Metal Sludge — In a recent in-depth interview over at Rolling Stone the Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne spoke about his new album, single, old friends and an array of things from his career.

Osbourne has now made some headlines with one part of his interview that delved into the alleged relationship between Guitar Heroes Eddie Van Halen and his storied solo band axeman Randy Rhoads.

A few excerpts are noted below….

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Randy Rhoads, the first guitarist Osbourne worked with after Sabbath, wasn’t a big Eddie Van Halen fan.
Before joining Osbourne’s band, Rhoads had played guitar in the glam-rock group Quiet Riot, which had been gigging on the Sunset Strip at the same time as Van Halen. Both Rhoads (who was recently recognized by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) and Van Halen were guitarists to watch in the mid-1970s, playing with a similar flare and incorporating finger-tapping into their fleet-fingered solos. Still, Eddie Van Halen became a guitar hero before Rhoads, thanks to Van Halen’s immediate success. “I heard recently that Eddie [Van Halen] said he taught Randy all his licks … he never,” Osbourne says. “To be honest, Randy didn’t have a nice thing to say about Eddie. Maybe they had a falling out or whatever, but they were rivals.”

Ozzy has more songs recorded in the bank with the late Taylor Hawkins.
Watt enlisted two drummers on Patient Number 9: the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith and Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins, who died unexpectedly this past March. One track, “God Only Knows,” features both Smith and Hawkins, and Watt says there are more recordings with Hawkins, to whom Osbourne dedicated the album. “There’s a bunch of other stuff with Ozzy and Taylor, as well, that’s going to be used for another thing,” the producer says.

Read the full interview at Rolling Stone