Blizzard of Ozz, released in the early 81’s was a stunning eye opener for the members of Black Sabbath. Having fired Ozzy, Black Sabbath lost its fan following after having pulled in Ronnie James Dio.
After having recruited randy rhoads, the ex guitarist of Quite Riot, Ozzy took the world by storm. Having figured out to phrase his vocals, he was able to break away from his patented style of singing to the tune of the guitars. With his passion for the darker side of life, which many critics who mistook this for Satan worshiper, has been perfected with this album.
Randy, already an established guitarist, was able 2 base him self on Ritchie Blackmore’s dark gloomy styles. Self taught as a classical guitarist, randy was able to the unthinkable....fuse the classical style of guitaring to the metal version and that sound had been perfected only by this 22 year old guitarist.
Ozzy has the unbeatable knack of assembling awesome backup musicians and this helped him set the level of music for years to come
A must buy album....rumor has it that this tape is so rare that it’s worth a lotta of money....maybe I outta put my tape up for auction :)