Boy is Jake E Lee on Fire here.. (yes stuck in the 80's)

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Playing with so much fire and swagger. Sounds great, plays great. Ozzy (or his entourage) sure knew how to pick guitar players.

 
Man... the performance of "I dont know" was insane. SO much friggin energy on that stage. Nice find!!
 
I think it was constant chorus, really gives it that Bark at the Moon or Ultimate Sin sound. Love the fast run in Journey to the Center of Eternity, he plays it perfectly live. Such a unique style and sense of showmanship. Those stretches are also insane, I am sure i have bigger hands than Jake and I can't pull those off consistently.
 
Very cool..thanks for posting this. Jake was an awesome player back in the day. Not at that level anymore but age happens..listened to his new disc and it's got some good stuff on there..
 
I think it was a phaser (or flanger?) that he left on nearly all of the time in those days IIRC.

Great stuff! I saw this tour in Pittsburgh...the first arena concert that I ever went to.
 
That's when Guitar Player's were
GUITAR PLAYER'S!!! Back in the 80's
the Lead Guitar player commanded just
as much attention as the Frontman (if not more).
Jake had Style, Chops and Presence...
right along side of Eddie, Vai, Randy, Satriani
Yngwie, Lynch, Schenker, Gary Moore, etc...
GOOD STUFF!!
 
You'd think with chorus or flange on all the time it would get lost in the mix but it doesn't.
 
That Bark at the Moon intro pretty much gave me wood...until Ozzy started singing at least...lol.
 
Inca Roads":jj0f8jxx said:
That's when Guitar Player's were
GUITAR PLAYER'S!!! Back in the 80's
the Lead Guitar player commanded just
as much attention as the Frontman (if not more).
Jake had Style, Chops and Presence...
right along side of Eddie, Vai, Randy, Satriani
Yngwie, Lynch, Schenker, Gary Moore, etc...
GOOD STUFF!!
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x2 ... :thumbsup:
 
I saw that tour, Metallica was the opening act, with Cliff Burton no less. Epic night.

Edit- Actually I saw the Ultimate Sin tour this looks like the BATM tour.
 
I am 45. I saw Ozzy with Jake like 6-7 times. He was amazing... I had such a guitar crush on him lol. Posters everywhere. I even have an Ozzy tattoo on my fingers... ahahaha.

Altogether, I have seen Ozzy probably upwards of 30 times. Most with Zakk.

He felt like he had zero input with Ozzy. He was a hired gun and that was it. The icing on the cake was Ozzy's substance abuse and the fact that Ozzy flipped out and fired him.

Love Badlands too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVZb9vL5svI

Back in the late 80s and early 90s was a totally different place for guitar and I am encouraged by the recent revival of sorts of this type of music.

I am starting a band like this in the genre sense. Maybe a little more southern blues rock influence.
 
Great find.. that was just an awesome concert. Haha I loved the "iron man" waiter.

Jake had some serious skills. Played all the classics too.

Thanks for posting.
 
that concert video is the whole reason I started playing guitar in 1985 ... jake was so awesome on stage :rock: :rock:
 
That's the thing, guys like Jake taught us not only how to shred , but he also taught a presence. Simply put, guys don't have this stage presence much anymore at all. (unless they are 80's rockers themselves)
 
I like Zakk and he and Ozzy wrote some killer songs together but Jake was THE man in that band. Back in the day I stole more of his moves than his licks :>) thanks for posting this
 
I saw that tour in Chicago. Motley Crue opened up for them. That was my first concert experience. Hell of show for your first time.

I remember taping that concert off of MTV when it aired. He became one of my favorite guitarists of the time based on that concert. He put on a great show. I particularly remember him abusing the shit out of that Charvel during Suicide Solution, but that Charvel held up.

Awesome. I'm glad that concert is still around so I can show my son. Thanks for posting as I always wondered about it but never got around to looking for it.
 
No man crush intended but Jake is one of the few guitarists I like to watch and not just listen to. So much attitude and swagger.
 
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