I concur ironman! I concur!

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Peace

Scape

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 Zakk Wylde and Randy Rhoads eras were and are awesome.

His music is f***ing immortal. it will NEVER die.

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The more I see, The less I know.
The more I like to let it go.
[snow : RHCP] :)

I agree ageless!

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Peace

Scape

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)

You know i would have to say, the hair the clothes it never took my focus off hiz eerie sound , an all the different band members through the yearz added their flavor. But OZZY iz OZZY i dig it all u know. Ya'all go in to it alot more but hiz yearz with sabbath he waz younger ,more hungry. But now he iz it ya know he can kick back an enjoy what he haz created nothing to prove. Itz all gravy from now on,u understand the past,the present will carry on to give life to a yougster hearing hiz muzic for the first time. So thiz craziness will go on an on............. OZZY'Z muzic will be ageless.

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OZLAN

but even if you didnt like the look you had to at least have liked the period in time....? i know i did. good times! lol

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The more I see, The less I know.
The more I like to let it go.
[snow : RHCP] :)

yes I remember the blonde look, man I am glade he didn't stay with that look, anyway.

OZZY \m/

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Peace

Scape

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)

Remember when Ozzy was blonde? that was pretty sweet. i still sometimes when i think of Ozzy i think of him then when he had blonde hair....... i loved that period in time!! <3

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The more I see, The less I know.
The more I like to let it go.
[snow : RHCP] :)

I hear ya on Ozzy looking his cheesiest during the bark of the moon tour; a little dated by today’s standards to say the least, the look mind you, the music is still f***in great!

I love all of it, but my all time fav era as I said is the early years of Ozzy's solo career, I noticed you said Ozzy was waiting for Zakk to come along, that his voice fits best with Zakks sound/style. That’s cool if you think so, but for me Randy was the best guitarist Ozzy has ever had outside of Iommi, Randy's sound mixed with Ozzy's eerie ass vocal styling’s, well its almost untouchable, even almost 30 years after it was conceived. Hard to believe its been that long ago, it seems just like yesterday, I cant believe here we are three decades later still talking about those events. And to further add to it all its amazing we are still discussing Ozzy in general, again that’s what makes guys like Ozzy so unique, most artists or bands never have a career that spans over multiple decades, Ozzy truly is the king!

And the fringe jacket, and the crazy ass frog jumps were the s***! What a awesome time frame, the look and music is classic to say the very least!

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Peace

Scape

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)

I'm gonna have to agree with Scape and Fozzy on this one.

I always did like Down To Earth better than Black Rain, but it seems most everyone here prefers BR. For some reason though I like the Not Going Away solo...it may not be epic, but there's something about it that can make me listen to it all day.

Each is just great for its own reason

Randy Rhoads: Beautiful and godly guitar work. A true genius. Plus his collaborations with Daisley made for some terrific tunes.

Jake E Lee: Yeah so Ozzy was dressing a little cheesily, I could care less about that part. The songs, IMO, are great. I think the Lee/Daisley team are even better collaborative effort. And here Ozzy's ideas and Daisley's lyrics are wonderful. And the great drumming of Randy Castilo

Zakk Wylde (early years): brought a very fresh and interesting tone when Ozzy's music (and the general music scene) was changing. NRFTW is my personal favorite of all Ozzy's albums, with NMT a close second. Wonderful song structure, I think Zakk was the guitarist Ozzy was waiting for. The style of Zakk's playing and Ozzy voice work very very well.

Geezer Butler (Ozzmosis): Geezer really brings in a great element. Zakk and Geezer work very well together, this album has wonderfully composed songs. Some of the lyrics are a bit weird, I think without Daisley the lyrics suffer a bit. Geezer was great at it back in the day but I don't think he has it anymore.

Ozzfest-era: No much here but I love Down to Earth, really heavy. TIm Palmer is a great song writer, we also hav some tracks with Joe Holmes (wonderful guitarist) on them, and even the Sabbath keyboardist and song writer from 1980-2002 Geoff Nichols. To me his presence is obvious, I'm a big fan of his work in Sabbath. Of course the lyrics re very different. Very direct and simple. Then there was the covers thing, I quite like most of them pretty good, better than nothing. And now Black Rain, somewhat political. The lyrics again very direct. However the song structure is very good, I like the melodies Ozzy uses over some of those bone crunching riffs. One big minus though is the lack of some potentially epic solos.

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Tony Iommi = God, his arch angels are Ozzy Osbourne, Dave Walker, Ronnie James Dio, Ian Gillan, Dave Donato, Glenn Hughes, Ray Gillen, Tony Martin, and Bill Ward (bassically everyone who sang on a song labeled Black Sabbath)

Gotta agree with you on that scapegoat.
I've liked Ozzy through all his different era's but I loved his look on the Blizzard tour 1980/81the most, with the tassled tops and before the eyeliner.
I believe vocally he was at his best then as well as a stage performer, and of course Randy was with him.
I was lucky enough to see him in October 1980 at Hull City Hall, England, fantastic, great memories.

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No Rest For The Wicked