Like Rudy said in his book Randy had a new style totally unique.Speak of the Devil is a good album but it's very doctored up.Those who are saying Brad nailed Randys style are mistaken.Brad done good but he wasn't close to Randy get real.Brad unfortunately was booed.Much respect to him he was in a tough situation.Brads a good player good dude but Ozzy would have made sure he kept him if was on Randy's level Brad was given Randys pedal board and sold it a few years later
Same here, except I work in treatment and know personally what too much of several substances can do and ill go one further and say that demons sometimes aren't just a figure of speech. I lost respect for Sharon about 10 or 15 years ago when i learned they redid Blizzard and Diary to get out of paying royalties for the playing, though I wasn't aware Ozzy didn't write shit. Sarzo has my respect too as does Jake, Aldridge, etc.
@generalrodcocker1018maybe Ozzy had the pick of the most attractive woman in Sabbath's hayday. By the time he met Sharon he was a degenerate alcoholic. He was passed the crazy booze fuelled rock n roll stage and was in the sh:ting the bed & p:ssing blood stage. Sharon was basically his psychiatric nurse.
Sharon is a great example of someone who is never wrong because everyone else is , screws people that have been loyal and royally screws up one thing but blames everyone else.
@@davidr1676 Sharon's dad was Don Arden, who was notorious for cheating and threatening bands, ruining the Small Faces after they fired him for embezzlement. Supposedly, threatening Jimmy Page gangster style as well. It's probably why Page wanted the imposing Peter Grant to manage LZ.
@kkoch666 I get what you're saying - but to degrade band members is messed up - plus paying them pennies compared to what Sharon makes with Ozzy - talent doesn't come cheep my friend
Also Brad never ever said anything negative publicly to disparage Ozzy or Sharon. I’m a huge Gillis fan. Ive seen almost every interview he’s done on his time with Ozzy. I’m sure he’s got tons of stories. He’s told a few but never spoke out of school about anything that he probably could of. Brad was and is a well rounded professional with integrity
@@mkay1957 Brad was playing with the Alameda Allstars while NR was trying to get signed and before Brad joined Ozzy. Pat Thralls brother Preston knew Tommy Aldridge who was Ozzy drummer when Randy died. Preston told Tommy about Brad and Tommy told Sharon and Ozzy
Saw Night Ranger on the Seven Wishes tour with Cheap Trick. Brad Gillis signed my ticket after the concert next to the tour buses Some stoner kid asked him " hey, what was it like to play with Ozzy? Brad said "it was ok, for a while" Right after that someone came up behind me and almost knocked me over. The guy got up on the steps of the bus, turned around and smiled at me cause he knew he really almost knocked me over. It was Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick
Great story! I saw the same tour in Portland Me. with Starship. They were at the top of their game. Great harmonies, two great guitarists and a lot of great songs. It may be considered musical heresy to some but I'm sure I would prefer that show over Ozzie any day of the week.
@@togue777 I saw that Night Ranger-Starship tour in upstate NY. I love Night Ranger, but Starship was, well, in the We Built This City era ugh. But Gillis-Watson guitar team was phenomenal, and Jack Blades such a monster, just a great band. I met Brad at a party about 20 years ago, nice guy.
Brad Gillis created one of the best live albums of all time. His guitar tone and style on Speak of the Devil will never be matched. I hope Ozzy realizes this.
George Lynch auditioned for Ozzy and was given the gig over Jake E. Lee, initially. George left his day job & his children and did sound checks and rehearsals for 2 months, until Sharon told him at the last minute, he was out. George was better off out of that toxic environment, and wasn’t paid for any of his work. George Lynch seems like a down to earth, level headed guy, and deserved better, kudos to him.
I heard a little different take. George himself said in an interview that Jake got the gig over him because George had cut his hair at the time of the audition since he had to work a day job delivering beer or something along those lines. Jake wasn't cheaper, Sharon & Ozzy just screwed him out of royalties and writing credits.
Ozz and Scary Sharon owe everything to Daisley, Rhoads and Kerslake 🙏 Was sobering to read in Daisley’s book that at the time of his death Randy had not seen a penny of royalties from his now iconic work on those first 2 records. He was still basically a hired gun earning $500 a week. He had also been in arguments and scuffles with Ozzy over not wanting to do a live record of Sabbath covers to satisfy a commitment to Jet Records. Keep this in mind when you see Ozz and Sharon speak glowingly of him. They viewed Randy as a talented hired hand at the time of his death.
right they are lowlife thieves. That is no correct, Randy had started seeing royalties and rumor has it he was about to buy a home with girlfriend, Jodi. Bob got ripped off. RHoads family did take the Osbournes to court. They did not view him as a hired hand on any stretch they knew he was a co founder of the band, Sharon did offer Randy a bigger payout than Bob and Lee, but Randy having too much integrity turned it down.
@@a_planet_on_fire IMO, Ozzy's song "Little Dolls" ended up being about Randy. I believe Randy is dead because someone put a black magick curse on him. Not necessarily from the Ozzy camp, but another one that had a guitar player that was making bizarre statements about Randy. Someone who feared Randy being in the spotlight
@@BeyondOurSolarSystem I agree with you about this. Either that or the pilot guy told "S_ome-O_ne" he was gonna do something crazy. You sound like you have someone specific in mind... And a name just occurred to me.
@@a_planet_on_fire I believe Randy was targeted by two camps. Ozzy, for one. It’s been coming out lately that Ozzy used to bully, haze and harass Randy because he didn’t want to do the Speak of the Devil album. Allegedly Ozzy would be more horrific towards Randy while he was drunk. IMO, Ozzy, in a drunken fit of rage, placed a hex on Randy. I also believe, this other guitar player, who was making statements that “he taught Randy everything he knows” and that “Randy copied everything he did”, also placed a hex on Randy. This band did not steep their music and albums in the occult like Ozzy did. But it was known that they practiced witchcraft. I believe this happens more often than people realize. Musicians dying in some horrific accident because of hexes. Not just known musicians, but unknown musicians. There are a lot of musicians from local bands dying in freak car accidents and alleged suicides all the time, that we never hear about, because they're unknown.. Look at Lynyrd Skynyrd. Their singer got into a beef with Neil Young. Boom, bizarre plane crash killing the singer and others. Kenneth Anger tapped Jimmy Page to do the music for his movie “Lucifer Rising”. They got into a beef, and Kenneth Anger put a hex on Jimmy, that ended up killing people around Jimmy instead. Alice Cooper is also rumored to putting hexes on people who angered him. Dave Mustaine was bragging about placing a hex on someone, and it happened the way he wanted it, a car accident affecting their legs. Was he referring to Cliff Burton, or someone else? Jayne Mansfield solicited Anton Lavey to put a curse on her ex-husband. When Jayne told Anton she was taking a cross-country trip to Florida with her ex-husband, Anton warned her not to go with him. Look how that ended up for her. Back to Randy. Why would he go up in that plane, after the pilot was already hot dogging it, when Randy was afraid of flying? The spirits took away his fear of flying perhaps? Gave Randy a spiritual high about going on that plane ride? Randy was not known to be a practitioner of the occult. However, it is a fact, that if you don’t practice the craft, and you associate with people who do, you are more likely to have something like this successfully done to you. Part of the reason why Randy wanted to leave the band was because of all the occult things going on with the Ozzy band. The baptizing the audience with having meat tossed onto them, the midgets running around the stage, and black magic witches showing up backstage with animals they sacrificed to Ozzy. Randy hated all those things, and was one of the biggest reasons why he was leaving Ozzy. Ironically, Randy was a fan of Alice Cooper.
@@ms.felonystrutter2472 They are not even musicians. Ozzy can barely sing, and just because Sharon is radio controling him backstage. With her remote control goldiging bitchcraft. They both had zero respect for their musicians. Musical envy. The more the talent, the more the hatry. You had to die like Randy to be somehow respected. Just that. They treated everyone like shit.
Sharon is so unbelievable; in each new story - she does or says something worse than before - that says a ton about Ozzy... much of the time it sounds like he was sober enough to know good from evil.
I used to have some sort of respect for Ozzy and his music, but finding out the behind the scenes, he didn't contribute squat except drug and alcohol drama. I am disgusted at how they treated their band members.
@@RemoWilliams-jg4yb I would get disgusted when Sharon was on the show and talking people treated bad and bullies. My gosh, could you treat anyone worse? They were her servants in her eyes and since she oaid them they owe her. She was and is a rat
I've said it before and I'll say it again and again. Ozzy wouldn't be anything without the amazing musicians he had playing for him over the years. When nobody was around him he just wasted away in his hotel room drinking and doing drugs.
Night Ranger was one of my favorite bands when I was in high school back in the day. Brad Gillis is a phenomenal guitar player. Ozzy didn't realize what he really had at the time. Unbelievable.
BTW, the first show with Bernie Torme was April 1st 1982. I was there. It was at Stabler Arena in Bethlehem Pa. UFO opened the show. The 2nd show was in Philadelphia.
I always thought Jake E Lee got treated badly but now I see evil Sharon treated everyone badly! I can only imagine Zakk Wylde was successful in this dysfunctional Addams Family because he was able to balance it with his own band, Black Label Society. Zakk doesn't have the classical sensibility that Rhodes had... I guess by the time he joined, Ozzie was done grieving. I still feel Jake E Lee's stage presence was perfect for this music.
Drinking is no excuse . Brad is a really great guy and guitar player . Randy was going to leave Ozzie . Wish he had lived to do so . Everyone who crosses paths with the Osbornes comes up short .
For Brad to step in like that with just a few days rehearsal speaks volumes to me of his talent. he was playing sabbath and Randy's shit and listen to the damn album its bloody brilliant. Brad never got the recognition he deserves. Having to put up with all that crap and still maintained a professional attitude was just amazing on Brads Part. he also played Randy very very well. cudos to Gillis he is up there with the best of them.
Narrator as Sarzo: "I'm leaving to join Quiet Riot. But I am available for the UK gigs" as Sharon "Nobody leaves Ozzy!!!" as Gillis: "I left Ozzy after Rudy Sarzo left to join Quiet Riot" (Sharon, somewhere, screaming while abusing an employee) "NOBODY LEAVES OZZY!!!"
Back in the day rock stars could hide most fans only seen the full blast entertainment side, we all figured he was in a castle creeping around or sitting in that high backed throne chomping on bats while his lust fueled harem crawled around under his feet ,.. love to kno the number of ozzy knuckle tattoos existed
I love the Speak of the Devil album, Brad's guitar tone is phenomenal. I really wish they would re-release it and do a proper release of the Speak of the Devil concert video but we all know that will never happen. :(
I read somewhere Brad never listened to the live speak of the devil recordings.He said he felt he played bad on it.Even though he is shredding to the fullest...And don't forget Randy had planned to leave Ozzy as well to make a couple of his own records.
I went from rocker to jazz snob in the 80s when all this was happening. I never got thru a Night Ranger tune as I didnt care for the style and would change radio stations before the guitar solos. I relistened to Brad G 40 years later and him trading solos with Jeff W on "dont tell me love me" is some of the best great rock guitar soloing out there. Brad is a beast, I just didnt find it out til recently....when I gave his music a chance. I dont care that he's not Randy, he's still just as talented in his own right and I completely overlooked how good he was. Ozzy (because of Sharon) sh-ts on everybody but Brad took it like trooper. Kudos to him. Seems like a great guy too
@@TheMichaelseymour TLDR he is what we used to say "p-ssywhipped." Those are the cliffs notes. I blame Ozzy for not being a man and standing up to and/or divorcing the beyotch. I get what your saying but at the end of the day Ozzy was and is a coward who is afraid of his own wife. . I also agree with you that he is too scared to fire his own band members so Medusa from hell does the dirty work for him. Excellent point. Makes both of them huge POS's in my mind. And Im a Black Sabbath fan so it this whole thing "humanizes' this rock star facade that so many broken musicians try to keep up.
When he is strung out and wasted, Ozzy turns into a person that no one wants to hang out with. He (and Sharon) are biting the hands that are trying to help.
You are looking at the true face if Witchcraft. Everyone who practices witchcraft are exactly like these people. The deeper they get into it, the more vicious & narcissistic they become.
I interviewed Brad and he was pretty candid about his time with Ozzy. Rudy on the other hand will not speak a word about re-recordings, royalties, pay etc because he still runs in the same circles with those two and basically acknowledges it off camera but doesn't want to be a blabbermouth headline. He was happy for the opportunities it has given him especially from where he came from and he's still able to making a living off some of the notoriety from being with Oz
Nah you wouldn't, not if you were a musician, back at that time. You would be with one of rock's biggest names, there would have been all sorts of mischief, you'd have sucked it up. It's only today that people think about money, have realised it's the music BUSINESS, and without money and contracts and lawyers etc, you will get fucked. The 80s were just about being a rock star, chicks and blow.
Ozzy is easily one of the most over rated musicians ever, he had fantastic musicians who he ripped off and that witch made sure he was credited for. Bob Daisley was the force who wrote the first 2 Blizzard albums
@@DamienFaust-m4c I wouldn't argue against that. Saw Rik live in the 80's, he is an excellent player. Brad and Rik are both great with little recognition for it.
Great video. No click bait, no BS (and I don’t mean Black Sabbath), great story telling, real graphics and clips. Thank you. Abusing Brad Gillis? People who behave like that deserves nothing.
Brad Gillis was so freaking good on Speak of the Devil. I am happy for him that he got out of the Ozzy and the Queen of Ozempic's orbit when he did. Brad's abilities are undeniable, his tone was monstrously huge, and he was exactly the right guy for the time. Taking Iommi's riffs and solos and making them his own was a jaw dropping accomplishment. Speak of the Devil...and Sharon appears!
I saw Night Ranger open for Kiss in 1983, Brad and Tom Watson are talented guitarists. Jack Blades is a solid bassist and singer with a lot of energy as a front man back then. The whole band was pretty damn good. I wasn't the biggest Kiss fan around and Ace had recently departed, so these guys helped make the show worth the price of admission for me.
Maybe its just because im such a huge Ozzy fan but I want to believe it was Sharon not Ozzy and her influence over him made it seem that he was also urinal fungus
My favorite OZZY guitarist was Jake E Lee I thought Jake was even better than Rhodes but I wasn’t into OZZY when Rhodes was in the band but I did see Jake with OZZY and I was standing at the front of the stage and watching Jake play was just mesmerizing and I was hooked after that and maybe if I had seen Randy that way it would of been the same as seeing Jake.
I got to see Jake play with Badlands in a small club in So Cal called The Bachannal. I was completely blown away. I can't put him over Randy just as I couldn't put Randy over Jake. Both great guitarists, and uniquely badass in their own way.
I had tickets for the Madison Square Garden show and saw Bernie Torme, who was great with Gillan, but sadly Bernie was not up to the task with Ozzy. Very different playing styles. Luckily I got to see Randy twice on the Blizzard tour. Even got to meet him at a record signing. RIP RR.
Sharon was pretty much a cheat then i guess? ...heard she did it to Jake too ...a major head-lining act, offering $200 a week to someone trying to help you save your music career is such a slap in the face
How this man survived and lived to have a reality show of a life void of reality is a testament to the events in life are so random, and without reason.
Ozzy's best post Sabbath recording was "Speak of the Devil" which featured Brad Gillis. This live recording features some of the best metal guitar work you will ever hear. Tom Morello raves about this album and never hesitates to say how Gillis' work on this recording influenced his guitar playing.
Gillis was spectacular and Night Ranger was excellent. Ozzy was grieving and already a drugged out & alcoholic mess and just directed his sadness at Brad. Not an acceptable excuse, but that's likely the reason. Brad filled in amazingly.
Ozzy "I cant do this anymore" Shaorn "we arent stopping now" Translation. She's a gold digger who married him for money and she's gonna make sure that gravy train isn't going to end. No wonder everybody hates her. And Ozzy is still too stupid to see it....or he doesnt want to. Sad.
I LOVE these stories! Utterly fascinating. An incredibly difficult situation that brought the best out of some people while others coped in their own ways. The professionalism and empathy impressed me. Somebody like Ozzy's stature could really get anybody he wanted but still face an up hill battle.
@@stevenbeall9637They’re different. They came from different cultures and periods. Dailey’s playing on Rainbow’s Gates of Babylon put so much power and feel into that song. (he kinda got that vibe from Glenn Hughes, but that’s cool). On the other hand, Rudy’s playing on Speak of the Devil, a one take performance and recording, is full of power and finesse. The triplets on War Pigs during the solo being one example. There were a lot of bassist back then (and today), that had no chance of pulling that off. One’s very British and the other very American.
$200 a week to play lead with a headlining band is beyond insulting. You could make more than that in any shithole factory in those days. Flipping burgers for minimum wage in 1982 would get you $134 a week, FFS.
Adjusted for inflation $200 was about $651 today, not great but an unknown sideman wanting to make a name in the business, no bills, per diem to eat, free room and board. Many of these great guitarists ended up finding great success as musicians. Touring for 8 months, Brad made about $16k adjusted for inflation in that time plus he gained a ton of experience once his band hit it big!
@@RichardGutierrezRG Brad had a chance to fill in for a player he was a fan of, he liked the music, It was a great opportunity but he knew it was a circus he did not want to be a part for the long run.
@@RichardGutierrezRG LOL all you're saying is that the best musicians in the country should be paid roughly what a regular slob makes packaging widgets in a factory, in hopes of maybe one day making it big. While the Boss keeps the vast majority of the cash rolling in hand over fist. Here's an idea, let the Ozzy's of the world play their own guitars, bass, keys and drums, like a busker on the street. See how much they rake in then.
200 a week salary for being a member of Ozzy's band? You can make more than that panhandling with a guitar in Nashville in a day. Back then, of course I'm not talking about todays numbers. Today you could probably make 400 a day panhandling in Nashville.
You know what she did to bob daisley ? She stripped out his and Tommy 's tracks from Diary because they wouldn't agree to Ozzy taking ALL the writing credits. That's why those songs have different drum & bass .
It's sad to say but Ozzy and Sharon are terrible people. Removing the original bass and drum track and having them re- recorded by other players just to avoid paying the original players their royalties. And Ozzy has never written and single note or lyric. Only how he would sing it. And there too much more to mention.
@@airgunfun4248 Geezer Butler wrote the lyrics in Sabbath, Bob Daisley wrote on the first three Ozzy albums. Even after he was fired they asked him to come back to write lyrics and I think they screwed him out of royalties on that album. But the only thing Ozzy really writes is the melody of other peoples lyrics. There's a lot of videos/ interviews about all this here on TH-cam .
Crazy how Brad Gillis was on scene & had a front row, up close view, the night that Ozzy attacked Rudy Sarzo, in a hotel hallway, after Rudy had quit Ozzy to rejoin Quit Riot & Brad had left Ozzy for Night Ranger. In Ozzy’s vs Rudy incident, that transpired after the huge American Rock Festival heavy metal show, that had a crowd of 350K+ in Kalamazoo, MI, at the Timber Ridge Ski Area, featuring the heavy metal bands Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot, Night Ranger, Ratt, Accept, Motley Crue, and Triumph. After that 1984 show, a bunch of the band members that played the concert, were gathered in the hallway of a hotel, standing around, talking & catching up outside of the hotel rooms, as a strung out Ozzy sauntered through the hallway all drunken & saw his former bandmates Brad Gillis & Rudy Sarzo chatting it up in the hallway. Ozzy came up yelling & angry, & started hollering at Rudy. As Rudy gets up to head back to his hotel, Ozzy sucker & punched Rudy, right in front of Brad Gillis and all the rockstars gathered in the hallway, to the embarrassment of Rudy, who clearly hates to have relive the victimization of that moment, during interviews. I always wonder what Brad Gillis thought of the incident, since Brad always takes the high road whenever discussing Ozzy. Brad’s stint with Ozzy was invariably, on several levels, uncomfortable enough to leave the big arena’s with Ozzy for the clubs with his little known band at the time. There was some name, which I can’t quite recall, which Tony Iommi had for Ozzy’s go to sneaky headbutt move, that Ozzy victimized Don Costa with at the U.S. fest, that was referred to as the Birmingham…? (something or other?)…🗣️👂🏼💥😖
I was at the American Rock Festival in Kalamazoo! That was one of the best shows ever. Jake tore it up. Ratt was new and really good. Triumph was actually the best on the bill, they were just incredible. I had no idea that had happened after the concert. What a sh*t move!
I don’t know why but i pictured ozzy as darth vader pleading with Darth Sidious (sharon) when i heard “ I can’t do this anymore” - “NO. We are not stopping now”. 😂
I am only 10 minutes in, but I now understand that Ozzy was a mess, Sharon lies to him, everyone in the business sucks. I absolutely believe Rhoads death devastated him. Without question. I will always like Ozzy, even though there's a lot of evidence not to, I will always like him. Part 2 Brad Gillis's British accent isn't too bad. He doesn't sound Australian, which is what every American sounds like when they think they're speaking with a British accent. He's not perfect, but he's got things right.
Tommy Aldridge's playing on 'Speak of the Devil' is some of my favorite 'old-school' drumming. His double-bass work on 'The Wizard' was masterful - kept a great groove - then exploded at all the right moments.
Seen black sabbath in 1979 spokane wa. with a young startup band called van halen. the crowd was only 6000 in a venue that held 10,000 . It pissed off ozzy that it wasn't sold out and they played 5 fucking songs and left with no encore. We booed the shit out of black sabbath and hit the base drum with a whiskey bottle. Ozzy was blotto, overweight and wearing a one piece mumu, packing around a fifth of jack daniels and disappearing behind his 8' tall speakers for either coke or heroin. So don't be telling me ozzy didn't drink on gigs. Van Halen kicked ass on the other hand and gave their encore with energy and aplomb
Brad Gillis has way too much self respect and talent to put up with that kind of bs for very long. And let’s face it. In a way he renewed/saved/prolonged Ozzy’s career. Every rock musician I knew was listening to that album after it came out, mainly because of Gillis’s “Sabbath on ‘80s steroids” performance. I was touring with a band at that time and we had this huge boom box, and we’d listen to that tape over and over again, hanging the boom box out the window of our van, we’d blast Symptom of the Universe every time we passed through a small town. Man, we laughed so hard watching the locals reaction! Brad’s guitar tone with two Mesa Boogie MKIIs in stereo was a revelation at that time. Of course, that trio, Gillis, Sarzo and Aldridge with no overdubs and with such a short time together, made one of the heaviest trio recordings up to that point. I never bought another Ozzy album after that. Just the first three, (the two with Randy and the live one with Brad). And about the engineer saying that Rudy was not a “particularly accomplished bass player” that’s a total rubbish statement. That album built Rudy’s reputation. Not Quiet Riot, not Whitesnake. It was his playing on Speak of the Devil that caught everyone’s attention. The triplets (sextuplets really) that he played on War Pigs during the guitar solo, was so powerful and fluid for a rock player at that time. Everyone knows Rudy is a great rock bassist and it all started with that album. Btw, great video!
I think Brad realizes why Randy wanted out.... Rudy was not the musician Randy was, ans I think Randy would help Rudy. People have said Randy was just as good on bass as he was on guitar. NO Metal Health was really builty on Randy and being connected to the band as a founder he paved that success in a way
Kudos, man. Great content. Ozzy was all about hit and miss, or should I say mess. It's hard to believe his career was nonetheless a success ... thanks guitar heroes!
The Prince of Darkness teams up with the Devil's Daughter and we are shocked that there is poison in the air! In her piss poor book Sharon describes Brad as being in a pop band. Love Brad Gillis, he has his own thing going on and he makes my top 5 guitarists of all time list. He is a nice guy too, this I know because he shared his pizza with me backstage at a Night Ranger show in London. Night Ranger - Now there is a cool band.
Bait and switch. Sharon promised him 2000 lbs a week and then when he arrives, no it’s $200 a week. He said Ive already been paid 2000. Well we aren’t paying you for 10 weeks then. lol. Did I hear this correctly in this vid ? Damn. That’s brutal. I play guitar and always wished I could have gotten a gig like that. In hindsight, the guitar players were paid very little and had zero job security.
Some celebrities have a reputation for being jerks or being hard to work with, but I suspect in many cases the reputation is undeserved. In Ozzy's case however there's absolutely no doubt that he and his wife were two of the most rotten people in show business.
@@IronMetal The buck actually stops with Ozzy. There's nothing without him, and he allowed that kind of environment. And I tend to think he in fact is a POS just like his wife.
Norman doesn't know what the eff he's talking about. Sarzo's playing has always been very good to my ears. I've heard several live bootleg recordings with Sarzo and he sounded fantastic.
After the untimely passing of Randy the band should have stopped touring. I know "the show must go on" but Ozzie was never a stable person to begin with. The shock took Ozzie's mental status to a whole new level. He wasn't looking for a replacement he was looking for Randy himself. I mean I do feel sorry for him. Losing your best friend is not an easy task. It takes it's toll. I don't know how any guitarist could have handled the insanity or the pressure. Replacing Randy were huge shoes to fill.
It's been a while but I watched that live show that Brad played on and Ozzy does not look at that side of the stage, and when Brad does not pull off the rising sound/bar effect at the end of Over the Mountain and he was visibly angry. (He has a thing he did when he stood tall with his arms spread). He had a strict manager, a heartless slave driver.
his best friend? punching him..... Randy never viewed Ozzy that way. As people say like Rudy Sarzo they needed to carry on as Ozzy was going to drink himself to death. you can never replace someone like Randy
They let John Sykes get away? Why? Did he expect to be paid? I lived through all this and it just goes to remind one what idiots those two are. They deserve each other.
I'm so glad they didn't get Sykes in the band. They would have screwed him over just like Jake was. Plus Sykes went on to make some badass music with Whitesnake & Blue Murder!
@@leftygtrplr6184 My late husband played that first Blue Murder record about a thousand times. Good thing I was a fan from back in the Tygers of Pan Tang days. And you're right. That Sharon. What a piece of work. But then, without her, Ozzy would be dead, so...I guess it's a trade off.
@@leftygtrplr6184 Just to show how smart Sykes really was, dude was a star and he knew of his worth... Coverdale tried to pull the same shit and Sykes bounced.
Brad Gillis is WAY too nice of a guy to be dealing with Ozzy and Sauron...errr..Sharon
Ozzy too.
Like Rudy said in his book Randy had a new style totally unique.Speak of the Devil is a good album but it's very doctored up.Those who are saying Brad nailed Randys style are mistaken.Brad done good but he wasn't close to Randy get real.Brad unfortunately was booed.Much respect to him he was in a tough situation.Brads a good player good dude but Ozzy would have made sure he kept him if was on Randy's level Brad was given Randys pedal board and sold it a few years later
@electriccreamman1374 you know nothing about guitar styles or playing
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Sharon seems like a shrewd leach like her dad
After her horrid treatment of Jake E. Lee and Bob Daisley, it doesn't come as a shock that Sharon has treated others despicably.
She learned from the best at being the worst - Her Daddy , Don Arden
She is definitely the C word but Ozzy is just as guilty
and lee keerslake
Growing up, Ozzy couldn't do any wrong. The more I watch these videos , the more I hate Sharon and dislike Ozzy.
@@NJDVLS9500 ME TOO!!
Same here, except I work in treatment and know personally what too much of several substances can do and ill go one further and say that demons sometimes aren't just a figure of speech. I lost respect for Sharon about 10 or 15 years ago when i learned they redid Blizzard and Diary to get out of paying royalties for the playing, though I wasn't aware Ozzy didn't write shit. Sarzo has my respect too as does Jake, Aldridge, etc.
@generalrodcocker1018maybe Ozzy had the pick of the most attractive woman in Sabbath's hayday. By the time he met Sharon he was a degenerate alcoholic. He was passed the crazy booze fuelled rock n roll stage and was in the sh:ting the bed & p:ssing blood stage.
Sharon was basically his psychiatric nurse.
Sharon is a great example of someone who is never wrong because everyone else is , screws people that have been loyal and royally screws up one thing but blames everyone else.
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Sharon's dad was Don Arden, who was notorious for cheating and threatening bands, ruining the Small Faces after they fired him for embezzlement. Supposedly, threatening Jimmy Page gangster style as well. It's probably why Page wanted the imposing Peter Grant to manage LZ.
John Sykes had 'unrealistic demands' like getting paid and getting songwriting credits.
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Exactly !
Sarcasm .
Sykes in Ozzy would have been really interesting.
@@shaunclifton5281right? How dare he want paid? The nerve..😅😅
Now we all know how Sharon and Ozzy got so damned rich, screwing the band out of money. Shameful and pathetic!
they are lowlifes
That's exactly what I was thinking 👏 nicely said
Ozzy was well on his way long before that!
Success doesn't come from being the mister nice guy in the music industry.
@kkoch666 I get what you're saying - but to degrade band members is messed up - plus paying them pennies compared to what Sharon makes with Ozzy - talent doesn't come cheep my friend
The more I hear about Sharon the more i dislike her
The music industry is pretty cut throat. Being mister nice guy isn't going to get you very far.
Well you know what they say.
"You can lead a horse to water but Sharron Osborne is a cnut."
She isn't a good person.
@@richevans609 Both of them are the same, evil.
Also Brad never ever said anything negative publicly to disparage Ozzy or Sharon. I’m a huge Gillis fan. Ive seen almost every interview he’s done on his time with Ozzy. I’m sure he’s got tons of stories. He’s told a few but never spoke out of school about anything that he probably could of. Brad was and is a well rounded professional with integrity
I saw Gillis, Pat Thrall and David Meneketti waaay back in the day playing in large clubs around the Bay Area.
@@mkay1957 Brad was playing with the Alameda Allstars while NR was trying to get signed and before Brad joined Ozzy. Pat Thralls brother Preston knew Tommy Aldridge who was Ozzy drummer when Randy died. Preston told Tommy about Brad and Tommy told Sharon and Ozzy
Brad was likely paid a nice outgoing paycheck. Maybe he saw and took pictures of Sharon's actual alien lizard face without her mask.
@@careful...Icarus lol
Saw Night Ranger on the Seven Wishes tour with Cheap Trick. Brad Gillis signed my ticket after the concert next to the tour buses Some stoner kid asked him " hey, what was it like to play with Ozzy? Brad said "it was ok, for a while" Right after that someone came up behind me and almost knocked me over. The guy got up on the steps of the bus, turned around and smiled at me cause he knew he really almost knocked me over. It was Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick
Great story! I saw the same tour in Portland Me. with Starship. They were at the top of their game. Great harmonies, two great guitarists and a lot of great songs. It may be considered musical heresy to some but I'm sure I would prefer that show over Ozzie any day of the week.
@@togue777No, you are right about that.
@@togue777 I saw that Night Ranger-Starship tour in upstate NY. I love Night Ranger, but Starship was, well, in the We Built This City era ugh. But Gillis-Watson guitar team was phenomenal, and Jack Blades such a monster, just a great band. I met Brad at a party about 20 years ago, nice guy.
Brad Gillis created one of the best live albums of all time. His guitar tone and style on Speak of the Devil will never be matched. I hope Ozzy realizes this.
Best tone sound 👍 RR sucks though
Exactly!
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then we heard Tribute.....which is nowhere near Randy's best show but still elite
@@Sabbath-f9k RR sucks? his tone? His tone is so unique and awesome, imagine those albums sounding with a different tone.
Randy had a great tone.
For us older rockers, your interviews and information is super interesting.
Really well done. Thank you
Thank you, Christopher!
What Gillis pulled off is legend ! Total pro !
George Lynch auditioned for Ozzy and was given the gig over Jake E. Lee, initially. George left his day job & his children and did sound checks and rehearsals for 2 months, until Sharon told him at the last minute, he was out. George was better off out of that toxic environment, and wasn’t paid for any of his work. George Lynch seems like a down to earth, level headed guy, and deserved better, kudos to him.
I seen a video last week of him explaining it (might have been this channel)
I heard a little different take. George himself said in an interview that Jake got the gig over him because George had cut his hair at the time of the audition since he had to work a day job delivering beer or something along those lines. Jake wasn't cheaper, Sharon & Ozzy just screwed him out of royalties and writing credits.
@@leftygtrplr6184 Yes I remember,he worked delivering for a liquor store
@@leftygtrplr6184Really stupid to fire someone over a haircut.... George was talented and had the right attitude.
@@ryanjacobson2508 But Jake E Lee had " the look" though that Sharon liked
Ozzy was a drunken ass and Sharon empowered him to do as he pleased as they screwed over musicians constantly.
Sharon really is a terrible human being.
Doesn't Sharon have a uncle that was a big wig I'm the music industry? I think she's a gold digger!
Typical jewess
Ozz and Scary Sharon owe everything to Daisley, Rhoads and Kerslake 🙏 Was sobering to read in Daisley’s book that at the time of his death Randy had not seen a penny of royalties from his now iconic work on those first 2 records. He was still basically a hired gun earning $500 a week. He had also been in arguments and scuffles with Ozzy over not wanting to do a live record of Sabbath covers to satisfy a commitment to Jet Records. Keep this in mind when you see Ozz and Sharon speak glowingly of him. They viewed Randy as a talented hired hand at the time of his death.
Makes Sharon's comment that "Nobody leaves Ozzy" sound pretty sinister given RR had talked about leaving...🤔
right they are lowlife thieves. That is no correct, Randy had started seeing royalties and rumor has it he was about to buy a home with girlfriend, Jodi. Bob got ripped off. RHoads family did take the Osbournes to court.
They did not view him as a hired hand on any stretch they knew he was a co founder of the band, Sharon did offer Randy a bigger payout than Bob and Lee, but Randy having too much integrity turned it down.
@@a_planet_on_fire IMO, Ozzy's song "Little Dolls" ended up being about Randy. I believe Randy is dead because someone put a black magick curse on him. Not necessarily from the Ozzy camp, but another one that had a guitar player that was making bizarre statements about Randy. Someone who feared Randy being in the spotlight
@@BeyondOurSolarSystem I agree with you about this. Either that or the pilot guy told "S_ome-O_ne" he was gonna do something crazy.
You sound like you have someone specific in mind... And a name just occurred to me.
@@a_planet_on_fire I believe Randy was targeted by two camps. Ozzy, for one. It’s been coming out lately that Ozzy used to bully, haze and harass Randy because he didn’t want to do the Speak of the Devil album. Allegedly Ozzy would be more horrific towards Randy while he was drunk.
IMO, Ozzy, in a drunken fit of rage, placed a hex on Randy.
I also believe, this other guitar player, who was making statements that “he taught Randy everything he knows” and that “Randy copied everything he did”, also placed a hex on Randy.
This band did not steep their music and albums in the occult like Ozzy did. But it was known that they practiced witchcraft.
I believe this happens more often than people realize. Musicians dying in some horrific accident because of hexes. Not just known musicians, but unknown musicians. There are a lot of musicians from local bands dying in freak car accidents and alleged suicides all the time, that we never hear about, because they're unknown..
Look at Lynyrd Skynyrd. Their singer got into a beef with Neil Young. Boom, bizarre plane crash killing the singer and others.
Kenneth Anger tapped Jimmy Page to do the music for his movie “Lucifer Rising”. They got into a beef, and Kenneth Anger put a hex on Jimmy, that ended up killing people around Jimmy instead.
Alice Cooper is also rumored to putting hexes on people who angered him.
Dave Mustaine was bragging about placing a hex on someone, and it happened the way he wanted it, a car accident affecting their legs.
Was he referring to Cliff Burton, or someone else?
Jayne Mansfield solicited Anton Lavey to put a curse on her ex-husband. When Jayne told Anton she was taking a cross-country trip to Florida with her ex-husband, Anton warned her not to go with him. Look how that ended up for her.
Back to Randy. Why would he go up in that plane, after the pilot was already hot dogging it, when Randy was afraid of flying? The spirits took away his fear of flying perhaps? Gave Randy a spiritual high about going on that plane ride?
Randy was not known to be a practitioner of the occult. However, it is a fact, that if you don’t practice the craft, and you associate with people who do, you are more likely to have something like this successfully done to you.
Part of the reason why Randy wanted to leave the band was because of all the occult things going on with the Ozzy band.
The baptizing the audience with having meat tossed onto them, the midgets running around the stage, and black magic witches showing up backstage with animals they sacrificed to Ozzy. Randy hated all those things, and was one of the biggest reasons why he was leaving Ozzy.
Ironically, Randy was a fan of Alice Cooper.
Ozzy and Sharon are horrible people. When I wear an Ozzy shirt it's for the other guys in the band.
@@ms.felonystrutter2472 They are not even musicians. Ozzy can barely sing, and just because Sharon is radio controling him backstage. With her remote control goldiging bitchcraft. They both had zero respect for their musicians. Musical envy. The more the talent, the more the hatry. You had to die like Randy to be somehow respected. Just that. They treated everyone like shit.
I guess the totally unreasonable personal terms John Sykes' manager presented were that he would be paid fairly and given proper writing credits.
He would have been a perfect fit. An amazing guitarist, vocalist, and writer.
Brad Gillis is one of the most underrated guitar players, and that’s a crime.
he is , but he did not write any songs for Ozzy
Sharon is so unbelievable; in each new story - she does or says something worse than before - that says a ton about Ozzy... much of the time it sounds like he was sober enough to know good from evil.
Ozzy just became her pet monkey. No dignity
Ozzy is just as bad. He hides behind Sharon and his lovable goof BS but backs up everything she does
"Tommy Aldridge on drums, Don Costa on bass, Lindsay Bridgwater on keyboards, and Ozzy Osburne on drugs and alcohol..."
Oh that’s such a good comment and yet so true. That awful reality show they had showed him in a right mess incapable of speech and people cheer it on
Sharon on the cash register
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Speak of the Devil...and Sharon appears!
I used to have some sort of respect for Ozzy and his music, but finding out the behind the scenes, he didn't contribute squat except drug and alcohol drama. I am disgusted at how they treated their band members.
Ditto. Especially that Sharon
@@benallmark9671 Sadly, there are many "sharons" in this world.
@@RemoWilliams-jg4yb too many
@@RemoWilliams-jg4yb I would get disgusted when Sharon was on the show and talking people treated bad and bullies. My gosh, could you treat anyone worse? They were her servants in her eyes and since she oaid them they owe her. She was and is a rat
he is a lowlife POS who has greatly exaggerrated his contributions
I've said it before and I'll say it again and again. Ozzy wouldn't be anything without the amazing musicians he had playing for him over the years. When nobody was around him he just wasted away in his hotel room drinking and doing drugs.
@@j.t.cooper2963 Jake E Lee deserves money and a medal
100%
Night Ranger was one of my favorite bands when I was in high school back in the day. Brad Gillis is a phenomenal guitar player. Ozzy didn't realize what he really had at the time. Unbelievable.
Well Brad has never been the main writer for night Ranger so maybe not....Jake is pretty awesome and Zakk too
BTW, the first show with Bernie Torme was April 1st 1982. I was there. It was at Stabler Arena in Bethlehem Pa. UFO opened the show. The 2nd show was in Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia show wasn’t until April 26th and Brad Gillis played that night.
I always thought Jake E Lee got treated badly but now I see evil Sharon treated everyone badly! I can only imagine Zakk Wylde was successful in this dysfunctional Addams Family because he was able to balance it with his own band, Black Label Society. Zakk doesn't have the classical sensibility that Rhodes had...
I guess by the time he joined, Ozzie was done grieving. I still feel Jake E Lee's stage presence was perfect for this music.
The Osbournes were crappy to many musicians Jake, Bob, Lee and brad...Don costa...they are lowlifes
Drinking is no excuse . Brad is a really great guy and guitar player . Randy was going to leave Ozzie . Wish he had lived to do so . Everyone who crosses paths with the Osbornes comes up short .
it isn’t but at least it made sense. Whereas Sharon is just a monster who kept the same cycle of abuse going that her father started
Jake e Lee is such a trooper
Jake was the man. My favorite ozzy gun.
@@mikelane2866 No doubt about that. Sharon was greedy and dark hearted
This is the Only Channel on You Tube I could listen to for Hours. This Guy has a great voice, he gets all the dirt on everything.
The channel truly is an indispensable source of music history. Wonderful people who worked in a dog eat dog industry.
Wow, thank you, Matt! That made my day better.
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Ozzy didn't and doesn't deserve respect or loyalty.
For Brad to step in like that with just a few days rehearsal speaks volumes to me of his talent. he was playing sabbath and Randy's shit and listen to the damn album its bloody brilliant. Brad never got the recognition he deserves. Having to put up with all that crap and still maintained a professional attitude was just amazing on Brads Part. he also played Randy very very well. cudos to Gillis he is up there with the best of them.
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Narrator as Sarzo: "I'm leaving to join Quiet Riot. But I am available for the UK gigs"
as Sharon "Nobody leaves Ozzy!!!"
as Gillis: "I left Ozzy after Rudy Sarzo left to join Quiet Riot"
(Sharon, somewhere, screaming while abusing an employee) "NOBODY LEAVES OZZY!!!"
Every new story that comes out, the more I dislike Ozzy. the veil has been lifted, that's for sure.
he is a lowlife, people give him a free pas because he is a crazy rock star, he was not a good guy
The veil was lifted back in the 80s for those paying attention.
Lol
@@JB-lp9xrwhy are you being a smart ass? How would even hardcore fans be privy to inside information back then? The internet lifted the veil.
Back in the day rock stars could hide most fans only seen the full blast entertainment side, we all figured he was in a castle creeping around or sitting in that high backed throne chomping on bats while his lust fueled harem crawled around under his feet ,.. love to kno the number of ozzy knuckle tattoos existed
I love the Speak of the Devil album, Brad's guitar tone is phenomenal. I really wish they would re-release it and do a proper release of the Speak of the Devil concert video but we all know that will never happen. :(
I wished they remastered his guitar solo. The versions in TH-cam are from vhs and they do not I t sound that great..
Excellent journalism and mini-documentary!
Keep 'em comin'!
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I read somewhere Brad never listened to the live speak of the devil recordings.He said he felt he played bad on it.Even though he is shredding to the fullest...And don't forget Randy had planned to leave Ozzy as well to make a couple of his own records.
You sir are a fucking legend. I love you man!
Hope you’re well Hank 🤘🏼
I went from rocker to jazz snob in the 80s when all this was happening. I never got thru a Night Ranger tune as I didnt care for the style and would change radio stations before the guitar solos. I relistened to Brad G 40 years later and him trading solos with Jeff W on "dont tell me love me" is some of the best great rock guitar soloing out there. Brad is a beast, I just didnt find it out til recently....when I gave his music a chance. I dont care that he's not Randy, he's still just as talented in his own right and I completely overlooked how good he was. Ozzy (because of Sharon) sh-ts on everybody but Brad took it like trooper. Kudos to him. Seems like a great guy too
dont blame her ......he is the brand name ...anyone with integrity would stop any of it happening
He loves to have a convenient henchman (woman )
@@TheMichaelseymour TLDR he is what we used to say "p-ssywhipped." Those are the cliffs notes. I blame Ozzy for not being a man and standing up to and/or divorcing the beyotch. I get what your saying but at the end of the day Ozzy was and is a coward who is afraid of his own wife. . I also agree with you that he is too scared to fire his own band members so Medusa from hell does the dirty work for him. Excellent point. Makes both of them huge POS's in my mind. And Im a Black Sabbath fan so it this whole thing "humanizes' this rock star facade that so many broken musicians try to keep up.
When he is strung out and wasted, Ozzy turns into a person that no one wants to hang out with. He (and Sharon) are biting the hands that are trying to help.
Ozzy punched Randy in the face. Lol
@@TheMichaelseymourdon't blame her😂😂😂😂😂😂
The unreasonable demands made by John Sykes was that he probably actually wanted paid.
What an utter bastard!
the more i hear of osbourne - the more i dislike him
Same here. I can't stand him or his hag anymore.
You are looking at the true face if Witchcraft.
Everyone who practices witchcraft are exactly like these people.
The deeper they get into it, the more vicious & narcissistic they become.
That show businessman
Same here. I don't even listen to his music anymore, except for the original Black Sabbath songs that he didn't write anyway.
@@josphfiumara9526 No....in any field - you must have ethics and principles
I interviewed Brad and he was pretty candid about his time with Ozzy. Rudy on the other hand will not speak a word about re-recordings, royalties, pay etc because he still runs in the same circles with those two and basically acknowledges it off camera but doesn't want to be a blabbermouth headline. He was happy for the opportunities it has given him especially from where he came from and he's still able to making a living off some of the notoriety from being with Oz
2000 a week to 200 a week. I would have said piss off
Nah you wouldn't, not if you were a musician, back at that time. You would be with one of rock's biggest names, there would have been all sorts of mischief, you'd have sucked it up. It's only today that people think about money, have realised it's the music BUSINESS, and without money and contracts and lawyers etc, you will get fucked. The 80s were just about being a rock star, chicks and blow.
How did Randy Rhodes get mixed up with this bunch of weirdos!?
I think Dana strum connected him with the Ozzy audition.
He needed a Job
His mum said he should give it a go.
@@a_planet_on_fire you are correct, Dana Strum...and then finally Randy's mom convinced him
Rhoads
Ozzy is easily one of the most over rated musicians ever, he had fantastic musicians who he ripped off and that witch made sure he was credited for. Bob Daisley was the force who wrote the first 2 Blizzard albums
Brad Gillis was awesome. Probably the most underrated guitar player who ever played.
Brad is one of the best rock guitarists ever. So many incredible players showed up in the early 1980's. What a musically inspiring time it was.
i think rik emmitt is the most underrated
@@DamienFaust-m4c I wouldn't argue against that. Saw Rik live in the 80's, he is an excellent player. Brad and Rik are both great with little recognition for it.
ya no.....he is good.
@@DamienFaust-m4c Rik Emmettt is an absolute A leaguer, Jake E lee...
Rik Emmett said the best band he ever saw was Blizzard of ozz at Port Vale..
Sharon is pure evil
Great video. No click bait, no BS (and I don’t mean Black Sabbath), great story telling, real graphics and clips. Thank you.
Abusing Brad Gillis? People who behave like that deserves nothing.
Rudy Sarzo’s memoirs is probably the best source for info about this era of Ozzy
Brad Gillis was so freaking good on Speak of the Devil. I am happy for him that he got out of the Ozzy and the Queen of Ozempic's orbit when he did. Brad's abilities are undeniable, his tone was monstrously huge, and he was exactly the right guy for the time. Taking Iommi's riffs and solos and making them his own was a jaw dropping accomplishment.
Speak of the Devil...and Sharon appears!
Say her name three times in the bathroom mirror.
Man this was a great listen. And how about Sharon ripping off Bernie? Very “on brand” of her.
Oy Vey
I don't know Brad Gillis so much but he seems to be such a nice guy...
Brad definitely is a guy who comes across well...met him at a Bay Area club once, he would check out local bands
I saw Night Ranger open for Kiss in 1983, Brad and Tom Watson are talented guitarists. Jack Blades is a solid bassist and singer with a lot of energy as a front man back then. The whole band was pretty damn good. I wasn't the biggest Kiss fan around and Ace had recently departed, so these guys helped make the show worth the price of admission for me.
Ozzy & Sharon are the Rock'n'roll equivalent of the bacteria that grows in urinal fungus.
The music industry isn't a nice guy industry.
jesus, so you belive in all these accusations ?
its hard to be jealous
Maybe its just because im such a huge Ozzy fan but I want to believe it was Sharon not Ozzy and her influence over him made it seem that he was also urinal fungus
@@philipalexander-v3lHa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
It's amazing to have purchased this double "live" album 40 years ago and hearing this incredible back story today. Thanks for the ride. That was fun.
I think a lot of the fans knew most of this, the Robert Sarzo thinking he saw Randy was interesting and new
My favorite OZZY guitarist was Jake E Lee I thought Jake was even better than Rhodes but I wasn’t into OZZY when Rhodes was in the band but I did see Jake with OZZY and I was standing at the front of the stage and watching Jake play was just mesmerizing and I was hooked after that and maybe if I had seen Randy that way it would of been the same as seeing Jake.
@@Bwiser63 Jake all the way.
I got to see Jake play with Badlands in a small club in So Cal called The Bachannal. I was completely blown away. I can't put him over Randy just as I couldn't put Randy over Jake. Both great guitarists, and uniquely badass in their own way.
I had tickets for the Madison Square Garden show and saw Bernie Torme, who was great with Gillan, but sadly Bernie was not up to the task with Ozzy. Very different playing styles. Luckily I got to see Randy twice on the Blizzard tour. Even got to meet him at a record signing. RIP RR.
Sharon was pretty much a cheat then i guess? ...heard she did it to Jake too ...a major head-lining act, offering $200 a week to someone trying to help you save your music career is such a slap in the face
$200 a week is like $5 an hour. I believe minimum wage was $3.35 at the time. An insult for sure.
@@mikethacker8558Lol! I was making 50 bucks a week more when I was in the army then! What a rip-off!
How this man survived and lived to have a reality show of a life void of reality is a testament to the events in life are so random, and without reason.
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Ozzy's best post Sabbath recording was "Speak of the Devil" which featured Brad Gillis. This live recording features some of the best metal guitar work you will ever hear. Tom Morello raves about this album and never hesitates to say how Gillis' work on this recording influenced his guitar playing.
Gillis was spectacular and Night Ranger was excellent. Ozzy was grieving and already a drugged out & alcoholic mess and just directed his sadness at Brad. Not an acceptable excuse, but that's likely the reason. Brad filled in amazingly.
I never hear anything good or positive about the osbourne's
Sharon didn't fall far enough from the tree
200 pounds, not 2000? I would've told Sharon to stick it.
Leave it to Sharon to lower the pay 90%. That tracks with what they were paying Jake E. Lee when he first joined.
200 dollars (they were in the US) back then, the pound was worth $2
This was the best 28 minutes of my day. Thanks! 🤟
Ozzy "I cant do this anymore"
Shaorn "we arent stopping now"
Translation. She's a gold digger who married him for money and she's gonna make sure that gravy train isn't going to end.
No wonder everybody hates her. And Ozzy is still too stupid to see it....or he doesnt want to.
Sad.
Ol’ Scratch is an unreliable negotiator
I LOVE these stories! Utterly fascinating. An incredibly difficult situation that brought the best out of some people while others coped in their own ways. The professionalism and empathy impressed me. Somebody like Ozzy's stature could really get anybody he wanted but still face an up hill battle.
first time I have heard someone say Sarzo is a bad bassist. He might not be Flea or John Entwistle, but he's more than good enough for that genre...
I never thought much of him. Nothing more than any average player at best. Daisley was better.
@@stevenbeall9637They’re different. They came from different cultures and periods. Dailey’s playing on Rainbow’s Gates of Babylon put so much power and feel into that song. (he kinda got that vibe from Glenn Hughes, but that’s cool). On the other hand, Rudy’s playing on Speak of the Devil, a one take performance and recording, is full of power and finesse. The triplets on War Pigs during the solo being one example. There were a lot of bassist back then (and today), that had no chance of pulling that off. One’s very British and the other very American.
I love Rudy.❤
Guy on the internet doesn't think highly of him 😂😂😂@@stevenbeall9637
$200 a week to play lead with a headlining band is beyond insulting. You could make more than that in any shithole factory in those days. Flipping burgers for minimum wage in 1982 would get you $134 a week, FFS.
Adjusted for inflation $200 was about $651 today, not great but an unknown sideman wanting to make a name in the business, no bills, per diem to eat, free room and board. Many of these great guitarists ended up finding great success as musicians. Touring for 8 months, Brad made about $16k adjusted for inflation in that time plus he gained a ton of experience once his band hit it big!
@@RichardGutierrezRG Brad had a chance to fill in for a player he was a fan of, he liked the music, It was a great opportunity but he knew it was a circus he did not want to be a part for the long run.
@@RichardGutierrezRG LOL all you're saying is that the best musicians in the country should be paid roughly what a regular slob makes packaging widgets in a factory, in hopes of maybe one day making it big. While the Boss keeps the vast majority of the cash rolling in hand over fist.
Here's an idea, let the Ozzy's of the world play their own guitars, bass, keys and drums, like a busker on the street. See how much they rake in then.
200 a week salary for being a member of Ozzy's band? You can make more than that panhandling with a guitar in Nashville in a day. Back then, of course I'm not talking about todays numbers. Today you could probably make 400 a day panhandling in Nashville.
Sharon is probably one of the dirtiest businessmen in music history… poor Ozzy was probably clueless
You know what she did to bob daisley ? She stripped out his and Tommy 's tracks from Diary because they wouldn't agree to Ozzy taking ALL the writing credits. That's why those songs have different drum & bass .
@@KanakaHaoleThe original tracks with Bob and Lee have been restored on all copies sold since 2011.
Wendy dio is nice competition. It is so f ed that he did not get paid royalties for holy diver.
Fantastic recap …Best rock music channel on you tube
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Gillis was great on that record.
This is great history. The best music channel on TH-cam
Yeah, this guy who does the full in bloom… He just has that voice. Very knowledgeable and insightful.
Thank you, Motley Fan!
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@@fullinbloom What about me bro? 😂… Anyway getting juiced up for the big Van Halen tribute band tonight… Unchained!!! Love your stuff brother
@@michaelpalermo354 The horns were for you. Somehow, it didn't tag your username. You're very much appreciated, Michael. Enjoy the show!
It's sad to say but Ozzy and Sharon are terrible people. Removing the original bass and drum track and having them re- recorded by other players just to avoid paying the original players their royalties. And Ozzy has never written and single note or lyric. Only how he would sing it. And there too much more to mention.
Never heard that. Who wrote the lyrics?
@@airgunfun4248 Geezer in Sabbath. Daisley in the early Ozzy days, then "probably" Jeff/Zackery Wielandt (Zakk Wylde). Who knows now.
@@airgunfun4248 Geezer Butler wrote the lyrics in Sabbath, Bob Daisley wrote on the first three Ozzy albums. Even after he was fired they asked him to come back to write lyrics and I think they screwed him out of royalties on that album. But the only thing Ozzy really writes is the melody of other peoples lyrics. There's a lot of videos/ interviews about all this here on TH-cam .
@@brianlittle9202 wow ok thanks guys
Crazy how Brad Gillis was on scene & had a front row, up close view, the night that Ozzy attacked Rudy Sarzo, in a hotel hallway, after Rudy had quit Ozzy to rejoin Quit Riot & Brad had left Ozzy for Night Ranger. In Ozzy’s vs Rudy incident, that transpired after the huge American Rock Festival heavy metal show, that had a crowd of 350K+ in Kalamazoo, MI, at the Timber Ridge Ski Area, featuring the heavy metal bands Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot, Night Ranger, Ratt, Accept, Motley Crue, and Triumph. After that 1984 show, a bunch of the band members that played the concert, were gathered in the hallway of a hotel, standing around, talking & catching up outside of the hotel rooms, as a strung out Ozzy sauntered through the hallway all drunken & saw his former bandmates Brad Gillis & Rudy Sarzo chatting it up in the hallway. Ozzy came up yelling & angry, & started hollering at Rudy. As Rudy gets up to head back to his hotel, Ozzy sucker & punched Rudy, right in front of Brad Gillis and all the rockstars gathered in the hallway, to the embarrassment of Rudy, who clearly hates to have relive the victimization of that moment, during interviews. I always wonder what Brad Gillis thought of the incident, since Brad always takes the high road whenever discussing Ozzy. Brad’s stint with Ozzy was invariably, on several levels, uncomfortable enough to leave the big arena’s with Ozzy for the clubs with his little known band at the time. There was some name, which I can’t quite recall, which Tony Iommi had for Ozzy’s go to sneaky headbutt move, that Ozzy victimized Don Costa with at the U.S. fest, that was referred to as the Birmingham…? (something or other?)…🗣️👂🏼💥😖
Birmingham hand shake, I believe, or the Birmingham nod.
Birmingham kiss
I was at the American Rock Festival in Kalamazoo! That was one of the best shows ever. Jake tore it up. Ratt was new and really good. Triumph was actually the best on the bill, they were just incredible.
I had no idea that had happened after the concert. What a sh*t move!
I don’t know why but i pictured ozzy as darth vader pleading with Darth Sidious (sharon) when i heard “ I can’t do this anymore” - “NO. We are not stopping now”. 😂
Ozzy is a mean spirited dope.
He was treated much the same as Jason Newstead when he replaced Cliff Burton.
But James and lars are musicians, Ozzy is not...
James and Lars have now acknowledged that, and apologized to Jason.
One of the best episodes, Bloom. Well done!
part I was really good too but mostly on Randy
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.
I am only 10 minutes in, but I now understand that Ozzy was a mess, Sharon lies to him, everyone in the business sucks. I absolutely believe Rhoads death devastated him. Without question. I will always like Ozzy, even though there's a lot of evidence not to, I will always like him.
Part 2
Brad Gillis's British accent isn't too bad. He doesn't sound Australian, which is what every American sounds like when they think they're speaking with a British accent. He's not perfect, but he's got things right.
Ozzy and Sharon are two lowlifes..... Like the music he sang on, hate the person
Tommy Aldridge's playing on 'Speak of the Devil' is some of my favorite 'old-school' drumming. His double-bass work on 'The Wizard' was masterful - kept a great groove - then exploded at all the right moments.
Neil Peart has cited Tommy for his double bass work
It seems like Tommy invented a lot of hard rock double bass riff that became part of drumming vocabulary. Like the EVH of double bass.
Seen black sabbath in 1979 spokane wa. with a young startup band called van halen. the crowd was only 6000 in a venue that held 10,000 . It pissed off ozzy that it wasn't sold out and they played 5 fucking songs and left with no encore. We booed the shit out of black sabbath and hit the base drum with a whiskey bottle. Ozzy was blotto, overweight and wearing a one piece mumu, packing around a fifth of jack daniels and disappearing behind his 8' tall speakers for either coke or heroin. So don't be telling me ozzy didn't drink on gigs. Van Halen kicked ass on the other hand and gave their encore with energy and aplomb
Ozzy has a history of putting himself before the fans...
We had a similar experience in Denver, 1981? I was in high school.
Brad Gillis has way too much self respect and talent to put up with that kind of bs for very long. And let’s face it. In a way he renewed/saved/prolonged Ozzy’s career. Every rock musician I knew was listening to that album after it came out, mainly because of Gillis’s “Sabbath on ‘80s steroids” performance. I was touring with a band at that time and we had this huge boom box, and we’d listen to that tape over and over again, hanging the boom box out the window of our van, we’d blast Symptom of the Universe every time we passed through a small town. Man, we laughed so hard watching the locals reaction! Brad’s guitar tone with two Mesa Boogie MKIIs in stereo was a revelation at that time. Of course, that trio, Gillis, Sarzo and Aldridge with no overdubs and with such a short time together, made one of the heaviest trio recordings up to that point. I never bought another Ozzy album after that. Just the first three, (the two with Randy and the live one with Brad). And about the engineer saying that Rudy was not a “particularly accomplished bass player” that’s a total rubbish statement. That album built Rudy’s reputation. Not Quiet Riot, not Whitesnake. It was his playing on Speak of the Devil that caught everyone’s attention. The triplets (sextuplets really) that he played on War Pigs during the guitar solo, was so powerful and fluid for a rock player at that time. Everyone knows Rudy is a great rock bassist and it all started with that album. Btw, great video!
I think Brad realizes why Randy wanted out....
Rudy was not the musician Randy was, ans I think Randy would help Rudy. People have said Randy was just as good on bass as he was on guitar. NO Metal Health was really builty on Randy and being connected to the band as a founder he paved that success in a way
Ozzy Osbourne: The luckiest man in show business.
Speak of the Devil is my fav. "live" record of all time. Brad Gillis is such a balls to the wall player.
go listen to Tribute and then find like 5 bootlegs of Randy on youtube your view will change
Awesome Stories… Brad Gillis is an Amazing Guitar Player… 🎸
John Sykes Manager probably wanted writing credit.
Don't forget that Randy was leaving the band after that tour. He told them. One can easily see why.
I never heard about Randy leaving the band, how could I get proof of that comment ?
@@Joseph-eu6jp ozzy lost it when Randy told him.
Randy’s death is so fishy to me.
I wonder who got those royalties for Randy’s iconic guitar riffs after he died? 🤔
@@mikerobo2112You are the only person that I ever heard or read that has said that, I never heard that from rock media or musician's.
Ive heard it many times, and I believe it. Randy was likely on his way out @Joseph-eu6jp
Kudos, man. Great content. Ozzy was all about hit and miss, or should I say mess. It's hard to believe his career was nonetheless a success ... thanks guitar heroes!
The Prince of Darkness teams up with the Devil's Daughter and we are shocked that there is poison in the air! In her piss poor book Sharon describes Brad as being in a pop band.
Love Brad Gillis, he has his own thing going on and he makes my top 5 guitarists of all time list.
He is a nice guy too, this I know because he shared his pizza with me backstage at a Night Ranger show in London.
Night Ranger - Now there is a cool band.
I got to see Brad play with Ozzy on this tour it was awesome..
Ditto
Yes it was so disrespectful to Brad. Considering he saved ozzys ass. Rudy Sarzo explains this in his book Off the Rails.
I love that everyone is "LIVE" on Ozzy's Live Album, SOTD - except Oz. Effing clown.
Not everything is really live.. Guitars were done in studio too
Bait and switch. Sharon promised him 2000 lbs a week and then when he arrives, no it’s $200 a week. He said Ive already been paid 2000. Well we aren’t paying you for 10 weeks then. lol. Did I hear this correctly in this vid ? Damn. That’s brutal. I play guitar and always wished I could have gotten a gig like that. In hindsight, the guitar players were paid very little and had zero job security.
yeah 200 isnt anything. Damn scammers.
Some celebrities have a reputation for being jerks or being hard to work with, but I suspect in many cases the reputation is undeserved. In Ozzy's case however there's absolutely no doubt that he and his wife were two of the most rotten people in show business.
Sharon, mostly
Well, their flash-in-the-pan splash ended in relatively short time.
Who's ended shortly??@@nathanielovaughn2145
@@IronMetal The buck actually stops with Ozzy. There's nothing without him, and he allowed that kind of environment. And I tend to think he in fact is a POS just like his wife.
there is no doubt they are lowlifes....two of the worst
Pretty sure Rudy Sarzo never played a note on the first 3 Quiet Riot albums.
Full In Bloom is amazing. Thanks for all the great, priceless interviews and accounts.
Thank you, House of Dank!
❤❤❤ great job!
Ozzy is a bit of a knob on the quiet. Treated his guitarists so poorly
I was at the MSG concert April 5th 1982 with Bernie Torme on guitar, it was the 1st concert I ever went to.
Norman doesn't know what the eff he's talking about. Sarzo's playing has always been very good to my ears. I've heard several live bootleg recordings with Sarzo and he sounded fantastic.
After the untimely passing of Randy the band should have stopped touring. I know "the show must go on" but Ozzie was never a stable person to begin with. The shock took Ozzie's mental status to a whole new level. He wasn't looking for a replacement he was looking for Randy himself. I mean I do feel sorry for him. Losing your best friend is not an easy task. It takes it's toll. I don't know how any guitarist could have handled the insanity or the pressure. Replacing Randy were huge shoes to fill.
This ☝ is key
It's been a while but I watched that live show that Brad played on and Ozzy does not look at that side of the stage, and when Brad does not pull off the rising sound/bar effect at the end of Over the Mountain and he was visibly angry. (He has a thing he did when he stood tall with his arms spread). He had a strict manager, a heartless slave driver.
his best friend? punching him..... Randy never viewed Ozzy that way.
As people say like Rudy Sarzo they needed to carry on as Ozzy was going to drink himself to death. you can never replace someone like Randy
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As always, thank you, Rick! 🤘🤘🤘🤘
They let John Sykes get away? Why? Did he expect to be paid? I lived through all this and it just goes to remind one what idiots those two are. They deserve each other.
I'm so glad they didn't get Sykes in the band. They would have screwed him over just like Jake was. Plus Sykes went on to make some badass music with Whitesnake & Blue Murder!
@@leftygtrplr6184 My late husband played that first Blue Murder record about a thousand times. Good thing I was a fan from back in the Tygers of Pan Tang days. And you're right. That Sharon. What a piece of work. But then, without her, Ozzy would be dead, so...I guess it's a trade off.
@@leftygtrplr6184 Just to show how smart Sykes really was, dude was a star and he knew of his worth... Coverdale tried to pull the same shit and Sykes bounced.