Yep. It's true. I don't have Bark At The Moon. I know some of the songs from here, but I never got the album back when it dropped and I have never bothered picking it up in Secondhand stores, even though I see the CD's in the bargin bins all the time.

Only thing I know about this one is that it's Jake E. Lee's first album with Ozzy since the passing of Randy Rhoads. But he wasn't the first to succeed him. That honor goes to Brad Gillis (Night Ranger) who took on guitar duties during the same tour that took the life of Randy.

Another very interestintg story that I've heard for years is that Jake wasn't even Ozzy's first choice for Bark At The Moon. He actually had 2 choices, Jake and George Lynch (Dokken). He chose George initially and then later decided to go with Jake. The rest is history. I've always wondered how differently things would have been had George stayed with Ozzy .....We will never know.

Rounding out the band was Bob Daisley on Bass, Tommy Aldridge on Drums and Don Airey on Keyboards.

First time my Mom ever heard the song So Tired, she was like "that's Ozzy?" She liked the song and gave me her approval to listen to him whereas before she was against it because of the satanic connotations of Ozzy's personae.