Drummer Comments On Guitarists 'I'll Kick His Ass' Statement
According to blabbermouth.net, former Nirvana drummer/current Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has responded to Zakk Wylde's infamous 2001 quote in which the Ozzy Osbourne guitarist threatened to "kick [Grohl's] ass" because he wrote this "cheese-dick song for Ozz" that Wylde had to play on during the recording sessions for Osbourne's "Down To Earth" CD.
In the November 2001 issue of Guitar World, Wylde said, "If I ever run into Dave Grohl, I'm gonna kick his fuckin' ass, because I think he sucks, and he wrote this cheese-dick song for Ozzy that I have to fuckin' play on, and I'll never forgive him for that. Foo Fighters is a fuckin' candy-ass girl band, but you've got that motherfucker submitting songs [to Ozzy], too. I mean, none of these guys could play a Randy Rhoads solo if they tried. Dave Grohl? Fuck Dave Grohl! Let him get up there and play 'Mr. Crowley'-he can't fuckin' do it! And it's like, you're getting this guy to write songs for Ozzy? Just because he played drums for fucking Shitvana?"
Speaking to Sweden's metal magazine Close-Up for its February/March 2004 issue, Grohl stated, "It's funny, 'cause a long time ago-this is maybe four years ago-I got a call from someone who said, 'Would you like to write some songs for Ozzy's record?' I thought, 'Yeah, fuck that'd be amazing, great.' So I wrote a couple of riffs, recorded them and did demos. I thought it would be great if Ozzy had a new record that was like old school. A really raw recording, really raw riffs with melody, but just fucking raw. So I wrote these two instrumentals and I sent them to him, but I never heard anything from them ever again. I never heard from the label, I never heard from Sharon and I never heard from anybody. So I thought they didn't like them. The song that King Diamond sings [on the Probot album] and the song that Eric Wagner from Trouble sings, those are the two songs that I wrote for Ozzy. They're not the exact same instrumental recordings, but those are the same riffs. That's what I was gonna hand to him. I was like, 'Here man, let's do this old-school shit,' but I never heard from him. . . I didn't think they'd use them so I thought 'Oh, cool, I'll just put them on this Probot record.' But those were the [exact] same two songs and I thought they sounded kinda cool. But I can understand. If I were Zakk Wylde… He's an amazing guitar player, there's no question about it, the guy's an incredible guitar player. If my singer wanted other people to write the songs, I'd be fucking pissed too. I'd be really pissed off, I'd be like, 'Wait a second, I can write music. Why are you asking someone else?' So I understand why he's pissed off. But it is those two songs and I though those riffs were kinda cool. I think maybe they recorded one, but never used it. But I don't know which one they recorded, 'cause I've never heard from anybody."
