July 23, 2025 • 8 mins
Mike and Campy remember rock legend who passed away yesterday after a long battle with Parkinson's Disease
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He had his final show with Black Sabbath just two
weeks ago. It was July fifth benefit concert at his
hometown in Birmingham, England, and the show it was a
charity effort one hundred ninety million dollars, making it the
most successful benefit concert in history.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's unreal.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Don't hear a lot about that. They played in front
of a full house at Villa Park Stadium in Birmingham, England.
But Ozzy, I mean, just I guess the godfather of
heavy metal. Really, I mean, you don't have some of
these bands today without having Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne.
I'm not a big metal fan. I just not the
type of music that I prefer. However, I do like
(00:38):
I mean, and when you listen to Black Sabbath and Ozzie,
it's not nearly as hard and heavy as some of
the bands you have today.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
There was, I think it was. It was right on
the cusp, you know, there's heavy metal. When I hear
heavy metal, I think automatically of stuff like Slayer, like that,
Mega Death, you.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
But Metallica, Ozzy, Black Sabbath, I considered them hard rock.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Liked also hard rock, but they were considered metal.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
At the back of the day. Yeah, yeah, and then
now you look back at it and those bands have
some musicality to them. Yes, you know today some of
the bands you just mentioned, there's nothing. I mean again,
I don't want to offend anybody that likes that music,
but it's like, yeah, it's just it's just it's there's
not a lot of dynamic music components to it.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
No, it sounded like they were gargling glass.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah, but we do it. It's so funny. We have
I don't like ten cuts of Ozzy Osbourne audio and
before the show, Camp and I are talking and he's like, yeah,
I got these, I got all this audio. He's like,
of the ten, I can probably only play about four
of them because you can't understand what Ozzy is. And
(01:51):
I felt so bad play the one play the one
that you could play four where the legacy of Ozzy's
reality TV show, I.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Think it's what it was on the amount No. One, two,
three shows or bits and pieces. It's kind of kind
of a living diary, you know. And my my, my
children's children will shove something to show their kids. This
is what your grandfather and we were loving them with
kids you.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Know what got it? Okay, clear two shows. Well, my
wife and I were talking last night and we watched.
You know, I'm not a big TV watcher, especially not
a big reality TV watch either. This is this was
one of the very early reality shows where you followed
a celebrity around and it was entertaining. And if nothing,
(02:41):
I mean Ozzie, whether you like his music or not,
wasn't entertaining.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Character for no other reason than for what we just
heard a second ago.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, it is frustration, yelling, for sharing.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I mean, just the slurring, and then they got the
British accent and you know the brain. You know, maybe
it wasn't a thousand percent after all of the over
the years. Yeah, but the show was incredibly entertaining the kids,
you know, coming in and out, and he had his dogs,
and he'd be wearing his rub shirt kind of stumbling around.
And it's just a number of historical moments. I mean,
(03:16):
he he bit the head off a bat, whether it
was a plastic bat or not, I don't know the
truth there. I think he also maybe bit the head
off of a dove. He was talking to some record executives.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
The animal rights people were on him for decades not happy.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Remember he peed on the Alamo. I mean like these
moments of and then he's saying, take me out to
the ball game. I think this wasn't but okay, I
think this was. Was this in Chicago? And yeah, Wrigley
Field in Chicago in two thousand and three.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
I know, please show out.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Did you catch did you catch them?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
One lyric where he says I don't remember a single
thing I did.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
He said something like that, I don't remember what.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I just think, Yeah, he uh, a piece of work.
Let's do uh. The next cut eight, This is how
Ozzie prepares for a live show. What I do?
Speaker 6 (04:44):
I have these types.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
There are vocal warm up types, and I go through
the warmth brew soon and tell it took Sharon ten
years or so to persuade me to use his warmants.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Just go for it, you know, and my voice used
to blow it.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
I'm trying to do some physical warm ups and and
so you know, you know, asked abount upstairs, Mike the
schell go, you know, for for him, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
And again those are the ones that are the most Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
All I heard was I asked the man upstairs for
some help with my voice before a show. That's all
I was able to pick out of that one. Okay,
But so you remember when Ozzie was scheduled to play
here oz Fest. Yeah, in ninety seven at the Old
German and it was Polaris Amphitheater, then Germaine Amphitheater, but
(05:28):
it was Polaris first, and it was ninety seven and
Ozzie he wanted to be a part of the Lollapalooza
tour and they said, you're not. It doesn't really fit.
This isn't the kind of music. Your style is old
and it's had its day, but we don't think it's
a good fit that you joined the Lallapalooza tour. So Sharon,
(05:49):
who was very entrepreneurial and as his manager and always
had his best interest or her best interest in in mind,
she created oz Fest and said, well, do our own thing.
You get a bunch of hard rock and heavy metal bands.
You're the headliner that closed the show. So in nineteen
ninety seven Ozfest was in Columbus at Polaire's Amphitheater and
(06:11):
you know, you got I don't know what twenty thousand
people at the Amphitheater there and then they had a
bunch of warm up bands and then they came out
and announced that Ozzie will not be playing tonight because
if he was ill or he lost his voice or
something and people lost it. It was a riot, full
on riot nineteen ninety seven at what is now a
(06:33):
top golf and had an Ikea up at the Yelled
Plaire's Amphitheater site. But they were throwing garbage cans and
ripping up sod. There was that wooden fence that was
I guess a sad. They lit the fence on fire.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
The Feds really, well, that's awesome, awesome, it's awful, but
it's funny.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
It's just a part of the lore that is Ozzy Osbourne.
But yeah, he's no longer with us at seventies six
years old, and I'm really happy for him that he
was able to play that one final show with Black
Sabbath two weeks ago at that at that charity concert
because they they were not always because they kicked him
(07:15):
out because of his drug abuse problems. They kicked him
out and that's when he started his solo career in
the eighties and then the early nineties.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I do have the last the ending of that if
you like, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
You know it's not Pete Ozzie. And this again, this
is two weeks ago. It's not clearly not him at
his best. But I gotta tell you, for seventy six
years old and you know, dealing with Parkinson's for the
last five years, he didn't sound terrible.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
And you could tell he was getting choked up.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
He knew that that was it, that was the last time.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yeah, when he says I can't stand to say goodbye,
you can hear the crack of not just because of
what you're saying, the health that he was battling.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, you can hear the emotion in his voice.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah. Yeah, So a rock icon, Ozzy Osbourne has left
the building.
He had his final show with Black Sabbath just two
weeks ago. It was July fifth benefit concert at his
hometown in Birmingham, England, and the show it was a
charity effort one hundred ninety million dollars, making it the
most successful benefit concert in history.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's unreal.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Don't hear a lot about that. They played in front
of a full house at Villa Park Stadium in Birmingham, England.
But Ozzy, I mean, just I guess the godfather of
heavy metal. Really, I mean, you don't have some of
these bands today without having Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne.
I'm not a big metal fan. I just not the
type of music that I prefer. However, I do like
(00:38):
I mean, and when you listen to Black Sabbath and Ozzie,
it's not nearly as hard and heavy as some of
the bands you have today.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
There was, I think it was. It was right on
the cusp, you know, there's heavy metal. When I hear
heavy metal, I think automatically of stuff like Slayer, like that,
Mega Death, you.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
But Metallica, Ozzy, Black Sabbath, I considered them hard rock.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Liked also hard rock, but they were considered metal.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
At the back of the day. Yeah, yeah, and then
now you look back at it and those bands have
some musicality to them. Yes, you know today some of
the bands you just mentioned, there's nothing. I mean again,
I don't want to offend anybody that likes that music,
but it's like, yeah, it's just it's just it's there's
not a lot of dynamic music components to it.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
No, it sounded like they were gargling glass.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah, but we do it. It's so funny. We have
I don't like ten cuts of Ozzy Osbourne audio and
before the show, Camp and I are talking and he's like, yeah,
I got these, I got all this audio. He's like,
of the ten, I can probably only play about four
of them because you can't understand what Ozzy is. And
(01:51):
I felt so bad play the one play the one
that you could play four where the legacy of Ozzy's
reality TV show, I.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Think it's what it was on the amount No. One, two,
three shows or bits and pieces. It's kind of kind
of a living diary, you know. And my my, my
children's children will shove something to show their kids. This
is what your grandfather and we were loving them with
kids you.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Know what got it? Okay, clear two shows. Well, my
wife and I were talking last night and we watched.
You know, I'm not a big TV watcher, especially not
a big reality TV watch either. This is this was
one of the very early reality shows where you followed
a celebrity around and it was entertaining. And if nothing,
(02:41):
I mean Ozzie, whether you like his music or not,
wasn't entertaining.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Character for no other reason than for what we just
heard a second ago.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, it is frustration, yelling, for sharing.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I mean, just the slurring, and then they got the
British accent and you know the brain. You know, maybe
it wasn't a thousand percent after all of the over
the years. Yeah, but the show was incredibly entertaining the kids,
you know, coming in and out, and he had his dogs,
and he'd be wearing his rub shirt kind of stumbling around.
And it's just a number of historical moments. I mean,
(03:16):
he he bit the head off a bat, whether it
was a plastic bat or not, I don't know the
truth there. I think he also maybe bit the head
off of a dove. He was talking to some record executives.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
The animal rights people were on him for decades not happy.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Remember he peed on the Alamo. I mean like these
moments of and then he's saying, take me out to
the ball game. I think this wasn't but okay, I
think this was. Was this in Chicago? And yeah, Wrigley
Field in Chicago in two thousand and three.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
I know, please show out.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Did you catch did you catch them?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
One lyric where he says I don't remember a single
thing I did.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
He said something like that, I don't remember what.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I just think, Yeah, he uh, a piece of work.
Let's do uh. The next cut eight, This is how
Ozzie prepares for a live show. What I do?
Speaker 6 (04:44):
I have these types.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
There are vocal warm up types, and I go through
the warmth brew soon and tell it took Sharon ten
years or so to persuade me to use his warmants.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Just go for it, you know, and my voice used
to blow it.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
I'm trying to do some physical warm ups and and
so you know, you know, asked abount upstairs, Mike the
schell go, you know, for for him, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
And again those are the ones that are the most Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
All I heard was I asked the man upstairs for
some help with my voice before a show. That's all
I was able to pick out of that one. Okay,
But so you remember when Ozzie was scheduled to play
here oz Fest. Yeah, in ninety seven at the Old
German and it was Polaris Amphitheater, then Germaine Amphitheater, but
(05:28):
it was Polaris first, and it was ninety seven and
Ozzie he wanted to be a part of the Lollapalooza
tour and they said, you're not. It doesn't really fit.
This isn't the kind of music. Your style is old
and it's had its day, but we don't think it's
a good fit that you joined the Lallapalooza tour. So Sharon,
(05:49):
who was very entrepreneurial and as his manager and always
had his best interest or her best interest in in mind,
she created oz Fest and said, well, do our own thing.
You get a bunch of hard rock and heavy metal bands.
You're the headliner that closed the show. So in nineteen
ninety seven Ozfest was in Columbus at Polaire's Amphitheater and
(06:11):
you know, you got I don't know what twenty thousand
people at the Amphitheater there and then they had a
bunch of warm up bands and then they came out
and announced that Ozzie will not be playing tonight because
if he was ill or he lost his voice or
something and people lost it. It was a riot, full
on riot nineteen ninety seven at what is now a
(06:33):
top golf and had an Ikea up at the Yelled
Plaire's Amphitheater site. But they were throwing garbage cans and
ripping up sod. There was that wooden fence that was
I guess a sad. They lit the fence on fire.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
The Feds really, well, that's awesome, awesome, it's awful, but
it's funny.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
It's just a part of the lore that is Ozzy Osbourne.
But yeah, he's no longer with us at seventies six
years old, and I'm really happy for him that he
was able to play that one final show with Black
Sabbath two weeks ago at that at that charity concert
because they they were not always because they kicked him
(07:15):
out because of his drug abuse problems. They kicked him
out and that's when he started his solo career in
the eighties and then the early nineties.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I do have the last the ending of that if
you like, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
You know it's not Pete Ozzie. And this again, this
is two weeks ago. It's not clearly not him at
his best. But I gotta tell you, for seventy six
years old and you know, dealing with Parkinson's for the
last five years, he didn't sound terrible.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
And you could tell he was getting choked up.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
He knew that that was it, that was the last time.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yeah, when he says I can't stand to say goodbye,
you can hear the crack of not just because of
what you're saying, the health that he was battling.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, you can hear the emotion in his voice.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah. Yeah, So a rock icon, Ozzy Osbourne has left
the building.
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