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John Terry | Kansas City, Mo | 02/16/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I would think there would be a place for this album in the hearts of "hard rock" fans. You take "crooner" Jimmy Barnes and couple of ex Ozzy players and combine them with Kansas, Dixie Dreg, Deep Purple guitar legend Steve Morse and you got yourself a party. Now, I understand the ex Ozzys from Oz are no longer thrilled with their former boss. Seems they were left off of some remastered Ozzy releases that they orginally played on. That doesn't keep L.L. from playing some scorching covers of the bat man's music as well as some original tunes of their own. It's nice to have something you can turn up to "11" that's more "hard rock" than "heavy metal". It's a subtle distinction perhaps but I think "hard rock" is a little less moody. You're able to have a little more fun with it. All in all, highly recommended."

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Wutziz | mid state, Florida | 04/16/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I've been rediscovering Ozzy's early solo CDs lately. I didn't give much of it a fair shake back in the day because I was more into Ed Van Halen than Randy Rhoads and I thought Ozzy was a bit too much of a clown which kind of soured his music for me. The Dark Prince of Cheese with his hired guns. As a middle aged adult I recognize Daisley's writing to Ozzy's character as real genius. I have a lot of respect for that. I still don't think anyone but Ozzy could have played that dorky yet admirable dark metal madman character so straight and pulled it off as well as he did, but he had such a great band with Blizzard of Ozz that it had to be hard to miss the mark. There was just too much great talent there to miss it.



I grabbed used copies of the 1995 remasters of Ozzy's catalog up through the early 90s (so far). Somewhere along the line I ran across a reference to this Living Loud CD and performance DVD. I remain convinced that Ozzy's finest years were those with Bob Daisley and Randy Rhoads writing most of the music and lyrics. After Randy was gone Daisley's contributions were still in the better parts of the band. It seems right, feels right that these old Ozzy tunes could be remade by band members who are (in part) veterans of Blizzard Of Ozz. It's justified from the concept.



If the music isn't perfectly appealing for some old Ozzy and Randy fans, I fully believe the FUN of this project is well worth 5 stars. I honestly think the music and particularly Steve Morse' playing and chunky tone is fantastic on the CD. Their new tracks in between the Ozzy classics are very good too. I didn't want the CD to end. I hope these guys do it again."