Classic Videos – Ozzy Osbourne – Crazy Babies & Miracle Man
This week during my Thanksgiving break, I have been listening to a lot of Ozzy Osbourne. The CD that keeps getting a lot of repeat plays from me this week, is Ozzy’s 1988 class, No Rest for the Wicked. This is the first album to feature Zakk Wylde on guitar, and arguably the best.
Check out the clips, “Crazy Babies” and “Miracle Man” below!
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Yeah – didn’t mean to bash on Gus, he’d school me, but there’s nothing really wild about his tunes. The first couple of Ozzy discs with Zakk on them, or any Randy, of course. Or for a real treat, listen to Jake’s tone on the first two Badlands discs. It’s so raw, and combined with his very unique playing, it’s a match made in heaven.
Gus is awesome, but so is the guy at the guitar store. I want to hear something fresh. Which, on a slight off-topic note, is what’s wrong with most hard rock / metal these days. It’s like the songs are just chords and barely enough to call it a song. Nobody seems to write ‘riffs’ any more. Or memorable riffs, anyway. Gus’s stuff is just run of the mill riffage, the same boring stuff everyone is doing.
PS – who didn’t say a little “WTF????” the first time you heard the opening riff to Miracle Man? It’s funny how you almost knew instantly we had a contender. Can’t say that about Gus, I’m afraid. Originality is hard to come by.
I know what you are saying Frank. Gus didn’t really break out on the last album, although he was good, he didn’t really inject his own style into the music. He has an incredibly hard act to follow with Randy Rhoads, Jake E. Lee, and Zakk Wylde before him.
Ahh, back in the good old days when Zakk Wylde wasn’t weird……and hairy.