Ozzy Osbourne tore into guitarist who auditioned for his solo band in a new Kerrang interview.
“Someone who can fucking play, for a start! Back in the day, auditions used to drive me fucking mental. The first 50 people who’d show up would only be there because they wanted to meet you, and then maybe if you were lucky you might find someone decent among the next 50.
I used to get the guys in my band to make a shortlist, otherwise I’d have to sit through 900 guitar players, and usually all kinds of weirdos. I remember one guy saying to me, ‘I do a great solo standing on my head.’ So I said, ‘I don’t need a fucking acrobat!’”
Ozzy Osbourne recently announced that his postponed Hollywood Bowl show will now take place on Monday, July 27, 2020 in Los Angeles. The concert will come near the end of Ozzy’s 2020 North American ‘No More Tours 2’ shows, which resume on May 27th in Atlanta and conclude July 31st in Las Vegas.
Ozzy will kick off a European tour in his home, the United Kingdom, on January 31st before ending the tour on March 16th in Zurich, Switzerland. The tour includes shows throughout the U.K. — Nottingham, Dublin, Manchester, Newcastle, London (O2 Arena), Glasgow and Ozzy’s Birmingham hometown — before heading to Europe for gigs in Germany, Finland, Sweden, Austria, Czech Republic, Italy, and Switzerland.
