Description

Original 1990 release

The six track Just Say Ozzy live EP was released on March 17, 1990. The album contains live performances from the supporting tour for No Rest for the Wicked, featuring three songs from that album plus two Black Sabbath covers and Shot in the Dark from The Ultimate Sin. Shot in the Dark was first recorded in the Jake E. Lee era, and according to Osbourne’s own album liner notes, this version with Butler, Castillo and Wylde is his preferred version. Although the sleeve states this to have been recorded at London’s Brixton Academy, the gig never made any of the UK music papers either as a review or as a forthcoming event and the crowd is, plainly, not a British one. Indeed, comparison of the audience noise on this mini-album and from Osbournes MTV show at the Philadelphia Spectrum in 1989 shows it to be one and the same. The music, however, was re-recorded and mixed at Electric Lady Studios in New York with engineer Adam Yellin and the audience noise and some tracks kept from the live recording. The album along with The Ultimate Sin and Live And Loud has since been deleted from Ozzys catalogue and was not remastered and reissued along with the rest of Ozzy’s albums in 2002. This is mainly due to a continuing legal struggle with bassist/songwriter Phil Soussan over the song Shot In The Dark. The only available versions of these albums are the 1995 remasters. The graffiti artist pictured on the album cover is Zakk Wylde.

Track listing:
1. Miracle Man
2. Bloodbath In Paradise
3. Shot In The Dark
4. Tattooed Dancer
5. Sweet Leaf-Black Sabbath cover
6. War Pigs-Black Sabbath cover