Bob Daisley

Bob Daisley (born February 13, 1950 ) is an Australian bass player .

Career

Beginnings

In 1971 Daisley released the album Wide Open with his band Kahvas Jute . This consisted of Dennis Wilson (vocals, guitar), Tim Gaze (vocals, guitar), Dannie Davidson on drums and himself. At the time of publication, however, Gaze had already resigned and the band existed as a trio. In June 1971 Dennis Wilson and Danni Davidson moved to London and played bass with Mick Smith and Scott Maxey. When Daisley came to London in July, however, the band never reunited. Daisley then stayed in England. In 1972 he went on tour with the English rock band Chicken Shack . Daisley played bass on the 1973 album Unlucky Boy . Shortly afterwards he went to Mungo Jerry , with whom he released the album Long-Legged Woman Dressed In Black in 1974 .

Breakthrough and climax

In 1977 he joined Ritchie Blackmore 's Rainbow , with whom he stayed for a year. From this collaboration comes the live album Live in Munich 1977 (released in 2006) and the album Long Live Rock'n'Roll , where Daisley plays bass on the songs Gates Of Babylon , Kill The King and Sensitive To Light . In 1986 a live and b-side collection was released under the title Finyl Vinyl , on which Bob Daisley is represented on two live songs ( Man On The Silver Mountain , Long Live Rock'n'Roll ). Daisley's comrades-in-arms were, in addition to Blackmore, at this time. a. Ronnie James Dio and Cozy Powell .

On the side, Daisley played a few shows with Chicken Shack from 1979 to 1980.

In 1979 Daisley joined Ozzy Osbourne ( Black Sabbath ) and Randy Rhoads ( Quiet Riot ) to form Osbourne's solo band. The band was finally completed by Lee Kerslake ( Uriah Heep ). In 1980, the first album, Blizzard Of Ozz , was released and made it to number 7 in the UK charts. In the meantime, Kerslake and Daisley have been replaced by Rudy Sarzo and Tommy Aldridge . Although this move to the album Diary of a Madman was reversed, Sarzo and Aldrige appear in the album's credits as official members without playing a single note on the album. After Rhoads died in 1982 and Lee Kerslake had left the band for good, the album Bark at the Moon was released in 1983 . The band was completed by Jake E. Lee and Tommy Aldridge. 1986 Daisley was replaced by Phil Soussan. He wrote some songs on the 1986 album The Ultimate Sin with, but did not play on the album.

In addition, Daisley played on the albums Victims of the Future (1984, 3 songs), Run for Cover (1986, 1 song) and Wild Frontiers (1987, complete) by Gary Moore .

When he briefly left the band from Osbourne from 1982 to 1983, he was on tour with Uriah Heep and released the albums Abominog (1982) and Head First (1983) with them. On these albums Lee Kerslake played drums, Mick Box guitar , John Sinclair keyboards and Peter Goalby sang.

In 1987 Daisley went to Black Sabbath. At that time, only Tony Iommi was left of their original line-up . The singer at that time was Ray Gillen and Eric Singer played the drums . They had almost finished writing The Eternal Idol album . So Daisley wrote a song and recorded the album. At this point, Iommi let Patrick Meehan manage the band again, although he was already causing trouble for the band and in the seventies contributed significantly to the dissolution of the original line-up through lawsuits. Ray Gillen eventually left the band and former Black Sabbath singer Tony Martin sang the album all over again. Eventually Daisley returned to Gary Moore and took drummer Eric Singer with him.

In 1988 Daisley played again on Ozzy Osbourne's album No Rest for the Wicked . The band now consisted of guitarist Zakk Wylde and drummer Randy Castillo . The album reached number 13 on the US charts.

In 1988 Daisley also played bass on four titles on the Yngwie Malmsteen album Odyssey .

In January 1989 the album After the War by Gary Moore came out, on which Daisley plays bass. The album Still Got the Blues followed in 1990 , on which Daisley can be heard on some tracks.

1990 played Bob Daisley on the album Ward One: Along the Way by Bill Ward .

In 1991 he worked with Ozzy Osbourne one last time. On the tour for the album No More Tears he was replaced by Mike Inez ( Heart , Alice in Chains and Slash's Snakepit ). After the 1992 album After Hours , the collaboration with Gary Moore also ended.

In November 1991, Kahvas Jute played an appearance with the original line-up.

Newer development

In 2001 he released an album of the same name with the Australian blues band The Hoochie Coochie Men . In 2003 a live album was released from the club The Basement in Sydney , on which Jon Lord participated. In 2007 a studio album called Danger was released. Whitemen Dancing , on which Jon Lord also took part.

In 2003 he founded the band Living Loud with Jimmy Barnes, Don Airey , Steve Morse and Lee Kerslake. They released a debut of the same name in the same year and a live album the following year.

In 2004 he played one last time with Gary Moore. He took over the bass tracks for the album Power of the Blues .

In September 2005 he founded the band Bitter Pill with David Lee Roth , Tommy Lee and Vinnie Vincent .

In 2005, Kahva's Jute played a reunification gig at The Basement in Sydney. However, Dannie Davidson was replaced by Mark Marriott. In 2006 the gig was released as Then Again (Live At The Basement) .

In 2013 he published his autobiography For Facts Sake .

Individual evidence

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