Steve Vai has backtracked from his comments that he has entire album with Ozzy Osbourne sitting in his vaults.
In an interview with Eonmusic, Vai claimed he was “sitting on a whole Ozzy record” but that he couldn’t do anything with it because he didn’t have the rights to it.
On Thursday, Vai posted on Facebook that he had “spoke a bit carelessly about ‘sitting on an entire Ozzy album’ and then the clickbait headlines went viral.” Vai said that when he and Ozzy got together to work on material for the album that became 1995’s Ozzmosis “we demoed a handful of tracks and then there was a bunch of tracks I built for him to check out. He ended up picking one song to use on his album and that’s ‘My Little Man.'”
Vai continued, “Only one other demoed track from those sessions had an Ozzy scratch vocal on it and I handed in all the master demo tapes to the label and kept safety tapes of the tracks I personally built. All in all, there was (is) enough music for a whole record, but those songs would require re-recording. The demos are bumpy road maps but not the goal.”
Vai added, “I, like many Ozzy fans, would love if there was a secret hidden Ozzy album somewhere, only to be revealed to our surprised ears at a future time, but it wouldn’t come from those sessions. So sorry for the confusion.”
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