Favorite Ozzy guitarist

[Anonymous]

Randy Rhoads, not even a question about it. The others are great, Randy was/is the best Period !

Yeah, my opinion, will never ever change.

 

[Erock4455]

Id say randy was the best but Jake is my favorite. That is of course extending into his solo stuff as well.

 

[rusty1070]

Favorite is Jake.

 

[Mailman1971]

Zakk was so great on No More Tears. It's like a dictionary of the basics of rock guitar. And everything after that is total garbage IMO.

Yeah....agreed. No More Tears such a fantastic CD.
Dont really care for what he is doing these days. Some of the Early Black Label stuff was cool for sure.

 

[mdc1mdc11]

rhoads. Did more on those first 2 albums than the sum of the rest of them in my view.

 

[gtr31]

Zakk was so great on No More Tears. It's like a dictionary of the basics of rock guitar. And everything after that is total garbage IMO.

Yeah....agreed. No More Tears such a fantastic CD.
Dont really care for what he is doing these days. Some of the Early Black Label stuff was cool for sure.

I go with Rhodes, But No more tears Zakks playing was incredible and for people that say he can't solo Mama Im Coming home and No more tears are incredible compositions.

Zakk to me is like Lynch a guy with his own style that played and sounded great for a few years but will not play like that anymore ,for whatever reason

 

[sytharnia1560]

I like how a few people have looked at the thread as "who was ozzy's best guitarist" .... which really could put a very different spin on it

 

[skoora]

Randy for sure. Have you tried playing a wah with platform boots?
Jake's playing on Ultimate Sin never gets old for me but his tone is for shit.

 

[iamjoe]

1. Randy
2. Jake
3. Brad

 

[shredhead7]

Randy was a HUGE influence on me as I was growing up. I still feel that young guitarists or guitarists that want to get better should learn his solos. They aren't out of reach with some practice and they are all perfectly crafted. With years gone by though, I find myself playing to No Rest and No More a lot more, maybe it's because I've heard early Ozzy so much on classic radio that I'm tired of it, who knows. But in the last ten years, Gus G has been one of my favorites, and while I hate the record he played on, he is still a beast on guitar. His playing, like Randy and Zakk's, far exceeds his age. But to answer your question in terms of Ozzy:
Randy
Zakk
Jake

Today
Gus
Zakk
Randy

 

[FUZZboat]

1. Randy Rhoads - The main reason for me is the songs he wrote. All of Ozzy's players are great guitarists, but those tunes Randy wrote with Daisley were dark, dense, and complex. I loved the medieval, classical, baroque vibe of the music, especially DOAMM.

 

[metalmaniac93]

THE WIZARD OF OZZ!!!

 

[sideshowsmitty]

I like all the guitarists Ozzy has had and here are my favorites. Sorry for the length...I started typing and got carried away..lol:

1. Randy Rhoads. Still blows my mind to this day. He has achieved God like status and is my favorite. But....would he be as highly regarded if he lived? If he went back to Quiet Riot, or played in another band and didn't have the Daisley/Kerslake tandem to bring out the best in him? Would he have made a VHIII? We'll never know. He wasn't around long enough to record a bad album. I didn't mean that as a knock on Randy...he was amazing, and was getting better every day and was more dedicated than anyone. Diary is still my all time favorite cd.
2. Jake E Lee: Jake definitely had some brilliant moments with Ozzy. Unfortunately for him, he played with Ozzy at the worst possible time, during Ozzys "glam years". Ozzy was competing with the Motleys, the Poisons, etc. I prefer Jakes Badlands stuff over his Ozzy stuff. He really hasn't released a cd that I haven't liked. He has a very unique style.
3. Zakk Wylde: ZW gets alot of sh*t on this board, and I think its unfortunate. I remember when I first heard Miracle Man, that blazing pentatonic lick and that wide vibrato at the end of the solo were killer! He had great stage presence and wrote some great songs with Ozzy. NRFTW was a good cd for a 19/20 year old kid. He had a great tone and fresh style, as everyone was sweeping back then. I have a hard time listening to some of the lyrics on that one though. No More Tears was great too, and had some killer riffs, solos, and more importantly...songs! Pride & Glory may be my favorite thing Zack did though. Book Of Shadows was good too. Unfortunately like alot of the others on this thread, he lost me with BLS, which to me is just too monotonous. He sounds to me like everything is just on auto pilot and he doesn't put the thought into it as he did his earlier stuff. Because of his output from 88-95, he should get a pass..lol
4. Brad Gillis: The first year I started playing guitar was when Speak Of the Devil came out. I loved his playing on that, and he stepped into a tough gig and did a great job! Here's a bootleg of Symptom Of The Universe from the SOTD show..enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQCFu4-vQ6A Most of the show is on YT..its interesting to hear before Ozzys vocals were fixed.
5. Joe Holmes: Joe played great every time I saw him with Ozzy. He nailed everyones solos that he covered. Unfortunately, he didn't have the stage presence of Randy, Jake, or Zack, which hurt him alot. He also played with Ozzy during the grunge era, and dressed more like a grunge guy than a metal guy which hurt his image imo. I love the Farmikos stuff I've heard. Joe is the only guy to play the song "Diary Of A Madman" live with Ozzy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyOtm9ud3Ac
6. Gus G: Great player, but I haven't heard enough of his stuff. I heard the Scream cd, but its tough to listen to Ozzys over processed vocals, and listening to his new stuff just isn't the same as it was growing up.
7. Bernie Torme: Haven't heard much of him at all. I heard a recent cover he did of Mr Crowley that was terrible. I heard the stuff he did with Dee Snider was real good.

 

[Anonymous]

Randy. And it's as simple as this - if not for Randy, it is fairly likely we'd never heard of any of the other guys... I can certainly make the argument...

Steve

 

[rupe]

Randy. And it's as simple as this - if not for Randy, it is fairly likely we'd never heard of any of the other guys... I can certainly make the argument...

Steve

This

In fact, anybody who didn't say Randy should be punched in the throat

 

[sytharnia1560]

Randy. And it's as simple as this - if not for Randy, it is fairly likely we'd never heard of any of the other guys... I can certainly make the argument...

Steve

but there was a randy and so we got the others, so as much as you might want to make up history you can't really...its as simple as that

 

[sytharnia1560]

In fact, anybody who didn't say Randy should be punched in the throat

thanks for telling us how we are supposed to think...i think the punch you get should be a lot lower than the throat

 

[rupe]

In fact, anybody who didn't say Randy should be punched in the throat

thanks for telling us how we are supposed to think...i think the punch you get should be a lot lower than the throat

Awww, does someone not have a sense of humor? Lighten up cupcake...I'm sure there are more important things for you to whine about.

 

[Sevens]

For me it's Zakk and it's not even a contest. When i was learning to play in 1991 he made Ozzy "cool" again with the Album No More Tears. To me Ozzy was irrelevant and cheesy in the Jake years (great player though) ...and even to a degree the first album with Zakk.

Obviously, Randy was a beast and an inspiration to tons of ppl but for me Zakk was and still is the man.

 

[sytharnia1560]

Awww, does someone not have a sense of humor?

I do ..... obviously went over your head