Ozzy Osbourne seuraavasta sooloalbumistaan: ”Minulla on noin seitsemän kappaletta valmiina”
Black Sabbathin vokalistina julkisuuteen noussut rock-legenda Ozzy Osbourne paljastaa Full Metal Jackielle antamassaan haastattelussa, että hänellä on noin seitsemän kappaletta valmiina seuraavaa sooloalbumiaan varten. Mies palaa tosin aiemmin esittäämäänsä kommenttiin albumien julkaisun taloudellisesta kannattamattomuudesta.
Haastattelun alussa Ozzya pyydettiin kertomaan yhteistyöstään kitarataituri Zakk Wylden kanssa, joka palasi hiljattain miehen livekitaristiksi:
”Well, I first met Zakk… It’s gotta be thirty years [ago], [or] twenty-five. But when Jake E. Lee and I [went our separate ways], I went on a quest to find another guitar player, and I must have had ten thousand resumes and tapes sent in. Believe it or not, the only one I picked up was Zakk Wylde. My wife said to me, ’You’ve gotta go through these,’ and I said, ’I can’t go through ten thousand. That would be insane after the first hundred.’ So the only one I really looked at was Zakk Wylde, and he had a photo, and I thought, ’Oh, another Randy Rhoads clone.’ So when I met him, we just hit it off. It’s not like having a bandmember so much as a family member — I mean, we’re like family, you know. It was inevitable that Zakk would do his own thing eventually, but we have always remained very close friends — we talk to each other, go out socially from time to time. But I have just done a few gigs over the last couple of months, [and] his playing has improved unbelievably. My jaw dropped at how good he’s got. He’s really come on since I have been playing with him before.”
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Haastattelijan kehuessa Wylden taitoja, Ozzy tuumaa:
”I’m onstage at a show… We did a show when the eclipse happened the other week, on the eclipse, somewhere in America, I don’t know where it was. But he was playing, and I thought, ’Is that him?’ I mean, his speed is mindblowing; he is so fast with his fingers on the fretboard.”
Kun Ozzya pyydettiin kertomaan suunnitelmistaan uuteen sooloalbumiin liittyen, hän vastasi:
”I’ve got a bunch of songs written. But you don’t sell records anymore. [It’s] not cost effective to make a record. I haven’t really thought about it, because I’ve been doing the BLACK SABBATH thing. We did make a BLACK SABBATH record with Rick Rubin, ’13’, which was our first No. 1, both solo and with BLACK SABBATH, ever in America. When I’d be doing my solo thing, [when we toured with] METALLICA [thirty years ago] and I’d go past their dressing room and they’d be playing BLACK SABBATH. I’d say to my assistant, ’Are they taking the piss? Are they winding him up?’ I suddenly started to realize that people were serious about how they were influenced by BLACK SABBATH stuff. ’Cause when you’re on the inside looking out, you don’t realize this. It kind of took its own spin.”
Toimittajan kysyessä, milloin mieheltä olisi syytä odottaa uutta musiikkia, hän vastasi:
”I’ve got about seven songs. One’s called ’Mr. Armageddon’, one’s called ’Crack Cocaine’.”
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