He Use To Drop Acid Before Interviews
He Use To Drop Acid Before Interviews
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If I recall correctly, the head biting was an accident.
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And it wasn't a bat. It was a bird. Dove or pigeon, IIRC. He thought it was a prop, not a real bird
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That was a different incident, when he was negotiating with his label, iirc. I think he brought two doves to release as a symbol of peace and when negotiations went south, he intentionally bit their heads off.
The bat incident is very well-documented, and is definitely a different story.
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How do you accidentally bite the head off a bat? That's like accidentally sticking your penis in someone other than your SO.
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He thought it was a toy or something thrown by a member of the audience, the biting was deliberate but the live bat part was an accident
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If you say oopsie daisy afterwards, it's an accident.
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Dude, the internet is full of videos of the latter. As far as I can tell that's a pretty frequent occurrence - your analogy does not hold.
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If I remember correctly it was supposed to be a rubber prop, but he didn't check and just went for it.
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OMG HE KILLED KENNY!!!
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You're thinking of Alice Cooper https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot1t9KZRsV4&list=PLAOj_bjbXN1YGZqCGw26osPoa7w8-i6Dq&index=3&pp=iAQB
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He's like the only major rock star from the 60s-80s period I can think of who I haven't heard about sexually harassing or assaulting someone at some point
The couple used to physically fight regularly and, according to Osbourne, they would "beat the shit out of each other." She has described herself as "a beaten woman" when she was at the hands of husband Ozzy where he once knocked out her front teeth. She once retaliated by throwing a full bottle of scotch at his head.
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From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Osbourne
The couple used to physically fight regularly and, according to Osbourne, they would "beat the shit out of each other." She has described herself as "a beaten woman" when she was at the hands of husband Ozzy where he once knocked out her front teeth. She once retaliated by throwing a full bottle of scotch at his head.
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That's hugely disrespectful to the namesake of the social network you're posting on.
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Ha, good point
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I think he was assaulted as a youth so he knew the damage and trauma that can cause. I doubt he would wish those experiences on anyone.
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Lemmy, Eddie Van Halen, Rob Halford, Ronnie James Dio off the top of my head.
Edit: Oh and Bruce Dickinson as far as I know has also always been a standup guy.
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The thing with ozzy is that all his demons were very firmly in his past and he owned up and fixed it for the most part. He used to be a drug addled asshole but he didn’t remain so
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No one person has ever invented a genre of music. Dont get me wrong, I won't argue against calling him the grandad of metal or whatever it is, but he INVENTED heavey metal? Fucking insane take.
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King Crimson's '21st century schizoid man' came out in '69, after the formation of black Sabbath but before their first album was released, and I think it has a decent claim to being a 'metal' song. There was definitely a vibe for that kind of musical experimentation around that time, although Black Sabbath can claim to be more defining of what 'metal' was.
Anyway yeah, agreed.
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You can waste all sorts of time on the net arguing with people about who started what genres. Then you start getting into terms like proto-metal, etc.
No personal issue with your choice because it's a fucking awesome song, but if wanted to be one of those assholes I'd say it's heavy prog rock, in the pool of music metal would later draw from. That said, I'm no musicologist, and somewhere right now there's someone in a black t-shirt with a very cool but difficult to read band name on it reading this, aghast.
I think we can all agree that Black Sabbath is a cornerstone in what metal generally (and specifically sludge, stoner metal, etc.) developed into.
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After making that comment, I went and compared first album dates with other bands I thought came out at a similar time, and sabbath was 5 or 10 yrs ahead of them. And Ive no idea when Earth got started. But yea King Crimson and some hippy rock who were getting a little heavier where the only big names I saw listed as metal in 1970.
I stand by he didnt invent it singlehandly, but dam if anyone else could contend for title of Grandfather of metal. I made it to a few ozzfeasts in the late 90s early 00s, great time. He fucking rocked.
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Well, Christian Vander invented Zeuhl, but he can damn well keep it.
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Tbf there are quite a few magnificent MAGMA albums out there. Certainly not as influental as the first four or five Sabbath albums, but on the progressive/psychedelic department, pretty damn good stuff.
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Why is no one mentioning that he once peed on the Alamo?... Does no one remember the Alamo?
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He didn’t piss on the actual Alamo but it was close enough Texas didn’t care
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The stars at night are big and bright.
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he use to
\sigh
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Ohh did he somehow dethrone Lucas being the Prince of Darkness?
Joke aside, RIP
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i actually needed this explanation, i'm young
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Ozzy Osbourne aka: the prince of darkness and his band Black Sabbath and later solo Ozzy, are some of the originators of what we now know as heavy metal. Ozzy was well known for onstage theatrics which were popular at the time for bands like Sabbath and Alice Cooper. Big stage shows showing fake gore and violence like the precursors to Gwar. They would act out killing people and animals on stage as part of their showmanship routine and throw offal and guts into the crowd. "Worship Satan". Have women in lingerie on stage for no reason but to get covered in "blood" or act like they were being murdered. Eventually the crowds started throwing stuff back. One such stage show involved a fan throwing a "live" bat on stage. Ozzy picked it up and bit it's head off "not knowing" it was alive. There are conflicting stories about this of course.
Much of this also led to the satanic panic we experienced as kids in the 80's and 90's.
Likely a lot of these actions were because Ozzy was a raging alcoholic and drug user for much of his professional life. There are lots of interviews with him completely fucked out of his brain. He would intentionally drop acid and booze before said interviews and sometimes even his band mates couldn't handle him. Like Kieth Richards people even joked that Ozzy would outlive everyone because he had done so much stupid shit publicly over the course of his life and survived.
Ozzy was one of the artists that morphed the huge epic stage shows of the 60's rock and roll era into the chaos and drama of early heavy metal. Aside from his shortcomings Ozzy was an original rock and roll master.
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It was not "his band". Although Ozzy was in Black Sabbath from the beginning, he was enlisted by Bill Ward and Tony Iommi together with Geezer Butler because as a drummer and a guitarist with a vision they needed bass and vocals with them.
Ozzy was kicked out in 1979 and started his solo career in the shock rock tradition he is mostly known for. The idea that sparked Black Sabbath however was a heavier blues than ever heard before and that was Ward and Iommi.
As you say, they were some of the originators of heavy metal. There is no single inventor of the genre. There never is. Culture is cross pollination and collaboration.
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Great summary, but just as a point of order apparently the bat might not have actually been alive when he bit it: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c72ppzwek90o
That being said, he apparently did on a separate occasion bite the heads off of two live doves. Dude was on hella drugs and alcohol, but goddamn was he talented.
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