OT - RIP Ozzy

[steveoath]

Dies today shortly after the final Black Sabbath gig. Big part of my childhood music education. Glad to say I saw both Ozzy and an Ozzy fronted sabbath many years ago at the first UK ozzfest. Maybe it’s just me being older, but you don’t get many frontmen like Ozzy anymore. 

source: https://news.sky.com/story/ozzy-osbourne-dies-just-weeks-after-farewell-show-13400248

Edited 10 hours ago by steveoath

[Weave]

Another character from my generation gone.  

[shrader]

I hate the whole deaths in 3s stuff, but with Theo Huxtable yesterday, who is next?

[Night Train]

2 minutes ago, shrader said:

Who is next?

The woke culture. Fingers crossed.

RIP Ozzy . 

[Indabuff]

Goddam man!  

[Weave]

7 minutes ago, Night Train said:

The woke culture. Fingers crossed.

RIP Ozzy . 

You seem woke in a different direction.

And leave that horse ***** out of an Ozzy tribute thread.

Edited 9 hours ago by Weave

[PromoTheRobot]

My brush with Ozzy. August 12, 1981. I was working part time at WOUR in Utica while I was still attending Syracuse. My girlfriend (and now wife of 43 years) and I had a grey rabbit for a pet, and we happened to bring it with us to the station on the same day Ozzy was dropping in for an interview before his show at the Utica Aud. He comes up the stairs and sees the rabbit, pets it and says "What a nice bunny," then goes into the studio. This was shortly after the bat incident.

[Pimlach]

Never will forget the first time I heard Black Sabbath.  That first album, Paranoid, was played at ear bleeding levels.   I knew that record after just a few spins.  

 

 

 

[Sabres73]

50 minutes ago, Night Train said:

The woke culture. Fingers crossed.

RIP Ozzy . 

Take a hike clown.

[shrader]

30 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

My brush with Ozzy. August 12, 1981. I was working part time at WOUR in Utica while I was still attending Syracuse. My girlfriend (and now wife of 43 years) and I had a grey rabbit for a pet, and we happened to bring it with us to the station on the same day Ozzy was dropping in for an interview before his show at the Utica Aud. He comes up the stairs and sees the rabbit, pets it and says "What a nice bunny," then goes into the studio. This was shortly after the bat incident.

How’d you react to that? I have no idea how publicized the bat incident was. 

[PromoTheRobot]

13 minutes ago, shrader said:

How’d you react to that? I have no idea how publicized the bat incident was. 

Seeing bands and artists was a common occurrence in those days at WOUR. Every band in for a show in Utica stopped by. And the Ozzy bunny thing was like 2 seconds. Then there was the time Molly Hatchet came by and brought some blow with them. You could actually hear them cutting lines on the air. (We kept an editing razor and a photo in a glass frame in the studio just for emergencies like this. 😜)

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[inkman]

Sabbath’s hey day was a bit before my time.  His solo career, while I could enjoy the music, he looked like an overweight house wife during the 80’s and 90’s so I wasn’t exactly gravitating toward his Karen like appearance.  
 

Ozzfest was really confusing to me in the beginning.  I didn’t understand how this fat house wife curated all these awesome bands.  Then it started to click.   The man, the myth, the legend. The behind the music shows on VH1, not just his but the reverence other metal musicians had for him.  

 

I leaned into the Sabbath and it opened up the door a little wider for his solo stuff.  Definitely love all his music now.  

[PonyBoy2]

Little known Ozzy fact....

He didn't get his license until 61.

He failed his driving test 19 previous times. 

Mr. Tinkertrain no doubt the creepiest of his songs. 

[French Collection]

RIP Ozzy.

Hard to pick a favourite song, so many to choose from.

[Broken Ankles]

2 minutes ago, inkman said:

Sabbath’s hey day was a bit before my time.  His solo career, while I could enjoy the music, he looked like an overweight house wife during the 80’s and 90’s so I wasn’t exactly gravitating toward his Karen like appearance.  
 

Ozzfest was really confusing to me in the beginning.  I didn’t understand how this fat house wife curated all these awesome bands.  Then it started to click.   The man, the myth, the legend. The behind the music shows on VH1, not just his but the reverence other metal musicians had for him.  

 

I leaned into the Sabbath and it opened up the door a little wider for his solo stuff.  Definitely love all his music now.  

Maybe late 80s Ozzy but not during the Diary of A Madman tour in ‘82. His show at the Aud was legendary.  It was Mid April, just weeks after Randy Rhoades untimely death.  A few before Rhoades death in Iowa,  he bit the head off a bat 🦇.  The concert was so hyped. 
Rest in peace Great Ozz!  

 

[Broken Ankles]

1 hour ago, Night Train said:

The woke culture. Fingers crossed.

RIP Ozzy . 

Angry is over. 

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Unbelievably brilliant in Sabbath. He didn't write the lyrics but no one could deliver them like he did. I would have loved to have seen Sabbath in the early days. 

 

[Pimlach]

Full disclosure, my Sabbath fandom lasted only a few albums and then I got much deeper into so many other music styles that "metal" as a genre never crept further into my record collection. 

I do not consider the early Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin to be metal either, although others refer to them in that genre. 

RIP Ozzy. 

 

 

 

 

[steveoat87]

I remember seeing  Black Sabbath concert when I was in college -- in the early 70's  It was an out door concert at Manhattan College in the Bronx, which was right by the overhead subway.  It was the loudest concert I had ever been to.  It was so loud that it drowned out the sound of the trains passing by.   

I thought Black Sabbath was one of the true pioneers of the heavy metal sound.  They were one of the few groups to write their songs primarily in minor scales, which gave them a unique sound.  Thought Tony Iommi was a hell of a guitarist, and thought Ozzy had a great rock voice.

 

Those days will be missed.

[GoPuckYourself]

I saw Ozzy for the No More Tears tour with Sepultura and Alice in Chains, Max Cavalera was ill so Sepultura never showed but Layne Staley played in a Wheelchair and had a broken leg, he was incredible and was the star of the show at least imo but Ozzy was awesome also.

I also saw hom at the Merry Mayhem show with Rob Zombie and Mudvayne, that show was a blast, Ozzy was on the big screen as different characters, one of his characters was Miss Cleo (the fortune teller woman back in the 90's who ripped people off), I was laughing so hard, partly do to all the drugs in the air and it was really well done. The costumes Rob Zombie and his crew had on were unbelievable, they came out on stilts and all different types of crazy monsters/space aliens, it was wild. I think that was Mudvayne 1st actually tour show so I really liked them and became 1 of my favorite bands for sure. 

Nothing but good experiences at those shows!

[shrader]

I turned on Ozzy's Boneyard in the car hoping for some music.  Unfortunately it is going all out talk show tonight with a lot of "we'll get through this together" talk.  Unfortunate, I was hoping for a better tribute.

[Scottysabres]

A legend.

Both Sabbath and his solo career were a highlight he participated in of my music wheelhouse as a kid to adult time.
 

RIP Ozzy

[PerreaultForever]

2 hours ago, inkman said:

Every photo I saw of him after Sabbath, he looked like Sharon Osbourne.  Not exactly what a teen metal head wanted in their hero. 

Really? This is what you choose to put in a tribute thread the day after he dies? Wow. just wow. 

 

A favorite song of mine by 2 (now gone) legends of old school hard living rock and roll.

 

[thewookie1]

 Crazy Train will always be a sporting event staple that I know him from.

He was the odd MTV guy by the time I was old enough to understand stuff but I’ve come to really like some his bigger hits like Mama, I’m coming home, Flying High again and Paranoid. (Iron Man and a few others are also great) Plus he seemed like an alright kind of guy.

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[inkman]

1 hour ago, PerreaultForever said:

Really? This is what you choose to put in a tribute thread the day after he dies? Wow. just wow. 

 

A favorite song of mine by 2 (now gone) legends of old school hard living rock and roll.

 

Yeah it was poor taste