One of my favorite vocalist / lyricist of all time , top ten . A tragedy that I still morn. What addiction has done to so many great artists is truly painful . I was so devastated . R.I.P. brother !
I saw Zakk for the No More Tears tour & recently Zakk Sabbath... No More Tours, he was kinda drunk. Funny, he played Randy & Jake's stuff pretty flawless, but his own stuff was pretty sloppy. Black Sabbath had Rob Halford singing... The Zakk Sabbath, was decent. Zakk jammed, but, every song ended up being 10-15 minutes of guitar exercises. After a while, it all sounded the same. No doubt though, that he can play & jam.
heresy! I think, for me, it's just that it was more technical, doing scales as an exercise, rather than musically. I would have liked it a bit more melodic & musical, than just scale after scale. The scales really didn't have a starting, stopping point, or any point inbetween, just endless noodling. I like expression, feel, make it sing. It's like reading a 15,000 word post on a forum, w/o any punctuation, paragraphs, etc. It can have all the highest intellect & tell the most interesting thesis, but, who wants to sit there & read it?
