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I just looked forward to getting back out there with the boss. I've always said playing with Ozzy is like being in the greatest cover band, but then you get to do your own thing as well. I was doing Sabbath stuff and then playing everything by Randy and Jake. It's been that way since I first joined the band. What do you look forward to most about being able to interpret new Ozzy songs that you didn't write or record? Ozzy has been working on new music and plans to tour next year. Black Label Society, "End of Days" Music Video When I was a kid, it was just Elton John and Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brothers, The Eagles, Bad Company, Lynyrd Skynyrd - it's just great music. It always comes down to the songs - always. When you went to see Led Zeppelin, not everybody in that crowd was a guitar player and everybody's just loved the music. You love Ozzy and you're going to see Ozzy cause of the songs and then Randy Rhoads put this amazing guitar solo in the song and it's the icing on the cake. But there's songs there and the solo was the icing on the cake. That's when everyone went - he's king Edward.
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It's not because Keith Richards is blazing up and down the fret board. Even just doing the Zakk Sabbath cover band, they're just like the Beatles or the Rolling Stones - they've got great songs. Who are your mentors who have taught you the dynamics of structuring a song?įor the heavy stuff it would have to be Tony Iommi, for sure. Playing guitar itself is altogether different from songwriting. I couldn't care less - if it's good, it's good. I could listen to Crowded House, Meshuggah, John McLaughlin Mahavishnu Orchestra, Dixie Dregs and then I'll listen to new wave essentials and Flock of Seagulls. I would have never been exposed to legendary jazz guys such as Joe Pass or Pat Martino, John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola, but my guitar teachers said I ought to check these guys out. It's just being a musician - you love all types of different things. What's metal about musicians who don't actually play metal. In the beginning, that was always the need for another guitar player so we could do other things, but now it's just about having fun with it.īlack Label Society resides in the metal community, but you've been influenced by people far outside that neighborhood, like Andy Summers and Elton John. Whenever I'm playing the piano, he's the one that's always doing the solos. Now I extend guitar solos and stuff like that and it's obviously going to lengthen the songs, so we have to do radio edits if it's a single. It's just an evolution of what's been going on since 2014. I'd just tell him what the notes were and he'd just knock it out and it was done. I would just ship the tracks over to Dario's studio and he'd just say just blaze something on this section here. When I was writing the record, we'd extend guitar parts or certain intros I was doing with his harmonies. So I'm just getting him more involved and having a good time with it. On "Fire It Up" I would go out in the crowd and then Dario came out there with me and then we'll do these trade off solos together and everything like that. It's just basically an extension of that. Going back to like Catacombs of the Black Vatican, I started writing guitar harmonies for solos and things like that. Now it's pretty much become a two guitar player band in regards to something like The Allman Brothers or Judas Priest. I just have him just getting involved in the fun and the shenanigans - "Hey Dario, double the solo with me on this one and we'll do this together," etc. How does his guitar presence enhance these songs?ĭario has been doing it over the years.
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You've always been a self-sufficient guitarist on Black Label Society albums, but now Dario Lorina is showcased fairly well on Doom Crew, Inc. I believe it was from the Pride and Glory era. It was a small bar, but I feel like, I think it was The Price. Speaking of Jackson, I'm not sure if I told you this before, but the first time that I ever saw you live was at a bar in Jackson when I lived in New Jersey.