Regardless of Jake E Lee having served as Ozzy Osbourne’s guitarist from 1982 to 1987, the 2 had not seen one another in 37 years. That modified, nevertheless, when Lee accepted an invite from Tom Morello to seem and carry out at Ozzy and Black Sabbath’s final ever present “Again to the Starting” earlier this month at Villa Park in Birmingham, England.
Now, following Osbourne’s passing this previous Tuesday (July twenty second), Lee took to Fb to pay tribute to his late former bandmate, explaining that he’s “nonetheless processing” the loss.
“The finality of it hits me in waves,” he wrote, earlier than sharing the heartbreaking final textual content he obtained from the metallic pioneer after his “Again to the Starting” efficiency. “This was a textual content I bought from him as I used to be sitting in an airport headed again dwelling two weeks in the past.”
Within the message, Ozzy wrote: “Hello jake im so sorry i couldnt spend extra time with you on the weekend however it was actually chaotic, i would like to see you when i finally get again TO LA simply to shoot the sh*t.
“Its been so lengthy since we noticed one another, the place have are you dwelling today, as a result of the very last thing i heard was you have been dwelling in Las Vegas. How did the gig go for you on Saturday i actually hope you had enjoyable anyway i’ll textual content you when i finally get again to LA and we should hook up a lot love and respect OZZY.”
