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Inspiration to countless musicians. Heck of a front man. Great to see him get his props at last show. Loved his travel show with Jack. Didn't how much of a history buff ozzy was. Positive thoughts to all who loved the guy.

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Growing up, my sister was a big Sabbath fan, so I "learned," about Sabbath through her.

Move to 1985...   My 7th grade English teacher would let us eat lunch in his class early then we would just go downstairs to lunch and fuck off.    I always had my Sony "Walkman," with me and a few cassettes.  Black Sabbath "Volume 4," was played almost everyday that year.  

Man this really sucks.  

 

I was just thinking that Ozzy has been (in some sort of way), in my life.... literally my whole life. It is very hard for an entertainer to stay relevant that long.  From 1970 to today.
 
1 hour ago, Harrison Stafford said:

I have a vivid recall of the first time I heard Black Sabbath. It was the fall of 1970 and my buddies and I were camping on a Friday night. One of them had an a track tape of Black Sabbath’s first album and he cranked it up and played the whole thing.  We weren’t sure exactly what we were listening to, but we knew we liked it.  RIP Ozzy.

My older brother had one of their albums, and it scared the shit out of me.  Seemed like there was a song about witches that really freaked me out.

36 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

I first learned of Ozzy in junior high. We were all talking in the football locker room about how bad ass and hard AC/DC was.

Buddy brought in his older brother’s tape of Blizzard. He said fuck AC/DC, you wanna hear hard, listen to this. And pressed play on I Don’t Know. Holy shit.

I can only imagine hearing a banger like this in 1981 compared to what was considered "hard rock" at the time.

 

1 hour ago, Rip76 said:

This really sucks man.

My favorite solo Ozzy track.

Big childhood memories 

 

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Thats actually the only Ozzy song I have in my daily playlist amazingly 

22 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

My older brother had one of their albums, and it scared the shit out of me.  Seemed like there was a song about witches that really freaked me out.

There were songs about Satan, witches, wizards, the black arts, etc.  And the picture of the witch/spirit on the cover of Black Sabbath’s first album.  She looked like she was probably carrying a disease, but she looked so good that you wouldn’t mind getting it.

Got backstage when Black Sabbath opened for Mountain around 1971 in the Municipal Auditorium (now Palmer) and met the band.

Cool guys and that show was fucking amazing.

The balcony was literally moving 8 to 10 inches up and down during the show.

He squeezed every fucking ounce outta that 76 years of life! A life well lived! RIP! 


 

I have seen this before but obviously it’s even more poignant today. Farewell to the Prince of Darkness. Maybe someday we will get a concert in the next life. RIP. 🥀
🎸🎸🎸🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

It's so great that he made it to the Back to the Beginning show for a well deserved victory lap and to bask in the adulation of both musicians he inspired and the fans that have adored him for decades. I don't know if I've heard another performer thank the fans over and over in live shows and express his appreciation as much as Ozzy. He bounced back from rock bottom more than once and extended his career longer than anyone would have thought 45 years ago.  RIP to the one and only Prince of Darkness ( who turned into a doting teddy bear of a grandpa and dog lover)

18 minutes ago, msbesq said:

First concert—Sabbath in 1975. RIP

Hell of a first show

3 hours ago, Rip76 said:

I believe Geezer did if I’m not mistaken.

 

2 hours ago, Storm the Field said:

I can only imagine hearing a banger like this in 1981 compared to what was considered "hard rock" at the time.

 

It was intense to my 12yo self in 1981 for sure 

2 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Got backstage when Black Sabbath opened for Mountain around 1971 in the Municipal Auditorium (now Palmer) and met the band.

Cool guys and that show was fucking amazing.

The balcony was literally moving 8 to 10 inches up and down during the show.

You're Del Preston?

 

 

When I was like 10 years old my father overhead me singing "Thank God for the Bomb" and I got in trouble. 

42 minutes ago, Bookman said:

When I was like 10 years old my father overhead me singing "Thank God for the Bomb" and I got in trouble. 

Nuke ya, nuke ya

Damn. This one stings. Ozzy is synonymous with metal. Kind of the mascot for the whole genre, really. Which makes sense because he fronted the band that invented heavy metal as we came to know it.

His early solo stuff is great, Sabbath is iconic, and even the early stuff as Earth is a jam:

RIP.

10 hours ago, BrickHorn said:

Damn. This one stings. Ozzy is synonymous with metal. Kind of the mascot for the whole genre, really. Which makes sense because he fronted the band that invented heavy metal as we came to know it.

His early solo stuff is great, Sabbath is iconic, and even the early stuff as Earth is a jam:

RIP.

Yeah, I was not a super huge Ozzy fan.  Black Sabbath was mostly before my time, and I was always more interested in the guitarists on Ozzy's solo albums than I was in Ozzy himself.  So since the news, I've been trying to pin down what made Ozzy the popular icon he is.  For someone who represented a musical genre, he really didn't do much to define it.  I mean, he didn't have an objectively great singing voice.  He didn't compose the music or write the lyrics that were responsible for this new musical genre and which made him famous.  I think he maybe only came up with some of the vocal melodies in his Sabbath and solo catalog.  Musically, he was a front man in the most cynical use of the word.  A figurehead who attained heights with a lot of others creativity doing most of the heavy lifting.  And he had this whole career outside of making music that was engineered primarily by his wife.

So what made Ozzy an icon?  Ultimately, I think it was that Ozzy was Ozzy and nothing more or less.  The Alamo-pissing, bat-head-biting Prince of Darkness.  And people of a certain age and social standing loved him for it.  He was the square peg to society's round hole who really had no capacity to be anything notable in established and traditional ways.  So he lived life without much regard for if or how it might line up to anyone else's expectations and damn if he didn't wind up digging himself a hell of a square hole to exist in.  That's something that resonates, man.  Timelessly, across generations.  Its the struggle of all young people coming of age and wondering how they could possibly become anything of note in a world that they seem to live on the fringes of.  If Ozzy could do it, they can do it.

First cut I ever heard from Sabbath was 'Electric Funeral'.  It blew my little 'raised on top-40'*** mind.  The music and the vocals were like nothing I had ever heard.  I will never forget that moment.  I was listening to Paranoid this past weekend and wondering when Ozzy's time was coming.  RIP.  

*** top-40 in the 70s wasn't too bad though.

34 minutes ago, Goredho said:

Yeah, I was not a super huge Ozzy fan.  Black Sabbath was mostly before my time, and I was always more interested in the guitarists on Ozzy's solo albums than I was in Ozzy himself.  So since the news, I've been trying to pin down what made Ozzy the popular icon he is.  For someone who represented a musical genre, he really didn't do much to define it.  I mean, he didn't have an objectively great singing voice.  He didn't compose the music or write the lyrics that were responsible for this new musical genre and which made him famous.  I think he maybe only came up with some of the vocal melodies in his Sabbath and solo catalog.  Musically, he was a front man in the most cynical use of the word.  A figurehead who attained heights with a lot of others creativity doing most of the heavy lifting.  And he had this whole career outside of making music that was engineered primarily by his wife.

So what made Ozzy an icon?  Ultimately, I think it was that Ozzy was Ozzy and nothing more or less.  The Alamo-pissing, bat-head-biting Prince of Darkness.  And people of a certain age and social standing loved him for it.  He was the square peg to society's round hole who really had no capacity to be anything notable in established and traditional ways.  So he lived life without much regard for if or how it might line up to anyone else's expectations and damn if he didn't wind up digging himself a hell of a square hole to exist in.  That's something that resonates, man.  Timelessly, across generations.  Its the struggle of all young people coming of age and wondering how they could possibly become anything of note in a world that they seem to live on the fringes of.  If Ozzy could do it, they can do it.

Do you work for Rolling Stone? 

18 hours ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

You're Del Preston?

 

 

Nope, Billy...

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