Jake E. Lee discusses the GUITARSENAL

Tucked away among the gentle, rolling hills of western Pennsylvania’s farm land sits a turn of the century horse ranch…and recording studio.
The lazy Amish carriages that meander by, or anybody else for that matter, is none-the-wiser to the presence of a rock ’n roll legend hard at work on his passion project: Red Dragon Cartel’s second studio album release.
That Just Happened was granted access to Obscenic Arts Recording Studio for a behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Patina”. Enjoy a quick look at our chat with the venerable Jake E Lee!
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[@susandowler5271]

Jake is one of the best guitarist ever. He deserves better recognition.

[@whitewizzardllc2348]

I am saying it right now-Jake was the best guitar player Ozzy EVER played with on pure ability and melodic feel. Randy and Iommi are rightfully legends that were on the more "classic" releases but Jake was on a whole other level and IMO the best lead guitarist of the 80s. He also says it like it is and is a true artist........make what you want to hear and hope people love it, but stay true to yourself and the art....Jake was the best. Wish him nothing but success and I am happy he is doing what he wants to do.

[@noworries12]

gus g blows him off stage in a second...

[@topfloorstudio2684]

@@noworries12 Gus G can't even tune Jake's guitar.

[@anotherstart1]

Absolutely without a doubt !

[@sambekins]

Jake was in a sink or swim situation with Ozzy. Jake is a good player and very much under rated but saying he is better than Randy Is a wild stretch of word's to be sure. Where do you think guys like jake got his ideas from. EVH & RR is where. He just made it his own which is what they all do.

[@FalconTypo6]

NO DOUBT. Huge fan... wish I had even ONE of my Charvels, let alone my old 1987 Charvel T-shirts (OF COURSE I wore it and cut it all up-- LOL).

[@DanielCastillo-cn3pp]

He kicked ass on May 29, 1983 US FESTIVAL with OZZY. I was really impressed

[@jamescarey9197]

Can't wait to hear his next CD, always impressed with his style and sound. P.S. Ozzy pay this man his royalties due for Ultimate Sin

[@markshaver3814]

I love CD too!! It's music in my hands.

[@russellszabadosaka5-pindin849]

Man, when Jake E Lee hit the scene, it was like a revelation. I already worshipped Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads and Robert Fripp, he completed my guitar heroes. I remember the Bark at the Moon tour in early 1984, me and my buddies Mark & Gary were all guitarists, we spent extra money just to have good seats to watch Jake all night. He was and still is the ultimate in cool. 👍

[@kyledamron]

Could not agree more. Jake is incredible

[@nicolamagnone1557]

I totally agree!

[@rorycunningham5457]

You said it"i do it for myself and if other people like it fine and if they dont who cares!"Thats my kind of guy a true artist and musician.

[@timhughes1327]

Jake is a beast on the guitar ! 🎶🎵

[@mojopin70]

SUch a wonderful guitar player i met him after a Badlands show in 1992 , lucky enough to see them sound check. A really humble lovely gentle guy...

[@arkesilas72]

A great guitar player and great personality.God bless you Jake.Greetings from Marathon Greece.

[@chrisfragomeni6744]

Jake came to Jersey about 2 years ago and I was so fortunate to be up close and see him. I've never ever ( and this is a coming from a guy who has seen everyone) seen anyone play that great in person and for so long. He was up there for over 2 hours, while me and my friends 10 years his Junior are almost nodding off at 1 am. He truly is amazing, and think he always felt second best to Randy Rhoads. Jake, in my eyes, and I think I can speak for others, you are Randy's equal in terms of what you brought to OZZY and to us as a guitarist. I also loved that he said, "I make music that pleases me". That always makes a guitarist play so much better. Furthermore, we are all so fortunate to still have one of the all-time greats left for our kids to enjoy.

[@CTROCK]

The 80s music and guitar player are so bad ass!

[@davemieze9021]

So glad to see Jake back with life in him. Obviously he’s had a very hard road.

[@Carlotta_Cranica]

Dave Mieze What happened?

[@bobbyrykard2732]

Jake, you are very much the reason I played guitar. I was enamored by your style. You played with soul and not just flash. Your Badlands stuff blew me away too. Digging into your Red Dragon Cartel stuff. Please keep putting music out.

[@livevvire146]

love his honesty and obviously his playing. great man

[@2kosher]

Excellent insightful interview. Jake is more humble than I thought.

[@ThatJustHappened]

He's such a kind soul. It was great to sit down and talk with him. The full interview will be coming soon :)

[@2kosher]

Cool! Can't wait to hear it!

[@brendanoneil3489]

Such a clever guy and totally into playing music, he was so good in 'the day' as he is today and still continues to amaze me. Jake thanks !

[@ThatJustHappened]

Thank you! He's amazing

[@FalconTypo6]

I LOVE JAKE E.! So awesome he's showin' off his collection-- square in hand. Dog bless the '80s geetar studs. Sweet "guitarsenal", baby! #ThoseWereTheDays

[@EVEROSFP1]

Jake is definitely one of the real deal guys. Terrifying guitarist and cool as it gets.

[@ThatJustHappened]

He absolutely is one of the best. And a damn nice guy too!

[@strattuner]

JUST KEEP MAKING MUSIC FOR YOURSELF AND I'LL LISTEN IN,YOU ARE AMAZING,SIMPLY FRICKEN AMAZING,THANKS FOR COMING OUT OF RETIREMENT JAKE,THE OTHERS WERE GETTING VERY BORING,VERY

[@Chloebdav]

My favourite guitarist Ozzy had the pleasure of working with.. my opinion❤️‍🔥

[@dropoutandretireearly1781]

When you see this guy he looks rough, BUT I KNOW HES S GENIUS !!!!! Genius always comes in wild looking forms !!!!!!

[@tonemarieantonsen1597]

He had a short prosject with Mandy Lion former WWIII called wicket alliance. They have one recorded song call the rust. You can find the song on youtube. Can highly recommend listen to it Awesom song. ☺

[@strattuner]

listen to all of his work, say nothing till you do, and you will come away knowing he is one the best guitarists that survived the years where drugs killed quietly,his talent is his journey for his perfect sound,i'm enjoying his experiments,helluva musician

[@AtomicGarden68]

My same philosophy on why I make music..way to go Jake

[@svogender]

Thats right !!!!!!! If just one other person on earth likes your art.....Then your are successful...!!!!!!!!!!!!! IMO

[@jenfranks9699]

svogender. I like that! That's a really cool way to look at it!

[@wadeblake9876]

Brother you deserve so much more. I wish you wealth and happiness

[@massimosguitartrainer8440]

IS THE KING OF THE ROCK!

[@switchbladeromance1466]

Baaaaaaaaadlands!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎸🇬🇧🤘❤❤❤❤

[@kristianvankrieg3402]

Jake is a gent and a great guitar player,regardless f all that he is my intro t what i am tday

[@Wagoo]

Always great to hear Jake talking - looking forward to the second album! \m/

[@chriscircelli8821]

One cool guy.One of the best still out there for surely.Try to learn the solo for "Lightning strikes" he did on that Ozzy song ....just brilliant.

[@georgerodriguez7116]

said from a true pure guitarist! that's why Randy wanted to leave Ozzy an I'm sure Jake was going to leave anyway too ! the most baddass guitarist of his time! badlands was epic band!

[@WDBerry-bh4oe]

Jake, you're supposed to 'entertain'. No one said 'who' you have to entertain. You, Me, Larry the Greek, in the endm it's got to be YOU !!

[@prayf.m.1783]

Great MAN!!!

[@markblackwell9486]

Outstanding player.

[@user-ot4zj3yd8v]

JAKE! JAKE! JAKE!

[@desmondcastro3679]

And that just happened, brah!

[@nicolamagnone1557]

G.O.A.T.

[@danielmiddleman8613]

So they are coming out with a new album. Patina is kind of a weird name but I love Jake. Not too sure about the first RDC album. Need to go back and listen to it again. When I heard Jake on That Metal Show I didn't think he sounded very good. Either he was very rusty or his style has completely changed. I hope he hasn't changed that much.

[@michaelmroberts6944]

mickey ratt driveing on e you kicked ass

[@MrBighairyass]

i'm on welfare and watch this video all day - everyday...

[@Daniel.Bergon]

Bark at the moon :-)

[@AnnaAnnaYes]

I don't know if it's still available,so don't get mad at me.Alibaba makes a Jake E.Lee-styled Charvel copy,my nephew bought one from a guy who was quitting guitar,he bought it from Alibaba.

[@davidrobinson4012]

I've seen stuff on Alibaba or Aliexpress. Is it any good? A good bit of it isn't well made.

[@AnnaAnnaYes]

Guess it's hit or miss.My nephew plays his.

[@RavnerRavner]

Don't smoke Jake... you're better than that!

[@JohnDoe-pq8yw]

No doubt, if someone stunk up all my guitars, I'd be super pissed. Go outside at least dude. If he does not care about his lungs he should at least care about the guitars. It's gonna be hard to lug around an oxygen tank on stage in the near future so hopefully he gives up smoking soon.

[@AnnaAnnaYes]

My Dad gave up Smoking.After the Stroke.His last years weren't good.Rest Well Dad....

[@577buttfan]

Yeah if your gonna smoke something atleast smoke weed..lol ;)

[@577buttfan]

I think he meant Jake is better than that crap thats just slowly killing him,I kinda agree..smoking cigs sucks!

[@577buttfan]

ROD Rosi can't believe Richards is still kickin..unreal..does he still drink?

[@t.j.burner706]

Wasn't he playing ESP's for a while?

[@guitarnerd_luke]

Yes he had a ESP Signature for a short time, before going back to Charvel a few years ago.

[@jordandelacruz1866]

For me in high school in the 80's, there was Eddie and Randy and then the trinity of Jake- George Lynch and Warren Dimartini!! DONE!!!

[@The1WhoKnowsTheTruth]

Holy "how can you not know" Batman! There was another one...CRISS OLIVA.

[@russellszabadosaka5-pindin849]

The1WhoKnowsTheTruth & Gary Miller: you're both right. Criss Oliva was another God. Savatage's Sirens and Power Of the Night blew my fuckin head off in high school. Then a few years later, Testament changed everything for those of us who were into thrash and hated hair metal because Testament was heavy as fuck but more melodic than Slayer. Perfect combination. I still follow Alex Skolnick, he played at the Allan Holdsworth tribute earlier this year and was amazing.

[@The1WhoKnowsTheTruth]

Russell-Lets not forget Chris Caffery (he truly loved Criss). There are very few riffs that define what Metal is all about but the "Power of the Night" riff just makes me feel it bigtime. That was Criss, he made you feel it. "Raise the Fist of the Metal Child!" Gary-The problem that Jake will have in creating another Badlands is finding a singer on the same level as Ray Gillen. They just don't exist anymore. That is kinda the problem with his Red Dragon Cartel project, singer just is not up to snuff. Jakes playing is still killer. \m/

[@The1WhoKnowsTheTruth]

Gary-It sounds like you love Jake as much as I do. Check out the thread that I started 3 years ago, quite funny. Top comments. kzbin.info/www/bejne/roubd39ohqubn7s

[@guitarbeaver9819]

Ya true but then I heard Voivod , Slayer, Sepultura , Death Angel, Metal Church , Celtic Frost and so on and turned to the dark side for a bit lol

[@MorGuitarz]

I'm a Randy Rhoads freak, but aside from RR, he's the best guitarist Ozzy ever had

[@ksmons]

Where is the original white Strat/Charvel? Does he still have it?

[@tonycusick6575]

Didn't he have a white sg on the first Ozzy album he played on?

[@stabbathtv]

huh? confused. Jake played more than his Charvels on Badlands. What I read back in the day at least.

[@rosskrause3926]

That was actually a Fender Stratocaster body and neck,but Jakes friend painted it white and had the Charvel sticker and put it on the headstock,you can find the articles online where Jake talks about this,he worked in a music store in San Diego and went through a whole bunch of Strats until he found one that he liked and gutted it,had it painted white and installed a Seymour Duncan "JB'' pickup in the bridge and some SD single coils,he also talks about why he never used a Whammy bar,the white painted Fender" Charvel'' is why.. all this is available online and in many many magazines.

[@stabbathtv]

confused. I read interviews years ago how Jake would use other guitars on badlands albums. Les Paul and some cheap guitar can't recall the make come to mind. Dobro he uses on in a dream it seems. acoustics etc.

[@tomitstube]

lol, using "guitarsenal" definitely shows us you don't care what people think... (always loved jake's guitar work) and i hope jake has put down the cigarettes, 60 year olds smoking usually doesn't end well dude, take better care of yourself.

[@BabeRock1]

Nice chunkage

[@nedflanders5302]

Bumble bee Tuna!

[@jimtorres783]

What happened ?

[@chuckvanswearingen6920]

I Am insane by law and it the big dad one shots not all

[@daniellynch562]

Love his playing but I can see why he’s no longer a sideman. I don’t take him as a band mate . Has to be the guy

[@MarosPlavka]

Syds Echorec...

[@cluxseltoot]

I guess this dude has been hitting the hair dye quite a lot.

[@WhisperVoyeur]

cluxseltoot dont be a fuckface ....this guy is a legend to anyone that knows anything about shredding... why am i even talkin to u, jerkoff?? 🤣🤣🤣

[@cluxseltoot]

Music is music and no one in this life is superior to anyone else. Get your head fixed. Any form of music holds within it; somewhere, elements of 'received' sound. All people - musicians included - listen to others unless they live on the planet Zorg. As for this Geezer being the godfather of Heavy Rock - I am perplexed by this as I have no idea what Heavy Rock is other than when trying to landscape my garden. The problem with the modern world, is that it is full of young assholes who think they invented the cake. My comment was that this guy has a beard that is one colour and hair another - if the guy was cognoscenti with his art-form then perhaps he would coordinate his appearance better, especially being some sort of deity among the tight-arses in life. Maybe he has some rare quality - other than playing scales, or whatever at the speed of light - which enables him to hold two-tones of hair colour (no pun intended). Fuck me - life has become so boring with all you young assholes with no fucking sense of the absurd.

[@TheMad0ne]

and don't be a smart ass and try to act "book smart" That is where your insecurities show and obviously where you are trying to hide your lack of mannerisms ..You fucking troll.

[@cluxseltoot]

Sadly, I cannot reply sensibly to you, as I would wish, as you appear to me to be uneducated in both life and music. Have a nice day.

[@rosskrause3926]

Fuck You !

[@EngiMeer]

I'm Ritchie LOU and this just happened! : kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWebeqZqaLuffqc

[@JMFHolywoodhills]

Bulls...Charvel dude?

[@JohnDoe-fv3vs]

the most overrated guitarist of the 80s! lol

[@FoxtrS2]

who ??

[@gerijokub7737]

John Doe, correction*: the most underrated guitarist of the 80s