Lee Kerslake has passed away

That sucks.

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Died at age 73 of prostate cancer.

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There is a "new" video of Crazy Train (it's animated) that Ozzy just released. Again it disrespects the memory of Lee and Bob (it is clear the animation is supposed to be Rudy and Tommy). I saw it last night and wondered how Lee was doing. Sad to hear he passed.

Godspeed Lee.

Saw this earlier. Major bummer. He was pretty kick arse.

There are some videos on YouTube of he and Bob Daisley talking about being in Ozzy's band. Bob does most of the talking, but Lee comes across as a cool dude all the way around.

I remember him with Uriah Heep.

The 2003 remaster has the drum and bass tracks redone...Sharon and Ozzy switched back to the originals for future releases after fan backlash.

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The 2003 remaster has the drum and bass tracks redone

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Do you have a link to the tracks? Or is it down the memory hole now?

Why were they so recalcitrant on this? Why frick over Daisley and Kerslake? I don't get it.

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Why were they so recalcitrant on this? Why frick over Daisley and Kerslake? I don't get it.

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Originally they were the Blizzard of Ozz band not an Ozzy solo project. At some point both were fired from the band and replaced with Rudy and Tommy though I believe Bob Daisley continued to write songs for Ozzy throughout the 80’s. Eventually the issue of writing credits came up and they sued Ozzy for back royalties I believe. In retaliation their parts were secretly re-recorded for the purposes of denying them royalties on all future releases and possibly radio spins as well. When fans found out about it, the backlash was so bad that they were eventually put back on the album I believe. FWIW, Jake E Lee was done just as dirty by Ozzy and Sharon. He along with Bob Daisley wrote most of the Bark at the Moon album and got completely screwed on the writing credits.

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FWIW, Jake E Lee was done just as dirty by Ozzy and Sharon. He along with Bob Daisley wrote most of the Bark at the Moon album and got completely screwed on the writing credits.

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Here's what Jake said on Eddie Trunk's show about how that went down.

“Here’s the truth. This is really gonna get me in more hot water, but whatever, I’m in hot water and I don’t see a way out …

I was told from the get-go, ‘[If] you write part of the songs, you’ll get writing credit, you’ll get publishing. That’s part of your deal.’

So we recorded the album. I’m recording the album at Ridge Farm … in the middle of Scotland. Ridge Farm is actually a farm; the recording studio is in the barn. So I’m by myself. I don’t have management, I don’t have a lawyer, I don’t have anything.

But they promise me, ‘You’ll get what’s coming.’ And I keep asking because I’m getting really close to finishing all my stuff on the record, and finally, once I lay down the final track of my guitar playing, they said, ‘Ah! We have the contract for you.’ And in it, it says, specifically, ‘Ozzy Osbourne wrote all the songs. You had nothing to do with any of the writing, you have no claim to publishing, and you cannot say so publicly.’

And I looked at it. I’m looking at Sharon, and I said, ‘This is not what you told me before.’ And she says, ‘No, it isn’t.’

‘Why do you think I’m gonna sign it?’

‘Because if you don’t, we’ll give you a plane ticket, you go back home and you stand in line and you sue us. In the meantime, we have all your tracks, we’ll get another guitar player, he’ll redo your tracks, and you’ll have nothing.’

“That was mean. What am I gonna do? Really? Am I gonna say, ‘Fine. I’m going home. Take my tracks off. Some other guy will get all the credit for playing guitar, and I still have to try to sue you for the rights?’ It would have been just… not a good decision.

“Well, then, I refused to do [The Ultimate Sin] until I had a contract in front of me promising me writing credit and publishing."

Then he was fired after that record. Coincidence?

I think Ozzy gets a pass while Sharon takes all the hits, but I believe he’s not as naive as he claims about such matters. She plays the bully while Ozzy plays the unknowing idiot. Sharon also has a controlling interest in the Black Sabbath name. That band doesn’t tour unless Ozzy agrees to it despite the fact that you have both Tony and Geezer publicly stating they’d like to get out and play. That’s why you had them touring under the name Heaven and Hell with Dio shortly before he died. Sharon wouldn’t sign off on Black Sabbath touring with Dio

RIP Lee.

Yeah I knew he and Bob got screwed over, as well as Jake. Good details here though from both you and Chizz.