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Artist News
Ozzy ditches guitarist
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 15 July 2009
Ozzy Osbourne has dropped his guitarist of 22 years, Zakk Wylde. We can assume the split isn’t amicable, as Wylde only found out when he read the news in Classic Rock magazine.
Wylde not only thought that he was signed up to work on Osbourne’s next solo album, due for release next year, but had already recorded most of it. He confirmed earlier this year: “We started working on it already. We’re going to go in the studio with Ozz [in April] and knock out a couple more songs and the album should be done. Then Ozz has to sing on it”.
But in a new interview with Classic Rock, Ozzy revealed that he is planning to work with former Marilyn Manson guitarist John 5 instead. He said: “I’m getting a new guitar player as we speak, and everyone has been saying to me for a long time, ‘Get Johnny 5!’ And I tried him at one time and I didn’t really give him a chance. We’ll see, I don’t know. I haven’t fallen out with Zakk, but Zakk’s got his own band, and I felt like my stuff was beginning to sound like [that band] Black Label Society. I just felt like I wanted a change, you know?”
Wylde responded via Twitter, saying: “This is news to me. I haven’t heard anything about this. Until I talk to the Boss, I don’t know. I love Ozzy”.
