Ozzy: Being in a band is dying art

[Deberg_1990]

Do you agree?



Ozzy Osbourne says the rise of technology in music means bands are losing the ability to jam and shape ideas together.

And the Black Sabbath icon – who's the subject of a free TeamRock iPad supplement – has first-hand experience of the phenomenon.

Ozzy tells Noisey.com: “The computer age is taking over and there's a lot of trickery. I've actually seen guys in bands. You go, 'Do you want to jam?' and they go, 'Jam? What's that?' Just playing anything together. They can't do it. 'I'll have to consult my computer first.' The art of being in a band is dying.”

The singer says he's always proud when another musician is influenced by Sabbath – and he doesn't just mean by the music.

He says: “I have people at Ozzfest going, 'Man, if it wasn't for Sabbath... we owe you so much.' I go, 'What part of this is influenced by Sabbath?' I get where they're coming from but it's not the music, it's what it says to the people.

“Metal has never had any rules. If you want me to do something, tell me not to. I've never played by any rules. My sole concern is to get on that stage and give the audience a great day out. I want to give my heart and soul when I play, and that's God's honest truth.”

Ozzy recently released his retrospective set Memoirs Of A Madman – after revealing that Sabbath are gearing up to record their final album next year.


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[splatbass]

Originally Posted by cosmo20002

Being in a band is a dying art and these kids today don't know how to jam...

...says Ozzy, guy who quit a band to spend most of his career solo and who, as far as I know, plays no instrument with which to jam.

Actually he does play an instrument to jam with - his voice. My band often begins practice with a blues jam to warm up, and our singer improvises words and melody on the spot just like the rest of us improvise our parts.

[splatbass]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

Are you sure you're responding to the right poster?

Sorry, I misread. I assumed you meant that Ozzy has a right to his opinion and was explaining that I agree with his opinion.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Ozzy: Being in a band is dying art

So is thread starting...

[DrunkBassGuitar]

Originally Posted by rabblerouser

98-2000 was Napster's heyday, and it's when I used mp3s, fwiw

And Metallica's Death Magnetic is the nadir of the loud essential wars - unlistenable.

that's true, but it was before iTunes and before mp3s were ubiquitous. CDs were still the go to format.

i downloaded metallica albums just to delete them because **** metallica.

and yeah, death magnetic was horrible. the drums alone...

[Dayze]

I absolutely HATED the snare sound on St. Anger.
so much so, that it made me hate the entire album. I've tried re-listening to it several times, but just can't get past that 'tin-ey' sound. Overall, I think the sound of the album was shit, but I can't get past that snare to even consider the rest of it.

I liked Death Magnetic, however, I lost the CD years ago and probably havent heard any of the songs from it since 2010 easily.

[GloucesterChief]

Originally Posted by Dayze

I absolutely HATED the snare sound on St. Anger.
so much so, that it made me hate the entire album. I've tried re-listening to it several times, but just can't get past that 'tin-ey' sound. Overall, I think the sound of the album was shit, but I can't get past that snare to even consider the rest of it.

I liked Death Magnetic, however, I lost the CD years ago and probably havent heard any of the songs from it since 2010 easily.

And Justice For All had the same sound problems. The production just felt thin, probably because they edited out all the bass. The thing is that And Justice For All actually had good song writing on it.

St. Anger had the same thin production and crappy song writing. Maybe they ran out of all the riffs that Mustaine wrote while he was in the band?

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by InChiefsHell

Ultimate Sin tour? That was my first concert ever...BOC opened up, and Ozzy's first song was Bark at the Moon...
...is that the show you are talking about? I loved it...but it WAS my first concert...

I don't recall what album he was touring for, and maybe I have the year wrong but Motley Crue opened up for him.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Baconeater

I don't recall what album he was touring for, and maybe I have the year wrong but Motley Crue opened up for him.

Bark At the Moon, 1983

Ozzy
Jake E Lee
Phil Soussan
Carmine Appice

Looks like a killer band on paper but it never took off; Appice didn't make it the whole tour - Tommy Aldridge was brought on to finish the dates and Soussan was fired a few weeks in and replaced by Daisley...again.