Back in 2012, former Ozzy Osbourne bassist Bob Daisley explained that the 30th-anniversary editions of Ozzy’s classic “Blizzard Of Ozz” and “Diary Of A Madman” albums could have featured rehearsal material with Randy Rhoads as bonus content.
“I offered to supply tapes of our rehearsals and writing sessions, to go as proper bonus material,” Daisley previously said. “And I just said that I wanted a royalty out of it, because it’s my stuff. But they wouldn’t do it because they didn’t want to give me a royalty — they just wanted to buy it.”
“You can hear the songs changing, the different parts taking shape, and all this stuff would have been perfect bonus material for the box set. Sadly, the Osbournes are just too greedy and self-absorbed.”
On the most recent episode of their podcast, The Osbournes discussed the “Holy Grail” rehearsal tapes that Daisley was referring to and shared the reasons for why the recordings have never seen the light of day.
Ozzy’s son Jack suggested that it should be up to Rhoads’ family to decide on the release of the recordings. Sharon responded: “Exactly.” Ozzy, however, also chimed in saying: “The quality sucks. The quality is f*cking dreadful.”
Sharon agreed adding: “It was recorded on a little cassette machine — on a tiny little cassette machine. And yeah, it’s not for us to do anything with.”
Daisley also previously told Songfacts’ Greg Prato: “The fans suffered. Everybody wants to hear that stuff and I was willing to put it out there. But I said, I’m not just giving it to her. Because also what I have to be careful of is if they control it, they can edit it to make it sound like that same old fairytale that they come up with about how Ozzy and Randy wrote everything, which is total bollocks.”
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