Ozzy is together with Randy Rhoads and Randy Castillo again I saw Ozzy three times, twice at The Summit (solo and Black Sabbath reunion), and once at OzzFest in San Antonio (blew a tire on I-10 on the way there)
Haven't heard this in a while...proper Ozzy done by proper Ozzies (Brownout, the band, turns into Brown Sabbath from time to time):
Nogonna one-up you or anything, but I just talked to a friend about our C.Bradley Experience (while talking about Sabbath) One of these days in another thread I'll remember it again and type it out. It's also fun that when you listen/read and interview with any, basically any, heavy rock band and they're asked their major influences...the first 2 are always Sabbath and Zeppelin
Robert Fripp has been around for a long time with King Crimson and he has worked with others over the decades. Toyah was known for Punk Rock decades ago. He also worked with David Bowie on the Heroes album and there has been friction about him not getting proper credit for his work on that album.
My favorite song from that Brown Sabbath D512 studio set was The Wizard, but I can't find it. Help a brother out.
That was heartbreaking seeing Sharon and the family. I didn't really cry about Ozzy before that but that got me.
Rest in Peace, Ozzy. There was a lot of hard rock before Black Sabbath, with much mentioned here, but huge respect for Ozzy and the band. They made their own way and stood out, not easy considering the competition.
I know this is the Ozzy thread, but in reality Tommy Iommi is kingmaker of Sabbath. Their guitar riffs....good god. Iron Man, Paranoid, Sweet Leaf, NIB...you could put pretty much anything over those riffs and it would be amazing.
I think growing up my first riff to learn on guitar was the "Smoke on the Water" initial riff. The very next one was the "Paranoid" initial riff. In those days, those two riffs were a little handful. You had to build calluses on your FINGERS, MATE! Your FINGERS HURT, MATE! You couldn't move your FINGERS across the FRETS and PUSH DOWN at the same TIME, MATE! These ones here go to 11.
Ozzy was asked in an interview once what was it like to be the father of metal he said I don't know you should ask Tony Iommi. Tony's playing was a big part of their sound but don't discount Ozzy's melodies and Geezer Butler lyrics which tackled some deep subjects. There were heavy bands before Sabbath but Sabbath didn't sound like anyone else. Then he gets fired from Sabbath and many thought he was done and then he did it again as a solo artist but don't discount the fact that he had great musicians and song writers around him along the way. For us Gen X kids its hitting us hard because we were told as teenagers that he was the most evil thing in music and he lived long enough to prove we were right in the end.
