Love those first five Ozzy solo records. So much charm to them, and I'll even go against the grain and state that No Rest for the Wicked is my fave, I just dig every single song on that thing. But that doesn't take away from the first four, so much nostalgia for those throughout elementary school and beyond. I just find the first four have a few filler tunes apiece.
I LOVE No Rest for the Wicked. Just a solid album. That was the first time I went to see Ozzy live and there were a couple notable things about that show, besides the fact that I think maybe it was second or third real rock concert. The first thing was that Anthrax were supposed to be supporting but by the time the tour reached the west coast they had to bail for some reason. I was bummed because I really loved Anthrax at the time. We got Winger instead. So yes, I can say that I saw Winger in concert. The second was that it was Zakk's first tour and album with Ozzy and he paid GREAT homage to Randy, nailing his solos note for note and even wearing these leather pants that were very reminiscent of the shit that Rhoads would wear on stage. I could sort of just pretend it was actually Randy on stage. Except for when he did his guitar solo, then he was all douchey rock star guy but whatever haha.
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I listened to Blizzard of Ozz for the first time in ages last week. There are some wiiiiillld leads on that album.
I also love Wylde’s performances on No Rest and No More Tears
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No More Tears was my first Ozzy album. Despite a few cheesy songs, I really liked it. After that I picked up the live Tribute album, and that was the extent of my solo Ozzy collection for a few years.
I listened to Blizzard of Ozz for the first time in ages last week. There are some wiiiiillld leads on that album.
Yeah, Crazy Train and Mr. Crowley get all the fanfare, but some of the ideas and phrases in I Don't Know and Suicide Solution are just as good, if not more interesting because of the fairly straight blues/pentatonic skeleton of the songs and Randy was just throwing shit in that was borderline jawdropping.
And lots of people tend to forget that on Blizzard Randy was doing the classical motif thing a full 3 years before Yngwie came across the pond and was the only prominent example of that blending of tools outside of a couple of 70's Scorpions tracks (Sails of Charon being the big one) and some of Blackmore's Deep Purple and Rainbow work.
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
The second was that it was Zakk's first tour and album with Ozzy and he paid GREAT homage to Randy, nailing his solos note for note and even wearing these leather pants that were very reminiscent of the shit that Rhoads would wear on stage.
I'd also argue that No Rest for the Wicked is still the best album Zakk has ever done, by an order of magnitude!!!
The Ultimate Sin has also reminded me that, for all the plaudits Randy and Zakk get (with good reason), Jake E. Lee was a hell of a guitarist too.
Trying to learn stuff from the 2 Jake E. Lee records by ear gave me a whole new respect for utilizing open strings when coming up with lead lines and adding color to bridge sections.
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
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The Ultimate Sin has also reminded me that, for all the plaudits Randy and Zakk get (with good reason), Jake E. Lee was a hell of a guitarist too.
Trying to learn stuff from the 2 Jake E. Lee records by ear gave me a whole new respect for utilizing open strings when coming up with lead lines and adding color to bridge sections.
That's a super honky-tonk technique (also done a lot on pedal steel), but it can really break up a lead line and give some dynamics.
Instead of a lot of 80's metal leads which were jerking off to the pentatonic.
It's great! Excited for the rest of this record, I wonder if touring Colours put them back into that heavier mindset, because this is a pretty heavy tune.
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I was going to order Coma of Souls and Renewal from there, but with shipping it comes out to a little more than $18.50 per CD, which is a bit higher than I want to spend. Maybe I'd be better off waiting for Amazon to get them in stock. I see that Pleasure to Kill, which was available during the last round of Kreator reissues, is on Amazon for $9.99 now.
edit: and "whoops," I just ordered Pleasure to Kill and Terrible Certainty off Amazon.
It's great! Excited for the rest of this record, I wonder if touring Colours put them back into that heavier mindset, because this is a pretty heavy tune.
Hot damn yes!
These guys kinda dropped off my radar after Alaska and Colors but this sounds great.
Looks like Primordial's got a new album coming out soon. I haven't listened to these guys in a while, but I remember enjoying some of their earlier material.
Looks like Primordial's got a new album coming out soon. I haven't listened to these guys in a while, but I remember enjoying some of their earlier material.
I saw them many years ago at a festival in Germany, but walked away a few minutes in. For whatever reason, they didn't connect with me. A friend of mine that was also there told me the singer seemed drunk out of his mind.
Anyway, a few years ago I heard "Empire Falls" off To the Nameless Dead and was pretty impressed and now I have 8 of their albums...which I downloaded for free via a public library's music download service, but still, I felt they were worth my time.
This song is a bit of a slow starter, but I liked it.
Just stumbled across Dvne on Bandcamp. This is excellent stuff
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Not too relevant to this thread, but a friend of ours invited us out to see a Led Zeppelin tribute band tonight. Much to our surprise, there was an opening band. And after them, three more opening bands. I don't think I've heard so much bad rock 'n roll in my life. We were also surprised at the poor sound quality. This was way louder than any metal show I've been to. The sound was pretty distorted and it just made the whole thing unpleasant, even with earplugs. We left in the middle of the headliner, who seemed to be playing their songs well, but wasn't enjoyable due to the aforementioned sound factor.
Next real show I might go to is Kreator in a few weeks.
Been enjoying this one, very airy but dark German black metal with some choirs, folksier touches here or there. Band is called Verheerer, and the full-length is called Maltrér.
This kind of stuff fascinates me because it confuses me on what makes it bad.
Okay, hear me out.
Even without the singer, it would classify as bad, and I can't quite put my finger on why. The riffs, while not good by any stretch of the imagination, are passable for what they are. Their playing is passable, I've certainly seen worse. Is it because I am watching them play and they look amateurish? Is it what the drummer is playing in relation to the song? That seems to be the weak link to me (again, discounting the singer entirely). If you replace him with someone like Brann Dailor or Gene Hoglan would it sound better? If you had a great band play that song without changing it too drastically, could they make it sound decent? Is there something intrinsic in the way you play something that makes it sound good or bad, the attitude or aggressiveness you use in your playing? Is it their total lack of feeling?
This is just stuff I sometimes think about. :P
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This kind of stuff fascinates me because it confuses me on what makes it bad.
Okay, hear me out.
Even without the singer, it would classify as bad, and I can't quite put my finger on why. The riffs, while not good by any stretch of the imagination, are passable for what they are. Their playing is passable, I've certainly seen worse. Is it because I am watching them play and they look amateurish? Is it what the drummer is playing in relation to the song? That seems to be the weak link to me (again, discounting the singer entirely). If you replace him with someone like Brann Dailor or Gene Hoglan would it sound better? If you had a great band play that song without changing it too drastically, could they make it sound decent? Is there something intrinsic in the way you play something that makes it sound good or bad, the attitude or aggressiveness you use in your playing? Is it their total lack of feeling?
This is just stuff I sometimes think about. :P
The drummer is pretty awful yes. He's accentuating every single beat with both hihats and snare/bass drum portions. It's staccato and amateurish, stiff, and untuneful.
The guitarst/bassist aren't good either. Their notes are stuttered and sound a bit off-time, like they don't begin when they should.
It doesn't help it's the most overused riff structure, the I V IV key chord thing, played terribly.
I'm sure to many of us, Slayer had been dead for a long time already, just touring off past glories. But a small part of me held out a fraction of hope that they'd one day release an excellent album again. Alas, it's not like I can complain that much, the 1983-1990 Slayer era will be in rotation for me until the day I feed the worms.
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I guess that means that big tour is happening then! Metal Injection posted this image:
Since I've never seen Slayer live, it seems like I must see this tour. I'd also be going for Testament and Anthrax though, because I've never seen them live.
I never really got into Slayer - never got much into thrash altogether, to be fair - but there's simply no knocking those older records. There's a reason they're a legendary band. I saw them years ago when they were supporting Iron Maiden and I'm glad I did; definitely a band I'm glad to have checked off my bucket list, so to speak. I wish them well.
Rush have also called it a day. Not really a surprise; they already said they weren't doing any more big tours after the R40 tour, and a couple of years further down the line now, they have no further plans. Neil's health probably precludes that anyway. But apparently Geddy and Alex have recorded some stuff for a new project, so with any luck that'll surface before long. Geddy's one foray into a solo album some years ago with My Favorite Headache was pretty good, so I'll look forward to that.
I'm glad I got to see Rush a couple of times, and they were stellar both times - they really were a quite staggering live band - but I'm kicking myself for not having been able to make it to what ended up being their final UK tour back in 2013.
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Yeah, Crazy Train and Mr. Crowley get all the fanfare, but some of the ideas and phrases in I Don't Know and Suicide Solution are just as good, if not more interesting because of the fairly straight blues/pentatonic skeleton of the songs and Randy was just throwing shit in that was borderline jawdropping.
And lots of people tend to forget that on Blizzard Randy was doing the classical motif thing a full 3 years before Yngwie came across the pond and was the only prominent example of that blending of tools outside of a couple of 70's Scorpions tracks (Sails of Charon being the big one) and some of Blackmore's Deep Purple and Rainbow work.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
I'd also argue that No Rest for the Wicked is still the best album Zakk has ever done, by an order of magnitude!!!
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Trying to learn stuff from the 2 Jake E. Lee records by ear gave me a whole new respect for utilizing open strings when coming up with lead lines and adding color to bridge sections.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
That's a super honky-tonk technique (also done a lot on pedal steel), but it can really break up a lead line and give some dynamics.
Instead of a lot of 80's metal leads which were jerking off to the pentatonic.
It's great! Excited for the rest of this record, I wonder if touring Colours put them back into that heavier mindset, because this is a pretty heavy tune.
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edit: and "whoops," I just ordered Pleasure to Kill and Terrible Certainty off Amazon.
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Hot damn yes!
These guys kinda dropped off my radar after Alaska and Colors but this sounds great.
I saw them many years ago at a festival in Germany, but walked away a few minutes in. For whatever reason, they didn't connect with me. A friend of mine that was also there told me the singer seemed drunk out of his mind.
Anyway, a few years ago I heard "Empire Falls" off To the Nameless Dead and was pretty impressed and now I have 8 of their albums...which I downloaded for free via a public library's music download service, but still, I felt they were worth my time.
This song is a bit of a slow starter, but I liked it.
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Just stumbled across Dvne on Bandcamp. This is excellent stuff
Next real show I might go to is Kreator in a few weeks.
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It is a little sad they are hanging it up, but they haven't released even a decent album since Christ Illusion, plus Tom's voice is shot to hell
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That's... unfortunate
Yeah... I can't make it past those lyrics.
Listening to that, especially the vocal delivery just made me think of this:
~ Buckaroo Banzai
As soon as I heard "Throw your middle fingers in the air" my brain went immediately to that 1 2 Fuck You band.
When I heard that clapping intro, I knew I was in for shit.
He joins the small, elite group of metal singers who don't give a fuck with their middle fingers aloft in the aether.
You might even say he threw his hands in the air like he was, indeed, a true player.
This kind of stuff fascinates me because it confuses me on what makes it bad.
Okay, hear me out.
Even without the singer, it would classify as bad, and I can't quite put my finger on why. The riffs, while not good by any stretch of the imagination, are passable for what they are. Their playing is passable, I've certainly seen worse. Is it because I am watching them play and they look amateurish? Is it what the drummer is playing in relation to the song? That seems to be the weak link to me (again, discounting the singer entirely). If you replace him with someone like Brann Dailor or Gene Hoglan would it sound better? If you had a great band play that song without changing it too drastically, could they make it sound decent? Is there something intrinsic in the way you play something that makes it sound good or bad, the attitude or aggressiveness you use in your playing? Is it their total lack of feeling?
This is just stuff I sometimes think about. :P
The drummer is pretty awful yes. He's accentuating every single beat with both hihats and snare/bass drum portions. It's staccato and amateurish, stiff, and untuneful.
The guitarst/bassist aren't good either. Their notes are stuttered and sound a bit off-time, like they don't begin when they should.
It doesn't help it's the most overused riff structure, the I V IV key chord thing, played terribly.
Since I've never seen Slayer live, it seems like I must see this tour. I'd also be going for Testament and Anthrax though, because I've never seen them live.
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I'm glad I got to see Rush a couple of times, and they were stellar both times - they really were a quite staggering live band - but I'm kicking myself for not having been able to make it to what ended up being their final UK tour back in 2013.
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