Ozzy Osbourne recorded a complete album with rock legend Steve Vai that’s “sitting on the shelf”.
The Grammy-winning musician, producer and songwriter has revealed that he and the 74-year-old Black Sabbath frontman – who lately introduced his retirement from touring attributable to debilitating well being points – recorded “some fairly great things” however he has “no management” over whether or not or not the music is launched.
The previous Whitesnake guitarist – who has made music with the likes of Alice Cooper, Motörhead and Mary J. Blige – instructed the music web site Eonmusic: “Nicely, I am sitting on a complete Ozzy document, and it is just like the GASH document — not ‘like’ the Gash document, however it’s a venture that I recorded that is sitting on the shelf.
“I haven’t got any management over it or rights to it, clearly, however we did document some fairly great things.”
The pair have been solely meant to document one tune collectively however received on so nicely, they ended up with a complete album.
Steve, 62, recalled: “Ozzy and I received carried away as a result of we have been having lots of enjoyable, and we ended up recording lots of stuff, after which we began scheming, ‘Hey, let’s make a brand new document.’ And all that was nice and good, and we received enthusiastic about it till the hammer got here down, and so they mainly stated, ‘What are you doing? No, you have simply received to take a tune from Vai and end your document. We’re already into it for this a lot cash, and Vai is expense,’ so it labored out good, actually.”
He revealed one of many tracks was a reworked model of VAI/GASH’s ‘Hazard Zone’.
Steve continued: “One of many songs was [VAI / GASH’s] ‘Hazard Zone’. I had already written it, and it was already achieved — it was a GASH observe — and I assumed, ‘Nicely, perhaps he’d like this’, and I reworked it a bit, however it’s on the shelf.”
And one other observe from his 1996 LP ‘Fireplace Backyard’.
He added: “There’s additionally a tune known as ‘Dyin’ Day’ that is on my ‘Fireplace Backyard’ album.
“That tune initially had lyrics, and that was one.”
Steve admitted it was nerve-wracking following within the footsteps of Ozzy’s earlier guitar gamers, together with the legendary late Randy Rhoads, so he got here up with a singular and “accessible” type.
He defined: “I assumed, ‘Okay, you are going to work with Ozzy, and all these unbelievable guitar gamers have performed with Ozzy. What are you going to do?’ I used to be not going to be standard.
“Yeah, that is not me as you recognize, however I needed to be accessible, so I assumed, ‘I’ll use an octave divider on all the pieces.”
From the pair’s periods within the Nineteen Nineties, the pair co-wrote ‘My Little Man’, which ended up on Ozzy’s 1995 LP ‘Ozzmosis’.
