August 5, 2025 • 31 mins
On this episode of ROCK955's Top Five, we pay homage to the Prince of Darkness, Ozzy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Rock downety five to five crew, I want
to hear everybody make some noise.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
No, I want to hear you go crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Man, what a what a week it's been. Welcome to
another Rock downety five five Top five. I'm Walt and
I've got the entire crew in the room with us.
We lost an icon, a legend, a hero this week.
We lost Ozzy Osbourne at the age of seventy six,
and so we were already planning to do this podcast
with another year. We may have been doing cover songs,
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but we're pivoting because this man was so important to
all of us and our career in rock music in general.
So we are going to talk and discuss our favorite
Ozzie moments, our favorite Azzi songs, and that's what we
have planned for you on this podcast on Rock downety
five five Top five.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
You guys down with that? We are totally down.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
All right, Well let's begin. Let's go where do you
want to go? Left or right? Let's go left left,
that's you. There's a micro phone over here. Yeah, let's
start with chat.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
You want the headphones? They're chappy. I don't know if
I want to be on camera. I'm not doing well.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
All I've been I've been stuck in my flat, just
eating biscuits, just thinking about it. I haven't felt this
bad since the Queen Mom passed. They feel like I
lost my dad. Anyway, I love Allsie. He's truly an icon.
And I do think about frontmen, but I have frontman energy.
As you know, I'm gonna lead guitarist, but I'm a
little much. So I think about the guitars in addition
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to the great front man, and so I think about
Randy Rhodes and Assie and they did this song called
Flying High Again, and it is unbelievable. Yes, it's about
drug use, which Ozzie had some troubles with, which is
why he went solo, because they kicked him out of
the band. I don't know anything about that. I was
in a band actually similar to Sabbath. It was called
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Mischievous Whiskers, and so I know what that's like. But
Flying High Again, every time I hear the guitar work
is just so good. I mean that it's the power
cords right and then, but but it's also the intricacies
Aussie screaming give me drugs so good. And this was
I think obviously there was a sad moment that happened
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with Randy Rose. Don't know if you know. He passed
away tragically. You know when your bus drivers high on coke.
Don't give him the keys to the plane. This is
something we have to learn something from these sessions. That's
one of them. And so he took the plane, tried
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to do a little buzz of the bus, missed, the
bus hit a bond and the hairdresser died too. No
one thinks about the hairdresser. I mean I always do
so Flying High again, Ossie, the Prince of Darkness. I
love you. I'm going to go back to the corner
and soap, but I don't know, yes I did, actually
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didn't mean. I do soak from time to on. My
basement's moist anyway, Flying High.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Gas good one. That's a great song. That is a
great song. Thanks for that, chap, All right, cleaner, what
do you got? What's your what's your Aussie track?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
First of all, there can't be a favorite OSSI song
that is true that doesn't include Randy Rhodes. So if
your song doesn't include Randy Rhodes, get the out of here.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
And I say that because how about this, how about this.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Does anybody remember Coco Ruse made by Maltomeal. It's the
cheap version of Coco Puffs from General Mills.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Oh yeah. Does it come in a bag.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
It does a massive like a lawn bag for a
dollar for a dollar, and they are delicious. But I
feel like Wild is the Cocoa Ruse to Randy Rhodes,
Coco come on, come on.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
That is not fair at all, not fair at.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
All, because though my song is Goodbye to Romance from
that very first record that he did after he left
Black Sabbath, and it happened to be the very first
song he and Randy Roads collaborated on, and it's melodic.
The guitar riff puts you in tears. And we all
know that Randy Roads is the best guitarist in the
whole wide world. We all know, I agree with that.
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We all know that he can credit good. He was
really really good, so he can shred it. I mean,
Zach Wallden was thirteen years old. He didn't know anything
at the time that the two of them were collaborating
on these incredible songs and these badass records, right, And
it sucks that he died at twenty seven years old.
But the very first song they ever wrote together was
Goodbye to Romance, and it's sort of Ozzie's nod to
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and maybe getting you know, the saying goodbye a Black Sabbath.
And he didn't know what was going to happen, right,
He didn't know that he was going to go on
to have an entirely separate career outside of and what.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
An amazing career.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I mean to think about this guy who joined this
band and he was brought into Black Sabbath because he
owned a PA, you know, it's like and because of that,
because of that move when he was a kid, He's like,
I want to join this band and the only way
they're gonna let me in is if I have a PA.
So he got a PA, and now he had the
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career in Black Sabbath, had a career as a solo artist,
had a career as.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
A TV icon, and like, what a career.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Oz Fest and amazing and Zach Wilde honorable mention perhaps,
But Randy Rhodes is like the king ding a ling
And what I do appreciate is that on this particular
song he's kind of restrained a little bit because it's
so easy for somebody like that with those chops to
just wail and he kind of lows it down and
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he's so melodical, melodic and thoughtful about it.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
So that's my song, all right, Goodbye to Romance.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Try those Coco rus do compare and contrast to Coco Puffs?
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Do they still exist? Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Multimeal is a huge company and it you know, yeah, Multimeal.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
My bad.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Sorry, I would give them a microphone, right, thanks buddy.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
So Maria from the morning.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Hi, there doing some little lower play today, oz play.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Oh we like it. It's fine, okay, okay.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
It is for me the ultimate Ozzie Slash Black Sabbath song.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I do.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
There are other ones that I obviously get down with,
but nothing hits me like war Pigs hits me. Man.
That is, it's just written obviously about the Vietnam War
and all the bullshit associated with that. But the way
that the music sounds, not even just the words. Of
course Ozzie's voice brings so much to it, but just
that beginning guitar sounds like the word.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Gruelling to me.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
That just slow, like almost crawling through sludge sound. And
then it goes right from that into that like kind
of pissed off like drum take, like the wait a.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
Minutes, just the high hat like it's yes, yes, and
it just it puts in me the like feeling of
like anger of like why the fuck am I in
here crawling through this sludge?
Speaker 7 (07:39):
And whose fault is this? And then Ozzy comes in
with those vocals.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Well, and that's the thing, and I have been pointing
this out all week long, is that the vocal line
in War Pigs is not an easy line to see
sing because of those intervals. Yeah, in the verse going
up the climb, going no, that is not an easy
thing to sing, and he nails it every time.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And I respect him so much as a singer.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
A lot of people might not because you listen to
him talk yeah, and he's you know, especially in his
older age with the or so is.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Going into my room and taking all.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
The bears out of my room. But when he's supposed
to be British, No, it was supposed to be Azzie.
That's his own accent. But an amazing song.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I mean, it takes seven minutes to get it all
in there because it is so amazing, But what an
amazing seven minutes of rock.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
That is and we got to shout out Geezer Butler
for those lyrics, because he also acknowledges He's like, yeah, no,
I know I rhymed masses with masses, but I also
couldn't think of anything else to put in there.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
So you're gonna live with it and live we shall. Awesome.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
What a great song. Love it? Thank you, Maria. All right,
Katie Katie who you can hear on the weekends here.
I rocked ninety five to five.
Speaker 9 (08:58):
Yeah, so I originally knew Ozzie kind of more on
the voice acting scene. Funnily enough, because he voiced in
one of my childhood favorite movies, Nomeo and Juliet, which
is a no movie about Romeo and Juliet, and he
played a deer in it. Fact for you, it's very funny.
But also because I was a huge Marvel fan, I
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watched Iron Man and at the very end of the
first movie he reveals saying I am iron Man, and
then it goes into the credits with I'm with the
iron Man, Black Sabbath playing. So that is my song today.
Not a good one, phenomenal, It's one I feel like
everyone learns to play on the guitar at some point.
But also I'm a huge fan of storytelling and songs,
and I feel like Ozzie and Black Sabbath did an
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amazing job of doing that, especially with iron Man, because
I found out later on the song is not about
iron Man from the comics. It is instead about a
time traveler that goes to the future, finds out that
an apocalypse has happened. A magnetic field turns him into
an iron person. He becomes mute. He goes back in
time to try and tell everyone that the eclipses happening.
No one believes him, makes fun of him, so he
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instead causes the apocalypse to get back at all of them.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Are you serious?
Speaker 9 (10:06):
Yes, it is an insane song.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I never knew that, and I can't wait to hear
that song again.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
So good once you know the story, I love. I
love songs with stories, so that was probably wasn't why.
I'm also a musical fan.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, we're not gonna hold that against you.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
No, that is. That is awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
That is it's a great song, But that is also
an awesome reason. Why is this thing on?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Yeah, I'm towering, as if I'm towering over this microphone.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
That's okay, Uh, you know.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
It's It's interesting because one of the best one of
the things that you had said for Maria's song is
that maybe he wasn't the greatest singer.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I disagree with that, Like I feel like what I
said he was a great singer. Somebody said something maybe
he couldn't hit notes. I don't know. No, you you
use you.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
You are a dyslexic on what I was saying, because
I said he could hit He wrote an amazing line
and he could actually hit it.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
He was incredible, got it okay?
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
So what I do want to say is his final
show where he did play Ironman and Warpigs. I felt
like his voice and Sharon sort of started to downplay
it or set expectations of like low expectations leading up
to the final show. I felt like his voice when
he sang just came alive on those songs that we
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have loved for so long, sounded so good. He was energized,
and it's heartbreaking that he passed away. I am a
bit surprised at seventy six years old that he did
die because.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I never thought he would.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I thought he was going to be like and I
know he was in that destructor Arkinsons, and I know
he had all these ailments, but it just sucks.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I saw today that Tony Iomi says that he thinks
he just held on to make it to that show
and then he had been you know, and he just
kind of went downhill after that, but he held on
to make it to that event and then isn't it.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yeah, So I just wanted to say that, like I
felt like he just came alive.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Man.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
It's so incredible because like you hear him talk over
the past couple of years, struggling with the disease and
the age and everything, and then you hear him sing
those songs and even like like there is the isolated
vocals for Mama, I'm Coming Home, and you can hear
the emotion in what he's singing, and it just it's
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like that's heartbreaking because it's like, here he is in
his hometown, playing this enormous show in front of forty
thousand people and the world not knowing that he's also
raising the most money that any charity concert has ever
raised ever in the history.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
What an incredible moment, you know, I love that's such
a good point.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
And Maria's song like war Pigs or any of these songs.
We're talked about fifty years old and he's you know,
still hitting these songs and driving the emotions and stuff.
And I feel like that's a cool exclamation point to
his career and ultimately his life where you know, the
stories of snorting ants and biting the head off of
a bat and then raising two hundred million dollars boom career.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah, you know what I mean. It just it's such
an incredible balance.
Speaker 10 (13:11):
So yeah, I thought it was really impressive that the
sacrifices he made to put on that farewell show, and
not only him, but all the musicians and the staff.
No bands got paid, They all covered all their own costs.
None of those people there got paid, the whole crew
and everybody. And in order for Ozzie to do the show,
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he had to forego his medication. And when you when
you suffer from Parkinson's, it's really quite painful, those those spasms,
And so he instead put up with the pain in
order to do the show. And I heard they had
to strap him to that chair, hold him in. Why
what does the medication do that? Would he couldn't sing
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with it? He wouldn't be able to sing right at
all with it. So he said it was the only
way he'd be able to do it, and it was.
So it was a sacrifice of one thing in order
to give us the show that he wanted to do.
And how many artists of any kind, but especially musicians
get to say goodbye, like really get to say goodbye
on their own terms like that? Anybody?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
No, I mean, it's like the only thing that comes close.
And it's not the same as Bowie maybe because he
he orchestrated his death and as much as he put
out a record on Friday, died on Monday, and then
the single is called Lazareth Lazarus.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
So it's like Elvis was on the toilet.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
That was kind of a good bye.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I do want to say this. I also I do
want I do want it. Well, then why don't we
have any more cameras any.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
We've never we've never had this issue before now, So
what I what I want to talk about is is
hang on, I lost my train of thought with all
welcome to it.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
So the other question is, you know all the bands
that came together, who is the band that Sharon kicked
off the thing?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Was it Motley Crue? Because they wanted to get paid.
Speaker 10 (15:16):
Right, it was who they wanted to get paid, and
she's like, nobody's getting paid, and but we don't know,
do we?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
And also I mean Motley Crue, like we we came
to England to play live, Motley Crue probably couldn't be
doing that anymore, right, Yeah.
Speaker 11 (15:28):
Yeah, Motley Crue made a statement and they said that
they had health issues in the band that's why they
couldn't make it.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Well, I mean, but but if you're the band, you're
probably going to make a statement to make yourself look at.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
It, which they do.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
But honestly, they did have health issues. Vince Neil has
been dealing with some stuff. They had to push back
their residency. But nonetheless, all right, Michael, what.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Do you got? All aboard?
Speaker 11 (15:54):
Minus Crazy Train? But not like you'd think.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I was.
Speaker 11 (15:59):
My parents really strict and I wasn't allowed to listen
to Ozzy in my life until I hit about. I
was probably fifteen years old when the Osbournes came out,
and so I didn't even realize. This is gonna sound
really dumb. But the intro to the song is Crazy Train,
but it's done in such like a Jack loungetor that
I never put it together until later on, and so
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my intro to Ozzy would be Crazy Train.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
But the television theme version, the lounge version, exactly so,
and I fell in love with the family.
Speaker 11 (16:29):
One thing I loved about that show is even through
all their struggles and you know, and there were a
lot of them, they still loved each other.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Man, they they stuck together.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
And it's incredible because when you think about it, it
was honestly the first to do a reality family show
like that.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I mean, now we've got the Kardashians, Thank you, Ozzy.
Speaker 11 (16:49):
Sloans Andllion Family Jewels with Gene Simmons, it's like this,
but it was Ozzy and the Osbourne's really were the
first to create that genre, and they did it so
well and so enduring that we actually care about them
more because we saw them as real people normally hate
reality stars, but fell in love with that family.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
So and to mention, not to take anything away from
the lounge version of Crazy Train, but that works because
it is a really great song.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It is that's great.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
And you talk about somebody like Randy Rhoads throwing down
I mean iconic riff.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Probably one of the best rifts of all time. Yeah,
I would agree with that. I did play, I would play,
I did play yesterday? Did I play Paranoid?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
In the live version we have with Randy Roads, he
is the one with Randy Rhodes, and it is just
a screamer. I mean, he adds his own flare to it,
and obviously the original is just super sick.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
But that's a cool version of that, you know. Yeah,
it's so good. Let me just stand over here on camera.
Speaker 9 (17:56):
I made the argument that a good song would be
good no matter if you change in the genre or not. Absolutely,
it's the musical It's the musicality and like the lyrics.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
That really right.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I've always said that you want to hear if a
song is really good, strip out all of the production
and everything. Play it on a piano or an acoustic guitar.
It's the vocal and the melody and the chord structure
that's the song. And if it works stripped down like that,
then you've got gold, exactly, yea, Maris.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Yeah, I've admitted a few times that I listened to
the music first and then hear the lyrics and then
just blown away. So shot in the dark caught me
off guard because the music really does just bring you
in right with that intro and then Ozzie singing so
well and I'm just vibing with it. Do your research
and I was leaning into it. Was kind of like
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an underdog feel, like you know you're you're coming from behind,
nobody sees you, but when you get there, it's like, ah,
I'm here and everybody has technology. It's all about stalking.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
It's all an interpretation.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
But it's one of those things where Ozzy has always
had amazing musicians around him in every phase of everything
that he's done. So when you do actively have a
song about stalking or a really bad murderer, you can
get distracted and just vibe with it and it's just
like this is really nice, nice.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
So Shot in the Shot in the Dark is your song?
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
And that features Jackie Lee, who was a part of
the final show, And honestly, I just read this this morning.
Jackie Lee received a text from Ozzy the next day
saying like, oh man, I wish we had more time
to spend together. I hope you had a great time.
I'd love to catch up and really just hang out
with you when I come to La next, So next
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time I come to LA, I want to hang out
with you.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Yeah, And I think, like, as we've seen all of
the tributes from actively everybody in the industry, Ozzie was
that mentor for generations of musician. It was always welcoming,
arms open and like, Ozzie did a lot of crazy shit.
Nobody's going to deny that, But when he was one
on one with you in that moment, he was very
encouraging about whatever product you were putting out there in
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that moment.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Yeah, he I mean, think about all the bands that
he helped launch careers for. I mean, I'm only going
to touch a couple of them. Def Leppard, he took
him out in nineteen eighty one, Corn he took out
on oz Fest. System of a Down, he took out
you know, and.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Then he spizz. He was very instrumental there. Thanks Shot, Thanks,
That's awesome. So yeah, I mean, uh man, he did
so much. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
When we when you boil it down, you start talking
about all the things that the guy did and contributed
to music.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Mind blowing.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
I also want to mention young Blood and.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Dude, what a great moment, what a great moment on
stage when Young Blood was able to come out and
sing Changes, which is an incredible song. I mean, you
think about I said this yesterday on the air, when
you think about Black Sabbath and all the sludge and
heaviness and darkness that they brought, and then they come
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out with a song called Changes on Volume four and
it's like a Beatles song. Incredible. And then young Blood
stepped up, had his moment and he has arrived. He
is like you two for me at Live Aid. Was
that moment seeing Bono takeover and they arrived at Live
Aid Young Blood arrived.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
To the world on stage in Birmingham two weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
I think one of the best clips I've seen is
the backstage moment where it's young Blood and Ozzie talking
before the show and Ozzie's like, if I can do
anything for you, always let me know, and young Blood
just said the music was fucking enough.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah. I love that. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
You wrap that one up with Conquer America and I
was like, yeah, that one just hit.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, all right, capone? What do you got Patrick?
Speaker 7 (22:12):
All right?
Speaker 10 (22:13):
So the song I picked was the Wizard Reasons, right,
I know, right, But like The thing about that original
Black Sabbath album, I honestly consider it like a blueprint
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for great rock albums of all time. I just love
the whole thing that made it happen that you had
a young group of guys who were doing something completely different.
They raised the money themselves, and they could only afford
two days to go into a studio. In one of
those days, you have to mix the album, right, So
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really you had one day to track, so you got
to go in, you got to go in prepare, and
you're basically cutting every single one of those tracks on
the album live. All the guys were playing at the
same time. Ozzy was in the vocal booth. They're all
looking and what we hear on that album was them
live in this studio record.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Yeah right.
Speaker 10 (23:16):
And the one thing so when I first heard it,
I was just so blown away by the opening track.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
It was.
Speaker 10 (23:21):
It was only by the time the Wizard, which is
the second track, came on that I was like, really like,
what's going on here? And then you hear that cool harmonica?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah right.
Speaker 10 (23:31):
We don't talk about Ozzy the musician. We talk about
Ozzie the vocalist and the front man and the crazy man,
but he could play the living hell out of a harmonica. Yeah,
and it sounded perfect. Right, You don't use harp in
a muddlely song.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Well they put it.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
You put reaverb on it, and suddenly it sounds ethereal
and haunting and a coming after Black Sabbath, the song
which has you know, the bells ringing and all of
that stuff, it set the tone. Yeah, totally set the time.
Speaker 10 (24:01):
The musicianship in Black Sabbath is outstanding from all of
the players, but it wouldn't have worked without Ozzy. Nigue
voice that floated on top of it almost gave the
band permission to be that jazzy, weird thing.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
They had their moment, They had their moments with Ronnie
James Dio later to come, But I don't think Sabbath
would be Sabbath and would have gotten to those moments
without Ozzy. Sabbath doesn't exist without Ozzy.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
No, not to mention, just like the theater that he
brought to the band as a frontman in general, just
leading that charge of being I think you said it
the other day, chap of being both scary yet likable simultaneously,
and let's be so real. Sometimes when dudes sing, they
get flak for it because they're like, honey, you're a singer.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Not Ozzy.
Speaker 7 (24:48):
Man, that was so cool, and the way that he
was able to do it and like just maintain this
power behind that mic was dope.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
So that's going to bring me to my song because Uh,
my song is Mama, I'm Coming Home, which doesn't haven
I'm looking at Henry, doesn't have Randy Rhodes playing it,
but it does have lyrics written by Lemmy and it
is Ozzy not being a heavy dark guy, but he
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is singing his ass off and what a great melody.
Ozzy's favorite band was the Beatles, and I think you
can hear that influence in lots of songs throughout his career.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
A lot of people have said that Dreamer uh is
uh like his imagine from John Lennon. But Mama I'm
Coming Home, I mean it just hits with all the feels,
especially since he got to play that at Birmingham for
the last show. But the vocals are what I'm focusing
on here, because I love the melody, I love the
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I love just just how he's able to. Sorry, Chap
is walking around the room and he's like having a
moment here. So it's a we're just supporting you right now, Okay, you.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Testify, testify, testify.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I just to me that is one of the most
powerful Ozzie songs. But like you said, you can't pick
just one because they are all there's so many great.
But uh, as my choir over here to my right
with a test that Mama, I'm coming home is.
Speaker 10 (26:36):
Beautiful.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Good guys, so uh, I mean, it is incredible what
he has given us all. And uh I love sharing
the stories and I've been it's been amazing hearing all
of these stories on the radio, and we will continue
to share them as we move through this year because
this is one of those This is this is big.
Losing an icon like Ozzy is a big deal and
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not being able to have him here, not knowing what's next.
It's it's weird. I was thinking today as I was
walking in.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
This is.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
This has been the first day of my entire life
where Ozzie isn't here.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
Oh now I'm gonna cry.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
It's just kind of weird because it's like, you know,
black Sabbath was as soon as I could turn on
a turntable, there was black sabbath making music, and ever since,
there's been all of these things, and now he's not here.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
It's the first time it's weird. It's weird. That's a
good point.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
I'm also still vibing on what Pat said as far
as playing that record as a live record.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I can't imagine bands that do that now.
Speaker 9 (27:45):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I wish they would.
Speaker 10 (27:46):
I wish they would too, because I think one of
the reasons that's so much rock today sounds so similar
is because of the way it's produced. Everybody just recording
their own parts separately. But when you get all musicians
in a room together and they can vibe on each
other and look at each other, that's where you get
the album is just loaded with.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
That kind of a man.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
I think we should all go back and listen to
that record knowing it was made that way, right. And
the other thing I'd like to say is, like count
count the number of times in our lifetime. Kirk Cobain
was certainly a big one in ninety four. I remember
exactly where I was, but we're always going to remember
what happened two days ago, no matter where you are.
Going forward decades ahead, Ozzy, I think perhaps could be
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a little bit bigger of a passing than Kirk Cobain.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I think he touched more people. I think because his
career was much longer and longer. Yeah, so I think
because of that, this is this is like John Lennon.
For me, this is like John Lennon, or maybe and
Michael Jackson.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
But different yet right, And I'll tell you one of
the most beautiful things for me was head and downtown
hearing you guys do your breaks. But what was super
interesting was as I was driving to the train station
hearing Rock ninety five to five and everybody playing Ozzy
on the radio. And then as I got into the station,
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the Starbucks with Starbucks was playing Azzy you know what
I mean, not John Mayer, you know, like what's going on?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
And then as I'm.
Speaker 10 (29:19):
Walking the streets, every car driving by playing Ozzy.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
You know that's a moment.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I mean, even the news channels on TV, the cable
news was doing bits on Ozzy.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
It's a big it's a big event.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
It's one of those things that transcends past rock music.
When we got to talk to Leon from WGCI on
the morning show yesterday, he reminded us Ozzy is known
very well within the rap community because of a lot
of the covers or samples that have been utilized all
the video games that we grew up with. The Ozzy
was just a part of it. Is just like he's
always been within you know, the rock world. But everybody
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knew Ozzy and had respect.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Froz's favorite cover of War Pigs tea Pain. Yeah, oh
that cover. It was great. Yeah, so good ship. I
haven't listened to that in a long time.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
That is, Yeah, I know, I'm just seeing it right now.
I don't know if who do we want to Hull
Cogan just passed away.
Speaker 11 (30:17):
Yeah, break.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
So uh let's let's we got to cross this week
off because this from Sunday we celebrated Chester Bennington passing. Tuesday,
we lose Ozzie. Thursday, we've lost Hull Cogan. This has
been this is this week on the calendar is destined
to be the worst week of the entire year. Never well,
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it's been fun.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Being able to chat with the incredible conversation.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah, and and it doesn't stop here. If you're listening,
hopefully you've enjoyed hearing us banter about it. I'd love
to hear what your favorite songs are. Feel free to
comment wherever you can on the rock ninety five five platforms,
and we'll be back next month with another Rock ninety
five five Top five
All right, Rock downety five to five crew, I want
to hear everybody make some noise.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
No, I want to hear you go crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Man, what a what a week it's been. Welcome to
another Rock downety five five Top five. I'm Walt and
I've got the entire crew in the room with us.
We lost an icon, a legend, a hero this week.
We lost Ozzy Osbourne at the age of seventy six,
and so we were already planning to do this podcast
with another year. We may have been doing cover songs,
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but we're pivoting because this man was so important to
all of us and our career in rock music in general.
So we are going to talk and discuss our favorite
Ozzie moments, our favorite Azzi songs, and that's what we
have planned for you on this podcast on Rock downety
five five Top five.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
You guys down with that? We are totally down.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
All right, Well let's begin. Let's go where do you
want to go? Left or right? Let's go left left,
that's you. There's a micro phone over here. Yeah, let's
start with chat.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
You want the headphones? They're chappy. I don't know if
I want to be on camera. I'm not doing well.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
All I've been I've been stuck in my flat, just
eating biscuits, just thinking about it. I haven't felt this
bad since the Queen Mom passed. They feel like I
lost my dad. Anyway, I love Allsie. He's truly an icon.
And I do think about frontmen, but I have frontman energy.
As you know, I'm gonna lead guitarist, but I'm a
little much. So I think about the guitars in addition
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to the great front man, and so I think about
Randy Rhodes and Assie and they did this song called
Flying High Again, and it is unbelievable. Yes, it's about
drug use, which Ozzie had some troubles with, which is
why he went solo, because they kicked him out of
the band. I don't know anything about that. I was
in a band actually similar to Sabbath. It was called
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Mischievous Whiskers, and so I know what that's like. But
Flying High Again, every time I hear the guitar work
is just so good. I mean that it's the power
cords right and then, but but it's also the intricacies
Aussie screaming give me drugs so good. And this was
I think obviously there was a sad moment that happened
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with Randy Rose. Don't know if you know. He passed
away tragically. You know when your bus drivers high on coke.
Don't give him the keys to the plane. This is
something we have to learn something from these sessions. That's
one of them. And so he took the plane, tried
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to do a little buzz of the bus, missed, the
bus hit a bond and the hairdresser died too. No
one thinks about the hairdresser. I mean I always do
so Flying High again, Ossie, the Prince of Darkness. I
love you. I'm going to go back to the corner
and soap, but I don't know, yes I did, actually
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didn't mean. I do soak from time to on. My
basement's moist anyway, Flying High.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Gas good one. That's a great song. That is a
great song. Thanks for that, chap, All right, cleaner, what
do you got? What's your what's your Aussie track?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
First of all, there can't be a favorite OSSI song
that is true that doesn't include Randy Rhodes. So if
your song doesn't include Randy Rhodes, get the out of here.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
And I say that because how about this, how about this.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Does anybody remember Coco Ruse made by Maltomeal. It's the
cheap version of Coco Puffs from General Mills.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Oh yeah. Does it come in a bag.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
It does a massive like a lawn bag for a
dollar for a dollar, and they are delicious. But I
feel like Wild is the Cocoa Ruse to Randy Rhodes,
Coco come on, come on.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
That is not fair at all, not fair at.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
All, because though my song is Goodbye to Romance from
that very first record that he did after he left
Black Sabbath, and it happened to be the very first
song he and Randy Roads collaborated on, and it's melodic.
The guitar riff puts you in tears. And we all
know that Randy Roads is the best guitarist in the
whole wide world. We all know, I agree with that.
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We all know that he can credit good. He was
really really good, so he can shred it. I mean,
Zach Wallden was thirteen years old. He didn't know anything
at the time that the two of them were collaborating
on these incredible songs and these badass records, right, And
it sucks that he died at twenty seven years old.
But the very first song they ever wrote together was
Goodbye to Romance, and it's sort of Ozzie's nod to
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and maybe getting you know, the saying goodbye a Black Sabbath.
And he didn't know what was going to happen, right,
He didn't know that he was going to go on
to have an entirely separate career outside of and what.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
An amazing career.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I mean to think about this guy who joined this
band and he was brought into Black Sabbath because he
owned a PA, you know, it's like and because of that,
because of that move when he was a kid, He's like,
I want to join this band and the only way
they're gonna let me in is if I have a PA.
So he got a PA, and now he had the
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career in Black Sabbath, had a career as a solo artist,
had a career as.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
A TV icon, and like, what a career.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Oz Fest and amazing and Zach Wilde honorable mention perhaps,
But Randy Rhodes is like the king ding a ling
And what I do appreciate is that on this particular
song he's kind of restrained a little bit because it's
so easy for somebody like that with those chops to
just wail and he kind of lows it down and
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he's so melodical, melodic and thoughtful about it.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
So that's my song, all right, Goodbye to Romance.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Try those Coco rus do compare and contrast to Coco Puffs?
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Do they still exist? Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Multimeal is a huge company and it you know, yeah, Multimeal.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
My bad.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Sorry, I would give them a microphone, right, thanks buddy.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
So Maria from the morning.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Hi, there doing some little lower play today, oz play.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Oh we like it. It's fine, okay, okay.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
It is for me the ultimate Ozzie Slash Black Sabbath song.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I do.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
There are other ones that I obviously get down with,
but nothing hits me like war Pigs hits me. Man.
That is, it's just written obviously about the Vietnam War
and all the bullshit associated with that. But the way
that the music sounds, not even just the words. Of
course Ozzie's voice brings so much to it, but just
that beginning guitar sounds like the word.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Gruelling to me.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
That just slow, like almost crawling through sludge sound. And
then it goes right from that into that like kind
of pissed off like drum take, like the wait a.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
Minutes, just the high hat like it's yes, yes, and
it just it puts in me the like feeling of
like anger of like why the fuck am I in
here crawling through this sludge?
Speaker 7 (07:39):
And whose fault is this? And then Ozzy comes in
with those vocals.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Well, and that's the thing, and I have been pointing
this out all week long, is that the vocal line
in War Pigs is not an easy line to see
sing because of those intervals. Yeah, in the verse going
up the climb, going no, that is not an easy
thing to sing, and he nails it every time.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And I respect him so much as a singer.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
A lot of people might not because you listen to
him talk yeah, and he's you know, especially in his
older age with the or so is.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Going into my room and taking all.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
The bears out of my room. But when he's supposed
to be British, No, it was supposed to be Azzie.
That's his own accent. But an amazing song.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I mean, it takes seven minutes to get it all
in there because it is so amazing, But what an
amazing seven minutes of rock.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
That is and we got to shout out Geezer Butler
for those lyrics, because he also acknowledges He's like, yeah, no,
I know I rhymed masses with masses, but I also
couldn't think of anything else to put in there.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
So you're gonna live with it and live we shall. Awesome.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
What a great song. Love it? Thank you, Maria. All right,
Katie Katie who you can hear on the weekends here.
I rocked ninety five to five.
Speaker 9 (08:58):
Yeah, so I originally knew Ozzie kind of more on
the voice acting scene. Funnily enough, because he voiced in
one of my childhood favorite movies, Nomeo and Juliet, which
is a no movie about Romeo and Juliet, and he
played a deer in it. Fact for you, it's very funny.
But also because I was a huge Marvel fan, I
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watched Iron Man and at the very end of the
first movie he reveals saying I am iron Man, and
then it goes into the credits with I'm with the
iron Man, Black Sabbath playing. So that is my song today.
Not a good one, phenomenal, It's one I feel like
everyone learns to play on the guitar at some point.
But also I'm a huge fan of storytelling and songs,
and I feel like Ozzie and Black Sabbath did an
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amazing job of doing that, especially with iron Man, because
I found out later on the song is not about
iron Man from the comics. It is instead about a
time traveler that goes to the future, finds out that
an apocalypse has happened. A magnetic field turns him into
an iron person. He becomes mute. He goes back in
time to try and tell everyone that the eclipses happening.
No one believes him, makes fun of him, so he
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instead causes the apocalypse to get back at all of them.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Are you serious?
Speaker 9 (10:06):
Yes, it is an insane song.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I never knew that, and I can't wait to hear
that song again.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
So good once you know the story, I love. I
love songs with stories, so that was probably wasn't why.
I'm also a musical fan.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, we're not gonna hold that against you.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
No, that is. That is awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
That is it's a great song, But that is also
an awesome reason. Why is this thing on?
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Yeah, I'm towering, as if I'm towering over this microphone.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
That's okay, Uh, you know.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
It's It's interesting because one of the best one of
the things that you had said for Maria's song is
that maybe he wasn't the greatest singer.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I disagree with that, Like I feel like what I
said he was a great singer. Somebody said something maybe
he couldn't hit notes. I don't know. No, you you
use you.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
You are a dyslexic on what I was saying, because
I said he could hit He wrote an amazing line
and he could actually hit it.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
He was incredible, got it okay?
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
So what I do want to say is his final
show where he did play Ironman and Warpigs. I felt
like his voice and Sharon sort of started to downplay
it or set expectations of like low expectations leading up
to the final show. I felt like his voice when
he sang just came alive on those songs that we
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have loved for so long, sounded so good. He was energized,
and it's heartbreaking that he passed away. I am a
bit surprised at seventy six years old that he did
die because.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I never thought he would.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I thought he was going to be like and I
know he was in that destructor Arkinsons, and I know
he had all these ailments, but it just sucks.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I saw today that Tony Iomi says that he thinks
he just held on to make it to that show
and then he had been you know, and he just
kind of went downhill after that, but he held on
to make it to that event and then isn't it.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yeah, So I just wanted to say that, like I
felt like he just came alive.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Man.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
It's so incredible because like you hear him talk over
the past couple of years, struggling with the disease and
the age and everything, and then you hear him sing
those songs and even like like there is the isolated
vocals for Mama, I'm Coming Home, and you can hear
the emotion in what he's singing, and it just it's
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like that's heartbreaking because it's like, here he is in
his hometown, playing this enormous show in front of forty
thousand people and the world not knowing that he's also
raising the most money that any charity concert has ever
raised ever in the history.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
What an incredible moment, you know, I love that's such
a good point.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
And Maria's song like war Pigs or any of these songs.
We're talked about fifty years old and he's you know,
still hitting these songs and driving the emotions and stuff.
And I feel like that's a cool exclamation point to
his career and ultimately his life where you know, the
stories of snorting ants and biting the head off of
a bat and then raising two hundred million dollars boom career.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah, you know what I mean. It just it's such
an incredible balance.
Speaker 10 (13:11):
So yeah, I thought it was really impressive that the
sacrifices he made to put on that farewell show, and
not only him, but all the musicians and the staff.
No bands got paid, They all covered all their own costs.
None of those people there got paid, the whole crew
and everybody. And in order for Ozzie to do the show,
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he had to forego his medication. And when you when
you suffer from Parkinson's, it's really quite painful, those those spasms,
And so he instead put up with the pain in
order to do the show. And I heard they had
to strap him to that chair, hold him in. Why
what does the medication do that? Would he couldn't sing
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with it? He wouldn't be able to sing right at
all with it. So he said it was the only
way he'd be able to do it, and it was.
So it was a sacrifice of one thing in order
to give us the show that he wanted to do.
And how many artists of any kind, but especially musicians
get to say goodbye, like really get to say goodbye
on their own terms like that? Anybody?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
No, I mean, it's like the only thing that comes close.
And it's not the same as Bowie maybe because he
he orchestrated his death and as much as he put
out a record on Friday, died on Monday, and then
the single is called Lazareth Lazarus.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
So it's like Elvis was on the toilet.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
That was kind of a good bye.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I do want to say this. I also I do
want I do want it. Well, then why don't we
have any more cameras any.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
We've never we've never had this issue before now, So
what I what I want to talk about is is
hang on, I lost my train of thought with all
welcome to it.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
So the other question is, you know all the bands
that came together, who is the band that Sharon kicked
off the thing?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Was it Motley Crue? Because they wanted to get paid.
Speaker 10 (15:16):
Right, it was who they wanted to get paid, and
she's like, nobody's getting paid, and but we don't know,
do we?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
And also I mean Motley Crue, like we we came
to England to play live, Motley Crue probably couldn't be
doing that anymore, right, Yeah.
Speaker 11 (15:28):
Yeah, Motley Crue made a statement and they said that
they had health issues in the band that's why they
couldn't make it.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Well, I mean, but but if you're the band, you're
probably going to make a statement to make yourself look at.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
It, which they do.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
But honestly, they did have health issues. Vince Neil has
been dealing with some stuff. They had to push back
their residency. But nonetheless, all right, Michael, what.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Do you got? All aboard?
Speaker 11 (15:54):
Minus Crazy Train? But not like you'd think.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I was.
Speaker 11 (15:59):
My parents really strict and I wasn't allowed to listen
to Ozzy in my life until I hit about. I
was probably fifteen years old when the Osbournes came out,
and so I didn't even realize. This is gonna sound
really dumb. But the intro to the song is Crazy Train,
but it's done in such like a Jack loungetor that
I never put it together until later on, and so
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my intro to Ozzy would be Crazy Train.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
But the television theme version, the lounge version, exactly so,
and I fell in love with the family.
Speaker 11 (16:29):
One thing I loved about that show is even through
all their struggles and you know, and there were a
lot of them, they still loved each other.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Man, they they stuck together.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
And it's incredible because when you think about it, it
was honestly the first to do a reality family show
like that.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I mean, now we've got the Kardashians, Thank you, Ozzy.
Speaker 11 (16:49):
Sloans Andllion Family Jewels with Gene Simmons, it's like this,
but it was Ozzy and the Osbourne's really were the
first to create that genre, and they did it so
well and so enduring that we actually care about them
more because we saw them as real people normally hate
reality stars, but fell in love with that family.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
So and to mention, not to take anything away from
the lounge version of Crazy Train, but that works because
it is a really great song.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It is that's great.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
And you talk about somebody like Randy Rhoads throwing down
I mean iconic riff.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Probably one of the best rifts of all time. Yeah,
I would agree with that. I did play, I would play,
I did play yesterday? Did I play Paranoid?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
In the live version we have with Randy Roads, he
is the one with Randy Rhodes, and it is just
a screamer. I mean, he adds his own flare to it,
and obviously the original is just super sick.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
But that's a cool version of that, you know. Yeah,
it's so good. Let me just stand over here on camera.
Speaker 9 (17:56):
I made the argument that a good song would be
good no matter if you change in the genre or not. Absolutely,
it's the musical It's the musicality and like the lyrics.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
That really right.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I've always said that you want to hear if a
song is really good, strip out all of the production
and everything. Play it on a piano or an acoustic guitar.
It's the vocal and the melody and the chord structure
that's the song. And if it works stripped down like that,
then you've got gold, exactly, yea, Maris.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Yeah, I've admitted a few times that I listened to
the music first and then hear the lyrics and then
just blown away. So shot in the dark caught me
off guard because the music really does just bring you
in right with that intro and then Ozzie singing so
well and I'm just vibing with it. Do your research
and I was leaning into it. Was kind of like
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an underdog feel, like you know you're you're coming from behind,
nobody sees you, but when you get there, it's like, ah,
I'm here and everybody has technology. It's all about stalking.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
It's all an interpretation.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
But it's one of those things where Ozzy has always
had amazing musicians around him in every phase of everything
that he's done. So when you do actively have a
song about stalking or a really bad murderer, you can
get distracted and just vibe with it and it's just
like this is really nice, nice.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
So Shot in the Shot in the Dark is your song?
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
And that features Jackie Lee, who was a part of
the final show, And honestly, I just read this this morning.
Jackie Lee received a text from Ozzy the next day
saying like, oh man, I wish we had more time
to spend together. I hope you had a great time.
I'd love to catch up and really just hang out
with you when I come to La next, So next
(19:57):
time I come to LA, I want to hang out
with you.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Yeah, And I think, like, as we've seen all of
the tributes from actively everybody in the industry, Ozzie was
that mentor for generations of musician. It was always welcoming,
arms open and like, Ozzie did a lot of crazy shit.
Nobody's going to deny that, But when he was one
on one with you in that moment, he was very
encouraging about whatever product you were putting out there in
(20:22):
that moment.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Yeah, he I mean, think about all the bands that
he helped launch careers for. I mean, I'm only going
to touch a couple of them. Def Leppard, he took
him out in nineteen eighty one, Corn he took out
on oz Fest. System of a Down, he took out
you know, and.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Then he spizz. He was very instrumental there. Thanks Shot, Thanks,
That's awesome. So yeah, I mean, uh man, he did
so much. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
When we when you boil it down, you start talking
about all the things that the guy did and contributed
to music.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Mind blowing.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
I also want to mention young Blood and.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Dude, what a great moment, what a great moment on
stage when Young Blood was able to come out and
sing Changes, which is an incredible song. I mean, you
think about I said this yesterday on the air, when
you think about Black Sabbath and all the sludge and
heaviness and darkness that they brought, and then they come
(21:25):
out with a song called Changes on Volume four and
it's like a Beatles song. Incredible. And then young Blood
stepped up, had his moment and he has arrived. He
is like you two for me at Live Aid. Was
that moment seeing Bono takeover and they arrived at Live
Aid Young Blood arrived.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
To the world on stage in Birmingham two weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
I think one of the best clips I've seen is
the backstage moment where it's young Blood and Ozzie talking
before the show and Ozzie's like, if I can do
anything for you, always let me know, and young Blood
just said the music was fucking enough.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah. I love that. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
You wrap that one up with Conquer America and I
was like, yeah, that one just hit.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, all right, capone? What do you got Patrick?
Speaker 7 (22:12):
All right?
Speaker 10 (22:13):
So the song I picked was the Wizard Reasons, right,
I know, right, But like The thing about that original
Black Sabbath album, I honestly consider it like a blueprint
(22:34):
for great rock albums of all time. I just love
the whole thing that made it happen that you had
a young group of guys who were doing something completely different.
They raised the money themselves, and they could only afford
two days to go into a studio. In one of
those days, you have to mix the album, right, So
(22:55):
really you had one day to track, so you got
to go in, you got to go in prepare, and
you're basically cutting every single one of those tracks on
the album live. All the guys were playing at the
same time. Ozzy was in the vocal booth. They're all
looking and what we hear on that album was them
live in this studio record.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Yeah right.
Speaker 10 (23:16):
And the one thing so when I first heard it,
I was just so blown away by the opening track.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
It was.
Speaker 10 (23:21):
It was only by the time the Wizard, which is
the second track, came on that I was like, really like,
what's going on here? And then you hear that cool harmonica?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah right.
Speaker 10 (23:31):
We don't talk about Ozzy the musician. We talk about
Ozzie the vocalist and the front man and the crazy man,
but he could play the living hell out of a harmonica. Yeah,
and it sounded perfect. Right, You don't use harp in
a muddlely song.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Well they put it.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
You put reaverb on it, and suddenly it sounds ethereal
and haunting and a coming after Black Sabbath, the song
which has you know, the bells ringing and all of
that stuff, it set the tone. Yeah, totally set the time.
Speaker 10 (24:01):
The musicianship in Black Sabbath is outstanding from all of
the players, but it wouldn't have worked without Ozzy. Nigue
voice that floated on top of it almost gave the
band permission to be that jazzy, weird thing.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
They had their moment, They had their moments with Ronnie
James Dio later to come, But I don't think Sabbath
would be Sabbath and would have gotten to those moments
without Ozzy. Sabbath doesn't exist without Ozzy.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
No, not to mention, just like the theater that he
brought to the band as a frontman in general, just
leading that charge of being I think you said it
the other day, chap of being both scary yet likable simultaneously,
and let's be so real. Sometimes when dudes sing, they
get flak for it because they're like, honey, you're a singer.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Not Ozzy.
Speaker 7 (24:48):
Man, that was so cool, and the way that he
was able to do it and like just maintain this
power behind that mic was dope.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
So that's going to bring me to my song because Uh,
my song is Mama, I'm Coming Home, which doesn't haven
I'm looking at Henry, doesn't have Randy Rhodes playing it,
but it does have lyrics written by Lemmy and it
is Ozzy not being a heavy dark guy, but he
(25:16):
is singing his ass off and what a great melody.
Ozzy's favorite band was the Beatles, and I think you
can hear that influence in lots of songs throughout his career.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
A lot of people have said that Dreamer uh is
uh like his imagine from John Lennon. But Mama I'm
Coming Home, I mean it just hits with all the feels,
especially since he got to play that at Birmingham for
the last show. But the vocals are what I'm focusing
on here, because I love the melody, I love the
(25:54):
I love just just how he's able to. Sorry, Chap
is walking around the room and he's like having a
moment here. So it's a we're just supporting you right now, Okay, you.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Testify, testify, testify.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I just to me that is one of the most
powerful Ozzie songs. But like you said, you can't pick
just one because they are all there's so many great.
But uh, as my choir over here to my right
with a test that Mama, I'm coming home is.
Speaker 10 (26:36):
Beautiful.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Good guys, so uh, I mean, it is incredible what
he has given us all. And uh I love sharing
the stories and I've been it's been amazing hearing all
of these stories on the radio, and we will continue
to share them as we move through this year because
this is one of those This is this is big.
Losing an icon like Ozzy is a big deal and
(26:58):
not being able to have him here, not knowing what's next.
It's it's weird. I was thinking today as I was
walking in.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
This is.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
This has been the first day of my entire life
where Ozzie isn't here.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
Oh now I'm gonna cry.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
It's just kind of weird because it's like, you know,
black Sabbath was as soon as I could turn on
a turntable, there was black sabbath making music, and ever since,
there's been all of these things, and now he's not here.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
It's the first time it's weird. It's weird. That's a
good point.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
I'm also still vibing on what Pat said as far
as playing that record as a live record.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I can't imagine bands that do that now.
Speaker 9 (27:45):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I wish they would.
Speaker 10 (27:46):
I wish they would too, because I think one of
the reasons that's so much rock today sounds so similar
is because of the way it's produced. Everybody just recording
their own parts separately. But when you get all musicians
in a room together and they can vibe on each
other and look at each other, that's where you get
the album is just loaded with.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
That kind of a man.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
I think we should all go back and listen to
that record knowing it was made that way, right. And
the other thing I'd like to say is, like count
count the number of times in our lifetime. Kirk Cobain
was certainly a big one in ninety four. I remember
exactly where I was, but we're always going to remember
what happened two days ago, no matter where you are.
Going forward decades ahead, Ozzy, I think perhaps could be
(28:31):
a little bit bigger of a passing than Kirk Cobain.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I think he touched more people. I think because his
career was much longer and longer. Yeah, so I think
because of that, this is this is like John Lennon.
For me, this is like John Lennon, or maybe and
Michael Jackson.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
But different yet right, And I'll tell you one of
the most beautiful things for me was head and downtown
hearing you guys do your breaks. But what was super
interesting was as I was driving to the train station
hearing Rock ninety five to five and everybody playing Ozzy
on the radio. And then as I got into the station,
(29:10):
the Starbucks with Starbucks was playing Azzy you know what
I mean, not John Mayer, you know, like what's going on?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
And then as I'm.
Speaker 10 (29:19):
Walking the streets, every car driving by playing Ozzy.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
You know that's a moment.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I mean, even the news channels on TV, the cable
news was doing bits on Ozzy.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
It's a big it's a big event.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
It's one of those things that transcends past rock music.
When we got to talk to Leon from WGCI on
the morning show yesterday, he reminded us Ozzy is known
very well within the rap community because of a lot
of the covers or samples that have been utilized all
the video games that we grew up with. The Ozzy
was just a part of it. Is just like he's
always been within you know, the rock world. But everybody
(29:58):
knew Ozzy and had respect.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Froz's favorite cover of War Pigs tea Pain. Yeah, oh
that cover. It was great. Yeah, so good ship. I
haven't listened to that in a long time.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
That is, Yeah, I know, I'm just seeing it right now.
I don't know if who do we want to Hull
Cogan just passed away.
Speaker 11 (30:17):
Yeah, break.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
So uh let's let's we got to cross this week
off because this from Sunday we celebrated Chester Bennington passing. Tuesday,
we lose Ozzie. Thursday, we've lost Hull Cogan. This has
been this is this week on the calendar is destined
to be the worst week of the entire year. Never well,
(30:47):
it's been fun.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Being able to chat with the incredible conversation.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah, and and it doesn't stop here. If you're listening,
hopefully you've enjoyed hearing us banter about it. I'd love
to hear what your favorite songs are. Feel free to
comment wherever you can on the rock ninety five five platforms,
and we'll be back next month with another Rock ninety
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