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Used to totally dig his stuff.
Still do. From Sabbath throughout his first two solo albums and select tracks here and there from Bark At the Moon - No More Tears.
As the years wind on, just find I'm having less and less use for him. Kind of a gradual thing over the last two decades. Culmination of discoveries from 1983 onward, such as finding out that Butler and Daisley wrote his best lyrics (IMO), watching him get blown off the stage by opening acts Motley Crue and Metallica in 1984 and 19866 respectively, seeing him rise to the occasion a bit when Wylde first joined the band...
...by the early 1990s he pretty much stopped making decent music. Think the final straw was him letting his talentless, insipid family hijack his image and plant themselves right next to him/direct his comings and goings. Didn't find his permanently befuddled demeanor on the Osbournes so much comical as it was a little sad, and seeing Ozzy being mentioned by Bush, doing a soda commercial and performing for the Queen...well, Ozzy is little more than another brand name for me now, just like the Rolling Stones. And his wife just needs to go away. Her pulling that shit with Maiden just reflects back on him. Guilt by association. Ozzfest is a bore and the Black Sabbath reunion has already happened several times. He's got nothing left to offer.
I'm done with him.
Still do. From Sabbath throughout his first two solo albums and select tracks here and there from Bark At the Moon - No More Tears.
As the years wind on, just find I'm having less and less use for him. Kind of a gradual thing over the last two decades. Culmination of discoveries from 1983 onward, such as finding out that Butler and Daisley wrote his best lyrics (IMO), watching him get blown off the stage by opening acts Motley Crue and Metallica in 1984 and 19866 respectively, seeing him rise to the occasion a bit when Wylde first joined the band...
...by the early 1990s he pretty much stopped making decent music. Think the final straw was him letting his talentless, insipid family hijack his image and plant themselves right next to him/direct his comings and goings. Didn't find his permanently befuddled demeanor on the Osbournes so much comical as it was a little sad, and seeing Ozzy being mentioned by Bush, doing a soda commercial and performing for the Queen...well, Ozzy is little more than another brand name for me now, just like the Rolling Stones. And his wife just needs to go away. Her pulling that shit with Maiden just reflects back on him. Guilt by association. Ozzfest is a bore and the Black Sabbath reunion has already happened several times. He's got nothing left to offer.
I'm done with him.
I myself would hand my soul over to Satan gladly in exchange for another Dio/Sabbath full length LP.
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