Ozzy Osbourne - The Prince Of Darkness Passed Away at 76 Years Old

00:00:00.080 Hey, what's going on? This is John. Of
00:00:01.920 course, Dererick's in the room with me
00:00:02.960 and we uh we had to jump on cuz it's a
00:00:04.720 sad day today, Derek.
00:00:06.000 Yeah. Uh Aussie is uh left us. Um and
00:00:10.719 you know what's funny about it is is
00:00:13.120 like you kind of felt like he was going
00:00:15.360 to be like rolled out there till he was
00:00:17.279 90, you know, playing um playing music
00:00:20.160 like Sharon was going to keep him going.
00:00:22.400 like I didn't think that the streaming
00:00:25.680 uh end that you know a couple weeks ago
00:00:27.680 was going to be the be it for Azie but
00:00:30.160 here we are. Um and it's not surprising
00:00:32.800 you know.
00:00:33.120 Well he was not a young man and he
00:00:36.640 I think we could safely say he didn't
00:00:38.480 take the best care of himself over the
00:00:40.239 years. He abused himself pretty
00:00:41.920 regularly. Definitely led the uh rock
00:00:44.000 and roll lifestyle and it showed in his
00:00:46.559 later years. But as you said, Azie just
00:00:49.200 kept delivering and and being around for
00:00:52.800 so long after we all kind of assumed
00:00:55.199 maybe he wouldn't be that. You're right.
00:00:57.440 I just kind of assumed it felt like Azie
00:00:59.680 would always be here. And the fact that
00:01:02.000 Azie has has now left the building is
00:01:04.879 kind of a shock. It shouldn't be, but it
00:01:07.119 is. Yeah. I was at a park with my dog
00:01:09.840 and kids, you know, just enjoying a New
00:01:12.560 England, you know, day and a cool one at
00:01:15.520 that in the summer and all of a sudden
00:01:17.200 it just pops up on my phone. I'm like,
00:01:18.720 "No way."
00:01:19.840 You know, and it's not surprising that
00:01:23.200 he went and did what he was supposed to
00:01:25.360 do, you know, he gave the world one last
00:01:28.240 performance and then it wouldn't
00:01:31.119 surprise me if it comes out that he kind
00:01:34.320 of gave up. maybe stopped taking his
00:01:36.240 meds, maybe overdosed himself, who
00:01:38.960 knows? And or maybe he just gave up. His
00:01:43.040 body was just he's just like, you know
00:01:44.560 what? I'm done. If I'm not going to
00:01:46.079 perform and I'm not going to do what I'm
00:01:47.840 meant to be doing
00:01:49.520 on this planet, time to go.
00:01:51.759 Yeah. You know, you hear about that, you
00:01:53.920 know, your grandparents that that it
00:01:55.840 went that way with my grandparents. My
00:01:57.360 grandmother passed away and within a
00:01:59.680 month, month and a half, my grandfather
00:02:01.360 passed away. And you hear that that they
00:02:02.960 just some you can just kind of I don't
00:02:05.119 want to say give up but realize that
00:02:07.920 I've done what I needed to do what I
00:02:10.000 wanted to do and I don't need to keep I
00:02:13.280 who knows how much suffering and you
00:02:14.879 know pain Aussie was dealing with we
00:02:17.040 know he was in bad shape he was not
00:02:18.720 walking much uh if at all
00:02:20.640 wasn't no Parkinson had Parkinson's had
00:02:23.760 you know robbed him of his ability to
00:02:25.599 walk so not great.
00:02:27.440 Yeah. So yeah, I think that the
00:02:29.280 possibility that Azie decided maybe it
00:02:31.680 was time to go is a is a legitimate one.
00:02:34.640 Um, whatever the case, uh, we are
00:02:38.080 fortunate to have been graced with the
00:02:40.239 stuff, the the music that he created and
00:02:42.480 and his persona for so long that, you
00:02:46.879 know, hey, it's it's a shame when you
00:02:48.720 lose somebody that you dig, that you
00:02:50.560 love, that you're into. Uh, but we're
00:02:54.080 all on the clock, you know, and Aussie
00:02:56.400 been on the clock since 1948.
00:02:58.720 Yep. 1948. Um, you know, and let's not
00:03:01.680 sugarcoat it. Aussie was no saint,
00:03:04.000 right?
00:03:04.400 Infidelity, tons of drugs. They talk
00:03:07.200 about hookers in Tony Iomi and Geyser
00:03:09.840 Butler's book.
00:03:11.360 Um, he was not a saint by any stretch of
00:03:15.040 the imagination. So, let's not,
00:03:17.840 you know, talk about him as being this
00:03:19.760 saintly figure. Um, but there will not
00:03:23.040 be another Aussie Osborne. And the
00:03:25.519 reason why is media was consolidated uh
00:03:28.959 when Black Sabbath came up. And you
00:03:32.239 layer that on top of the fact that Black
00:03:34.319 Sabbath uh really to Tony Iomi's riffs,
00:03:37.920 but Azy's ability to sing over those
00:03:40.400 riffs created heavy metal. There will
00:03:43.519 not be another Aussie Osborne. and for
00:03:46.560 him to have a Black Sabbath career and
00:03:49.599 then a solo career the way that he did
00:03:52.080 and be able to evolve as, you know, rock
00:03:55.040 and roll and metal evolved is absolutely
00:03:58.640 amazing. And again, there's so many
00:04:01.040 different media avenues now that exist.
00:04:03.920 You know, there's the the Tik Tok uh
00:04:06.879 stars, there's um you know, people that
00:04:10.080 go on Instagram, there's only fans. I
00:04:12.879 mean, it doesn't matter. There's
00:04:14.000 different avenues where you can get
00:04:16.079 famous, but at the time when Black
00:04:18.399 Sabbath came along to create heavy
00:04:20.320 metal, but also to have consolidated
00:04:22.560 media, it was Rolling Stone. You were on
00:04:25.520 Rolling Stone, right? And you were on
00:04:27.440 the radio. That was it. That was that
00:04:29.759 was how you got famous. Um, and so I
00:04:32.720 think that the days of the rock stars, I
00:04:34.479 think the days of um mega mega talents
00:04:38.639 that are, you know, paving new ways are
00:04:41.600 over. I think that there are people out
00:04:43.440 there creating great art and they're
00:04:45.759 doing it in smaller channels, but it's
00:04:48.240 not necessarily in this consolidated
00:04:50.639 media world that was around in the late
00:04:53.360 60s, '7s, and 80s.
00:04:55.520 Well, like you said, it was
00:04:56.479 consolidated. you couldn't if you wanted
00:04:58.720 to hear uh something that came out or or
00:05:02.479 moreover you heard
00:05:04.479 Mhm.
00:05:04.880 that Black Sabbath or whomever was
00:05:07.039 releasing an album, you waited until uh
00:05:10.320 a couple of weeks, a month before it it
00:05:12.800 hit uh the record stores and maybe you'd
00:05:15.360 hear one track on the radio if you were
00:05:17.360 listening at the right time.
00:05:19.440 And things were a lot more mysterious
00:05:21.360 then. I was thinking after I heard the
00:05:23.039 news today, I was thinking about what
00:05:24.880 period in my life and consequently Azy's
00:05:27.759 life was the one that you know what what
00:05:30.080 what is the time period that sticks with
00:05:32.400 me and for me it was the mid to late
00:05:34.880 80s. Uh that that's the Aussie that I
00:05:37.919 always go to. you know, he was at the
00:05:40.400 beginning he he started his solo career
00:05:42.880 early 80s and um Blizzard of Oz with
00:05:46.639 Randy Rhodess was uh what 86 I think
00:05:49.840 maybe
00:05:50.720 and that you know I was young enough I I
00:05:53.759 was Sabbath was still a band when I was
00:05:56.960 born in the early 70s and but my really
00:06:00.960 musical maturity started happening in
00:06:02.960 the early 80s and that was the Aussie
00:06:06.240 that that sticks with me you know
00:06:08.479 dressed in yellow and black and Randy
00:06:10.160 Rhodess with a polka dot flying V. What
00:06:12.400 what's the period uh what's the Aussie
00:06:14.800 period that that sticks and resonates
00:06:16.639 with you? Yeah, I I was uh Slayer in
00:06:19.840 1984. um change my world and you know
00:06:23.360 obviously through exploration you go to
00:06:26.479 black I went to Black Sabbath and
00:06:28.400 interestingly enough my mom had this um
00:06:32.479 excellent taste
00:06:33.520 and you know their first record and when
00:06:35.919 I heard the song Black Sabbath with you
00:06:38.800 know the church bells and Satan comes
00:06:41.759 around the bend I was like oh you know
00:06:44.400 Slayer is cool but these are the
00:06:46.240 godfathers of evil
00:06:48.479 and it blew my mind and so I dug dug
00:06:50.800 this out of, you know, in between Steely
00:06:53.280 Dan and the Rolling Stones. Um, and
00:06:55.919 listened to that and then I found Black
00:06:58.800 Sabbath's Masters of Reality, which was
00:07:00.800 also my mom's.
00:07:02.880 And these are all the originals. They
00:07:04.720 still play. Um, but when I heard
00:07:07.599 Children of the Grave, uh, I was like,
00:07:11.280 "This has to be where Anthrax and
00:07:14.560 Metallica,
00:07:16.319 um, you know, and even if you think
00:07:18.000 about Sepura, where they got the idea of
00:07:20.479 like these tribal drum beats, Children
00:07:22.560 of the Grave had to be it with Bill
00:07:24.160 Ward, you know, with with the different
00:07:26.160 the the the drum beats and and it just
00:07:29.280 blew my mind." And then obviously, you
00:07:31.360 know, Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath. Um,
00:07:33.759 another one that I found in my mom's,
00:07:36.000 uh, records. Um, I saved these records.
00:07:38.240 I saved all my mom's records. I ended up
00:07:40.000 getting a hernia and had to have hernia
00:07:41.919 operation saving Black Sabbath. Um,
00:07:44.960 because she was ready
00:07:46.080 a worthy cause, right?
00:07:47.680 Yeah. She had she was ready to chuck
00:07:49.360 them. Um, and I, you know, I kind of
00:07:51.360 blame Azie for having a hernia operation
00:07:54.400 now having that mesh in there. And I
00:07:56.080 probably should get it taken out and I
00:07:58.160 probably have a lawsuit. Who knows? Um,
00:08:00.720 but you know, saving these three records
00:08:03.360 along with some other stuff, including
00:08:05.039 Steelely Dan and the Rolling Stone and
00:08:06.720 the Beatles and all that stuff, you kind
00:08:08.479 of got to save it. Uh, glad I did. You
00:08:11.440 know, back to Azie, you know, these
00:08:13.840 three were, you know, it and then
00:08:17.039 obviously um, you know, number four and,
00:08:20.639 uh, and and and, uh, Sabotage. Uh, Black
00:08:23.280 Sabbath for me was Aussie. Um, I did get
00:08:25.599 to see Black Sabbath two times after 13
00:08:28.879 and then on their um on on the end tour.
00:08:32.000 Um, and obviously they tone they tuned
00:08:34.399 everything down to match Azy's voice
00:08:36.479 because he couldn't hit the high notes
00:08:37.919 anymore. Um, but it was still really
00:08:40.240 cool to be in the room
00:08:42.320 um with Legends, the guys who created it
00:08:45.279 all,
00:08:45.680 the OG. Yeah. Well, it's uh it's it's a
00:08:49.040 sad day. If you if you like music, if
00:08:51.519 you like heavy music at all, you're
00:08:53.040 feeling uh you're feeling it. But uh the
00:08:55.920 darkness is coming for all of us, man.
00:08:57.839 And it knocked on Aussy's door today.
00:08:59.760 It sure did. And there's nothing you can
00:09:01.519 do about it except and take this and and
00:09:03.920 and I I would like to think that Aussie
00:09:05.920 wouldn't want us all to be bummed out,
00:09:08.160 right? And so what I did was I got in
00:09:10.560 the car with the kids and the dog and we
00:09:13.200 blasted, you know, Crazy Train, Bark at
00:09:16.560 the Moon, uh we played some of uh I
00:09:19.760 played Symptoms of the Universe, which
00:09:21.760 is really to me the beginning of Thrash
00:09:23.920 Metal. And if you're going to listen to
00:09:25.839 Azie and you're going to listen to
00:09:27.200 Symptoms of the Universe, um listen to
00:09:29.600 the live past lives record and Symptoms
00:09:32.880 of the Universe cuz it's raw. It's
00:09:35.040 thrashy. Azie is fired up. Iaomi is
00:09:38.399 ripping. Geyser is rumbling along. And
00:09:41.760 Bill Ward is a monster on the kit. And
00:09:44.959 so I would say listen to that. Give an
00:09:47.279 ode to Aussie. He would absolutely I I
00:09:49.760 pretty confident he wouldn't want us
00:09:51.200 bummed out. He'd want us to turn it up.
00:09:53.040 Agreed. Agreed. Well, on that note, I am
00:09:55.680 going to head back into the house and
00:09:57.360 I'm going to crank some Sabbath and some
00:09:58.959 Aussie myself. So, a tip of the cap to
00:10:01.120 the OG.
00:10:01.839 Yeah. Thank you, Aussie, for everything.
00:10:03.519 And um you know, we're we're going to
00:10:05.440 miss him, but he'll never die.
00:10:07.120 That's right. The music keeps going. All
00:10:08.720 right, man. Be well.