[情報] ozzy那張tribute的內頁採訪原文
最近要做英文報告
閑閑無事想說來介紹這張好了
所以就想要介紹這段採訪
結果GOOGLE之下居然找不到文章
一怒之下
我決定................
用手動的打出來 orz
所以想說都打了，就跟大家分享一下這樣
可能是網路唯一找的到的版本喔XD
"I've had some great guitar players over the years, there's no disputing
that. But Randy was unique." states Ozzy, recalling his friend and prot?g?
who lost his life in a freak flying accident midway through the Diary Of A
Madman tour on 19 march 1982.
"It's like Randy was with me for a lot longer than he actually really was.
Sometimes I think he's still with me now." He continues. "Guitar players have
a thing where their guitars are an extension of their penis. With Randy, he
was an extension of his guitar. There's a big difference."
Ozzy describes meeting the 23-years-old guitarist in mid-'79 as being akin
to "God entering my life." Following Ozzy's turbulent departure from Black
Sabbath earlier that year, Rhoads was the stabilizing influence the singer so
desperately needed to convince himself that he could launch his solo career.
"Randy gave me confidence to do things," explains Ozzy. "The difference
between working with Randy Rhoads and Black Sabbath at that time is that
Randy would work things out with you. He was willing to listen. He was a
guitar teacher so he had the patience of a saint.
Between '79 and that fateful day in '82 Ozzy and Randy became an unlikely
and inseparable duo. Despite their very different characters the two of them
shared a flat in Chelsea, London, and wrote the Blizzard Of Ozz and Diary Of
A Madman - the two albums that would launch Ozzy's solo career and establish
Rhoads as one of the talented guitarists of his generation.
"I always judge how good things are by whether the hairs on my arms stand
up," states Ozzy. "When we started working together Randy's playing had that
effect on me. When Randy goes from the transition on 'I Don't Know' into the
guitar solo section my spine chills.
During the recording of Blizzard Of Ozz and Diary Of A Madman Ozzy recalls
Rhoads being a perfectionist in the studio, something which is borne out by
the out-take versions of "dee" which are included on this Tribute album and
which feature Randy asking to try another take to get his playing "smoother".
"If he had a bee up his ass it was better to let him work it out." states
Ozzy. "we were recording 'Diary Of A Madman' (the track) and he wasn't happy
with the solo. He asked me if everyone could stay out of the studio for a
couple days. He came out of the studio two days later and he had this big
shit-eating grin on his face. I heard that solo and it lifted the back of my
fucking head off."
Randy's death on 19 March 1982 at the age of 25 was senseless. Having
traveled overnight on the band's tour bus from Knoxville, Tennessee, to
Lakeland, Florida, the young guitar player found himself with time on his
band while Ozzy slept off the gin-induced hangover. He hired a small plane
with Ozzy's hairdresser Rachel Youngblood and got the pilot, Andrew Aycock,
to make a mock dive-bombing run over the stationary tour bus. The aircraft's
wing clipped the side of the bus before hitting a tree, crashing into a
nearby house and erupting into flames.
Ozzy himself awoke thinking that the bus had crashed. He ventured outside
and found out the tragic truth. It was a crushing blow which threatened to
cut short Osbourne's career, coming as it did shortly after his ejection from
Sabbath, the death of his father, the divorce of his first wife and almost
two years pf solid touring.
"Out of all of that Randy's death just fucked me up big time to the point
where I remember thinking it's all over. I can't stand being in this
emotional rollercoaster anymore. I've lost the best gut I ever met in my
life."
Ozzy's manager and companion at the time, Sharon Arden, was equally shocked
and hurt, but possibly more realistic.
"If it hadn't been for my Sharon I'd still be standing there now looking at
that burning house." admits Ozzy. "It's like a Fellini movie. It's like a
living dream. Even now I can still smell the grass, that burning smelling,
everything."
"Sharon took it really badly. She couldn't look at a picture of Randy, or
listen to the records or talk about him. But she said to me at the time
'Randy wouldn't want you to stop now.' That gave me a lot of strength you
know."
Following Randy's funeral- at which Ozzy was a pallbearer- the singer
carried on with the Diary Of A Madman tour, first with ex-Gillan guitarist
Bernie Torme and later, with Nightranger man Brad Gillis. The latter would
appear on the live Talk Of The Devil double album (titled Speak Of The Devil
in the US) which was recorded at the Ritz in New York in September'82. The
album consisted entirely of Black Sabbath covers and, at the time, seemed
like a dig at his former band. It wasn't.
"The label (Jet records) wanted a live album. And I said "No fucking way!
Randy had barely been buried and they wanted us to release these live tapes.
I refused to do that. That's how Talk Of The Devil came about." smarts Ozzy.
"I told them I'd deliver a live album but it would have nothing to do with
with Randy. So I recorded two nights and gave them the tapes. It just a bunch
of bullshit Sabbath covers. I don't recognize that album. I wasn't there for
the mix. I just delivered the tapes and that was it. I was under contract and
I don't gave a fuck about that album."
Five years after Randy's death Ozzy and Sharon found themselves ready to pay
their tribute to the much-missed friend and guitar player with the release of
this album.
"We were still getting letters from fans asking if there were any tapes from
the
tours that I'd done with Randy." explains Ozzy. "We spoke to Mrs. Rhoads who
told us that she still received letters just we did and she gave us her
blessing for us to release the tapes. We kept her informed of everything that
we were going to do because Randy was her son and she'd lost her baby in all
of this. Without her this album wouldn't came about."
Tribute is taken from tapes from 1981 and catches Ozzy, Randy and the band
in sparkling live form, the guitarist attempting even more audacious moves
than he did on those now legendary studio recordings. While Tribute is a fine
homage to Randy, it was something which he was also left contemplating as
1983 dawned. His future was uncertain once again. Randy, the rock on which
he'd built the band, had gone…
Phli Alexander
Editor-In-Chief, kerrang! Magazine London'England.
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