Steve Vai sitting on a full album recorded with Ozzy Osbourne

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Steve Vai has revealed that he has enough material recorded with Ozzy Osbourne for a full album.In an interview with eonmusic, the guitarist said that he was “sitting on a whole Ozzy record”, adding that he couldn’t do anything with the material because he didn’t have any rights to it.“We did record some pretty good stuff,” Vai said. “The interesting thing about that stuff we recorded from a guitar perspective is all of my rhythm guitar parts, I use an octave divider, and that record doesn’t sound like anything else.”He continued: “Ozzy had recorded about half of his record for the record company, and Sharon and the label wanted to get him together with some different songwriters to just get some more songs.“So I was one of the ones that they wanted to get together with.

It was really just to write some songs for Ozzy’s record that he would then take and go use for his record and whoever he was working with on the record would record it.”Vai noted that they “ended up recording a lot of stuff.

And then we started scheming”, adding that the label then intervened and insisted that Osbourne was only due one song from Vai.The guitarist contributed the track ‘My Little Man’ to Osbourne’s 1995 album ‘Ozzmosis’, though there were other tracks under consideration.He said: “One of the songs was ‘Danger Zone,’ I had already written it, and it was already done – it was a Gash track – and I thought, ‘Well, maybe he’d like this,’ and I reworked it a bit, but it’s on the shelf.“There was some real, real heavy stuff because, as I mentioned, I used an octave divider on everything, and that’s was a conscious effort.