MAYBE HIS NAME SHOULD BE “ZAKK DENYLDE”
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 at 3:30pm by Axl Rosenberg
Metal Injection tells me that Zakk Wylde has once again utilized Twitter to try and reassure the BLS Berserkers that’s everything is gravy between him and his main meal ticket. Twoth Zakk:
Hey Berserkers, everything is great with Ozzy/Dad. See you at the Blizzcon convention in Anaheim August 22nd or before with BLS about 14 hours ago from web
Okey dokey. Unless he means “everything is great with Ozzy/Dad and his new guitar player,” I call bullshit. Because all the behind-the-scenes rumblings suggest that someone else already has an offer for Zakk’s job (or I guess his old job, as the case may be). I don’t have enough confirmation to call it official, but I don’t want anyone to be shocked if Ozzy officially announces a new axe slinger in the coming weeks.
One way or another, this should continue to provide some entertainment for a little while longer at least.
-AR
Who cares? Osbourne and Wylde both suck pretty hard.
Agreed. Wylde is such a douchebag…just look at him. Him and BLS are just one tiny shred above Pantera in terms of white trash/meathead fan ratio.
ahem… we prefer the term “scumbags”. haha but yeah u have a point. only difference is there’s far less black label fans.
Maybe Ozzy just wants to have two guitar players :-)
i think bumbing Zakk down too rythym would be a bugger insult to him
Well I dunno about that, he could still play millions of pinch harmonics in every song if he was on rhythm guitar.
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fuck, that’s annoying… what’s causing that anyhow?
It’s what happens when MS runs their site from the same computer they download porn onto.
i dunno i remember four years ago a english guitar magazine had an interview with ozzy and he was talking about hiring new guitarists, then 20 pages later they had a zakk interview and he said i have no idea what your talking about ozzy didnt tell me shit.
i hope this is just a repeat ozzy might have his balls stuck in a twat but you cant ever say shit about zakk cuz you know his rep is better then yours
his guitar chops are better then yours
and he can kick your ass to mid next year
agreed… Ozzy has more to lose than Zakk if he fires him, no matter who he hires as a replacement…
Typical Zakk Wylde interview
Interviewer: Hey zakk, how are you
Wylde: I’m great. Just finished getting loaded with my boys and talking about how much I hate Fred Durst and Limp bizkit. Oh man fuck Limp bizkit!
Interviewer: So when’s the new album out
Wylde: in 6 months. I’m dedicating it to Dime! I love you DIME!!!! Fuck Fred Durst.
hahaha.. you forgot…
Wylde: in 6 months. I’m dedicating it to Dime! I love you DIME!!!! Fuck Fred Durst. AND FUCK IRAQ!!
Just a question, Axl: Did Zakk Wylde run off with your girlfriend or something? Because you seem to be taking way too much pleasure in his misfortune.
Hopefully this will be a good thing for Zakk. I’m one of those white-trashed mouth-breathers who make up his fanbase, no doubt. I don’t think the guy hung the moon or that he’s the best in the world or anything, but the guy played a very big part in my return to the metal 8 or 9 years ago (I was into metal a lot growing up and kind of fell out of it in the late 90’s). I’ll be the first to say his schtick has gotten a little stale and his last few albums have been formulaic and average at best. All his detractors always bring up the pinch-harmonics and the non-stop scales in his soloing, which has been true for the last few years. But with Pride & Glory, Book of Shadows, and the first 2 (maybe 3) BLS albums were killer and the guy had a good bit of variety on there. He’s one of those guys who CAN play bad-ass, but for some reason really hasn’t in the last good while (not unlike many other musicians who’ve been around a while). Hopefully this change will be good for the guy (maybe he can cut back on the booze) and maybe he can re-evaluate what he wants to do in music and actually take the time to write/record a good album again and not just record every half-ass riff he ever thought of.
Oh yeah, and for the record, I met the guy at a little meet-n-greet signing thing at Ozzfest (I believe it was ‘03) and you couldn’t have asked for a cooler guy. It was the last show on the tour and West Palm Beach in August is no place you want to be standing around outside all day signing shit. Unlike the other bands there, he made sure to take a good two minutes with each person and signed whatever they brought up and tried to make every person feel like his friend. He’s good people in my book.
Ozzy/Sharon…eh, not so much.
To respond to the second part of your post: My friend, son, and I all had VIP meet and greets with Zakk on 3/28/09 in Chicago. We were told not to bring anything to be signed as they would be giving each paid VIP an autographed 8×10 on our way out the door. This never happened. 40 people paid and showed and none of the 40 got what they paid for. This douchebag gladly took our extra 60 fucking dollars per ticket for the “privilege” of meeting him and hasn’t delivered on what he promised. It’s been nearly 3 months now and after several phone calls and hundreds of e-mails we still don’t have what we paid for. Fuck Zakk right in his ass. He should just go away. I, for one, will NEVER spend another dime on anything related to Zakk the Hakk.
He ain’t “good people” in my book.
Well that sucks. I don’t know who was in charge of that stuff in your case, but in my experience they had The Blessed Hellride album and their DVD that just came out…you had to buy one of those to get the autograph/photo-op (which was the same for all the bands there). The first 20 or so people in line brought all kinds of other stuff (shirts, pictures, posters, etc) as well and Zakk signed everything they brought. He did that for everybody until his handlers said that the only items he would be able to sign were the ones purchased there, supposedly to help the line move quicker. The crowd boo’d and Zakk didn’t seem to be too thrilled about it either (could’ve been an act). The point is, in my case it didn’t seem like it was up to him. Maybe it was his choice in your experience, in which case I don’t blame you for thinking he’s a dick.
i guess it’s as the old saying goes “your mileage may vary”.
I can tell you as fact that Zakk is never in charge of those things. People seem to forget that a band is a business and that not all decisions fall to the band leader who knows more about playing an instrument than organizing a meet and greet.
Alec, if you were shafted it wasn’t Zakk Wylde who did it. Blame managment because Zakk does all he can to make you feel like family and doesn’t run EVERY aspect of his business (BLS).