In a random turn of events, I ended up in Denver Tuesday night to catch Ozzy and Slash perform; while my ticket to catch Devildriver sat at the box office up in Fort Collins. I was a bit torn on which show to go to. While I expected him to play maybe one or two GNR tracks, he ended up playing five in an eleven-song set. Singer Miles Kennedy was also a bit of a surprise. Copyright The Denver Post.
Photo by John Leyba. Slash himself was flawless, and overall I was very surprised at how good the set was. Ozzy wasted little time getting the show going. After a hilarious video featuring him or his voice as a charachter in Avatar, a member of the Jersey Shore house, the vampire dude from twilight, and a charachter in a Lady Gaga video, Ozzy hit the stage.
It had been almost 10 years since I first saw Ozzy with Black Sabbath, and while a lot has gone on in a decade, the man still knows how to get a crowd going and has great stage presence. During and between songs he did everything possible to get the crowd going including drenching people with a firehose and throwing buckets of water into the crowd. As bad as it sounds, I was really surprised. While we struggled to hear what the hell he was saying between songs, his lyrics sounded pretty spot-on.
It was also really cool to see guitarist Gus G. Last time I saw him in Denver he was playing to people at a small venue with Firewind. Full text. Join the Westword community and help support independent local journalism in Denver. Get the latest updates in news, food, music and culture, and receive special offers direct to your inbox. Support Us Denver's independent source of local news and culture.
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He interacted with the audience, moved around a lot on stage and had a commanding presence. Tony Iommi played both rhythm and lead guitar effortlessly, playing the famous guitar riffs that everyone knows in a clear precise manner. He had a powerful playing style with a full round fat sound.
Geezer Butler played amazing bass giving the powerful bottom end of the rhythm section. Current touring drummer Tommy Clufetos had a good performance along with a short drum solo and copying the drum fills of the original songs well.
Keyboardist Adam Wakeman was less noticeable playing only on a few songs. Original drummer Bill Ward was not there. Ozzy says that Bill has had some medical problems lately and they have not been getting along well either. So Ozzy had his drummer from his Ozzy band Tommy fill in for Ward. Bill Ward published a statement here on his facebook in about his relationship with Ozzy and Black Sabbath that you can read. It appears he is not getting along with Ozzy. Here is a good link about this from Geezer Butler.
Basically Ward thinks he is healthy enough and capable to play a tour — but the rest of band disagrees with him.
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