Monday, May 12, 2008 - 20:50
Intro to "Bark at the Moon" at the "The Ultimate Ozzy"?
I recently bought an old VHS with "The Ultimate Ozzy". I'm wondering if someone knows the name of the intro song to "Bark at the Moon". I've heard it several times on diffrent tv-shows and concerts but I don't know the artist or the name of the song. Please advise.
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I first heard it when I was a kid at the drive in, the movie was Excalibur, awesome flick!
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Ozzy:"I have no regrets except that I wasn't up to keep Randy (Rhoads) from getting on that plane." (Ozzy Osbourne, Guitar World Issue 37, 2000)
The intro you are speaking of is used for just about every Ozzy show, and is also used in countless other mediums. It is the O Fortuna movement of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, named for the Carmina Burana manuscript. The musical composition that shares the title of the ancient text was derived from 24 poems contained in the original text. The words spoken are in latin and are as follows.............
O Fortuna velut luna statu variabilis, semper crescis aut decrescis; vita detestabilis nunc obdurat et tunc curat ludo mentis aciem, egestatem, potestatem dissolvit ut glaciem. Sors immanis et inanis, rota tu volubilis, status malus, vana salus semper dissolubilis, obumbrata et velata michi quoque niteris; nunc per ludum dorsum nudum fero tui sceleris. Sors salutis et virtutis michi nunc contraria, est affectus et defectus semper in angaria. Hac in hora sine mora corde pulsum tangite; quod per sortem sternit fortem,
mecum omnes plangite!
Which translated into english means.............................
O Fortune, like the moon you are constantly changing, ever waxing and waning; hateful life first oppresses and then soothes as fancy takes it; poverty and power it melts them like ice. Fate - monstrous and empty, you whirling wheel, you are malevolent, well-being is vain and always fades to nothing, shadowed and veiled you plague me too; now through the game I bring my bare back to your villainy. Fate is against me in health and virtue, driven on and weighted down, always enslaved. So at this hour without delay pluck the vibrating strings; since Fate strikes down the strong man, everyone weep with me!
Pretty f***ing powerful stuff! Definitely a great choice for an intro. I also have to say that Jake E. Lee whips f***ing ass on that video. He is really an impressive player. I think he does not get the credit he deserves simply because he came in when he did, and well to ask someone to fill the shoes of Randy Rhoads, that's just asking too much. But I'm sure that even Randy would appreciate his skills, he was really an incredible guitar player. The guitar solo he plays on that video is incredible, and honestly one of the most difficult things I've ever played, and that is saying something.