Comeback Artists

Hey guys its been quite while since I've put a post,anyways better late than never.I was wondering for the past few days what I can write about,I switched VH1 and I saw the latest Eagles album and a comeback after 28 years,there it was comeback artists.....


I thought a lot about who are the artists I can write about and I came up with a artist names anyways I better start before I begin to bore everyone..... Lets start!!!!




Ozzy Osbourne :

John Michael Osbourne aka Prince of Darkness,sufferred from dyslexia at a young age making his childhood tough,but joined forces with school buddy Tony Iommi to start Black Sabbath,one of the early Metal bands in the UK,Black Sabbath had a good thing going with Chart Toppers such as Paranoid being inspired by the era of Pyschedelic Rock mixed with blues but sadly the end was near...1979 Ozzy was fired from Sabbath largely due to drug abuse and replaced by none other than Ronnie James DIO,classic guys will recognise DIO,anyways meanwhile Ozzy went into depression but was convinced to get his act together and start fresh by none other than Sharon Arden Band manager Don Arden's daugther who now is Ozzy's wife Sharon Osbourne

Ozzy hired Bob Daisley ex Rainbow guitarist and none other that the great Randy Roads of Quiet Riot starting Ozzy's 1st album Blizzard of Ozz in 1980 and simplified the bands name to The Ozzy Osbourne Band which.......ultimately became Ozzy Osbourne,the band toured extensively which gained them popularity which followed the release of their second album "Diary of a Madman" which focused more into classic rock,but on March 1982 Ozzy had fate strike him down again due to a prank.....A light aircraft carrying Randy Roads and pal Andrew Aycock flying the plane without owner consent crashed after the rear wing clipped due to collision with the tour bus killing Randy and Andrew,autopsy showed traces of cocaine in Andrew's blood which led to all this .Ozzy hit a roadblock yet another time in his career when all was going well things just fell apart.....

The band took a while to get over Randy's death(Randy died at 25) but looked hard for a guitarist to take his place which was very hard...Come 1983 Ozzy found guitarist Jake E Lee who worked on great songs such as Bark at The Moon , Rock and Roll Rebel and the biggest hit of the 80's 'Shot in the Dark' from the album Ultimate Sin....

but Lee and Osbourne parted ways in 1987 due to musical differences after which Ozzy found the reincarnation of Randy Roads in a young guy called Zakk Wylde at a New Jersey gas station!! Zakk at 19 got the biggest break of life playing with the greatest acts in Metal of the late 80's and came up with several more albums such as No Rest for the Wicked, Just say Ozzy...

Streaming into the 90's with the hit No More Tears Ozzy became one of the greatest acts alongside Judas Priest,Queensryche and many more...now this time Ozzy was running on a lucky streak,his biggest commercial success was of the OZZFEST in 1990 managed by wife Sharon and son Jack.A festival of many artists who can potray their talent,and guys listen to this
OZZFEST has given the stage and the entry to the gates of Rock n Roll to bands such as Limp Bizkit,System of a Down,Korn,Linkin Park,Sepultura,Megadeth,Slayer who now are bands who I know most of you guys would be headbanging to....... after which Ozzy released Ozzmosis in '95 after which Ozzy went in to oblivion !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2001 : I remember i didn't sleep for 3 days waiting for the release of this album
DOWN to Earth released 16th October 2001 ,people said that its really hard for a success after such a long period,but the Prince of Darkness soared to the top of the charts within 48 hrs of the release in the UK and US,I personally felt the album was kickass!! Bravo Ozzy!!! after this next realease was after Bassist Robert Trujillo left to Metallica to replace their bassist Jason Newstead in 2003,with Prince Of Darkness being released in 2005 which is just more of a tribute to classic rock artists like The Beatles,David Bowie,Steppenwolf and many more..

Finally we have yet another Ozzy album released this year,sadly I haven't been able to check it out as its just out : Ozzy - Black Rain!

That was Ozzy a true comeback artist!!Black sabbath who!!! :)

The Mystery Of Led Zeppelin

Hey guys been a long time,for quite a while I wanted to cover this topic but whenever i sat to write this neva came into my head,anyways....all of you must have atleast heard about Led Zeppelin atleast the song Stairway to Heaven,for some it must have been the first song they tried to play on the guitar,was for me :)....Led Zepp during their peak were one of the greatest rock bands of the 70's,a quartet of astounding talents namely Jimmy Page --Robert Plant--John Paul Jones --and John Bonham,but I'm very sure a lot of you would have seen the 4 symbols associated with the band on many album covers,rock shows....and wondered what they exactly the meant....thats what I'm gonna tell you today


Starting off with Robert Plant(lead vocals),the husky sound of Zeppelin,the pansy.....the symbol to your left is associated with him.The circle with a feather in it,apparently this is the feather of Ma'at who was an egyptian Goddess of justice and fairness and this symbol basically the emblem of a writer





The next symbol is 3 intersecting circles denoting a man-wife-child trilogy according to Greek Mythology also meaning a person who is very powerful and a master of his domain,this symbol represented John Bonham





Next is none other than the symbol of whom I would refer to the most talented but yet silent member in the band,its none other than John Paul Jones,the symbol on the left is a symbol of 3 vesica pieces which symbolises a person with competence,confidence and a person who is a master at more that 1 thing(exactly what John was),this symbol also appears as a watermark on the American declaration,most of you must have seen it either in cryptography books or even in the 2004 movie National Treasure starring Nicholas Cage




And this one I have delibrately kept it for the last as it has such a amazing meaning to it.This symbolises Jimmy Page most of you who have seen this before would be reffering to it as ZOSO but it has more to reveal than the eye can tell and a little spooky ... starting off

"O-O" = Knowledge of creation,a futher meaning is it could signify eternity,black magicians used to believe that the full understanding of eternity could open the doors of hell...

"S" the S is the middle which seperates the "O-O" is the symbol of Samhain the Wican Sabbath

the "Z" signifies subcounscious or death or as a matter of fact spirutal secrets from the dead

and last but not the least the sweeping line at the bottom means opening the way or the sum of all things in the universe which is basically also represents Page's Guitar

Now how was that Phew,pretty amazin huh it sure is .........

Music Then & Now!!!!!!!!!!!

Heylo guys how have you been, all these days I have been giving you knowledge and snippets on bands artists etc,today I thought for a change let me share my views on how the music world is today.....

Hmmmm where to start, Music……… what does it mean, has anyone ever thought of this………I must say a melange of thoughts feelings and emotions of one or more people combined with harmony and melody...I think I’ve gone too far… getting to the point what I see today is that people's talents in the field of Music have been taken over by technology.We have people running synthesized loops and then playing their music over it,frankly speaking I see very few artists really expressing themselves...

Going back to the 60's or the 70's people expressed their views with music for whatever they wanted to convey out to the public and the masses,music took over peoples lives.Nowadays all I see is people interested in videos than music.

Let me tell you something that a while back.Around 1 year back I came across the song Break it Down Again by Tears for Fears ,I was hooked the first time I heard it,the keys vocals percussions gr, one better that the other,then a few months back I just came across the video and I was shocked that I could like such a song as it had the most meaningless video,low budget looks like it was done in a day!!!!!
I realised how much I had liked the song without even seeing the video..... So basically people hardly made that many videos and even if they did they didn’t concentrate on the quality of videos as what they cared about is the music

Lets take Ray Manzereck of The Doors for all those who don't know Ray he is the organ player(keyboard) for Doors one of the talented people I have come across, basically because of him playing two instruments moreover the thought that came into his head.The Doors were regularly playing at night clubs without a bassist and people kept complaining about that the sound lacks energy a.k.a a bassist.Ray had come across a Fender Rhodes bass piano in one of the music shops but never had seen anyone play it as most of the bands had bassist's. And as he made use of it The Doors musical style took such a different turn as he was able to generate the bass sound in songs that needed the power and a different bass melody for slower songs.... and if you get a chance to see one of their videos just concentrate on Ray and see talent at its best.......

Just like Ray we had many artists who displayed their talents in various ways ,John Paul Jones of Led Zepp,Pete Townshend of The Who ,Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull,Mark Knopfler and many many more.....

All these people squeezed out every ounce of their talents onto their music and generated and created songs that even kids who go to school today hear and enjoy

All we see nowdays in a rock concerts is guitarists trying to impersonate another famous guitarists style, I have noticed very few musicians with their own style and I must say those few are gifted but most important is that they know how to nurture their gift ,The Gift of being a Musician....


So a message to all the young budding musicians who want to be like their famous rockstars ... no problem in idolizing them or worshiping them but try to understand what music meant to them and try creating your own style of music and innovative ways of variation as you would be really appreciated by all.....