Question:
LOL. That was just great! "This is not music, it’s fuckin loonies!", classic by Momma Osbourne! -Brian
Response:
{The following is an excerpt from the Dec 1993 issue of Metal Maniacs, during an Ozzy interview by Peter Moses entitled "Further OZbservations".} ‘Ozzy on what his "wasted" days were like:’ "That’s a bit of a dumb question, if you’ld excuse my phrasing. I mean, how can you explain your perceptions when you’re stoned? The answer is ‘No’, because that’s why you get stoned, to forget, ya know. I mean, it’s like, I mean people say, ‘You know when you were with Sabbath, what was it like?’ And ya know, there’s little pieces like when I first got off the plane for the first time and I came to New York and I couldn’t believe how wonderful and big and… I remember going to Miami for the first time and swimming in an open-air pool, and then after that it was cocaine and fuckin’ booze and drugs and women, ya know, and that was ‘the good old days,’ ya know. Then it became like a continual… I don’t really know what the fuck was happening, ya know, it just all everyday was a new experience and, take four guys out of a little bitty town in England and take ‘em in an airplane… and I’ll never forget flying to America for the first time and I’m thinking to myself, ‘This fuckin’ thing’s big, here in the air, I can’t understand how it’s flying for seven hours without gas., how the fuck can this thing fly for all this time without gas? Look at the size of it! We’re gonna crash!’ You know? But at the time, we didn’t sit down and go, ‘Oh, we’re gonna write this album called Volume Four and in fifteen year’s time it’s gonna be a fuckin’ miestone,’ nobody ever does that, ya know, you just do what you do,, ya know. I mean, people say to me, ‘What made you write "Symptom Of The Universe", or what made you write "Hole in The Sky"? Well, I don’t know, it just fucking came out, ya know? The formula was a lot different, we were very angry guys, we purposely went left wing, or right wing or whatever, we never went mainstream, we never went ‘Oh, that’s the current thing to do, so we’ll go…’ We always purposely went against the grain,, just to be fuckin’ awkward, ya know. Ya know, I remember making the first record, and I remember taking it home and my mother… I says, ‘Mom, I made a record’, and my mother was sitting there expecting me to sing like Al Jolson coming off the record, and these bells and rain start in and she looked at me aghast and said, "Are you for real?’ ya know, ‘You’re nuts or something! This is not music, it’s fuckin’ loonies’ and ‘I can’t get the rhythm, son, but your voice is okay.’" – Suzanne