“It was like Spinal Tap, but worse”: Bassist recalls Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoads’ attempt at writing lyrics
Bass legend Bob Daisley has looked back on a chaotic lyric-writing session between former bandmates Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoads, describing the whole affair as “like Spinal Tap, but worse”.
Speaking to Johnny Beane in a recent chat, the bassist says that his lyricist career began with Osbourne – and that it was “out of necessity” that he eventually took on the role. Prior to joining the Black Sabbath singer’s team, Daisley was part of Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow rock band, where he had very little involvement in writing lyrics.
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“In Rainbow – Ronnie [James Dio, singer] was a good lyricist, so that was sort of monopolised by Ronnie. And Gary Moore was pretty self-sufficient in the writing department so he wrote all his own lyrics,” Daisley explains [via Ultimate Guitar].
“How I first got into it really was that Ozzy wasn’t a lyricist and neither was Randy,” says the musician. “It was only the three of us to start with. And we were auditioning drummers and writing songs at the time.”
“I remember, we were at a rehearsal place called TransAm Trucking in a place called Ilketshall in Suffolk in England. And I came down, it was a live-in situation, and we were auditioning drummers and writing, and I came down one morning, and Ozzy and Randy had tried their hand at writings and lyrics with one of the songs.”
The results? Far from the masterpiece one would probably expect from the two legends.
“And I thought, ‘God, this is awful.’ It was like Spinal Tap, but worse,” Daisley recalls with a laugh. “So I thought, ‘I’m gonna have to wear the lyricist hat.’ And I just thought — we wanted to be self-sufficient, we don’t want to get writers outside of the band and we want to keep it under our roof. So I took on the role of lyricist and lyrics for the songs.”
He adds, “There was a couple where Ozzy had had a line or a title or something like that. But, you know, 99% of it was me.”
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