• With rock guru Steve Vai, Ozzy Osbourne created an entire album that is currently “sitting on the shelf.”
• The two just intended to record one song together.
• They ended up recording an entire album.

The 74-year-old Black Sabbath leader, who recently announced his retirement from performing due to deteriorating health difficulties, recorded “some pretty nice things” with the Grammy-winning guitarist, producer, and songwriter, but he has “no influence” over whether the music is made public.

The former Whitesnake guitarist – who has made music with the likes of Alice Cooper, Motörhead and Mary J. Blige – told the music site Eonmusic: “Well, I’m sitting on a whole Ozzy record, and it’s like the GASH record — not ‘like’ the Gash record, but it’s a project that I recorded that’s sitting on the shelf.

“I don’t have any control over it or rights to it, obviously, but we did record some pretty good stuff.”

The two just intended to record one song together, but because of how well they got along, they ended up recording an entire album.

Steve, 62, recalled: “Ozzy and I got carried away because we were having a lot of fun, and we ended up recording a lot of stuff, and then we started scheming, ‘Hey, let’s make a new record.’ And all that was fine and good, and we got excited about it until the hammer came down, and they basically said, ‘What are you doing? No, you’ve just got to take a song from Vai and finish your record. We’re already into it for this much money, and Vai is expense,’ so it worked out perfect, really.”

He disclosed that one of the songs was a remix of “Danger Zone” by VAI/GASH.

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