ya-gabor Posted July 22, 2025 Share Posted July 22, 2025 (edited) Ozzy Osbourne dies at 76 I was lucky to see a Black Sabbath gig in late 70’s in London at Hammersmith Odeon. What a concert and what a music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is gone but his music stays forever! Just two weeks ago Black Sabbath played the last concert with Ozzy in front. Rest in Peace Gabor Edited August 26, 2025 by ya-gabor Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gwen Phoenix Posted July 22, 2025 Share Posted July 22, 2025 (edited) Ah, a man with such good taste in music, Mr Gabor, sir. Started listening to Ozzy in the early '90s, aprox; I think that the first album I got was Diary Of A Madman - it blew me away, instantly! Then came to learn of his performance in Black Sabbath, but I especially liked his solo career with Randy Rhoads; what an excellent era that was. Blizzard of Ozz was a great album as well. Started getting much of his previous discography with Black Sabbath. I have very fond memories of his album The Ultimate Sin in '86 for reasons I won't disclose in public. Don't think he's ever been to Cape Town?, so missed one of the best live shows ever! No More Tears is one of my favourite albums, but the albums I play the most are Tribute and We Sold Our Souls For Rock 'N' Roll. Best song by Ozzy to me would obviously be See You On The Other Side. Finally! Rock In Peace, Ozzy! Cheers, Gwen Edited July 22, 2025 by Gwen Phoenix Need to embbed one video, but... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
riffraff Posted July 23, 2025 Share Posted July 23, 2025 Ozzy was my first concert , Diary Of A Madman. That was soon after Randy Rhodes died. A great introduction to live music!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ya-gabor Posted July 24, 2025 Author Share Posted July 24, 2025 Searched in my Archive (and in my brain). Here is the official programme for the show. It was a ten years anniversary show to promote the Never say Die! album. The ticket shows that it was on 11th of June (Wikipedia is stating wrongly that Hammersmith show was on 10th) at 8 PM with Van Halen as support group. We were there at Hammersmith waiting to be let into the concert hall. It was some time before it was announced that the gig was cancelled due to unspecified health issues. So in about a weeks time on 19 th we went back and the Black Sabbath show was on without any problems but Van Halen was no longer part of the act. The Sabbath concert was fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!! I only learned later that this was the very last show the band did in its original line up in England. Ozzy was out of the band next year. : ( : ( It could be that our original show on 11th was cancelled due to some of these reasons. We will never know. Also the June 19th show was the very last in UK before they went on to the US. They never returned to England with the original line up on that tour. The cancelling could have left a bad taste in the mouth but it did not! There was absolutely no problem, we went back a weeks later to see them. No problem at all! Best regards Gabor Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alternative 4 Posted July 25, 2025 Share Posted July 25, 2025 That tour program is an awesome collectable, and Gwen...the Ultimate Sin....god only knows! In some ways his wealth doesn't account for his influence on music. Black Sabbath's Vol. 4 alone spawned about 1000 bands. The musicians he surrounded himself with have had a huge influence in the metal genre. Randy was always far more interesting to me than Eddy Van Halen. When I started to listening to Ozzy in the mid 90's he was retired, if you told me he would last another 30 years I wouldn't have believed you. If you haven't already, I highly recommend watching Jack and Ozzys world detour. Ozzy and his son travel the USA and UK visiting interesting sites and most of all having fun. If the Osbournes was goofy, this show is endearing. For all his flaws he was a nice and humerus guy. Bonus points if you watch the Osbourne's want to Believe. What a diary that madman left Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ya-gabor Posted July 25, 2025 Author Share Posted July 25, 2025 That printed tour programme is just a physical representation of that event. It is in my archive along with a dozen others (RUSH, Rainbow, Deep Purple, Floyd . . .) What is far more important is what left behind in me from that Sabbath gig and this is where the spirit and work of Ozzy and the rest of the band comes in! As long as I live that memory will be with me, just as all other concerts I ever attended. And there were a lot of them. Good music is always good music! A memorable was Queen here in Budapest from which a film was made. No recording or video could ever give back the real atmosphere of that show!!!!! It was superb! Or Genesis both here (Invisible Touch tour June 1987 just few weeks before recording the famous Wembley concert) and also in Vienna Prater (We Can’t Dance tour July 1992). Just to mention few. Each of those bands were at the zenith of their carrier. I was lucky, at the right place at a right time. We are mortals, we all know that, it is inevitable but still it is sad to see greats like Ozzy go! : ( : ( : ( Best regards Gabor Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alternative 4 Posted July 25, 2025 Share Posted July 25, 2025 Which tour did you see Rush on? That's quite the concert history! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ya-gabor Posted July 25, 2025 Author Share Posted July 25, 2025 2 hours ago, Alternative 4 said: Which tour did you see Rush on? That's quite the concert history! Hi Alternative 4, Here is RUSH with “Personal Waves Tour” in 1980. It was good as well! Excellent music! I don’t know if anyone remembers these bands!? I did see Deep Purple both in classic line-up as well as in “parts” so to say. : ) : ) UFO had a great live show! And here is something very different. Tangerine Dream. Does the name ring a bell??? The “Encore” live album was released at that time. I can only recommend to anyone to listen to “Coldwater Canyon”. As I have implied good music is good music! : ) : ) It doesn’t have to be just hard rock. Shown are only the official programme booklets, but I also have a lot of original posters from those times. : ) : ) Best regards Gabor Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alternative 4 Posted July 26, 2025 Share Posted July 26, 2025 Your talking my language there, Permanent Waves is a Top 5 Rush album for me, seeing them on that tour would have been amazing. I was lucky enough to see them twice in 2015. Which Tangerine Dream album would you recommend? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ya-gabor Posted July 26, 2025 Author Share Posted July 26, 2025 3 hours ago, Alternative 4 said: Your talking my language there, Permanent Waves is a Top 5 Rush album for me, seeing them on that tour would have been amazing. I was lucky enough to see them twice in 2015. Which Tangerine Dream album would you recommend? Hi Alternative 4, The LP’s I have are the ones which I like the most, but everyone has a different taste, so . . . The best for me is Encore, the double live LP. It is fantastic. My first album from them was Stratosfear in 1976. I loved it and it was the reason why I wanted to see them live. Also have Force Majeure from 1979, also a good album. Somewhere on cassette’s also have few of the earlier recordings. But certainly it is ENCORE and if have to name one track in particular then it is the already mentioned Coldwater Canyon!!!! WWWOOOOWWWW Unfortunately Edgar Froese the heart behind Tangerine Dream is no longer with us, but he left behind a lot of excellent music which will live on! Just as the works by Ozzy to get back on the subject. Best regards Gabor Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ruud Posted July 27, 2025 Share Posted July 27, 2025 There are two corner stones to Metal, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin imho. I got to see BS on their last tour. Ozzy was very limited physically but still sounded great. RIP Ozzy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gwen Phoenix Posted August 11, 2025 Share Posted August 11, 2025 Ozzy Osbourne + Dez Fafara = Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HOLMES Posted August 23, 2025 Share Posted August 23, 2025 Oh, I didn't know this. Sad news. I was away in Africa when he died and only just returned. MY condolences to his family and his fans. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gwen Phoenix Posted August 26, 2025 Share Posted August 26, 2025 Okay, but Osbroune...??? Poor chum must be turning in his grave. Please someone tell @ya-gabor about this insolence. Are you dyslexic, Mr Gabor, sir? Cheers, Gwen Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ya-gabor Posted August 26, 2025 Author Share Posted August 26, 2025 7 hours ago, Gwen Phoenix said: Okay, but Osbroune...??? Poor chum must be turning in his grave. Please someone tell @ya-gabor about this insolence. Are you dyslexic, Mr Gabor, sir? Cheers, Gwen Yeah, You are right in the title there was a missspriint but (unfortunately) the actual news had it all right even if the news is extremely sad: Ozzy Osbourne dies at 76 I was lucky to see a Black Sabbath gig in late 70’s in London . . . Thanks anyway, carrected Best regards Gbore Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gwen Phoenix Posted August 28, 2025 Share Posted August 28, 2025 On 8/26/2025 at 4:57 AM, ya-gabor said: Yeah, You are right in the title there was a missspriint Thanks anyway, carrected Gbore 😄 Ah, you're such a Rodney, Mr Gabor, sir. Our gordo can rest in peace now Cheers, Gwen Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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