versiunea 1.3. redux (incl. ROCKLAND & alinland)
saw the streaming in France, unfortunately not Present in Birmingham live
This is the Ozzy family tree pic.
but my friend Teddy Tudose was there and this is what he wrote:
https://sunetelive.ro/recenzie-black-sabbath-back-to-the-beginning-ozzy/
https://x.com/BlackSabbath
& here are my Top albums of last year (2023)
The The -Ensoulment (could easily be the album of the year for me, lyricswise it's brilliant, poetry and elegy / eulogy
Bruce Dickinson -The Mandrake Project (and a cancelled concert :((()
Elbow-Audio Vertigo
Judas Priest -Invisible Shield
Deep Purple =1
Another masterful Bob Ezrin production with DP, his fifth with the band (starting with Now What ?! " in 2013), an elegant classy album of a bans that had nothing more to prove a long time ago, and now it's just having fun !
The Black Crowes-Happiness Bastards
-great comeback, Rock'nRolla ! their first album since 2009 !
Mark Knopfler-One Deep River -just good old MK !
Ian Hunter - Defiance Part 2 Fiction (part 1, in 2023's top)
Bill Wyman-Drive My Car -Wyman is 87 !
Like the Nick Cave (Wild God), liked The Cure, but they ain't my bands.
A mention to the new David Gilmour -Luck and Strange, but can't say the album satisfied me.
Liked more the Body Count version of "Confortably Numb" , featuring David Gilmour.
Discovered a new great band, punk garage rockin' Australian:
Amyl and the Sniffers -Cartoon Darkness
found out Kasabian reunited: Happenings
COMPILATION:
Various Artists: The Power of the Heart- A Tribute to Lou Reed
-featuring Keith Richards' Waiting for the Man !
ARCHIVE:
The Michael Schenker Group - Is It Loud Enough (Michael Schenker Group 1980-1983) 6 discs
*and what could be the 'anthem" of the year, the unreleased instrumental Edward & Eddie Van Halen song, Unfinished
BLUES:
Slash -Orgy of the Dead
Luke Winslow-King -Flash-A-Magic
Walter Trout-Broken
Quincy Jones gone...91 years old. A Legend's Legend and a whole world gone. Described as a Titan, and yep, it's a good word to describe his whole work.
Just talked about him re Eddie van Halen's Involvement on Michael Jackson's Beat It from Thriller (#1 selling album of all time still, that he concieved and produced), that is a controversial story.
Seminal Jazz album and song: Soul Bossa Nova -1964. Re-made popular by Austin Powers. Same year Quincy Jones became the first Black vice-president of a record label (mercury). He did humongous things for his community and his people.
There is a fabulous documentary on him, QUINCY, made by Netflix in 2018. Still streaming. Do yourself a favor and see it. Then listen to the Man's music.
Also on Netflix there is a doc about how Quincy put together USA for Africa's 1984 "We Are the World" (brilliant stuff, esp. some of the backstories).
His music scores are brilliant, from his debut in Sidney Lumet' s The Pawnbroker (1965), to Joahn and Mary, Norman Jewison's In the Heat of the Night, to the original The Italian Job, Peckinpah's The Getaway (all great Jazz there), The Hot Rock, The Wiz (1978) !!! Lumet directed, Quincy arranged the score, even plays an Emerald City musician, Michael acted as The Scarecrow and the film flopped (big time), to Roots on TV, to Spielberg's The Color Purple (that he also produced), 7 times Oscar nominated and no award :(
well, he had 28 Grammys out of 80 nominations, more than any other musician in history :)
Alex Van Halen wrote about a book about him and Eddie VH, entitled BROTHERS.
The Audio book includes the final song of Eddie and him, Unfinished. It's a nice elegy to the genius to Edward Van Halen.
the song is available for download from van-halen.com.
"You can't kill Rock'n Roll. "
Just as Paul Di'Anno died at 66
Ozzy Osbourne was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame y-day in Cleveland, for the 2nd time, 1st as a member of Black Sabbath in 2016. Jack Black said his introduction, naming Ozzy "the jack Nicholson of rockn'roll". Various musicians played afterwards three songs (Crazy Train, No More Tears), featuring Chad Smith, Robert Trujillo, Zack Wylde, Billy Idol, Wolfgang Van Halen. Ozzy mentioned in his speech Randy Rhoads and his wife, Sharon.
Ozzy is 75 and retired, his last album to-date was the 2022, Patient no. 9.
on twitter here !
A Different Kind of Truth :(
....Eddie, who made 1st history with Eruption and then Jamie's Crying, Atomic Punk, Ain't Talking bout Love, Running with the Devil, I'm the One (all on VH's 1st album in 1978)...and then Beat It, Jump, Panama, Hot for Teacher, Dreams, Why Can't This Be Love ?, When It's Love, Right Here Right Now came later...
...well, Edward Lodewjick Van Halen is gone...looong fight with the throat cancer, cancer finally won. A real GIANT of Rock'n roll, one of the top musicians of all time, absolutely my FAVED Guitar HERO a true GENIUS and one of the most virtuoso guitarists, hugely influential to say the least, but I never got to see him. Saw the rest of the band, minus Alex, with Chickenfoot in Paris at Olympia. But I still hoped I will see Eddie doing his bit of Eruption or Little Dreamer or Man on Mission on stage...Cathedral...
Hit hard the hurt chord...Goodbye Eddie ! A whole era is gone...RIP...at only 65...
TMZ here via Vlad...
