Ozzy: Being in a band is dying art

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by rabblerouser

Maybe somewhat, but from what I understand, Tony and Geezer did everything in Sabbath as far as songwriting, Daisley and whatever guitarist was in the band did everything on the 'really good' Ozzy albums (80-95), and everything after has been producers.

Ozzy is a great name, a great character with a unique voice and a one of a kind, once in a lifetime image, capable of generating huge sums of cash on name recognition alone.

He was so ****ed up from 1971-1991 that even he admits that he doesn't remember much from a 20 year stretch, which includes the time he tried to kill his wife in a drunken rage...

I don't see a person in that frame of consciousness being much help at any stage of the actual songwriting process.

Well right, he may not have been of much use in the studio back when he was snorting ants with Nikki Sixx. But I'm sure that when sober, he's had enough experience in the business to have some kind of artistic control over his own music.