*BOB** **DAISLEY***

*Rainbow, Ozzy Osbourne, Mothers Army, Uriah Heep, Kahvas Jute, Living Loud
etc*

*Interview by: **Cameron** **Edney***

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*Bob** **Daisley** is a true rock legend. A man who has been pounding out
killer bass riffs for more than forty years with some of the world's
greatest hard rock and heavy metal acts such as: Rainbow, Uriah Heep, Gary
Moore, Black Sabbath & Ozzy Osbourne to name just a few. As many know
Daisley is more than a bass player, he has written some of the greatest
songs in rock history. Songs that will live on for many years to come such
as: 'Crazy Train', 'Over the Mountian', 'Suicide Solution' among many
others. Six months ago I had the pleasure of conducting an interview with **
Bob**, which to date has been one of the best & most successful interviews I
have done. It's not very often in this business that you get the opportunity
to ask true rock icons questions on more than one occasion, so when I was
given the chance to interview Bob again I was more than happy to include
questions from other fans from around the world! I caught up with Bob last
week to discuss the recent Kahvas Jute reunion, the soon to be released CD &
DVD, life on the road, Rainbow, Mothers Army, Randy Rhoads, covers Bob was
happy to answer some of the hundred of fan questions I was sent and much
more. If you are a fan of rock music you will enjoy this interview!*

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*INSIDE_OUT666: Hi Bob, thanks again for putting time aside today to speak
with me, how have ya been mate?*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *No problem. I've been good thanks Cameron.**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: Bob as you know after our last conversation together, more
than six thousand fans in as little as 24 hours had visited my websites to
read your interview. I am a huge fan of the work you have done throughout
the years & this time around I have given other fans from around the world
the opportunity to have a question or two included in this interview.*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *Wow that's amazing.**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: Kahvas Jute recently did a reunion show which took place at
The Basement in Sydney, many fans are disappointed that you guys are located
here & yet they rarely get to see you live! Are there any plans to do a full
Australian tour anytime soon?*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *Well it's great to see that there has been that kind of
interest in it already because I guess in some circles the name Kahvas Jute
doesn't really mean too much. But for the people who do, there is a
legendary connection to the name. As an example, if you have an original
vinyl copy of that album we did back in the beginning of 1971 when it was
released, today its worth between five hundred & six hundred dollars. There
are parts of the world where the re-issued CD of that album, are still
selling; in Germany, Italy & I heard it was being sold in Texas as a
re-release for one hundred dollars.

There is the possibility of Kahvas Jute doing more shows but really it
depends on how soon we get the new DVD & Cd from The Basement show out, plus
a remastered version of the only album we did which is called 'Wide Open'.
Dennis Wilson & I were up at his place mixing the soundtrack for the
Basement DVD & we were part way into it, I had to come back home and Dennis
had to have a minor operation, so as soon as we can get the mixing & the
artwork done & get it out, then we may do some more shows to coincide with
the release.

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*INSIDE_OUT666: As you know I attended the reunion gig & from the
perspective of a guy who had never actually heard the band before, I was
blown away. The new songs are great, the classic Kahvas Jute tracks really
stand up to anything that's out there today. With 'Wide Open' to be
re-released soon, can we expect to see more new material from you guys in
the future?*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *Yes that's another possibility as well. The Basement
show was really an experiment. Tim Gaze, Dennis Wilson & I got together &
wrote some more songs. When we listened to them along with the old stuff, we
thought well it still sounds like Kahvas Jute; it still has that continuity,
the material really fitted in well together. It wasn't like, well here are
five new songs then here are five old songs.**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: Tell me how **Mark** **Marriott** got involved with the
project?*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *Well I worked with Mark Marriott on a session a few
years ago & he is a very competent drummer. I was quite impressed with him
the day I worked with him in the studio. When I was in the studio with
MarkI noticed that he would listen to what you said. If you said to do
a
Keith Moon fill here or a Ringo fill there, he would do it. So when we
needed a drummer for Kahvas Jute I immediately thought of him, being in
Sydney as well.

Dannie Davidson, the original drummer, had a lot of baggage & to be honest
with you, I think Mark was an improvement. Dannie was a great drummer back
in the day. He was a proper drummer; he didn't just listen to pop records.
He was having lessons with a professional jazz drummer here in Australiacalled
Derrick Fairbrass. Dannie was a very competent drummer himself but I haven't
heard him play with anyone in years & the last time I played with him it
didn't have the same spark. In all fairness, it would have been nice to have
Dannie there being the original drummer, if he didn't have the Yoko wife &
the baggage but that was the case so Mark was called in. I sent Mark a copy
of the five new songs that we had recently done & a copy of the original
Kahvas Jute album, he had obviously listened to them properly, I think he
did a brilliant job. We only had a couple of days to rehearse before the
Basement gig too.

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*INSIDE_OUT666: As you have mentioned in recent interviews, the Kahvas Jute
reunion show was recorded & will be released on CD & DVD, has a date been
set for the release yet?*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *No, not until we finish mixing the album & get the
artwork done. Once that's all out the way we will work towards a release
date. It would be nice to think that we will have it released this year but
there's not that much of it left [laughs]. Realistically I would say we
would be releasing the new album early next year.**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: A lot of bands don't like to record live albums because they
feel they can't capture the sound of their live performance. What is your
take on this & do you feel the new CD defines a live Kahvas Jute experience?
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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *Yeah I think it defines the Kahvas Jute sound. What
we've got on tape from that show at The Basement really does capture the
Kahvas Jute sound. It could have been recorded in 1970 – 71. There's a
better element of experience & maturity in the playing now. My take on live
albums is that as much of it as possible should be kept live. You hear about
bands going into studios & taking months sometimes years to mix a live album
because they're re-recording it all. The Thin Lizzy Live album, which is
regarded as one of the best live albums ever, isn't really live. Phil went
in & re-recorded all the bass parts, all the vocals & a lot of the guitar
parts, so you're not left with much from the original true live sound and
performance. We want to keep as much of this album as live as possible.
There may be a bum note here & there that will be replaced but keep it live,
otherwise it's pointless calling it a live album.* *

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*INSIDE_OUT666: What label will the album be released on? *

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *At this stage we really don't know. We would like to
think that it will be with EMI which is the label that released the Living
Loud CD but we just don't know yet.* *

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*INSIDE_OUT666: You mentioned to me at The Basement that you were going to
be working on **Gary** **Moore**'s next album. What details can you give us
at this stage? *

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *Nothing etched in stone. When I talked to Gary last,
which was a few months ago now, he mentioned that he was going to be
recording in August. Gary was in the middle of changing record labels &
because of that, things were being put back & I haven't really spoken with
him since then. The only thing that seems to be definite is that Gary wants
to do another rock album which will be more along the lines of the Thin
Lizzy Irish style rock, which would be really good & fans have been crying
out for, for years now.* *

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*INSIDE_OUT666: Last time we spoke, there was a possibility of an
Australian/European Living Loud tour. Can you shed any light on to what is
happening with that? *

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *That's another difficult one. As we all know, Lee's in
Uriah Heep, Steve & Don are in Deep Purple & Jimmy's got a hit album here at
the moment. We just have to wait for that window of opportunity for everyone
to be able to get together. Lee Kerslake, Steve Morse & I are going to try
to get together soon to do some writing for the next album. Jimmy will come
in on that when he's free to do some lyrics & melodies etc. I can't see any
new recording happening until the New Year. We recorded the last album in
Florida & if we do the next one over there we might do some live shows while
we are there. But nothing has been planned at this stage.**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: **Bob** I wanted to talk to you about covers. What do you
think of bands such as Nightwish who do a fantastic version of Gary Moore's
'Over The Hills & Far Away', Hammerfall, even Pat Boone covering songs that
you have either written or been a part of in some way?*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *Personally, I think it's great to do it if you can do
them like you just said as a fantastic version. If you just try to recreate
something that's already been done its pointless. I think the hardest thing
ever to re-do would be something like a Led Zeppelin song or a Beatles song
unless you do them like Joe Cocker did Beatles songs. He would do them so
different to what The Beatles had done that sometimes it was almost like a
new song. If it's any of my stuff, I feel flattered. If people want to do
anything that I've been involved in, maybe I'm not the reason that they were
doing them anyway, they were probably Randy, Ozzy or Gary fans [laughs].
It's like a breath of fresh air to hear a new version of something that's
either an improvement or a different slant on what the original idea of the
song was.**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: I wouldn't say that the **Pat** **Boone** version of 'Crazy
Train' was an improvement!*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *No but that was a real novelty thing. When I was a kid
& Pat Boone was in the charts, I was into Elvis & Little Richard. Most
people regarded Pat Boone as Mr. White Bread & Mr. Corn Ball & so on, to
have him (The King of Corn) do one of your songs is really an honour in a
funny sort of inverted way. I'm sure Pat Boone realises that he was regarded
in that way and did all those rock classics as a tongue-in-cheek self
send-up.**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: Do you have any favourite covers from the ones you have
heard?*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *I don't really have any favourites to be honest. I
listen to them & think it's really nice that they have covered them but some
I didn't even know had been covered. I did know that there was another Ozzy
tribute album being put together & they had contacted Drew Thompson in
Melbourne who handles Living Loud, & had asked him about putting a Living
Loud song or two on the album. We actually said no, we didn't want to get
involved in a tribute album. The way we did the Ozzy songs we wanted to get
it away from the way the originals had been done. I think it would have
taken a little bit of the credibility away from Living Loud if we had
appeared on the tribute cd.

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*INSIDE_OUT666: Over the last few years the Australian hard rock & metal
scene has started to come alive again, do you get the chance to see any of
the newer bands that we have playing in the clubs week after week.*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *I don't go to clubs very much. If there's a particular
act that somebody tells me about or if someone advises me to check out a
certain band, I might pop in & have a look. I think it's a great thing that
the scene is coming alive again here because it really needs to. I really
think music all around the world needs a good kick up the arse. I'm sure
there are a lot of great bands, writers & performers out there that we don't
get to see only because a lot of it gets suppressed. The thing that's been
promoted for years now is dance music & fuckin rap & shit like that. Its
fuckin' garbage!* *

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*INSIDE_OUT666: [Laughs] You're right there. You can put the television on
any weekend & say to yourself 'how the fuck does this song make it into the
top ten'!*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *Yeah I know, as an example, in England recently, there
was a mobile phone ring tone that went to number one!

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*INSIDE_OUT666: Yeah it was number one here too.*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *[Laughs] But it's sad really.**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: I will never understand how any of that shit makes it into
the top 1000 to be honest [laughs]. I know that a few years back Australian
band Addictive asked if you would play bass on their version of 'Crazy
Train', which you did do. How does it make you feel when you are asked
requests such as that from relatively unknown bands?*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *Well Addictive were involved with a friend of mine as
their manager & that was quite a few years ago, actually that was in the
beginning of the nineties. I thought Addictive were a very good band. They
had an album that they asked me to produce which I got involved in. They
didn't have much of a budget & they didn't have enough time to mix the album
while I was there, so they had to remix the album after I had gone.

I don't think the record company got behind it, but it turned out pretty
good & every once in a while I play that album for my own enjoyment & think
it still holds up & its still good. They were so much better than a lot of
bands that have made it. I thought it was nice that the guys wanted to do
'Crazy Train' & that they had asked me to play on it. Since I was there
producing the album I was happy to play on the track. They were a good bunch
of blokes!

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*INSIDE_OUT666: For someone like yourself who is considered among most hard
rock & heavy metal fans around the world to be an influential song writer &
bass player, what do you think most people would be surprised to learn about
you?*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *[Laughs] I've always been interested in philosophy. I
lean towards the Buddhist philosophy & I read a lot of stuff from a bloke
called David Icke & he exposes a lot of things that are being done to
people, the manipulation of people's thoughts with mind control, mental
conspiracies etc. I remember when 'Diary of a Madman' was first released. I
was reading a review in London that said lyrically you can call this album
the thinking man's heavy metal [laughs]. There are not too many weird or
unknown things about me [laughs].**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: Well nothing that you care to share with us right? [Laughs]
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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *[Laughs]**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: I want to talk to you a bit about life on the road, Mötley
Crüe often refer to the Motley/Ozzy tour as one of the craziest tours
they've been on. Being part of Ozzy's band at that time, what do you
remember from the tour with **Mötley** **Crüe**?*

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*BOB DAISLEY: *I remember at the start of the tour Mötley had these t-shirts
made up that had this happy smiley face on the front with bullet holes &
blood coming out of them & written on it was 'The No Fun Tour'. I still have
one of those t-shirts actually. The tour started off that way because
Sharonwas on that tour with Ozzy & she said to Mötley 'you can't have
any girls
back stage & you can't have any backstage passes & there's no booze or
drugs'. It was like being in fucking school. They got really pissed off
about it & that's how it started.* *

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*INSIDE_OUT666: By the end of the tour you can safely say the "no drugs &
alcohol" policy was out the window? [Laughs]*

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*BOB DAISLEY: *Oh yeah, every time Sharon had to leave & fly back to London
or New York for management & record company business etc, every time that
she'd fuck off Ozzy would get a big bag of cocaine & a crate of booze
[laughs]. There was plenty of stuff like that going on that I'm sure she
wasn't meant to know about [laughs].**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: What's the most ridiculous thing you have ever asked for on
a tour rider?*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *I never really had any silly demands. If I was drinking
I would just get wine, if I wasn't drinking I would get Perrier water.
People might think that was weird [laughs].**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: [Laughs] Yeah why the fuck does this guy want water on his
rider, he's supposed to be in a Rock 'n' Roll band? [Laughs] Plenty of
artists do ask for water though, I guess it's a good break from all the
alcohol [laughs].*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *Even when Ozzy was drinking he would never drink before
a show.

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*INSIDE_OUT666: Wow really?*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *No he always went on straight; well 99% of the time.
There were a couple of times in the early days where he would start drinking
in the middle of the day. I remember when we played in Brighton, England on
the very first tour with Randy & Lee. Ozzy had been drinking all day & he
had broken up with his wife Thelma & this new thing with Sharon was getting
to him, so he decided to get pissed all day went on stage & mooned the
audience [laughs].**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: Touring the world for so many years must put a burden on
family life? Do you travel with family on the road & how do you find a
balance with constant touring?*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *You can't really take a family on the road with you
unless you're super rich. Ozzy & Sharon took their own tour bus & had a
nanny with them when they had the kids, but when you're just part of the
band you can't afford to do that. There would be a couple of times where
they would fly out when we had breaks but it's impossible to take a family
on the road with you & I don't think it's very professional to mix business
with your private life. It's not easy to be away, it does take it's toll
sometimes.**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: After all these years in the business what is it that keeps
you going?*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *A basic love of music, which you really need to have.
If you're in it for the money, fame or the sex & drugs, you won't last too
long. I think what keeps you going is the enthusiasm to create & play music,
which is the object of the exercise & what it's all about. I remember when I
first started playing, that's what I was in it for. It was all very nice to
think that one day I might be famous or one day I'll get recognition or get
rich but the real reason to be in it is for the music & with that comes job
satisfaction.**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: Last time we spoke we played the song game, I gave you a
list of songs & you told me what came to mind. I want to do a similar thing
this time but with different musicians you have worked with over the years:*

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*Jake** **E** **Lee**: *I think Jake did an admirable job of filling the
shoes of Randy which were pretty big shoes to fill. He was individual in as
much as he re-created what Randy had done having to play it live but he put
his own little flavour into it which was good. When we did that first album
after Randy's death he gave it a bit of continuity with his own style. I
worked well with Jake, he had good riff ideas that we worked on & turned
into songs. He's a bit of a funny bloke; Jake likes to keep to himself.**

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*Zakk** **Wylde**: *Nice bloke, I got on well with Zakk. The first story
that comes to mind was when I first met Zakk. He was about twenty or so &
he'd just got the gig with Ozzy, this was back in 1987. I had said to Ozzy
"now you think back twenty odd years ago to when you were in Sabbath &
picture somebody handing you a baby & telling you that this is going to be
your new guitar player one day" [laughs]. I think Zakk is a great player & a
lovely bloke that I really got on well with but I think Ozzy has had better
guitarists. That's just my opinion, not to say that he's not as good as
anyone else.**

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*Cozy **Powell**: *I got on very well with Cozy too. He was a bit of a
larrikin [laughs]. I was a bit intimidated by Cozy. As you know I have
always been a big Jeff Beck fan & I knew that Cozy had played with Jeff Beck.
We were mates & it was a very sad thing when he died. I had spoken to Cozy
only days before his death & we were talking about the possibility of
Rainbow doing another album together with the classic line-up with Ritchie,
Ronnie, Cozy & myself & I'm not sure what keyboard player they would have
used, but not long after that Cozy was killed in the car crash & all
thoughts & ideas of a Rainbow reunion went straight out the window, which
was very sad.**

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*Steve** **Vai**: *I guess I felt a little intimidated going into the studio
with Steve too, but when you've got a job to do you just have to get on with
it. It was Steve's idea to bring me in on the 'Ozzmosis' album. Steve had
been working with Ozzy on songs for the album & they had bass players coming
in & Ozzy would be saying "what would Bob Daisley be doing here"? "What
would he do there"? "What would he write here"? Steve Vai turned around &
said to them "why are you getting all these people in? "Why don't you bring
in the real thing'? [Laughs] So I got a phone call & ended up in L.A. a
couple of days later. I arrived in L.A. on the 4th of July 1994. I started
working with Steve & we got on very well together. We were working in Steve's
Los Angeles studio for a little over a week when Ozzy & Sharon decided that
they wanted to go to Sony studios in New York & work there. We all flew over
there, then a few days later Sharon came in & said "Sony's pulled the plug
on the project". "There's not going to be an album". I remember the drummer
Dean Castronovo saying "Oh fuckin' hell". I pulled him aside & said "Look,
this is just their way of getting rid of Steve because they don't want him
to do the album, they're fucking cowards". A couple of days later I got
another call from Sharon, "Yes we're still doing the album but we're not
using Steve". I thought fuckin' hell, why couldn't you just come out & say
that? We all went back to London & they had flown a couple of songwriters
over. I can't remember their names though, I wasn't asked to write anything,
I was just supposed to play on the album. As it turned out, Steve Vai wasn't
paid for his studio time, Steve was let go in a really cowardly way, & then
I was kept on putting songs together, recording demos to eventually get
another phone call from Sharon saying "Oh we've changed our minds, we're
using Geezer Butler now".**

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*Carmine Appice: *He's a bit of a legend really as a drummer. Shit he's
played with so many people; Carmine played with Jeff Beck & sang some of the
songs. He's a fantastic drummer, I still talk to Carmine. We send emails to
each other from time to time & when I'm over there we hook up. He will
always remain a legendary drummer.* *

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*INSIDE_OUT666: Besides working together on 'Bark at the Moon', you played
on the Mother's Army albums, did that come together because of the Ozzy
Osbourne connection?*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *Well when I went to L.A. with Gary Moore in 1987, I
stayed on in L.A. after the tour because I got a call from producer Jeff
Glixman who was working on Yngwie Malmsteen's album at the time. Jeff had
called me & asked if I wanted to do some tracks on Yngwie's album. So I
stayed behind to hook up with Yngwie. I didn't do the whole album, just four
or five tracks. I met up with Joe Lynn Turner who was singing with Yngwie at
the time & Joe was a mate of Carmine's. The three of us would hang out & we
started talking about getting a band together & it didn't eventuate then but
a few years later when I was in England I got a phone call from Carmine,
right before I was supposed to come back to Australia to produce that
Addictive album actually. Carmine said "Why don't you fly out to
Australiavia San
Francisco"? "I'm putting a band together with Jeff Watson from Night Ranger
& we thought of you, would you be interested"? So I flew to San Francisco. I
was only there for two or three days, we played together & it worked really
well. I played on a track on Jeff's solo album called 'Lone Ranger' while I
was there. I went back in the New Year & we started to put the band
together. We got a couple of different singers in that didn't quite work
out, & then we thought of Joe Lynn Turner who ended up doing a fine job.**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: Do you think you guys will do any more projects like that in
the future?*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *I don't know. We'd all like to think so, we have all
talked about it but the state of the industry makes it really hard for us to
just get an album release. We had good albums & we would play them to people
and get responses like "God, this is great, where can we buy this"? We'd say
"Well you can't" [laughs]. It's released in Japan & Mongolia but we couldn't
get promotion or a proper record deal, which was a shame.**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: To become a star these days it seems the only way to make it
would be to go on a reality music show like Idol or Rockstar Inxs etc. What
do you think about the mass wave of reality shows looking for so called
"talent" and do you watch any of them?*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *No I can't stand to be in the same room as any of them
to be honest. I think it's a terrible state of the industry that they have
to resort to that. There is plenty of proper talent out there but that sort
of shite makes money & there's no shortage of wallys who'll watch it & get
sucked in by it.**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: **Bob** have you ever considered writing a book about your
Rock 'n' Roll experiences? *

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *Both my daughters are always saying to me "Dad, you
have got to write a book". I have thought about it but I haven't gotten
around to it yet. Eventually I will get to the point of saying o.k. I've got
to do it [laughs]. There are endless stories to be told before I snuff it.**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: Well it would save you answering a lot of the same questions
over & over again wouldn't it? [Laughs]*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *[Laughs] Yeah anytime someone wants to do an interview
I can say 'just read the book' [laughs].**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: I believe you have a lot of unreleased material from the
early days working with Ozzy, **Randy** & **Lee**. Have you ever considered
releasing any of it? *

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *Well as much as I would love to, there is a legal
situation there. The Osbournes own the rights to anything associated with
the name Ozzy or the name Randy Rhoads. I don't know if Randy's turning over
in his grave but Sharon manages the Randy Rhoads estate. After Randy died
Mrs Rhoads had to sue the Osbournes for years to try & get her royalties. I
spoke to her about that & she said "Bob I just ran out of time & money". "I
couldn't be bothered, I'm getting old". She's about eighty now but this was
back when she was in her sixties. When The Osbournes wanted to release the
Randy Rhoads Tribute album they had to get Mrs. Rhoads permission, so they
cut a deal with her. I think she bent & gave in because she wanted to keep
the name of her son alive who died in the line of duty. I have tapes of us
in the studio writing stuff together & you can hear Randy & me talking but I
don't think I could ever legally release it because of the Osbournes.**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: Out of all the years you worked with Ozzy, who was the best
musician that auditioned for Ozzy's band but in the end never made it? *

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *One of the drummers that Jake & I auditioned in
L.A.back in 1985 was
Eric Singer. As we all know he didn't get the gig. But I think it was at a
time where Ozzy had left it up to Jake & me to audition everybody. It was
funny we auditioned so many drummers & every time we heard somebody wanted
to audition we said "Learn these three songs that we are auditioning
everyone on". I remember 'Over the Mountain' was one of them because of the
drum feature but I can't remember the other two, probably "I Don't Know" & "
Crowley"... If they were crap we would let them play the next couple of
songs then say thank you, leave your name & we'll contact you, but it got to
the point after the first twenty or so drummers that if somebody was crap we
would just stop [laughs] say "No! Next!". If somebody wasn't right it was
pointless wasting their time & ours. I don't know what happened with
Ericbut later when I was working with
Eric in Black Sabbath & with Gary Moore, I used to say to him "You know you
would have been perfect for Ozzy" [laughs]. He'd say "Yes, I auditioned &
you never gave me the gig". [Laughs]**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: When it comes to on-stage & studio chemistry, who is the one
person you have enjoyed working with the most?*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *That's a tough one. I've had so many good working
situations. Steve Morse is great! I love working with Steve, we get on well
together & he has some great ideas. Jeff Watson is another one, Jeff & I got
on really well together. I remember when I did the Black Sabbath album, Tony
Iommi asked me to join the band but I was working with Gary at the time. Of
course the original line-up of The Blizzard of Ozz was a special creative
time and very enjoyable. Lee Kerslake inspires me to do things & vice versa,
we are almost like brothers at times. That one's too difficult to answer and
name one person. It is very hard to single out one person; they've all been
good in their own way.

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*INSIDE_OUT666: Do you regret not joining Black Sabbath?*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *No not really, I did well with Gary. At the time Black
Sabbath weren't being handled right by management & people were getting
messed about, I wasn't one of them but some people weren't being paid.
People were coming & going in the band, it didn't seem to be too stable. But
it was great to work with Tony.

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*INSIDE_OUT666: Since we last spoke, what albums have you been listening to?
*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *Recently I have been listening to the Jimi Hendrix box
set with the purple velvet cover; there are some great songs on that and he
was such a great and innovative player. Speaking of great players, there is
another guitarist that I only discovered in the last couple of years that
other people may know about called Danny Gatton. Wow, what a player that guy
is! His playing is fantastic! His style is country/rock but it's worth
checking out. Another album I listened to recently was Jeff Beck's 'You Had
It Coming'. There's a song on there called 'Nadia' which is a brilliant
piece of guitar playing. Just the other day I listened to a Miles
Davisalbum called 'Kinda Blue' which is apparently his all time
classic album.
I've always listened to a wide range of stuff from Pavarotti to Robert Plant
.

Another is a box set of out-takes from Little Richard & the reason I did was
because I recently purchased the bass that played on all of those early
tracks. The guy who played bass with Little Richard back then was named
Olsie Robinson. He had a Gibson EB1 Bass, which has the violin shaped solid
body. Olsie used that bass on all those early 1956-57 Little Richard
recordings like 'Good Golly Miss Molly' & 'Lucille'. So I have been
listening to all those tracks just to hear my bass on them [laughs]. I think
Little Richard was the epitome of the birth of Rock 'n' Roll, he was the
innovator.

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*INSIDE_OUT666: Wow, that's pretty cool! How did you end up with his bass?*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *A friend of mine in America had it. He bought it at an
auction in America. Most of the people at the auction were more interested
in autographs & clothing rather than instruments. More than likely this bass
has come up & they've said Olsie Robinson & everybody's thought "Who's
that"? Because it's not Little Richard's piano they didn't care, but to me
and a lot of other people, that bass is a really important piece of rock 'n'
roll history.**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: What modern guitar player do you think would have been
perfect in replacing **Randy** **Rhoads** years ago?*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *Oh I don't know! Randy was pretty unique. If somebody's
got a style you can't always recreate that by listening to what they have
done so far, because all of a sudden they might do something totally out of
the blue that you never thought they'd do. I know what you're saying & at
the time I thought Gary Moore would have done a good job with Ozzy, but
we're talking over twenty years ago. Like so many of the greats, Randy is
irreplaceable. It's like saying "Who would have been as good as Jimi
Hendrixin the Jimi Hendrix Experience when he died"? Nobody! I'm sure
if
Randy had a say in it when he went he would have been flattered if somebody
like Jeff beck or Steve Morse had taken his place. Randy was a big fan of
Steve's work!**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: Twelve months ago there were a lot of rumours about a
possible Rainbow reunion, obviously this didn't eventuate. Is that something
you would consider given the opportunity?*

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *It would be weird after all these years [laughs]. I
think it would be a good idea but to be honest with you, I don't think
Ritchie is even interested in playing rock anymore. Ritchie is & has always
been into the medieval/folk music that he's playing now. I haven't spoken to
Ritchie in a long time but I have heard that he doesn't even like to listen
to any rock music anymore, so whether he would do it or not I don't really
know.**

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*INSIDE_OUT666: Well **Bob** that's all I have for you today mate. I just
want to thank you again for your time and as always, it has been a pleasure.
Do you have any last words you want to share with our readers? *

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*BOB** **DAISLEY**: *I always like to thank anyone who will take the time to
get the word out there & some of the truths that often get left behind. And
of course thanks to all the fans who take the time to read it & are
interested in anything I've got to say! All the best to you all.

*(c)** **Cameron** **Edney**, Sept. 2005 *

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