RAVEN Recall Opening For Original BLIZZARD OF OZZ Line-Up On First Tour "They were incredible"
- The Metal Voice
- Apr 23
- 2 min read
Jimmy Kay For The Metal Voice interviewed N.W.O.B.H.M. band Raven at the Piranha Bar in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on April 19, 2026
Full Interview here
Excerpt from the chat
When Asked How Ozzy Osbourne brought the band on his first solo tour after hearing their first single on the radio
"Yeah. Friday Rock show. Oh, yeah. I mean, you know, Ozzy wants you to open up on four dates on the Blizzard of Oz tour. Ohh-kay. Right. And, it changed our lives. . That was pretty awesome because I remember them being kind of like they weren't sure of themselves. They were saying I don't know if people are are really digging this because the record had just been out not long and they were saying I wonder if we're going to be able to keep this going and it was to look back on it now cuz it's like you know like a great record. I don't understand why they were thinking that way. Legendary it was so good . Lee Kerslake, from Uriah Heap. We got to meet all these people. It was great. What an amazing thing. And they were incredible. And the flip side of that experience for us was the crew who were absolute bastards. Yeah. And treated us like uh slime, you know. Yeah. Like garbage. But yeah, it's part of that was part of gigging in England at the time. "
When asked about if they plan on doing a new documentary
" Yeah. We actually pretty much worked out the details and we're starting work on it. There's going to be a Raven documentary, like a full document. The last one was difficult because it wasn't funded right and um actually I did a lot of the editing stuff for it and it was such a learning curve for me, if anybody's ever been involved in something like that, it's just a huge uh kind of learning curve. And so now this time we have like really professional people involved and we'll be able to do I think a better job of telling the story cuz it's quite a tale when you look at all the different angles and things that we've been through. And we were just talking earlier about it. A lot of the people who were involved in the beginning of this are gone. You know, even people like Johnny Z who was really uh integral to our success in the States and a lot of the different players are not around anymore. So even just our contemporaries a lot of them are gone. So yeah, so it's pretty cool that we're still standing.”
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