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I wasn't a fan particularly. There was some concert back in the day. He was shirtless, overweight, wearing skin-tight pants and wandering the stage, much like Trump did in the Hilary/Trump debate. He would hold up is hands as claws and kinda sing.
He did get some good, talented folks to back him up. He was just selling a brand that didn't really connect with me. His later reality TV series just seemed like a vehicle for his wife/family and he was just a husk.
I did like to play Crazy Train as a slow, country-ish song, back in the Number 9 days. Puddles did a better cover than I ever came up with...
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Wow. Right after his final concert.
I worked the OzzFest at shoreline a few times. Those were fun. He’d close and I remember being moved by his rendition of War Pigs on year. I was up on the lawn, taking a break, and he dove into a blistering version.
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I was just remarking on the final concert to The Queen. Good timing. And by all accounts he did a great job.
When I was in college in Berkeley , I was awakened one morning by a call from a man purporting to be Ozzie. It was very weird.
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(07-22-2025, 11:50 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: I remember being moved by his rendition of War Pigs on year. I was up on the lawn, taking a break, and he dove into a blistering version.
Turns out I wrote up some OzzFest reviews, starting here 19 years ago...
19 years. Damn...
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TG - you should have said something about that. I totally would have played that. (Maybe you did say something and I was high and missed it.) Although Roman probably would not have gone for it.
It's a good song. I figured DM would have been more likely to mention "Mr. Crowley"
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My sitonmyfacebook feed is all about Ozzy right now. It’s frustrating because I know I have some Ozzy laminates or something I could post in his honor. I have a great pic of Joel and I taking down an Ozzy impersonator at Vegoose, and he’s convincing in the photo, but I can’t find it. I think it’s in an album back at the bungalow.
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Sounds like music from a John Carpenter film when played on xylophone...
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