Ozzy Osbourne: Speak of the Devil

Starring:Ozzy Osbourne
Studio: Super D / Phantom So
Product Type: DVD

Album Description

At the peak of his career, Ozzy made this unforgettable show in California in 1982. With exciting performances of his solo career's greatest hits, like 'Mr Crowley', 'Suicide Solution' & 'Crazy Train', the singer shows here how to conquer an audience that

Customer Reviews:

awsome.......2006-05-19

I bought this dvd back in March 2003... I wont tell all the songs on here cause I see most of the raters already did... I was into Black Sabbath... I saw Ozzy in Columbus Ga. in 1980... And Del Leppard opened for him... It was awsome... All I have to tell you is this... I saw his Blizzard of Ozz tour with Randy Rhodes... and it was unbealieveable.... I could lay my hand on the stage... I was that close and I got terriffic pics... Back to the Dvd... If you are an Ozzy Fan... Im asking you to buy this Dvd... Its a great show... I mean that... ty for reading this... Larry...

Absolutely INCREDIBLE show, priceless DVD. But..........2006-05-04

This concert is a jewel of a find, and true treasure for the Ozzy fan.

The band is absolutely perfect, plus it's the band we all came to love from the Tribute album - Sarzo, Aldridge, Ozzy and emergency fill-in guitarist Brad Gillis.

Ozzy: Holy cow - he sang on key back then! For those of you that have ever seen Ozzy live, you know what I'm talking about. Ozzy stopped singing and started yelling during live performances 2 decades ago, and has always been the worst live singer on the planet. When this concert took place, however, he could still sing live, and he did it very well. He was in his prime back then. Yet another reason this DVD is so valuable.

Rudy Sarzo: Without question the most animated showman on stage. You have never seen a bass player play so well while absolutely hammering a bass and performing in a manner that can only be described as gymnastic.

Tommy Aldridge: The drum solo will absolutely send you through the roof. When he starts absolutely SLAMMING those drums with his bare hands during the solo, it is simply amazing. I had always wondered what this looked like, because you hear him do it on the Tribute album. Now I know. It leaves you speechless.

Don Airey: Not much to say here, you can't even see the guy except for the back of his head. He adds the mandatory element to the band to make it sound huge, invaluable, but they stuck the poor guy up in what the band called "keyboard corner".

Brad Gillis: I, the ultimate Randy Rhoads fan from day one, like the rest of you, am about to commit blasphemy. I have to give credit where credit is due. Here it goes: Brad Gillis played Randy's material even cleaner than Randy did on Tribute, and pulled screaming guitar wizardry out of his axe that Randy never even got remotely close to. It is way too obvious to deny when you see this DVD. Ozzy chose well. Rhoads would have made that concert a treasure of Rhoads history, no doubt about it. But Gillis makes the concert utterly mindboggling. I would have much preferred Rhoads, of course, but the fact is, Gillis burned down the house on this DVD. It was by far a better show than Rhoads would have produced. I know there's those of you out there who'd like to burn me at the stake for saying that, but as a 20-year guitar veteran and "Rhoads scholar", I know what I'm talking about. Buy this DVD and see for yourself, then compare it to what you hear on Tribute. The quality of musicianship of this performance is literaly studio perfection. Rhoads never played that clean live, however - just look at all the bootleg video footage of live Ozzy/Rhoads on the internet. Randy cannot be replaced, but Gillis nailed it with HUGE guns.

SET: Songs are good mix of Blizzard and Diary, plus the same old boring token Black Sabbath crap that Ozzy always felt compelled to perform. Some things just didn't work, however. Like hanging the midget by his neck as a background prop right when they go into "Goodbye to Romance". Totally doesn't work. Thee is one very poorly executed edit which takes place right as the guitar solo starts, a break in whick part of the song is repeated for a brief second but with different lighting, possibly from a different performance. Also, during the solo parts, check out the riffs Brad Gillis is using - it's part of Randy's solo, only put to a full groove rythm with bass and drums. It's VERY cool, too. It comes off as a tribute to Randy from Gillis.

SOUND: Though it's not much by today's standards, the sound is just great and fairly good quality stereo, possibly better than what you'd expect from a recording made in 1982. Zero complaints.

VIDEO: Video quality is actually very typical of the time. Early 80s productions of any kind had somewhat of a fuzz to it, nothing like the digital clarity of today. To put it accurately, it's exactly like watching a VHS tape.

DVD itself: The package that I just recieved is all in spanish. The menus on the DVD are also in Spanish. The additional features on the DVD are all in spanish, so i can't read a thing about all the extra stuff on Ozzy. What gives? Nothing about that is in any of these reviews or Amazon's descritpions, but that's what I got. It doesn't matter as far as the DVD is concerned, really, but as my country gets overrun with Hispanic illegals who have zero regard for our laws and protest in our streets and demand free benefits at my expense, it kind of yanks my chain.

5 starts for the most fantastic performance you will ever see Ozzy give and for mindblowing rock musicianship on the part of thend.

Great DVD, But Beware: NOT MTV FOOTAGE AS NOTED IN EARLIER REVIEW.......2006-01-17

This is a great DVD, however this IS NOT the MTV footage as noted in earlier review. The MTV footage was with Rudy Sarzo, Tommy Aldridge, Ozzy, Don Airey and the great Jake E. Lee. If you remember "Speak of the Devil" made reference to ozzy doing Sabbath material. The MTV footage had, if memory serves, Symptoms and Fairy's Wear Boots, and others including Bark At The Moon. In fact, while Jake is down on his knees playing a lead, Ozzy walks over to him and starts pulling his hair and Tommy does a drum solo with his hands. That is a great video, but this is not it...still this is great footage but I was bummed Jake is on it, not a huge Brad Gillis era fan. Ozzy is the best, any fan will be happy to have this DVD. Go Crazy!

SPEAK OF THE DEVIL.......2005-11-15

This is an amazing DVD, although you are not smat if you payed 120 dollars for it, I just bought it in a special digi-pack with the remastered Speak of the Devil CD on ebay for 10 bucks, it is only available as an import from Europe, but what ever, anyway, this isthe best Ozzy DVD you can get. Live and Loud is pretty good, but the footage is terrible. If you haven't seen the Live and Loud Video, I'll ezplain how it is, have you ever seen Ozzy's new video for working class hero, if you haven't, it's just footage spliced together from different concerts played over his music, thats how live and loud is. It's like playing AC/DC's 1978 live album if you want blood over 1991's video if you want blood, the footage just doesnt fit, and in live at budokan, the band is pretty bad, ozzy is just not putting in his all, buy this with Black Sabbath
Never Say Die Live

Amazing Show!!!!.......2005-07-25

This show was incredible. I agree with all the reviewers that this is a must-have for all Ozzy fans-----especially early Ozzy fans of which I am one.

The setlist has been posted ad nauseum, so I will just say that this is a balanced set, and contains songs that have not been done since around 1983-84. I, too, would've loved more Diary... tunes, but that's just me.

Just a note to Brice: The bassist on the Bark at the Moon video/tour was Bob Daisley! I am a bassist, and count Bob as one of my main influences. I think I love the Bark at the Moon tour DVD because of the fact it's a chance to see the bassist of the Blizzard and Diary albums (Rudy did NOT play on Diary) in action. I am also a HUGE Jake E. Lee fan, though Rhoads will always be my favorite guitarist.

GET THIS DVD!!!!!!

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