Jake adapted Randy's solos. He said this many times. I have heard that Ozzy wanted Jake to copy them, but Jake didn't want to be compared, any more than was necessary.
I've been a Randy Rhoads fan since I first saw him play back in '81. After he passed away and they got Jake I was so happy to see someone who can play Randy's solos without destroying them but also Jake adding his own flair.
Jake E Lee nailed every solo. That guy is one phenomenal guitarist. I never knew he was this good, Holy crap. What's craziest, it's that he's pulling it off live!!!
You have to hand it to Jake...he was just a kid and had only been with Ozzy for a few weeks...he had to learn all of Randy’s parts...write material for the new album and perform at a huge festival...he was only in small club bands before that...good work!
@@johnmcminn9455 True, but one thing that always lingers is why the guy kept allowing himself to be conned over and over and over. Even to this day he said he "probably" would work with Ozzy again. Stories get inflated, everyone wants to make a buck or get attention and most will say, skew, distort their stories if it plays well with their agenda.
Two observations: 1) As much of a train wreck as Ozzy was back in the day, the dude was a total natural when he hit the stage. Perfect timing. On key. Working the crowd like a boss. 2) Jake E. Lee is a fucking beast!
What a killer video I'm 57 years old I was 20 when they show went down... We slept all night in the dirt parking lot the night before it was worth it every band kicked ass and this was off the hook when Ozzy did mr. Crowley... I'll never forget it
We camped out from Friday am and saw all three days, then left on Tues am.. It was A LIFETIME event for me.. I was 17 and my friends were fifteen.. Loveddd this show.
I was there I'm 54 now but it was just like yesterday had great tickets and I climb that big dirt hills jumped over the fence got chased by cops on horses for the hell of it best concert ever I've been to a lot shout out to Campbell hometown
This was beautiful. Jake E. Lee totally deserved a better luck in the business... Great player. Great feeling. Great composer. He was totally up to the challenge of steping into Randy's shoes...
He later went on to play in a band called Badlands. They were definitely different. The lead vocalist ended up dying from aids I believe. I ironically found a Badlands CD laying in the street in somewhere around 1999 or 2000 having never heard of the band before but I ended up kind of liking them. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F5o3huMA-iU.html
Jake E Lee was one of the most underrated guitarist ever to share the stage with Ozzy. He was SO good and SO his own style. Which reflected again in Badlands. Btw, I recorded this show live and still have the tape. Something I hold dear to me.
Mr. Crowley is basically one long solo from the Master of his time, Randy Rhoads. No one was doing anything like it. But for Jake to step in and play like that, Amazing. Simply Amazing!
What Ozzy and Sharon did to Jake was criminal. They used and discarded Jake when they should have been grateful as hell to him for saving Ozzy's career at that point. Jake E Lee was nothing short of a miracle that kept Ozzy at the top following the loss of Randy Rhoades.
@@paulieramos not only that and I hate to admit it because Zakk is one of the absolute best but... Don't his solos sound a little samey after awhile? Like you can predict the pig squeals you know? Like it's his trademark but it almos feels like looking back at it there's Not a lot of variation from the squeals... I don't know is that just me?
@@christianblack392 I feel you, right. He just uses the same squeal. My favorite and will always be the MIGHTY VAN HALEN, then RANDY. You know who was really good but died way too early Cris Oliva from savatage
Interesting story for me.... I was having a drink and a late night dinner at the bootlegger in Las Vegas. (Local spot south strip)... the bartender and I were discussing favorite guitar riffs of all time and another fella was joining in... they named theirs and I said “the intro from bark at the moon just crushed” and the other guy says “thank you”.. I didn’t put 2 and 2 together when he said his name was Jake... it was Jake e lee... much older than what I remember so it through me off .. cool dude and good talk
Nothing against Randy or Zakk, but Jake is hands down my favourite Ozzy guitarist. Love his playing so much. Bark at the moon is one of my all time favourite riffs.
SuperStrik9 The idea of Ozzy actually writing anything is kind of funny. Sure Sharon, we're all idiots. We'll believe Ozzy wrote all that music! Better watch out Sharon, the "killer of giants" is comin' for ya!
You can still see him play in Red Dragon Cartel...I can never get enough of this guy..Salt Lake City, Utah, Suicide Solution, he ripps up that guitar solo..must see if haven't yet
Bark at the Moon is all anybody talks about. The other album Jake did with Ozzy, the Ultimate Sin is full of amazing music, and as far as Jake E Lee's wizardry, wipes the floor with BATM. 'Never' 'Lightening Strikes' 'Killer of Giants', the title track - none of it is remembered, Ozzy never played any of it live after the tour ended for it. It's one of the great Ozzy records - Jake is on fire, and Ozzy, with the money and the booze (as well as a certain sadness about RR) just ballooned in weight and as a direct result his voice was more powerful and passionate than at any time in his entire career. Just listen to 'Never' and tell me that isn't Ozzy at his most powerful.
I mean he's amazing in sabbath, especially on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath in '74. But i think there is an urgency and passion in his voice on Ultimate sin that is unlike anything he had ever done. His voice is huge. Some of his best singing.
***** it is so criminal that Jake was treated like this and if it only comes down to money then what happens to the art..I think Oz has brought so much to the music world but guys like Jake obviously help him along tremendously and Jake was and is a brilliant player hands down..he took over for randy amazingly which in itself is fn huge!then he wrote something great tunes ..one I would like to hear more is rock n roll rebel and the other is journey to the center of eternity. .incredible stuff!
***** you can't go wrong learning that song brother!and yes I could not put it any better than you on where ozzy and Sharon would be without the late great randy and of course the Jake man kept his career alive!
It's nothing short of amazing that Jake was able to pull that lead off as fast as the tempo was. If you go back and listen to Randy play it live, he almost had to throw in extra notes because it was played so slow. Jake is an awesome guitarist.
7:26 Tommy Aldridge cymbal choke, something 99.99% of everyone present for this show would never even notice or hear or care about...what an absolute professional
Tommy Aldridge was the best drummer Ozzy ever had IMO. Bark at the Moon Live 1984 (here on You Tube) kicks ass. Hell of a drummer. You can also find the same performance listed under Bark at the Moon Legendado.
Agreed. His snare drum was mighty - leading the charge, constant and valiant! That was his Paiste RUDE period. I had a full set of those back in 1984. In fact I was the first guy to get them in the whole Bay Area. I love those things and I still have a few - a Sound Edge bottom (with an ancient 2002 black logo bottom on top) and 18/20/22" Crash-Rides. The 1983 22" Ride/Crash was the first one I bought, and the only one that didn't eventually break, so that's a treasure. If you want to see/hear some nice Tommy drumming - check out the Whitesnake Live at the Hammersmith Apollo 2004.
Jake has something that I've always admired. You hear him on the album and he sounds great. Then you hear him live and you think that he was holding back on the album. Jake is a live musician where too many others are studio musicians.
I've always been amazed at the way Ozzy puts the mic in the stand for about 0.00000018 seconds before taking it back out again. That's an Ozzy trademark that no one else does.
IMHO Ozzy has made a career riding the coattails of his first 4 albums, the Randy and Jake era's. Losing Randy was tragic but firing Jake was fucking moronic (Sharon's idea). Ozzy's music was never that caliber again.
+B33tle_HD I'm with you--I like pinch harmonics as much as the next guy but it can become a crutch just like the wah or any number of "cheap tricks" that are used to substitute for actual musical expression. That is what was so great about Randy Rhoads--he managed to say so much with his playing.
U guys are wankers. Jake is a drunk loser. When randy came out on the diary of a madman tour he had flames shooting from fingers. He was a god among men and the ONLY guitar player to EVER give Eddie a run for his money.
I'm a huge Randy Rhoads fan but Jake E Lee is still one of my top three favorite guitarists of all time.. I was fortunate enough to meet him on the Bark at the Moon and the ultimate sin tour. Very very cool guy. definitely one of the best shredders and hugely underrated. He never got the recognition that he deserved. he went on to do great work in Badlands.. Red Dragon Cartel
Tommy has played with some of the best, such as Black Oak Arkansas, Pat Travers Band, Ozzy Osbourne, Gary Moore, Whitesnake, Ted Nugent, Thin Lizzy, Vinnie Moore & Yngwie Malmsteen and more. IMHO he's also the the best pioneer in double bass drumming!
I love Tommy's drumming too but Lee Kerslake was the real drum monster. Not convinced? Just listen to the drum intro to Over the Mountain or Little dolls.All done with a single bass drum!
bwdrums1 While Im quite sure there was “blow” around there -I can guarantee you that Tommy wasn’t even considering taking any. I met one of his personal friends and Tommy is not like that at all.
Randy 's live EP version of this used to be my party-piece. Live Bark at the Moon a close second. Until now hadn't listened to it in years. Ozzy stood on the shoulders of some great musicians. A lucky clown.
@@vandenbos6401 there are different types of singers. If Ozzy were a joke singer then Sabbath would not have made it off the ground and Ozzy by himself would definitely never have had s successful solo career. You can say "oh Sharron is the one that made Ozzy famous" and you would technically be correct because she did have the makings as a great manager. But great managers can't make you big if you don't have any talent.
LONG LIVE RANDY CASTILLO!!! LONG LIVE RANDY RHOADS!!! Randy Castillo is honored in the Smithsonian American Indian Museum for his contribution to rock music, can't get much better than that!! Apache
Jake had just stepped into some BIG shoes...and did a damn fine job. So nice to hear a real live recording...straight up rock, as it was. Really played, and not doctored.
Jake was great! He was well up there with most guitarists. Amazing songwriter, his music theory is top notch with all his chord variations to match the key and rhythm of the song. In terms of being treated fairly, I feel he would’ve done great in a band like Whitesnake or someone like that. Fuck Sharon and Ozzy !
Agree jake is great why for god sake he got less popularity don't know he deserves more. Funny that zakk got known of those pinch harmonics john sykes did it before, vivian campbell too, randy and many others
Sigh...No...Wrong..After Randy there was Brad Gillis. Jake is a great guitar player, but Brad was offered the position first and declined to stay on after Speak of the Devil.
I was 13 people back from center stage....after or rather during crazy train had to exit stage left...too damn hot... people were dropping like flies! Eric Underwood class of 81 Downey High School California
@Keith Long Hey... It was a hot summer day...it was people's body heat from being so close they were hosing us down My friend Billy was short ...he tugged on me and when I bent down to hear him I swear it was like 15 degrees hotter a foot down.. I told him ( he looked all pale ) hold on to the back of my pants and don't let go for nothing...we plowed left ...by the time we cleared the crowd about 150 yards left Billy had like 45 people hanging on to him like a train! People just couldn't get out and they would just pass out and we were picking them up over our heads and passing them along and putting them over the stage barrier for medical...if you look you can see it in the video...people getting put over that barrier wall in front of the stage! ✌️
Chris Kemp He won the lottery alot....tony created heavy metal guitar thrusting ozzy into heavy metal god status. Then with randy creating a eerie style of heavy guitarl blue printing the path for his solo career. Then again with jake ,the only guy who could truly follow randy without trying to copy him..Then even zakk was perfect even tho he couldve been replaced easier than the previous
@@snowblind3838 geezer wrote literally everything in sabbath, he was a genius, obviously the other band member had input but he played guitar too and would construct the songs and what not
mano a mano you see that cymbal choke at 7:26? That man is a pro at all times. Nobody would care or notice if he missed it. But he cared. Legendary musician. So under appreciated
The drummer, guy is a legend in metal/rock's history, played with some of the best musicians around and on some of the most important, influential rdcords of all time...
This was the first time I'd ever heard or seen Ozzy Osbourne. It was on HBO or Showtime or something. I lived in this little Mormon town and thought I was really doing something I shouldn't have been. lol It felt so good I never looked back. Jake did a hell of a job standing in Randy's shoes here! This wasn't even a year after the accident and before Bark at the Moon was released so I can only imagine the pressure Jake must have been under at the moment. Pulling this off in front of over 100,000 screaming fans!!! Shiiiittt, that's nuckin' futz!
Love RR and Jake, big part of that creative process was due to Bob Daisley the bass player(seen playing in this video). Bob wrote or co wrote many of Ozzy's greatest hits working with Randy, Jake and Zakk. He wrote lyrics, pieced together ideas and provided compositional framework. Bob along with countless others screwed by Sharon.
Very true. I think Ozzy finally squared up with him and the others. Without Bob you had nothing. Ozzy owes his post Sabbath career to Bob. He wrote everything. Ozzy was and is a singer ..a vocalist. not a lyricist as the credits on the first 4 solo albums would have you believe. Sharon is without a doubt the biggest fuckin cunt in the business. she took pride in fucking people out of their publishing rights then kicked them out of the band. she would have done the same to Randy had he not been killed.
I like how Jake changed it a bit. It wasn't so much change that it was ruined and he made it his own while maintaining the integrity of the piece. Randy changed his own solos. He improvised on occasion. It gets boring playing the same exact solo every time. Even when they're brilliant solos. I actually started using one of Jake's techniques after seeing this video. When the second solo starts, right after the interlude, Jake does the triads using hybrid picking. I've had trouble playing those triads like they're written. For some reason it's always been easier for me to play 4 note groups than 3. I started using hybrid picking and now I have no trouble with them. Why go see it live if it's going to be exact like the studio recording? It's cool to see how bands pull off songs that have overdubs in the studio recording, in a live setting. If Randy was a God (and I don't argue that) then Jake is, at least, a demi-god. He to has some brilliant solos. Like Bark at the Moon, Rumblin' Train etc... I'm not sure why anyone feels compelled to be negative about Jake, he had some HUGE shoes to fill and did a damn good job.
Everyone here is rightfully commenting on Bob, Tommy, and even Jake. But don't forget Don on keyboards. He was a perfect compliment to the band back in the day.
This guitar solo saved my life. I had hit depression and was like "eff it I'm gonna try to learn the Mr. Crowley solo." To prove I could still do it. And then I saw Jake do it. And learned it note for note. He was the dude.
I was there in US 83 Festival. I was in the front row right in front of Jake. He did a great job that day, no apologies needed. You rocked it hard Jake!!!
I think Jake knew that he would be appreciated more, after he was gone. This is a perfect example of knowing Randy's original solo's but adding his own flavor. He visites Randy work (mostly) then shows you some flair because Jake is a badass too.
Jake says he doesn’t get nervous. Good thing, most people would, just having joined with Ozzy right before this concert. He’s one of my very favorite guitarists. Ozzy was so lucky to get him.
@@dontmakemelaugh01 my friend had to explain why he had a sunburn down the middle of his face. His cheeks and top corners of his forehead were like ass cheeks white, so damn funny for so long after. He took all the joking like a champ lol I forgot about that until you mentioned how hot it was.
+Ian Sorola Probably wouldn't have lasted long, as none of the members did...They got ousted at one point or another, great ones too, like Jake RR didn't get a chance to quit or get ousted
People think Crazy Train is just a metal/rock song or anthem at sports games. They dont understand the true message behind, yea it can be a hype song too but the main message is just so emotional. Not to mention very melodic voice ozzy has and the song is melodic as well.
