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Amazing record...not a bad song to be found.

I agree. I'm loving this more and more with every listen.

Happy Birthday my good friend.

I just saw this over at Blabbermouth and it sounds like Geezer doesn't miss working with Ozzy any.

 

HEAVEN & HELL/BLACK SABBATH bassist Geezer Butler has told Decibel magazine that working with singer Ronnie James Dio is a hell of a lot easier than working with Ozzy Osbourne. "Ronnie's a songwriter in his own right — he's got tons of ideas," the bassist said. "Whereas Ozzy... in the old days, he'd come up with a vocal line and I'd write the lyrics. Ronnie is 100 percent involved in both the musical side and the vocal side, and he writes his own lyrics as well."

 

Ozzy never took Butler's musical ideas seriously, either. "If we were with Ozzy and I came in with the killer riff of all time, Ozzy wouldn't even think of doing it because I'm not the guitarist and that's the way he thinks," Butler said. "When we tried to do a SABBATH album in 2001, we all gave each other CDs of our riffs or song ideas. Ozzy didn't even listen to mine. Because I'm not a guitarist, he felt I shouldn't be playing guitar. That's why it was so bloody hard to write anything."

 

Geezer Butler on HEAVEN & HELL's debut CD, "The Devil You Know": "If we'd written this album with Ozzy, we'd still be working on the first track."

 

The contrast between Ozzy and Dio comes into even sharper focus on tour. "It was great being with Ozzy on the road," HEAVEN & HELL/BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi enthuses. "We had a great time and we still will have hopefully at some point, but with Ronnie it's a lot different, because we go out and we know exactly what we're gonna be doing. With Ozzy, we didn't really know. It was touch and go sometimes on some of those early shows, whether he was gonna turn up, if he'd be able to sing, if his voice was gone, or what. We'd have to cancel shows, which Geezer and myself really hated. But with Ronnie, we've never cancelled a show. He'd have to be seriously, seriously ill before we cancelled a show."

 

Read the entire interview in the May 2009 issue of Decibel magazine, available on newsstands now.

 

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Ozzy lost the "hunger" a long time ago. I can't remember the last release I really liked. No More Tears maybe.

I had the privilege of meeting him last Friday. A great guy. Really nice and took time to take this picture with me.

 

 

 

I am impressed. Eric Brittingham usually does not allow his image to be captured on film.

 

You should've told him to visit this thread!! Jay has been trying to get him to check it out for goin' on two years now!! We the Acolytes of Eric Brittingham still await his wisdom!!

I got the pic by running up next to him and my buddy yelled, "Eric look out." Otherwise no pic. Lol.

I was going to try and mention the thread to him, but there was people waiting.

I had the privilege of meeting him last Friday. A great guy. Really nice and took time to take this picture with me.

I have the Live @ Sticky Fingers but can't play it on my DVD players. I can watch it on my computer though. Really good.

HAHA! Me, the world's biggest Badlands fan... I have this at home on VHS. I think. Pretty sure I still do. I am such a metalhead.

Is it with Eric Singer or Jeff Martin?

i like wii bowling.

I agree. Except when my 5 year old daughter beats me like a drum. I need to practice when they go to bed.

Bang Tango

Unless at least half are originals.

Whitesnake for me. One of my favs. And still putting out great music today.

This is top 10 all time for me. I picked How Many Lies. But I like them all.

His web site is equally as bad. It looks like a pretty amateur job on both.

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

I love the Ritz show. I'll have to try and find that one again.

I see this on Ebay from time to time. Is it any good? What is the best Guns concert DVD?

"We're Motorhead. And we play rock n roll."

Into Dr. Rock

No bells and whistles (although I like those sometimes).It was classic.

Soldiers Under Command....

Same here.

Ramones - ACID EATERS

Bride - SNAKES IN THE PLAYGROUND

Snakes is a classic!

John Sykes

I think VH1 Classic has been playing this lately when they do their Classic Concert marathons.

From what I saw it was pretty good.

 

Wasn't that 1991 tour with Warrant and The Bulletboys opening?

I seem to remember some Saturday late night concert show that showed that entire show once.

 

 

I wouldn't mind seeing that 7 Days Live Dvd. I saw them on that Native Tongue tour and they were solid and had Firehouse and Damn Yankees opening. All 3 bands were good but Firehouse was the best IMO.

 

I have a boot of the Swallow This Live show. It's not that great. All around sloppy...guitar playing, singing, etc.

 

7 Days Live, on the other hand, is great. Definitely worth picking up. Speaking of, that concert was supposed to get a 2cd release a couple weeks ago, but from what I've seen, they just released a 1 disc version & cut out all the Native Tongue songs. What's up with that shit?

 

They probably cut them out because lets face it outside of "Stand" nobody except people like us know the other NT songs. It's still a stupid decision though.

 

No kidding...I love the Native Tongue songs.

 

Yeah me too but it was so different for Poison fans. One of my best friends at the time, and the guy that went with me to the concert I spoke of above, was a huge Poison fan and an even bigger CC fan and it killed him that Kotzen was in the band. I remember the first time he heard Native Tongue he hated it. I told it'll take a few spins but even after many spins it just wasn't the same anymore. He enjoyed the concert to a point but he seemed to think the old songs sounded strange with Kotzen.

It did sound weird with Kotzen on the CC era tunes. But coming from a huge Poison fan, I think Native Tongue may be my fav.

I saw Journey with Glass Tiger as the opener. Both were pretty good.

 

Who was singing for Journey?

It was Steve Perry. I believe 1987 was the year. He sounded good when I saw them. I heard he can't hit the notes anymore.

I saw Journey with Glass Tiger as the opener. Both were pretty good.

Gorham is a guitar god!

In the 70's I started out with Cheap Trick, Foreigner, AC/DC and Ozzy.

In the 80's i went heavy into the sleaze/glam era plus Whitesnake, Priest and Dio.

In the 90's I liked Alice N' Chains and Pearl Jam. I started to discover bands from the 70's that I was too young and missed out on. UFO and Thin Lizzy mainly.

Now I still listen to most of my above choices and not much Pearl Jam or AIC. Not sure why it didn't stick with me. The others did though.

Wow dude, that's me too... scary!

Does your wife laugh @ some of the stuff you listen too also? Mine likes all that new crap from Thousand Foot Crutch to Coldplay!

In the 70's I started out with Cheap Trick, Foreigner, AC/DC and Ozzy.

In the 80's i went heavy into the sleaze/glam era plus Whitesnake, Priest and Dio.

In the 90's I liked Alice N' Chains and Pearl Jam. I started to discover bands from the 70's that I was too young and missed out on. UFO and Thin Lizzy mainly.

Now I still listen to most of my above choices and not much Pearl Jam or AIC. Not sure why it didn't stick with me. The others did though.

Crash Kelly-One More Heart Attack