Incomplete "Bark at the Moon" (Ozzy Osbourne) on cigar box guitar

I felt like doing something silly tonight: classic metal on a janky four string cigar box instrument. You can only play so much blues and folk, people. This ...

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Comment by Cigar Box Gus on December 31, 2014 at 12:29pm

RTZ: Sharon does seem to have a real scorched-earth policy when it comes to past collaborators. I mean, the man doesn't write lyrics and he damn sure doesn't write guitar riffs, so...the official line back when I was actually paying attention to current heavy metal (we're talking 1991 or so, here) was that "Ozzy writes the vocal melodies," which I suspect was just a way current band members had of covering for him in the press while managing to stay employed. You can't tell me Geezer or Bob or whoever was writing lyrics to be used with the guitarist's riffs WITHOUT having a melody in mind. I don't know if anybody writes songs that way. Other people wrote those songs, front-to-back, and they deserve to be paid.

Comment by RTZGUITARS on December 31, 2014 at 12:11pm

What's up Gus, sounds great I used to think Randy Roads wrote this but it came out after he died. Ozzy's wife did screw Jake Lee for the writing credit. Rock on Gus. 

Comment by Cigar Box Gus on December 30, 2014 at 10:52am

Thanks for watching, everybody. Maybe I should learn some Dio next...

Comment by Muddy Creek Guitars on December 30, 2014 at 10:32am
Awesome playing! The powerpuff girl pillow makes it even cooler!
Comment by Diglydog on December 30, 2014 at 6:28am

Awesome job Uncle Gus :-)  With just sound and no picture, I'd say you had a lot more than 4 strings in one take !

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Comment by Uncle John on December 30, 2014 at 2:24am

Gus, that's good.  I hope you and others can get the message out that this stuff is doable on CBG.

Comment by Slowpaw Steve T on December 30, 2014 at 12:07am
Comment by Cigar Box Gus on December 29, 2014 at 8:40pm

Slowpaw: now there's a thought...I was playing around with "Electric Funeral" on my diddley bow a while back...but "A National Acrobat" may be my all-time Sabbath track.

Comment by Slowpaw Steve T on December 29, 2014 at 8:34pm

Black Sabbath and Ozzy translate very well on CBG, did a cover of "Black Sabbath" some time ago and it worked out really well - maybe a Sabbath tribute album ?  :-)

Comment by Steve Mattox on December 29, 2014 at 6:30pm

AWESOME  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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