As I post this photo of the Bark At The Moon album cover, a thought occured to me that I had not considered before. Who had the idea to dress Ozzy up as a werewolf? Did Ozzy approach the record label and say “I’d like to be a werewolf on the cover of the next album?” and thus realize a childhood dream of lycanthropy?
Maybe a young record exec approached Ozzy. “Picture it Ozzy. A dark, cloud covered November sky. A white full moon shines coldly through a break in the clouds. Below we see you done up like that guy from American Werewolf In London.We can get the same guy to do the make up effects for us. Whadda you say?”
Next time I see Ozzy, I’m going to ask him that. Aric had Bark At The Moon which is how I initially heard it. It has some good songs but overall, I didn’t quite get into it like his previous two albums. Another timing issue? Randy Rhoades was gone and Jake E. Lee stepped up to create some memorable guitar parts. What I didn’t know at the time was that Jake E. Lee was part of the earliest incarnations ofRatt.
It strikes me that the guitar work like that featured on Bark At The Moonwas how many of the guitarists sounded back then. This was before bands like Metallica would rise to prominence. It seems that after Eddie Van Halen guitars when through this Eddie emulation and after Metallica that guitar parts sounded more like Metallica.
Another thing that I find peculiar about Ozzy Osbourne is that when he sings, he announciates very well. I can understand him quite clearly. When he speaks, his accent mashes all the words together with stutters and mumbles and I can barely understand him at all.
Bark At The Moon
You’re No Different
Rock & Roll Rebel
So Tred – Bark At The Moon’s Goodbye To Romance