that's all i care about.. the vault. fuck the reunion...some washed up nostalgia act bullshit... i wanna remember that band at it's peak... not a bunch of 40 or 50 somethings playing the hits.. leave that to the eagles, the police and van halen.....   some washed up cash in... fuck that... i want new fucking music.. as much of it as possible...right now...
CD had severe production issues.. but it doesn't change the fact that the material was pretty goddamn good... i want MORE

tdcau and dangerous....

I agree... zakk's playing made that record at least halfway listenable

he was trying to prove something... as well as early in his solo career... now he either has the "fuck its" or he's spreading himself too thin... either way i think ozzy wants to be the fucking Beatles and do all sorts of different crazy shit.. and it's only gonna come off as cheesy

i keep saying.. when it comes to song writing zakk has gotten extremely lazy...
the pride & glory record... book of shadows and the first 2 black label records are brilliant... after that.. it became more about how much shit can you throw at a wall to make some of it stick... he's kinda been "coasting" ever since... i think that clearly shows on BLS records and the last 2 oz records... granted... he didn't help write "down to earth"... but black rain? i expected something at LEAST in the ball park of no more tears or even ozzmosis... what i got was 3 really good songs and an assload of filler...

having said that...
1.black rain sounds NOTHING like BLS....
2. Zakk isn't the one to blame for oz's shit records.. ozzy is.. there coulda been at LEAST 2 more great songs on black rain... but the production is just sackless...he needs to quit trying to sound fucking modern and just play some fucking songs.. hire a band that has some fucking chemistry and throw down.. the reason no more tears worked is because castillo, inez and zakk wrote great shit he could fucking work with... he brings in lemmy( an excellent song writer in his own right) to help him with lyrics.. and disco...
ozzmosis was great cuz he had zakk and geezer laying down some heavy ass shit and a no nonsense REAL producer that made him take it up a notch(like any GOOD producer should) and the magic was in the results... ozz may have been sour on the experience after the fact.. but noone can deny that was the last really good record he put out...

why the fuck didn't he just keep joe holmes after zakk bounced? homeboy can play.. he had a decent chemistry with trujillo and puffy.. they wrote, IMHO the only good song on DTE together.....
because everyone was clamoring for an oz/zakk reunion... oz knows that beyond randy..  his finest moment was with zakk.. and he capitalized on that...
ozzy's problem isn't that he's gone.. or that he needs a new guitar player... his fucking problem is production/mixing...he puts waaaaaay too much faith in producers.. down to earth was dogshit because ozzy's his own fucking worst enemy.. he hasn't a god damn clue WHAT sounds good anymore...so he hires some guy who "has all the answers" and doesn't require him to bust his ass and sing his balls off and puts all his chips down...

zakk definitely needs to step up his game back to a level that i know he's capable of... but if ANYONE thinks that john 5(or any other guitar player, for that matter) is the cure for what ails ozzy records going forward... they're going to be terribly dissapointed...Zakk's getting fucked right now.. hard... in the ass...without lube.

but maybe.. just maybe.. he'll learn from the experience and start putting out some shit  that he can be proud of...some shit that'll show ozzy he was stupid to can him... like he did the last time....

say say say...

wanna be startin' sumpin'.. is badass.. why on earth would someone think that's a weak MJ track?