After saying he “didn’t have a great time” on Sabbath’s farewell tour in September and also claiming “he wasn’t allowed to have fun” on the trek last month, Ozzy launched a fresh critique in an interview published in The Times over the weekend.(source planetrock.com)
Singling out Tony Iommi, Ozzy told the newspaper: “Do I like working with him? Not really. Do I like him as a person? Yeah, I love him as a person.”
Despite saying he doesn’t have a good working relationship with Iommi, Ozzy admitted he wouldn’t be where he is today without the guitarist.
He said: “If people was to say to me, ‘Was there a leader of Black Sabbath?’ I’d have to say it was Tony Iommi because without his guitar riffs we’d be still sitting in f***ing rehearsal with our thumbs up our arses going, ‘What do we do now?’”.
Ozzy also said he has “moved on” from Black Sabbath and compared the reunion to rekindling a “miserable” relationship with a girlfriend.
“I’ll tell you what it was like.” Ozzy said. “It’s like when you’re younger and you met a girl, Susie, and you break up and you don’t see her for 30 years. Then she’s in town and you go, ‘Oh, I’ll give Susie a call,’ because your memory only remembers the good parts and you can narrow it then to a week and you go, ‘I remember that week and it was lovely.’
“But then you go back and you go, ‘I forgot the f***ing four and three-quarter years I was f***ing miserable.’”
Responding to Ozzy’s comments in September in an interview with The List, where the vocalist also said there were “bad vibes” on the swansong tour, Tony Iommi said: “I saw that but I don't know what (Ozzy) meant.
“I had a great time on the last tour playing with the guys and Ozzy never mentioned anything to me. He seemed to enjoy it and we had a laugh so I don't know, so I think possibly that quote was taken out of context.”
Ozzy’s No More Tours 2 tour hits the UK in February 2019 for six arena shows with Judas Priest. Head to Planet Rock Tickets to check ticket availability.
