No Bone Movies

tedeeoo · Post by **tedeeoo** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 6:38 pm

This may have been asked at some point and please, forgive my complete ignorance. On the recorded version of "No Bone Movies", is Randy playing slide on the solo, if not he sure has some "slide tendencies" to his phrashing. Great song on a great album by the way, my 9 year old has got me listening to it again, I just love the way he (my son) views music and the world for that matter, clean and with no preconcieved idea of what it should sound like, I think Randy would like that idea also.

Thanks for the help,
Ted

TAB · Post by **TAB** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 6:44 pm

yea, the album version he plays a slide. It's more noticeable towards the end of the solo where he has those long drawn out notes.

tedeeoo · Post by **tedeeoo** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 7:32 pm

I thought so, great solo on that song.

TAB · Post by **TAB** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 7:46 pm

yea I always thought in that song he used a non traditional way of playing the slide there. Usually you hear the slide in a more blues style.. but listen to him playing slide in the Chilli cookoff video, he was a great slide player..

Ritchie · Post by **Ritchie** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 8:08 pm

Ya .. I thought he was a very good slide player for someone not usually associated with that style

tedeeoo · Post by **tedeeoo** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 8:09 pm

It really makes you wonder just what all he had "in the bag" so to speak. It had been years since I listened to the song, but I couldn't help but think that if he had some of that in his playing he probably had other things that we never heard. One of the things I've always admired about Randy was his total embrace of the guitar, it's like he never found a part of it he didn't like. That is real inspiration to an old axe-slinger like me!!

Ritchie · Post by **Ritchie** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 8:15 pm

tedeeoo wrote:It really makes you wonder just what all he had "in the bag" so to speak. It had been years since I listened to the song, but I couldn't help but think that if he had some of that in his playing he probably had other things that we never heard. One of the things I've always admired about Randy was his total embrace of the guitar, it's like he never found a part of it he didn't like. That is real inspiration to an old axe-slinger like me!!

I totally agree , and in just a few years after Randy passed the "solo" guitar instrumental record became the thing to do for a whole lot of players wishing to stretch their fingers .. I wonder If Randy would have done such an album ... hmmmmmm

tedeeoo · Post by **tedeeoo** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 8:31 pm

I think he would have probably done several instrumental records and I also think they would not have been the typical "shredder" records (and not that there's anything wrong with that). I could see him doing something as musical as say Eric Johnson, but with maybe a little harder edge, of course I could also see him doing a classical record or a record that blended rock and classical even further than he did with Ozzy. I don't think there would have been any boundaries with Randy, that's why I say he "totally embraced" the guitar as much as anyone I've seen. I think I've said this before, I read an interview one time with Rik Emmett of Triumph (fantastic guitar player and singer by the way), where he talked about Randy's dedication to the instrument, to have someone of Rik's caliber talk with that much admiration about how Randy approached the instrument says alot. Jake said one time "if you think of my playing as a foot, then my time with Ozzy only took up a few inches of that foot", it would have been cool to have seen what else Randy had to offer had his time not ended so soon.

Post by **Trigger** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:11 am

This is an odd song to me as its the song I like the least but it has one of my favorite linking sections of any RR/Ozzy song. This has all the tongue in cheek and old style 'Rock 'n' roll' that I wish we might have seen a little more of though! I know that sounds like a contadiction?

I as a drummer was not that taken by Lee kerslake on 'Blizzard' although 'Diary' was fantastic! I enjoyed Tommy adding his own touch to the songs because in my oppinion he lifted them and with Randy took them to another level, I have wondered if Randy has passed before he USA 1981 tour began? would we still be talking about him OR would we be talking about these live performances with so much enthuisiasm?

That said, 'No Bone Movies' played by Tommy is the most individual in some ways than any other 'Blizzard' song, and Tommy really took that song to another place and its a shame we don't have a broadcast quality live version of Tommy playing this song. The version we have on 'Tribute' (as you all know) is with Lee from Southampton in 1980 but the band had only stopped playing 'No Bone Movies' a few days earlier before recording in Cleveland.

very sad.

Ian

Cpt Matt Sparrow · Post by **Cpt Matt Sparrow** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:34 am

It is pleasantly unusual for sure! Frank Santa Cruz said once that Randy "could play a mean disco groove".

That made me smile with surprise; but then why should I be surprised?

Randy seemed to be a very open player and like Bruce Lee ie traditional in many respects, but also very individual and innovative and unorthadox!!

I also love his Clapton-esque solo on Afterglow Of Your Love.

Matt

tedeeoo · Post by **tedeeoo** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 4:53 pm

Ian I completely agree with you about Tommy, not knocking Lee by any stretch as I feel those 2 albums would not have been the same without him, but to me, Tommy Aldridge is the best rock drummer there is, especially live. Everybody here has probably figured out by now that I am like Jake, like most people here are about Randy, why do I bring that up? If you have ever seen the BATM show from Salt Lake City, with Jake, Bob, and Tommy, you have seen what I'm talking about with Tommy. He and Bob just killed on that, not to mention Jake. And maybe even better, check out the Whitesnake dvd he did in 2005 with Doug Aldrich (my what a great guy and great guitarist), Marco Mendoza, Reb Beach and Timothy Drury (and of course Mr. Coverdale). I don't know that I've ever seen a live performance by a drummer that can touch what Tommy does on that WS dvd. I always liked " No Bone Movies" for the fact that it was a little different and probably because it's bluesier than most of what Ozzy does.

Post by **Trigger** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 5:22 pm

Hi Ted

The band that Ozzy used in 1984 with Tommy, Bon, Don and Jake was the last truely great Ozzy bands it was composed of every great musician that Ozzy had used in his solo career (minus Randy Rhoads).
That band really needed to write one more album because I don't really feel that the 'Bark' album was them at their finest, however when they played live they were stunning and I agree with you Ted that Tommy is the finest Drummer of his type ever (then and now).
When it comes to Drummers I can pick between Tommy or Leonard Haze of Y&T? both are equally stunning but have very different styles with Learnard only ever using a single Bass Drum with a single pedal YET doing riffs that are equal to anyone with 2 Bass Drum or a double pedal, Leonard is leagues ahead because he doesn't need two Bass drums and to here him you would never know he didn't use them.

That considered Tommy and Leonard still come joint first for me.

tedeeoo · Post by **tedeeoo** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 5:35 pm

Leonard Haze, now there's a bad-ass drummer, I saw him with Y&T, a killer band, opening for Motley Crue and he as well as the rest of that band were great. My first choice of the two would be Tommy but Leonard is a fantastic drummer by any measure.