Legendary musician Ozzy Osbourne is “elated” as his former soloband mates Jake E Lee and Rudy Sarzo, who he has had points with, are set to carry out at Black Sabbath’s star-studded reunion live performance at Villa Park this summer time.
Sharon Osbourne and Tony Iommi just lately introduced at Villa Park on Wednesday that the unique line-up of Black Sabbath – Ozzy, Tony, Geezer Butler and Invoice Ward – will carry out for the ultimate time collectively at Aston Villa’s stadium on Saturday fifth July.
Talking to Planet Rock’s Loz Visitor at Villa Park, Reside Nation’s Andy Copping, who booked the live performance alongside Tom Morello and Sharon Osbourne, revealed Ozzy’s response to the line-up.
Telling Loz that the live performance was a few years within the making, Andy spoke about musical director Tom Morello’s involvement.
“Tom’s actually arms on. What a man, nice power,” Andy enthused.
“Him and I and Sharon, we bought collectively and it was like, ‘proper, let’s exit and get the bands!’ So each Tom and I’ve been canvassing the acts. Him and I collectively (we’ve) simply been out and we’ve bought this invoice collectively between us.”
Itemizing a number of the big names on the invoice, Loz remarked to Andy that the live performance is nearly like a “mini-festival.”
“Sure, it’s. It’ll be an all-day occasion,” Andy mentioned.
“You clearly talked about the bands which can be enjoying, however we’ve additionally bought the people which can be enjoying on the invoice as nicely.
“We’ve bought Papa (V Perpetua) from Ghost, we’ve bought Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit, Jonathan Davis from Korn, Slash and Duff (McKagan) from Weapons N’ Roses, Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins, Wolfgang Van Halen… I imply the listing goes on and there’s nonetheless one or two different members which can be going to be becoming a member of the social gathering. We’ve bought Sammy Hagar on there.
“Jake E Lee and Rudy Sarzo who’ve beforehand performed with Ozzy, and Ozzy hasn’t seen them in over 30 years, and he’s simply elated that these two guys are coming in too. However he’s pleased about everyone getting concerned, it’s such an excellent invoice.”
Commenting on how all the person artists will carry out on the Again to the Starting gig, Andy defined: “Yeah, the plan is it’s going to be an excellent group, and totally different band members will come on and off at totally different factors all through that set.
“Individuals will get to see totally different band members from some actually excessive finish bands enjoying collectively, which has by no means occurred earlier than. So, they’re going to see one thing actually particular in addition to, clearly, the opposite fundamental bands which can be on the invoice.”
