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Jake E. Lee (born Jakey Lou Williams; February 15, 1957) is an American musician best known as lead guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne between 1982 and 1987 and later as a member of the heavy metal band Badlands with Ray Gillen.
Feb 23, 2024 · Jake E Lee in 2013 (Image credit: Frontiers Records). In his early 20s he left his home town for Los Angeles. There he promptly hooked up with another émigré from the San Diego scene, singer Stephen Pearcy, who was putting together a new version of his former band Mickey Ratt (the name would soon be truncated to Ratt).
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Apr 1, 2014 · Jake E. Lee, the guitarist who wrote Bark at the Moon shares how he wrote the song to be played originally in 1983 and how it is consistently wronged by tabs...
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- “Bark at the Moon” (Ozzy Osbourne, ‘Bark at the Moon’, 1983) I had written the music to that song back when I was in Rough Cutt. But at that time the riff was all in eighth notes because that was the L.A.
- “Killer of Giants” (Ozzy Osbourne, ‘The Ultimate Sin’, 1986) As a song and the way it flows from one part to the other, “Killer of Giants” is maybe my proudest achievement.
- “Winter’s Call” (Badlands, ‘Badlands’, 1989) It’s very Zeppelin. When Badlands first got together, everybody assumed it would be a heavy metal band because I came from Ozzy, and Ray [Gillen, frontman] and Eric [Singer, drummer] had been in Black Sabbath.
- “Havana” (Red Dragon Cartel, ‘Patina’, 2018) This one was originally titled “Horchata,” because when I came up with the riff I was drinking the horchata-flavored Blue Moon beer.
Nov 15, 2022 · The fact that you don’t use a vibrato bar is a big part of the Jake E. Lee style. How did that develop? “Ooooh! Everybody who uses a bar is going to hate me. [laughs] And everybody uses a bar. What Brad Gillis [Night Ranger, formerly with Ozzy] does with a bar is pretty innovative; some of what Eddie Van Halen has done with a bar is fairly ...
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Jake E. Lee is an American musician best known as lead guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne between 1982 and 1987 and later as a member of the heavy metal band Badlands with Ray Gillen. He formed the band Red Dragon Cartel in 2013, and their debut album released in January 2014 entered the Billboard Album Chart at number 69. He has also recorded solo works under his own name—examples being the instrumental album A Fine Pink Mist and cover album Retraced.
