing (ESPECIALLY the RHOADS era), got the Ozzy Randy Tribute tattoo on my back....Ohhh yeah, quite the ol school "fan" right here 😎🤘🔥🥁🤘 ROCK the funk ON! 🤘

@@sea-dawg GLAD YOU, enjoyed it! 😏😁......😉👍 Can't help it if I am a hugely animated commentor/person, TRYING like, REALLY HARD to get my points across 🤷 48 y.o. and STILL, CAN/WILL talk that 80s METAL Music bands daze BS, ALL day and ALL night, IF I can...🤘🔥🎸🥁🎶😡🎉🍻🥃🍚🎼🎶😎🤘

what they tried to promote on Diary was shameful, Darth Hideous revealing her low class nature

these are awesome

All time A leaguer

my all time favorite!

He was 23 when he recorded the first album. Musical genius.

He was about to quit and go back to college when he died. Great guitarist, but he's considered a legend because he died young. There have been better. EVH was better, Yngwie was better, Dimebag was way better... the list goes on.

@@Dex000x that's subjective.

He lobbed them a call saying he had nothing to do with it, which they knew. BOB got sacked because he backed Lee.

That was all Sharon's bitch ass. Same thing with Jake E Lee.

They probably asked Sharon for enough money to buy food.

Randy felt Bob was a bully, because he was intimidated by Randy's talent. Which is why Bob got fired and in typical Ozzy fashion he figured yeah let's just fire the drummer too. That's how Rudy Sarzo got hired. Of course Ozzy was the real bully and him and Randy had a falling out over redoing old Sabbath songs for the royalties. Randy hated Sabbath, but Ozzy bulled and intimidated Randy every chance he got. Eventually Randy's good nature won out and he agreed to do the record cause he felt he owed it to Ozzy for making him famous, but after the record he was leaving the band. This is why Ozzy wouldn't allow any of Randy's footage with him to be used in the current Randy documentary. Sharon and Ozzy have told a bunch of lies about him after he wasn't around to defend himself!

@KingLouisV no it's pretty accurate if you read all the interviews that were published in all the magazines, some people can't handle the truth.

Diary is a legitimate masterpiece, sonic brilliance of great musicians finding that zone

Diary of a madman is my fav Ozzy song

they are consistent in their stories, Ozzy's seem to deviate from the plot

👍 yeah, those 2 albums are absolutely perfect and beautiful . My two favorites also. I was amped up to get my Diary tour ticket. I couldn't wait to see Randy up close and personal, but it ended up being Brad Gillis. That's always bothered me.

@@1wickedgroove 😏👍 It's completely okay...👌I think that MOST of us loyal RR fanaticos WOULD/WILL agree 🤘...And YES! Of COURSE , Gillis DID a BEYOND phenominal job allowing the Osbourne camp "TO CONTINUE ON THE DIARY TOUR" . BUT yeah . NEVER, NEVER , would be , the same.....ROCK the funk ON!!!🤘😡🔥🥁🎸🤘

two legit masterpieces, though I think DOAM is greater

I love hearing about the recording process especially from the guy who did it

that album is a true masterpiece, objectively

@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle just the song Diary of a Madman alone is a masterpiece. The way the song is layered was very well done. As the albums final track, I still get the weebee jeebees after listening to the entire album, and when the final notes ring out, and the door to the madness slams closed, it is very final. Wicked shit.

correction: Darth Hideous ....

what Race is she? 🤔

You are absolutely right. Awesome album!

It's all about them and the money unfortunately

never would have happened with out her.

Then Rhoads might have lived, I’ll take it.

​@@name-fk9gw that's nice but it doesn't absolve them

Darth hideous executes pn Ozzy's code reds...he's not without blame

absolutely

How do Mike Borden and Robert trujillo get a free pass, we know Darth Hideous is the zero in the equation but I have never heard of them regret it publicly as they should

@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle how does Ozzy seemingly get a pass on most anything in his career that can be pinned on Sharon? They have the ‘good cop, bad cop’ routine down to a tee and fans lap it up and are quick to give Oz a free pass. Boggles me..

@@mattrock12 people want to pretend Ozzy doesn't know, but he knows. He signs off on this stuff. He orders the code reds

Lee and Bob were writers of the music and the lyrics.

Yes but the recording sound quality is not good. Engineer should have known that but didn't care.

@@MILKMAN1077 Good Enough for me.

@@MILKMAN1077 but it is.....not sure what you are listening to, the sound quality is fantastic....it's nice and raw

@@bigdaddymojo2005 some hack coming in here talking about the recording quality not being good just exposes his ignorance, imagine thinking DOAM does not sound great

@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle Preach my brother!

Darth Hideous screwing over the actual musicians and songwriters.

so I saw metal castle estimate that first two albums have sold 20 million globally, we know in the U.S. they shipped 8 million

I think he had slingerlands and the first two ozzy albums he's using an early/mid 70s /Hayman snare. Wooden snare, 5x14 wrapped in chrome.

@@johnvalencia9927 John, do you know how small or big the kit was? Sizes?

@@shanegriffin2215 Just a typical 5 or maybe 6 piece (with additional floor tom🤔) drum set, sir. Just have to look online for MORE "pics". They ARE OUT THERE. Actual sizing/dimensions are ANOTHER story ALL together (GOOD luck on that 👌). But yeah man, otherwise? JUST a typical kinda drum set from THAT era (from ALL of the decades of info/pics that "me myself and I" HAVE seen). ROCK the funk ON! 🤘🥁🎸🎼😡🤘

Oh 🤔...So, NOW... Frankie Banalli is taking (OR, HAD taken) credit for the whole , OVER THE MOUNTAIN 🥁 drum intro? 🧐 Interesting 🤔.... Where did you read that? (IF you remember).....We ALL know WHO HAS taken the credit for the recording of it and WHO, IT IS/WAS THAT ACTUALLY played it, via ORIGINAL recording....😏🤘🥁🔥😡🎼🎸🤘

@@jamescon55 ……I read it in some article awhile back but I had to google it to make sure I had my facts right so thats what you’ll probably need to do as well.

extremely underappreciated

Agreed. He has sucked enough money out of the USA. Ungrateful Bastard! Randy will always be my favorite guitarists.

Yet you spend your time watching videos about him and his music

T.S Racing , I was hoping the same even more so ever hear about sharon also .

Lol NONE of it is ozzys music…sharon is that you?

I do not think there is any question those are in the too 2, but I call those Blizzard of ozz albums, Ozzy was the singer

I agree with you that the first 2 records are fantastic,especially Blizzard. Talk of the Devil was very good plus he sang some old Sabbath songs on it ( if I remember correctly ). I wasn't impressed with Bark at the Moon, so I didn't play it nearly as much as the first two records. When I first heard Shot in the Dark I lost all interest in Ozzy because it was weak pop rock aimed at the American market. Obviously worked for him though coz he was massive in the States, but for me, as a long time fan it was a case of thanks but no thanks. Only good thing on hearing Shot....... on the radio was that I didn't have to waste my hard earned money buying a piece of crap like that.

Ozzy said in an interview in the UK press that his new band were called Blizzard of Ozz and that it wasn't gonna be released under his own name. Imagine my surprise when the first record was released lol@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle

a hobbyist drummer? he did not care to be a musician by trade? When Ozzy handed Randy the keys to the songwriting car, he had way more freedom than kevin and the producers gave him with the QR , Kevin was desperate to make it on some level regardless of the music

@Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. well ozzy could have vetoed songs, and he alleges he hummed ideas to Randy, something Tony would never entertain.

@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle Drew Forsyth was nothing special on drums retired in 1979 with the demise of QR the original set.. Randy did not even talk to him about departing the lineup QR. that is how much he thought of Drew.

@@ericscottstevens I've seen the documentaries and one thing struck me, that Drew seem bittered towards Randy and somewhat dismissive, he definitely felt he was owed a call. Sensed they were nothing but bandmates

@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle I think the most poignant story of a documentary I saw was Nikki SIxx auditioned for QR, probably after Kelly Garni's meltdown in 1979. Nikki showed up for the audition with a bass and did not know how to play it. Randy had to show Nikki how and what to play the bass for Nikki's own audition. In two years Nikki shot off to a much more lucrative situation by 1981. But we have to realize how Nikki marketed himself but really was not a musician, just faux character and able to convince them he knew how to play an instrument because he owned one. As for Drew I think Randy was expecting him to grow as a drummer and it never materialized after probably a lot of sessions and a lot of frustrations.

Diary every day of the week, and twice on Sunday. Randy's tone was so much better, and there's not a bad song on that album

@@nickjohnson3622 That would be my choice, but it's close!

@@nickjohnson3622 100%!!!

Bblizzard...it was the first time we heard of randy and blew our minds....DOAMM is awesome too...peace

Diary. I don't ever need to hear Crazy train or Mr Crowley ever again. They've been played to death.

Neumann u87, probably most used mic in recording history

Yes I wasn't sure but it just make sense

why Ozzy will tell you, everyone else will tell you how he didn't

Ozzy did not write nothing , credit goes to Bob and Randy.

All you dolts are hypocrites because you do exactly the same thing that you criticize Ozzy for.... You just do it in reverse by not giving Ozzy any credit at all.

because most feel it is great quality, the sound of that album is amazing, never heard tone like that before. ...it is top notch

Zakk was on NRFTW , NMT and ozzmosis, .....

Skotty O • NO, NO, NO! Zack would've been a very young kid when these first 2 albums were made.

Zakk was 13 Years old when Blizzard was recorded. Skotty O. You are dumb.

And Ted Cruz was the Zodiac killer...

@@MikeySea676 you mean Ted kaczynski?

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😭😭😭😭 - 4 out of 5 ain't bad, you old fartlicker.

Bahaha!! It's not like they're parading his corpse through town or doing the E true Hollywood stories PA. Maybe stop listening too it? There's millions of kids who haven't heard it at all. You stop telling stories of history and pretty soon no one respects it.

@@fullinbloom dude...You're my favorite for a lot of reasons but that fuckin reply just put you over the top!! Hahaha. So childish and SOOO GREAT

Well I haven’t heard these stories so don’t waste your time commenting, move on and wait for another video.

bad take...he is one of the best ever to produce

absurd, one of the best productions I have ever heard no album has ever sounded like that

Troll

Ok 🤡

Nope. He was actually going to quit. So Sharon made him a legend.

@@JohnViguerie that's not trolling that is some loser being a hack ....because he is insecure, trolling takes intellect and there is no sign of that

@@gates69 low grade hacks gonna hack