I'M GOING OFF THE RAILS
On a what?
Ozzy was never good, it's just that he knew how to find great guitarists (Iommi, Rhoads, Wilde, Bucket Head, etc)
>>61215679
>Bucket Head
Surprises you a little that the guy who bit the head of a bat would make a snappy Top 40 tune like that. It actually stands in comparison to Sabbath's first record without him which was strictly AOR with no radio friendly songs.
>>61215815
He moved away from that after RR's death - Bark At The Moon is a much less commercial AOR record.
>>61215701
>guy wears a funny costume so he can't be taken seriously as an artist
>>61216234
Didn't Ozzy tell him to get rid of the bucket?
>>61215815
No joke, my mom drew Ozzy's blood after he bit the head off the bat. Makes sense that some Des Moines rapscallion would throw a real bat onstage. Fucking autistic city.
JUST
>>61216062
>>61215815
Yah it's weird. Ozzy's solo debut is snappy radio rock and then next album goes to tough guy edgy 13 year old metalhead mode.
>>61217256
He was probably broke and needed money for drugs after leaving Sabbath, so he needed to record commercial singles like Crazy Train to get some income coming in.
>>61215282
He looks a bit like Ariel Pink.
>>61217276
>>61217256
That was pretty much what made Ozzy a household name to Americans because Sabbath in the 70s didn't have a large following and absolutely no radio-friendly songs to get casuals and soccer moms into them.
Nikki Sixx had said that Judas Priest took forever to get big due to their lack of commercial material pre-British Steel/Vengeance era.
>>61215815
"We had gotten down some of the material that would become Heaven & Hell by the spring of '79, but Ozzy just couldn't wrap his head around the direction we were trying to take the band."
>>61217476
I think what Iommi/Butler were trying to do was have more epic songs like the H&H title track (probably inspired by Judas Priest tunes such as Victim of Changes) but Ozzy either didn't understand the material or he didn't have the vocal range for it.
>>61217504
Or he was too whacked on drugs.
