Ozzy Osbourne

Well I missed a while in here since I posted Heavy Metal Roundup - Judas Priest, but I'm back now so I'm writing some stuff about one of my all time favorite guys in the heavy metal business and that's Ozzy Ozbourne.

Ozzy Osbourne might a gotten hisself plastered all over everyones TV sets a few years back on his MTV show The Osbournes with Sharon and the kids, but that ain't what he's really famous for. Nope, he's one helluva rocker that feller!

Back in the start of things around 1970 if my memory still works ok and it probably don't, but that's sort a when I remember Black Sabbath getting together with Ozzy frontman and Tony Iommi on guitar, Geezer Butler on bass and man I can never remember drummers names! But they had this real heavy sound like no one else at the time I remember, course as I said my memory ain't what it was!

That Ozzy Osbourne was a lunatic alright, he was getting drunk and stoned so bad that sometimes he never turned up to a gig and the other guys were real pissed with him! But they stayed together for a lot a years and made some great albums up until Ozzy left to go solo.

And that's when he really came out and kicked everyone's asses! He got Randy Rhoads on guitar man that guy was a genius tons better than Eddie Van Halen and they made them first two albums, Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman and they were both pure genius. Ex-Rainbow bassist Bob Daisley wrote a lot of the songs and I only realized a long time after that their drummer Lee Kerslake was the old Uriah Heep drummer!

Then Randy went and got hisself killed in that plane crash with other guys in the band and we all thought, shit, that's the end of Ozzy! But the man bounces back with all kinds a stuff. Jake E Lee was a great guitarist too and they mad Bark At The Moon and it was totally brillaint. They follwed that a few years later with The Ultimate Sin which was also pretty cool.

Then Zakk Wylde took over guitar from Jake and No Rest For The Wicked got released I reckon around 1988. All that while Bob Daisley stayed with the band writing most of their songs and man he was the unsung hero of Ozzy's solo carreer. Then for a while Geezer Butler came back to do a tour with the band so I dunno what happened to Daisley in that time.

Well, into the 90s and No More Tears got released and Ozzy was still doing the heavy metal shit and not stopping for nothin! Well couple years later he decided to retire from touring and sis the "No More Tours" tour - funny name man! Then he got sick of not touring and came back with his "The Retirement Sucks Tour" and released Ozzmosis as well. What a guy!

Ozzy then got together the Ozzfest that gave a load of new bands a chance to get known and it made him a shitload of money too. But hey, that's fucking music for you! I just found another great site with more stuff on Heavy Metal Music thats worth a good look at so give it a shot.

That's it I'm gettin tired of typing with my two fingers on this thing!

See you all laters

Kenneth
Ken's Metal Blog