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Even after he got the gig, Rudy Sarzo still wanted assurance that he would be accepted as the new bass player in Ozzy Osbourne's band. With the assistance of former Quiet Riot bandmate Randy Rhoads, ...

Legendary metal bassist Rudy Sarzo has returned to Quiet Riot after 18 years. Sarzo’s return makes him the only classic member in the current incarnation of the band, following the 2020 death of ...

“I’d been through this with Ronnie James Dio,” Sarzo told the Music Mania Podcast. “It was a different form of cancer, but nevertheless, it was very aggressive just like Frankie’s. … My experience has ...

Ozzy Osbourne’s former bassist has offered his perspective on the notorious night where the Prince Of Darkness bit into the head of a bat. Talking in the new issue of Metal Hammer, Rudy Sarzo, who ...

Former Quiet Riot bassist Rudy Sarzo looked back on the failure of the band’s fourth album, Condition Critical, saying they were put under pressure to top 1983’s Metal Health – one of the most ...

Rudy Sarzo has played bass guitar in multiple A-list hard rock groups, including Ozzy Osbourne’s “Diary of a Madman” band, Whitesnake and Dio. But Sarzo became a rock star as a member of Quiet Riot, ...

Forty years ago, on Jan. 20, 1982, 17-year-old metalhead Mark Neal threw a dead bat onstage at an Ozzy Osbourne concert at Des Moines’s Veterans Memorial Auditorium. It was a common occurrence for ...

Rudy Sarzo calls it “being greasy.” Playing hard and heavy rock & roll in a way that still swings. It’s mostly a lost art among modern rock bands. But one of the hallmarks of Sarzo’s bass-guitar ...

Forty years ago, Randy Rhoads died in a plane crash while on tour with Ozzy Osbourne in Florida. The classically trained metal guitarist was only 25 years old when he died, and had only come onto the ...