@@iancollins3991 Cozy must have played with more great guitarists and vocalists than any other rock drummer in history ! I saw him performing with Whitesnake back in the mid 80s and he was superb and commanded the stage like no other drummer .
fascinating Don Airey interview...one month after this, he went to Ridge Farm Studios and recorded the Blizzard of Ozz record with Ozzy and Randy Rhoads...rest is history.
You're being very kind. Even he admits that it is not what it was in his peak years. And it's okay, as it happens to the best of them (and Graham is certainly among the best of them).
Yeah his intro on Johnny Blade is awesome. Totally sets the mood for a song that is really one of Black Sabbath's best from the Ozzy era, that barely anyone knows.
@@DrTomoculus personally I think never say die album is one of Sabbath's best ever albums. It's full of great songs, arrangements, playing and is inventive, progressive and powerful. But you're right, hardly anyone ever mentions it. Same with technical ecstasy. Give me those 2 albums anyday over , the supposedly best Sabbath album ever for lots of fans, heaven and hell. Apart from children of the sea and title track, it does nothing for me
I believed for years what critics and fans said about Never Say Die!. I was going to art college when I met this dude who came from Canada. He said Never Say Die! rules, and was shocked I'd never heard it. So I borrowed it. One of the best Sabbath albums. I enjoy it much more than Technical Ecstasy, but still consider Sabotage their masterpiece. :D I'm with you. Dio with Sabbath does nothing for me. I like The Mob Rules. That's about it. They sound like a band influenced by Black Sabbath. @@laurencelevene4333
“This is the greatest lineup rainbow’s ever had. I think they’ll stay together for a long time.” I wonder how much Blackmore paid him to say that. 😂😂😂 Cozy quit within months of this interview, joining Michael Schenker for some apparent stability. 🤣🤣🤣
I can't recall ever hearing of Don Airey. Although I probably have come across his name in some rock music book Yeh, could be 20 years between them instead of one.
This was just after the Munich show, where Ritchie Blackmore and David Coverdale staged an impromptu fight backstage! Both Cozy and Don would join or work with Whitesnake later. Amazingly, Ritchie and David are friends again now. The fight was broken up before anyone got hurt.🙂
AND Black Sabbath on and off starting with Never Say Die in 1978 and all through the 80's. He later played with Judas Priest and Bruce Dickinson. He's one of the most famous (not) famous metal keyboardists. Don was the only witness to Randy Rhoads plane crash the day he died.
@@FuturePast2019 I'm a huge rainbow fan, but following a incredible masterpiece of an album, long live rock n roll, I thought down to earth was appalling. I think I played it once, and hated it
I have in my posession one of those subsequently authorized Rainbow bootlegs, from that very period. This was the only time when Rainbow were just as good as Purple.
RAINBOW = Ronnie James Dio (vocals), Cozy Powell (drums), Tony Carey (keyboard), Jimmy Bain (bass), Ritchie Blackmore (guitar) after this line-up changed, RAINBOW became another common mellow rock pop band; the dragons, dungeons, sorcery and all the magic were lost once Ronnie James Dio left ....... period.
@@FuturePast2019 actually, that was the second lineup (I could call it RAINBOW Mark II) as for the first album (Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow), the members from ELF that were hired for the debut album that first sound of RAINBOW, all were replaced with the exception of RONNIE JAMES DIO, then COZY POWELL, JIMMY BAIN and TONY CAREY were added to the band to carry on till LONG LIVE ROCK AND ROLL album, where keyboard and bass players were also changed. I can say that RAINBOW Mark III (new keyboard and bass player) did an excellent job, but in my personal opinion, I can say that I prefer Tony and Bain in the band.
I have the debut album X2 (both first press copies on the Oyster pearl label), Rising, LLR&R, Down To Earth & On Stage all on vinyl first pressings. I went off Rainbow after that. Didn't like the new pop style & never cared for JLT's voice. I also have all my Deep Purple LPs from the 1969 self titled through to Come Taste The Band & a few live albums as well. I love my vinyl albums. Got loads of them from the 1970s.
they were not selling albums that is why the change in style, DIO was great but nothing really happened, DOWN TO EARTH had the perfect mixture of POP and RoCK a band needed to survive, BLACKMORE explained he had bills to pay. DIO and COZY always had some issues, POWEll had to "LEAVE" Sabbath when DIO came back in 1992.
I'm sure Graham has perhaps lost a bit when he's been sick or tired, but l have worked with him on my upcoming sci-fi animated movie musical, "FUTURE NOW", and he has sung on two of the tracks, Portraying the hip futuristic pastor, "D.L Pleazal"! and if you check out his highly emotional charged vocals on his Lp, "Day out in know where"! The track, "Suzy", Graham wrote this song for my late wife after he, and Beth-Ami, and l talked on the phone. He is one of very few that can maintain such a gift of still kicking ass.
Sorry know thanks to me rockers and all kinds of music listeners finally woke up 🎉 and realize that rainbow with Dio is the very best and they are upset at themselves for missing not knowing that rainbow with Dio was the first heavy metal band but it was considered hard Rock not until Dio with black sabbath in 1981 1982 and the movie cartoon heavy metal came out the hard Rock changed to heavy metal so Tony iomi and Dio gets the credit but Ritchie blackmore with Dio should be credited too trust its never better with out Ronnie James Dio as the front man and that is for certain the blody truth and fact
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RIP Cozy. Thoroughly enjoyed Cozy's work over the years with numerous bands.
Came to say this, but since you did it first, I’ll just second it. RIP Cozy. Hugely inspirational drummer for me. Truly one of a kind.
@@iancollins3991 Cozy must have played with more great guitarists and vocalists than any other rock drummer in history ! I saw him performing with Whitesnake back in the mid 80s and he was superb and commanded the stage like no other drummer .
@@TheHumbuckerboydefinitely, and was absolutely stunning with MSG 😎
@@KreilyYes, definitely.
@@KreilyHEAR! HEAR!
fascinating Don Airey interview...one month after this, he went to Ridge Farm Studios and recorded the Blizzard of Ozz record with Ozzy and Randy Rhoads...rest is history.
wow....incredible how Airey looks so young ....
Those were the days! :-)
Hard to believe that Don Airey was 32 at this point - he looked incredibly young!
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Right? i would have thought he was 18 if i didn't know who he was. I have a coworker who looks just like him there who is 30 also lol
Don Airey - the greatest Rock keyboardist that almost everybody has heard play, but very few could tell you his name.
Yes. He is pretty good.
It's 'Don Airey'
I listen to him from Colosseum II, Rainbow and Deep Purple. Enough said about his quality.
Yes very underrated but played with the best
and a youthful Don aged 32 here looking about 20.
It took me until later in life to fully appreciate Don Airey's contributions to early Ozzy Osbourne.
My dear friend Graham's voice is still every bit as good. How cool to work with my favorite drummer, Cozy!!!
You're being very kind. Even he admits that it is not what it was in his peak years. And it's okay, as it happens to the best of them (and Graham is certainly among the best of them).
Don played on never say die album by black Sabbath. He really contributed to the sound of especially, Johnny blade and air dance
Yeah his intro on Johnny Blade is awesome. Totally sets the mood for a song that is really one of Black Sabbath's best from the Ozzy era, that barely anyone knows.
@@DrTomoculus personally I think never say die album is one of Sabbath's best ever albums. It's full of great songs, arrangements, playing and is inventive, progressive and powerful. But you're right, hardly anyone ever mentions it. Same with technical ecstasy. Give me those 2 albums anyday over , the supposedly best Sabbath album ever for lots of fans, heaven and hell. Apart from children of the sea and title track, it does nothing for me
I believed for years what critics and fans said about Never Say Die!. I was going to art college when I met this dude who came from Canada. He said Never Say Die! rules, and was shocked I'd never heard it. So I borrowed it.
One of the best Sabbath albums. I enjoy it much more than Technical Ecstasy, but still consider Sabotage their masterpiece. :D
I'm with you. Dio with Sabbath does nothing for me. I like The Mob Rules. That's about it. They sound like a band influenced by Black Sabbath. @@laurencelevene4333
“This is the greatest lineup rainbow’s ever had. I think they’ll stay together for a long time.” I wonder how much Blackmore paid him to say that. 😂😂😂 Cozy quit within months of this interview, joining Michael Schenker for some apparent stability. 🤣🤣🤣
So annoying
stability from mad mikey? thats funny
Cozy also played on “Long Cold Winter” by Cinderella. Always a solid drummer.
well bugga me, dint know that until now.
Saw them on that night in Newcastle, they were brilliant.
R.I.P Cozi Powell
Saw Rainbow 4 times back in the day. Once with Dio, once with Graham Bonnet & twice with JLT.
Awesome band group 👍👍👍👍👍
Big Shout Out
Cozy,one of my best drummer. Specially with black Sabbath.
Don rockin’ the z95 WZZO t-shirt (maybe). They did play in Allentown in Dec 1979 so maybe he got it then.
correct..
Don Airey looked like a 14 year old school boy... 🤔🤣
And his voice sounds like a 58-year-old grizzled bloke
LOL yep, i guess that's why Black Sabbath kept him hidden behind a curtain in all the years he toured with them, he's kinda dorky looking.
@@greatunz67 That was Geoff Nicholls R.I.P. 🤓
I can't recall ever hearing of Don Airey. Although I probably have come across his name in some rock music book Yeh, could be 20 years between them instead of one.
Rock In Peace Cozy and RJD
Man, Don Airey looked like a teenage kid there, makes me feel so old!
Cozy loved speed and he recalls it here 3:45 : he died from it. Let's not forget his solo albums. "Over The Top" offers an incredible musical palette!
Yeah. It's 980 km today, and almost certainly a bit longer in 1980. That's an average speed of almost 150 km/h. Probably means a cruise speed of 180+.
This was just after the Munich show, where Ritchie Blackmore and David Coverdale staged an impromptu fight backstage! Both Cozy and Don would join or work with Whitesnake later. Amazingly, Ritchie and David are friends again now. The fight was broken up before anyone got hurt.🙂
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I just recently learned Don Airy was the keyboard player for Ozzy's early records.
AND Black Sabbath on and off starting with Never Say Die in 1978 and all through the 80's. He later played with Judas Priest and Bruce Dickinson. He's one of the most famous (not) famous metal keyboardists. Don was the only witness to Randy Rhoads plane crash the day he died.
Graham Bonnett looks 100 % like Falco...
Finally someone other than myself who thinks so...😂👍
Great.
Great Album, Cozy's last with Rainbow. He didn't like the pop direction much unfortunately.
Yes, so why did he point out this lineup .... 1:29
Then he promptly made a pop record afterwards🤣
It wasn't a pop direction, it was a more down to earth direction, as the album title suggested.
@@maxmeister5064 "Pop" as in more commercial (less hard core). Down to Earth meaning less Lady of the Lake, Gates of Babylon etc. What a pity.
@@FuturePast2019 I'm a huge rainbow fan, but following a incredible masterpiece of an album, long live rock n roll, I thought down to earth was appalling. I think I played it once, and hated it
1:52 This Airey guy, ... he should be singing, ... he's got quite a characteristic voice, ...
Cozy😍
Nice time warp back to age 19 when the world made sense, and we weren’t having to experience the apocalypse…….
Cool clip
Mike neville north east tv legend ❤
👍👍
When Richie decided to go Foreigner.... Last Rainbow album I bought way back then
Did Graham Bonnett have an extendable neck? Wow.
Aside that, was certainly a good lineup
He was a breath of fresh air in a homogenous rock singer world.
I have in my posession one of those subsequently authorized Rainbow bootlegs, from that very period. This was the only time when Rainbow were just as good as Purple.
Кози был одним из самых лучших ударников ударного фронта рок сцены. Земля ему пухом.
Don.... cheeky little face
Asking Cozy if Rainbow have the right line-up now about a month before he quit the band 🤣
Did You know,what happen with You tomorrow? 😉
Only God knows.☝️
Mr. Colin "Cozy Powell" Trevor Flooks
Mr. Donald Smith Airey
Cozy: So now the line up is secure
Reality: Line up changes again
RAINBOW = Ronnie James Dio (vocals), Cozy Powell (drums), Tony Carey (keyboard), Jimmy Bain (bass), Ritchie Blackmore (guitar)
after this line-up changed, RAINBOW became another common mellow rock pop band; the dragons, dungeons, sorcery and all the magic were lost once Ronnie James Dio left ....... period.
That lineup lasted how long?
Just think Ritchie, Dio and Powell.
@@FuturePast2019
actually, that was the second lineup (I could call it RAINBOW Mark II) as for the first album (Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow), the members from ELF that were hired for the debut album that first sound of RAINBOW, all were replaced with the exception of RONNIE JAMES DIO, then COZY POWELL, JIMMY BAIN and TONY CAREY were added to the band to carry on till LONG LIVE ROCK AND ROLL album, where keyboard and bass players were also changed.
I can say that RAINBOW Mark III (new keyboard and bass player) did an excellent job, but in my personal opinion, I can say that I prefer Tony and Bain in the band.
@@ROCKGRINDER12 What's the difference? It's a pity that Live in Munich (Mk 3) is mono.
I have Down to Earth, LP not CD😁
Это КРУТО!!!
Me too - on clear vinyl. Have the CD as well
Me too - original 😜 and LLTNR and Rising and the first one too. I had On Stage on cassette!
I have the debut album X2 (both first press copies on the Oyster pearl label), Rising, LLR&R, Down To Earth & On Stage all on vinyl first pressings. I went off Rainbow after that. Didn't like the new pop style & never cared for JLT's voice. I also have all my Deep Purple LPs from the 1969 self titled through to Come Taste The Band & a few live albums as well. I love my vinyl albums. Got loads of them from the 1970s.
Don Airey looks like a 20 yeas old but sounds like he is 50
Don looks like he's about 12 years old.
don has an ozzy shirt on if im seeing it right
The "greatest lineup" comment has me puzzled considering he later said he hated the direction the band was going in after Dio was let go.
Dead man talking. Dio also said nothing postive about Rising, and liked only the first.. BS.
Rising and Long Live RnR rule. They knew that.
cozy suck a cool dude, and brilliant Drummer
Check your spelling!! 🙈
they were not selling albums that is why the change in style, DIO was great but nothing really happened, DOWN TO EARTH had the perfect mixture of POP and RoCK a band needed to survive, BLACKMORE explained he had bills to pay. DIO and COZY always had some issues, POWEll had to "LEAVE" Sabbath when DIO came back in 1992.
The view showing all 3 of them with the rainbow colors in the background looks like a modern day LGBTQRSTUV+ event.
Rainbow's strongest lineup🌈
Nope. Strongest was with Ronnie James Dio...
@@martinkasper197 Indeed, the Rising lineup i would say.
Blackmore,Dio,Soule,Driscoll, Bain.
Это точно!
Man on the Silver Mountain, Ronny James Dio.
Methinks that somewhere along the line, Cozy unfortunately took a major punch in the nose by a southpaw...
Cozy Powell. Dance with the Devil....the track that always epitomizes his music. Music is not the same these days, its bland and boring in general.
Essa formação não é a melhor do Rainbow. Jamais!!!!!
Vide com Ronnie Dio nos vocais.
They fired one of the greatest singers of all time to play this crap.. How utterly embarrassing .
Oh you mean the formulaic RDJ dirge? NO thanks this is light years better and a whole lot more interesting and sophisticated.
Amen brother.
They? In an interview Dio said that he wanted to leave. It seems both agreed.
@@liborsionko I would take just the solo from Stargazer pver everything Blackmore has done ever since .
Кто бы ,что не говорил ,но альбом1979 это шедевр,на века
I'm sure Graham has perhaps lost a bit when he's been sick or tired, but l have worked with him on my upcoming sci-fi animated movie musical,
"FUTURE NOW", and he has sung on two of the tracks,
Portraying the hip futuristic pastor, "D.L Pleazal"! and if you check out his highly emotional charged vocals on his Lp, "Day out in know where"! The track,
"Suzy", Graham wrote this song for my late wife after he, and Beth-Ami, and l talked on the phone. He is one of very few that can maintain such a gift of still kicking ass.
I seen them with iron maiden opened up for them in Detroit
Sorry know thanks to me rockers and all kinds of music listeners finally woke up 🎉 and realize that rainbow with Dio is the very best and they are upset at themselves for missing not knowing that rainbow with Dio was the first heavy metal band but it was considered hard Rock not until Dio with black sabbath in 1981 1982 and the movie cartoon heavy metal came out the hard Rock changed to heavy metal so Tony iomi and Dio gets the credit but Ritchie blackmore with Dio should be credited too trust its never better with out Ronnie James Dio as the front man and that is for certain the blody truth and fact
❤