Steve Vai says that he and Ozzy Osbourne wrote and recorded an entire album together during the mid ‘90s that never got released, and that sadly will most likely never be released owing to rights issues. Vai was speaking to Eonmusic about the newly released Vai/Gash album when the conversation turned to Ozzy. Steve Vai has issued a clarification regarding his recent comments about an unreleased album with Ozzy Osbourne in the vault. One guitarist who, for whatever reason, didn’t make the cut was Osbourne’s previous collaborator, Steve Vai, with whom the Black Sabbath frontman co-wrote the Ozzmosis track My Little Man back in the '90s. But, according to a new revelation from Vai himself, the pair did more than just write a song together. Apparently, they got “carried away” and ended up recording an entire album Back in the early-to-mid-1990s, guitar virtuoso Steve Vai and metal legend Ozzy Osbourne almost did an album together. There's been some talk about it on Vai's end earlier this year, but the truth Steve Vai revealed that he and Ozzy Osbourne recorded an as-yet unreleased album together in 1995 during a February 2023 interview. Steve Vai has revealed to Eonmusic that he's "sitting on a whole Ozzy Osbourne record", in a brand new interview with the Irish web site. Going into detail about the sound and content, the Steve Vai was confirmed to do an album and tour with Ozzy until Sharon Osbourne canned it. This is what Bob Daisley had to say on the matter in an interview on the Classic Rock Revisited website; "In 1994 Ozzy got hooked up with Steve Vai. Steve came in and played guitar and co-wrote everything UPDATE: Steve Vai has clarified his comments surrounding his previous work with Ozzy Osbourne, revealing that while there was enough material for a full album, the songs were never completed. He Guitar virtuoso Steve Vai supposedly recorded an entire album with Ozzy Osbourne that the world may never hear. In a new interview with Eonmusic, Vai revealed that he and the Prince of Darkness banged out a full record back in the mid-Nineties, when the two musicians were paired up together to write Steve Vai apologized for his recent comments that said there was a hidden Ozzy Osbourne album that they recorded during Ozzmosis period. Steve Vai has shared that he wrote a whole album with Ozzy Osbourne while the duo were working on their 1995 collaboration My Little Man. Earlier this week, Steve Vai seemingly revealed the existence of an album that he recorded with Ozzy Osbourne back in the 1990s – a revelation that unsurprisingly stirred up a fair amount of reaction from guitar fans. In an interview with Eonmusic, Vai reveals he and Ozzy Osbourne did an entire album at some point that remains unreleased. "Well, I'm sitting on a whole Ozzy record, and it's like the Gash record In 1995, Ozzy Osbourne and Steve Vai were tasked with collaborating on a song for Osbourne’s seventh album Ozzmosis. The duo ended up writing an entire album together. “I’m sitting on a Writing credits on the album – alongside Osbourne, guitarist Zakk Wylde and bassist Geezer Butler – were shared by John Purdell, Jim Vallance, Mark Hudson, Steve Dudas, Lemmy Kilmister, Duane Baron and Steve Vai. [3] Ozzmosis was Ozzy's first and only album to feature Butler, drummer Deen Castronovo and keyboardist Rick Wakeman. [4] In April 2023, Steve Vai revealed in an interview that he has several demos made during his period with Ozzy, where several of them ended up on the "Ozzmosis" album. Barcode: 5 099748 102225 Matrix / Runout (Variant 1, 2, 3): S0148102210-0101 31 A1 Matrix / Runout (Variant 4): S0148102210-0101 31 B1 Matrix / Runout (Variant 5): S0148102210-0101 Guitar hero, Steve Vai, has shared a few words in praise of Ozzy Osbourne following the news yesterday (Tuesday, July 22) of the Black Sabbath frontman’s passing at 76 years of age. Vai took to social media to share the following: “I had the great privilege of working with Ozzy in my studio for three months back in the 90s. 'Ozzmosis,' Ozzy Osbourne's seventh studio album, includes the singles "Perry Mason," "See You On The Other Side" (both Top 10 Billboard rock singles) and "I Just Want You." PERFORMANCES BY OZZY OSBOURNE, BILLY IDOL, DMC, AL JOURGENSEN, STEVE VAI, LINDA PERRY STEVE STEVENS, TOMMY CLUFETOS, JOHN5, AND MORE Look for BILLY MORRISON to release THE MORRISON PROJECT—his third solo album and first since 2015—on April 19 via TLG/VIRGIN MUSIC GROUP. Steve Vai has revealed that he once recorded a whole album with Ozzy Osbourne which has yet to see the light of day. The record, which is still very much "sitting on the shelf", was recorded in 1995 during the pair's collaboration on Ozzy's Ozzmosis, which features the Osbourne/Vai co-write My
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