I am sorry, but the funniest thing about this whole thread was "Ratt" Round and round............ Carry on.........
The early OZZY Black Sabbath days far and away eclipse anything else the man has ever done. Those first few albums changed Rock and Roll.
You MUST be joking Freak!.. As much as I liked Ratt(Warren and Robbin were great guitarists), we are talking Sabbath and Randy-era solo Ozzy stuff here. There is no comparison.(well, very little comparison anyway) I actually prefer the Randy-era Blizzard stuff, then early Sabbath, then latter-day Ozzy(Zakk and then Jake) I dont really think Ozzy has put out any real good stuff in quite a few years now...but his early stuff is a must have in any swerious HM listeners catalog. RIP RR ++ oh btw....I havent attended a Ozzfest yet....but this year is a MUST ATTEND....refotrmed Judas Priest, and Ozzy onstage with the original Black Sabbath is what I have heard will be there in SA in August....anyone else going?
Sabbath is better, but Crazy Train, etc. had more of an impact on me as a young lad in the early '80s, so it gets the nod. Anyone here listen to Dead Meadow?
I've been seriously considering shelling out for this shindig. I've seen both Ozzy and Sabbath in the last few years, and both were fun, but I'm not old enough to have ever seen Priest with Halford. I'm pretty sure I shouldn't die without checking that out at least once. Then, to top it off, you've got SLAYER. Not a bad setup band. And of course you have the typical all-day Ozzfest troup of new-schoolers like Lamb of God, Unearth, Himsa and the like capped off by fat-dude rockers Slipknot. That's a pretty decent lineup from top to bottom. I went to the only Houston Ozzfest ever a few years ago. It was held at the racetrack in Baytown and was damn near unbearably hot. The whole crowd was quite dead headed into the final headliner' spots when Godsmack came on as the sun was going down. Then Pantera came on and literally wrecked the crowd. It was like D-Day or something, I swear medics were doing triage inside the moshpit. I love Pantera. Oh, and for the record, I kinda like Ratt. Stephen Pearcy's weird flipped-over hair defies physics.
i was at that one also. Pantera was the highlight of the night. But what the hell was ozzy thinking wasting 20 minutes spraying the crowd in that stupid contraption??? he could have 4 more songs on the set instead of that crap.
You said it. Original Sabbath hardly ever gets the proper credit they deserve, as one of the greatest bands of all time. They truly DID change Rock and Roll.
I played the hell out of my Black Sabbath 8 track. But while Ozzy's image was subversivly attractive it was Randy Rhodes that made Ozzy's music.
You think you're tough, harder than stone ... you think you're tough- your talk's gettin' old. Blizzard is good, but Madman is pretty weak, IMO. Always liked "Bark at the Moon". I recall "Ozzmosis" being pretty strong as well. You ever heard "Speak of the Devil"? Don't think I have. I guess I'd have to go with Sabbath though.
My very first album purchase. I pretty much read the entire LOTR trilogy while listening to the album over and over again on my headphones. Now, whenever I listen to a song from the album, I automatically think of Mordor and Gollum. I think I shouda slipped some of Led Zepp's Ramble On in there somewhere.
I voted for the Randy Rhodes-Ozzy option, but now I wish that I hadn't and voted the original Black Sabbath option. Preferencewise, I take Ozzy + Randy over original Black Sabbath, but original Black Sabbath is one of the greatest bands of all-time.
