Saturday 29th May – Los Angeles.
Day 6 of rehearsals for the upcoming Ozzy world tour and all good so far.
Great being back in LA for the month and trying out some new gear to use on the shows. Some new additions to my rig would be the Korg Stage Vintage 1 which is sounding cool, A Yamaha Motif XS8 and a new endorsement from “Bolt” guitar amps which sounds superb. http://www.boltamps.com/pages/artists.html
It’s great playing some guitar on this tour, especially as a lot of the early Sabbath stuff generally didn’t have much in the way of keyboard parts. My guitar was made by Martin Dowding, a luthier who only makes a guitar every 2 years or so. Named by Martin as “demelza”, it is made in the style of a 1959 Les Paul and even has his own design and hand wound pick ups. Here’s hoping for more Sabbath tunes in the set so i get to play it more…!
The new Ozzy album “SCREAM” is released worldwide on 22nd June 2010 and has 5 songs I co wrote with Ozzy and Kevin Churko, the Grammy nominated producer who also produced “Black Rain”, Ozzy’s platinum selling album from 2007.
Tour dates can be found here http://www.ozzy.com as they are announced. We’ll go to most Countries on this tour so keep an eye out to see if we’re near you!
If you are in the US, keep an eye out for us on some main stream TV chat shows coming up in the 3rd week of June.
Headspace recording continues whilst I’m away with Pete, Lee & Rich all recording in between their other commitments. Keep an eye out in Classic Rock magazine for a tribute track recorded by Headspace due out in July….
More to follow from me once the tour starts….
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