Bob Daisley
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Robert "Bob" Daisley (born February 13, 1950) is from Sydney, Australia. He is a legendary hard rock bass guitar playing musician and lyricist who has performed in genres from Rock and Roll to the Blues. He revolutionised bass playing, incorporating a six-string bass guitar and using the "sweep picking" technique to play three octave arpeggios in lightning-fast succession.
Daisley was bassist and lyricist for Ozzy Osbourne on his most successful solo releases of the 1980's. Before the Diary of a Madman tour, Daisley was replaced by Rudy Sarzo. He returned to Ozzy's band for the 1983 Bark At The Moon record and tour. He wrote the material for all of Ozzy's albums up until and including No More Tears. Although he didn't do any of the recording for The Ultimate Sin, most of the material was written by Daisley and Ozzy's guitarist at the time Jake E. Lee. After a lawsuit brought by Daisley for unpaid royalties, his bass tracks were removed from later remasters of Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman albums in 2002. The tracks were re-recorded by Rob Trujillo of Suicidal Tendencies and Metallica fame.
Bob Daisley has also played for the following bands and/or solo artists: Gary Moore, Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Mungo Jerry, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Uriah Heep.
In 2003, he fulfilled a project of his in creating a band to remake some classic hard rock albums. Together with Jimmy Barnes, Don Airey, Steve Morse and Lee Kerslake, he formed the band Living Loud.
Daisley recorded a live gig at The Basement in Sydney, Australia, on February 7th, 2003 with Australian blues band The Hoochie Coochie Men, for a live DVD and CD release. Also featured were former Deep Purple organist Jon Lord and Jimmy Barnes.
[edit] Album discography
- 1970 Kahvas Jute - Wide Open
- 1972 Chicken Shack - Unlucky Boy
- 1974 Mungo Jerry - Long Legged Woman Dressed In Black
- 1975 Widowmaker - Widowmaker
- 1977 Widowmaker - Too Late To Cry
- 1977 Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'N' Roll, UK#7, US#89
- 1980 Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz, UK#7, US#21
- 1981 Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman, UK #14, US #16
- 1982 Uriah Heep - Abominog, UK #34, US #56
- 1983 Uriah Heep - Head First, UK #46, US #159
- 1983 Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The Moon, UK #24, US #19.
- 1986 Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin
- 1984 Gary Moore - Victims Of The Future
- 1985 Gary Moore - Run for Cover
- 1987 Black Sabbath - The Eternal Idol
- 1987 Gary Moore - Wild Frontier
- 1988 Ozzy Osbourne - No Rest For The Wicked, UK #23, US #13
- 1988 Yngwie Malmsteen - Odyssey, UK#10
- 1988 Gary Moore - After the War
- 1990 Bill Ward - Ward One: Along the Way
- 1990 Gary Moore - Still Got the Blues
- 1991 Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears, UK#10
- 1992 Gary Moore - After Hours
- 1992 Jeff Watson - Lone Ranger
- 1993 Mother's Army - Mother's Army
- 1995 Takara - The Taste Of Heaven
- 1995 Various artists - Jimi Hendrix tribute album In From the Storm
- 1997 Mother's Army - Planet Earth
- 1998 Mother's Army - Fire On The Moon
- 1998 Takara - Blind In Paradise
- 1998 Stream - Nothing Is Sacred
- 2001 The Hoochie Coochie Men - The Hoochie Coochie Men
- 2003 Jon Lord w/ The Hoochie Coochie Men -'Live at the Basement'
- 2004 Living Loud - Living Loud
- 2004 Gary Moore - Power of the Blues
- 2004 Karl Cochran – Voodooland
- 2005 Living Loud - Live in Sydney 2004
