Drifter70 I met Brad back in the late 80’s. I said something to him about Ozzy and he said “Yeah, I did my time with Ozzy.” It didn’t seem like he had a positive experience. Brad playing with Ozzy at that time helped Ozzy in a bind and it helped Night Ranger. I had never heard of Brad or Night Ranger before he played with Ozzy. Jake E Lee was also a tremendous player. Ozzy has had some great guitarists that is for sure.
Brad probably didn't want to deal with Ozzy's shenanigans and recognized how evil Sharon was. Good thing he left after the tour; look what happened to Jake.. Yes Ozzy knows how to pick his guitarists but they end up either leaving after an album/tour or they got screwed. Maybe less with Zakk. He's been with Ozzy the longest.
Brad made hired gun $$$. At that time like $800 a set plus expense's. He got Great exposure for Night Ranger which was happening right when the Ozzy Fill in job came up. Plus he said he took a Lot of heat from Fans for Not Being " Randy" at that time. Ozzy was Flying off the Rails hard at this time as well.
Brad is missing all of the inbetween filler lead and harmonics that Randy would do. The fillers inbetween Ozzy singing his lines. Instead Brad is taking the safe road & staying tight on the rythym.
He had roughly a week to learn all the songs before the tour started. So, I think it's beyond impressive what he was capable of reproducing in such a short time frame.
@@The_Kirk_Lazarus agreed. Having seen Randy on Feb 20 in Dallas, just a month before he was killed, it's hard for me to hear these songs any other way. Guitar solos, feel, and fills aside, Brad learning just the chord progressions of every song in that set list as quick as he did was nothing short of phenomenal. Interesting to me is that I hear Rudy Sarzo playing more clearly defined lines and stronger notes on this recording than I ever remember hearing him play with Randy on Tribute. Might have been to help fill in since Brad was not going to be playing every fill or harmonic that Randy did.
The either HBO or MTV Live, first rock concert broadcast? It looks like what I remember..crazy night.
Brad Gilles was fantastic on this one, wonder why he ever went back to Night Ranger
Drifter70 I met Brad back in the late 80’s. I said something to him about Ozzy and he said “Yeah, I did my time with Ozzy.” It didn’t seem like he had a positive experience. Brad playing with Ozzy at that time helped Ozzy in a bind and it helped Night Ranger. I had never heard of Brad or Night Ranger before he played with Ozzy. Jake E Lee was also a tremendous player. Ozzy has had some great guitarists that is for sure.
Brad probably didn't want to deal with Ozzy's shenanigans and recognized how evil Sharon was. Good thing he left after the tour; look what happened to Jake.. Yes Ozzy knows how to pick his guitarists but they end up either leaving after an album/tour or they got screwed. Maybe less with Zakk. He's been with Ozzy the longest.
Brad made hired gun $$$. At that time like $800 a set plus expense's. He got Great exposure for Night Ranger which was happening right when the Ozzy Fill in job came up. Plus he said he took a Lot of heat from Fans for Not Being " Randy" at that time. Ozzy was Flying off the Rails hard at this time as well.
Because gillys , already had a contract with night ranger , anyway if he stayed with ozzy , sharon would fire him
Fuckin' great! Thanks for sharing.
I just could here the awesome fills Randy would have been playing with his flashy guitars
preferred Rhoads. just the way he played live was something else
Well, he was dead by this time. So, I'm assuming you'd rather they have a corpse up on stage with a guitar strapped upon it?
Brad is missing all of the inbetween filler lead and harmonics that Randy would do. The fillers inbetween Ozzy singing his lines. Instead Brad is taking the safe road & staying tight on the rythym.
He had roughly a week to learn all the songs before the tour started. So, I think it's beyond impressive what he was capable of reproducing in such a short time frame.
@@The_Kirk_Lazarus agreed. Having seen Randy on Feb 20 in Dallas, just a month before he was killed, it's hard for me to hear these songs any other way. Guitar solos, feel, and fills aside, Brad learning just the chord progressions of every song in that set list as quick as he did was nothing short of phenomenal. Interesting to me is that I hear Rudy Sarzo playing more clearly defined lines and stronger notes on this recording than I ever remember hearing him play with Randy on Tribute. Might have been to help fill in since Brad was not going to be playing every fill or harmonic that Randy did.
Of course there’s this kind of video quality after Randy Rhoads died