Bob Daisley, who played bass on Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘Blizzard of Ozz’ album and its supporting tour, recently discussed his role in the project with Guitar World.
The bassist spoke of getting dismissed from the band and later suing the Osbournes over unpaid royalties and accreditation, as well.
“It’s not about ‘this one doing that’ or ‘these two did that’ — it was a chemistry and a coming together of energies,” Daisley said of his fallout with Osbourne’s camp.
“It was meant to happen; it affected a lot of lives in a positive way,” he argued. “I’d like people to know that the music and the band were four people, not one. A band called The Blizzard of Ozz came along and did a couple of albums. Then, there was no more.”
The interviewer then pointed out how many attributed album credits to Randy Rhoads and Ozzy Osbourne while Daisley and Lee Kerslake also greatly contributed to its songwriting.
“They were trying to get rid of Lee Kerslake while we were on tour,” the bassist recalled. “I just couldn’t agree with something I thought was wrong — I said, ‘Look, it’s not broken. Stop trying to fix it.’ Eventually, they got rid of both of us; but after six weeks, I got a call saying, ‘Will you come back?’”
“I said, ‘I’ll record, I’ll co-write, but I’m not going on the road with you, and I’m not coming back into the band.’ I remember during one of the writing sessions for ‘Bark at the Moon,’ Ozzy said, ‘I’d forgotten how much you had to do with writing the songs.’”
“They’ve promoted the Ozzy/Randy-only thing and it’s inaccurate. People thought that because we used to come out at shows to ‘Carmina Burana’ by Carl Orff, a classic piece, it was Randy’s idea because he was into classical. No, it was mine. I came up with that idea,” he concluded.
Daisley continued his collaboration with the Osbournes, writing and recording for other albums like ‘Bark at the Moon,’ ‘The Ultimate Sin,’ and ‘No Rest for the Wicked’ in the 1980s.
He also played on every track of 1991’s ‘No More Tears’ but parted ways with them after that.