Throughout a latest look on the “Beardo & Weirdo” podcast, Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch mentioned Ozzy Osbourne – who handed away final week (July twenty second) on the age of 76 – and the impression that the late Black Sabbath singer had on him.
“If Angus Younger and AC/DC was the band that lit the hearth, Ozzy and [late Ozzy guitarist] Randy Rhoads poured the gasoline on that fireside,” Welch stated of Osbourne’s affect on his musical upbringing.
“I had Ozzy posters on my wall… What these two data did for me in sixth grade, ‘Diary Of A Madman’ and ‘Blizzard Of Ozz’, that’s when the obsession got here with music,” he added.
Welch went on to speak concerning the unusual timing of Osbourne’s dying – which occurred simply days after his and Black Sabbath’s remaining present “Again to the Starting.”
“I believe we’re all identical to tripping proper now that [he died] 17 days later [after his farewell concert on July 5th]. I do know he was struggling, however no one most likely predicted this was gonna occur so quickly,” Welch stated.
“I’m a non secular individual, and I have a look at it just like the kindness of God. As a result of the timing’s surprising. And it’s, like, he might have handed earlier than the live performance. It simply seems to be like form gesture that the circumstances — name it what you need, however the circumstances had been unbelievable that he was ready to try this one final time with all of his closest buddies.”
Though a explanation for dying has but to be introduced, Osbourne had been battling various well being points over the previous few years, together with Parkinson’s illness.