Hard Rock News 1/15/07
OZZY OSBOURNE: New Album Is In The Same League As ‘Blizzard Of Ozz’, ‘Diary Of A Madman’
Ozzy Osbourne has told Dan Epstein of Revolver magazine (web site) that he has finally found the perfect setting for making records: the newly soundproofed guest house behind his Beverly Hills mansion, which he’s outfitted with a mixing desk and a ProTools rig.
“When I made records before, I’d have to get up, get in a cab or car, go to the studio, and wait for everyone to turn up,” Osbourne explained. “If you’re already inspired before you leave for the studio, you’re fucked by the time you get there! But now I have the luxury of working in my own home. I can play the music on my own sound system, and I can lie down in my room and watch my flat-screen TV whenever I like.”
Unlike 2001’s slickly produced “Down to Earth”, the last album of original Ozzy material, the new disc promises to be a rawer and heavier affair. Recorded with the same band that backed Osbourne on his scattered 2006 Ozzfest dates — Zakk Wylde on guitar, Mike Bordin on drums, and former ROB ZOMBIE bassist Rob “Blasko” Nicholson — the album has no official producer, although longtime Mutt Lange protégé Kevin Churko is serving as the engineer.
“Kevin‘s working the machines and helping me with the songwriting,” said Osbourne. “He really knows what he’s doing with the ProTools, which is good because I can’t work the fucking thing. I can barely work a light switch!”
“We just went in and jammed out the riffs, just like how they made ‘Back in Black’ and all the SABBATH record,” said Wylde. “I don’t need Bob Rock there to tell me what to do, like that ‘Vagina Monologues’ band METALLICA. When you know where you’re going, you don’t need to ask for fucking directions! It sounds like classic Ozzy — there’s piano ballads, there’s an acoustic thing, and then there’s the heavy shit. From the beginning, Oz kept saying to me, ‘Zakk, we need another ‘No More Tears’ — we’ve gotta piss all over that fuckin’ record. This thing’s gotta be able to hang with ‘Diary of a Madman’!'”
“I always try to make a great album,” says Osbourne. “It’s not like I go in there and go, ‘You know what? I’ve had a great run — I’m gonna do a piece of shit for my next album!’ But to be perfectly truthful to you, ‘Down to Earth’ was just a filler album to me. It did well, and some people liked it, and I loved the ballad on it [‘Dreamer’]. But this album I put in the same league as ‘No More Tears’, ‘Blizzard of Ozz’, and ‘Diary’. It’s definitely my influence of SABBATH coming out, here and there. But then again, I would have liked to see SABBATH put out an album like this at this stage of the game.”
For more on Ozzy Osbourne‘s new solo album, pick up the March 2007 issue of Revolver magazine, set to hit newsstands this coming Monday, January 15. More information is available at www.revolvermag.com.
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Former Rough Cutt and Quiet Riot singer Paul Shortino has a new CD coming out from his new band called The SideFX.
This band features Ira Black (Vicious Rumours) on guitar, Uriah Duffy (Whitesnake), and Patrick Johannson (Yngwie Malmsteen) on drums.
You can listen to a new track, Voice In Your Head, off their forthcoming disc here.
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House of Lords are on tour with Bang Tango have dates scheduled in the following cities:
| Tue | 01/16/07 | Hartford, CT | Webster Theatre / Underground  |
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| Wed | 01/17/07 | Worcester, MA | Lucky Dog Music Hall |
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| Fri | 01/19/07 | Newport, RI | Newport Blues Cafe |
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| Sat | 01/20/07 | Springfield, VA | Jaxx, Springfield, VA |
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| Sun | 01/21/07 | Farmingdale, NY | Crazy Donkey |
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| Wed | 01/24/07 | Warren, MI | The Ritz | |||
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| Thu | 01/25/07 | Cincinnati, OH | Rhino’s | |||
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| Fri | 01/26/07 | Bridgeville, PA | RPM’s | |||
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| Sat | 01/27/07 | Sharonville, OH | Rhinos Live | |||
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Frank Hannon from Tesla is opening for Winger in support of his solo CD, Guitarz from Mars.
Dates are scheduled as follows:
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Unfortunately it’s probably just P.R talk again. I love Zakk Wylde but i think ozz needs new blood to get the creative juices flowing again,bring back Jake E.Lee and see what they can create?
I can’t imagine Ozzy being able to put something else out as good as Blizzard of Oz or Diary of a Madman. I guess time will tell.