Zakk Wylde said, years back, that "The Rose Petalled Garden" off of the first Black Label record was born from his rehearsals with Guns...

Specifically, it was a song he was working on primarily with Duff...

So, those songs could have just been rough sketches that were used by everyone's post Guns projects...

Sammy is poppin' his stupid fucking gums again...

I can't provide the link as I'm posting via text, but he said, about the cancelled dates:" I'm surprised it took this long... Chickenfoot this... Van Halen that... David Lee Roth hit me with a wiffleball bat..." etc...

Seriously, Sam.. Get the fuck over it already..

I remember seeing that shirt in those "rockabillia" ads... I figured that it was a sign that the ball was rolling ... little did I know..

that seller has all kindsa cool shit that I would love to get my chubby mitts on...

I understand. That's just how shit goes, man... It's no different than any other dead musician. (Dimebag, Cliff Burton, etc.)

Make no mistake.. I completely agree. That's why you N' me are boys, Axlin. We're on the same wavelength...

EXAMPLE: I just watched "God Bless Ozzy Osbourne" the other day... 70% of the film was great. The other 30% was the same, boring Ozzy bullshit we've all heard a million times. Including, but not limited to, the Randy shit. Look.. We get it. You were down in the dumps, after being fired by Sabbath, and the kid came in and renewed your career... He was brilliant, and amazing, and a really nice guy, and your best friend, and he was taken from you too soon.

Enough, already...
One cannot help but wonder, that if Zakk Wylde had died, tragically, back in 1993 if Ozzy would have been sayin the same shit about him. The fact is... Even though the dude is still with us, he should be, anyway.

After Randy died, Ozzy began a slow descent into addiction, insanity, relative obscurity... and extreme parody. He became a caricature of himself, and almost irrelevant. Then, in '88.. This 19 year old gas station attendant from Jersey joined his band, and together, they reclaimed Ozzy's artistic integrity, and produced some of his finest work in "No More Tears" and.. to a lesser extent, "Ozzmosis".

Zakk is just as responsible for resuscitating and revitalizing Osbourne's career as Randy... Yet, he almost never recieves any credit.

Mr Wylde has since, sort of turned into a parody if himself, as well.. But there is no denying the fact that back then... he pulled Ozz out of the malaise of the mid 80's and ushered in a new era of back-to-basics quality Hard Rock. He was the perfect combination of Randy and Jake, while bringing a certain "Slash-ness" to the mix, as well. He could play fast without sounding like a fucking show off, and wrote amazing songs with the old man... Until he bounced to do "Pride & Glory"...

Just ONCE, I'd like to hear some "Ozzy Historian" acknowledge Wylde's historical significance... Not just Randy's...

*EDIT* And, for the record... Nobody will ever touch that touring lineup of Ozz/Zakk/Inez/Castillo...