Ozzy Osbourne Synth Spotting

Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train LIVE

YouTube via R4mb0o | March 16, 2007

"Part of an Ozzy Osbourne Concert from the US Festival in 1983"

Ozzy Osbourne Live US Festival Paranoid, Mr Crowley

YouTube via skezza | August 12, 2006

"Ozzy, Jake E Lee, Tommy Aldridge and Bob Daisley rocking at the US Festival in 1983. This is for the guys at UltimateRhoads.com."

Both in via b3nsf. Click here for all Ozzy posts including Ozzy trying to work out an ARP 2600.

OZZY OSBOURNE - "Mr. Crowley" 1981 (Live Video)

Ozzy Osbourne

via John H.

Minimoog Model D & Roland RS-09 Organ/Strings synth.

Ozzy - Bark At The Moon

YouTube via dan11789 — January 29, 2007 — "Music Video of Bark at the Moon. In the Albums Bark At The Moon and The Essential Ozzy Osbourne." Yamaha CS01 spotted by Pea Hicks: "this is a stretch, since it's so brief, but as a big fan of this synth, i thought i'd point it out anyway, especially given the unlikely context. it's at the 1:30 mark"
Awwwwe yeah...
See Ozzy man handle an ARP 2600 here. Mother f'er..

OZZY OSBOURNE Testing His ARP 2600 Synthesizer (German Subs)

YouTube via cosmocorps2000
"Scene from THE OSBOURNES with Ozzy testing/playing his ARP 2600."

OZZY OSBOURNE & ARP 2600 Synthesizer MTV German Subtitles

YouTube via PlastikOD. "Ozzy plays with his ARP-2600 Synth."
When he finally gets a sound out of it, it sounds like it's laughing at him. :)

Roland Space Echo RE-201

images via this auction. This one was new old stock with a BIN of $1295.

"The Roland RE-201, commonly known as the Space Echo, is an audio analog delay effects unit.

A tape echo device records incoming audio to a loop of magnetic tape, then replays the audio over a series of several playback heads before it is erased again by new incoming audio. The tape used in the RE-201 is the standard 1/4" tape of the open-reel variety, but made as one, continuous loop. In the Roland 'RE' range there are no reels of any kind, the tape is transported via a capstan drive. The tape loop is contained in a loose, constantly moving jumble in the tape chamber (also known as the tape tank) under a plastic panel which protects the tape and keeps it from getting tangled. The repacement tapes were known as Roland RT-1L replacement tape loops and sold by Roland.[1]

There are several control dials on the device that alter such aspects as tape speed, repeat pattern (an 11-position rotary switch), one instrument and two microphone inputs, a single analog backlit VU meter for all three inputs, wet/dry mix for both echo and reverb, and intensity (number of repeats; in a sense, it actually reduces how much the erase/record head erases the tape), that can be adjusted to a user's liking; and bass/treble controls to EQ the sound, as well as dry and effected "Echo" output jacks with a switch for output setting (-10, -20, -35db levels.)

Used as a delay/echo, the Roland RE-201 is said to produce an unpredictable delay that is warm and gritty sounding. It is also capable of producing a large variety of its own sound effects, even without an input signal (by turning the intensity control to maximum and allowing the unit to self-regenerate, or self-oscillate, while manipulating the tape speed and other controls).

The Roland RE-201 was used by musicians like David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) and Randy Rhoads (Ozzy Osbourne).

Despite its age, the Roland RE-201 is widely sought after, and still used by many bands to this day, notably in the experimental work of Radiohead, and the rockabilly stylings of Brian Setzer, the latter using one recently to get the slapback sound sought after for rockabilly and such styles of music"

Jams from the 80s : Recreated on Synthesizers : Part 3

video upload by Luke Million

Luke Million Jams from the 80's

"The third instalment of some of my favourite jams from the 80s played on some of my favourite synthesizers 🎹🎹🎹
Billy Ocean - When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going
Sylvester - Do You Wanna Funk?
Prince - Controversy
U2 - With Or Without You
Ozzy Osbourne - Mr Crowley
Madonna - Into The Groove
Robert Palmer - Johhny and Mary
Earth, Wind & Fire - Let's Groove
The System - You Are in My System
Van Halen - 1984


Gear used in this video

Sequential Prophet 5 Rev 3.3
Roland Juno 6
Oberheim OB8
Moog Multimoog
Roland SH2
Roland Jupiter 4
Arp Odyssey Mk 1
Yamaha CS40M
Korg MS20
Roland VP330
Solina String Ensemble
Yamaha DX7
Moog Grandmother
Oberheim DX
Digitech Talker
Akai MPC X
Ableton Push 2

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Mr Crowley Synthesizer Intro

video upload by Luke Million

"I've always loved the synth intro to 'Mr Crowley' by Ozzy Osbourne. Today I'm recreating it with a Korg MS20 and Roland VP330 🎹🦇🎹"

Ozzy Osbourne & The ARP 2600

Added the Featured label to this post. If you haven't seen it, check it out. It's pretty funny.