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 2 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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Fair Use Disclaimer: This show may use some copyrighted materials without specific authorization of the owner, but contents used here falls under the “Fair Use Copyright Disclaimer” under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. Allowance is made for “fair use” for criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. This show is non-profit and for entertainment purposes only and is therefore not monetized. We are simply music fans who are using the vehicle of this show to provide FREE promotion of the music included and we insist on FAIR USE.
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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.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
I'm a musical genius.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
A rock and roll radio station.
Speaker 6 (00:34):
Right.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
If we hear some tunes, it rocks, man. That's right.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Thank you everybody for coming on back. This is DJ
Hollywood from gen X Rock Hidden Treasures right here on
ninety nine point one FM KOBP. And this is Part
two of our Ozzie Tribute. And at the end of
part one of the Ozzie Tribute, we had Dirty Jim.
He was kind of giving his synopsis of his tribute
to Ozzie and what he felt about Ozzy and his music.
(01:11):
And as far as Sabbath is concerned, we did play
his favorite Black Sabbath song, which is Children of the Grave.
And now I'm gonna play the second portion of Dirty
Jim's tribute, and then I'll play another song from Ozzy
from an Ozzie solo album that he requested, and then
after that, I'm gonna play a ton more music that
(01:33):
I enjoy and kind of explain some of the reasons
on certain songs as to why I like them and
my experiences with each of these songs. So stay tuned
for that. Right now, let's wrap it up with Dirty
Jim and his tribute to Ozzie.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
You know, I'm thinking about all the unforgettable parties, the
countless beers and endless laughs I've shared with all of
these friends in my life. Some friends are no longer
with us, some longtime friends are still in my life,
and others have come and gone throughout my time on
(02:10):
this earth so far, and I'm sure that many more
will do the same before it's my time to head out.
And even though he doesn't know it, Ozzie was there
on so many of those occasions. He has given me
so much and will continue to for the rest of
my life, and I thank him for all of these
(02:33):
awesome memories that I will never forget. He was definitely
one of a kind and he will never be forgotten.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
Thanks for everything. Rest in peace, buddy.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
That from the life.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
Guys, think you love the focus damp.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
If you feel that you're with me.
Speaker 9 (03:11):
Don't escaping the game.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Don't feel the guys, that's true.
Speaker 8 (03:17):
Frae Ye, steal out way, stellway, still nights you get
a skidder way job step you're here. I can change
(03:43):
the fur with my finger at us change. Let me
stay yet? Why because this pay do the thing here?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Free come to now that I young me with you
the night.
Speaker 8 (05:22):
Until you suthing you yet don't don't way, wait me
till night dreaming, dream the night not been now he's
one two yet.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
The great Oh yeah, see our way, ste our way.
Speaker 8 (05:42):
It got ste away in the nice, stay away, set
away the gout sere away in the night, see a way.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
My name is Hollywood and you're listening to gen X
Rock Hidden Treasures right here on ninety nine point one
FM KLBP, Long Beach, California. And that was a track
called Steal Away the Knife from Blizzard of Oz. And
that song is such a great song. I love it.
I'm glad that Dirty Jim selected it, asked me to
play it. And as far as his experience where he
(06:35):
said he did everything in reverse, that he heard Ozzy
first and then he heard Black Sabbath. I pose the question,
did Dirty Jim and I have the same experience in
that way? And the answer is yes. See again, as
I explained before, I was thirteen years old, when Blizzard
(06:56):
of Oz came out, I hadn't heard Black Sabbath. May
have on the radio, I just didn't know. But the
first time that I really recognized Black Sabbath was because
of a live Ozzie album that he released in nineteen
eighty two called Speak of the Devil. And so there
were several reasons for this decision to record some Sabbath material.
(07:20):
And first of all, Black Sabbath was getting ready to
release a live record with Ronnie James Dio as lead singer,
and that's what turned out to be Live Evil. And
so when it came to Ozzie's camp, they decided, Okay,
we're gonna go ahead and record Black Sabbath cover songs.
(07:40):
That way, Ozzie can get some new publishing royalties off
of that. But Ozzie wanted to make sure that his
album would be in the stores first before Black Sabbath
released Live Evil. And so that's kind of some of
the backstory there with that. But anyway, I love this
(08:01):
album Speak of the Devil, and so I'm gonna play
for you the lead off track, which is the very
first thing that I heard regarding Black Sabbath music that's
stuck in my head. So here we go, the lead
off track off of Speak of the Devil. This is
Symptom of the Universe.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
I think they don't some sage about the.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Thing.
Speaker 8 (09:24):
Well, oh, then I love the age the most, the
joy different men. Yeah, promised, No, I don't love don't
(11:21):
step inside. I say, wait, they don't.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
They been riding all lasa, riding away doing those sides.
I get them up. Don't love the y Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Wow, what an amazing track. Gen X Rock Hidden Treasures.
This is DJ Hollywood and that was a song called
Symptom of the Universe, taking off of Ozzie's live album
Speak of the Devil from nineteen eighty two and the
tone of Brad Gillis's guitar. I think everybody who loves
this album will always say Brad Gillis really just he
(13:42):
amazed so many people. He truly metalized these Black Sabbath
songs and made a modern sounding with the sound and
the tone of his guitar. Great stuff. I love this song,
and so this is what started myie to learn about
Black Sabbath in nineteen eighty two, so I went back backwards.
(14:06):
I started buying all these old Black Sabbath albums, and
one of those albums was Sabotage. Obviously this song Symptom
of the Universe is on there. I go ahead and
put a Symptom of the Universe on. I play it
the Black Sabbath version, and obviously it sounds a little
bit different, you know Tonyaomi's way of playing it, but
(14:27):
amazing song that original version as well. And then it
gets to what I thought was gonna be the end
of the song, and there's something tacked on to the
end that just blew my mind. And this is the
ending of Symptom of the Universe on the original version
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of the on the Sabotage album.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
My child of Lost Creation from a step in said
my release.
Speaker 10 (15:25):
Your say don't Sati, you are all my loving me.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Say my hand and will don't ride it sat a
pome my happy has to can.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
My son a scat doping.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Anything?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
So there you go. So when I heard that version,
the original version with that trippy psychedelic jazz ending for
symptom of the Universe. I fell in love with a
song even more. Dirty Jim does not agree with me
(17:25):
on this. He he agrees. He loves Ozzy's voice, the
way Ozzy sounds. Ozzy sounds great at the end, great
high pitch is the tone of his voice, a little
bit of raspiness going on. Ozzy sounds amazing. But Dirty
Jim doesn't like that. It doesn't flow, it doesn't flow properly.
(17:45):
He likes the Speak of the Devil version. I love
it too, but the original version, I just there's something
more special about it, just because it's so weird and
trippy and essentially it's progressive rock from the seventies. So
that's why I love about it. And then there was
another song on Speak of the Devil that was different
(18:05):
than the original, and I'm talking about the song Sabbath,
Bloody Sabbath. There was this part in the middle where
Brad Gillis is just chunking on the guitar. Dun Dun
Dana Dana Dana, Dun, Dun Dana Dun, Dan Dun Dun
Dana Dana Dana dun dun Dana dun da and that's
(18:27):
all you hear. You just hear just a guitar and
it goes. The song continues, there's no singing. So when
I heard the when I bought Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and
I heard the original Black Sabbath version, this is what
I heard.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Still stops. You want to.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Be not to.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Stop, said that.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
So when I heard that original version with Ozzy singing,
I was like, what the hell.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
This is amazing, this is great.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
The original version of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is just phenomenal.
Ozzy's voice sounds great, and I'm wondering at that time,
here I am fourteen years old, fifteen years old whatever,
I'm listening to this, and I'm like, why didn't Ozzy
sing this middle part?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
This is great?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
He should have sang that on Speaking the Devil. And
then I started thinking, you know what, maybe he just
can't do it anymore. I don't think at that time
that he could reach that range, you know, after all
his drugs and everything like that. So I gave Ozzy
a pass on that. But anyway, you know, these two
songs Symptom of the Universe and Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath. The
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differences that I heard from speaking the Devil versus the
original versions just sent me on this journey of discovering
Black Sabbath. And overall, if I were to say, am
I more of an Ozzy solo fan versus a Black
Sabbath fan with Ozzia's lead vocals, I gotta say the
(21:33):
catalog that Ozzy sang with Black Sabbath versus his own
solo material catalog. Man, I really like the Ozzy Sabbath
a little bit more, I gotta say. I mean, I
love Ozzy on Blizzard of Oz and Diary of a Madman.
(21:55):
By the time we got to Bark at the Moon,
there's some songs on there that I dig it's starting.
Something's changing there. Obviously because Randy Rhodes passed away. Now
it's Jakie Lee. But Bark at the Moon rock and roll, rebel,
great Ultimate Sin comes out. Something else is going on. Okay,
they got shot in the Dark, very commercial, a lot
(22:16):
of thumping drums that Dirty Jim can't stand. It just
sounds like pounding tribal drums on every single song. And
so the rest of Ozzy's catalog there's a lot of
cool material, but you kind of have to dig in
(22:37):
search for it. When it comes to those original Sabbath
albums with Ozzy on vocals, man, there's just they're just phenomenal.
So I'm a huge Ozzy Sabbath fan as well as
I'm a Sabbath fan with Ronnie James Dio. Of course,
you guys know me. You know that I love Doo.
(22:59):
But yeah, that's where we are as far as my
experience with learning about Black Sabbath after the fact. All right,
So with that said, let's get into playing some of
my favorite songs from the Assie Black Sabbath catalog, songs
that I love. I know you guys love as well.
(23:22):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
This is the Wizard.
Speaker 11 (24:33):
And nothing more money aloud in the sky without warm
money wasn't all five?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Nothing is short. We're going this aloud?
Speaker 12 (24:56):
Okay, we're doing bu never talking, you just be walking.
Nothing is mad and disappe.
Speaker 9 (25:46):
He was worry when then.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
You don't see.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
It's a joy.
Speaker 11 (25:56):
Everyone's happening when the Wizard, how about tall.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Man wall and I think it's not.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
And and.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
And and.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Honey s not a come by a bread.
Speaker 9 (26:57):
Upside seven a.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Side so fine, my name is DJ Hollywood, and you're
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listening to the Ozzie tribute on gen X Rock Hidden Treasures,
and that was a song called the Wizard taken off
of Black Sabbath's debut album from nineteen seventy. Great song,
one of my favorite Sabbath songs right there. Now we're
gonna move over to Ozzie's solo. And the very first
(28:05):
time I saw Ozzie and concert was for the Bark
at the Moon tour, which I did go to that
show with Dirty Jim, and this particular album I do
have an affinity for that. Has it stood the test
of time, you know, with all the keyboards and synthesizers,
(28:25):
you know, heavy in the mix's, it hasn't really held
up for me as much. But it's super nostalgic because
I played this cassette tape over and over and over,
and you know, rightfully, so this was actually the cassette
that I went into Kmart when I was fifteen years old.
(28:47):
I stole this cassette Bark at the Moon and I
walked out the door and immediately tackled by Kmart security.
I got busted for shoplifting at Kmart. You know, Ozzie's
Bark at the Moon cassette. Oh my god. Anyway, Uh,
(29:08):
great tour. I love the show. Obviously, Dirty Jim mentioned
Motley Crue opened up and man Motley Crue was really
good on that tour.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
But here we go.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Let's go with the track from Bark at the Moon.
We always hear bark at the Moon all the time.
Let's go with the other song that was a single,
but you don't hear as often. This is rock and roll, rebel.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
M takes the past. Tell me.
Speaker 8 (30:19):
The builds the big peace. It's a mercy mine.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
It's amazing, it's amaz it's a you, it's a.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
What is the proson? I'll tell you no lies they
say mercy the.
Speaker 8 (30:41):
Cale me still me know? Do they never know? And
(31:15):
the peoplest they seem not to face.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Around and they get the ball and they do this.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
The role.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
How do what I seek?
Speaker 4 (31:44):
The on the long.
Speaker 8 (31:48):
Na say anything, so tis all.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Your hearts? They know we know.
Speaker 9 (32:19):
It's the name the lies, No, this is the god Man.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Stay to us.
Speaker 8 (33:29):
Then sail, don't take me out.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Joy, they don't. I didn't you know this?
Speaker 13 (33:42):
So the.
Speaker 8 (33:45):
Roll I'll tell you know that.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
This wasn't the.
Speaker 8 (33:55):
Why don't they olda.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
No, No, my name is Hollywood, and you're listening to
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part two of the Ozzie tribute on gen X Rock
Hidden Treasures. And that was a track called rock and
Roll Rebel off of Bark at the Moon from nineteen
eighty three featuring Jake E Lee on guitar. That is
such a cool track.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
I don't get tired of that one ever. And I'm
gonna go now back to Black Sabbath play another track
that is one of another one of my favorite Black
Sabbath songs. This one's off of Sabbath's second album, off
of the Paranoid album. This is Fairies Wear Boots, going Home.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
Lay Basnight Suddenly I Got a bride. Yeah, I love
flowing No, it's about what.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
I saw very boots. I dancing with the law rush
(37:31):
yeah man that boat City go yeah, I saw.
Speaker 14 (37:40):
I'll tell you, I know.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
I yeah, bad boat City, gol. I saw I saw it.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
Went out to.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
Shall your friend the boats and you go.
Speaker 8 (39:51):
Yeah, So that's all tell you, No, lie, you're boats.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
I got.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
I s awry.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
I'm sorry with now to.
Speaker 8 (40:12):
Say, said Sacks. He says, up and someone you've got
too far, don't smokeing.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
The preference is all that you do.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
You're listening to gen X Rock Hidden Treasures on ninety
nine point one FM KLBP, and that was a song
called Theories where Boots another one of my favorite tracks
from Black Sabbath. And let me just read off a
few more tributes and condolences here that I saw online.
From Darlene Lopes, she wrote, thanks for all the great music, Ozzy.
(41:43):
She posted a picture of him from Keith Garlet Rock
on Ozzy the Godfather of Metal. These are people that
I grew up with and went to high school with. Also,
let's see there was a few more that I saw here.
See here's one from Joanne King where she said it's amazing,
(42:05):
the timing is unbelievable and I thought sad, but honestly
so glad for him that he got to do that
last epic show and everyone showered him with love and praise.
Sad day for sure. And then Cindy Lawrence she said
I feel the same way. I drove home thinking that
was my youth. There will never be another like him.
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Rest in peace, Ozzy. And then Julie Trevor went on
to say he definitely went out the way he wanted
and to see the original Black Sabbath together was amazing.
His legacy will continue and our generation witnessed it, and
that's for sure. I mean those of us who grew
up in the eighties and our teen years. It was
(42:51):
amazing to witness Ozzy grow and become the superstar that
he became. Right from the beginning of his soul career,
I mean, he was cast off as a nobody. He
was a drunk, a drug addict, kicked out of Sabbath,
and then here he is, He finds Randy Rhodes and
(43:13):
his career is completely resurrected. And so with that being said,
I'm gonna go ahead and play my all time favorite
song of time, space and Continuum. Out of all hard rock,
heavy metal songs, out of any song in the history
of music, this one song is my favorite song, forever
(43:37):
and ever and ever. This song is a masterpiece to me.
I love it, I cherish it, and I hold it
dear to my heart. Here is Diary of the Madman.
Speaker 3 (44:42):
At the Window. What he died that day?
Speaker 15 (44:50):
Oh pleasant, it's a way shy and surprise, I kept say,
enjoying the.
Speaker 9 (45:16):
Diary.
Speaker 13 (45:18):
I'm a mad Man of the line against every abuser.
Say I'm.
Speaker 4 (45:35):
Made present.
Speaker 3 (46:47):
I said my dance.
Speaker 4 (46:52):
Let me tell me that.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
I mistake twice, my my eyes, say my soul. Oh my,
(47:20):
it's to try to get or try to get me,
(48:39):
boy says in the back mass scream away my men,
and I asked the question.
Speaker 4 (48:54):
To help me.
Speaker 3 (48:55):
Save me up my sadn.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
My name is Hollywood and you're listening to the Ozzie
Tribune on gen X Rock Hidden Treasures on ninety nine
point one FM KLBP, Long Beach, California. And that is
a masterpiece. That was the title track of Diary of
a Madman from nineteen eighty one. And what can you say.
(50:20):
I've said it before. I've played this song in the past,
and I've dissected it and I've broken it down to me.
It's just my all time favorite song. So a few
more tributes here that I saw on social media. I
saw a couple more people from my graduating class of
nineteen eighty six. Charlie Morenghi said, Rest in peace, Ozzy.
(50:43):
Scott la Plant as well, Rest in peace, Ozzy. I
saw a few more here, Don Sprague, Rest in peace, Ozzy.
Thank you for the great memories Kim Harper. She said,
when you hear this news and the first person you
text is your thirty two year old daughter, because you
raised her right. She is a true fan as I am.
Rest in peace, Prince of Darkness. Thank you for sharing
(51:05):
your amazing talent with us. So and it goes on
and on. There's so many people here that mention stuff.
So let's go ahead and wrap up this tribute and
go all the way back to the beginning where it started.
This is the title track, the eponymous song for the
(51:30):
band This is Black.
Speaker 14 (51:33):
Sabbath watches this, The stands bad Boy, Fair and Black,
(53:08):
Which boy sent me?
Speaker 4 (53:19):
Charron quick and the two run.
Speaker 9 (53:34):
My No.
Speaker 4 (53:36):
The joke said out uh, the.
Speaker 16 (54:33):
Black shape, We're the so far challenge the ball, the.
Speaker 8 (54:52):
Sign s.
Speaker 17 (55:03):
Senting smarted watching those plays.
Speaker 10 (55:18):
Get time, Oh no no, please got around me.
Speaker 4 (56:12):
My pra says, m around up.
Speaker 18 (56:20):
The people run the Conasia, the people man I go
wnywhere no no say no.
Speaker 1 (57:42):
And so that's it. That's a song that started it all,
and it started a whole new genre of music that
influenced literally hundreds and literally thousands of bands around the
world that became beloved by millions. Ozzie, you were a
living legend. While you walk the earth, you're still a
(58:05):
living legend because your voice and your music will live on.
And as mentioned in Part one of my Ozzie Tribute,
I'll now have a new feature on each Gen X
Rock Hidden Treasure Show on a weekly basis called Ozzie Forever.
And this feature will I'll play it either like a
track or an Ozzie interview clip or some sort of
(58:26):
Ozzy trivia or commentary that I'm sure you guys are
gonna enjoy. So that's it. Ozzie, You'll absolutely be missed.
Rest in peace, oz Man.
Speaker 4 (58:40):
Ozzie Forever
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.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
I'm a musical genius.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
A rock and roll radio station.
Speaker 6 (00:34):
Right.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
If we hear some tunes, it rocks, man. That's right.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Thank you everybody for coming on back. This is DJ
Hollywood from gen X Rock Hidden Treasures right here on
ninety nine point one FM KOBP. And this is Part
two of our Ozzie Tribute. And at the end of
part one of the Ozzie Tribute, we had Dirty Jim.
He was kind of giving his synopsis of his tribute
to Ozzie and what he felt about Ozzy and his music.
(01:11):
And as far as Sabbath is concerned, we did play
his favorite Black Sabbath song, which is Children of the Grave.
And now I'm gonna play the second portion of Dirty
Jim's tribute, and then I'll play another song from Ozzy
from an Ozzie solo album that he requested, and then
after that, I'm gonna play a ton more music that
(01:33):
I enjoy and kind of explain some of the reasons
on certain songs as to why I like them and
my experiences with each of these songs. So stay tuned
for that. Right now, let's wrap it up with Dirty
Jim and his tribute to Ozzie.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
You know, I'm thinking about all the unforgettable parties, the
countless beers and endless laughs I've shared with all of
these friends in my life. Some friends are no longer
with us, some longtime friends are still in my life,
and others have come and gone throughout my time on
(02:10):
this earth so far, and I'm sure that many more
will do the same before it's my time to head out.
And even though he doesn't know it, Ozzie was there
on so many of those occasions. He has given me
so much and will continue to for the rest of
my life, and I thank him for all of these
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awesome memories that I will never forget. He was definitely
one of a kind and he will never be forgotten.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
Thanks for everything. Rest in peace, buddy.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
That from the life.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
Guys, think you love the focus damp.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
If you feel that you're with me.
Speaker 9 (03:11):
Don't escaping the game.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Don't feel the guys, that's true.
Speaker 8 (03:17):
Frae Ye, steal out way, stellway, still nights you get
a skidder way job step you're here. I can change
(03:43):
the fur with my finger at us change. Let me
stay yet? Why because this pay do the thing here?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Free come to now that I young me with you
the night.
Speaker 8 (05:22):
Until you suthing you yet don't don't way, wait me
till night dreaming, dream the night not been now he's
one two yet.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
The great Oh yeah, see our way, ste our way.
Speaker 8 (05:42):
It got ste away in the nice, stay away, set
away the gout sere away in the night, see a way.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
My name is Hollywood and you're listening to gen X
Rock Hidden Treasures right here on ninety nine point one
FM KLBP, Long Beach, California. And that was a track
called Steal Away the Knife from Blizzard of Oz. And
that song is such a great song. I love it.
I'm glad that Dirty Jim selected it, asked me to
play it. And as far as his experience where he
(06:35):
said he did everything in reverse, that he heard Ozzy
first and then he heard Black Sabbath. I pose the question,
did Dirty Jim and I have the same experience in
that way? And the answer is yes. See again, as
I explained before, I was thirteen years old, when Blizzard
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of Oz came out, I hadn't heard Black Sabbath. May
have on the radio, I just didn't know. But the
first time that I really recognized Black Sabbath was because
of a live Ozzie album that he released in nineteen
eighty two called Speak of the Devil. And so there
were several reasons for this decision to record some Sabbath material.
(07:20):
And first of all, Black Sabbath was getting ready to
release a live record with Ronnie James Dio as lead singer,
and that's what turned out to be Live Evil. And
so when it came to Ozzie's camp, they decided, Okay,
we're gonna go ahead and record Black Sabbath cover songs.
(07:40):
That way, Ozzie can get some new publishing royalties off
of that. But Ozzie wanted to make sure that his
album would be in the stores first before Black Sabbath
released Live Evil. And so that's kind of some of
the backstory there with that. But anyway, I love this
(08:01):
album Speak of the Devil, and so I'm gonna play
for you the lead off track, which is the very
first thing that I heard regarding Black Sabbath music that's
stuck in my head. So here we go, the lead
off track off of Speak of the Devil. This is
Symptom of the Universe.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
I think they don't some sage about the.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Thing.
Speaker 8 (09:24):
Well, oh, then I love the age the most, the
joy different men. Yeah, promised, No, I don't love don't
(11:21):
step inside. I say, wait, they don't.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
They been riding all lasa, riding away doing those sides.
I get them up. Don't love the y Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Wow, what an amazing track. Gen X Rock Hidden Treasures.
This is DJ Hollywood and that was a song called
Symptom of the Universe, taking off of Ozzie's live album
Speak of the Devil from nineteen eighty two and the
tone of Brad Gillis's guitar. I think everybody who loves
this album will always say Brad Gillis really just he
(13:42):
amazed so many people. He truly metalized these Black Sabbath
songs and made a modern sounding with the sound and
the tone of his guitar. Great stuff. I love this song,
and so this is what started myie to learn about
Black Sabbath in nineteen eighty two, so I went back backwards.
(14:06):
I started buying all these old Black Sabbath albums, and
one of those albums was Sabotage. Obviously this song Symptom
of the Universe is on there. I go ahead and
put a Symptom of the Universe on. I play it
the Black Sabbath version, and obviously it sounds a little
bit different, you know Tonyaomi's way of playing it, but
(14:27):
amazing song that original version as well. And then it
gets to what I thought was gonna be the end
of the song, and there's something tacked on to the
end that just blew my mind. And this is the
ending of Symptom of the Universe on the original version
(14:47):
of the on the Sabotage album.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
My child of Lost Creation from a step in said
my release.
Speaker 10 (15:25):
Your say don't Sati, you are all my loving me.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Say my hand and will don't ride it sat a
pome my happy has to can.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
My son a scat doping.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Anything?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
So there you go. So when I heard that version,
the original version with that trippy psychedelic jazz ending for
symptom of the Universe. I fell in love with a
song even more. Dirty Jim does not agree with me
(17:25):
on this. He he agrees. He loves Ozzy's voice, the
way Ozzy sounds. Ozzy sounds great at the end, great
high pitch is the tone of his voice, a little
bit of raspiness going on. Ozzy sounds amazing. But Dirty
Jim doesn't like that. It doesn't flow, it doesn't flow properly.
(17:45):
He likes the Speak of the Devil version. I love
it too, but the original version, I just there's something
more special about it, just because it's so weird and
trippy and essentially it's progressive rock from the seventies. So
that's why I love about it. And then there was
another song on Speak of the Devil that was different
(18:05):
than the original, and I'm talking about the song Sabbath,
Bloody Sabbath. There was this part in the middle where
Brad Gillis is just chunking on the guitar. Dun Dun
Dana Dana Dana, Dun, Dun Dana Dun, Dan Dun Dun
Dana Dana Dana dun dun Dana dun da and that's
(18:27):
all you hear. You just hear just a guitar and
it goes. The song continues, there's no singing. So when
I heard the when I bought Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and
I heard the original Black Sabbath version, this is what
I heard.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Still stops. You want to.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Be not to.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Stop, said that.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
So when I heard that original version with Ozzy singing,
I was like, what the hell.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
This is amazing, this is great.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
The original version of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is just phenomenal.
Ozzy's voice sounds great, and I'm wondering at that time,
here I am fourteen years old, fifteen years old whatever,
I'm listening to this, and I'm like, why didn't Ozzy
sing this middle part?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
This is great?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
He should have sang that on Speaking the Devil. And
then I started thinking, you know what, maybe he just
can't do it anymore. I don't think at that time
that he could reach that range, you know, after all
his drugs and everything like that. So I gave Ozzy
a pass on that. But anyway, you know, these two
songs Symptom of the Universe and Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath. The
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differences that I heard from speaking the Devil versus the
original versions just sent me on this journey of discovering
Black Sabbath. And overall, if I were to say, am
I more of an Ozzy solo fan versus a Black
Sabbath fan with Ozzia's lead vocals, I gotta say the
(21:33):
catalog that Ozzy sang with Black Sabbath versus his own
solo material catalog. Man, I really like the Ozzy Sabbath
a little bit more, I gotta say. I mean, I
love Ozzy on Blizzard of Oz and Diary of a Madman.
(21:55):
By the time we got to Bark at the Moon,
there's some songs on there that I dig it's starting.
Something's changing there. Obviously because Randy Rhodes passed away. Now
it's Jakie Lee. But Bark at the Moon rock and roll, rebel,
great Ultimate Sin comes out. Something else is going on. Okay,
they got shot in the Dark, very commercial, a lot
(22:16):
of thumping drums that Dirty Jim can't stand. It just
sounds like pounding tribal drums on every single song. And
so the rest of Ozzy's catalog there's a lot of
cool material, but you kind of have to dig in
(22:37):
search for it. When it comes to those original Sabbath
albums with Ozzy on vocals, man, there's just they're just phenomenal.
So I'm a huge Ozzy Sabbath fan as well as
I'm a Sabbath fan with Ronnie James Dio. Of course,
you guys know me. You know that I love Doo.
(22:59):
But yeah, that's where we are as far as my
experience with learning about Black Sabbath after the fact. All right,
So with that said, let's get into playing some of
my favorite songs from the Assie Black Sabbath catalog, songs
that I love. I know you guys love as well.
(23:22):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
This is the Wizard.
Speaker 11 (24:33):
And nothing more money aloud in the sky without warm
money wasn't all five?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Nothing is short. We're going this aloud?
Speaker 12 (24:56):
Okay, we're doing bu never talking, you just be walking.
Nothing is mad and disappe.
Speaker 9 (25:46):
He was worry when then.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
You don't see.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
It's a joy.
Speaker 11 (25:56):
Everyone's happening when the Wizard, how about tall.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Man wall and I think it's not.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
And and.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
And and.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Honey s not a come by a bread.
Speaker 9 (26:57):
Upside seven a.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Side so fine, my name is DJ Hollywood, and you're
(27:44):
listening to the Ozzie tribute on gen X Rock Hidden Treasures,
and that was a song called the Wizard taken off
of Black Sabbath's debut album from nineteen seventy. Great song,
one of my favorite Sabbath songs right there. Now we're
gonna move over to Ozzie's solo. And the very first
(28:05):
time I saw Ozzie and concert was for the Bark
at the Moon tour, which I did go to that
show with Dirty Jim, and this particular album I do
have an affinity for that. Has it stood the test
of time, you know, with all the keyboards and synthesizers,
(28:25):
you know, heavy in the mix's, it hasn't really held
up for me as much. But it's super nostalgic because
I played this cassette tape over and over and over,
and you know, rightfully, so this was actually the cassette
that I went into Kmart when I was fifteen years old.
(28:47):
I stole this cassette Bark at the Moon and I
walked out the door and immediately tackled by Kmart security.
I got busted for shoplifting at Kmart. You know, Ozzie's
Bark at the Moon cassette. Oh my god. Anyway, Uh,
(29:08):
great tour. I love the show. Obviously, Dirty Jim mentioned
Motley Crue opened up and man Motley Crue was really
good on that tour.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
But here we go.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Let's go with the track from Bark at the Moon.
We always hear bark at the Moon all the time.
Let's go with the other song that was a single,
but you don't hear as often. This is rock and roll, rebel.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
M takes the past. Tell me.
Speaker 8 (30:19):
The builds the big peace. It's a mercy mine.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
It's amazing, it's amaz it's a you, it's a.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
What is the proson? I'll tell you no lies they
say mercy the.
Speaker 8 (30:41):
Cale me still me know? Do they never know? And
(31:15):
the peoplest they seem not to face.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Around and they get the ball and they do this.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
The role.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
How do what I seek?
Speaker 4 (31:44):
The on the long.
Speaker 8 (31:48):
Na say anything, so tis all.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Your hearts? They know we know.
Speaker 9 (32:19):
It's the name the lies, No, this is the god Man.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Stay to us.
Speaker 8 (33:29):
Then sail, don't take me out.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Joy, they don't. I didn't you know this?
Speaker 13 (33:42):
So the.
Speaker 8 (33:45):
Roll I'll tell you know that.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
This wasn't the.
Speaker 8 (33:55):
Why don't they olda.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
No, No, my name is Hollywood, and you're listening to
(34:48):
part two of the Ozzie tribute on gen X Rock
Hidden Treasures. And that was a track called rock and
Roll Rebel off of Bark at the Moon from nineteen
eighty three featuring Jake E Lee on guitar. That is
such a cool track.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
I don't get tired of that one ever. And I'm
gonna go now back to Black Sabbath play another track
that is one of another one of my favorite Black
Sabbath songs. This one's off of Sabbath's second album, off
of the Paranoid album. This is Fairies Wear Boots, going Home.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
Lay Basnight Suddenly I Got a bride. Yeah, I love
flowing No, it's about what.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
I saw very boots. I dancing with the law rush
(37:31):
yeah man that boat City go yeah, I saw.
Speaker 14 (37:40):
I'll tell you, I know.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
I yeah, bad boat City, gol. I saw I saw it.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
Went out to.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
Shall your friend the boats and you go.
Speaker 8 (39:51):
Yeah, So that's all tell you, No, lie, you're boats.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
I got.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
I s awry.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
I'm sorry with now to.
Speaker 8 (40:12):
Say, said Sacks. He says, up and someone you've got
too far, don't smokeing.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
The preference is all that you do.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
You're listening to gen X Rock Hidden Treasures on ninety
nine point one FM KLBP, and that was a song
called Theories where Boots another one of my favorite tracks
from Black Sabbath. And let me just read off a
few more tributes and condolences here that I saw online.
From Darlene Lopes, she wrote, thanks for all the great music, Ozzy.
(41:43):
She posted a picture of him from Keith Garlet Rock
on Ozzy the Godfather of Metal. These are people that
I grew up with and went to high school with. Also,
let's see there was a few more that I saw here.
See here's one from Joanne King where she said it's amazing,
(42:05):
the timing is unbelievable and I thought sad, but honestly
so glad for him that he got to do that
last epic show and everyone showered him with love and praise.
Sad day for sure. And then Cindy Lawrence she said
I feel the same way. I drove home thinking that
was my youth. There will never be another like him.
(42:28):
Rest in peace, Ozzy. And then Julie Trevor went on
to say he definitely went out the way he wanted
and to see the original Black Sabbath together was amazing.
His legacy will continue and our generation witnessed it, and
that's for sure. I mean those of us who grew
up in the eighties and our teen years. It was
(42:51):
amazing to witness Ozzy grow and become the superstar that
he became. Right from the beginning of his soul career,
I mean, he was cast off as a nobody. He
was a drunk, a drug addict, kicked out of Sabbath,
and then here he is, He finds Randy Rhodes and
(43:13):
his career is completely resurrected. And so with that being said,
I'm gonna go ahead and play my all time favorite
song of time, space and Continuum. Out of all hard rock,
heavy metal songs, out of any song in the history
of music, this one song is my favorite song, forever
(43:37):
and ever and ever. This song is a masterpiece to me.
I love it, I cherish it, and I hold it
dear to my heart. Here is Diary of the Madman.
Speaker 3 (44:42):
At the Window. What he died that day?
Speaker 15 (44:50):
Oh pleasant, it's a way shy and surprise, I kept say,
enjoying the.
Speaker 9 (45:16):
Diary.
Speaker 13 (45:18):
I'm a mad Man of the line against every abuser.
Say I'm.
Speaker 4 (45:35):
Made present.
Speaker 3 (46:47):
I said my dance.
Speaker 4 (46:52):
Let me tell me that.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
I mistake twice, my my eyes, say my soul. Oh my,
(47:20):
it's to try to get or try to get me,
(48:39):
boy says in the back mass scream away my men,
and I asked the question.
Speaker 4 (48:54):
To help me.
Speaker 3 (48:55):
Save me up my sadn.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
My name is Hollywood and you're listening to the Ozzie
Tribune on gen X Rock Hidden Treasures on ninety nine
point one FM KLBP, Long Beach, California. And that is
a masterpiece. That was the title track of Diary of
a Madman from nineteen eighty one. And what can you say.
(50:20):
I've said it before. I've played this song in the past,
and I've dissected it and I've broken it down to me.
It's just my all time favorite song. So a few
more tributes here that I saw on social media. I
saw a couple more people from my graduating class of
nineteen eighty six. Charlie Morenghi said, Rest in peace, Ozzy.
(50:43):
Scott la Plant as well, Rest in peace, Ozzy. I
saw a few more here, Don Sprague, Rest in peace, Ozzy.
Thank you for the great memories Kim Harper. She said,
when you hear this news and the first person you
text is your thirty two year old daughter, because you
raised her right. She is a true fan as I am.
Rest in peace, Prince of Darkness. Thank you for sharing
(51:05):
your amazing talent with us. So and it goes on
and on. There's so many people here that mention stuff.
So let's go ahead and wrap up this tribute and
go all the way back to the beginning where it started.
This is the title track, the eponymous song for the
(51:30):
band This is Black.
Speaker 14 (51:33):
Sabbath watches this, The stands bad Boy, Fair and Black,
(53:08):
Which boy sent me?
Speaker 4 (53:19):
Charron quick and the two run.
Speaker 9 (53:34):
My No.
Speaker 4 (53:36):
The joke said out uh, the.
Speaker 16 (54:33):
Black shape, We're the so far challenge the ball, the.
Speaker 8 (54:52):
Sign s.
Speaker 17 (55:03):
Senting smarted watching those plays.
Speaker 10 (55:18):
Get time, Oh no no, please got around me.
Speaker 4 (56:12):
My pra says, m around up.
Speaker 18 (56:20):
The people run the Conasia, the people man I go
wnywhere no no say no.
Speaker 1 (57:42):
And so that's it. That's a song that started it all,
and it started a whole new genre of music that
influenced literally hundreds and literally thousands of bands around the
world that became beloved by millions. Ozzie, you were a
living legend. While you walk the earth, you're still a
(58:05):
living legend because your voice and your music will live on.
And as mentioned in Part one of my Ozzie Tribute,
I'll now have a new feature on each Gen X
Rock Hidden Treasure Show on a weekly basis called Ozzie Forever.
And this feature will I'll play it either like a
track or an Ozzie interview clip or some sort of
(58:26):
Ozzy trivia or commentary that I'm sure you guys are
gonna enjoy. So that's it. Ozzie, You'll absolutely be missed.
Rest in peace, oz Man.
Speaker 4 (58:40):
Ozzie Forever
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