Ozzy!

[-=HipKat=-]

I appreciate all the Ozzy posts and tributes I've seen all over Social media today. Ozzy was my connection to music. To Rock n' Roll. To metal.

I was a Sabbath fan in High School, and Ozzy was just their singer, but when Blizzard came out, I had to have the album. I listen to it constantly. It was so... different than what was on the radio and what was Sabbath.

Then I got a picture disk with Mr. Crowley on it. I played that damn record - I know, I know - over and over and over, singing out loud so my whole neighborhood could hear it. I didn't know squat about singing then, but I knew Ozzy!

I remember when I went back to the Army after 30 days leave. I walked into the barracks and screamed at the top of my lungs, "The MADMAN is BACK!!!"

When I tried out for VOA, no one knew what to play, so I grabbed the mic and sang the bridge from NIB, and the room stopped. Kirk, who became my best friend - that I haven't talked to in 20 years, walked in and in his Kirk-way, "Huh, sounds just like Ozzy!"

That stuck with me for years. I saw him many times. Alone with Metallica, on Ozzfest twice, with Sabbath 4 times, and a few other tours in between. In awe, every time. I loved Ozzy like millions of people did. He was my alter-ego.

 

Back to the Begining was magic to me! I even paid to stream it - and get the T-shirt. Glad I did!

I see a lot of new-age Ozzy fans dropping Mamma I'm coming home and other recent songs, but this song, this was Ozzy. This was the definition of Ozzy - by Ozzy! Not some radio-friendly hit.
 

 

Edited July 23, 2025 by -=HipKat=-

[mraw435]

Grateful to have gotten to see Ozzy at Maidson Square Garden back in 2010 - fantastic concert!

 

 

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10 hours ago, mraw435 said:

Grateful to have gotten to see Ozzy at Maidson Square Garden back in 2010 - fantastic concert!

 

 

WOW! Great venue. I saw Pink Floyd at Yankee Stadium in '98.

LOVE NYC! IS that where you;re from, man?

[mraw435]

10 hours ago, -=HipKat=- said:

LOVE NYC! IS that where you;re from, man?

Use to live in CT so it was a short train ride into the city! Big fan of living there in between Boston and New York - plus it has the best pizza hands down! 

 

Old Yankees stadium was awesome too - i like the new stadium but it feels so....modern with so many screens everywhere. As a Boston fan, i like the old school feel of fenway when watching a game with overpriced food and drink! 

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54 minutes ago, mraw435 said:

Use to live in CT so it was a short train ride into the city! Big fan of living there in between Boston and New York - plus it has the best pizza hands down! 

 

Old Yankees stadium was awesome too - i like the new stadium but it feels so....modern with so many screens everywhere. As a Boston fan, i like the old school feel of fenway when watching a game with overpriced food and drink! 

Never been to Fenway. Drove by it on I-90 many times. I'm from Buffalo but used to work in both cities, often and sorry man, but Buffalo pizza is way better that NY City

[mraw435]

18 hours ago, -=HipKat=- said:

Never been to Fenway. Drove by it on I-90 many times. I'm from Buffalo but used to work in both cities, often and sorry man, but Buffalo pizza is way better that NY City

Agreed to disagree on the pizza! 

 

Ive been up to williamsville plenty for my old job - ill say the wings and beer in the buffalo area were superb! 

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4 hours ago, mraw435 said:

Agreed to disagree on the pizza! 

 

Ive been up to williamsville plenty for my old job - ill say the wings and beer in the buffalo area were superb! 

That's where I grew up, Williamsville. What kind've work? A long shot, but I worked for a company in Williamsville that had an office in CT

Edited July 25, 2025 by -=HipKat=-

[captnconcrete]

well he can now answer the words of one of his songs is god dead. lol me and my boy have been listening to sabath none stop sense his death. rip the god of metal.  i seen ozzy back in like 96 with Korn and the deftones.  ozzy isa god in his own right.!!!!! ill bet he's holding randy  up  and they are playing some bad ass metal tunes  !!!! in the metal clouds.  a plain ole plumber turned to a metal god..