1959RR book (with postcard ? )

[GUITARIDOL5682]

"Big Zero Cough".... Not sure what he meant there.... But shines a light on how he felt at that moment... There was always talk from K.D. that Randy was always talking about coming back to Q.R. one week, back with Ozzy the next. Certainly shows that side of him with this card....

Yeah, that is a curious thing zennman. From his interviews, he didn't seem to like QR music and now in this postcard, he apparently didn't like his music in Ozzy's band either. Hard one to please!

I think Randy is not wanting to sound like he's made the right move and it's the best career move he's ever done.I think he's trying not to BIG UP the issue to Kevin.'It'll pay off ' Randy knew the album was awesome. What would it read like if it was all hype and the bands album sounds excellent Kev!.I cannot wait to hear the finished LP. England's beautiful,me and Jodi have just been to London we are living at the studio we have cooks and maids etc etc.By the way Kev what are you doing ?. Kev was probably at his lowest point in his career, going no where.Imagine how jealous he must of felt,Kev would of wanted this more then anything else. To be able to play with Cool musicians and put out an excellent first album.So i think IMHO he's being humble and not wanting to blow his own trumpet. He's saying he misses the band etc..But as we all know he never did officialy leave Quiet Riot.He was never sacked and he never said that he was leaving the band ..
'Big Zero Cough' was one of his dog's called Zero. So it may have something to do with his dog having a loud bark ? Or Randy may have had a bad cough ?

[Zakk Daniels]

"Big Zero Cough".... Not sure what he meant there.... But shines a light on how he felt at that moment... There was always talk from K.D. that Randy was always talking about coming back to Q.R. one week, back with Ozzy the next. Certainly shows that side of him with this card....

Yeah, that is a curious thing zennman. From his interviews, he didn't seem to like QR music and now in this postcard, he apparently didn't like his music in Ozzy's band either. Hard one to please!

I think Randy is not wanting to sound like he's made the right move and it's the best career move he's ever done.I think he's trying not to BIG UP the issue to Kevin.'It'll pay off ' Randy knew the album was awesome. What would it read like if it was all hype and the bands album sounds excellent Kev!.I cannot wait to hear the finished LP. England's beautiful,me and Jodi have just been to London we are living at the studio we have cooks and maids etc etc.By the way Kev what are you doing ?. Kev was probably at his lowest point in his career, going no where.Imagine how jealous he must of felt,Kev would of wanted this more then anything else. To be able to play with Cool musicians and put out an excellent first album.So i think IMHO he's being humble and not wanting to blow his own trumpet. He's saying he misses the band etc..But as we all know he never did officialy leave Quiet Riot.He was never sacked and he never said that he was leaving the band ..
'Big Zero Cough' was one of his dog's called Zero. So it may have something to do with his dog having a loud bark ? Or Randy may have had a bad cough ?

Yeah, I never thought of it that way. I bet you are right.

[GUITARIDOL5682]

I found this and Kevin DuBrow sums up what i've just said..

Randy was quoted as saying that the band he left wouldn't have made it. He's right, that band wouldn't have made it. It was not the right combination. The drummer was Wrong, and because of the drummer or any one person in a band, that will hold you back.. We had slogged together in one direction for so long that we needed a break. Randy had gotten a call about Ozzy's auditions right before the last Quiet Riot gig. He figured that Ozzy was a flake and nothing would come of it. Then after a particularly bad rehearsal, he got called again and went down to some recording studio. I think it was in Malibu. He played through a Fender Princeton amp and the next day he told me he got the gig. To be honest he waited for two months to hear from Ozzy. He got the call just before Thanksgiving and went off to England. To this day, he never quit Quiet Riot. He was so non-committal. I said, 'So is the band broken up?' He said, 'No, I have to talk to you about it.' Obviously the band was broken up, but he was talking to me and he had a way of saying things the way people wanted to hear them, depending on who he was talking to. It's not that he was two faced, but he wanted everybody to be happy. He would come off to me that it was not a happening thing to be with Ozzy. If he raved about how good it was he knew that he would make me feel bad and left behind. Here we had worked together for five years and I felt that a lot of my work was going down the toilet, and he didn't want to rub it in. We'd been friends too long. He would say Ozzy is flaky and that he didn't know about the album. He told me I probably wouldn't like it and that he didn't know how it would do.

[zennman]

I think Randy is not wanting to sound like he's made the right move and it's the best career move he's ever done.I think he's trying not to BIG UP the issue to Kevin.'It'll pay off ' Randy knew the album was awesome. What would it read like if it was all hype and the bands album sounds excellent Kev!.I cannot wait to hear the finished LP. England's beautiful,me and Jodi have just been to London we are living at the studio we have cooks and maids etc etc.By the way Kev what are you doing ?. Kev was probably at his lowest point in his career, going no where.Imagine how jealous he must of felt,Kev would of wanted this more then anything else. To be able to play with Cool musicians and put out an excellent first album.So i think IMHO he's being humble and not wanting to blow his own trumpet. He's saying he misses the band etc..But as we all know he never did officialy leave Quiet Riot.He was never sacked and he never said that he was leaving the band ..
'Big Zero Cough' was one of his dog's called Zero. So it may have something to do with his dog having a loud bark ? Or Randy may have had a bad cough ?

I agree with your assessment. And it's very interesting how RR would handle these types of situations. I hope he was more proud than he let on....

[NicDots]

I've always thought of Randy that way...thanks for the quote!

[The Flying Dutchman]

Thanks for the insight Shaun!

Well you never know really, but I think he was very proud when writing Blizzard. See interviews with Bob Daisley where he said (if I remember correct) that they all knew it was gonna be a really good album!
His playing went through a transformation working with musicians like Bob Daisley and Lee Kerslake. Maybe he saw possibilities to apply some of that new inspiration into QR and move to a more heavy direction with that band? I think it's not unlikely he would have worked with Kevin again. Maybe also with Franki Banali on drums, a drummer that Randy really adimired. It's no secret they contacted Frankie when they were still searching for a drummer to record blizzard. I think it would have been the 'Metal Health' line up but with Randy on guitar. So yep maybe he had plans with QR as well...... All just speculating of course!

[Cornelius]

When the postcard was on eBay the first time, there was a small, but semi-legible image of it, which I grabbed at the time. The auction was withdrawn for some reason, and when it came back up on eBay, there was a lower-res image that you couldn't read at all. Here's the initial image, which you can kind of read if you enlarge it:

[Cornelius]

Here's my attempt at deciphering the whole postcard:

Kevin & Drew,
Hi, how are you guys? Have you got the new band together? Things are taking longer here, we still haven't decided on a drummer. We've played with a million, but none of them were right. We've played with drummers from Wings, Whitesnake, Ten Years Later, Judas Priest, and other session guys that you'd know but I didn't. All a bunch of nerds! We're doing some demos next week to test out this studio and a producer Jet wants to use. By the time we're done if we still don't have a drummer, we'll have to pay someone to do it. Bob said Cozy P. would do it for 5,000 if he's not working, but Ozzie and Jet don't want to do that. Thanks!

For now, we're using a session guy on the demo. The studio is called Bridge Farm. It looks neat, you live there with maids and cooks.

I did something you'll appreciate. I went to the Marshall factory, and ordered my own amps, I had them beefed up and modified there, I got them in white! A stack is really cheap here! I got a stack for $500, brand new, so I bought two of them, the ones I was using were rented and it was costing more money than owning them. The material is all done practically, just a few arrangement stuff. Big zero cough! Makes me really miss the group! But, it'll pay off?

It's so cold, I can't practice, it's been about two months since I've really practiced, I play about 1 hour a day, except for writing, but hardly any lead, it's too cold. It's snowing. Jodi and I have spent a few days in London, it was fun. We're back at Suffolk now, it's by the sea on the Northeast Coast. We moved from Wales about a week ago.

Well I'm out of room so I'll stop, but I'll right soon. Bye, Randy.

P.S. I miss you guys. I'll right more when there's more to say, OK?

(About Randy spelling "write" as "right": He spelled it correctly in other postcards, so I'm guessing this one was written in a hurry. At any rate, it's an interesting peek behind the scenes of Blizzard of Ozz.)

[The Flying Dutchman]

Well thanks for the image and translation!
It's great that postcard survived, somehow Kevin must have realized the historic value of it...., for us RR fans comparable to the letters of Van Gogh!

[GUITARIDOL5682]

Hi Cornelius cheers for putting that part of the missing postcard together for us. How long ago was the post card on ebay and was it Kevin who was selling this ?. If your new to the board welcome and thanks again..

[Cornelius]

You're welcome, and thanks for welcoming me to the board. I did leave a couple of "thank you" posts in the free audio section a few months ago, but it looks like those got wiped out in the crash.

Yes, Kevin was the seller, and it took place around the fall of 2003, I believe. I'm not sure what happened with the first auction, and I can't remember what it sold for at the second one (assuming it did sell). Maybe someone else will remember the details and chime in.

Thanks to Zakk for uploading that Marshall booklet picture of the postcard. It solved a couple of lingering mysteries. I had most of it figured out before, but the stuff on the bottom right and right margin was impossible for me to decipher.

Sounds like Randy might have been excited at the prospect of working with Cozy Powell, and disappointed they wouldn't meet his session fee. Not only was Cozy one of the best drummers around, but he had also worked with two of Randy's favorites, Jeff Beck and Ritchie Blackmore.

It's an interesting idea to entertain, though ultimately I'm glad they found Lee Kerslake -- I wouldn't change a thing about either of those albums. I wish the Osbournes felt the same.

[Trigger]

I think that Randy's playing and the Blizzard/Diary albums might have been very different had Cozy been involved. I was never a Cozy fan until I saw him playing with Sabbath a short while before he died. I realised that Cozy was ahead of his time and really did deserve the credit he has in the rock world.
Much as I love Lee's playng I think Cozy would have helped draw out some really cool stuff from the young RR, also those early 1980 live shows might have sounded a whole less dated and much more current. Just as the 1981 shows with Tommy have remained sounding (to me at least) as if they could have been recorded last week.

[Randy Perry]

OK, I'm not trying to be an ass on this, just that the translation was exact except for one word. (My God, has it come to this Randy?) Yes, unfortunately, it has, I'm even talking to myself. Just the omission of the word "often" and it's perfect.



You mentioned Randy using the word "right" instead of "write". Just before he signs off, doesn't it look as though he did spell "wright" right, then scratched through it? I can't tell.

[jckmdcn]

[quote="zennman"]"Big Zero Cough".... Not sure what he meant there....


Zero was one of Randy's dogs, although I can't remember which type

[Cornelius]

RP - Thanks for those enlargements! I don't know where I got "often" from, I must have imagined it. I'll edit the post accordingly.