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We just lost Ozzie.
I was first to discover Black Sabbath among my peers with their dark lyrics and heavy riff based guitar tunes that appealed to adolescents like me. The group has been credited with being a predecessor to heavy metal.
Ozzie didn’t have the greatest voice but it suited the music and thanks to his wife, Sharon, his career was resurrected more than a few times. He was quite a character, a performer and part of my early musical path. I’ll remember him fondly.
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Wow, crickets…..
I think my main affinity for Ozzie was his association with legendary guitarists Tony Iommi and Randy Rhoads.
Did I mention that when I was 13 I painted my bedroom deep purple with a black ceiling (my parents were sooo tolerant).
C’mon, I know there’s some Black Sabbath fans out there!
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In high school, I listened to Black Sabbath until Black Sabbath Vol 4 – after that, I discovered The Allman Brothers Bamd and various blues rock bands shortly after that..
I always liked Ozzy’s voice, like you said, it was well suited for their music.Can’t remember who it was but another well known singer was talking about the ability of Geezer Butler & Bill Ward to switch between time signatures so effortlessly. If you listen to the first 4 albums, they may switch time signatures in a single song 3-4 times and very complicated time signatures – Black Sabbath is really amazing when you listen to them from that aspect
Interesting part of their history, prior to the name Black Sabbath, they were a blues rock band called Earth.
My fav Brit player, Alvin Lee, was from Nottingham and Earth/Sabbath was based in Birmingham, which was about an hour apart. Alvin, having connections, helped them get gigs and recording time…
Supposedly, Alvin advised against the name change to Black Sabbath……and the rest is history -
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Paranoid, Iron Man, War Pigs were all part of my youth John. Thankfully, per my parents, I grew out of that musical phase pretty quickly! But you gotta give Ozzy and of course Sharon a lot of credit for turning his life around multiple times and surviving as long as he did. R.I.P. Ozzy.
Joe
The sight of a touch, or the scent of a sound,
Or the strength of an Oak with roots deep in the ground.
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Hi John , yes sad news this week of Ozzy’s passing, I can’t say I was a die hard Black sabbath fan , but still appreciated his music , and what a character he was !
the song paranoid was always prominent in my youth , hearing it frequently at our local disco back in day .
This song was also covered by musician Jo Burt , who now resides in the West Country UK , Jo toured with Black sabbath in 1987 as there bassist, and I guess he covered the song as a nod to his time spent with them ,once the Eternal Idol tour ended Jo left the band .
I’ve watched Jo many times in the last few years with his own band and smaller acoustic gigs across the West Country . He is indeed a fine musician.
I think he is less busy these days , but here is a link to his spin on paranoid I think you’ll agree he gives it a totally different flavour .
Martin.Here is his thoughts on the cover
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Well, that’s certainly different, Martin. I think that simple melody goes a little better with power chords, though.
Rick Beatto commented that Ozzie wrote and sang a lot of melodies over guitar riffs and that was a very difficult thing to do. Those melodies tend to be very repetitive and I think, without the guitar riffs, that’s why Burt’s interpretation doesn’t work for me.
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