Join Hollywood, on 99.1 FM KLBP Long Beach, CA Monday nights at 9pm, in his scavenger hunt to unearth GenX Rock Hidden Treasures from Classic Rock and Metal artists, as well as newer bands emulating that hard and heavy 70s, 80s and 90s sound. Enjoy PART 1 of the two-hour OZZY TRIBUTE show featuring DJ Hollywood’s experience growing up becoming an OZZY fan at age 13 in 1981 and then buying every Black Sabbath album by 1983. Also listen to the commentary by Dirty Jim and his tribute to OZZY. Download the KLBP app to stream the show LIVE from 9pm-10pm.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is ninety nine point one FM KOBP broadcasting in
the heart of beautiful Long Beach, California, and you're listening
to gen X Rock Hidden Treasures with DJ Hollywood. My
name is Hollywood, and I am your host and tour
guide in our rock and scavenger hunt. It's time to
dig in.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I don't know who you are, but what I do
have are a very particular set of skills.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Skills I've acquired her for a very long career. I'm
a musical genius.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
A rock and roll radio station.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Right. If we hear some tunes, it rocks, man, that's rock.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Hey guys, this is DJ Hollywood and as you can
tell from the intro music that this is not beyond
the realms of rock. This is a special edition of
gen X Rock Hidden Treasures. It's going to be It's
(01:08):
already been a number of days. Obviously, everyone knows that
about the passing of Ozzy Osbourne, and so I decided
to give my own tribute, do my own tribute to
this man that meant so much to me and my life.
(01:29):
I know there's a bunch of other people out there
that have done tribute to ready other individuals. We're seeing
a lot of stuff online and radio stations and all
that kind of stuff. But I just want to share
my thoughts, my experience, my life with Ozzy, and so
(01:56):
this show it's going to be messy. There's nothing fully
planned out here. It's not, you know, scripted or anything
like that. I'm just gonna be sharing from my heart.
I'm gonna be you know, I'll be reading a few
things from online from different individuals who were sharing their experience, experiences,
(02:19):
their condolences and things like that, and I'll be playing
music and let's see. I think one of the first
things I wanted to say was that I did hear
about the passing of Ozzie on It's been almost a
(02:40):
week now. It was last Tuesday, July the twenty second,
twenty twenty five that he passed away, and my wife
called me, and I hadn't been paying attention to Facebook
(03:01):
or social media or the news or whatever at that
particular time. I was doing what I always do. I
listened to music, constantly listen to music all the time.
And it's not a chore. It's I don't look at
it as a job. I just I am a passionate
passionate music lover and I love looking finding music, hearing
(03:23):
music that I've heard for years. I mix it all up.
So my wife called me and she said, Ozzie died.
(03:47):
It's been almost a week now and I'm still a
little emotional about it. Sorry, but that's one of the
things I want to talk about, is as far as grief.
You know, everyone grieves differently because everyone has a different
experience with the individual who passed away. So anyway, she
(04:09):
called me, she said Ozzie died, and I was like
in shock, and I knew, I knew eventually it was
it was coming. I did see the Back to the
Beginning concert for in Birmingham, England. It was streaming and I,
(04:30):
you know, I watched it and it was awesome with
all the bands paying, you know, doing their tribute and
playing cover songs of Sabbath and Ozzy songs, and then
seeing Ozzy at the end doing his solo stuff and
then finishing off with Black Sabbath. It was it was
an amazing concert. And so I saw that, and then
(04:52):
you know, when Ozzie sang my mom would coming home
and he's just breaking up. He could hardly at the
be It sounded like he was having trouble, and I
don't know if it was it was because he was
emotional and he was really thinking about the song and
think about his life and how it would be the
last time he's actually singing on stage that song. But yeah,
(05:18):
so when she she called me, I couldn't believe it.
So I knew that looking at Ozzie and seeing him,
I told her, I said at that time, when I
was watching the concert, I said, listen, I wouldn't be
surprised if, you know, he passes away. You know, I
(05:43):
even said at that time, I said, I wouldn't be
surprised if he passes, you know, a few months from
now or within the year. But no way was I
ready for him to pass away. What was it. It's
been seventeen days since that concert, so you know, July
(06:04):
fifth too, and then he passed away on July the
twenty seconds, so you know a little more than two weeks,
two and a half weeks, whatever, and then he passes away.
It's almost like he was literally done, and I think
he was satisfied. He really really wanted to get that
(06:25):
one final concert in, especially to bring bill Ward back
to the fold and finish it the correct way, because
when they did the previous concert with the end and
taking nothing away from I think it was Tommy Clefados
who was playing drums. He played on the final Black
(06:50):
Sabbath album thirteen, and he also did the tour as well,
I believe so. But anyway, it wasn't a word and
it was really sad that that Bill wasn't able to
do that, but at least he was able to go
back to England and to to to do that final show,
(07:14):
hang out with Ozzy a little bit and hang out
with a Geezer and Tony and all the others too
that were there. That there were so many people that
were so happy to see Bill Ward there, and there
was one I saw a picture of a one drummer
who was obviously a huge Black Sabbath fan, huge Bill
(07:36):
Ward fan, and on his shirt it was the Black
Sabbath logo, but instead of saying Black Sabbath, it said
Bill Sabbath and which is a cool kind of tribute
to to Bill Ward. But I think Ozzy was really
(07:57):
happy about that, and I think Bill was ecstatic about
being with Ozzy and playing. And so when we got
the news that Ozzy had passed away on our station,
and I announced this previously before that. Bill Ward is
(08:18):
our newest DJ on ninety nine point one FM KLBP
here in Long Beach, California. He's going to be co
hosting a show called LA Radio Sessions with Mike Stark,
and he's going to be doing that on a semi
regular basis, meaning you know, Mike does LA Radio Sessions
once a week, but Bill's not going to be on
it every single week, depending on his schedule and stuff. So,
(08:43):
but he was scheduled to be on yesterday, on Sunday,
July twenty seventh, and he was going to talk about
all of the you know, the great celebration and everything
that was going on with the Back to the Beginning
concert and his experience and his feelings about it. It
was going to be Mike and him. They were planning
(09:06):
it to be this really really cool experience of sharing
what it was like to be back together with the
band one last time. I was so looking forward to
hearing that. But once we got the news that Ozzie
passed away, Bill pretty much he just shut it down.
(09:27):
He's a very emotional, rightfully, so, I mean, how could
he speak at this moment for you know about this concert,
which was you know, this this great, wonderful experience, but
then at the same time, you know, Ozzie just passed away,
(09:49):
and so yeah, Bill wasn't able to do the show,
and I'm not sure when he's going to be able
to come back and do that. I'm sure he'll get
it together there within the next few weeks or so,
and we'll we'll see. Mike Stark is the one who
will update the staff on when Bill is going to
make his return back to LA radio sessions. But anyway,
(10:16):
where was I going with this? I don't know. See,
this is this is the thing when you have things
scripted or planned out. Not that I do have things
script or scripted, but I do have normally an outline
of things that I want to say and songs and
stuff like that. But this is just again it's just
free form talking. It's just you know, sharing what's going
(10:36):
on inside my head. But anyway, I think I was
talking about how Ozzy knew it was the end, and
so obviously, you know, after that that great celebration, all
the pictures in the videos from all the different bands
that were praising Ozzy and some just amazing photos and
videos from backstage and you know, on stage and stuff
(10:58):
like that, and then they go back home. Everybody goes
back to where they live. And then Ozzie went back home,
went back to his house, and that was it. I
think he knew already at that time. He was like,
I'm done. I've accomplished everything that I needed to accomplish
(11:19):
in my life. That's the one last thing I really
really wanted to do before I die. And sometimes when
people are in that headspace, when they know that they're dying,
or when it's you know, the end of their life,
if there's a goal or something in front of them
that they have to look forward to, they'll hold on
(11:42):
and hold on and hang on to accomplish that goal
as best as they can. Once they accomplish that goal
or that experience or that event, and then after that,
it's like it goes downhill pretty quickly from there, which
obviously it sounds like that's what happened with Ozzie. Officially,
we don't know the the cause of death. Obviously, we
(12:03):
do know that Ozzie was having many serious health problems
over the years, especially lately with his Parkinson's and you know,
losing feeling and and and not being able to walk
and having to be in a wheelchair, and so yeah,
(12:26):
eventually we'll hear, you know, a press release from Sharon
and the family giving the exact cause of death. But
the fact is that the os Man is gone. And
so I think what I wanted to do at this
time was just kind of talk a little bit first
about what I heard on the radio when this happens.
(12:51):
Because after I found out from my wife, I turned
on the local major commercial rock station here in Los Angeles,
and yeah, people were talking about it. People were sharing
their experiences grieving and things like that, and they started
playing music and playing, you know, this wonderful, amazing variety
(13:16):
of Black Sabbath and AZSI music, and I was I
was shocked just for the fact that I know that
traditional commercial rock radio they tend to play the same
five Ozzy songs, the same five Black Sabbath songs over
(13:40):
and over for the past forty fifty years, and it's
rare that they intermingle other songs in that. And you know,
so I started hearing these other songs. Part of me
was like happy that, yeah, they're doing this, But at
the same time, I'm so angry because I know for
(14:03):
a fact, even when I was listening that very day
that Ozzie died, that pretty soon after that, probably within
a couple of days or whatever, they're gonna go back
to regular programming. And what are you gonna hear. You're
gonna hear UH Crazy Train all over again, over and over.
You can hear mo Mom coming home. You're gonna hear uh,
(14:26):
you know for blacks Out. You're gonna hear Paranoid all
the time. You're gonna hear Iron Man all the time.
You're gonna hear War Pigs. You're gonna hear the same
songs on rotation again. And and but what about all
those other uh songs that they were playing. I mean,
I heard super Not, I heard Sabra Cadabra, I heard
(14:49):
you know, these awesome songs from Sabbath that you don't
hear on the radio. You heard these other Ozzy songs
that you don't hear on the radio. And then now
here we are, almost a week later, gone, And so
part of me is angry, But then part of me
(15:10):
is happy because then hey, that's what I'm here for,
you know, job, job security for me, because I'm the
I'm the deep cut guy. You know, I'm looking for
hidden treasures and deep cuts and and I celebrate that
stuff that's not, you know, overplayed on the radio. So fine,
let them go back to their their regular programming playing
the same songs over and over again. That's fine. You
(15:33):
guys want to hear something different, you come over here,
Come over to ninety nine point one FM KLBP. Listen
to gen X Rock Hidden Treasures with DJ Hollywood, and
I'm going to provide you the deep cuts and the
commentary on those deep cuts that as fans, you deserve,
that you want. So I think with that being said, uh,
(15:56):
I decided that I'm going to introduce a brand new
segment to the gen X Rock Hidden Treasure Show on
a weekly basis. So from now on, I will have
a new segment called Ozzy Forever. And I kind of
(16:16):
got the idea from the social media post that Black
Sabbath posted. So after Ozzy had passed away, there was
all these number of bands and you know, individuals and
companies and people you know, saying rest in peace and
their condolences and all that stuff, and Black Sabbath simply
(16:38):
released a picture of Ozzy and they said Ozzy Forever
and that was it. I loved it, poignant to the point,
and I think for my show it's going to be
awesome because Ozzy has He's got hundreds of songs with Sabbath,
(16:59):
same thing with his his solo career. So between Sabbath
and Ozzy, there's hundreds of songs that that can be
played that that people haven't heard on the radio. You
know that I realized there's a lot of people who
are just casual listeners. There's there are people out there
that don't delve into the albums the way people like
(17:22):
I do. You know, I I go into music and
I do the deep dive. I listen from beginning to end.
And but that's me, you know, I know there's other
individuals out there that do the same thing. They just
listen to music that way. And that's the way we
listen to music. You know, back in the seventies and
eighties and nineties, when you were getting vinyl and cassettes
(17:45):
and and the CDs, you know, it was meant to
be listened to from track one to the to the
final track. And so I still listen to music that way.
Every now and then, I'll just you know, pop in
on certain bands and stuff to listen to certain singles
or you know, whatever's on you know, the top ten
(18:07):
on Spotify or on YouTube or whatever, you know, just
to kind of search out music. But I think Ozzie
has such a catalog of music with Black Sabbath and
his own solo career. Uh, this is gonna be fun
and eye opening, not only for me, but also for
(18:28):
for those of you who are listening who are Ozzie fans,
who love Ozzie. And I'll, I guess I'll have to
admit that, you know, there's some stuff, you know, in
the nineties and in the two thousands that as those
albums were being released, I didn't do the deep dive
and I you know, I didn't buy the CDs or
(18:49):
what have you at that time. You know, I was
an eighties kid, and so the bulk of my Ozzie
listening was was in the eighties. And yeah, I continued
to listen to Ozzie afterwards. But I guess, uh, I guess,
i'll I'll start my story with the very first song
(19:15):
that I heard by Ozzy Osbourne and this is because
of this is because my brother, I have an older
brother and in nineteen eighty one. He went into the
Air Force and he had come back for a break
(19:39):
after basic training, I believe it was, and he brought
me a gift. And the gift he brought me was
this huge boombox except player, radio, everything. It was beautiful.
I didn't have a boombox, you know. Here I was,
I was, I was thirteen years old, and right away
(20:06):
I go out to the store. I went to Music
Plus in Naugata, Connecticut, and I went to the store
and I was looking for one thing, and one thing only.
I wanted Ozzy's very first album because in the United States,
Blizzard of Oz was released in nineteen eighty one. In
(20:28):
England and the UK, we know that it was released
in nineteen eighty but here in the United States it
was nineteen eighty one, so Blizzard of Oz came out
at that time for those of us here stateside, so
that's the only one that was released. That's where I
wanted to hear because they were already playing Ozzy songs
on the radio. They were playing Crazy Train, the song
(20:50):
I Don't Know mister Crowley, suicide Solution. It was a big,
big hit. It was massive, and so here I am.
I'm thirteen years old. I'm hearing this stuff on the radio.
I'm hearing kids in school talk about Ozzy Ozzie. I
wanted that cassette, but I didn't have a cassette player.
And my brother comes home from the military, He, you know,
(21:12):
brings this gift to me, and wow, what a gift.
And so I bought that cassette. Blizzard of Oz. Came home,
unwrapped that cellophane, and you know, when you use to
smell the cassettes, there's a certain smell of a cassette
when you took off that rapper, you know, smell the cassette,
(21:33):
the paper on the inside. I put it inside the
cassette deck and I pressed play and the first song
that came on was this.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
One pp Look to me, I say, is he is me?
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Where they still find?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Okay, what's the future of Best Guy?
Speaker 6 (22:19):
I don't why.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I know why I got there. Every high everyone knows
to sages, my god, sir.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Some of the beef answers.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
How myself by you don't then thin stand?
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Well?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
There was s.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Who's the brothers from the Best Steady g W Robins.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
You gotta be Rea inself one yes, be me who will.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Asking me, who's too fun of going?
Speaker 6 (23:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. Nobody
(24:11):
else what all me? I found up all myself. You
gotta believe it.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Food.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
It's by goal. It's not how you playing the game.
It's if you win. I lose.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
You can't use.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Don't go sill.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
We do lose.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
It's a it's not to you. It's not to you.
It's not to you.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Come come, come, sing away a fine out day?
Speaker 6 (26:08):
What how?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
No?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I know not, No one knows, no changes.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Not know that.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
The basis No.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
No.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Ninety nine point one f M KILBP and this is
gen X Rock Hidden Treasures with DJ Hollywood, and you're
listening to a special Ozzy Osbourne tribute regarding my association
with Ozzie and how I experienced Ozzy Osbourne in my life.
And so you heard the song I Don't Know from
(27:00):
Blizzard of Oz and that was the very first song,
the leadoff track on that album and the first one
that I heard from the very first cassette that I
ever bought, and I was hooked. I was hooked immediately.
I love the music, I loved Ozzie's voice. I loved
(27:23):
everything about that song. And as I continue to listen
to music on that cassette, I kept on falling in
love with that cassette over and over and over again,
more and more. And you know, yeah, I could play
the entire album right now, but I won't. I'm just
gonna choose. You know, there's other songs that obviously have
(27:44):
been played on the radio already a lot. I'm gonna
choose one that is a deeper cut. That is one
of my favorite songs of Ozzy. I love this song.
And up next we have a song called Revelation Mother Earth.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
My lot Fopping only knows what a little it did.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
It seems not at.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I thought f.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
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(29:28):
the wrong, go over.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
It?
Speaker 4 (29:32):
No s.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
To be Britain and the Watta.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I have not been.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Wanting a fine sport, No.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
Not the big self discussing the show, I thought that
(30:15):
this song I saw the woma.
Speaker 8 (30:19):
Yeah, the sea sets a red short and don the
fighting party and the land of.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
The t.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
I go the child in the boats father all lost,
There's no one with this. We must fight over it.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Six s.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
You're listening to gen X Rock Hidden Treasures with DJ Hollywood.
This is ninety nine point one FM KLBP and you're
listening to a special Ozzy Osbourne tribute edition of gen
X Rock Hidden Treasures. And so that was a song
called Revelation Mother Earth off of Ozzie's first solo album,
Blizzard of Oz. And I love that track so much.
(34:29):
It definitely is one of those progressive rock slash progressive
metal type tracks. In my mind. It's so dynamic with
the our peggiation going on, the classical styling and the song,
and then also the how it changes into this metal
(34:50):
track towards the end, the screaming you know solo. There's
so much going on in that song that I love
and I think you know at this time, and there's
there's so many other songs that I could play. I'm
looking at the clock here, We're like thirty five minutes
into the show. I've only played two songs. That's why
(35:12):
I knew I was gonna have to take over DJ
vins spot there in for Beyond the Realms of Rock.
It is turning in. This is going to turn into
a two hour show. So anyway, there's gonna be part
one and part two. So this is part one, the
first hour, and part two is going to be the
second hour from nine to ten here in Long Beach, California.
But anyway, I think at this time I'm just gonna
(35:33):
share some condolences and stuff that I saw from fellow
friends and classmates that I grew up with. And so
I graduated high school in nineteen eighty six, and so
you look at that timing when I said I turned
thirteen in nineteen eighty one when this album came out,
(35:55):
that meant I spent my entire teenage years were in eighties,
and I freaking loved it. I mean, nineteen eighty one
Come On was the very beginning of MTV. I am
a product of the MTV generation, and so all that
music that was on MTV and then all the hard
(36:18):
rock and heavy metal that came out in the eighties. Wow,
I'm right there. I'm steeped into that culture. And so
were my classmates and friends from the class of eighty six.
And so I was just looking through Facebook and I
saw James McCowan. He wrote, Ozzie's music will always have
(36:41):
a special place with many a lot is so very
dear to my heart, so many memories. Rest in peace,
mister Osborne. And then I responded back to him, and
then he responded back, what did he say here? It was,
oh yeah, he said yeah. I told him that I was.
I was heartbroken and he said, came back and said crazy,
(37:05):
how many memories continue to rush back? I know you
feel the same, but Ozzie added such a specific layer
to our lives. And so you know, there I am.
You know, me and James mccollin just kind of connecting
on on Ozzy right there. And then who else did
we have on here as well? Shelley Goobori She posted,
(37:27):
you know, rest in peace Ozzy Osbourne a true legend.
She's married to a childhood friend of mine, Scott from
Lantern Park in Naugata, Connecticut. Who else, Pam, Pam gagn
and Poohlan She said, Wow, shocked to hear about the
passing of Ozzy Osbourne. His music was a big part
of my teen years. The backdropped to so many great
(37:49):
small town memories. Amazing how music can bring you back
to places and time and that's that's for sure.
Speaker 9 (37:56):
Man.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Every time I hear some Ozzy songs or Black Sabbath songs.
It makes me think of the eighties, and the eighties
were just wild. I mean, so many parties, so many
keg parties in the woods at friends' houses.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
I'm thinking specifically where I grew up in Naugata, Connecticut.
Salem Hill, the Circle, Mountview Plaza, the High Rock Uh, Guntown, Uh,
you know by the cemetery, Uh, John Carbwitz House, Jim
Roberts House.
Speaker 9 (38:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
So many places we partied.
Speaker 8 (38:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
And every time we were out partying somewhere, I I
brought that boombox. I was the music man. And I
love the fact that I had, you know, my jean
jacket or my leather jacket, and it was filled with
cassettes I had. I was, I had so many cassettes
stuffed in there for for the for the night of partying.
(39:01):
And there was always at least two or three Ozzie
cassettes or you know, Black Sabbath cassettes in there, maybe
even more because I would have a bunch of different
Sabbath cassettes. One of the cassettes that I had, which
was really cool was that the compilation album called We
Sold Our Soul for Rock and Roll. That was awesome
(39:23):
because I had just all these different hits on there.
That was a great album that we listened to to
a lot because it crossed so many different Sabbath albums.
And anyway, yeah, like Pam said, so many small town memories.
How music can take us back to a certain place.
And so yeah, that brings us up to Diary of
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a Madman when that was released. It was actually released
the same year, in nineteen eighty one, just about seven
months later. And wow, what a fantastic album. I think
when I compare both those albums, Man, I'm thinking that
Blizzard Uh, Diary of a Madman just squeaks out just
(40:07):
on top of Blizzard of Oz. I love that album
so much. I love both albums, but and Diary of
a Madman is definitely a special album. And so I
think I'm gonna go ahead and play just a couple
of my favorite tracks from from that album. This is
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you Can't Kill rock and Roll?
Speaker 10 (41:00):
How many times can they filled me with lies? And
night listen looking twisting the truth from They're playing around
with my head?
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Okay, the things they will.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Tell when the things they will say by play don't
really understand?
Speaker 3 (41:22):
Tis on my eyes when I hear the Christ all
of reason today and.
Speaker 6 (41:29):
They got me.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
No, not there talking about.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
And my ems cannot men to whom you can't kill.
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Look at the waters, the times, the stories.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
Of true.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Promises. Das is telling me all the night dooris over you,
how many.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
Times are hard to be doing? I'll probably.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
King of the thousand nice panting to take the white
cousins telling you and.
Speaker 6 (43:00):
Said, no, my do.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
W on the rhymes of day.
Speaker 11 (44:33):
Give me times upcome pleasure A true.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
A something all you guys other than not for us.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
Mean YouTube, but they say, will do when the things
they will say when they don't really understand.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
Your projection ninety a projection. I think it's that the
th one the top of the well.
Speaker 6 (45:06):
I can one gets.
Speaker 3 (46:02):
Against that. I'm also ro I am self.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
My name is Hollywood. And you're listening to gen X
Rock Hidden Treasures right here on KLBP in Long Beach, California.
And that was a song called you Can't Kill rock
and Roll, taking off of Diary of a Madman released
in nineteen eighty one. What a fantastic song. I love
the melodies and the harmonies in that song. And so
that brings us up to nineteen eighty two. Ozzie has
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released two solo albums, Ready and Then for his third album,
he releases a live album of Black Sabbath material on
an album called Speak of the Devil. And this is
right around the time that I meet Dirty Jim. So
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I'm a freshman in high school. He's a sophomore in
high school. We go to the same school in Naugatuck,
and we have mutual friends, and eventually we end up
at some of the same parties and stuff like that.
And so I think, right now, I'm gonna turn this
over to Dirty Jim, let him have a few words
(48:11):
about Ozzy and his experience, and then I'm gonna come
back and we're gonna discuss kind of our paths together,
all right. So here's the fabulously filthy Dirty Jim.
Speaker 9 (48:29):
Hey, everybody, this is Dirty Jim, and this is not
Dirty Jim's glam Slam. I just came on to talk
a little bit about this guy that we all know
and love, the reason for this show tonight. So bear
with me, and I will try not to be as
long winded as I can get sometimes. But when I
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was a teenager, I had all kinds of pictures and
posters on my walls, but Ozzy definitely got the most space.
Back then, I thought he was the coolest person alive.
My mom, on the other hand, she could not stand
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any of it. I had many other rock stars up
there too, and of course some hot babes, but Ozzie
definitely ruled the roost. He was cool, crazy, mysterious, and
he was my hero and I just wanted to absorb
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everything about him. We didn't have the Internet back then.
All we had was the music and music magazines, and
that's where I got pretty much all of my information from.
In my mind, he was so mysterious, he was a madman,
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and he was a freaking genius. And then, of course,
or many years later, the Osbourne TV show came around
and ruined everything for me because they made Ozzie human.
But when it came to Ozzy, I did things in
total reverse. I knew Ozzy before I had any idea
(50:17):
who Black Sabbath was. I was pretty young when the
whole Sabbath thing was happening. I was actually pretty young
when the Azzi thing was happening. But when I heard
Sabbath for the first time, I was hooked. I remember
listening to my first Black Sabbath albums when my longtime
friend Lou borrowed the debut album and Volume four from
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an older friend of his. His name was Phil Lebonte,
and we devoured those two albums. It always amazes me
when a band like Sabbath, they get together and these
four guys somehow ended up in one another's lives and
provided all of us with some of the greatest music
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of all time. Now, Hollywood for this episode asked me
to pick my ten favorite Ozzy and Sabbath with Ozzy songs.
But that is not an easy task. So I decided
to defy him and do it my own way. And
I know he is totally used to that. But you know,
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in my defense, there are so many great Black Sabbath songs.
Of course there's many great Ozzi songs too, But my
all time favorite Black Sabbath song comes off of their
third album from nineteen seventy one, Master of Reality, and
here it is right now, Children of the Grave, rom.
Speaker 2 (52:37):
Uncle, sonn Man, my son, my go, well, yours have
mirrow and that them there house And I don't been around,
don't not one, don't know no, I know well those
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still vell away fro ya tell them not to myrown
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is that.
Speaker 3 (53:22):
Fall to days will listen my tomorrow brain.
Speaker 2 (53:28):
Send menway when the world live in the saddle, don't.
Speaker 3 (53:35):
Is bed and win the fight by a byre.
Speaker 11 (53:41):
So be ye, So you child men, not the one
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what I said.
Speaker 2 (55:00):
You want to atlass there said I want there No
no wan that lo said not you musty bird.
Speaker 3 (55:12):
You till not, not till till I'm not the bird
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children child.
Speaker 9 (56:56):
That song is over fifty years old and I will
never get tired of hearing it. It is so freaking awesome. Now,
the crazy part about all this is that when Ozzie
and Sabbath parted ways and Ozzie started his solo career
once again, all of these players were in the right
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place at the right time, and we got what I
consider I don't care what anyone else out there thinks,
but we got two of the most iconic albums of
my lifetime. Ozzie does not have the best voice in rock,
but there is not another one like it, and all
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of us experienced this gift. We would have lost out
on so much if his life didn't take the course
that it did, but we didn't lose out and with
just the press of a button. Ozzie is right there
anytime we want to hear him. Things were a lot
(58:01):
different when I was younger, when I listened to him.
Back then, I was consumed by Ozzy. But when I
listened to him now, I'm never even thinking about him.
I'm thinking about playing whiffle ball as a kid with
a group of great friends, hearing Blizzard of Oz for
(58:22):
the very first time. I'm thinking of my first Ozzie concert.
It was the Bark at the Moon tour with Motley Crue.
We saw it at New Haven Coliseum in Connecticut. On
the way home, we were riding through this fog and
it was so thick none of us could see ten
(58:42):
feet in front of us, including the driver, And although
we probably should have been more concerned about the lack
of visibility, we just laughed and sing our already strained
voices all the way home, listening to even more Ozzy
with a car load of friends.
Speaker 1 (59:00):
So we'll go ahead and we'll stop right there with
Dirty Jim. He has more to say, but we'll finish
with what he has to say there in Part two.
In the next hour of gen X Rock hit Hidden
Treasures for our Ozzie Tribute. The question is, though, was
Dirty Jim's experience regarding Ozzie and Sabbath similar to my
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experience of listening to Ozzie and Sabbath. We'll find out
in Part two of our Ozzie tribute right here on
gen X Rock Hidden Treasures.
Speaker 3 (59:34):
That's rock.
This is ninety nine point one FM KOBP broadcasting in
the heart of beautiful Long Beach, California, and you're listening
to gen X Rock Hidden Treasures with DJ Hollywood. My
name is Hollywood, and I am your host and tour
guide in our rock and scavenger hunt. It's time to
dig in.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I don't know who you are, but what I do
have are a very particular set of skills.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Skills I've acquired her for a very long career. I'm
a musical genius.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
A rock and roll radio station.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Right. If we hear some tunes, it rocks, man, that's rock.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Hey guys, this is DJ Hollywood and as you can
tell from the intro music that this is not beyond
the realms of rock. This is a special edition of
gen X Rock Hidden Treasures. It's going to be It's
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already been a number of days. Obviously, everyone knows that
about the passing of Ozzy Osbourne, and so I decided
to give my own tribute, do my own tribute to
this man that meant so much to me and my life.
(01:29):
I know there's a bunch of other people out there
that have done tribute to ready other individuals. We're seeing
a lot of stuff online and radio stations and all
that kind of stuff. But I just want to share
my thoughts, my experience, my life with Ozzy, and so
(01:56):
this show it's going to be messy. There's nothing fully
planned out here. It's not, you know, scripted or anything
like that. I'm just gonna be sharing from my heart.
I'm gonna be you know, I'll be reading a few
things from online from different individuals who were sharing their experience, experiences,
(02:19):
their condolences and things like that, and I'll be playing
music and let's see. I think one of the first
things I wanted to say was that I did hear
about the passing of Ozzie on It's been almost a
(02:40):
week now. It was last Tuesday, July the twenty second,
twenty twenty five that he passed away, and my wife
called me, and I hadn't been paying attention to Facebook
(03:01):
or social media or the news or whatever at that
particular time. I was doing what I always do. I
listened to music, constantly listen to music all the time.
And it's not a chore. It's I don't look at
it as a job. I just I am a passionate
passionate music lover and I love looking finding music, hearing
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music that I've heard for years. I mix it all up.
So my wife called me and she said, Ozzie died.
(03:47):
It's been almost a week now and I'm still a
little emotional about it. Sorry, but that's one of the
things I want to talk about, is as far as grief.
You know, everyone grieves differently because everyone has a different
experience with the individual who passed away. So anyway, she
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called me, she said Ozzie died, and I was like
in shock, and I knew, I knew eventually it was
it was coming. I did see the Back to the
Beginning concert for in Birmingham, England. It was streaming and I,
(04:30):
you know, I watched it and it was awesome with
all the bands paying, you know, doing their tribute and
playing cover songs of Sabbath and Ozzy songs, and then
seeing Ozzy at the end doing his solo stuff and
then finishing off with Black Sabbath. It was it was
an amazing concert. And so I saw that, and then
(04:52):
you know, when Ozzie sang my mom would coming home
and he's just breaking up. He could hardly at the
be It sounded like he was having trouble, and I
don't know if it was it was because he was
emotional and he was really thinking about the song and
think about his life and how it would be the
last time he's actually singing on stage that song. But yeah,
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so when she she called me, I couldn't believe it.
So I knew that looking at Ozzie and seeing him,
I told her, I said at that time, when I
was watching the concert, I said, listen, I wouldn't be
surprised if, you know, he passes away. You know, I
(05:43):
even said at that time, I said, I wouldn't be
surprised if he passes, you know, a few months from
now or within the year. But no way was I
ready for him to pass away. What was it. It's
been seventeen days since that concert, so you know, July
(06:04):
fifth too, and then he passed away on July the
twenty seconds, so you know a little more than two weeks,
two and a half weeks, whatever, and then he passes away.
It's almost like he was literally done, and I think
he was satisfied. He really really wanted to get that
(06:25):
one final concert in, especially to bring bill Ward back
to the fold and finish it the correct way, because
when they did the previous concert with the end and
taking nothing away from I think it was Tommy Clefados
who was playing drums. He played on the final Black
(06:50):
Sabbath album thirteen, and he also did the tour as well,
I believe so. But anyway, it wasn't a word and
it was really sad that that Bill wasn't able to
do that, but at least he was able to go
back to England and to to to do that final show,
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hang out with Ozzy a little bit and hang out
with a Geezer and Tony and all the others too
that were there. That there were so many people that
were so happy to see Bill Ward there, and there
was one I saw a picture of a one drummer
who was obviously a huge Black Sabbath fan, huge Bill
(07:36):
Ward fan, and on his shirt it was the Black
Sabbath logo, but instead of saying Black Sabbath, it said
Bill Sabbath and which is a cool kind of tribute
to to Bill Ward. But I think Ozzy was really
(07:57):
happy about that, and I think Bill was ecstatic about
being with Ozzy and playing. And so when we got
the news that Ozzy had passed away on our station,
and I announced this previously before that. Bill Ward is
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our newest DJ on ninety nine point one FM KLBP
here in Long Beach, California. He's going to be co
hosting a show called LA Radio Sessions with Mike Stark,
and he's going to be doing that on a semi
regular basis, meaning you know, Mike does LA Radio Sessions
once a week, but Bill's not going to be on
it every single week, depending on his schedule and stuff. So,
(08:43):
but he was scheduled to be on yesterday, on Sunday,
July twenty seventh, and he was going to talk about
all of the you know, the great celebration and everything
that was going on with the Back to the Beginning
concert and his experience and his feelings about it. It
was going to be Mike and him. They were planning
(09:06):
it to be this really really cool experience of sharing
what it was like to be back together with the
band one last time. I was so looking forward to
hearing that. But once we got the news that Ozzie
passed away, Bill pretty much he just shut it down.
(09:27):
He's a very emotional, rightfully, so, I mean, how could
he speak at this moment for you know about this concert,
which was you know, this this great, wonderful experience, but
then at the same time, you know, Ozzie just passed away,
(09:49):
and so yeah, Bill wasn't able to do the show,
and I'm not sure when he's going to be able
to come back and do that. I'm sure he'll get
it together there within the next few weeks or so,
and we'll we'll see. Mike Stark is the one who
will update the staff on when Bill is going to
make his return back to LA radio sessions. But anyway,
(10:16):
where was I going with this? I don't know. See,
this is this is the thing when you have things
scripted or planned out. Not that I do have things
script or scripted, but I do have normally an outline
of things that I want to say and songs and
stuff like that. But this is just again it's just
free form talking. It's just you know, sharing what's going
(10:36):
on inside my head. But anyway, I think I was
talking about how Ozzy knew it was the end, and
so obviously, you know, after that that great celebration, all
the pictures in the videos from all the different bands
that were praising Ozzy and some just amazing photos and
videos from backstage and you know, on stage and stuff
(10:58):
like that, and then they go back home. Everybody goes
back to where they live. And then Ozzie went back home,
went back to his house, and that was it. I
think he knew already at that time. He was like,
I'm done. I've accomplished everything that I needed to accomplish
(11:19):
in my life. That's the one last thing I really
really wanted to do before I die. And sometimes when
people are in that headspace, when they know that they're dying,
or when it's you know, the end of their life,
if there's a goal or something in front of them
that they have to look forward to, they'll hold on
(11:42):
and hold on and hang on to accomplish that goal
as best as they can. Once they accomplish that goal
or that experience or that event, and then after that,
it's like it goes downhill pretty quickly from there, which
obviously it sounds like that's what happened with Ozzie. Officially,
we don't know the the cause of death. Obviously, we
(12:03):
do know that Ozzie was having many serious health problems
over the years, especially lately with his Parkinson's and you know,
losing feeling and and and not being able to walk
and having to be in a wheelchair, and so yeah,
(12:26):
eventually we'll hear, you know, a press release from Sharon
and the family giving the exact cause of death. But
the fact is that the os Man is gone. And
so I think what I wanted to do at this
time was just kind of talk a little bit first
about what I heard on the radio when this happens.
(12:51):
Because after I found out from my wife, I turned
on the local major commercial rock station here in Los Angeles,
and yeah, people were talking about it. People were sharing
their experiences grieving and things like that, and they started
playing music and playing, you know, this wonderful, amazing variety
(13:16):
of Black Sabbath and AZSI music, and I was I
was shocked just for the fact that I know that
traditional commercial rock radio they tend to play the same
five Ozzy songs, the same five Black Sabbath songs over
(13:40):
and over for the past forty fifty years, and it's
rare that they intermingle other songs in that. And you know,
so I started hearing these other songs. Part of me
was like happy that, yeah, they're doing this, But at
the same time, I'm so angry because I know for
(14:03):
a fact, even when I was listening that very day
that Ozzie died, that pretty soon after that, probably within
a couple of days or whatever, they're gonna go back
to regular programming. And what are you gonna hear. You're
gonna hear UH Crazy Train all over again, over and over.
You can hear mo Mom coming home. You're gonna hear uh,
(14:26):
you know for blacks Out. You're gonna hear Paranoid all
the time. You're gonna hear Iron Man all the time.
You're gonna hear War Pigs. You're gonna hear the same
songs on rotation again. And and but what about all
those other uh songs that they were playing. I mean,
I heard super Not, I heard Sabra Cadabra, I heard
(14:49):
you know, these awesome songs from Sabbath that you don't
hear on the radio. You heard these other Ozzy songs
that you don't hear on the radio. And then now
here we are, almost a week later, gone, And so
part of me is angry, But then part of me
(15:10):
is happy because then hey, that's what I'm here for,
you know, job, job security for me, because I'm the
I'm the deep cut guy. You know, I'm looking for
hidden treasures and deep cuts and and I celebrate that
stuff that's not, you know, overplayed on the radio. So fine,
let them go back to their their regular programming playing
the same songs over and over again. That's fine. You
(15:33):
guys want to hear something different, you come over here,
Come over to ninety nine point one FM KLBP. Listen
to gen X Rock Hidden Treasures with DJ Hollywood, and
I'm going to provide you the deep cuts and the
commentary on those deep cuts that as fans, you deserve,
that you want. So I think with that being said, uh,
(15:56):
I decided that I'm going to introduce a brand new
segment to the gen X Rock Hidden Treasure Show on
a weekly basis. So from now on, I will have
a new segment called Ozzy Forever. And I kind of
(16:16):
got the idea from the social media post that Black
Sabbath posted. So after Ozzy had passed away, there was
all these number of bands and you know, individuals and
companies and people you know, saying rest in peace and
their condolences and all that stuff, and Black Sabbath simply
(16:38):
released a picture of Ozzy and they said Ozzy Forever
and that was it. I loved it, poignant to the point,
and I think for my show it's going to be
awesome because Ozzy has He's got hundreds of songs with Sabbath,
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same thing with his his solo career. So between Sabbath
and Ozzy, there's hundreds of songs that that can be
played that that people haven't heard on the radio. You
know that I realized there's a lot of people who
are just casual listeners. There's there are people out there
that don't delve into the albums the way people like
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I do. You know, I I go into music and
I do the deep dive. I listen from beginning to end.
And but that's me, you know, I know there's other
individuals out there that do the same thing. They just
listen to music that way. And that's the way we
listen to music. You know, back in the seventies and
eighties and nineties, when you were getting vinyl and cassettes
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and and the CDs, you know, it was meant to
be listened to from track one to the to the
final track. And so I still listen to music that way.
Every now and then, I'll just you know, pop in
on certain bands and stuff to listen to certain singles
or you know, whatever's on you know, the top ten
(18:07):
on Spotify or on YouTube or whatever, you know, just
to kind of search out music. But I think Ozzie
has such a catalog of music with Black Sabbath and
his own solo career. Uh, this is gonna be fun
and eye opening, not only for me, but also for
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for those of you who are listening who are Ozzie fans,
who love Ozzie. And I'll, I guess I'll have to
admit that, you know, there's some stuff, you know, in
the nineties and in the two thousands that as those
albums were being released, I didn't do the deep dive
and I you know, I didn't buy the CDs or
(18:49):
what have you at that time. You know, I was
an eighties kid, and so the bulk of my Ozzie
listening was was in the eighties. And yeah, I continued
to listen to Ozzie afterwards. But I guess, uh, I guess,
i'll I'll start my story with the very first song
(19:15):
that I heard by Ozzy Osbourne and this is because
of this is because my brother, I have an older
brother and in nineteen eighty one. He went into the
Air Force and he had come back for a break
(19:39):
after basic training, I believe it was, and he brought
me a gift. And the gift he brought me was
this huge boombox except player, radio, everything. It was beautiful.
I didn't have a boombox, you know. Here I was,
I was, I was thirteen years old, and right away
(20:06):
I go out to the store. I went to Music
Plus in Naugata, Connecticut, and I went to the store
and I was looking for one thing, and one thing only.
I wanted Ozzy's very first album because in the United States,
Blizzard of Oz was released in nineteen eighty one. In
(20:28):
England and the UK, we know that it was released
in nineteen eighty but here in the United States it
was nineteen eighty one, so Blizzard of Oz came out
at that time for those of us here stateside, so
that's the only one that was released. That's where I
wanted to hear because they were already playing Ozzy songs
on the radio. They were playing Crazy Train, the song
(20:50):
I Don't Know mister Crowley, suicide Solution. It was a big,
big hit. It was massive, and so here I am.
I'm thirteen years old. I'm hearing this stuff on the radio.
I'm hearing kids in school talk about Ozzy Ozzie. I
wanted that cassette, but I didn't have a cassette player.
And my brother comes home from the military, He, you know,
(21:12):
brings this gift to me, and wow, what a gift.
And so I bought that cassette. Blizzard of Oz. Came home,
unwrapped that cellophane, and you know, when you use to
smell the cassettes, there's a certain smell of a cassette
when you took off that rapper, you know, smell the cassette,
(21:33):
the paper on the inside. I put it inside the
cassette deck and I pressed play and the first song
that came on was this.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
One pp Look to me, I say, is he is me?
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Where they still find?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Okay, what's the future of Best Guy?
Speaker 6 (22:19):
I don't why.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I know why I got there. Every high everyone knows
to sages, my god, sir.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Some of the beef answers.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
How myself by you don't then thin stand?
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Well?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
There was s.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Who's the brothers from the Best Steady g W Robins.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
You gotta be Rea inself one yes, be me who will.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Asking me, who's too fun of going?
Speaker 6 (23:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. Nobody
(24:11):
else what all me? I found up all myself. You
gotta believe it.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Food.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
It's by goal. It's not how you playing the game.
It's if you win. I lose.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
You can't use.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Don't go sill.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
We do lose.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
It's a it's not to you. It's not to you.
It's not to you.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Come come, come, sing away a fine out day?
Speaker 6 (26:08):
What how?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
No?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I know not, No one knows, no changes.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Not know that.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
The basis No.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
No.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Ninety nine point one f M KILBP and this is
gen X Rock Hidden Treasures with DJ Hollywood, and you're
listening to a special Ozzy Osbourne tribute regarding my association
with Ozzie and how I experienced Ozzy Osbourne in my life.
And so you heard the song I Don't Know from
(27:00):
Blizzard of Oz and that was the very first song,
the leadoff track on that album and the first one
that I heard from the very first cassette that I
ever bought, and I was hooked. I was hooked immediately.
I love the music, I loved Ozzie's voice. I loved
(27:23):
everything about that song. And as I continue to listen
to music on that cassette, I kept on falling in
love with that cassette over and over and over again,
more and more. And you know, yeah, I could play
the entire album right now, but I won't. I'm just
gonna choose. You know, there's other songs that obviously have
(27:44):
been played on the radio already a lot. I'm gonna
choose one that is a deeper cut. That is one
of my favorite songs of Ozzy. I love this song.
And up next we have a song called Revelation Mother Earth.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
My lot Fopping only knows what a little it did.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
It seems not at.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I thought f.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
For the No, no lost, no wild the preses do
f love not don wa about the reason I'm in
(29:28):
the wrong, go over.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
It?
Speaker 4 (29:32):
No s.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
To be Britain and the Watta.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I have not been.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Wanting a fine sport, No.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
Not the big self discussing the show, I thought that
(30:15):
this song I saw the woma.
Speaker 8 (30:19):
Yeah, the sea sets a red short and don the
fighting party and the land of.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
The t.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
I go the child in the boats father all lost,
There's no one with this. We must fight over it.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Six s.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
You're listening to gen X Rock Hidden Treasures with DJ Hollywood.
This is ninety nine point one FM KLBP and you're
listening to a special Ozzy Osbourne tribute edition of gen
X Rock Hidden Treasures. And so that was a song
called Revelation Mother Earth off of Ozzie's first solo album,
Blizzard of Oz. And I love that track so much.
(34:29):
It definitely is one of those progressive rock slash progressive
metal type tracks. In my mind. It's so dynamic with
the our peggiation going on, the classical styling and the song,
and then also the how it changes into this metal
(34:50):
track towards the end, the screaming you know solo. There's
so much going on in that song that I love
and I think you know at this time, and there's
there's so many other songs that I could play. I'm
looking at the clock here, We're like thirty five minutes
into the show. I've only played two songs. That's why
(35:12):
I knew I was gonna have to take over DJ
vins spot there in for Beyond the Realms of Rock.
It is turning in. This is going to turn into
a two hour show. So anyway, there's gonna be part
one and part two. So this is part one, the
first hour, and part two is going to be the
second hour from nine to ten here in Long Beach, California.
But anyway, I think at this time I'm just gonna
(35:33):
share some condolences and stuff that I saw from fellow
friends and classmates that I grew up with. And so
I graduated high school in nineteen eighty six, and so
you look at that timing when I said I turned
thirteen in nineteen eighty one when this album came out,
(35:55):
that meant I spent my entire teenage years were in eighties,
and I freaking loved it. I mean, nineteen eighty one
Come On was the very beginning of MTV. I am
a product of the MTV generation, and so all that
music that was on MTV and then all the hard
(36:18):
rock and heavy metal that came out in the eighties. Wow,
I'm right there. I'm steeped into that culture. And so
were my classmates and friends from the class of eighty six.
And so I was just looking through Facebook and I
saw James McCowan. He wrote, Ozzie's music will always have
(36:41):
a special place with many a lot is so very
dear to my heart, so many memories. Rest in peace,
mister Osborne. And then I responded back to him, and
then he responded back, what did he say here? It was,
oh yeah, he said yeah. I told him that I was.
I was heartbroken and he said, came back and said crazy,
(37:05):
how many memories continue to rush back? I know you
feel the same, but Ozzie added such a specific layer
to our lives. And so you know, there I am.
You know, me and James mccollin just kind of connecting
on on Ozzy right there. And then who else did
we have on here as well? Shelley Goobori She posted,
(37:27):
you know, rest in peace Ozzy Osbourne a true legend.
She's married to a childhood friend of mine, Scott from
Lantern Park in Naugata, Connecticut. Who else, Pam, Pam gagn
and Poohlan She said, Wow, shocked to hear about the
passing of Ozzy Osbourne. His music was a big part
of my teen years. The backdropped to so many great
(37:49):
small town memories. Amazing how music can bring you back
to places and time and that's that's for sure.
Speaker 9 (37:56):
Man.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Every time I hear some Ozzy songs or Black Sabbath songs.
It makes me think of the eighties, and the eighties
were just wild. I mean, so many parties, so many
keg parties in the woods at friends' houses.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
I'm thinking specifically where I grew up in Naugata, Connecticut.
Salem Hill, the Circle, Mountview Plaza, the High Rock Uh, Guntown, Uh,
you know by the cemetery, Uh, John Carbwitz House, Jim
Roberts House.
Speaker 9 (38:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
So many places we partied.
Speaker 8 (38:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
And every time we were out partying somewhere, I I
brought that boombox. I was the music man. And I
love the fact that I had, you know, my jean
jacket or my leather jacket, and it was filled with
cassettes I had. I was, I had so many cassettes
stuffed in there for for the for the night of partying.
(39:01):
And there was always at least two or three Ozzie
cassettes or you know, Black Sabbath cassettes in there, maybe
even more because I would have a bunch of different
Sabbath cassettes. One of the cassettes that I had, which
was really cool was that the compilation album called We
Sold Our Soul for Rock and Roll. That was awesome
(39:23):
because I had just all these different hits on there.
That was a great album that we listened to to
a lot because it crossed so many different Sabbath albums.
And anyway, yeah, like Pam said, so many small town memories.
How music can take us back to a certain place.
And so yeah, that brings us up to Diary of
(39:44):
a Madman when that was released. It was actually released
the same year, in nineteen eighty one, just about seven
months later. And wow, what a fantastic album. I think
when I compare both those albums, Man, I'm thinking that
Blizzard Uh, Diary of a Madman just squeaks out just
(40:07):
on top of Blizzard of Oz. I love that album
so much. I love both albums, but and Diary of
a Madman is definitely a special album. And so I
think I'm gonna go ahead and play just a couple
of my favorite tracks from from that album. This is
(40:27):
you Can't Kill rock and Roll?
Speaker 10 (41:00):
How many times can they filled me with lies? And
night listen looking twisting the truth from They're playing around
with my head?
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Okay, the things they will.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Tell when the things they will say by play don't
really understand?
Speaker 3 (41:22):
Tis on my eyes when I hear the Christ all
of reason today and.
Speaker 6 (41:29):
They got me.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
No, not there talking about.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
And my ems cannot men to whom you can't kill.
(42:28):
Look at the waters, the times, the stories.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
Of true.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Promises. Das is telling me all the night dooris over you,
how many.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
Times are hard to be doing? I'll probably.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
King of the thousand nice panting to take the white
cousins telling you and.
Speaker 6 (43:00):
Said, no, my do.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
W on the rhymes of day.
Speaker 11 (44:33):
Give me times upcome pleasure A true.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
A something all you guys other than not for us.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
Mean YouTube, but they say, will do when the things
they will say when they don't really understand.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
Your projection ninety a projection. I think it's that the
th one the top of the well.
Speaker 6 (45:06):
I can one gets.
Speaker 3 (46:02):
Against that. I'm also ro I am self.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
My name is Hollywood. And you're listening to gen X
Rock Hidden Treasures right here on KLBP in Long Beach, California.
And that was a song called you Can't Kill rock
and Roll, taking off of Diary of a Madman released
in nineteen eighty one. What a fantastic song. I love
the melodies and the harmonies in that song. And so
that brings us up to nineteen eighty two. Ozzie has
(47:28):
released two solo albums, Ready and Then for his third album,
he releases a live album of Black Sabbath material on
an album called Speak of the Devil. And this is
right around the time that I meet Dirty Jim. So
(47:49):
I'm a freshman in high school. He's a sophomore in
high school. We go to the same school in Naugatuck,
and we have mutual friends, and eventually we end up
at some of the same parties and stuff like that.
And so I think, right now, I'm gonna turn this
over to Dirty Jim, let him have a few words
(48:11):
about Ozzy and his experience, and then I'm gonna come
back and we're gonna discuss kind of our paths together,
all right. So here's the fabulously filthy Dirty Jim.
Speaker 9 (48:29):
Hey, everybody, this is Dirty Jim, and this is not
Dirty Jim's glam Slam. I just came on to talk
a little bit about this guy that we all know
and love, the reason for this show tonight. So bear
with me, and I will try not to be as
long winded as I can get sometimes. But when I
(48:51):
was a teenager, I had all kinds of pictures and
posters on my walls, but Ozzy definitely got the most space.
Back then, I thought he was the coolest person alive.
My mom, on the other hand, she could not stand
(49:13):
any of it. I had many other rock stars up
there too, and of course some hot babes, but Ozzie
definitely ruled the roost. He was cool, crazy, mysterious, and
he was my hero and I just wanted to absorb
(49:35):
everything about him. We didn't have the Internet back then.
All we had was the music and music magazines, and
that's where I got pretty much all of my information from.
In my mind, he was so mysterious, he was a madman,
(49:55):
and he was a freaking genius. And then, of course,
or many years later, the Osbourne TV show came around
and ruined everything for me because they made Ozzie human.
But when it came to Ozzy, I did things in
total reverse. I knew Ozzy before I had any idea
(50:17):
who Black Sabbath was. I was pretty young when the
whole Sabbath thing was happening. I was actually pretty young
when the Azzi thing was happening. But when I heard
Sabbath for the first time, I was hooked. I remember
listening to my first Black Sabbath albums when my longtime
friend Lou borrowed the debut album and Volume four from
(50:41):
an older friend of his. His name was Phil Lebonte,
and we devoured those two albums. It always amazes me
when a band like Sabbath, they get together and these
four guys somehow ended up in one another's lives and
provided all of us with some of the greatest music
(51:02):
of all time. Now, Hollywood for this episode asked me
to pick my ten favorite Ozzy and Sabbath with Ozzy songs.
But that is not an easy task. So I decided
to defy him and do it my own way. And
I know he is totally used to that. But you know,
(51:23):
in my defense, there are so many great Black Sabbath songs.
Of course there's many great Ozzi songs too, But my
all time favorite Black Sabbath song comes off of their
third album from nineteen seventy one, Master of Reality, and
here it is right now, Children of the Grave, rom.
Speaker 2 (52:37):
Uncle, sonn Man, my son, my go, well, yours have
mirrow and that them there house And I don't been around,
don't not one, don't know no, I know well those
(52:57):
still vell away fro ya tell them not to myrown
(53:21):
is that.
Speaker 3 (53:22):
Fall to days will listen my tomorrow brain.
Speaker 2 (53:28):
Send menway when the world live in the saddle, don't.
Speaker 3 (53:35):
Is bed and win the fight by a byre.
Speaker 11 (53:41):
So be ye, So you child men, not the one
(54:57):
what I said.
Speaker 2 (55:00):
You want to atlass there said I want there No
no wan that lo said not you musty bird.
Speaker 3 (55:12):
You till not, not till till I'm not the bird
(56:34):
children child.
Speaker 9 (56:56):
That song is over fifty years old and I will
never get tired of hearing it. It is so freaking awesome. Now,
the crazy part about all this is that when Ozzie
and Sabbath parted ways and Ozzie started his solo career
once again, all of these players were in the right
(57:18):
place at the right time, and we got what I
consider I don't care what anyone else out there thinks,
but we got two of the most iconic albums of
my lifetime. Ozzie does not have the best voice in rock,
but there is not another one like it, and all
(57:40):
of us experienced this gift. We would have lost out
on so much if his life didn't take the course
that it did, but we didn't lose out and with
just the press of a button. Ozzie is right there
anytime we want to hear him. Things were a lot
(58:01):
different when I was younger, when I listened to him.
Back then, I was consumed by Ozzy. But when I
listened to him now, I'm never even thinking about him.
I'm thinking about playing whiffle ball as a kid with
a group of great friends, hearing Blizzard of Oz for
(58:22):
the very first time. I'm thinking of my first Ozzie concert.
It was the Bark at the Moon tour with Motley Crue.
We saw it at New Haven Coliseum in Connecticut. On
the way home, we were riding through this fog and
it was so thick none of us could see ten
(58:42):
feet in front of us, including the driver, And although
we probably should have been more concerned about the lack
of visibility, we just laughed and sing our already strained
voices all the way home, listening to even more Ozzy
with a car load of friends.
Speaker 1 (59:00):
So we'll go ahead and we'll stop right there with
Dirty Jim. He has more to say, but we'll finish
with what he has to say there in Part two.
In the next hour of gen X Rock hit Hidden
Treasures for our Ozzie Tribute. The question is, though, was
Dirty Jim's experience regarding Ozzie and Sabbath similar to my
(59:22):
experience of listening to Ozzie and Sabbath. We'll find out
in Part two of our Ozzie tribute right here on
gen X Rock Hidden Treasures.
Speaker 3 (59:34):
That's rock.
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