Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads - Tribute
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Artist: Ozzy Osbourne, Randy RhoadsEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-04-02
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- I Don't Know
- Crazy Train
- Believer
- Mr. Crowley
- Flying High Again
- Revelation (Mother Earth)
- Steal Away (The Night) (With Drum Solo)
- Suicide Solution (With Guitar Solo)
- Iron Man
- Children Of The Grave
- Paranoid
- Goodbye To Romance
- No Bone Movies
- Dee (Randy Rhoads Studio Out-Takes)
Free Music Notes for Tribute
Free Music Review: Straight ahead live album with a dual purpose
Hit: 4 Stars
As the title suggests this release is a tribute. To one Randy Rhoads to be specific, killed in a bout of (terminal as it turns out) stupidity as the light plane he was in crashed as it was buzzing the tour bus. Band biographies are rife with stories of bands cavorting about like chickens with their heads cut off and most of the time all ends well. The tragedy is that it doesn't always and this pretty darn tasty Ozzy live album is not only serviceable in it's own right as a release but does show the talents of the deceased guitarist. Which only reinforces the loss.
Song selection is pretty good with lots of metal, some metal and for a bit of garnish some metal is blasted out of your stereo with only a few let ups of pace. In this case that's probably a good thing as Ozzy works best when firing at a manic pace. And given the guy repeatedly tells the audience to stand up - even for Revelation (Mother Earth) which is one of the mellower cuts - it's probably a necessity to really blaze away.
And blaze this does. Tunes such as I Don't Know, Crazy Train and Mr Crowley all work very well live as they are built of pretty strong stuff. Suicide Solution is a perfect choice for inclusion here as it is essentially about another life cut too short, in this case that of Australian vocalist Bon Scott. Steal Away includes Tommy Aldridges' drum solo so be warned, but the extended guitar solo on Suicide Solution is pretty welcome. As the collection unfolds the scarcity of any let up is impressive and a few Sabbath standards are dusted off in the guise of Iron Man and also Paranoid. I dunno, the first one never really made any impression on me, perhaps you had to be 15 in 1973 or whenever it came out. But the latter is a far more communicative track and really sounds pretty darn metallic and anarchic here. Perhaps my favourite version of my favourite track with which Ozzy is associated.
Goodbye to Romance is well placed after Paranoid and it shows that someone was paying attention to the pacing of this thing which speaks of focus and a certain care factor. And the humour of No Bone Movies is probably a good way to close out the album proper before some Randy Rhoads out-takes finish the disc in a way that makes you contemplate...stuff.
Produced and engineered by Max Norman this all sounds consistent and a couple of liner notes by the Prince of Darkness himself add a certain touch to things. A pretty good live album all round and for Ozzy fans probably a must purchase and the sort of album that will have a very long life span as new generations of rivet heads explore the history of their chosen genre.
Tribute Poster
Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist Randy Rhoads was a technical genius on his instrument, but that's only half the story. Rhoads shaped the direction of Osbourne's first two post-Sabbath recordings, Diary of a Madman and Blizzard of Ozz, which still stand as his best solo studio albums. Rhoads also was capable of pulling the best out of Osbourne onstage, a notable accomplishment in itself. This live set was released five years after Rhoads's death in a bizarre plane accident, and it's still a striking reminder of what was lost. Osbourne and company run through the Blizzard album in its entirety, adding a few tunes from Diary, and the Sabbath classics "Iron Man," "Children of the Grave," and "Paranoid." The highlights are Rhoads's guitar freakout on "Suicide Solution" and studio outtakes of his solo acoustic showcase, "Dee." --Daniel DurchholzPop Music CDs
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