Jake E. Lee talks Bark At The Moon
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- Jake E. Lee, the guitarist who wrote Bark at the Moon shares how he wrote the song to be played originally in 1983 and how it is consistently wronged by tabs all across the web today. Jake played a half show-half Q&A at the Lava Cable stage in Owasso, Oklahoma - March 13th, 2014. Audio is Camera Audio only.
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Nice to know that I've been playing Bark at the Moon wrong all my life, and it had to be told to me by the guy who wrote the actual song lmao
hahahahaha thats the best comment ever put on youtube, and im floating in the same boat as you lol of course back when i learned it there was no youtube i just had to rewind the fuckin cd 4 billion times
lol! nice.
I'm right there with you man. I was missing at least 12% of the fingerings he puts in. Interesting tone he's getting out of that EVH amp.
I could feel that all the tabs on the internet was wrong, still.. I played it wrong anyway, but not the intro. The intro I learn watching Jake playing with Ozzy. That part on F#m realy gets better with the F# on the root of all chords
Yeah, cool! Thanks, man....
I wish Jake had been able to stay longer. He was more intricate and used interesting chording compare to many hotshot players of the 80s. He added more color to the sound of Ozzy's music. I loved his style and his look on stage with Ozzy and later.
i think so.
Still can't figure out to this day why he was let go. I don't think Jake even knows for sure. I certainly like his tone and chord/note choices far more than Zakks.
@@JokersWild70 he took the spotlight from ozzy
@@JokersWild70 Than Zakk? OK.. Zakk is far beyond Jake's highest bar in the writing and tone business. I love Jake but Zakk was a prodigy that is humble
@@RScott413 Yes. For ME, I like Jakes tone far better than Zakks. To MY ears, Zakks tone is muddy a lot of the time. It's personal preference
What a lesson ..what a player! ...i'm thinking on every riff "there's an easier way to play that" but then he explains why he didn't take the easy path! Monster! Blew me away in the 80's and still does today!
Yes. Totally agree. Jake is fantastic.
I have no idea what you're trying to say .... and I couldn't care less what JP thinks! Did you actually ask him personally? Soulless band DT is!
@DamageIncM go and watch a Petrucci video then
After listening to the Ultimate Sin album in its entirety a few times now, I am of sound opinion that Jake was one of the most underrated guitarists in history. His licks are amazing.
Under rated by those who don't know.
One of the greatest albums ever.
ULTIMATE SIN== ULTIMATE OZZY!!!!!!!!!!
@@Joseph-lr3lt 🤘🤘🤘
@@chrisharris1419dumbasses will say it sucks, but I’d gladly direct their attention to the guy who produced the album. And the fact that Jake, AT MOST, only had about half of his material make it onto the album. And YET…. Look how absolutely lethal Jake’s playing on ultimate sin is. People say Randy never got to show his peak. I’d say Jake obviously didn’t either.
Jake is such a great guitar player and one hell of a cool dude.
Good to see jake again. Great guitarist who was very underrated.
What was his rating?
jesus christ... what a criminally underrated guitarist lee is. don't get me wrong, i love randy and tony and wylde and so on, but holy shit jake is a fucking BEAST!
What was his rating?
FreeThoughtDIY his 83 us festival over the mountain was SPOT ON
just gorgeous lead
Sorry, but I don't understand where people get this "rating" bullshit. No one "rates" these fuckers except people who see music as a competitive sport. I seem to remember Jake E. Lee being quite respected in the 1980s when I was a teenager. Where do you get your facts? Or are you just making this up as you go?
@@BTsMusicChannel I know I'm replying to an old post, but he just meant that he doesn't get as much recognition as he should today. To take his statement literally about the "underrated" part is obviously not how he intended it to be interpreted. I was a baby in the mid 80's, so I can't speak from any experience back then, but nowadays people tend to skip over Lee when you compare him to other Ozzy guitarists (mostly Rhoads of course)
@@yearginclarke Who is talking about Brad Gillis today? Like Jake E Lee, he was also the shit in the 80s. And who really cares what the guitar community thinks anyway? Most of them are more mesmerized by with technique and theory than they are with artistic expression. It's just a big magic show to them.
For me that Bark At The Moon solo is one of my all time favorites including the playing at the ending..was just awesome..never get tired of it..THANK YOU JAKE YOU THE MAN!!🙏😎
Jake is a great loveable honest person, rock on brother!
Not just a great player - a great person as well... I've never really heard him speak very often but during this segment he's really down to earth and super cool !!! And of course an incredible player who had such a great and original approach to his playing. He had a killer LA tone and feel much more like King Edward and not like RR at all. I know he was in Ratt and wrote a ton of killer shit with Robin Crosby (RIP). He was roomates with Warren DiMartini when he got the Ozzy gig and recommend Warren for the Ratt spot. DiMartini was so young then and grew up in Ratt. He ran through these 80's Laney Amps and could barely control the volume at first... Jake on the other hand had an unbelievable control of a screaming loud rig playing really chunky killer riffs which are extremely difficult to contain and control - especially at a wicked loud volume - completely awesome control and technique. Jake was probably the best player to come out of the post EVH scene. Just unbelievable riffs and tone with total control. Amazing and totally underated player for certain and by far my personal favorite Ozzy player and songwriter
Spot on. In fact when Jake moved to LA from San Diego around 1980 he quickly became the main guy there too, his peers already considered him the best player in LA, not Rhoads, not Lynch, or Cavazo.
There are few interviews here on TH-cam where people like Craig Goldy and Greg Chaisson confirm this. Jake was the king in the early 80s, and stayed up there with Badlands too.
His playing was the best. Smooth yet very aggressive in the most melodic way. Tone was fantastic and growly. Bluesy in a good way yet modern and cutting edge for that time. Really some or the finest rock guitar playing and composing ever captured, on that album. Iconic really.
didnt hear about the show in owasso or I would have been there, Jake E Lee is my favorite guitarist
A great guitarist. I love Randy and Zakk, but Jake was awesome and unappreciated.
Everything Jack E Lee plays is highly elaborate and technical. Great player
You may play the outro like that Jake, but my fingers don't do seven fret stretches!! Top man!
***** That's very impressive . Van Halen is a wizard ! I think even Jake has a problem with this stretch , he seems to say 'that's kinda hard to play' afterwards
adrian mark What he means is it’s hard for him to play NOW. Age is a bitch.
Jake was a young, naive (dumb) kid when he joined Ozzy's band and being so young and naive, he gave away his songwriting credit and publishing for the BARK AT THE MOON album. I put 5% of the blame for that on Jake, 10% of the blame on Ozzy, and 85% of the blame on Sharon. That's a conservative estimate on Sharon.
+James K. Naive and dumb? There wasn't anything naive about it. Those were the rules. As they should be. The Osbourne gig was the highest level a musician could reach at that time (outside of founding your own successful band). It was Osbourne and company who put the act on the map, not Jake. It wasn't like he made some mistake. What's he going to do? Tell Osbourne to shove off and start his own band? And let's not forget, while it is an awesome song, its success was due in very large part because it was delivered by Osbourne. Had Jake not accepted Osbourne's terms, THAT would have been naive and dumb.
+Just J Actually Lennon was still with Yoko when he was killed, she was with him when it happened and if I'm not mistaken though I could be you can see her in the infamous photo of Lennon and Chaplin photo jusr hours before the murder occured outside their nyc apartment.
+Ryan H He still should have got credit for writing it. Phil Soussan did for Shot in the Dark. We all knew Jake wrote BATM, but still.
+James K. You're right! I'd add ..that's what happens when a bright kid is trying to make the best of himself and someone comes along to take advantage! Jake's first concern would have been living up to the expectations stepping in for Randy ....immense pressure ...look at what he produced!
+JaredTheDog He wanted to study classical music.
Ppl don’t realize his brilliance, mad talent... then and now! 🙌🏽🙏🏽💌
The solos in Bark at the Moon give me chills...
Jake E Lee is a legend !!
I was standing 3 feet back from the stage when this was filmed. It was a great night! Jake's band played a full set in a little room at the back of a warehouse at the start of their world tour. Special night of music. I got to meet Jake and get a pic with him. He was such a cool guy and played amazing! I think you can see the back of my head on a few clips. LOL
That's awesome, From what I've seen, Jake is probably one of the nicer guys in metal.
Awesome. You sir, are fucking lucky as hell. Good for you. I met him too when he played in El Paso, and then saw them again in Houston. I even got to give him a bottle of Jameson my wife had bought him!
You should give your self a hand !🤚 across the face
Wow
I still remember seeing the "Bark at the Moon" video debuting on the tv show, Friday Night Videos. I immediately knew that this guitarist was someone who was very special! I was probably 13 years old.
I really think arguing who's better than who is pretty immature. ALL these guys were awesome. They each had something to contribute. We all like who we like. We are so lucky to even have these founding fathers of guitar. 🎸🤘🏼 practice hard
Francois DuJour I really respect & appreciate your opinion. Well put, good sir.
Frank D truth right there my brother.
As our fathers before us,
I picked up pearls from ALL of them to put in my (small) bag of tricks, and they ALL sprinkled pearls for us to pick up.
Spoken like a true gentleman✌😉👍
Jake E. Lee is a guitar beast, and a guitar god as well.
I'm so glad Jake has come back into the spotlight, at least somewhat. He was the most interesting guitarist Ozzy ever played with, and Badlands wasn't to shabby either!
Soo cool to see & hear the original talent go back in time to play & explain what they did & Why. 💯🎶
His fusion of hard rock heavy metal with blues and jazz inflection keeps him fresh and relevant .... Amazing
That opening riff is as good as anything off of Blizzard. Killer player.
quite possibly one of the most informative video's I've ever seen on a guitarists perspective of his own song and how tabs and video lessons etc. get certain aspects of his playing style wrong which makes the tabs and video lessons wrong as well....amazing video! Thank you for sharing!
Some of the best guitar work ever in my humble opinion Rock On Brother :-) I love all the thought that went into building those leads you are awesome!
you are the best jake e lee .. undoubtedly the biggest .. !!!
Such a great song... it and Shot in the Dark make the eternal list.
First of all we need to respect all musicians out here. It's no secret that Sharon handpicked each and everyone of Ozzy's axemen. Don't kick Mr
Rhoads in the dirt. If he had not wrecked his plane into a tour bus '82 he very well been to toe with EVH. As far a Zakk is concerned his resume speaks for it's self🎸👍.
One more thing The Ultimate Sin in my top 10 rock n roll albums, with "Thank God for the bomb" favorite song🤓
I started trying to perfect this tune when I was 17 years old, it took my 10 years to just naturally rip it out without thinking about it, when my son's friends asked me to play something at the age of 50 I played this song first and these boys instantly considered me "cool". I never used the word "resolve" when I learned to play it and after 34 years of fcking it up there won't be any changes. :) Jake deserved so much more from Ozzy. He would have genuinely worked out but dang.. Zakk is Randy and EVH in one guy, his own genre.
I saw Jake play, probably in 83 i'm guessing, when I was in high school - he came out after the show and passed by in front - I shouted out to him something - he came back over thanked us for the compliment and handed me a guitar pick. Seemed really humbled someone complimented his playing - I had seen Randy play the previous year about a week before his last show.
Fucking amazing player who is tremendously underrated. Look at his incredible chord shapes
In my mind he was the best guitarist Ozzy ever had. We all know how amazing Randy was, but he borrowed a lot from George Lynch believe or not.
ligamentpull1 Randy borrowed from G Lynch? Nope, don't believe it. Never read that anywhere. I have read multiple times where he says Mick Ronson and Leslie West had a influence on him. I do believe that Randy borrowed some tapping from Eddie however. But so did everyone in that peer group back then.
I saw an interview from George Lynch stated that back in the day he showed Randy a tapping run and later was played on the solo to "Flying High Again" way back in the day.
ligamentpull1 Do you know where/when George said this? I'm always curious to hear any obscure stories about Randy.
Azael VI From an excerpt I found on You Tube where George Lynch discusses his early guitar influnces etc... from www.livetojam.com.
Still my favorite guitarist
One of the best riffs ever.
Definitely one of the most underrated guitar player. The guy is incredible. Ultimate sin has some amazing playing on it. Jake E Lee hell of a guitarist.
Jake saved Ozzys drunk ass.
You mean high ass? He was high full time....
+Todd Martin As Randy once did too!!!
+Todd Martin i'd say you are correct sir! The riffs, the key changes ...in 80's metal ...Jake killed it and got no thanks! I'm still pissed at Sharon and Ozzy!
everyone is spat out by the shitty music biz in the end, it don't last long
Todd Jake saved ozzys presence as prince of darkness and filled the shoes of a icon. also got Ozzy even more rich to afford more cocaine
My favorite guitar hero
Love how when it gets to the portions where it people have it wrong, he slows down. Good teacher
he is such a sound and precise writer of melody
I've heard it all and Jake is my favorite Ozzy guitarist. He wrote the best songs. It's a damn shame he gets no money or credit for it.
Edit: this is Ozzy's best song.
Yeah if Ozzy gets solo credit on this song lets ask him to play it
Sharon Osbourne
in awe just being there with a underrated great guitarist in front of you and people just are standing there dumbfounded--great teacher and very smart on the axe with musical knowledge
I caught & still have Jake's armband from the BATM Rochester, NY concert. Great show and good times back then. I have played it 'wrong' for the last 27 years and it's probably going to stay that way.
This man is a legend. One of my favorites growing up. Ozzy definitely downgraded when he replaced him with that other dude.
love it.. "that other dude" :))
The Matt how so bad ass is this guy?????
Jake's contract was up. And after the screwing that Ozzy gave him, Jake would have asked for fair compensation on the next contract. So time for some fresh meat.....bye bye Jake, thanks for your (cheap) services, we have to replace you now. And that's what happened. Pure, back stabbing business at it's finest.
@@ubatooba8467 Yeah. And then there are those other guys who Oz allowed to be screwed over. Bob Daisley, Lee Kerslake, and even George Lynch in a certain sense.
Idk the particulars about Gus G being replaced by Zakk coming back, but I'm betting Gus isnt happy about it.
Ozzy- great music
- shitty people skills
@@jb-yi4di personally i can't stand Ozzy's toneless singing. For some unknown reason, musicians with actual talent stuck with him ... Iommi.... Geezer.... Rhoads.... Jake .... and we still got decent music
Jake...yer a badass!.... Amazing guitar work!....Best Metal song all time!
I am damn near 50 years old and probably heard this song a thousand times and I am still blown away by this solo. You're not a true guitar God until you become famous for at least one jaw dropping guitar solo. Jake E. Lee deserves the right to stand up with Eddie Van Halen, George Lynch, Vivian Campbell, Kirk Hammett, and many others guitar Gods.
PERSONALLY ... I BELIEVE JAKE WAS THE BEST GUITARIST THAT OZZY EVER HAD !!!
🤣🥱
@@ParagonGarage What's so funny ???
It was about time ! He’s great
Absolutely one of the most memorable solo's of all time! I think also one of the most played songs on the radio in those years!!!
Years spent in silence. Buried in a nameless grave. Now he has risen.
Bark at da moon great song.
one of the top line guitarist
I wish we had interviews of more artists showing us how they play their songs. I’d much rather watch stuff like this than listen to the same questions asked of musicians about irrelevant crap.
Jake, You are a legend. Stop.
;-)
EVH 5150 III amps! Gotta love it!
I love mine too! EVH 5150 III are so underrated but yet big metal bands use them. Why? Because their fucking bad ass!
Some people say they don't have much of a low end?
I've never played one, but I would love to if our crappy music store ever got decent equipment. Can you get different tones out of it that don't sound like you're imitating EVH(if that makes any sense)?
This amp does it all man. I get decent cleans on my green channel. Cleans are only used for certain times. Otherwise this amp has some serious balls. I love it. And it's affordable. Best amp I've ever owned.
***** Thanks Jeff. That answered my question perfectly. I have a Marshall valvestate which was all I could afford at the time. I'm going to look at a JCM 800 and the Rectifiers.
I dis-agree with what Jeff is saying I've been playing for 15 years and have played all amps you can think of. I've had nothing but great success with my EVH 5150 III! Hides sloppy playing? So if your sloppy player the EVH will hide it? That makes no sense to me. If you suck at playing that will not be hidden. I own the Marshall DSL 100 head and I'm sorry but my EVH sounds way better IMO. Your going to get an argument from both sides here of what sounds better and what doesn't it. Every player has a different ear and will always be chasing great tones.
love this guy! I met him outside his tour bus in Cedar Rapids IA, where I live... at a venue known then as Big Dogs or maybe it was 3rd Street live.. right around 1993??? I brought my guitar for him to sign... and he played it and told me, "this is a bad ass guitar"!!! IT was an Alvarez... then 6 months later someone stole it! Good memory!
Jake wrote my favorite licks from the 80s and I love it just as much today 🤘thank you 💯❤️
How lucky they were to be there.
Genius at work respect
That is so cool that he would sit down and go over the song like that.
very underrated guitarist and composer, love his work and play on "ultimate sin".
Great post! I'm so glad this guy's back doing what he does best. I admire all of Ozzy's guitarists and over the years, I don't think one is "better" than the other. They each brought their own style, showmanship and songwriting prowess to the rock world.
So underrated! Jake is the man
most underrate shredder AND songwriter
Right on man I just love that solo and how he's playing it in 1984 both the end and before that
Love it how he really tried to explain his concept on the solo expanding into that hellaciously carpal-tunnel-syndrome-inducing finger stretch lol
In his prime, this guy was better than Randy and Zakk imo.
Dude absolutely smoked basically every guitarist in the mid 80s imo, to me he was better than Van Halen. He was just so damn creative and technical
Dude ur on acid
He deff isnt any Rhoads
@@darenwobensmith4868 to be honest, if we’re talking in terms of technical skill. He was a way better player than Randy, just watch footage of him playing his live solos in between songs. He was an absolute nutter on the fretboard in his prime. Yes Randy is brilliant but if we’re talking guitar chops, Jake smokes Randy
@@trendkill3333 Lay off the drugs bud LOL. Nobody was even remotely close to being in Edwards league.
I could literally watch Jake play all day.
Thanks Jake... Like Your Style 💥💥 🎸💥💥
Jake E Lee is the best...riffs, tone, lick, melodic and very technicall...😎
Literally every tab on the net is wrong about much of this song. I've not found a single one that describes his original way of playing it.
denormal so show us
I have an official guitar book with Ozzy's greatest hits tabbed out in it. The notes aren't exact, but it still sounds basically the same.
That's why developing a good ear is so important. Sometimes you just aren't going to find the notation and have to write it yourself. That's what I've been doing with this song in some parts.
never like tabs
my ear is pretty good though
now we have video , which is the best IMO
I always look at tabs to help me get a ballpark figure, then finetune by ear. Peace!
Love Jake. Badlands was a monster band and he's a legend. I saw him earlier this year and it was really great to see him kicking ass again. Rock on people.
Thx for the memories, Jake. Rock on!
Great but why didn't he just take a few seconds to tune the guitar???
He has said that he likes a sloppy sound, something he wasn't allowed to do in Ozzy. That'd be my guess.
Jake E Lee is one of the best!!!
JAKE, please stay healthy for a long time.
guitar metal god
this guy always was and will be an awesome shredder
Jake was/is Amazingly Talented and severely under-appreciated by too many, imho... Dude is Awesome!! \m/
Jake, you are inspiration to me even if I played badlands wrong too/)))
Your contributions have led countless guitarists to up their soloing composition game. SITD, and this, and badlands record have stood the rest of time and are still insane 30 yrs later.
Wow, that is very advanced stuff, great solo, one of the best ever
Best guitarist of the 80s
It's interesting to hear the thought process behind the music - especially how he incorporated subtle voicings into the main riff and how he visually conceptualizes the outro solo. I wouldn't be surprised if he has "synesthesia", a condition which many genius musicians have which enables them to "see" music in terms of shapes and colors.
Master Jake E. Lee is back!!!
Such a brilliant, kind dude.
It's cool seeing Jake playing on some EVH amps. Jake and Eddie might be my fav guitarists from the era.
The parts where Jake talks about resolution are great insight to his awesome song writing! Thanks for sharing! Us mere mortal will play the end stretched part the way, "you could play it there." : )
I love Jake E. Lee’s playing!!!
I'd need Paul Gilbert fingers for that stretch,I always knew I played it different but never would of imagined that way.Cool video and down to earth guy.One of the best .
This was interesting! I just learned what I was doing wrong playing this song on guitar for just over 33 years. Thanks Jake!
Ozzy's contribution with Sabbath was very minimal (at best). Geezer wrote 90% of the lyrics and was assisted by Tony and Bill. Geezer, Tony and Bill collaborated on all the music up until Dio and the other changes happened. Ozzy was generously given "writing" credits for humming out the melody for the lyrics. Ozzy can't (and never has, or knew how to) write music.
So, after getting the boot from Sabbath, Sharon Arden enters the picture. She see's the name recognition potential in Ozzy and get's her Father (the owner and CEO of Jet Records) Don Arden, to give to go-ahead to bring Ozzy back to England to start a new Band, which was to be called "The Blizzard of Ozz". Simultaneously, Don Arden recruited a songwriter and Bassist; Bob Daisley from Uriah Heep. From the very beginning, This was a collaboration and NOT an Ozzy solo project.
The rest is history, but as previously described with Sabbath, Ozzy never wrote shit, but was given 'credit' for humming out the melody to the lyrics... So ten full years into his career (at this point) Ozzy still hadn't written a damn song (credit or not). Bob Daisley wrote all the lyrics and collaborated with Randy Rhodes on all of the music. Sharron hated Lee Kerslake and wanted to fire him during the Blizzard tour, but Daisley disagreed with her and was promptly fired too.
Now... Sharron isn't stupid, she got rid of Lee, and hired Bob back within a month of firing him. She couldn't get rid of her songwriter! It's so long and convoluted to repeat everything, but seriously, check out the Bob Daisley interviews. You'll be blown away at what you learn. It's unbelievable.
My introduction to Ozzy (besides Sabbath) was Jake E. Lee and Bark at the Moon in early 1984. I never bought the prior albums until many years later.
Shot in the dark. Awesome mr jake lee
Best song ever written by man
Jake you are by far my favorite Ozzy guitarist. You rip man!
Kinda liked Jake better than Randy :/ probably gonna catch shit but I just kinda hated Randy’s tone it was just too much treble, ear bleedingly so, and not in the good way
Very nicely done, well thought out, clever inventions. I like the descriptions of visualization. Lots of schooling? It shows!
Jake explains how to properly play Bark at the Moon:
1) Talk sh*t about other guitar players
2) Don't tune your guitar.
Excellent! Thank-you!
Amazed how well he plays the song since ozzy wrote it and all.. how ozzy wrote that without playing guitar or bass I will never know.. must have taken ozzy a long time to teach it Jake.. Lol seriously watching this man play is always a pleasure the chords he plays are amazing
Thanks Jake I love watching these videos now I am learning this song and its so much fun to play it should be illegal but hard as hell and the lead is some of the most amazing guitar playing it makes your heart beat faster as it builds Thanks Brother for all the beautiful music :-)