@@iancollins3991 Cozy must have played with more great guitarists and vocalists than any other rock drummer in history ! I saw him performing with Whitesnake back in the mid 80s and he was superb and commanded the stage like no other drummer .
fascinating Don Airey interview...one month after this, he went to Ridge Farm Studios and recorded the Blizzard of Ozz record with Ozzy and Randy Rhoads...rest is history.
You're being very kind. Even he admits that it is not what it was in his peak years. And it's okay, as it happens to the best of them (and Graham is certainly among the best of them).
Yeah his intro on Johnny Blade is awesome. Totally sets the mood for a song that is really one of Black Sabbath's best from the Ozzy era, that barely anyone knows.
@@DrTomoculus personally I think never say die album is one of Sabbath's best ever albums. It's full of great songs, arrangements, playing and is inventive, progressive and powerful. But you're right, hardly anyone ever mentions it. Same with technical ecstasy. Give me those 2 albums anyday over , the supposedly best Sabbath album ever for lots of fans, heaven and hell. Apart from children of the sea and title track, it does nothing for me
I believed for years what critics and fans said about Never Say Die!. I was going to art college when I met this dude who came from Canada. He said Never Say Die! rules, and was shocked I'd never heard it. So I borrowed it. One of the best Sabbath albums. I enjoy it much more than Technical Ecstasy, but still consider Sabotage their masterpiece. :D I'm with you. Dio with Sabbath does nothing for me. I like The Mob Rules. That's about it. They sound like a band influenced by Black Sabbath. @@laurencelevene4333
“This is the greatest lineup rainbow’s ever had. I think they’ll stay together for a long time.” I wonder how much Blackmore paid him to say that. 😂😂😂 Cozy quit within months of this interview, joining Michael Schenker for some apparent stability. 🤣🤣🤣
I can't recall ever hearing of Don Airey. Although I probably have come across his name in some rock music book Yeh, could be 20 years between them instead of one.
AND Black Sabbath on and off starting with Never Say Die in 1978 and all through the 80's. He later played with Judas Priest and Bruce Dickinson. He's one of the most famous (not) famous metal keyboardists. Don was the only witness to Randy Rhoads plane crash the day he died.
RAINBOW = Ronnie James Dio (vocals), Cozy Powell (drums), Tony Carey (keyboard), Jimmy Bain (bass), Ritchie Blackmore (guitar) after this line-up changed, RAINBOW became another common mellow rock pop band; the dragons, dungeons, sorcery and all the magic were lost once Ronnie James Dio left ....... period.
@@FuturePast2019 actually, that was the second lineup (I could call it RAINBOW Mark II) as for the first album (Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow), the members from ELF that were hired for the debut album that first sound of RAINBOW, all were replaced with the exception of RONNIE JAMES DIO, then COZY POWELL, JIMMY BAIN and TONY CAREY were added to the band to carry on till LONG LIVE ROCK AND ROLL album, where keyboard and bass players were also changed. I can say that RAINBOW Mark III (new keyboard and bass player) did an excellent job, but in my personal opinion, I can say that I prefer Tony and Bain in the band.
I have in my posession one of those subsequently authorized Rainbow bootlegs, from that very period. This was the only time when Rainbow were just as good as Purple.
I have the debut album X2 (both first press copies on the Oyster pearl label), Rising, LLR&R, Down To Earth & On Stage all on vinyl first pressings. I went off Rainbow after that. Didn't like the new pop style & never cared for JLT's voice. I also have all my Deep Purple LPs from the 1969 self titled through to Come Taste The Band & a few live albums as well. I love my vinyl albums. Got loads of them from the 1970s.
they were not selling albums that is why the change in style, DIO was great but nothing really happened, DOWN TO EARTH had the perfect mixture of POP and RoCK a band needed to survive, BLACKMORE explained he had bills to pay. DIO and COZY always had some issues, POWEll had to "LEAVE" Sabbath when DIO came back in 1992.
I'm sure Graham has perhaps lost a bit when he's been sick or tired, but l have worked with him on my upcoming sci-fi animated movie musical, "FUTURE NOW", and he has sung on two of the tracks, Portraying the hip futuristic pastor, "D.L Pleazal"! and if you check out his highly emotional charged vocals on his Lp, "Day out in know where"! The track, "Suzy", Graham wrote this song for my late wife after he, and Beth-Ami, and l talked on the phone. He is one of very few that can maintain such a gift of still kicking ass.
Sorry know thanks to me rockers and all kinds of music listeners finally woke up 🎉 and realize that rainbow with Dio is the very best and they are upset at themselves for missing not knowing that rainbow with Dio was the first heavy metal band but it was considered hard Rock not until Dio with black sabbath in 1981 1982 and the movie cartoon heavy metal came out the hard Rock changed to heavy metal so Tony iomi and Dio gets the credit but Ritchie blackmore with Dio should be credited too trust its never better with out Ronnie James Dio as the front man and that is for certain the blody truth and fact
@@FuturePast2019 I'm a huge rainbow fan, but following a incredible masterpiece of an album, long live rock n roll, I thought down to earth was appalling. I think I played it once, and hated it
This was just after the Munich show, where Ritchie Blackmore and David Coverdale staged an impromptu fight backstage! Both Cozy and Don would join or work with Whitesnake later. Amazingly, Ritchie and David are friends again now. The fight was broken up before anyone got hurt.🙂
