It is not yet time to stop crying the disappearance of Ozzy Osbourne. Or to cry by reading the touching memories of his closest friends and colleagues. Yesterday, for example, on London Times The memory of Geezer Butler, the bassist of the Black Sabbath, was published.
“For me, Ozzy was not the prince of darkness, if anything he was the prince of laughter,” wrote Butler. “He would have done anything to snatch a laugh, he was a born entertainer.” Like many of those present at the latest Ozzy concert, Butler was also taken by surprise from the singer's so fast death: “At that moment I didn't realize that it would be the last time I would see Ozzy”.
“I knew it wasn't healthy, but I wasn't prepared to see how fragile it was,” Butler wrote by remembering the tests of the concert. “He was helped to enter the rehearsal room by two assistants and a nurse and used a stick: being Ozzy, the stick was black and stored with gold and precious stones. He didn't say much besides the usual greetings and when he sang, he remained sitting on a chair ». “He was really quiet compared to the oazy of the past.”
Butler then remembered their first meeting when Ozzy showed up at his house to enter the band in the band: «He did not wear a suit, but the brown work suit of his father, with a brush for fireplaces on the shoulder, a shoe attached to the dog's leash and bare feet. He said to me, “I'm Ozzy.” After stopping laughing, I replied: “Ok, you are in the band” ». It was the birth of the Earth, which would soon become the Black Sabbath.
«People have always thought that Ozzy were a wild, but had a golden heart. Most of his notorious stunts – the bats of the bats, the bite at the head of a dove, the pee on the auction, the rows of sniffed ants and everything else – date back to his years as a soloist, away from the constraints of the Sabbath crew, “said Butler. «But if you were a friend in difficulty, Ozzy was always there for you. When my son was born with a heart problem Ozzy called me every day to see how he was going, even if we haven't been talking about it for a year ».
But Butler has a regret: how the Birmingham concert ended. «Tony tightened his hand, I gave him a cake, but it was a really strange feeling to conclude our story in that way. I would have liked to have more time available in the backstage with Ozzy, but now the desires are superfluous. As Ozzy always said: “Express one desire with one hand and shit with the other, then look at which of the two things he came true first”.
«I am really lucky to have spent most of my life with him. Of course there are millions of things that I wanted to write, but how can I summarize 57 incredible years of friendship in a few paragraphs? ». «God bless you, Oz, it was an incredible adventure! I love you!”.
