RIP Ozzy

[Here me roar]

I know that's the approved term, but I have never heard anyone self-identify as a Joneser.

I am Gen Jones. I am not a boomer.

 

[swingline]

First I've heard of Gen Jones. I don't much keep up with them.

 

[waterytart]

First I've heard of Gen Jones. I don't much keep up with them.

Car Talk’s best music outro:

Keeping up with the Joneses
Since you walked out the door
Driving like Parnelli
And drinking like George

 

[Neutral Corner]

I know that's the approved term, but I have never heard anyone self-identify as a Joneser.

There are a lot of us who are 70's kids who are tired of getting an earful of how the Boomers ruined the country. Probably more popular on Reddit than anywhere else I know of. A little bit on FB.

 

[I Should Coco]

Not A1 where I live (A2). What about you all?

Bottom of A1 in the Seattle Times, which surprised me. I mean, this isn’t Phil Collins or Philip Bailey we’re talking about!

 

[Chef2]

I had an aunt die unexpectedly 3 years ago. At the funeral, one of the songs they played "See You On The Other Side"…..I was driving most of day yesterday, turned to Ozzy's Boneyard when I first heard of it……heard them announce his passing…..and wouldn't you know it……first song they played after announcing he died…..yep…..

 

[Chef2]

Oh….and if he’s A1……he’s way at the bottom.
A2-for sure.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

I'm surprised these weren't posted and I triple checked to make sure. Ozzy is just a kid in this one

 

[HanSenSE]

Stolen from a Facebook friend. Remove all liquids from the area around your monitor.

 

[ChrisLong]

Stolen from a Facebook friend. Remove all liquids from the area around your monitor.

A friend of mine posted on FB yesterday that when he was a kid, his friend was a classmate of Pat Boone's son. The Boone's had a basketball hoop in their driveway and the kids were told they could use it whenever they wanted. My friend admitted having a crush on Debby Boone, so they often went to the Boone house to shoot hoops. One day, around 10 a.m., they were making a lot of noise and Ozzy came out, wearing only a bathrobe, and told them to quiet down -- in much more colorful language.

 

[I Should Coco]

This is the whole 1970 Sabbath concert in Paris. The first album had just come out, and they were playing a few work-in-progress songs from "Paranoid," including a great version of "War Pigs."

Anyone who was at this show was literally witnessing the birth of heavy metal. And the band, all of them in their early 20s, sounds absolutely great.

 

[gingerbread]

Soooo good

 

[gingerbread]

Also sooo good

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Soooo good

Good to see that Mr. Holland found some more children to teach music after Principal Wolters and the district laid him off (... or maybe Jack Black is lurking around that room somewhere).

 

[dixiehack]

There are a lot of us who are 70's kids who are tired of getting an earful of how the Boomers ruined the country. Probably more popular on Reddit than anywhere else I know of. A little bit on FB.

I hate to break it to you but most of the internet has now locked on to Gen X being the age cohort ****ing it all up. So your fake nose and mustache aren’t getting you out of this witch trial.

 

[Neutral Corner]

I'm not terribly sensitive about what some yammerhead on the internet calls me.

 

[Here me roar]

Soooo good

That's so amazing

 

[Bubbler]

Maybe for the ass-end of the Boomer generation. Ozzy's solo debut dropped in December 1980 and the first Black Sabbath album was recorded in October 1969.

Black Sabbath’s first album came out when my Dad, who is Boomer to his core, was 20. In terms of their debut, they’re contemporaries of Led Zeppelin, Rod Stewart, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, and many more who recorded their first album within a year or so of Sabbath.

Just because they’re a Boomer band doesn’t mean they were well liked by Boomers.

Much like Zeppelin, many hated them. What they did was considered to be an abomination of the form. Going “hard” for the majority of material, rather than a song or two, was considered to be anti-intellectual and a stunting of rock ‘n roll. The wing of fans who wanted rock to evolve in the way the Beatles evolution occurred were appalled by Sabbath.

On one hand, that wing of rock fans had gone way too far up their own asses - the later punk movement was the most obvious counter-point to that attitude - but on the other hand, it came honestly.

We Gen Xers are lucky in that we can listen to all of this stuff in hindsight and pick up what we like and don’t like cafeteria-style. We can listen to Sabbath with the context of what happened since.

Boomers, of course, lived it all in the moment. Rock ‘n roll as we define it was only about 15 years old at the time. It was still being defined. Sabbath was part of that and a good example of something misunderstood in the moment.

On the other hand? Not everything they did was great. My biggest beef with Sabbath is their mixes often sound like ****. I popped “Sweet Leaf” on the other day, a remastered version at that, and it is so damn muddy. Even Iommi’s almighty guitar couldn’t escape it.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

This is metal.