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Sharon Osbourne On Sending Shit To Enemies
World Entertainment News Network reports that Sharon Osbourne likes to take revenge on her enemies by sending them a box of excrement.
The wife and manager of Ozzy Osbourne last used the dirty tactic four years ago, when a writer criticised her family's television show "The Osbournes".
She says, "The last turd? Three... no, four years ago, when the first review came out of 'The Osbournes'. The journalist said something about my kids being fat and how unappealing that was.
"I said, 'I heard you've got an eating disorder. Eat this.'" Osbourne adds, "I've done it for an awfully long time. I suppose I find it funny.
"I mean, I don't just do it to anybody. They have to have done something really bad."
Ozzfest 2007 Survey Is Online
Ozzfest.com has posted a survey to find out about your previous Ozzfest experiences and hear about who you would like to see on Ozzfest in 2007's tour. Completing the survey will also enter into a contest to win a Party Like A Rock Star package for two to Ozzfest 2007.
You can take the Ozzfest 2007 Survey here.
Christopher Walken To Play Ozzy Osbourne
Motley Crue lead singer Vince Neil told ABC News Radio in an exclusive interview that the 63-year-old Oscar-winning actor will make a cameo appearance as Osbourne in "The Dirt," a movie based on the band's controversial 2001 autobiography.
"How funny is that going to be," Neil told ABC's Al Mancini at the Opening of Vince Neil Ink, the singer's new tattoo parlor in Las Vegas.
Walken's press representatives did not immediately return a call to ABCNEWS.com for comment.
"The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band" set new limits in tell-all confessionals. The 448-page tome catalogues the drug and alcohol abuse, nasty infighting, and sex parties of Neil and band mates Tommy Lee, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx.
The film, announced in April, is now in preproduction and is expected to be released in 2008 by Paramount and MTV. It's been billed as a true-life version of "This Is Spinal Tap."
Osbourne toured with Motley Crue and was friends with the band, and his antics, as recounted in the book, include snorting a line of live ants (while looking for a fix of cocaine) and taking LSD every day for a year "just to see what would happen."
Neil says that other stars are going to appear in the film as rock stars, including Val Kilmer as David Lee Roth. "We're doing big, giant cameos with those people," he says.
As for Neil and his Crue, they'll be played by unknowns.
Alice In Chains Possible For Ozzfest 2007
Ozzyhead.com reports that Sharon Osbourne was interviewed by Opie and Anthony on their syndicated radio show. She confirmed that Ozzy will be performing on the 2nd stage again next year at Ozzfest 2007. She also said that they are trying to get Alice In Chains on the bill.
Sharon also made a quick reference to a 40th Anniversary tour for Black Sabbath in 2008.
Ozzy Putting Finishing Touches On New Solo Album
Ozzy Osbourne told Greta Van Susteren of FOX News that he he hopes to complete his new solo album in 10 days or so. Apparently he has been working nonstop on it and is anxious to finish it, according to Van Susteren.
Osbourne was previously said to be working on two brand new studio CDs. The first album is set for release in February 2007. Most of the music was recorded before Ozzfest in May with Mike Bordin (drums), Rob "Blasko" Nicholson (bass) and Zakk Wylde (guitar). Wylde recently announced that he had to cancel three tour dates in October (Oct. 14 - House Of Blues, Myrtle Beach, SC; Oct. 16 - The Masquerade, Atlanta, GA; Oct. 18 - Rams Head Live, Baltimore, MD) with his band BLACK LABEL SOCIETY to finish up obligations in the studio in connection with the new album. The second effort will be the soundtrack to Ozzy's musical about controversial Russian politician Grigory Rasputin. The album will be released first, and then the play will debut on Broadway or as a touring show according to Osbourne.
In a recent interview, Ozzy said, "We wrote a song called 'Rasputin' (for the 1995 'Ozzmosis' album), but then it never got used, you know, and then every now and again I'd try to find this tape of songs. We wrote a bunch of songs, and I put this tape on and thought, 'You know what? That would be a great musical.' It kind of grew on its own. It's the traditional 'Fiddler on the Roof'-type of music, plus the kind of BEATLES-y kind of influence. There's this wonderful song that goes, 'How dark it is before the dawn, the day begins, a child is born.' It's beautiful. I'm really happy about it. I hope the rest of the world is. I spent 10 years of my f—king life in this thing."
Ozzy To Headline Second Stage Of Ozzfest 2007?
There are unconfirmed reports that Ozzy is to headline the second stage on next year's US Ozzfest tour. No official announcement is expected for some time though.
During the 2006 Ozzfest tour, however, Ozzy intially planned to play (headline) the second stage for only two shows, but then expanded that to the majority of his appearances to second stage headlining.
Australian Rapist Who Thought He Was Ozzy Jailed
The Australian man who drugged and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl because he believed he was rock star Ozzy Osbourne and had to follow in his footsteps has been sentenced to a maximum 10 years in jail, according to News.com.au.
Arthur Fairwell faced the NSW District Court today (Friday, September 8) over the attack at Bradbury, in Sydney's south-west, in May 2004.
The 39-year-old had pleaded guilty to six offenses, including aggravated sexual intercourse without consent and two counts of administering a stupefying drug.
During sentencing submissions for Fairwell last week, the court was told he was under the delusional belief he was Ozzy Osbourne, the heavy metal rocker turned reality TV star.
When Fairwell learned of an allegation that Osbourne had sex with a 13-year-old girl, his obsessive beliefs compelled him to think he had to follow suit, Judge Murrell heard.
The judge today (Sept. 8) said Fairwell had a long history of treatment for mental illness, and accepted psychiatric evidence that he suffered from a chronic paranoid schizophrenic disorder.
However, there was no evidence to suggest he was delusional or psychotic at the time of the offences, she said.
Zakk Wylde On New Album, Tour And Ozzy
X-Press Magazine have posted an interview with guitar virtuoso Zakk Wylde online. Zakk has recently finished headlining Ozzfest with both Black Label Society, on second stage, and Ozzy Osbourne's band of the same name on first, and is now laying down tracks for Ozzy's next studio album, whilst releasing BLS's new album, "Shot To Hell", and DVD, "European Invasion: Doomtroopin'". Excerpts from the interview follow:
DH: On the new album, Shot To Hell, did you record everything yourself again in the studio?
ZW: As always, you know how it goes, you get in the studio and you just start writing. We never do pre-production or anything like that. As soon as we get in there it's game on.
DH: A go-with-the-flow kind of thing?
ZW: Totally. I've done it the other way with Ozzy, you know, rehearsed with the producer we have and it's like produce, go over it again, go over it again, let's see what the kick drum's doing. It's like, 'does it really matter? Just let us play dude we know the goddamn songs, just let us get in there 'cause we're like sucking all the fire out of these songs'. Rehearsals to me are like getting ready for the tour.
DH: You obviously don't use the band that you tour with on the records?
ZW: Yeah, totally. I just get in the studio and knock it out. I didn't have any ideas before we got in there, eight days later I had 23 songs. Got all the riffs, start doing the guitars, because I record like everything on the bass, going through a Marshall, so this way you're going to have to come up with riffs. You've got four strings - I mean that's it, it's going to start riffing out on the damn thing.
DH: You're doing double duty playing with Ozzy and headlining Stage 2 with Black Label Society at this year's Ozzfest. Is it tough going out there every night and keeping the energy level up?
ZW: I'd be on stage at like 3pm. I get up every day about 10.30-11am, something like that, go into the hotel just grab something to eat, lift weights.
DH: You train hardcore, Dorian Yates style?
ZW: Without a doubt that's my guy, man. We just lift then come 12 o'clock crack my first beer and then it's just like sit on the bus 'til about 3pm, just noodle on the guitar, watch TV for a bit, just chill out. Then 3 o'clock comes rolling around we're on stage with Black Label right after we get done with that I come walking out on the bus put my Black Label colours on the bus put my Ozzy colours on go right back on stage at 4 o'clock and then we gotta knock out another hour. It was like hysterical, there's like a heat wave going on over here. I'm figuring it's just going to be hot in Arizona or something in the south or whatever, everywhere we played it had to be like 110 degrees outside everyday. You could drink like two kegs of beer everyday, eating burgers, pizza, hot dogs and you're still going to drop 30 pounds.
DH: Is Ozzy more fun to hang around sober or when he's tanked?
ZW: It's not one of those things where he can just drink a beer, you know, have a couple of beers with the guys and then call it a day. With him it's a beer then he starts doing the weed and then right after that it's the cocaine, then he's gone for three days and we can't find him.
DH: Your lineage is with the all-time guitar greats such as Rhandy Rhoads, Jake E. Lee and Tony Iommi, all the players connected with Ozzy. When you go in the studio with Ozzy do you enjoy playing songs co-written by guys like David Grohl of the Foo Fighters and Nirvana?
ZW: When all that stuff went down I was just like… no! I mean, first off it was cheesy, horrendous stuff. You know, 'why are we using this? Just because we're paying this guy, this is like they wouldn't even put this stuff on their records… what are we doing'? You know what I mean? I go, 'I could piss shit out of my dick better than this stuff in a New York second'.
DH: To get as musically proficient as someone like Eddie Van Halen, Rhandy Rhoads, Uli Roth, Dimebag or even yourself takes the hard yards of commitment. In doing double duty gigs do you still put in the practice hours to keep the chops up? What's your practice regimen like?
ZW: I still got to practice every day, but I enjoy doing that. I love it. You can always keep getting better. It's like being the heavyweight champion of the world, like Dorian Yates the reason why he won six Mr Olympias was every year he came in bigger and more shredded. You can't just go just because you're there now you just show up and get the trophy. If you are the heavyweight champion of the world, dude, if you don't keep doing what got you there, you're going to get your ass handed to you.
DH: So what were your feelings in the '90s during the whole grunge/nu metal scene when playing solos was being somewhat uncool for the cool school?
ZW: I just figured everything's full circle. Everything just got to the point when it couldn't go any higher with the shredding thing, then Nirvana came in with great songs, then Soundgarden, Alice In Chains. You know, those guys were still doing some solos, not to the extent, but I mean Jerry Cantrell was still putting solos in Man In The Box. He still always had solos.
DH: What was it like being in the Rock Star movie?
ZW: I had a great time doing that. It was just funny. 'Let me get this straight, what is it you want me to do?' They said, 'basically you just be yourself really, just hang around play guitar all day, lift weights, drink beer'. I go 'and you're going to pay me for this? Alright, I'm in'. I had a good time doing it man, it was a lot of fun.
DH: Anything else you would like to say before I leave you alone?
ZW: To the rest of the Australian chapters down there, just to tell them to stay strong, keep bleeding Black Label and we'll see them in a little bit.
Read the full article at X-Press Magazine.
Dickinson: Sharon "Is Obviously Completely Mad"
In his only interview for Swedish media in support of IRON MAIDEN's new album, "A Matter of Life and Death", vocalist Bruce Dickinson talked candidly to Close-Up magazine about last year's Ozzfest and the infamous egg incident.
Immediately after IRON MAIDEN's triumphant show at Ullevi stadium in Gothenburg on July 9, 2005, Dickison told Kerrang! magazine, "I'd like to go to America and say 'You're very good, but you're not as loud as 56,000 fucking vikings in a football stadium.'" The following week, the band went to America to play at Ozzfest, but the outspoken vocalist didn't have a lot of nice things to say about it.
"It was my usual love/hate relationship with corporate America," says Dickinson. "Ozzfest is a corporate rock event at which they sell the front 10-12 rows to corporate seats and not to kids. Most of the bands pay a lot of money to be on the Ozzfest, they get paid next to nothing. The whole way it's being portrayed as being some kind of altruistic holiday for all the bands is absolute nonsense, it's complete bullshit. Most of the bands are there because they paid to be there. That's the way it's run. We went out and we were like, 'Okay, why aren't there any people down the front?' Well, because it's restricted seating and because they don't have tickets. 'What?!' That's fucked, so we said so. I said so every night. Some fat cunt with greasy hair sat eating his hamburger with 50 seats empty all around him. Where are all the kids? They're held behind the barrier and they can't get any closer, because that's the way the venue is run. That sucks."
Close-Up: Did you expect Sharon Osbourne to take the measures that she took?
Bruce: "No, I think they were extraordinary, weren't they? Childish and uncalled for, and quite dangerous, really, when you consider there could've been a riot among the rest of the audience. Extraordinary! She is obviously completely mad!"
Close-Up: You kept quiet. Weren't you dying to fight back in the press?
Bruce: "There's no purpose of starting a soap opera. I mean, she IS a soap opera. That's what she does, that's what 'The Osbournes' is, that's what this 'X Factor' and all this reality TV bullshit is. IRON MAIDEN is IRON MAIDEN, we don't participate in that kind of crap. We don't do [MTV show] 'Cribs' or the celebrity garbage that is everywhere, that pervades people's lives and they think is important. We don't do 'I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here', 'Big Brother', or any of that shit. So doing any more than stating the facts and let people make up their own mind is just playing to the press. It's just gonna create more crap. There was so much stuff on the Internet, there were so many people who saw exactly what happened. Let the people tell the story, we don't need to say anymore than 'Okay, this is what happened. If you don't believe us, you can find out.'"
Close-Up: An hour ago I was surfing the Net and did a search on Google on "IRON MAIDEN + Sharon Osbourne" and this comment from Blabbermouth came up: "I fucking hate IRON MAIDEN, but fuck Sharon Osbourne." You must've loved the aftermath of the egg incident. All of a sudden everyone, even people that weren't into IRON MAIDEN, were rooting for you.
Bruce: "I see what you mean. I think the key is that this was a collision between two completely different worlds. The world that Sharon lives in is a world of... She goes to fashion shows and her daughter is the new face of whatever it was, some make-up bullshit or something you put on your face. Vogue magazine and all that kind of crap. She's put herself in that world and done that by choice. And lots of people do [that] and they're supermodels. All those people have their picture taken on red carpets and appear in fashion magazines. That's not our world, that's not my world. I don't ever go to places like that. I'd rather have all my teeth pulled out and have nails hammered into my gums than go there, to a fashion show and hang out with supermodels!
"What we do is we are a heavy metal band and what we care about is our fans. That's it. So our strength comes from that simplicity. You know, what do I care if I never appear on reality TV? 'Fucking great, thank you! Can I have it in writing?' But in her world, that's really important. In her world, it's really important what you look like. In her world, facelifts are really important. In my world, I don't give a fuck. I get old and I get wrinkly. Who gives a shit?"
The Beatles Go Metal?
On October 24, 2006, Restless Records will release "Butchering The Beatles" — featuring the biggest, the baddest, the heaviest all-star line-up ever assembled to honor what is arguably the greatest band ever — THE BEATLES. All-in-all, over 50 internationally known recording artists bring their unique bone-crushing slant to these remarkable songs. Produced by Grammy award-winning producer/guitarist Bob Kulick and ace engineer Brett Chassen, "Butchering The Beatles" features 12 new, ass-kicking versions of THE BEATLES' chart-topping hits, including "Hey Jude", "I Feel Fine" and "Day Tripper", plus the more esoteric "Hey Bulldog", barked out by the legendary Alice Cooper and "Tomorrow Never Knows", uniquely interpreted by the iconic Billy Idol, alongside classic concept songs like "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" and "Magical Mystery Tour".
When asked by Guitar Player magazine what possessed him to go all metal on THE BEATLES, Bob Kulick stated that, "BEATLES songs are the Holy Grail. They're the best rock songs ever written. These new recordings are totally faithful, yet completely different. Billy Gibbons singing 'Revolution' or (MOTÖRHEAD frontman) Lemmy singing 'Back In The USSR' are not exactly Paul McCartney or John Lennon. And of course, the guitar solo sections were lengthened to accommodate all the artists' solo styles."
"Butchering The Beatles" track listing: More...
Ozzy Osbourne Announces Two New Studio Albums
Two new studio albums are reportedly being worked on by metal icon Ozzy Osbourne, the first of which is due to make the stores in February next year. Recording the music in May, before the Ozzfest tour, was Mike "Puffy" Bordin (drums), Rob "Blasko" Nicholson (bass) and Zakk Wylde (guitar), with Ozzy now laying down the vocals.
The second album will be the soundtrack to Ozzy's musical, "Rasputin", which revolves around controversial Russian politician, Grigory Rasputin. The album will be released before the show hits Broadway, though no release date is yet known.
Ozzy has been quoted in a recent interview as saying
"We wrote a song called 'Rasputin' (for the 1995 Ozzmosis album), but then it never got used, you know, and then every now and again I'd try to find this tape of songs. We wrote a bunch of songs, and I put this tape on and thought, 'You know what? That would be a great musical.' It kind of grew on its own. It’s the traditional Fiddler on the Roof type of music, plus the kind of Beatley kind of influence. There’s this wonderful song that goes, 'How dark it is before the dawn, the day begins, a child is born'. It’s beautiful. I’m really happy about it. I hope the rest of the world is. I spent 10 years of my f—king life in this thing."
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Ozzfest 2006 Comes To Bristow, Virginia
Another year, another Ozzfest. After a star-studded lineup for its ten year anniversary last year, Ozzfest was faced with the challenge of putting together yet another great lineup for its eleventh year. When I went to Bristow, VA on Sunday, August 6, 2006, I was wondering just how good a lineup they managed to scrape together. I knew the bands that were playing, but the real question remained whether the main stage bands could hold their own with primarily younger, nu-metal bands on it and Ozzy closing out the second stage.
The temperatures had fortunately dropped from the 105F degree humid days of only a few days earlier, but the sky was crystal clear for most of the day and the intense sun beating down on you in the 90F degree temperatures was still enough to take a lot out of you and require constant re-hydration. More...
Ozzy Osbourne Also To Release Video Anthology
Ozzy Osbourne is set to release a new video anthology DVD set this fall. Expect all of your favorite tracks and maybe a few surprizes.
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Ozzfest 2006 Stops In Indianapolis
On Sunday, July 23, the annual metal-gods tour known as Ozzfest, minus Ozzy, of course, rolled through Indianapolis, and the event passed without much out of the ordinary. The day saw a couple of fights, a lot of marijuana, a whole lot of ignorant people who harassed event staff at every turn, and a lot of people waiting to see the last three bands of the night without any knowledge of who played the second and early main stages—a typical Ozzfest. More...
More News On Possibility Of New Ozzy Albums
Former BLACK SABBATH frontman OZZY OSBOURNE is working on two new albums and the first one could be ready by February.
"I don't want to release an album if it's not a great album," the 1970s heavy metal pioneer said in an interview in New York on Friday, declining to give many details about the album.
"I primarily write an album for myself, and if the world likes it, great," he said. "I'm just hoping that I can get a good couple of albums out."
Osbourne was cautious about when the album would be ready, but his wife, Sharon, who is also his manager, said "hopefully" it would released in February.
The self-proclaimed "Prince of Darkness" said he was working on the two albums with guitarist ZAKK WYLDE, whose band BLACK LABEL SOCIETY is one of the main acts in Osbourne's annual hard-rock traveling festival, Ozzfest.
"I can't say anything about the songs," Osbourne said at an event in New York to launch a Hard Rock Cafe T-shirt to raise money for his wife's cancer charity.
Osbourne, a recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, said he was enjoying playing on the smaller second stage at Ozzfest this year because it allowed him to get closer to the audience.
"I look at the audience sometimes and I go 'Do they ever grow up and get older?"' he said, expressing some surprise at his enduring popularity with a whole new generation of fans.
"They come, they like it, and they bring their friends. It's weird," he said, adding: "I'm not complaining."
New Ozzy Osbourne Album ??
Ozzy Osbourne has told Reuters that he is working on two new albums and the first one could be ready by February.
"I don't want to release an album if it's not a great album," Ozzy said.
"I primarily write an album for myself, and if the world likes it, great," he said. "I'm just hoping that I can get a good couple of albums out."
Osbourne was cautious about when the album would be ready, but his wife, Sharon, who is also his manager, said "hopefully" it would released in February.
The self-proclaimed "Prince of Darkness" said he was working on the two albums with guitarist Zakk Wylde, whose band BLACK LABEL SOCIETY is one of the main acts in Osbourne's annual hard-rock traveling festival, Ozzfest.
"I can't say anything about the songs," Osbourne said at an event in New York to launch a Hard Rock Cafe T-shirt to raise money for his wife's cancer charity.
Ozzy To Headline Second Stage of NYC Ozzfest
Due to the "overwhelming response" of OZZY OSBOURNE's second stage preformances, Ozzy has decided to close the second stage at the Randall's Island (New York City) stop of Ozzfest on Saturday, July 29th.
Just For Fun
Playboy Announces Girls of Ozzfest
Beginning this week and running through August 18, Playboy.com will feature a sexy metal maiden chosen from the Miss OZZfest 2006 competition. A brief bio, video and pictorial will go up each Friday featuring a new rocker babe. Photos of the current OZZfest babe, Daniella from Sacramento, can be found at playboy.com.
Ozzy Osbourne Struggles At Ozzfest
Jon M. Gilbertson of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reviewed this year's Ozzfest when it hit the the Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin on Saturday (July 22). An excerpt from his review follows:
The traveling heavy-metal mega-show known as Ozzfest has lasted for 11 years thus far, and a lot of that longevity might have to do with the man for whom the festival is named: John Michael Osbourne, a.k.a. Ozzy.
Nevertheless, when his festival stopped by the Alpine Valley Music Theatre on Saturday, Ozzy was headlining the second stage (normally for lesser-known bands) about 4 p.m. (so as not to interfere with the main stage's entertainment, which began after his set odd scheduling for a man nicknamed "the Prince of Darkness").
If he didn't melt in the light, he didn't shine, either. He displayed his usual demeanors — that of a 12-year-old child when excited about audience response and that of a schoolmarm when gently exasperated about insufficient audience response — but he didn't match his legend.
Normally, the classic songs, from power ballad "Mama, I'm Coming Home" to the ever-barreling "Crazy Train", would have carried Ozzy, as would have the solid three- piece band, including solo-heavy guitarist Zakk Wylde.
Yet Ozzy was not in tune, vocally, with the band or in sync with the crowd, problems all the more sadly evident without the sort of eerie, Halloween-style power he can have under cover of night.
Ozzy Powered Football Club Looking For Players
"The Ozzy Powered Football Club", the Birmingham, England-based soccer team formed by a British BLACK SABBATH fan by the name of Garry Raybould, is looking for quality players to join the "rock mayhem" next season. "Wearing the new kit designed by Ozzy and Sharon we intend to bring back some silverware this season," says Raybould.
Raybould has been running a campaign to honor the four original members of SABBATH for quite some time now. He has collected thousands of signatures on a hand-written petiton to create a "Walk of Fame" in the heart of downtown Birmingham, England, which will honor "famous Brummies," starting off with Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward. Garry has spread the word through his soccer team, whose uniforms sport the words "Free Ozzy" on them. A web-based petition has also been set up online for other fans to sign.
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