Max Norman on Ozzy's 'Blizzard of Ozz' - Inside the Album, Making of, Randy Rhoads, Interview
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- This is a full in bloom interview with producer/engineer Max Norman.
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Inside the Album - Ozzy Osbourne's Blizzard of Ozz. Max talks in-depth about the recording of Blizzard of Ozzy, working with Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads, Bob Daisley, Lee Kerslake, and Chris Tsangarides.
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Outro by FOOL OF FATE
#ozzyosbourne #randyrhoads #ozzy #blacksabbath #sharonosbourne
Daisley is my favorite bassist. Underrated phenomenal bassist and lyricist.
+1 trillion.
Bob Dailey is amazing,he’s written,played and contributed to so many great songs. I just finished reading his book and he gives great insight behind the scenes in his time with Ozzy/Randy and Rainbow.
I don't think anyone rates him low
@@lanceross3633 what's the name of the book bro
@@angelripper_420 For Facts Sake
Lee & Bob were an incredible rythymn section. For years I thought that blazing intro to 'over the mountain' was Tommy Aldridge due to his photo in the LP sleeve (pre internet). Lee was a huge influence on my early days as an aspiring drummer even if I didnt know it was him until much later on.
RIP Lee Kerslake
Yeah, MOST people, (in particular - DRUMMERS,) THOUGHT what they WERE TOLD on the LP sleeve WAS, THAT it WAS INDEED Tommy Aldridge ON DRUMS (and Sarzo- bass) yet? It WAS ORIGINAL drummer LEE KERSLAKE! (with DAISLEY on bass). I DIDN'T found out the truth until 97 when my drum teacher at the time Kent Burnham told me WHAT THE TRUTH WAS. (As Kent was NO stranger to the Rock industry and knew/knows lotta the REAL DEAL behind scenes. Some of our near TOTAL lessons I had with him, we ended up just talking about the ol daze ,instead of practicing drums 😏🥁 LOL 😆.) Yep, TYPICAL SHARON runnin OZZY shyt goins on - Dragon leading the rat deal 🙄 And so yeah, it wasn't UNTIL poor Kerslake WAS dying, that the "Sharon/Ozzy camp" were like, nice enough to give the man HIS DAMN 🪙 GOLD RECORD AWARD!.... Yeah, GREAT music 🎼 but? HORRIBLE HORRIBLE people... "Ozzy and Sharon"😒. But yeah! LEE KERSLAKE! 🥁 I found THAT out in 97 (after believing the incorrect) SINCE those albums inceptions so... And yeah, then it was "me myself and I" that HAD to explain the truth to EVERYONE else as well, for YEARS, obviously until the net REALLY eventually took OVER. Read ALL the books, articles, talked to people in the know about the WHOLE 80s OZZY band thing (ESPECIALLY the RHOADS era), got the Ozzy Randy Tribute tattoo on my back....Ohhh yeah, quite the ol school "fan" right here 😎🤘🔥🥁🤘 ROCK the funk ON! 🤘
@@sea-dawg GLAD YOU, enjoyed it! 😏😁......😉👍 Can't help it if I am a hugely animated commentor/person, TRYING like, REALLY HARD to get my points across 🤷 48 y.o. and STILL, CAN/WILL talk that 80s METAL Music bands daze BS, ALL day and ALL night, IF I can...🤘🔥🎸🥁🎶😡🎉🍻🥃🍚🎼🎶😎🤘
what they tried to promote on Diary was shameful, Darth Hideous revealing her low class nature
Mr. Lee Kerslake & Randy Rhoads Rip Guys 😪
Correction: Right of passage, everyone gets fired by SHARON. Early days, everyone got ripped off and Ozzy got credits royalties for everything. Sharon!
correction: Darth Hideous ....
what Race is she? 🤔
Bob and Lee were phenomenal before they got to that album. Randy was really bummed over them being sacked for nothing.
He lobbed them a call saying he had nothing to do with it, which they knew. BOB got sacked because he backed Lee.
That was all Sharon's bitch ass. Same thing with Jake E Lee.
They probably asked Sharon for enough money to buy food.
Randy felt Bob was a bully, because he was intimidated by Randy's talent. Which is why Bob got fired and in typical Ozzy fashion he figured yeah let's just fire the drummer too. That's how Rudy Sarzo got hired. Of course Ozzy was the real bully and him and Randy had a falling out over redoing old Sabbath songs for the royalties. Randy hated Sabbath, but Ozzy bulled and intimidated Randy every chance he got. Eventually Randy's good nature won out and he agreed to do the record cause he felt he owed it to Ozzy for making him famous, but after the record he was leaving the band. This is why Ozzy wouldn't allow any of Randy's footage with him to be used in the current Randy documentary. Sharon and Ozzy have told a bunch of lies about him after he wasn't around to defend himself!
@KingLouisV no it's pretty accurate if you read all the interviews that were published in all the magazines, some people can't handle the truth.
Amazing hearing all of Max's stories and observations on producing.
I love hearing about the recording process especially from the guy who did it
Kudos to Max for refusing to have anything to do with the re-recordings. Just shows the greediness and spitefulness of Sharon to take Lee and Bob off the originals. It's not like it they were making millions because they weren't writers, just performers.
How do Mike Borden and Robert trujillo get a free pass, we know Darth Hideous is the zero in the equation but I have never heard of them regret it publicly as they should
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle how does Ozzy seemingly get a pass on most anything in his career that can be pinned on Sharon? They have the ‘good cop, bad cop’ routine down to a tee and fans lap it up and are quick to give Oz a free pass. Boggles me..
@@mattrock12 people want to pretend Ozzy doesn't know, but he knows. He signs off on this stuff. He orders the code reds
Lee and Bob were writers of the music and the lyrics.
Great interview as always. The only downside on interviews of this period with Ozzy is that it reminds us of how much a shit person Sharon is, and how little Ozzy cares about what she does with his legacy.
It's all about them and the money unfortunately
never would have happened with out her.
Then Rhoads might have lived, I’ll take it.
@@name-fk9gw that's nice but it doesn't absolve them
Darth hideous executes pn Ozzy's code reds...he's not without blame
Max has made some of my favorite records. Countdown to Extinction still has some of my favorite production to this day. He and Martin Birch are a couple of English metal legends in production and engineering
I would love to know from Max what it was like working on Loudness' Thunder in the east album. That's one of my alltime favorite albums that came out just before megadeths peace sells
Invaluable interview. Thank you!
Wow dude you dug deep in this interview. The talk about the vibe between musicians playing live was really fascinating.
So nice to hear an interview with substance.
This is a treasure trove of information! I'm going to watch this again. Interesting thing if you look at Bob Daisley Wikipedia page it says he's used Mark Bass heads since 1972 and when he recorded Blizzard of Ozz he played his Gibson EB-3 through one of Randy's Marshall stacks.... I wonder how that misinformation got written because I believe Max Norman who was right there hands on doing the record. That's quite a detailed, contrary account of his gear used, which is bizzare.
Great interview thank you! I think he's right about fresh takes. You want to record ideally as soon as you can play through it. If you start thinking about it... no
Bitchen album cover images and with such cookin guitar chords as Randy's so fast it was the most amazing thing of the century America's main new one Rhodes on guitar make sure you get the chance to listen to Randy and rip Lovett
I was hoping when Ozzy said he was moving back to England, we wouldn't hear about him ever again.
Agreed. He has sucked enough money out of the USA. Ungrateful Bastard! Randy will always be my favorite guitarists.
Yet you spend your time watching videos about him and his music
T.S Racing , I was hoping the same even more so ever hear about sharon also .
Lol NONE of it is ozzys music…sharon is that you?
Man does Ozzy look like he’s the guitarist in Spinal Tap.
Max should have done Justice
With all the punching going on I'm glad I wasn't there. It would have been very worrying and concerning indeed.
Ozzy looks like a freebased Ron white or bannon here. Lol 😀
I've been a Randy fan since I was 13 I've 55 I've heard all these stories a 1000 times just stop it's like beating a Dead Horse we get it there's nothing new new let the guy rest man
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😭😭😭😭 - 4 out of 5 ain't bad, you old fartlicker.
Bahaha!! It's not like they're parading his corpse through town or doing the E true Hollywood stories PA. Maybe stop listening too it? There's millions of kids who haven't heard it at all. You stop telling stories of history and pretty soon no one respects it.
@@fullinbloom dude...You're my favorite for a lot of reasons but that fuckin reply just put you over the top!! Hahaha. So childish and SOOO GREAT
Well I haven’t heard these stories so don’t waste your time commenting, move on and wait for another video.
The Rhoads' outro solos are legendary.
legendary because of how great they are, and how he did not have time to work those solos out
He had such a gift for melody, harmony, phrasing, and the chops to put it all together, and he had a great ear, so it's not just great playing, it's tasteful too.
Thanks full in bloom for giving us these magical interviews 👍🤘
these are awesome
Oh my man...gotta save this for tomorrow when I'm sober!! 😁🤣🤘
Bob and Lee we're also phenomenal on the Uriah Heep abominog album,,, which I always thought was their best album and very unfortunately underrated album,,, but also was a comeback album from the disastrous conquest album of Uriah Heep...
You are absolutely right. Awesome album!
such a great description on why the re-recording failed on many level let alone Darth Hideous being a loathesome POS
Excellent informative video to pair with Daisleys book info from For Facts Sake.
they are consistent in their stories, Ozzy's seem to deviate from the plot
Diary is my favorite. I think.. love them both
Diary is a legitimate masterpiece, sonic brilliance of great musicians finding that zone
Diary of a madman is my fav Ozzy song
When Max describes Randy's playing as, steeling himself to go in and rip it out. That's a great explanation of how his playing sounded. The Diary stuff is soo wicked it sounds like a movie score for Godzilla where the monster is destroying a city!
that album is a true masterpiece, objectively
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle just the song Diary of a Madman alone is a masterpiece. The way the song is layered was very well done. As the albums final track, I still get the weebee jeebees after listening to the entire album, and when the final notes ring out, and the door to the madness slams closed, it is very final. Wicked shit.
Blizzard and Diary are my two first favorite albums of all time. Both are classic, perfect. The band is tight, Randy is incredible. Those albums introduced Randy to the world, something the Quiet Riot albums, as much as I have always loved them, were not going to do. Randy lives forever!!
👍 yeah, those 2 albums are absolutely perfect and beautiful . My two favorites also. I was amped up to get my Diary tour ticket. I couldn't wait to see Randy up close and personal, but it ended up being Brad Gillis. That's always bothered me.
@@1wickedgroove 😏👍 It's completely okay...👌I think that MOST of us loyal RR fanaticos WOULD/WILL agree 🤘...And YES! Of COURSE , Gillis DID a BEYOND phenominal job allowing the Osbourne camp "TO CONTINUE ON THE DIARY TOUR" . BUT yeah . NEVER, NEVER , would be , the same.....ROCK the funk ON!!!🤘😡🔥🥁🎸🤘
two legit masterpieces, though I think DOAM is greater
First two albums sold about 7 million combined, you better believe Sharon wasn't trying to pay anyone.
so I saw metal castle estimate that first two albums have sold 20 million globally, we know in the U.S. they shipped 8 million
Randy Rhoads was a guitar wizard at hardly 25 years of age. And he was continually getting better. Spooky to imagine where he would have gone... RIP Randy. Miss you ☮️🌠
All time A leaguer
my all time favorite!
He was 23 when he recorded the first album. Musical genius.
He was about to quit and go back to college when he died. Great guitarist, but he's considered a legend because he died young. There have been better. EVH was better, Yngwie was better, Dimebag was way better... the list goes on.
@@Dex000x that's subjective.
great interview, awesome studio insights to this legendary record
Our long Dear Friend The Mighty Max Norman One of Best You Never Heard of
Just curious, does anyone know what Lee’s set up was in the studio? He was such an incredible drummer. There is so little information about him and his drums at the time. Without a doubt one of the most incredible musicians ever to live. RIP Lee.
I think he had slingerlands and the first two ozzy albums he's using an early/mid 70s /Hayman snare. Wooden snare, 5x14 wrapped in chrome.
@@johnvalencia9927 John, do you know how small or big the kit was? Sizes?
@@shanegriffin2215 Just a typical 5 or maybe 6 piece (with additional floor tom🤔) drum set, sir. Just have to look online for MORE "pics". They ARE OUT THERE. Actual sizing/dimensions are ANOTHER story ALL together (GOOD luck on that 👌). But yeah man, otherwise? JUST a typical kinda drum set from THAT era (from ALL of the decades of info/pics that "me myself and I" HAVE seen). ROCK the funk ON! 🤘🥁🎸🎼😡🤘
This should be a treat thank you 🔥🙌🙌
Diary is one of the BEST ALBUMS EVER RECORDED
Yes but the recording sound quality is not good. Engineer should have known that but didn't care.
@@MILKMAN1077 Good Enough for me.
@@MILKMAN1077 but it is.....not sure what you are listening to, the sound quality is fantastic....it's nice and raw
@@bigdaddymojo2005 some hack coming in here talking about the recording quality not being good just exposes his ignorance, imagine thinking DOAM does not sound great
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle Preach my brother!
that was so kool to hear ...max is 1000% a stand up guy ..always has a minute for the fans ..and his work is timeless ...i get what he ment about the players working the music eye to eye following each other ..great working band ..those early 80 shows were something ...the real story there is how rudy got album credits ..i think but ..the writeing on the wall how much a ruthless shrew ozzy's wife was ..lol..i think more people hate her than vince neil ..lol..great stuff maxx .thanx a million friend
Darth Hideous screwing over the actual musicians and songwriters.
I us SM-57's and I love how so "musicians" say they're junk and here a pro works with Ozzy and what does he use? SM-57's!! Fucking nutsacks.
great. Max sounds very knowledgeable. miking an amp with noise to find the spot w/o phasing while listening is pretty smart.
Lee kershlake was awsome
extremely underappreciated
Thanks for this interview! So much great information here. Full in Bloom is killer every time.
17:45 is the Randy part, RIP maestro, the best of the best!
Bob Daisley and Randy Rhoads should be in the songwriters' Hall of Fame. Bob also mentored Jake and Zakk.
People don't seem to recognize, Max did produce that first album but with Randy and Bob.
The Record quality is not very good why isn't anyone talking about that?
because most feel it is great quality, the sound of that album is amazing, never heard tone like that before. ...it is top notch
greatest album with the worst mix
I have always loved Ozzie’s music and the band that he had to prop him up… but I see there’s nothing of a bandleader or a singer a rip people off that make him millions and prevent ration. I think he sucks.
Bob Daisley, Lee Kerslake brought their stewardship to the table. A younger guitarist needed a tight duo to develop quality rhythm and those memorable riffs. Randy struggled to get that jump with the early renditions of QR and their songs were tinny had no guts (thanks to Kevin's poor writing skills) an alcoholic bass player, and a hobbyist drummer. Randy probably realized immediately with Bob and Lee were able to create memorable songs that were tight and professionally crafted.
a hobbyist drummer? he did not care to be a musician by trade? When Ozzy handed Randy the keys to the songwriting car, he had way more freedom than kevin and the producers gave him with the QR , Kevin was desperate to make it on some level regardless of the music
@Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. well ozzy could have vetoed songs, and he alleges he hummed ideas to Randy, something Tony would never entertain.
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle Drew Forsyth was nothing special on drums retired in 1979 with the demise of QR the original set.. Randy did not even talk to him about departing the lineup QR. that is how much he thought of Drew.
@@ericscottstevens I've seen the documentaries and one thing struck me, that Drew seem bittered towards Randy and somewhat dismissive, he definitely felt he was owed a call. Sensed they were nothing but bandmates
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle I think the most poignant story of a documentary I saw was Nikki SIxx auditioned for QR, probably after Kelly Garni's meltdown in 1979. Nikki showed up for the audition with a bass and did not know how to play it. Randy had to show Nikki how and what to play the bass for Nikki's own audition. In two years Nikki shot off to a much more lucrative situation by 1981. But we have to realize how Nikki marketed himself but really was not a musician, just faux character and able to convince them he knew how to play an instrument because he owned one. As for Drew I think Randy was expecting him to grow as a drummer and it never materialized after probably a lot of sessions and a lot of frustrations.
Randy and Ozzy the odd couple I couldn't stand Ozzy never could luckiest SO B in the world Now on the other hand Randy Bob and Lee where a good team
"Everybody gets fired by Ozzy eventually. Yeah, it's a right of passage." Lol 😆
"Everyone gets fired by Ozzy at one point" kids today say....facts.
If you didn't know this already, you sure do now: Anyone out there that listens to Blizzard on that 2002 Remix CD should now throw that in the bin. You had reason enough already because of the re-recorded parts, but Max did something special mixing 3 different solo takes at different levels for each one of Randy's solos.
I don't care how anyone rates ozzy albums. Blizzard and Diary of a madman. Are 1 and 2.
I do not think there is any question those are in the too 2, but I call those Blizzard of ozz albums, Ozzy was the singer
I agree with you that the first 2 records are fantastic,especially Blizzard. Talk of the Devil was very good plus he sang some old Sabbath songs on it ( if I remember correctly ). I wasn't impressed with Bark at the Moon, so I didn't play it nearly as much as the first two records. When I first heard Shot in the Dark I lost all interest in Ozzy because it was weak pop rock aimed at the American market. Obviously worked for him though coz he was massive in the States, but for me, as a long time fan it was a case of thanks but no thanks. Only good thing on hearing Shot....... on the radio was that I didn't have to waste my hard earned money buying a piece of crap like that.
Ozzy said in an interview in the UK press that his new band were called Blizzard of Ozz and that it wasn't gonna be released under his own name. Imagine my surprise when the first record was released lol@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle
So the stone room ruined Randy's guitar tone 😅
Killer questions man. Good interview.
Best engineer/producer interview ever!!! PLAY LOUD!!
absolutely
The tough question is, which one do you prefer? Blizzard Of Ozz or Diary Of A Madman?
Diary every day of the week, and twice on Sunday. Randy's tone was so much better, and there's not a bad song on that album
@@nickjohnson3622 That would be my choice, but it's close!
@@nickjohnson3622 100%!!!
Bblizzard...it was the first time we heard of randy and blew our minds....DOAMM is awesome too...peace
Diary. I don't ever need to hear Crazy train or Mr Crowley ever again. They've been played to death.
This is AMAZING! Thank you!
Playing live together vs. playing to overdubs is on point. The synergy between the players ALWAYS breathes better in situations where they are feeding off one another.
They did pre-production in Monmouth Wales in a house that became a studio. It's on my channel....
Thanks Uncle Fib. Good shit! I am curious as to the claim that Frankie Banali made as to the drum intro of “over the mountain” that he has said he came up with the intro and Lee recorded it but was credited to Tommy Aldridge? wonder if Max knows the real deal?
Oh 🤔...So, NOW... Frankie Banalli is taking (OR, HAD taken) credit for the whole , OVER THE MOUNTAIN 🥁 drum intro? 🧐 Interesting 🤔.... Where did you read that? (IF you remember).....We ALL know WHO HAS taken the credit for the recording of it and WHO, IT IS/WAS THAT ACTUALLY played it, via ORIGINAL recording....😏🤘🥁🔥😡🎼🎸🤘
@@jamescon55 ……I read it in some article awhile back but I had to google it to make sure I had my facts right so thats what you’ll probably need to do as well.
Pretty sure Bob used one of Randy's Marshalls, that what he said..
Dude! I didn't realize you were a studio rat! 57,87, 47, D12, 414, 421, KM84, RE20. And 3 badasses. It's how records are done
Couldn't agree nore with Max the first 2-3 times the band playing a new song are gonna be the best take they have, to record
21:29
21:33 Nope. Trujillo is a bassist. Cmon man, you this lol
Tell the story of how Ozzy wrote all of the songs
why Ozzy will tell you, everyone else will tell you how he didn't
Ozzy did not write nothing , credit goes to Bob and Randy.
All you dolts are hypocrites because you do exactly the same thing that you criticize Ozzy for.... You just do it in reverse by not giving Ozzy any credit at all.
Not a fan of Max Norman, his guitar tones are hella squeezed, to much compression, nasally sounding, even with Megadeth, sounds a bit compressed. Just say’n. My opinion, don’t get crazy.
bad take...he is one of the best ever to produce
this is an absolutely great interview.
Great interview here, love the tech talk.
That recording was crappy.... great album... horrible production.
absurd, one of the best productions I have ever heard no album has ever sounded like that
Max is awesome
What's the 87 he's talking about for room micing Randy's amp ?
Neumann u87, probably most used mic in recording history
Yes I wasn't sure but it just make sense
Great interview
Thank you
did mAx say they were but a couple of punches for the bass and drum tracks and the original rhythm tracks, how great was this band...
That was Zach Wylde on those early Ozzy albums. And Zach was also in Sabbath
Zakk was on NRFTW , NMT and ozzmosis, .....
Skotty O • NO, NO, NO! Zack would've been a very young kid when these first 2 albums were made.
Zakk was 13 Years old when Blizzard was recorded. Skotty O. You are dumb.
And Ted Cruz was the Zodiac killer...
@@Mikey_Sea you mean Ted kaczynski?
Rhoades was going to be canned,too.The dude was not all that.
Troll
Ok 🤡
Nope. He was actually going to quit. So Sharon made him a legend.
@@JohnViguerie that's not trolling that is some loser being a hack ....because he is insecure, trolling takes intellect and there is no sign of that
@@gates69 low grade hacks gonna hack
Opening night Ace up Your seeve tour Motorhead 1980 sept i think
we get to the Ipswich Gaumont & theres guys already waiting for Ozzy THE NEXT NIGHT ,we slept in the train station totally deaf after the Motorhead assault & saw Ozzy the next night 2 best back to back gigs you could ever want