OT: Obituaries Thread

[Brutus Buckeye]

That first reunion that he did with Black Sabbath in the 90s was the best concert that I've ever seen. 

[MrNubbz]

RIP Ozzy, just weeks after his farewell concert

Keith Richards doing a pile of blow in remembrance

[Brutus Buckeye]

I always expected drummer Bill Ward to be the first to pass away from the original Sabbath lineup. He appeared to be aging a lot worse than the others. 

[847badgerfan]

Best Sabbath concert I ever saw was with Ian Gillan on the vocals. Dude had tremendous range.

Worst Sabbath concert I ever saw with on the last tour with Ozzy.

Van Halen opened for them, and we're all like "who the F are these guys?" Phenomenal. The Sabbath came on and wrecked the night. Dio was a huge improvement over a wasted Ozzy.

Ozzy got fired and found Randy Rhoads. That was an electric combo right there.

[Brutus Buckeye]

Dio's gone too. They'll have to turn to Tony Martin if they want to keep at it at this point. 

[Brutus Buckeye]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw79RVnlCb0

[medinabuckeye1]

And yet Keith Richards lives.

[Brutus Buckeye]

Does anyone know the symbolism of piling a mound of dirt atop a gravesite? It is a custom that I am not familiar with. 

[MrNubbz]

Either a recent grave dug,a recent grave robbery or they couldn't afford a backhoe to tamp it down be my guess

[FearlessF]

it'll settle

[CatsbyAZ]

RIP Ozzy, just weeks after his farewell concert

Part of navigating a 90s or 2000s adolescence was your parents recruiting you as their in-house tech support for the latest gadgets they couldn’t at first figure out. The satellite TV not picking up a signal? The virus software updating? The printer that won’t connect to the desktop?

It was one thing for us brothers to hear our Dad swearing at the printer before enlisting our help to reconnect it. But to flip on cable TV one school night and catch Ozzy Osbourne, whose Black Sabbath music had the mystique of being singled out for banning from our house by our Godfearing mother…

...To turn on cable TV one school night and witness the Prince of Darkness himself airing his frustrations over the same gadgets that frustrated our parents, and similarly calling over his son Jack to sort it out, was hilariously relatable and hilariously unforgettable TV.

For the generation born after Ozzy famously bit the head off a live bat at a 1982 concert in Iowa, we were too late for his music, discovering him instead through The Osbournes, the reality show that set the tone for cameras following celebrities around their messy houses.

RIP to the funniest Dad on TV – language warning:


https://twitter.com/BenHillmon/status/1947755027478564968

[ELA]

As a guy in a shitty high school band, who learned a couple of bad Black Sabbath covers, I hate the fact that my wife texted me that he died, and I said I knew, but didn't tell her, because I assumed she didn't know who he was, and knew him from the show

[utee94]

I watched some of that show and found it pretty entertaining.  It was definitely endearing, seeing the Prince of Darkness being so humanized.

Oh and I'm STILL Tech Support for both my father, and my father-in-law.  My mother and mother-in-law don't even bother with technology so the lift is lighter than it could be, I suppose.

[ELA]

I watched some of that show and found it pretty entertaining.  It was definitely endearing, seeing the Prince of Darkness being so humanized.

Oh and I'm STILL Tech Support for both my father, and my father-in-law.  My mother and mother-in-law don't even bother with technology so the lift is lighter than it could be, I suppose.

Yeah, I thought it was great, but it's weird that so many people know him JUST for that.

And I moved away, but my mom has to travel solo this week, and my brother, who is their tech support, had to go set up her Uber, and schedule her a ride last night