http://www.imheavyduty.com/2007/06/20/ozzy-osbourne-diary-of-a-madman/ It's about music. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:04:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.imheavyduty.com/2007/06/20/ozzy-osbourne-diary-of-a-madman/comment-page-1/#comment-251 Bob Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:37:09 +0000 http://www.imheavyduty.com/?p=396#comment-251 Tracy, you're right about the concert. Seeing Sabbath ranks right up there among my best concert experiences. In fact, it may be the best, given my sentimental connection to it – after years of assuming seeing a Sabbath reunion just wouldn't be a possibility, reliving the music I clung to as a malcontent in junior high, etc. Oh the memories. They did a tight, loud, sober set. Just blistering. My heart was thundering when Iomma started on "NIB" for the opener and didn't slow down, even when we got hit in the head with the ketchup packets. But I think "Diary of a Madman" holds up. It was the last decent work that Ozzy did. You can't discount the deeper tracks like "Believer," "Over the Mountain" (a tour de force), and the title song. That marked the end of a great collaboration. One can only wonder how much better the Oz may have been if Rhoads had not bit it on that plane. We might have been spared "The Osbournes" years later and actually had some decent albums to add to the canon. Tracy, you’re right about the concert. Seeing Sabbath ranks right up there among my best concert experiences. In fact, it may be the best, given my sentimental connection to it – after years of assuming seeing a Sabbath reunion just wouldn’t be a possibility, reliving the music I clung to as a malcontent in junior high, etc. Oh the memories. They did a tight, loud, sober set. Just blistering. My heart was thundering when Iomma started on “NIB” for the opener and didn’t slow down, even when we got hit in the head with the ketchup packets. But I think “Diary of a Madman” holds up. It was the last decent work that Ozzy did. You can’t discount the deeper tracks like “Believer,” “Over the Mountain” (a tour de force), and the title song. That marked the end of a great collaboration. One can only wonder how much better the Oz may have been if Rhoads had not bit it on that plane. We might have been spared “The Osbournes” years later and actually had some decent albums to add to the canon.

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