POLL: Is Jake's Bark At The Moon solo the best guitar solo in an Ozzy song?
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POLL: Is Jake's Bark At The Moon solo the best guitar solo in an Ozzy song?
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That outro solo is pretty damn cool too.
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That outro solo is pretty damn cool too.
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Re: POLL: Is Jake's Bark At The Moon solo the best guitar solo in an Ozzy song?
Best Randy solo: "Diary Of A Madman"
Best Jake solo: the two solos in "Bark At The Moon"
Best Jake solo: the two solos in "Bark At The Moon"
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Re: POLL: Is Jake's Bark At The Moon solo the best guitar solo in an Ozzy song?
I'm not much of an Ozzy fan but that guitar work in BATM is amazing. I'd say it's the best in Ozzy's catalog.
Oh, and Jake > Randy imo.
Oh, and Jake > Randy imo.
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Re: POLL: Is Jake's Bark At The Moon solo the best guitar solo in an Ozzy song?
I like Mr Crowley just as much as BATM.
Goodbye to Romance takes the cake for me, through. What a solo.
Goodbye to Romance takes the cake for me, through. What a solo.
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Re: POLL: Is Jake's Bark At The Moon solo the best guitar solo in an Ozzy song?
No Zakk love yet so here's a vote for No More Tears.
BATM is still probably my favorite, though.
BATM is still probably my favorite, though.
Re: POLL: Is Jake's Bark At The Moon solo the best guitar solo in an Ozzy song?
Not the most impressive skill-wise, but both solos (especially the outro) in Tonight probably move me the most. It's just a great song all the way around. Most casual fans don't even know about it.
Jake is the man though.
I suppose this is stating the obvious, but Ozzy has had a lot of amazing guitar solos over the years:
Mr. Crowley
Flying High Again
Revelation
Tonight
Bark At The Moon
Centre of Eternity
Miracle Man
No More Tears
Jake is the man though.
I suppose this is stating the obvious, but Ozzy has had a lot of amazing guitar solos over the years:
Mr. Crowley
Flying High Again
Revelation
Tonight
Bark At The Moon
Centre of Eternity
Miracle Man
No More Tears
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Re: POLL: Is Jake's Bark At The Moon solo the best guitar solo in an Ozzy song?
I consider it 2nd best: after Randy's live solo on Mr. Crowley.
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Re: POLL: Is Jake's Bark At The Moon solo the best guitar solo in an Ozzy song?
Yep.
After some Randy solos, I go with "No More Tears" ( which is one of my alltime favorite solos ) and "Miracle Man."
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Re: POLL: Is Jake's Bark At The Moon solo the best guitar solo in an Ozzy song?
So you're saying it's a mystery?
Re: POLL: Is Jake's Bark At The Moon solo the best guitar solo in an Ozzy song?
One of the best that wasn’t played by RR maybe.
I could sing the Crazy Train solo to you right now and that’s not even Randy’s best solo.
I could sing the Crazy Train solo to you right now and that’s not even Randy’s best solo.
Re: POLL: Is Jake's Bark At The Moon solo the best guitar solo in an Ozzy song?
See you on the other side is great too. But it's no BATM.
So many awesome solos that just make me wanna pick up my guitar and play decades later. That's good shit
So many awesome solos that just make me wanna pick up my guitar and play decades later. That's good shit
What the hell was that all about?
Re: POLL: Is Jake's Bark At The Moon solo the best guitar solo in an Ozzy song?
Just the instrumental/solo section on Revelation is like an entire symphony.
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Re: POLL: Is Jake's Bark At The Moon solo the best guitar solo in an Ozzy song?
It is great.
Then again my pick would be:
Centre of Eternity
Then again my pick would be:
Centre of Eternity
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Re: POLL: Is Jake's Bark At The Moon solo the best guitar solo in an Ozzy song?
Ace never recorded any Ozzy solos or I would have said that.
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Re: POLL: Is Jake's Bark At The Moon solo the best guitar solo in an Ozzy song?
Thats a subjective question. There were so many good solos on Ozzy records. One thing I will say is that Jakes work outside of Ozzy is better than anyone else work outside of Ozzy. Badlands and RDC are better than anything Zakk did, although Pride & Glory came close. Randys work outside of Ozzy was when he was a teen so that really doesn't count.
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Re: POLL: Is Jake's Bark At The Moon solo the best guitar solo in an Ozzy song?
I'd go with several RR solos, over anything Jake played, although he's really good on BATM. Zakk did a lot of good solos too.
Re: POLL: Is Jake's Bark At The Moon solo the best guitar solo in an Ozzy song?
Zakk is one of those players that, intellectually, I know he rips, but never connected to me emotionally, and I cannot remember a single lick in a single solo he has ever done. Just the squealy notes (which I was recently informed by a YOUNG I know are now called: "boomer bends"
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BATM has a pretty memorable solo, but of the dozens of Jake solos I must have heard over the years, none of the others stuck with me.
I could whistle 15 Rhoads ones right now without even thinking. His compositional/melodic sense is what made him unique, and a thing that shredders never really get to.
It's like, for their generation of players...as far as "having something to say on the instrument", it's Rhoads, Van Halen and to a lesser extent Lynch who nailed it.

BATM has a pretty memorable solo, but of the dozens of Jake solos I must have heard over the years, none of the others stuck with me.
I could whistle 15 Rhoads ones right now without even thinking. His compositional/melodic sense is what made him unique, and a thing that shredders never really get to.
It's like, for their generation of players...as far as "having something to say on the instrument", it's Rhoads, Van Halen and to a lesser extent Lynch who nailed it.
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Re: POLL: Is Jake's Bark At The Moon solo the best guitar solo in an Ozzy song?
But does he? He was always more hype than happening...