Ozzy Osbornes died

[Ironic Indie Lad]

Managed to watch his sets from Back to the Beginning now.

So moving. Wow. It was moving at the time but its got a strange, other worldly sadness to it now.

Really thinking about the fact that Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill got to do it one last time and its hard to truly wrap my head around. Its so remarkable. When they formed, Abbey Road hadn't even fucking came out yet. Star Wars was still almost a decade in the future. So much time passed but yet the original four guys still managed to put on one final set and go out in the most dignified way. 

The morning after the show, I had a pretty early train back up to Glasgow. It was pouring at the time and it was an early Sunday morning so understandably not a lot of people were around. I was wandering around killing time and went to the bridge, the mural, the art gallery etc. Every where you looked there was Ozzy or Sabbath related stuff. Still the odd tourist getting final photos before going back home. I took some photos for people so they didn't have to make do with crap selfies.

What a surreal feeling. Just felt like the entire community and the entire culture were embracing this one band / artist all at the same time. I will probably never experience anything like this ever again.

Its really like he got to go to his own funeral. 

 

[CTXRussomark]

Undoubtedly the worst part of this is the sheer volume of shitty AI images that have started flooding every news feed I look at.  Ozzy and Lemmy in heaven, Ozzy and Lemmy in hell, Ozzy reaching heaven only to discover god is a giant bat.  Absolutely rotten, every last one of them. 

[cobra_gordo]

1 hour ago, CTXRussomark said:

Undoubtedly the worst part of this is the sheer volume of shitty AI images that have started flooding every news feed I look at.  Ozzy and Lemmy in heaven, Ozzy and Lemmy in hell, Ozzy reaching heaven only to discover god is a giant bat.  Absolutely rotten, every last one of them. 

And in amongst it there's this which a)genuinely made me laugh and b) I read in his voice

[gmoney]

I'm afraid that's shit as well, sorry mate. 

[SuperBacon]

I was confused wondering when Winnie the Pooh died to be honest.

[cobra_gordo]

14 minutes ago, gmoney said:

I'm afraid that's shit as well, sorry mate. 

I wish I could down vote myself to be honest

[CTXRussomark]

44 minutes ago, cobra_gordo said:

I wish I could down vote myself to be honest

I'm upvoting your self-downvote.  That one's particularly terrible as someone has tried (and failed) to be funny on top of the mawkishness. 

[TheBurningRed]

2 hours ago, CTXRussomark said:

Undoubtedly the worst part of this is the sheer volume of shitty AI images that have started flooding every news feed I look at.  Ozzy and Lemmy in heaven, Ozzy and Lemmy in hell, Ozzy reaching heaven only to discover god is a giant bat.  Absolutely rotten, every last one of them. 

There’s a Peaky Blinders greeting him in heaven one too. I won’t post the image, but allow you all to picture it in your minds. 

[SuperBacon]

I always wondered who enjoyed those sorts of images until I was in a group chat of around 100 football fans (don't worry, it's permanently muted)

[cobra_gordo]

22 minutes ago, TheBurningRed said:

There’s a Peaky Blinders greeting him in heaven one too. I won’t post the image, but allow you all to picture it in your minds. 

No, bloody well post it and take the heat off me for five minutes.

[Shirtie]

I've seen Ozzy twice in concert, Once at Ozzfeat 2002 and once with Black Sabbath at the Birmingham NEC in 1997 which at the age of 16 my Dad came along, He was never a metal fan, but it's a memory I hold dear, The sight of him trying to figure out what Fear Factory were at the time was hilarious. 

Both times amazing

[Surf Digby]

When my other half came and told me the news yesterday, my immediate reaction wasn't one of sadness. I'd accepted that he didn't have long left, and so instead I felt a sense of satisfaction that he'd had that one last incredible, seemingly impossible moment to show the world who he was, and what he could do.

As a young teenager stepping properly into the world of rock and metal, absorbing what was actually a massive amount of new music, Ozzy was in my top tier, along with Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Anthrax and Whitesnake.
I was loosely aware of him (I think the first time I saw him was his cameo as the vicar in Trick or Treat), and then the first time I watched an episode of Raw Power, it was a special episode with him to promote the No More Tears album. 

This picture pretty much sums up me in 1993. A pair of No More Tears era shades, and failing miserably to play Mr Crowley. Also, being the massive twat that I am, I played No More Tears as one of my GCSE performance pieces, thinking that the extensive range of techniques (slide, non-standard tuning, clawhammer for the piano part, etc.) would get me a good mark, despite being well aware that my music teacher hated anything that came about after 1940, and also hated electric guitars.

While I've always acknowledged Black Sabbath as pioneers, and being an influence on a lot of bands, it's only really reading Cobra's post that I've really realised that they were essentially the foundation of a staggering amount of sub-genres. Even bands that don't cite them as a direct influence, will have a clear lineage back to them from the generation of bands that came before.

This is one time where I'm grateful being as old as I am, because I saw Ozzy making his comeback from late 80s mediocrity in real time, just as I saw Metallica go black, and Nirvana destroy the spandex industry (two bands that wouldn't be what they were without Sabbath). I remember seeing the video premier of Mama, I'm Coming Home, and even though I'd already heard it on the album, it really showed it for the masterpiece it is.
It was great to be around when we were excited about Ozzy for the music, not for his drunken antics or shuffling round on reality TV being confused at everything, and that's Back To The Beginning was so great. 

For a guy that was never going to bow out gracefully, somehow, he actually did.

[SuperBacon]

Had The Osbournes on in the background last couple of days (all on Prime) and I know she gets a lot of hate, but Sharon saying to DMX "Where's that raggedy old arse of yours?" has made me laugh massively.

 

[deathrey]

53 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

Had The Osbournes on in the background last couple of days (all on Prime) and I know she gets a lot of hate, but Sharon saying to DMX "Where's that raggedy old arse of yours?" has made me laugh massively.

 

Have they scaled it up? I'm feeling the urge to rewatch it. I watched God Bless Ozzy Osbourne today which was pretty good. I say that as someone who is familiar with Ozzy's music but wouldn't call myself a fan, I know them mainly through bands I like covering Sabbath's music. Like many of you, my biggest exposure was when Meet the Osbournes arrived on MTV. 'I'm the Prince of Darkness and you're giving me fucking bubbles' plays in my head every time I'm blowing bubbles for the kids

[SuperBacon]

13 minutes ago, deathrey said:

Have they scaled it up? I'm feeling the urge to rewatch it.

Yeah, looks pretty good.