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Happy Birthday Jake E. Lee: Awesome Live Solo on Stage With Ozzy in 1984 — Video

Posted on - by Jonathan Graham in 1980 — 89, All Videos, Forgotten Guitar, Guitar Solos // 1 Comment

Jake E. Lee on stage with Ozzy Osbourne in 1984

 

Happy 59th Birthday to guitarist Jake E. Lee most famous fro his work with Ozzy Osbourne, Badlands and Red Dragon Cartel

Lee replaced Randy Rhoads (after his death in Dec 1982) as guitarist in Ozzy’s band from 1983-1987. He appeared on two of Ozzy’s releases; Bark at The Moon and Ultimate Sin albums before going on to form hard rock/metal band Badlands.

Lee’s current project is called Red Dragon Cartel, releasing their self tiled debut in 2014  featuring guest appearances by singer Robin Zander of Cheap Trick.

In the clip below see Jake E. Lee live on stage with Ozzy, performing a killer improvised guitar solo to close “Suicide Solution” in 1984.

 

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Editor in chief of Thinking About Guitar — Former Editor in chief of Guitar Interactive (2017 - 2025), Jonathan has written online articles for Guitar World, Guitar Player and Guitar Aficionado over the last decade. He has interviewed hundreds of music's finest, including Slash, Joe Satriani, Kirk Hammett and Steve Vai, to name a few. Jonathan's not a bad player either, occasionally doing gear reviews, session work and online lessons for Lick Library.

1 Comment on Happy Birthday Jake E. Lee: Awesome Live Solo on Stage With Ozzy in 1984 — Video

  1. Unknown's avatar Graham // - at 9:51 pm // Reply

    seen this tour in vancouver with motley crue backing up

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