During a recent interview with Tone-Talk, Bob Daisley had slammed the 2002 ‘Blizzard of Ozz’ re-recordings.
“Yeah, that sort of stuff happens. I’ve seen it with people like the Rolling Stones and that to how they take Bill Wyman out of photographs and change things or rewrite history and that… I mean really when you think about it, it’s pathetic,” the bassist said.
Daisley had made a similar statement before. In a 2021 chat with Rolling Stone, he was asked how he felt after finding out they re-recorded his parts on the first two Ozzy albums. The rocker replied, “To be honest with you, I thought it was pathetic. Someone sent me a copy of one of them, and I laughed. I thought, ‘Is this a joke?’”
He continued, “I just didn’t think it was done right. The thing is, you can’t reheat a soufflé. You can’t take the ingredients out of a cake and then try and bake it again. It happened once. We did various takes of each song and we used the parts where each of us shined the best.”
“There might be five takes of ‘Crazy Train’ or four takes of something else, or eight takes of something else, and we picked the one that had the best vibe. And it was four people being recorded in a room together. You can’t change that,” Bob mentioned.
The musician concluded his words, “And the fans hated them for it. It was like, ‘God, you’ve got no respect for the fans and everyone that spends money on this music.’ They were hated for it. I’m just quoting what fans said, not me.”
In 1986, Daisley and Lee Kerslake sued Ozzy for unpaid royalties and won songwriting credits for ‘Blizzard of Ozz’ and ‘Diary of a Madman.’ In 2002, the albums were reissued with new bass and drum parts recorded by Mike Bordin and Robert Trujillo.
Sharon Osbourne claimed that Ozzy wanted to remove Daisley and Kerslake due to their behavior; however, Ozzy later stated that it was actually Sharon’s decision and that he was unaware of it. The initial reissue of the albums did not include a sticker explaining these changes, but this was added later in response to fan complaints. In 2003, their lawsuit was dismissed. The 30th Anniversary editions of the albums now feature the original recordings.
