Classical Composer Reacts to OZZY OSBOURNE: BLIZZARD OF OZZ (Side 1) | The Daily Doug (Episode 634)
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
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In this #masterpiecefriday edition of #thedailydoug, I'm listening to the first side of Ozzy Osbourne's first solo record, Blizzard of Ozz. We'll include these songs: I Don't Know, Crazy Train, Goodbye to Romance, Dee, & Suicide Solution. I have heard Crazy Train, but the rest of the songs were a first-time listen...and I loved it! I can't wait to get to side 2 and the rest of the album. I hope you enjoy!
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Too excited for side 2! Revelation (Mother Earth) has been one of my most anticipated songs for Doug to hear. I’ve always just had a feeling he’d love it
Same here. The entire song (especially the second half) is so beautiful.
@@seanentrikin9263 For sure! I attribute that song as one of my main introductions to a more “epic”, grandiose sound in metal, and I think it steered me toward my love of progressive music.
@@CompleteProducer84 oh yes! Revelation and Diary are both very progressive. Doug even mentioned how progressive Diary was. He gets it.
@@seanentrikin9263 Yeah absolutely. Diary is my overall favorite Ozzy song ever, and loved Doug’s video on it!
So you're from the south? I never would have guessed "ya'll"
Hearing Dee always breaks my heart, thinking about what we lost when Randy died. RIP.
The utter stupidity of the circumstances of his untimely death is so sad. RIP.
Flying while the pilot was taking unnecessary risks. RIP.
Still my all time fav player.
The bass work on this album is so amazing and often overlooked because of just how incredible Ozzy and Randy performed.
Bob Daisley wrote most of the lyrics for Ozzy as well as played some of the sickest bass of the 80's. He's is at the very highest echelons of metal talent.
The whole band was absolutely on fire. One of the best instrumental units in metal history.
@@EyesOfFrozenMeat Daisley wrote all Ozzy’s Lyrics and Geezer Butler did all while he was in Sabbath.
Bob Daisley is an all time A leaguer, and the bass is exemplary
@@EyesOfFrozenMeat all-time A leaguer
Drummer's name was Lee Kers-LAKE (not kerslaki) R.I.P.
Yes, of Uriah Heep fame.
The bass work on I Don't Know is the true star of that track.
listend to the isolated guitar tracks on that song, he is playing two separate rhythm tracks on the bridge......The bass is great and Bob is awesome but that song is about that different rhythm track and the double and triple tracking.....but that song was meant to play live
“We’ll meet in the end” funny enough when Black Sabbath reunited their last tour was called The End.
Funny how that works.
Randy Rhoads was a beautiful guitar player- so much melody, emotion and technique all rolled into one.
IMO, that is what set up apart from everyone else, Edward included. Nothing against EVH, because he was the best at what he did, but Randy was the best at what he did and they were not the same thing. Van wrote songs around the guitar. Randy wrote guitar around the songs and had such an incredible maturity and balance to his playing. Everything he played, for the song perfectly.
I Absolutely Agree, He Was AMAZING And NEVER Will Be Forgotten.
My personal Diary I wrote the next day after the last show of Randy Rhoads in Knoxville Tennessee! RIP RANDY! YOU ARE SORELY MISSED!
OZZY OSBOURNE: THURSDAY MARCH 18TH 1982: RANDY RHOADS LAST SHOW AT THE KNOXVILLE CIVIC COLISEUM: DIARY OF A MADMAN TOUR:
Upon entering the coliseum after buying my tour shirt and ticket 🎫 stub processing: I noticed the stage was set up like a medieval castle with arches and bats 🦇 flying around the top of them. There was a staircase leading up to Tommy Aldridge’s Drumkit. The top left of Tommy was where Donny Airey’s keyboards were set up. Stage right and left had to cages with which Randy Rhoads would appear from the floor stage right and Rudy Sarzo stage left. OZZY had a throne of which he would appear out of to start the show to Over the Mountain. Tommy had his drum tech dressed as an Executioner stand beside his kit with his arms crossed. The staircase had a small section that would open and a small dwarf named: Ronnie (after Ronnie James Dio the new singer for Black Sabbath-replacing OZZY) and hand OZZY towels and water between songs. Little did we all know that later in the show: the executioner would bring the dwarf out to be hung from the rafters and later he would cut off his head using a guillotine! At the end of the show OZZY climbed onto a giant mechanical hand that OZZY stood on top of and launched unspecified meat 🥩 🍖 into the audience! Of course it was all an a theatrical act as the dwarf appeared to take a bow with OZZY and the band. When OZZY smiled we noticed he put vampire 🧛♀️ teeth in! We laughed hard! I went to the show with my friend Richard and his older brother Greg who was 18 at the time. We were 13. Greatest show on earth! Richard and I were both terrified and thrilled at what we witnessed! Unfortunately the next morning all that excitement and energy was gone as we learned that Randy Rhoads perished in a plane crash in Florida. Richard and I played drums but Greg played guitar 🎸 and he definitely took it the hardest! One of the greatest guitarist of our generation and had just won the new guitarist of the year by Guitar Player magazine. Rest In Peace Randy Rhoads your music lives on!
Sincerely,
Gary Lagstrom
great job, that was a fantastic post. I actually sent it to Randy's sister on instagram..
Great history. Thank you!
I Also Miss Randy Soooooooo Much. R.I.P. Until We All Meet Again
Thank you!
Worked in Denver at a golf course with Randy Rhodes fiancees mom. Strangely small group of humans
Randy only got to play with Ozzy for a few years. I'm incredibly fortunate to have seen Randy and Ozzy play, only a few months before Randy was killed.
That lineup was one of the most incredible bands I've ever seen. Out of over a thousand shows easy. Ozzy was running a 104 degree fever and didn't want to cancel. He collapsed during Paranoid and had to be rushed to the hospital. Almost died because he didn't want to let 17,000 fans down.
What more can be said of an artist.
🤘🧙♂🤘
Rich the Ancient Metal Beast
I Remember That. We've Been So Blessed To Still Have OZZY Around All These Years.
As far as I am concerned Ozzy was born w/ Randy and died with Randy. Randy's advanced ideas and musicianship made those albums. Even Ozzy conceded Randy's profound impact when he said "Randy saved my life".
Goodbye to Romance is highly underrated. So intense. It caught us all off guard when the album came out.
listen to the 30th anniversaery edition where they took out the bass and the drums...the guitar is fantastic I think I missed a lot with the other instruments
All time favourite. And one of the best solos in it.
Agree, when it came out I would skip it because it wasn't "heavy"...but now it's one of my favorite Ozzy songs.
an old girlfriend said while we were smokin bowls that she wanted goodbye to romance played at her funeral...that stuck with me...she's still alive and well now!!
Dee is A MASTERPIECE
It's interesting how Ozzy & Sabbath dealt with being upstaged by Van Halen. Sabbath said, "we need a better singer" and Ozzy said, "I need a better guitar player". The results are two great albums, Heaven & Hell and Blizard of Oz...
that's amusing....
Ozzy certainly got his guy... two great albums but Blizzard of ozz is the top selling metal debut in history. Ozzy getting fired was the greatest days in metal history
My father once said; All guitar players secretly want be singers and all singers secretly want to be guitar players. And it kind of fits into that story lol
I was 15 years old and I bought both Heaven And Hell by Black Sabbath and Blizzard Of Ozz by Ozzy Osbourne in 1980.
I still don't know which is my favorite.
I wish they were a double album.😄
...I think VH 2 came out about then as well Rodney, it was quite an exciting time in music...and life...I was 13, ya old bastard....Mob Rules came soon after...peace brother
I was 13 and heard I Don't Know on the school buss. Some kids were already into Randy and got the tape early. I was blown away. The same when Dio came out with Black Sabbath. My friends and I were huge Sabbath fans and those two albums just brought it to another level.
Randy Rhoads has been my #1 guitarist since I first heard him in 1982. Blizzard of Ozz was the name of the band in the beginning.
He is the GOAT IMO
The year was 1980 something or other. I was a teenager on the cusp of leaving school. A gang of us went to Sheffield to see Ozzy live, the support band was Budgie! Yes Budgie! Everything was going great, we were having a good time then Ozzy took to the stage and the crowd surged forward. I am five foot four (well three and a half) and ended up crushed between several big, burly guys. A biker noticed me with an elbow jammed in my throat and he and his friends hauled me out and sat me on the stage! Ozzy waved at me and carried on singing. Fucking ACE concert. xxxx I still have the album.
Glad The Biker Saw You Need Help
When crazy train dropped, it hit the entire world with such force it was unbelievable.
I would be at the arcade and that song would play ALL DAY. We couldn't get enough.
You gotta realize that Ozzy was speaking to us. He understands our fears and demons and our potential and everything else. Many of us weren't just 'rocking out ' but we were listening to a true friend.
This takes me back to the early 80's when I was listening to this. I so miss Randy Rhoads R.I.P. Such a talented guitarist.
The two albums with Randy are just fire! You really hear everyone just firing on all cylinders knowing they have something to prove.
two absolute masterpieces...
in "Quiet Riot - Laughing Gas (The Randy Rhoads Years)" you can hear bits of "Goodbye to romance" at 07:40 and "Crazy train" at 08:25 during a live solo performance.
The concert in 84 in vancouver b.c. ozzy introduced a little person onto the stage, his name was Ronny. He then proceeded to hang Ronny to the song Goodbye to romance. {first shot fired} i was 20yrs old. Will never forget it. CHEERS DOUG!
The joy on your face when listening to DEE -That's what Randy was so good at , bringing joy to the listener. No other guitar player brings me as much joy as Randy does.
The blizzard of ozz is incredible. But the live band from 80-82 was unbelievably magical truly !
Ozzy, Rhoads, Sarzo, Aldridge, right? Best line-up ever! 😎
@@cbn6635 Sarzo and Aldridge were replacement touring musicians for Bob Daisley and Lee Kerslake when the two left the band. They had no part of the first 2 albums with Ozzy Osbourne. All great musicians none the less.
Listen to the live recordings by Lee. The only drummer which do the right hi hat at crazy train.
Revelation (Mother Earth) on side 2 is in my opionion the strongest song on the album. I'm sure Doug would like it...
Thank you Doug! …the song Dee was indeed written for Randy’s mom, whose name was Delores (Dee for short) …and it’s also in the key of D!
Your spontaneous smile on your face during Dee says everything. Thank you ❤
And long live to the great Randy ❤
I noticed that too.
Randy's mother was named Delores (Dee). Probably what they called her.
Goodbye To Romance is one of the most beautiful song I've ever heard!!!!
Not many people play with the intense sincerity that Randy did. That's why he was one of the greats.
not many had his talent....
This album always makes me very emotional. The lost potential...
🤘🧙♂🤘
This is an AMAZING ALBUM ...RANDY RHOADS ❤
Randy will always be my favorite guitarist!!!!
I can’t wait to hear the educated breakdown of suicide solution !!! And all the others!
“Unbiased” breakdown* That was the dumbest thing when he got into hot water over that song. That attorney was an idiot!!!
The only thing better than the studio Blizzard album are the same songs but on the Live Randy Tribute album. Especially Mr Crowley and I Don’t Know. They really capture the bands and crowds energy at the time and Randy’s ability to throw little improv solos and shreds into the songs while playing live
Ozzy did not come up with that lyric and suicide solution, it was Bob Daisley and it was about Ozzy and his drinking
The only thing I can truly say about Ozzy, is he loves and respects his fans. That's 80-90% of the battle right there.
Goodbye to Romance lead guitar solo is the most incredible shredding to a ballad
the stripped down version is the best with just the vocals and the guitar, you can hear the great stuff he is playing
Easily my favourite Ozzy LP. You don't have to choose between Randy & Iommi, completely different bands / sounds / entities. You can take that onus off your shoulders. ;)
I'll NEVER Forget When I First Listened To This Album With My Best Friend Susie. We Would Play It Over And Over. She Passed Away At 16, R.I.P. Until We Meet Again.
The AUDACITY one must have to start fiddling on a plastic keyboard while Randy is still going off.... I just cant imagine.
Awesome! I was actually searching not long ago, to see if anyone had done a full album reaction to Blizzard or Diary, and didn’t find any. Now this shows up in my feed, and it’s by Doug - one of my favorites! Couldn’t have asked for a better guy to react to it.
15:31 Goodbye to Romance. A much overlooked song written as a ballad that explains a lot about how Ozzy's background and the new band were evolving. Or maybe it's just about a past relationship, marriage, or both. Beautifully structure and orchestrated song. Randy really did a great job on the solo too.
listen to the isolated version it is fantastic with just the guitar and Ozzy's voice
Best band ever assembled!
Blizzard of ozz would have been the greatest in my ears.....just fate unfortunately intervened
You should check the live album, Randy Rhoads Tribute. It's phenomenal! I am not usually a fan of live albums, I think they general don't sound very good. But the band just kills, the drum solo is energetic and interesting, and Randy's solo is forever burned into my brain. It also has the studio outtakes of Dee, which allows you to hear Randy try different ideas, make mistakes, and banter.
Greatest I’ve album I’ve heard! Randy’s playing is unreal, and he was just a young man. Just imagine if he lived on.😢
Crazy Train switching back and forth between F# Minor and A Major is how I wrapped my heads around relative keys and modes.
That was mint ..to let it flow my friend...you are the best doug ❤❤❤❤😂❤
Yes finally, you get to experience Revelation
I am 51, meaning I was 8 years old in 1980 when Crazy Train hit. Game changer. Nuff said.
In all the years since this album came out I've never really listened to it in the context of what he had just gone through. Thanks for the fresh perspective.
That opening/main riff in 'Suicide Solution'... 👌🤘
Say what you want about Sharon...
Ozzy's wife kept him alive and looking forward. She is partly responsible for his success and life. We can thank her.
Love that you did this and that you’re doing side 2. And that you gave props to the bass, which makes the album iconic as much as anything else.
he is doing side 2? let's do this !!!!
Studio outtakes of DEE are amazing! You get to hear Randy's voice :)
you can hear it on that guitar showcase he did too in Febeuary of 1982 on youtube...and then that interview opening night of the Diary tour
Yeah I know, that wasn't to far from where I live @@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle
Man the way you can listen to a song for the first time and play it on the piano so quickly and correctly is incredible !also can’t wait for side 2 (let’s hope the song you looking at me looking at you squeaks it’s way in the next video )
I saw Ozzy in the late 80's. He was drunk, and indeed, the opening act ( Anthrax) blew him away.
oh ya no,...the NRFTW tour Ozzy was working out and actually had quit drinking, he crushed Anthrax...
Excellent reaction, analysis, Doug. Blizzard of Ozz is a masterpiece. Remembering that Ozzy was already "immortalized" by the sacred albums he recorded in the 70's with the best band in the history of Rock and Heavy Metal: Black Sabbath. Greetings from Brazil!!!
Oh I am pumped for this episode!!
So am i can't wait dee should be interesting.
I never heard this before but it is fucking awesome
They could kick some add back in the day
That anecdote on the creation of Crazy Train just reinforces my belief that, sometimes, great art "creates itself", via the coming together of all the right elements - the songwriters and composers are the tools of "the muses", if you will. None of it is accidental. I cannot describe it proper, but the more profound the work, the more likely it came from more than just the "brilliance & talented genius" of the artist(s) involved.
Mr. Crowley Live with Ozzy, Randy, Rudy Sarzo-bass, Tommy Aldritch-drums.,
he did that one already
Randy Rhoads titled the instrumental track "Dee" because that was his mother's nickname. Her name was Delores.
I love how Ozzy can make even single words sound great for example 'maybe' in Crazy Train
nice of him to contribute...
I remember being at my friends house in 1980 (I was 10yrs old) and he put this album on the record player, and that was that… Next thing you know I was listening to Slayer 😂
Over the Mountain. That is one you must do Doug. Enjoy Randy's solo on that
I got 2 chances to see Ozzy on this tour. Randy was great! The album was great. It was in small venues both times, one indoors, and the other was outdoors.
Ok
where at? and i can only imagine how great Randy was those nights.....
The Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, N.Y ( indoors)
Music Mountain in south Fallsburg, N.Y.(outdoors, Def Leppard warmed up)
Finally!!!!
I was literally was JUST thinking how cool it would be to see Doug react to Dee. Very cool video, thanks Doug.
Was glad to see you do some more Ozzy. Can’t wait to here side 2
I still love your advise man. Thank you
Around 20 years ago, when I was just a kid, I went on a road trip with my brother and mother. Just before we left I realized I needed music and quickly grabbed two CDs that I knew I liked from my mother's collection. One of them was Judas Priest - Ram it Down, the other one was Blizzard of Ozz. I listened to these two albums for over a week and I've loved them ever since.
My mother passed away a year ago and this brought back some great memories. Music is such a powerful thing. Thank you for everything you do. Rock on!
sorry for your loss, and yes music can be a panacea and a hot tub time machine...it is powerful, these guys have a gift. Blizzard of ozz and diary of a madman two masterpieces
Awesome channel! Love it that a classical composer is analyzing Ozzy's songs.
Fantastic. Thanks.
This was excellent, Doug. I didn't realize I needed this today until I watched it.
😂 I love you, Doug. It's Lee Kers-lake. 😁
A lot of people don't mention it, but Ozzy is a huge Beatles fan, and you can her it in a lot of the musical and vocal arrangements like "Goodbye To Romance".
Light the way bro tthuuummbbs up
Loved watching this reaction/analysis. Took me right back to my sophomore year in high school (1980). I remember when this album was released and we heard Randy for the first time. As a “guitar guy”, I was blown away. Needless to say, I wore out a couple cassette tapes of this record. It is definitely one of Ozzy’s 2 best records of all time…including his work with Sabbath. Thanks for doing this Dr Doug. Appreciate it! 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻
I love this album soooo much... great to hear your insights and impressions Doug!
I like seeing you go to the keyboard and fumble into it. You latch right on to it. Love this channel!
Finally❤ can't wait to hear revelations (mother earth) ❤
Please do also diary of a madman full album
FYI. live version of suicide solution (from Tribute) with the extended guitar solo is something else. you're missing out peak RR if you havent heard that. highly recommended
one of my all time faves...how can anyone not love it? I have no idea
by the way it is pronounced Ker-slake like take.
The opening to I Don't Know blew my ears and mind as a kid ....still gives me goose bumps, 23 year old kid throwing that down and then helping to produce this album is amazing
The first LP album I received was from my older brother on my birthday back in the day and it was the first Black Sabbath album and I loved it, so I'm a huge Ozzy fan.
When Blizzard of Oz came out, I was blown away. He just nailed it with not only this one but with the next two Diary of a Madman, Bark at the Moon and then three albums later No More Tears IMHO. Ozzy is a force of nature and is amazingly creative and talented.
Loved the wee piano part there Doug.
this was awesome, thanks
I was a 15 year old guitar player when this came out and I still, after all these years, get a thrill when I hear Crazy Train. A stone cold guitar classic.
yet one of their worst songs...
I was 16 when I first heard Randy and been playing guitar ever since!!!!! I remember that day when my pops told me he died.. I only cried over 2 guitar players in my life that passed away. Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen. 🎸
My very first concert wsa Ozzy, in 1982, a month before Randy died. I dont remember much (chemicals and all), but the solo at the end of suicide solution was out of this world. RIP to one of the greats
which show?
Wait till you hear Revelation Mother Earth that's one of Randy's best songs.
side 2 is so good...
The live Tribute album is amazing !!
a masterpiece
I strongly recommend listening to the double live "Tribute" album, whether for work or pleasure. Randy Rhodes playing is epic.
I'm a big fan of the channel but as a guitar player, it is frustrating to see the focus on harmony and architecture in the large, at the omission of the nuance. Randy fans will totally geek out over details such as the jarring chromatic line at 7:44 in the middle of blues licks, or the minor 6th added to blues at 7:57 to give an Aoelian flavour (a trademark). The solos on Crazy Train and Goodbye to Romance are, to us, miniature compositions in their own right, a master class in rock guitar. Thanks for the video though! Always good stuff...
p.s. 11:29 Even the fills are creative and thoughtful: in Crazy Train they are dissonant ("crazy") and yet playful
12:28 One more performance note: the solo was double-tracked. Randy sometimes doubled (or tripled) solos to give them a wider sonic palette, much like multiple instruments of the same type in an orchestra
You need Rick Beato to get this kind of detailed analysis of subtlety from a guitarist / producer perspective. Problem is that’s mostly limited to his “What Makes This Song Great” videos which he mostly doesn’t do anymore over copyright take-downs. He’s also not an overt Ozzy / Randy fan, but I digress.
To be fair it's hard to catch all of this at first listen, especially if he isn't a guitar player
Love your OZZY Randy Rhoads evaluations and reviews.
I haven't listed to Dee without weeping in decades.
Good by to romance was indeed the first song written and probably the one that ozzy had the most to do with in terms of some of the lyrics .this song was about him leaving his old band behind and how he is saying goodbye to them and they will meet in the end .When Randy first got to England he directly moved in with Ozxy and his first wife Thelma's home and they started throwing ideas around and this was the first thing they came up with .beautiful song musicly it really is and if you listen closely there's a lotore going on with all the different guitar parts than you think .anyways again this was one of the only songs Ozzy actually had a lot to do with as far as lyrics go cause there was a little bit of time where just Randy and Ozzy were together trying to come up with ideas before they rented a house out to write songs where Bob was then present on a daily basis .the other song that them two came up with secondly was "Me Looking At You Looking At Me" which the basis for this song was just Randy playing and noticing Ozzy staring at him and Randy staring back at .yeah it's that simple as far as how they came up with that song .this come directly from someone that was really close to Randy back in Cali and he told the story of how that song started out as .and it's kinda funny cause when I saw Randy live in Sep 81 on the Blizzard tour in Tampa Florida at this really small venue hall (Curtis Hixon) it only held maybe 1000 people to 1500 tops and was really similar to a high school auditorium where you had the floor and seats all around almost in a 360 degree and then you had a top level that was the same way so everything was so up close and personal .I was up front all the way against the railing at the front of the stage on the right side right infront not like 7 feet from Randy the whole set .and Like everyone else I was constantly staring at Randy with this huge smile on my face and he saw me and just stared back at me laughing at me like the whole time it was so weird .honestly I couldn't have cared less at wat ozzy was doing which was just standing center stage holding the microphone singing and every time he stepped away he would just clap his hands and jump up in the air .that's the same thing he has always done lol but yeah "Looking at you looking at me" was exactly wat me and Randy did the whole show .and I'm sure everyone else up front thought the same thing cause everyone else was mesmerized by Randy and couldn't take their eyes off him either lol think Randy knew all that everywhere he played and if you have noticed from all the footage from the "After Hours" songs Randy just smiles and cracking up staring at Ozzy and Rudy staring at him lol kinda like his thing .his stage presence was second to NONE
wait til you hear side 2 .. will blow your mind
U need to hear Randy Rhoads suicide solutions extended solo live!!!!
from any bootleg but not tribute....they butchered the spotlight solo with the editing
Tony when in a blue mood. Randy when I'm feeling classy. 😜
I was in the 8th grade on a bus trip with my jr. high jazz band, when a 9th grader put a set of headphones on me, cranking this album. I'd never consciously listened to rock music prior to that, but after my eardrums stopped bleeding, I was hooked, and for years Ozzy was everything to me. But it's been a long time since I've listened through this album, so thanks for featuring it, Doug!
Hard not to get addicted hearing the intro to I Don't Know...