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Speaker 1 (00:03):
And I got one note one name written on my
little note card usually have like three or four try
to keep my notes straight for the for the live
stream of the podcast. One note that says, let's see
you right there, Ozzy. I don't everything else just seems
stupid to talk about today. I mean from a news perspective,
Losing Ozzy Osbourne is the number one trending story in
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the world right now, I mean worldwide, So there's that,
But also everything else just seems so stupid. And I
know that there's people out there saying, oh, it's God,
it's one guy, it's a it's a rock star who
abused his body. There's got to be something more important
out there. Well, first of all, an iconic, an iconic name,
and people who don't understand that don't really get anything
really truly. But everything that's come out from this when
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the news hit yesterday, like the dedication, the surprising uh
names that you maybe wouldn't have expected that were massive,
massive Ossie and Black Sabbath fans and music fans in general,
the outpouring of support. To me, the takeaway is where
it goes from here, the call for I couldn't believe
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how much I saw this yesterday and it was so
good to see the call for real music again, you know,
real rock, not what you see in Super Bowl halftime
shows now, not all the disposable pop that the music
industry pushes on us. Right now, I'm telling you, the
best band that's ever been is in a garage in
the Midwest somewhere or somewhere in the country right now,
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and they can't get signed, they can get no promotion,
because that's not what's pushed these days. It really is true,
like rock, real music will never die. And I don't know,
I don't know this is just speculation, but just reading
the tea leaves and trying to get the pulse of
what's happening here, I got a really good feeling that
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the light from this horrible loss of Aussie, if you're
a music fan, will be a real push for real
music again. I just I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong,
but hope I'm not. I think that's gonna happen. But anyways,
so as you can guess, this one's dedicated to Ozzie,
because I don't really feel like talking about anything else.
I really don't sure as a fan, but just as
the takeaway to the outpouring of support it was. I mean,
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it continues this morning, it'll continue into the weeks ahead. Massive,
So that's what we're talking about. I got a couple
of takeaways on this that maybe we'll give you food
for thought from the Prince of Darkness. Isn't that funny? Oh?
The irony for a guy whose moniker was Yeah, from
self promotion to the Prince of Darkness, a guy that
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sure did bring a lot of light to the world
and a lot of help to a lot of people.
So we got that to talk about too, before we
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for all that good stuff when you know we're coming right. Well,
we all know we lost Ozzie, but to me, it's
all about where we go from here. This is my
first I've said this before, and I said this right
around the back to the beginning concert, which, by the way,
here's another irony. Seventeen days was it? We lost Ozzie
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seventeen days after his final show. It's stunning how often
that happens to people in your real life and also
on the stage. I think Lemmy from Motorhead, a friend
of mine, pointed this out last night. I think it
was a similar thing, like days, or at least within
weeks after his final show. It's kind of like, I
don't know something about the human spirit knows when you're
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wrapping things up, you just do. But I said this
a couple of weeks ago when we were talking about
the result of that back to the beginning show, the
final Black Sabbath performance, because they knew it was going
to be the last show for Ozzy back in Birmingham
where it all began, and then all of a sudden,
all these other metal bands, all this other support came
out because they all wanted to be part of it.
I said it at the time. This has always been
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my takeaway about Ozzy. Threw out everything he did right.
Self abuse and just abuse of the rock and roll lifestyle.
I mean, physical problems, had Parkinson's that terrible ATV accident
which ruled his back and basically crippled him. The drugs,
I mean alcohol and drugs obviously. I mean, my joke
about Ozzy has always been repeated. Again, he's been on
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everything but roller skates, and he'll tell you he would
have told you that. But through all of it, the
amazing thing, the first amazing takeaway on a surface level
for Ozzie from me was he never lost his voice.
What ever, even go back to that, back to the
beginning thing, he's in his chair, he did that performance
for the solo stuff and the black Sabba and stuff,
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he still sounded great. I mean throughout the years. Tell
me that the oldest stuff you'll hear here, compared to
newer songs, didn't still sound good. Yeah, his voice was
maybe a little bit deeper with age, but he still
sounded great. I mean, when you hear it back to
back like that, that's an amazing testament to that guy's
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talent and ability despite it all, and a lot of
that was self abuse. I think his family would be
the first people to tell you that still sounded great.
Including what we just talked about. It was eighteen days ago,
I don't know, within weeks the back to the beginning
final show, and this was the sendoff in Birmingham and
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a weird thing because nobody knew it at the time.
Officially you'd think, maybe, well, it sounded really good. I
think he was really He had said apparently in private,
that he was really happy with that. He was proud
of the fact that he's still in a chair. Sounded great,
did a great show. Everybody loved it. By the way,
let's not forget about this. It goes down that back
to the beginning charity show. Benefit show wound up being
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the biggest benefit concert of all time and it blew
everything out of the water. I think second place was
the La Fires benefit for the first responders and people
lost their homes and blah, but you know all that stuff,
and this blew it out of the water. The biggest
of all time for several charities, and right there with
the sendoff, nobody really knew where it was going after that.
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Nobody really knew. But you had that feeling, didn't you.
You had that feeling like we're gonna lose Aussie someday.
But then it hits you, and it hits you for somebody,
for somebody like me of like gen X, right, you
start to lose heroes like this. It could be anybody,
could be an actor, it could be somebody else in
the public eye, whatever it is. Boy, if you're my age,
it really starts to hit you because it's like, this
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isn't like the old guys, this isn't the old stars.
This is somebody that we happened to grow up with,
and you're losing these people. Even though you know physically
you knew it was coming. Boy, it still hits. But
what's amazing is what happened throughout all this whole thing.
So obviously this was the number as soon as the
news yesterday was one of the number one, it was
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the number one trending story and it still is, like
I said, worldwide. And then all the dedications came out
from sure, people that worked with them, you know, contemporaries
in the music industry, people that had worked with them,
people who were even actors, anybody that was involved with
you know that back to the beginning show, all of them.
Then there's a second layer of people that are kind
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of sort of well known, but you never would have
thought would have been such fans, which tells me the
reach he had in reaching people like that. So just
as a side note, just doing this and keeping an
eye on all these different things and follow a lot
of different people on social media to see like, for instance,
sure keep it, pay attention to like the CNN's MSNBC
to see what's going on in that crazy world. But
also the really really really conservative side of things. And
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I've just thrown out this one name as an example.
Jack Pisobic is big conservative media personality, right, and he
was somebody who's i mean, very straight laced, very religious.
You should have seen, just as an example, his dedications
to Ozzie. It was just and how he affected his life.
I thought that was interesting and I'm like, wow, I
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always would have taken him. My bad misconception is somebody
that would have seen him as like prince of darkness.
That's all evil and that's all bad, and that's all
you know, he worshiped the devil, you know, that stupid
old line. Not the case. And then dig a little
bit deeper, my god, just listening because listening to this channel,
Ozzie's Boneyard in SiriusXM, listening to that yesterday, the dedications
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they did, and they took calls like remember radio like
Real Radio used to do that all the time. It
was fantastic and I'm listening to iHeart yesterday and they
had a dedication on it was great and getting people's
bottom line being the lifetime of music that Ozzy provided
through Black Sabbath and the solo stuff and a ton
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of collaborations with other artists. It affected so many people
in a bright light kind of way. And that was
the thing. And that was the other takeaway yesterday, which
I finally, I've always wondered this. I go back to
the eighties again with this one. And if you're like
me you lived through do you remember early to mid
eighties the PMRC Let's see if that rings a bell,
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Tipper Gore and her Washington Wives contemporaries who were trying
to tell all us kids and all the parents that
the heavy metal is devil's music. It's all, you know,
it's all it's all these Bible thumpers right in a
bad kind of way. Nothing against people who worship the Bible.
That's fine. I think that's gone because there's a very
few there's a few people out there, of course, who
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had to chime in. A couple of church ladies who
had to say, oh that us he was a devil worshiper.
He bit the head off a he bit the head
off a pigeon or a dove or whatever. Okay, right,
this is always going to be idiots who still believed that.
But for the most part, through the test of time
and through the real work that the guy did him
and others, they saw through that, and they saw that
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he was actually at the prince of darkness. He brought
a whole ton of light. That was the other major
takeaway me besides the fact that people are calling for
real music again, the fact that people saw right through
all of that. Because I will tell you, just being
a fan of this kind of music and lifestyle for
so long as I have, you will find heavy metal fans, bands, personalities,
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media people, you know, radio people who do radio shows
that feature metal, some of the most giving, loving, spiritual
people you will ever find. Because it was never about
like devil worship and all this dark stuff. They represented
dark themes to ward off the bad stuff. I saw
it with a buddy of mine Metallica, just a couple
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of months ago over in Tampa, and James Hetfield says
it said it right in the middle of the show.
He said, you know, this music is about getting the
bad stuff out. That's why it's so heavy, you know.
And I heard somebody else say years ago, and I
think when I was like a teenager. You know, metal
music is about it's not about evil. It's about looking
evil right in the eye and kicking it right in
the balls. That's what this music is about. And that's
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why I think it's helped so many people, and it's
brought so many lights to so many people. Despite what
it looks like on the outside, it's about it's really
some of the most spiritual stuff you can get into.
Is there some bad stuff out this, sure or whatever.
But here's the other thing. The effect that Ozzie had
on other bands. So this was so there are other
bands touring out there that dedicated their shows to Ozzy, obviously,
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and one of those artists is Alice Cooper on the
road and another one and this is a great example
to put back to back on a mashup Alice Cooper
and a new metal band called Ghost, which is really popular, right,
they were both on the road and they both dedicated
their shows. And then sure there are others like Hailstorm
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dedicated to their shows to Ozzie last night, here's Alice
talking about it, and then this band Ghost at the end.
But listen to the crowd of this newer metal band
Ghost at the end when you hear this.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Even though you know everybody saw it coming with Ozzie,
took our breath away when it happened, Solazzi and family
music and your legend, the humor, all that you've brought
to the rock business will live on forever, and you're
gonna miss from that.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
We're God dedicate tonight's show to the memory of the
Abzek for being the prince of darkness. He sure gave
us a lot of lights.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
So yeah, lead singer of Ghost set it right there.
But listen to the crowd of a newer band. That's
what tells me that there's a real call for real
music again, because we've all said it. Everybody watches the
super Bowl and complains about the halftime show. They're like,
can't we have rock? I mean, can't they or will
even take country or a mashup or anything instead of
this disposable power pop crap that they're pushing on us,
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which is garbage music. Can't we have some real rock
and roll? And then you listen to a younger crowd
and that sound cut right there at that ghost show
chanting Ozzie's name. They know, they know it's a call
for real music again, which is a great thing to see.
So again, try to look at the at least what
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I try to do with these news stories. You try
to look at the light through the darkness and turn
it into a win. I'm bummed because we lost Ozzie.
Like allis said, even though you knew it was coming,
it still hits you pretty hard. And it's not gonna
be making music anymore. But he wasn't doing well. But
still throughout all this, through that loss, that loss of
an icon, I think anyway, and I'm just taking a
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guess here, I think, and I'm gonna hope, and I'm
gonna go this is what I'm holding on to. I
think it's gonna bring a call that's already there for real,
real musicians and real music again and getting that to
the forefront, you know what, Let's make that happen. How
about that? Because this guy reminded us of all of that.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I'm as the Osborne and I'm the Prince of Dogmas.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
But you weren't, man, You really weren't. You brought an
awful lot of light for a guy called the Prince
of Darkness. Thank you for everything, Ozzy. Music never dies,
Rock never dies. You can't kill it. All right, exit
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