Bob Daisley: The Power Of The Blues

Daisley’s otherworldly rhythmic and melodic sensibility adds a nuanced, Paul McCartney-like touch to his bass lines and firmly cements his place among rock’s most influential players.

Bob Daisley: The Power Of The Blues

Daisley’s otherworldly rhythmic and melodic sensibility adds a nuanced, Paul McCartney-like touch to his bass lines and firmly cements his place among rock’s most influential players.

In the rock bass world, Bob Daisley really needs no introduction. His playing on Ozzy Osbourne’s first two post-Black Sabbath records, Blizzard of Ozz [Jet, 1980] and Diary of a Madman[Jet, 1981], is essential listening for any would-be rock bassist. Daisley’s otherworldly rhythmic and melodic sensibility adds a nuanced, Paul McCartney-like touch to his bass lines in now-classic songs like “Crazy Train, “I Don’t Know,” “Flying High Again,” “Believer,” and “Tonight,” firmly cementing his place among rock’s most influential players. Ozzy’s band and songwriting team (which included guitarist Randy Rhoads and drummer Lee Kerslake, along with Daisley, who was also the group’s primary lyricist) helped rescue Ozzy from exile and catapulted the singer’s solo career into the stratosphere. Prior to working with Ozzy, Daisley had been a member of the last incarnation of the Ronnie James Dio-fronted Rainbow, originators of what is today known as neo-classical hard
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