POLL: Is Jake's Bark At The Moon solo the best guitar solo in an Ozzy song?

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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?

Post by JamesHetfieldsAcneScars »

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That outro solo is pretty damn cool too.


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Best Randy solo: "Diary Of A Madman"

Best Jake solo: the two solos in "Bark At The Moon"
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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.
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I like Mr Crowley just as much as BATM.

Goodbye to Romance takes the cake for me, through. What a solo.
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Revelation
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No Zakk love yet so here's a vote for No More Tears.

BATM is still probably my favorite, though.
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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
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I consider it 2nd best: after Randy's live solo on Mr. Crowley.
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VinnieVincentsVag wrote: Sat Mar 29, 2025 11:09 am Revelation
Uhhh, this.
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LouCipherr wrote: Sun Mar 30, 2025 3:10 pm
VinnieVincentsVag wrote: Sat Mar 29, 2025 11:09 am Revelation
Uhhh, this.
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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Ryan81 wrote: Sun Mar 30, 2025 2:42 pm 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.
So you're saying it's a mystery?
veritas wrote: Wed May 21, 2025 3:37 pm Wow, late to this thread, but Sleek is pulling a Moggio here.

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Post by Wiseacre »

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.
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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
What the hell was that all about?
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LouCipherr wrote: Sun Mar 30, 2025 3:10 pm
VinnieVincentsVag wrote: Sat Mar 29, 2025 11:09 am Revelation
Uhhh, this.
Just the instrumental/solo section on Revelation is like an entire symphony.
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It is great.

Then again my pick would be:

Centre of Eternity
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Wiseacre wrote: Mon Mar 31, 2025 3:09 am One of the best that wasn’t played by RR maybe.
Or AF.
veritas wrote: Wed May 21, 2025 3:37 pm Wow, late to this thread, but Sleek is pulling a Moggio here.

It's absolutely idiotic to contend Zep weren't A-listers in the 1970s.
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Bono Nettencourt wrote: Mon Mar 31, 2025 2:35 pm
Wiseacre wrote: Mon Mar 31, 2025 3:09 am One of the best that wasn’t played by RR maybe.
Or AF.
Ace never recorded any Ozzy solos or I would have said that.
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Post by Ozzy Stradlin »

Jake’s playing on this deep track is my favorite:

https://youtu.be/r7Sg0B9EfTo?si=NpUXumAV8Ojs8xJO
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Post by Thrasherfan17 »

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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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.
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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" :lol: )

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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Sleek wrote: Wed Apr 02, 2025 11:38 am Zakk is one of those players that, intellectually, I know he rips
But does he? He was always more hype than happening...
veritas wrote: Wed May 21, 2025 3:37 pm Wow, late to this thread, but Sleek is pulling a Moggio here.

It's absolutely idiotic to contend Zep weren't A-listers in the 1970s.
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