2007-08-09 10:06:58 - Sleazeroxx.com recently conducted an interview with Terry nails, who has played bass for Ozzy Osbourne, Steve Jones, Bone Angel and many others.

Sleazeroxx.com recently conducted an interview with Terry nails, who has played bass for Ozzy Osbourne, Steve Jones, Bone Angel and many others. The following is a brief excerpt from the interview:

Sleaze Roxx: How did you get hooked up with Ozzy Osbourne?

Terry Nails: I originally met Ozzy at a guy named Mickey Bush's house in '83 or '84.

The way I ended up playing with him was because of Randy Castillo. Randy and I and our friends George and Hughie used to ride together all the time and one night I was going into a club dragging along my 12 year old daughter and Randy was leaving the club at about the same time. I hadn't seen him for awhile and we said hello and started talking. He asked me what I was doing tomorrow and I said I didn't have anything planned and he said "you wanna come play with us tomorrow?" I said sure, who's us? He said me and Zakk and Ozzy. That was it, I started the next day.

It was all studio stuff, pretty cool really. Like I said before, I like studio work better than anything and I was doing the Johnny Crash album at the same time for my friend Chris Neelly and I was still playing with Jonesy. It was a good time for me.

Sleaze Roxx: What studio stuff did you do with Ozzy?

<b>Terry Nails</b> Terry Nails: "Momma I'm comin' Home", "Same Old Desire", "I Don't want to Change the World", "Zombie Stomp", "Hell Raiser" some other stuff...

Sleaze Roxx: How come you didn't appear on the No More Tears album?

Terry Nails: You didn't here anything about Bob Daisley either. It says Mike Inez played on that album. He didn't.

Sleaze Roxx: What is your take on Bob Daisley and Lee Kerslake's lawsuit with Ozzy? It seems petty to me to reissue the discs without their contributions.

Terry Nails: Yeah, I guess you could say that they just see things a bit differently than other people. I think that's carrying things a bit far myself but I don't know the whole story. On the personal side I was pretty bummed that I didn't get mentioned or credit on the 'No More Tears' album. In my case I don't think it was done on purpose. I think by the time they finally got around to putting it out, almost 2 years later, they just forgot about it.

Sleaze Roxx: While working with Ozzy did you ever get the urge to smash your bass into Sharon's mouth?

Terry Nails: Hell No, never. I love Sharon. I think she's a hoot and a half. She's got more guts than almost anyone that I know. They definitely broke the mold when they made her. She always treated me very, very well, like family really. She's a very smart and strong lady. I'd really hate to be on her bad side though, she can be extremely tough. I'm really very fond of her.

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