OZZY osbourne ZAKK wylde - Purple Haze(cover)

Purple Haze is a song recorded in 1967 by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released as a single in both the United Kingdom and the United States. It also appeared on the US release of their 1967 album Are You Experienced?.

Purple Haze is often cited as one of Jimi Hendrix's greatest songs, and first international hit. For many, it is his signature work. Purple Haze became Hendrix' second single after his manager Chas Chandler heard him playing the riff backstage and quickly arranged for him to record and release the song.

The single peaked at number three in the UK but only number 65 in the US, where it was released in June 1967, a month after "Are You Experienced?" and three months after the UK single. In March 2005, Q magazine ranked "Purple Haze" at number one in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. The Rolling Stone magazine placed the song at No. 17 in their "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

The song is believed to refer to Hendrix's experiences with a similarly-named batch of LSD produced injello 1966 by Owsley Stanley. (In a 1967 BBC session, Hendrix recorded a cover version of the Beatles' "Day Tripper" in which he shouts, "Oh, Owsley, can you hear me now?" during the climactic guitar solo.) Others believed that the song's name was derived from a strain of marijuana, called "purple haze." However, in interviews Hendrix would disclaim any association with recreational drug use, asserting that the song was drawn from a dream he had where he was walking under the ocean, surrounded by a purple haze. At another point, Hendrix said he took the phrase "purple haze" from Night of Light, a science fiction novel written by Philip José Farmer that he was reading at the time. (However, the phrase appearing in Farmer's book is "purplish haze" [1].) Hendrix claimed that the song was about love, explaining that the line "whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me" was the key to the meaning of lyrics.

The song is distinctive for the flattened fifth interval which appears in the intro. The guitar plays Bb octaves while the bass plays E octaves. Such dissonance was unusual in popular music of the time. Dubbed guitar track played through octavia, a gadget that transfers notes one octave higher, can be heard during the outro.

(The song's lyric 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky has been widely misheard as 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy. However, in some live performances, as a joke, Hendrix clearly and unmistakably sang 'Scuse me, while I kiss that guy. One of these appears on the album Voodoo Child : The Jimi Hendrix Collection [Disc 2]. and the box set The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

"Purple Haze" has been covered by a variety of other artists, from Ozzy Osbourne to the Kronos Quartet to Québécoise artist Carole Laure, and has also been featured in many films, television shows, and commercials. Some of the more notable and/or unusual appropriations of the song over the years

Zakk Wylde (born Jeffrey Phillip Wiedlandt on January 14, 1967 in Bayonne, New Jersey) is a lead guitarist, pianist, singer and songwriter, best known for his role as founder of Black Label Society and guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne. Wylde was lead guitarist and vocalist in Pride & Glory, who released one self-titled album in 1994 before disbanding. As a solo artist he released the critically acclaimed Book of Shadows in 1996. Wylde's playing is characterised by his liberal use of pinch harmonics and the pentatonic scale.

Ozzy Osbourne (born John Michael Osbourne, December 3, 1948 in Aston, Birmingham, England) is the lead vocalist of the pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath and the star of the reality show, The Osbournes. In addition to lead vocals with Black Sabbath, Osbourne also plays the harmonica and synthesizer.

As a solo artist, Osbourne has sold over 27 million albums in the US, and 50 million worldwide.[citation needed] Two of his albums, Blizzard of Ozz (1980) and No More Tears (1991), are certified quadruple-platinum, for sales of over 4 million copies in the US.

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[metallicaddict13]

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[DeadlyVisionsx]

Zakk + Ozzy =More Deadly Than 2012.

[McLovin123ify]

Fuck Thor, Zakk Wylde is the god of thunder

[TheAlphafly]

Horrible cover

[moopadoopolus]

Great cover! Something a bit different...

Please check out my cover if you get a moment too...

[rohanclassic]

HOLY FUCKING COW..!! Zakk is insane... :-o

[MrTboz337]

in my opinion, this sucks. ozzy should not have touched this song, or zakk. i love ozzy, not a big fan of zakk, i feel as though he squeals way to much and hacks every song he tries to remake.

[CaioSDMF]

@PortsmouthNoir LOL this is pure bullshit, ozzy was such a drug addict guy, stop with fanaticism. Its make people stupid.

[antuan79]

the new guy sounds like zakk!!! wtf dont like him... We need Zakk Back !

[PortsmouthNoir]

@CaioSDMF wrong, Zakk was still drinking heavily at the time and threatening Ozzys sobriety. Also he wanted to give a young guitarist a chance before he gets too old and Zakk is in his mid 40s, and was starting to sound like BLS to boot. As great as they are, Ozzy is Ozzy and should sound like Ozzy.