Holy_Terror wrote:
Yeah Ozzy is shit. Ozzy has made a career by standing on the shoulders of giants. Iommi, Rhodes, Lee, etc. All of these guys were absolutely magnificent guitar players and kept ozzy from sucking. Once he started playing with guitarists who worshipped him and didnt have the balls to conduct any sort of quality control the music began to suffer. Zak Wylde, while being a great guitar player, deferred to Ozzy way too much, and then when he finally did start speaking up, it came out sounding like a Black Label Society album....which is no good. Gus G. is getting a huge paycheck, and will play whatever he is told. Long gone are the days of Ozzy being able to take credit for other people's brilliance. He's steering the ship now, and has been for many years, which is why that ship has been sinking for the last two decades.
Exactly, with the amendment added. Sharon's father RAN A FUCKING RECORD COMPANY. Obviously she made Ozzy Osbourne into one of the most "acceptable" performers from that perspective if you all get my drift.
But just in case, that means his work is designed to sell copies. End of story. His limitations as a musician and lack of any positive or acceptable image in the 80's simply prohibited him from being a pop artist. They had to compromise this by appealing to Black Sabbath fans and whatever mainstream metal fad is going on at the time. Of course it is all by Sharon's design based on industry knowledge. And by the way Ozzy Osbourne has always been given a massive push by his label. Whatever treatment Madonna and Prince got, so did he. In other words, if he released an album on Sanctuary Records or something and avoided the radio as much as anyone on that type of label, it wouldn't sell dick either because the usual fan wouldn't know it was released. Ozzy Osbourne might as well buy Concrete Corner (or whatever equivalent) since they were working for him. My favourite record store still has piles of promotional material left over since the place opened.
Anyway, that's enough of the backstage bullshit. Ozzy has ridden the coattails of everyone he worked with. I mentioned earlier he does not even act as the vocalist in his band, but actually (and I do mean this literally) he is a karaoke singer. Mike Portnoy has the version of "No More Tears"with the producer actually singing the songs.
Sharon can go fuck herself. Black Sabbath, and yes, the most consistently cohesive form of it has to call itself something else.
This is more bullshit. Sharon probably had Black Sabbath, Inc. (every band has a version of the band with the inc. after the band name. For example, Megadeth, Inc. consists of Dave Mustaine only. You figure it out.) reorganized to include Ozzy, Hell, Tony is probably not aware that this was even conditional at all, so now Sharon and Ozzy get to claim until they relinquish any such ability that only Ozzy is Black Sabbath, conveniently forgetting the 20 years he was not in the band.
It gets even worse. It could have been really special if Dio's last show was a member of the official version of Black Sabbath.
