Speaker 1: When I think of out of control rock stars, I
Speaker 1: immediately think of Willy B. From our sister station over
Speaker 1: there on KVP. I JK, You're not an out of
Speaker 1: control rock star anymore.
Speaker 2: No. Well, you know, since the kids, I've calmed down
Speaker 2: a little bit. Some would say, but.
Speaker 3: What a sad day, man.
Speaker 2: I got the news just a minute ago too, and
Speaker 2: I was blown away by you know, his farewell show
Speaker 2: was just a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 1: We looked it up July fifth, so seventeen days ago
Speaker 1: he had his farewell concert. And think about this, though,
Speaker 1: Willy like talk about a guy who did it on
Speaker 1: his own terms from start to finish, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: this guy was He was the original Madman, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? And I remember, and you grew.
Speaker 4: Up in the Bible Belt as well. I know where
Speaker 4: you grew up and.
Speaker 2: Why records backwards more than any youth group in Kentucky.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, it's crazy to me that the Prince
Speaker 2: of Darkness gave the biggest contribution to his local children's house,
Speaker 2: Little Hand to Fit Parkinsons, and he gave the biggest
Speaker 2: contributes one hundred and ninety million from that concert, A
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago to several charities. It was the
Speaker 2: largest charitable donation ever. And that was the same guy
Speaker 2: that in youth group we would play his records backwards
Speaker 2: over and over, and Billy, my youth leader, was just
Speaker 2: hard struck on the fact that he was saying things
Speaker 2: about the Devil or you know, things like that. I
Speaker 2: look at it now and I can't believe I'm stealing
Speaker 2: shocked like everybody.
Speaker 4: Else, you know, the whole story. The reason that he
Speaker 4: was considered.
Speaker 1: To be like the devil was partly because he bit
Speaker 1: the head off of a bat, which may or may
Speaker 1: not have happened exactly like the word got out. But
Speaker 1: to the point that I made earlier, which he was
Speaker 1: trying to get He was trying to break through, right.
Speaker 4: And and so what does he do.
Speaker 1: He acts like a maniac and it worked.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know the story about that somebody he
Speaker 2: thought it was a rubber bat and somebody threw it
Speaker 2: up on stags and he just grabbed it and bit it.
Speaker 2: It was. It was a real bath.
Speaker 4: God, I gives you the creeps just thinking about it.
Speaker 4: I mean gross.
Speaker 3: But if you think about the pop culture, the MPD
Speaker 3: had the Osbourne for how many years. Yeah, if you
Speaker 3: think about all the things that occurred around that man's life,
Speaker 3: the influence that he had on every band in rock
Speaker 3: and roll, Every band you know that I've heard of
Speaker 3: in years they label they'll.
Speaker 2: Put Black Sabbaths, and Ozzy is a big influence. So,
Speaker 2: I mean, he's influenced everybody in rock and road for
Speaker 2: decades now. It's just insane.
Speaker 1: Well not only that, nobody else sounds like Ozzy, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's just nobody else sounds like Ozzy. Nobody
Speaker 1: sounded like Black Sabbath. And it kind of felt and
Speaker 1: I just said this to Nia. I think the reason
Speaker 1: that this is kind of a shocking death even though
Speaker 1: he's had Parkinson's disease and he's really been a physical
Speaker 1: hot mess for like years now, this is not a
Speaker 1: new thing. But he felt like he was just never
Speaker 1: going to die, Like he's Keith Richards and you're just
Speaker 1: never going to die. And of course my first thought
Speaker 1: is like, where does Ozzy end up, like in the
Speaker 1: grand scheme of the afterlife?
Speaker 4: Right, Like where does that? Because you have to wonder, you.
Speaker 2: Know, I have no idea, man, I just can't believe
Speaker 2: the fans, the people that you know that that shock
Speaker 2: wave is going to take. The first ripple is just
Speaker 2: now occurring, but I imagine the sweep across the country,
Speaker 2: the globe, the world. You look at the millions of
Speaker 2: people that he influenced, fans, every you know, kid that
Speaker 2: picked up a guitar when it be you know, Black
Speaker 2: Sabbath or Ozzy of the kid, Uh, you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: his influence and his footprint is just gargantuan in in
Speaker 2: this industry, so much bigger than what people you know,
Speaker 2: initially think with everything. And it's just a wild day
Speaker 2: in rock because, like you said, you just didn't think
Speaker 2: that guy was ever going to die. He's been through
Speaker 2: so much.
Speaker 1: Exactly, and and you know, to your point, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at right now, when did Black Sabbath begin? Okay, Night
Speaker 1: teen sixty eight really is when Black Sabbath started being
Speaker 1: a band?
Speaker 4: Right, So that means.
Speaker 1: That they are only a year older than me, right, and.
Speaker 5: I'm old, I'm fifty five about doing fifty six, and
Speaker 5: that to have that kind of stamina and to continue
Speaker 5: to have the kind of visibility to kind of to
Speaker 5: continue to matter, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: The relevance to be able to still command you know,
Speaker 2: the crowds that just the bravado around Ozzy is a
Speaker 2: mitch right everything that he kind of does and as
Speaker 2: weird as he you know, he stumbles through sentences sometimes
Speaker 2: and other times. I've interviewed him once and it was
Speaker 2: so funny because one question you would ask him and he'd.
Speaker 6: Be like, well, I I think about this, I'm not
Speaker 6: sure about that, Yes, I like a car, And then
Speaker 6: the next one you would ask him, but he would
Speaker 6: just be completely clear, very cognitive, you know, sharp, and
Speaker 6: just just like.
Speaker 2: You were, just like, wow, he's on his game. And
Speaker 2: then next one and it would be off the rails.
Speaker 2: He's been like that for decades. But I mean, the
Speaker 2: man is such a figure and metal and rock and
Speaker 2: has had such influence. He's just hard. It's hard to
Speaker 2: think of him as not being around anymore. So when
Speaker 2: he just, you know, he said before that Farewell Show,
Speaker 2: because initially that Farewell Show is unique. It was weird
Speaker 2: because he was going to play a set with Black
Speaker 2: Sabbage and going to do his own set, and as
Speaker 2: time went on, his time on stage got whittled down
Speaker 2: to the point where he just did like three to
Speaker 2: five songs. I think on that Farewell Show a lot
Speaker 2: of people pay tribute to him, but he said he
Speaker 2: wanted to die on stage. You know what, he almost did?
Speaker 4: He did. I mean that's I don't know.
Speaker 1: We should all be so lucky as to be able
Speaker 1: to do what we love and do it until the
Speaker 1: very end and then die surrounded by our loved ones.
Speaker 2: Come on, I mean, he's he's I hate to say this,
Speaker 2: but he's a darker vers Cash.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in a weird way. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I guess that that's very right, very right, very similar
Speaker 1: trajectories in different genres of music. Well, we'll be I
Speaker 1: know that you're gonna be talking about him tomorrow in
Speaker 1: your morning show on kpp I. So if people want
Speaker 1: to have more reminiscence about Ozzy, uh man, this one's.
Speaker 4: Gonna leave am Mark though, Willie huge. All right, man,
Speaker 4: I'll talk to you later.
Speaker 2: Bye,