{"id":4503,"date":"1986-03-03T00:00:12","date_gmt":"1986-03-03T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=4503"},"modified":"2013-07-21T20:47:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T20:47:14","slug":"live-review-ozzy-osbourne-03-03-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/live-review-ozzy-osbourne-03-03-86\/","title":{"rendered":"OZZY OSBOURNE – De Montfort Hall, Leicester, England (March 3rd, 1986) | Live Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

OZZY OSBOURNE<\/span>
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\nDe Montfort Hall, Leicester, England<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
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\nMarch 3rd, 1986<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jake E. Lee<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Pic: Matt Sampson<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

After witnessing Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s disastrous show at Birmingham I really wasn\u2019t expecting much the second time around. The Brum show was a major letdown and had bad sound for the entire duration, Ozzy himself looking tired and far from happy, and to cap it all just one encore bringing the total set to a mere one hour and ten minutes.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the opening numbers here were again marred by a terrible sound in which Jake E. Lee\u2019s guitar was the main victim. By \u2018Bark At The Moon\u2019 this was put to rights and suddenly the riffs came crashing out of the PA at least twice as loud as they had been before.<\/p>\n

Ozzy looked a lot happier when all the problems were rectified, and from then on seemed to be having a great time onstage. Jake spent most of the evening thrashing around like a demented ragdoll on angel dust, leaving the mainman to casually wander around in circles as though he\u2019d lost his contact lenses. In the Black Sabbath<\/a> days of yore, Oz would bound around like a baboon, but I\u2019ve noticed he keeps his leaps to one per show nowadays. He still clowns around by bunging bats into his mouth and piggy-backing his water-bearer. There\u2019s also the ritual of throwing Jake around after his solo.<\/p>\n

A majority of the set is from The Ultimate Sin<\/em> LP, with \u2018Thank God For The Bomb\u2019 being the night\u2019s monster. Of all the riffs in all of heavy metal, Jake can be justly proud of this one. It\u2019s as nasty as cleaning out your ears with rusty barbed wire; it sticks in your head, y\u2019know? Other newies on parade included \u2018Never Know Why\u2019, \u2018Killer Of Giants\u2019, \u2018The Ultimate Sin\u2019, \u2018Shot In The Dark\u2019 and \u2018Secret Loser\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018Mr Crowley\u2019 had everyone swaying to and fro, and \u2018Iron Man\u2019<\/a> has the same effect. For some reason I find the sight of a full hall wafting around in the manner of a cornfield disconcerting, but there\u2019s no denying their unflinching loyalty to Ozzy. I\u2019d take a bet that if Oz pulled a moon then the De Montfort would rapidly witness 2,500 spotty bums projected to the skies. I suppose a tattoo is a fairly good indication of how much the man is held in reverence as well, and there was a lot of \u201cOzzy\u201d\u2019s needled into people\u2019s skins.<\/p>\n

Ex-Stone Fury drummer Randy Castillo proved himself a potent pummeler, and at least tried to jazz up the drum solo by going walkabout round his kit. On the whole, I still find drum solos tedious at any gig. Phil Soussan\u2019s a good enough bassist, but didn\u2019t seem to do a lot else to liven up his act.<\/p>\n

So onto encore time as \u2018Paranoid\u2019 is predictably wheeled out and given an autopsy by Mr. Lee, who just tears this old brontosaurus to shreds. And again \u2013 one encore! Why? The audience wanted more, and for \u00a37.00 a ticket (roughly 10p a minute) deserved more. What\u2019s the problem Oz?<\/p>\n

Garry Sharpe-Young<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review taken from Metal Forces, Issue 17 (1986)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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