Jake E. Lee was never friends with Ozzy and found out getting fired through his roommate / tech

Jake E. Lee was never friends with Ozzy and found out getting fired through his roommate / tech

Current Red Dragon Cartel and former Ozzy Osbourne and Badlands guitarist Jake E. Lee was recently interviewed by Guitar World.

In terms of whether he connected with Ozzy on a personal level, Lee stated: “We definitely were different types of people… And I’m sure that had a lot to do with it. I mean, I don’t know personally what Ozzy’s relationship with Randy was like, but from the outside it looked like they were brothers. Ozzy and I, we never connected on anything more than, ‘Here’s a song, let’s play it.’ We never became friends. We never bonded. We worked well together, but I think maybe at some point Ozzy wanted to get a deeper connection with his guitar player. And he obviously got that with Zakk [Wylde], because they spent a lot of years together.”

Lee went on to state: “I was [surprised to be let go]. I didn’t see it coming at all. In fact, it was my roommate, who was my tech at the time, who told me I was out of the band. He came back from the Rainbow one night and he said, ‘Everybody’s talking about how you just got fired.’ So I called up Sharon [Osbourne], and I was like, ‘I just heard the weirdest rumor.’ She said, ‘Oh, my god. It’s true, it’s true.’ I went, ‘I’m fired?’ And she said, ‘Yes.’ My whole world got turned upside down.”

You can read the rest of the interview at Guitar World.