Metal/Rock/Industrial Ozzy Osbourne

[Meatspin]

Wow. That is quite the lineup!

Have fun

Cheers dude, should be a great time.

 

[ricc505]

I've seen Ozzie, Dio, black Sabbath with Ozzie or Dio, and I've seen heaven & hell. Ozzie was the weakest performer. I hated the "I can't hear you", the jumping jacks and the theatrics, the zip lines, and bubble guns...... His influence is monumental but I don't listen anymore. Dio was better/different, Zakk Sabbath is better.

 

[Meatspin]

I've seen Ozzie, Dio, black Sabbath with Ozzie or Dio, and I've seen heaven & hell. Ozzie was the weakest performer. I hated the "I can't hear you", the jumping jacks and the theatrics, the zip lines, and bubble guns...... His influence is monumental but I don't listen anymore. Dio was better/different, Zakk Sabbath is better.

Dio fuckin rules, saw Heaven and Hell once in Sydney. Lost him a couple years after that

 

[ricc505]

What a loss it was. Such power from such a little guy

 

[Thrawn33]

I've seen Ozzie, Dio, black Sabbath with Ozzie or Dio, and I've seen heaven & hell. Ozzie was the weakest performer. I hated the "I can't hear you", the jumping jacks and the theatrics, the zip lines, and bubble guns...... His influence is monumental but I don't listen anymore. Dio was better/different, Zakk Sabbath is better.

Never got to see Dio, but I think most Ozzy fans will say musically Dio is in a different league.

Still....the bumbling old bastard was still entertaining on stage, and just..fun.

 

[TheNinja]

Not a Black Sabbath fan. Am an Ozzy fan. Not a smashing pumpkins fan. Am a fan of most other bands in that time and genre

 

[ricc505]

Never got to see Dio, but I think most Ozzy fans will say musically Dio is in a different league.

Still....the bumbling old bastard was still entertaining on stage, and just..fun.

i didn't enjoy the Ozzie live show, but I should note that I'm not knocking him or the fans. He is goofy bastard and like I said you can't understate what he and Black Sabbath contributed to much of the music I love. Some of the older metal guys seem to take themselves too seriously, and I liked it best when they would break character and just profess their love of their fans. For example King Diamond and Dio

A friend and myself approached a band at a small club. After complimenting them my friend asked them if they still play an old song. They got kind of agitated and told us they didn't take requests. 30 minutes later there called us out as the assholes and played the song. I loved it. The old guys are pretty funny

 

[Thrawn33]

i didn't enjoy the Ozzie live show, but I should note that I'm not knocking him or the fans. He is goofy bastard and like I said you can't understate what he and Black Sabbath contributed to much of the music I love. Some of the older metal guys seem to take themselves too seriously, and I liked it best when they would break character and just profess their love of their fans. For example King Diamond and Dio

A friend and myself approached a band at a small club. After complimenting them my friend asked them if they still play an old song. They got kind of agitated and told us they didn't take requests. 30 minutes later there called us out as the assholes and played the song. I loved it. The old guys are pretty funny

Lol my last two shows were Geoff Tate and Social Distortion, Tate still seemed even more a diva than he was damn near 30 years ago (but the fucker could still sing) but Social D was having a great time and were very appreciative, and rocked the place

Pantera (v2) this July! Can't wait to see Zakk shred some Dime!

 

[ricc505]

Lol my last two shows were Geoff Tate and Social Distortion, Tate still seemed even more a diva than he was damn near 30 years ago (but the fucker could still sing) but Social D was having a great time and were very appreciative, and rocked the place

Pantera (v2) this July! Can't wait to see Zakk shred some Dime!

Phil is better nowadays from my observation seeing Down, and I think Zakk is sober, not that I ever saw a bad show from him (6 shows). I'm not going to compare him to dimebag but he is a monster guitarist I'm his own right. He's the man they picked for a reason. Should be a good show

 

[JonnyBonesPharmacist]

Arent you English?

 

[Thrawn33]

Phil is better nowadays from my observation seeing Down, and I think Zakk is sober, not that I ever saw a bad show from him (6 shows). I'm not going to compare him to dimebag but he is a monster guitarist I'm his own right. He's the man they picked for a reason. Should be a good show

This'll be #4 for Zakk (2 BLS one with Ozzy)
Second time seeing Pantera.

Glad I grew up in the prime Ozzfest era (and for the early ones glad Mom was cool and took me..and rocked out.. before i could drive)...so many great acts were on that tour.. Ozzy, Sabbath, Pantera, Slayer, Tool, Megadeath, Priest, BLS, Slipknot, SoaD....all fucking day

 

[ricc505]

I was just thinking about system of a down, I saw them in 99 I think, they opened for clutch. Back in the day a coworker would take a bunch of us to ozzfest, he was stealing so much money from work he'd do that to keep us quiet

 

[Thrawn33]

I was just thinking about system of a down, I saw them in 99 I think, they opened for clutch. Back in the day a coworker would take a bunch of us to ozzfest, he was stealing so much money from work he'd do that to keep us quiet

Clutch was the shit in the 90s. Finally caught them at a random port-call when they opened for Flogging Molly 2011ish Couldn't pass up the opportunity and tickets were $40.

 

[Axe720]

Down to Earth came out when I was in school, and Ozzy was my gateway to Randy, Jake, Zakk, and Tony, all who inspired me as a guitarist (hell, throw in Brad Gillis for those who know). Ozzy is one of those rare artists that can do dark songs but also borderline pop stuff and still somehow make both of them work.

 

[italiamusica]

Looking forward to this

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Report back with how it was. It looks awesome, but it also sounds like Ozzy is barely singing with Black Sabbath and it's just a variety show with all these other people. It should be a legit Black Sabbath show. Also Sleep Token and Ghost are trash, it's like music for people who want to pretend to listen to metal, but they don't actually like heavy music and only want the aesthetic.

I hope it's a good show though, it just seems like Ozzy is in really rough shape and can barely stand, so hopefully he can actually sing and this isn't a cash grab for Sharon. Wheeling Ozzy's body out there for some last minute money. They just need to give him an oxy, coke, THC cocktail that'll make him feel good.

 

[italiamusica]

I got an even hotter take that St. anger, viewed as among their worst work is not bad at all

That's crazy lol, to me that is by far their worst album. Load, Reload, Black Album, Death Magnetic, had some OK songs, but St Anger is just sooooo weird.

 

[ThaiSexPills]

That's crazy lol, to me that is by far their worst album. Load, Reload, Black Album, Death Magnetic, had some OK songs, but St Anger is just sooooo weird.

Yeah, I get it. For some reason though, I just kind of line St. anger way more than other people. I still don’t like Metallica but I think it’s underrated. Load/reload are terrible.

 

[Boomb]

I'm not alone, am I?

No, you're not.

He's awful and I never got the appeal. It's probably that Sharon is some kind of genius manager and she built him to into this "metal god".

 

[Boomb]

St Anger is just sooooo weird.

I don't know what's the deal with that snare sound. It's like nails on a chalkboard. Who thought that it was a good idea.

St. Anger probably has a couple of good riffs on it, but unfortunately that snare drum makes it unlistenable.

 

[irish_thug]

Phil is better nowadays from my observation seeing Down, and I think Zakk is sober, not that I ever saw a bad show from him (6 shows). I'm not going to compare him to dimebag but he is a monster guitarist I'm his own right. He's the man they picked for a reason. Should be a good show

Zakk has been sober for more than a decade now. Had to or it would have killed him. I personally think he was the ideal choice to fill in for Dime. Totally different guitarists, but they were close friends. Also a good chunk of Zakk's career has been devoted to covering other guitar gods' work (Randy Rhodes, Tony Iommi, Hendrix, etc.). Zakk is on my personal mount Rushmore of guitarists.