I don’t plan on going anywhere, but my time’s going to come.ĭo you have a message for the readers of Classic Rock ? My intention was never to stay out here.Īt fucking seventy-three I’ve done pretty well. I’m coming back to England this year, too. What else would you like to achieve in your seventies?Ī number-one Ozzy album. Well I don’t wake up in fucking jail any more. It takes you back to that time in your life. You listen to an old record and you remember where you were when you first heard it. Music is a good release from a lot of things in life. How has music helped you deal with the difficult times? I am somewhat better, but nowhere near as much as I want to be to go back on the road. I’m just waiting on some more surgery on my neck. Has there been any lasting damage from the quad bike accident you had in 2003? No matter where I am in the world, if I need Zakk Wylde I pick up the phone and he’s there. You’ve had some great guitarists in your band since 1998. I wanted to talk to someone else who was there, but they kept giving the phone to Lemmy. I was talking to Lemmy on the morning that he died, but I couldn’t understand what he was talking about. All the guys from Motorhead have gone now, from the original band. Losing Lemmy in 2015 seemed to hit you hard, too. How often do you think about Randy Rhoads these days?Īll the time. What’s the secret to a successful marriage in rock’n’roll?ĭon’t ask me, I don’t fucking know! I’m amazed that she’s stuck it out with me, because I haven’t exactly been the fucking perfect gentleman over the years. You’re about to celebrate your fortieth wedding anniversary. The one thing I’m sad about is that Bill Ward couldn’t make it. That’s where we started, and we ended up in Birmingham. What’s your favourite memory from the final Sabbath tour? Now, you buy a book on how to be a rock star, read it and go from there. Before, you could do gigs and get spotted. Maybe because I’m an old-fashioned guy, but everything seems to be moving too fast now.ĭo you think it’s difficult to be a young musician starting now? Do you get involved with it?Ī little bit. Social media is unavoidable for musicians these days. The royalty aspect of making music has gone right down the toilet. ĭo you think streaming has been good or bad for rock music? I’ve been around a lot of people and I’ve just never got it. My wife’s had covid, my daughter’s had it, I never got it. I do some drawings, I write some words, I read a book. It’s coming out as soon as it’s been mixed.ĭo you think there are still good rock bands coming through? I’ve got Jeff Beck on it, Tony Iommi, Zakk Wylde, Eric Clapton, the guitar player from Pearl Jam. Your most recent album, Ordinary Man, scored eight out of ten in Classic Rock. Some of them weren’t as good, but I’ve never gone into the studio and thought: “Well, I had a good run, I’d better make a bad record.” The way I look at it, if I say a certain album is my greatest album, to me it’s saying that every album before or after it wasn’t as good. We look worse than we are.ĭo you have a favourite album from the ones you’ve made since the turn of the millennium? You know the old saying: you should never judge a book by its cover. People would see the crowds at Ozzfest and they looked quite wild. What do you think the perception of rock’n’roll was back then? There’s no platform now for new bands to play. So she said fuck them, we’ll do our own thing. Sharon tried to get me on Lollapalooza, and they told her they didn’t think I was relevant any more, that I was a dinosaur. I mean, that was a Sharon department, not me.
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