Jake E. Lee stays a fan favourite, and for good purpose. He wasn’t only a guitarist employed to play in Ozzy Osbourne’s band , he co-wrote a few of Ozzy’s most iconic songs and proved himself as a real musician, not only a participant.
Although issues finally fell aside between Jake and Ozzy’s group, his time with Ozzy left a giant mark. Jake joined after Randy Rhoads’ tragic loss of life and helped form the 1983 album Bark on the Moon, which turned a traditional. He additionally performed on The Final Sin in 1986, an album that doesn’t all the time get the adore it deserves however consists of some robust tracks.
After his surprising firing, Jake admitted he hoped the subsequent Ozzy album wouldn’t be any good. In a 2020 interview, he mentioned:
“I needed it to suck a little bit bit, you recognize? As a result of I acquired fired, and I didn’t need the subsequent factor to be good. Nevertheless it was file. I keep in mind listening to it and going, ‘Oh shit. Oh nicely, alright, he’s completely satisfied.’”
He additionally shared his ideas on how Ozzy’s albums modified after that:
“However I feel by No Extra Tears, he had catalog and was placing out good data. After which, I don’t know, he acquired comfortable. I feel he acquired lazy. He began letting different individuals write his shit.”
For Jake, the decline in high quality additionally meant a lack of what he thought-about Ozzy’s signature model:
“There was a particular Ozzy sound. And it was that sound with Randy. It was that sound with me — nonetheless the identical vein however nonetheless a little bit bit completely different sound. Even then, the primary couple with Zakk nonetheless appeared like Ozzy, after which it stop sounding like Ozzy.”
