The Crazy Train has left the station.
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if you listen real close and put an ear to the sky, you can almost hear someone shouting, 'SHARON!"
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This one does hurt. Damn.
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Ive seen about a half dozen interviews over the years and although I really only know BS and Ozzies hits - also despite his noteriety - he always came across as intelligent, accessable, witty and kind.
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Heâs one of those rare celebrities that Iâve never heard anyone say a bad word about him. For all his eccentricities, he seemed like a genuinely good human being.
When I was a kid, mom and dad wouldnât let me buy Ozzy records (because he was evil, duh). So I used to sit in my closet late at night after âgoing to bedâ with the radio on my boombox turned on really quiet. I would hover my finger over the ârecordâ button on the tape deck so I could quickly hit it when they FINALLY played âBark at the Moonâ or âCrazy Trainâ. I would sneak dadâs Walkman out of the closet whenever I could just to listen to them over and over againâŚcomplete with the stupid DJ talking over the start of the song.
I realized this morning why this one hit me so hard. Itâs not an exaggeration to say that my life would be very different if it werenât for Ozzy. Metal (in all its forms) has been a huge part of my social and emotional life ever since I was that kid recording off the radio in his closet, and none of that would have happened without Ozzyâs influence and talent.
RIP to one of the best to ever do it.
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A funny Ozzy fan story from when I worked at the airport in the 80s:
Among the cast of characters, we had a young 20s rocker and an older dude who really like the Kingston Trio.
One day the Rocker told a story about Ozzy letting some puppies out into the standing room only audience⌠then announcing they wouldnât start playing until all the puppies were dead.
Then the Rocker asked the Kingston Trio worker what he thought of that?
âI hope the Kingston Trio does the same thing! Announce theyâre not going to play until Ozzy Osbourne is dead!â
These two were typical airport mutants, Iâm not even sure the Ozzy / puppy story was true, but it was fun / offbeat banter.
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That story was all over the place at one time. I recall being told the story by several people back in the day, who were absolutely convinced it was true. They were all amatuer musicians who were not fond of the band,so I always assumed and still do, that it was not true.
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It wasnât. Ozzy even mentioned as one of the more âridiculousâ rumors about himself that heâd ever heard.
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I will start a rumor that whoever started the rumor had offspring who started Ticketmaster.
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Thatâs like the 3rd grade story about Rod Stewart going down on his band and having his stomach pumped. Sounds like 3rd grade appreciate of fluid production.
Iâm sure the story is still around. Right next to the stories about UPS planes flying into the Trade Towers.
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Have not heard about UPS planes flying into the Trade Towers.
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Along with the ârocketâ that supposedly hit the pentagon (it was the body of the plane, sans wings), the conspiracy guys were also saying the âcommercialâ planes were actually repainted UPS planes and, oh yeah, Somehow Dick Cheney got people to surreptitiously wire the buildings with thermite because âthat was a controlled take-down.â
Pure BS. Just early internet bait-click stuff. Iâm sure the Wayback Machine has the old primitive postings https://web.archive.org/
I just donât know how to use that platform. Maybe Iâll just try it now.
Wiki does a good job of reviewing many of the major POVâs
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Uh oh, weâre back to aviation again!
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Hulk Hogan passes at 71.
Thoughts and prayers, I guess.
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Itâs worse than aviation.
We need a RIP on conspiracy theories, but that may require some CRISPR genetic editing, me thinks.
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Celebrity death triad (they come in 3s) is now complete for the cycle. RIP Theo, Ozzy, Hulk.
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Hogan was a one-note performer whose boring shtick was perfectly suited for the 1980s form of testosterone fueled âentertainmentâ. I will admit that the New World Order gimmick in the late 1990s was a bit more intriguing, he was a more interesting ârasslin heel. His poor personal behavior and putrid politics most certainly colored his career, especially the racism. Rowdy Roddy Piper, now there was the true talent of the former WWF.
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Pro Wrestling is filled with amazing athletes whoâs stunts are the hook. Most people the size of the Hulk could never begin to perform the stunts in the ring he was able to perform. Yes, âbehind the curtainâ was a pretty damned gruesome and sordid thing with the steroids and drugs many used in that era to get them through multiple ring performances 3-4 nights a week.
I still enjoy a laugh remembering Karl Malone body slamming Hulk in the big event grudge match of Hulk and Rodman vs DDP and Malone. Like a lot of people, there is a lot about Hogan that people may not like, but he was an athletic entertainer, and itâs probably more important to remember that about him.
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