RIP Ozzy Osborne
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decades of drug and alcohol abuse on an Olympic scale. he was lucky to have lived so long
I’m surprised he wasn’t embalmed like Keith Richards.
RIP. Crazy Train always felt relevant.
How on earth did he manage to live to his mid 70s and have the amount of drugs he did?
Some people are just built different.
I know atleast one old guy who tells stories about the shit he's done, who functions perfectly in society, self-employed, and reliable as the day is long.
But he's damn near done all the drugs, barring the nastier shit coming out nowadays. Boggles my mind.
Pretty much my first thought. The fact he hadn't died yet is remarkable.
He was an old, British rocker. Those guys just don't die.
By making sure you have a healthy balance of all the drugs.
So a drug version of Three Stooges Syndrome?
Requiescat in pace but damn he made it quite far given that wasn't he one of the ones that was once on the 'heavy abuse of substances' side?
Keith Richards is in his eighties and playing live shows. He did so many drugs that he solidly can't remember a full decade of his life. There's no arguing with good genetics.
Keith Richards may just be a sentient rubber plant considering how immortal he appears to be.
Makes me wonder about the urban rumor that he used to sporadically kick his heroin addiction by going to Switzerland and getting all his blood replaced.
Dude might be a legit vampire.
He'd have to be there constantly.
Your own red blood cells only live 90-120 days.
The donor ones have a significantly lower shelf life, closer to a month.
Well everyone roughly has about 5 liters of blood and you can lose up to 1 a day and not pass out. Give him a week and all the blood should be replaced (in theory). So not entirely IMPOSSIBLE but most definitely extremely expensive.
I think doctors sequenced his genome a couple years back and found out he's got mutations that are linked to drug resistance of some type. As in, the type that has prevented him from dying like 50 times in his life, and not that he can't get high. He still fucked up his brain real hard from drug abuse, but he's a scientific marvel that he lasted so long.
It's sort of like once every million or so people you got that guy who smokes like a chimney and loves alcohol and lives cancer-free until he's 95 and then just dies of a heart attack.
He will be missed. But he's one of the few people whose legacy will last through the generations. He was instrumental in creating an entirely new genre of music, one that is growing and evolving to this very day.
Will always remember Bark at the Moon playing while flying the apache in GTA Vice City.
He's just one of the most influential musicians in Rock & Roll.
Anyone want to post their favorite re-mixes:
I'd go with "Bark at The Moon" by Powerwolf
Pretty solid cover
I prefer Shot in the Dark, myself. Just something about it hits differently, both the remix and the original.
These are both Jake E.Lee songs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_E._Lee
/Ozzy is famous because he owned a P.A and married his manager.
RIP to a cultural icon.
I have fond memories of my friends in college all trying to beat Bark at the Moon in Guitar Hero. It was our white whale for a few semesters there.
so he must have known he was dying a couple weeks ago.
Great musical artist….people try to say Led Zeppelin is the first heavy metal, but Ozzy and Black Sabbath were truly the first, all about that dark side of life coming from a world of music that was all about hippy bullshit. Glad I got to see him in concert While he could still sing on a level few others have ever attained. That was back in 1996 just after my birthday, Korn opened up for them that night, Korn was still fairly unheard of at the time and they sounded like shit (although I did end up loving their music later on), but Ozzy’s show was fuckin awesome, played a bunch of old Black Sabbath stuff, and he played Mr. Crowley, Crazy Train, Mama I’m Coming Home…..Sucks that Ozzy had to go to hell someday, today is that day, hopefully he suffers a little less than the average soul there. RIP.
The first time heavy metal was used to describe the sound of music was by a reporter reviewing a Jimi Hendrix gig, bands like sabbath were just an attempt to corrupt an organic musical movement with jewish demon worship and it worked spectacularly.
76, wow.
Was listening to some Sabbath today in tribute
War Pigs and Crazy Train are more relevant than ever.
Alternative link to non Russian propaganda website (RT)
Ozzy Osbourne dead at 76
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/ozzy-osbourne-dead-76
So you link to a CIA propaganda website instead.
Dude had brain damage before he started his singing career. One of the worst vocalists in human history.
He died in 2010, it just took a while for all the heroin to leave his system