Zakk Wylde: Guitar Inspiration to many!

Zakk Wylde, or Zach Adams, was born January 14th, 1967, in Bayonne, and was raised in Jackson, New Jersey. Beginning to play guitar at the age of 8, Zakk Wylde had quit playing it because he grew bored from playing it. Although, he had started playing again at age 14, while attending Jackson Memorial High School, and learned guitar from the football coach's son, LeRoy Wright. Then he studied classical guitar with a guy from Freehold, New Jersey, and made his first band called Stone Henge. Zakk played at parties alot, playing mostly Ozzy, Black Sabbath and Rush(the irony of playing Ozzy, because he became the guitarists for him later on). Around that time is when he began to date his classmate Barbaranne Caterina, who would later on in life become his wife. After graduating high school in 1985, Zaak is 18 and began working at a supermarket, did roofing and played small band gigs. Then he joined a band called Zyris and started calling himself Zakari Wyland. His named appeared all over television and the band played at the Stone Pony, which was made famous by Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi. Zakk heard that Ozzy was auditioning random guitarists, and he wanted to go, only thinking it a dream to play with Ozzy. He had gotten word that he could audition, and went and played for Ozzy, playing a few of his songs, along with some acoustic and classic, and returned home. Thinking he would have never made it, he received a phone call from Sharon Osbourne, Ozzy's wife, saying that Ozzy wanted him to join the band. Zakk had joined with Ozzy on May of 1987, and played in the Hard Rock Cafe, which debuted Ozzy's new talent. He became recognized across the world! Ozzy had started from a no one, to small gigs, top large arenas and venues filled to the brim with people. Around 1990, they toured for the No More Tears album, and Ozzy was at his best, and sober(discluding the fact that he was popping pills) and had the energy of a small child! While with Ozzy still, Zakk formed a band called Lynyrd Skynhead which was a southern rock band. 1995, Ozzy came out of retirement and re-recruited Zakk for his next album, Ozzmosis. Around 2002, Zakk started playing with Guns N' Roses for a short time, and now today he goes to every tour, and still writes songs with his life long friend Ozzy Osbourne!