“Pride & Glory” is the only album by American band Pride & Glory. The band was fronted by guitarist/vocalist Zakk Wylde, best known for his prior work as a member of Ozzy Osbourne’s band.
The tracks “Troubled Wine”, “Losin’ Your Mind”, and “Horse Called War” were all released as singles. “Pride & Glory” was re-released in 1999 on Spitfire Records with a bonus disc of rare and unreleased material.
Their first single released for “Pride & Glory” (1994)”, the trio’s only album. written by Zakk Wylde.
“Pride & Glory” was initially received with surprise by many listeners, with a sound highly influenced in Southern rock which was a complete departure from Wylde’s previous work with icon Ozzy Osbourne. He has said that there was a conscious effort to make an album that fans wouldn’t immediately associate with Osbourne’s music. The three guys in a room doing some improv, Cream meets The Allman Brothers. Or even The Jimi Hendrix Experience, a power trio going through a ton of jamming”, said Wylde of this short-lived project, adding that the album was largely recorded live in the studio with few overdubs added later.
During the same time period, Wylde was toying with the idea of joining Guns N’ Roses, and his brief involvement with that band as well as the Pride and Glory project led to him giving up his spot in Osbourne’s band. Wylde has said that many observers expressed the sentiment that it was very unwise to leave the security of Osbourne’s band to essentially start again as a club act with Pride and Glory. “I’m not in this for a rock star lifestyle. I’m in it to play my guitar,” he said of the criticism he received. Wylde believed a new band was his only way forward before I made my own record. Osbourne understood what I had to do”, according to the guitarist.
Zakk Wylde (OZZY OSBOURNE, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY) – Vocals, banjo and guitar James LoMenzo (WHITE LION, MEGADETH) – Bass Brian Tichy (RANDY JACKSON’S CHINA RAIN, WHITESNAKE, THE DEAD DAISIES) – Drums
Originally Released 7th June on Geffen Records
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