ZAKK WYLDE Reflects On The Creation Of OZZY OSBOURNE Hit "Mama, I'm Coming Home" - "I Was Obviously Trying To Get In All My Country Licks" (Audio)
January 6, 2022, 2 years ago
To promote the new Black Label Society album, Doom Crew Inc., guitarist Zakk Wylde was interviewed by the Australian Rock Show podcast. Besides discussing the new album, Wylde was also asked about the creation process of the 1991 Ozzy Osbourne song, "Mama, I'm Coming Home", specifically, was he aware of just how special the song was going to be ?
Recalled Wylde: "I remember me and Ozzy originally did that on a piano in my apartment in North Hollywood and I remember we did that there. Then I transposed it to guitar when we got in the studio when we were working on the record, and then y'know it sounded great and then I was obviously trying to get in all my my country licks - y'know, my Allman Brothers and Skynyrd and Marshall Tucker and y'know Blackfoot licks - my country licks in there... that's how the song started off with the pedal steel kind of thing.
I remember when we got done with it, was how happy we were with the way it came out. I mean it just sounded great - and then y'know obviously Duane (Baron - producer) and John (Purdell - engineer) then the mixes (which) Michael Wagener did on it. When I hear it on the radio, whether it's 'Mama' or 'No More Tears' or 'Hellraiser' or any any of this stuff I'm like 'wow the guys did a really amazing job, y'know - sound quality wise on the record - and I mean everybody's performances and everything like that but I mean just the overall sound of it - the guys knocked it out of the park for sure."
