Zakk wylde guitar rig no more tears3/5/2024 It all came out of that time of my life - that’s how Black Label Society was born…”īack to Pride And Glory, in stark contrast to its southern musical roots, the album was recorded in Seattle with producer Rick Parashar. I did Book Of Shadows but I wasn’t ready to do just the mellow stuff like James Taylor. Nothing happening with Guns and I wasn’t playing with Ozzy anymore. “Eventually, Ozzy said, ‘I gotta make a move dude, I’m going to get somebody else !’ There was nothing I could say I was completely bummed out because I loved playing with him. If it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t even have been talking to them. “So I remember calling the Guns guys, asking them if we were going to do this because I couldn’t let the boss down. “But after a while it felt like nothing was happening and Ozzy was telling me, ‘Zakk, if you can’t find out what’s going on with the fellas, I gotta get another guitar player.’ He couldn’t sit there waiting around for me – of course I said, ‘Sure, I understand that Ozz!’” We also recorded some stuff over at Duff’s house. We were just jamming and having a lot of fun. “So we did that – Axl was there, as was Slash, Duff, Matt, Dizzy and of course myself. “After getting back to New York from tracking that, I was home for about a week or so and then Axl said, ‘Hey man, you wanna come down and jam with us?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, no problem!’ I was writing a lot of riffs at the time, and at the same time I was doing Ozzmosis. “I’d never met Axl before, but I knew Slash, Duff and Steven Adler… I also knew Matt Sorum as well, from when he was playing in The Cult. We were friends anyways so it was just a matter of going down there.Īfter a while it felt like nothing was happening and Ozzy was telling me, ‘Zakk, if you can’t find out what’s going on with the fellas, I gotta get another guitar player’ “It wasn’t so much an audition for me – obviously the guys already knew the kind of guitar I play, between all the Ozzy stuff and Pride And Glory. The following year you almost ended up joining Guns N’ Roses. It was just the three of us playing exactly the way we would on stage.” There were very few overdubs on that record. “When we recorded each take, it was live. Or even The Jimi Hendrix Experience, a power trio going through a ton of jamming. “But Pride And Glory felt more like Cream, three guys in a room doing some improv, meets The Allman Brothers. That approach is more like building a house starting with the drums, getting takes that everyone is happy with against some scratch guitar and bass tracks which later get redone and doubled and layered. “Even the Book Of Shadows records were more about the songs rather than the improv. I guess Black Label Society is more in tune with that way of working. “When we did that one it was like the 360 of doing the Ozzy records where I was doubling all my guitars. Pride And Glory felt more like Cream, three guys in a room doing some improv, meets The Allman Brothers Recording Pride And Glory must have felt completely different to making albums with Ozzy Osbourne – it certainly sounds that way… By his own admission, the mid-'90s were an interesting time for the singer/guitarist – here he reflects on the making of Pride And Glory’s only album, recently reissued with seven bonus tracks, the ingredients to his unmistakable tone and his brief involvement with Guns N’ Roses…
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