I love how honest Jake is. His openness. "It was never fun to party with Ozzy." Haha!

Jake has always been a class act.

How can you not just love Jake. I swear.

Jake is so honest, I love this interview omg! Big fan for life.

I’ve always said the same thing about Jake. His Rhythm parts are insane. Great solos but it took me longer to learn his rhythm parts than his solos. Bark at the Moon is a perfect example of that. I could never play the last solo bit with my thumb like he does either. Jake, anyone with half a brain knows and knew you wrote that stuff. Ozzy never struck me as a guy that knows a G from an A chord on any instrument.

Can just imagine having Jake in front of me, drinking JD’s , guitar in hand and listening to his stories . You can never get sick of his stories, so honest and interesting

Jake is amazing, awesome guitar player, criminally underrated.

Jake E Lee, totally bare bones guy. What you see is what you get. It reflects in his playing. I love it.

Jake is the most underrated guitarist of all time, with Badlands being the most underrated band! I recently checked out a video of Ray with Sabbath and OMG is he awesome. Covers Ozzy and Dio and STILL manages to sound like Ray in the process. Ray had my favorite voice in rock, bar none. Pity he died too soon!

That last part about Ozzy being drunk humming him a tune is soooooo hilarious!!!!

Oh my, Ozzy drunk at night waking up Jake for a new song, LMFAO! Jake is amazing at telling these stories and doing Ozzy's voice, lol...

@DrkKnight2

5 жыл бұрын

I laughed for over an hour.

@fistoftulkas7335

5 жыл бұрын

I keep coming back, how Jake tells the story is hilarious, lol...

@booshting3520

4 жыл бұрын

@@DrkKnight2 Me, 1 hour and 3 minutes

“Holy shit can you hum that again?” LMAO🤣🤣🤣

Jake is a cool guy to listen to, the man is a guitar beast and guitar god as well.🤘

Many love Jake E Lee, but in my opinion he is still underrated. He should have been way bigger than he already is. Bark At The Moon album is the album that changed my life back in 1987 at eight years old. It is the album that got me into Hard Rock/Heavy Metal music big time, and it was because of Jake's guitar playing. I love everything that Jake has done,and he is one of the coolest guys ever. Shame on Sharon and Ozzy for screwing Jake over songwriting royalties and for firing him. In my opinion Jake is Ozzy's greatest guitar player, and I love Randy big time.

@livingbeing1113

9 ай бұрын

Absolutely agree. Jake is the best player Ozzy ever worked with.

Not known how many times I am coming back here to listen to his Ozzy insanity story. Jake is too good at telling funny story.

Jake is one funny and interesting guy to listen to .

What are the odds that Ozzy got two great people, as well as guitarists, in a row with Randy and Jake. Great people and players.

Fan from the get-go here!! Love Jake E Lee!! Living Legend in my eyes!! Keep doing what you do Jake! You're probably the most genune and real musician/personality that's been through it all and come out at the other end still doing what you do on your own terms!! Much Love!!🤘☢🤘

I just heard this interview...hilarious!!! And awesome!

Epic interview, thanks to both of you guys taking the time, including Jakes wife ; ) , I shared it on 'the gear page' also so a whole bunch of players and fans stop by that really have enjoyed Jakes awesome Career and Love the new RDC material. We all come out to support you as well, super cool stuff. Thanks again!

Great interview! Jake is definitely one of my top guitarist of all time. Love listening to his stories

Love the way Jake speaks from the heart Bark at the Moon is one of the all time best songs ever :-)

Jake E Lee is a really cool dude . I read an interview in a guitar magazine years ago , and there was no bitterness and cursing when talking about problems musicians had with Sharon and Ozzy . It's kinda sad it didn't work out because his first major recording and touring was with Ozzy . And he did a great job . He was still just a kid it seemed . Totally naive it seemed . Then just recently Ozzy claimed Jake was trying to take control of him . Ridiculous . Again , just a nice guy .

I was a huge fan of Rhoads and I'll admit I never paid a lot of attention to Jake at the time. I was familiar enough with Bark at the Moon, but had mostly moved on from Ozzy. My band recently decided to try BATM, as we already do a bunch of the Rhoads tunes. Wow, I gotta say, that tune is super fun to play and really tough to get right. I'm listening to a lot of Badlands and Red Dragon Cartel now and Jake is a monster player! Lots of tasteful shredding, great compositions that really showcase his version of the SoCal sound of the 80's.

It is fascinating to hear Jake talk about his songwriting style he is a fucking great player and very humble

The last story is hilarious! 😂🤣

I did not spend a lot of time listening to him on those days...NOW when I hear him and understand I little of his phrasings..and his techniques..I REALLY appreciate him even more.

The nicest heavy guitarist out there. Totally.

That was a great story about Ozzy humming/grunting new song ideas! I clicked on this video thinking I had heard all the stuff about Jake/Ozzy and the B.A.T.M./Ultimate Sin era but that was golden!

Great interview. Very informative. Jake is a guitar God.

Best interview with Jake E Lee ever

Best guitarist alive.

Great interview

awesome interview

great interview man

Hell of an interview! Stuff I never knew and very interesting to a 46 year old metalhead! Awesome 👍

That was so f**kin funny. Lee's great.

Jake is funny & cool guy....................................

Luv Jake always favorite guitar player

Once this pandemic ends, I hope guitar clinics become a thing again and Jake does a few. He’s got a loyal fan base that would totally wanna meet him.

Kids, always make your own deal in life.

At about 5:40 Jake mentions that his style was too American for Dio and his rhythm playing was too busy. That's spot on. I always felt that Ronnie wanted the guitar to be subordinate to his vocal dynamics. He didn't like very groovy rhythms. He also spent a number of years playing with Blackmore in Rainbow and Iommi in Sabbath. Now, Tony is a very groovy player, and he had the upper hand in Sabbath. But I think Ronnie got the idea that a weaker style of rhythm playing, like Ritchie's, was more complimentary to his vocal style and let him be the star of the show. Although Holy Diver has some groovy rhythms I can't say that of any other Dio album. It's all middle of the road horse riding.

Only 2 guitars I can always picture in my head. Jakes and Eddies.

Sharon Osbourne ripped off a whole generation of musicians.

George Lynch wasn’t in Dokken in 1979 when Randy got the Ozzy gig. Greg Leon was Dokken’s guitarist and they did do a small tour of Germany. Leon left Dokken at the end of 1979 to take over Randy’s spot in Quiet Riot and George took over Randy’s spot as a guitar teacher at Randy’s mom school. Jake always tells the story wrong. George did get the gig over Jake but then cut his hair short and had the two tone color which Sharon hated so Ozzy ended up giving Jake the job instead even though he screwed up his audition by confusing parts of crazy train and I don’t know. Fact.

@livingbeing1113

9 ай бұрын

Jake didn't get anything wrong, he never said Lynch got the gig, just that George was seriously considered by Ozzy at the beginning of his solo career, with Randy.

Absolute gun with more chops than a sheep paddock

13:30 for Ozzy trying to hum a song to jake

13:30 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 that’s gold

@Twotontessie

5 жыл бұрын

Great stuff! DAMN FUNNY

Hilarious ozzy story.

No disrespect but How could you not be familiar with Blizzard of Oz songs? Crazy Train I Don't Know

that clack and white charvel is legendary. Im my world at least;)

Ozzy has a public image as this great guy, but jesus did he treat people like crap

That would have been a great song ONLY if Jake would've listened 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 🎸

Jake is a phenomenal guitarist and so much more. Elated for the man getting hired by Oz, but a very bad fucking deal by Ozzy and Sharon. It got his foot in the door. He is a great regular guy and I'm just happy that he's out there doing his thing.

Life’s a Bitch, but Man-O-Man you gave us some of the Best funkin Music & original guitar ever written you should look at your stuff in tab it’s like Beethoven or Bach or Paginni grown men will be learning it in a thousand years or maybe be taught in elementary school music class to the kids

13:17 LMAO !

Haha so funny 😂

Could’ve had an updated version of Sweet Leaf with that hum.

@jb1934

Жыл бұрын

I've read elsewhere that RR disliked the older material, but I've often wondered whether a guy like him, Jake Lee or George Lynch couldn't have found a creative way to 'reboot' some of those classics. Kick-starting them from the 70's into the 80's with up-tempo, pedal tone rhythms, and shredding new solos. Would the songs sustain that kind of a make-over? or would it just be a waste of time. Loved this interview! thanks for posting. I have tried and failed to play Bark at the Moon, the 24'th note tremolo picking and the fingerspan reach required for that outro lick are far beyond what my ordinary hand is capable of, but I listen to the recording and it sounds so easy.

I love Jake but I bet he is so sick of being tied to Ozzy, that was over 30 years ago and Jake has created way more music that I'm sure he'd rather talk about and have advertised in these interviews.

Jake is the reason I wanted to play guitar after listening to Blizzard of Oz

@yygg4720

5 жыл бұрын

but jake didn't play on blizzard of ozz!

@rmftc1

5 жыл бұрын

@@yygg4720 So, what's your point after all? After Dalton finished listing to Sven in the Blizzard of Ozz he eventually listend to some impressive tunes from Jake and immediately got initiallized to start playing the guitar?! :-) No big deal with integrity of the message ... :-)

@leecolton7995

5 жыл бұрын

Jackie Lee wasn't with Ozzy during Blizzard of ozz, JK Lee to join us into a bark at the Moon in fact Jake wrote bark at the moon!

I app hearing from Jake Lee Sorry more Sharon and Ozzy robbing and cheating WTF is their deal

@DizGuys

5 жыл бұрын

She's a greedy, manipulative, deeply corrupt pos

@foghornnosehorn8383

5 жыл бұрын

@@DizGuys She's like a heavy metal God's manager version of Hillary Clinton.

@Afurthyclays

4 жыл бұрын

Foghorn Nosehorn ^^^ THIS!!!

@TheOnlyHollywood1

4 жыл бұрын

Do we think Ozzy had anything to do with it?

@Afurthyclays

4 жыл бұрын

Anand R. Misir He certainly didn't object. I don't think he hatched a plan from the start, but.....

Now I know why Sharon and Ozzy canned Jake, it’s because he insisted on publishing credits, they found another guitarist that would forego writing credits, Zak

@Kents1969

4 жыл бұрын

Im thinking Ozzy finally felt so guilty that he threw him a bone with Stilborn...

Well, now we know how Ozzy has stayed profitable. SHARON!! It's like Ozzy and Sharon were looking for the most down on their luck guys so they could kick em to the curb in the very near future. I'm pretty sure they would have fucked over Randy if he was still around.

@scottcastro9383

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t think there is any question.

He looks like Diane Keaton.

Thank god Lynch turned down the gig with Ozzy and Randy took over!

@halcon7000

5 жыл бұрын

Ozzy actually channeling the devil with his demon alcohol turning then into an obnoxious a*hole , I know talented guys that have that issue and makes them unbearable when drunk Kudos Jake for pushing thru..

@metallion0738

5 жыл бұрын

And because of that decision Randy is not with us anymore, sad but true, and I don't think God almighty had to do with this, it was a bad choice to hump on that plain where Rhoads had to travel.

@fistoftulkas7335

5 жыл бұрын

I personally always thought that Randy's death wasn't probably "accident"... He wanted out of the band, he revived Ozzy's career, they didn't know how lucky they woukd get, AGAIN, finding Jake, so i'm sure Sharon was concerned about the money... After what Bob Daisley wrote in his book, with Ozzy punching Randy in the face when he knew he wanted out, and Sharon changing Rhoads's contract moments after his death, everything really doesn't sound right, who knows...

Wendy dio and sharon osbourne made no present for the musicians of their husbands.With more interesting contracts for musicians music would have been better. They manage the business, not the artistic aspect

Why the fuck does Jake get fired so damn much?? I saw The Ultimate Sin tour with Metallica in 86!!!

@livingbeing1113

9 ай бұрын

He was only fired by Ozzy really. In Dio he was basically just being a session player.

Wow! Ozzy wasn’t honorable man. But Sharon is part Jewish and her father Jewish, so do the math.

Tipton was better than both you and Eddie

@livingbeing1113

9 ай бұрын

My ass. Jake was the best player in rock/metal between 1980 and 1984.

Of all Ozzy Osbourne's guitar players I think Jake E Lee would be the best to you reunite with

So Tired was his bost soli