Throughout an look on “The Howard Stern Present” on Wednesday (Aug. sixth), Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich mirrored on acting at Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s finale present “Again to the Starting” simply 17 days earlier than the legendary frontman handed away.
When requested by Stern if he skilled any “pinch-me moments” on the live performance, Lars replied:
“Properly, in fact. I imply, pay attention, my relationships with these guys return to opening for Ozzy on ‘The Final Sin’ tour in 1986. Actually, Ozzy and [his wife and manager] Sharon launched Metallica to a mainstream viewers.
“Tom [Morello, Rage Against the Machine guitarist and ‘Back To The Beginning’ music curator] referred to as and stated, ‘We expect this could occur subsequent summer time. Will you be there?’ And, in fact, we had been, ‘F*ck yeah.’ You stroll in and it’s, ‘Oh my God. There’s [Aerosmith frontman] Steven Tyler.’ ‘Oh my God. There’s [Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer] Chad Smith.’ ‘Oh my god. There’s [former Van Halen frontman] Sammy Hagar.’ ‘Oh my God there’s Yungblud!’”
Describing the group picture he and the opposite performers received to take with Ozzy and Black Sabbath forward of the present, Ulrich stated:
“He was there and the Sabbath guys had been there and all of us positioned ourselves round [Ozzy] and Ross [Halfin, photographer] was directing visitors and he requested me to sit down on the armrest of Ozzy’s throne subsequent to Ozzy.”
“That was sort of like entrance row. And we hugged it out. The soundcheck was the following day.”
Ulrich continued, explaining that he and his Metallica bandmates had been a few of the fortunate few who received to look at Black Sabbath soundcheck for the present.
“I believe there was a way from all of the musicians and followers of Black Sabbath, we had been hoping for the most effective, we wished it to be the most effective, we wished it to be a grand slam, however we didn’t know, as a result of finally none of us knew what sort of form they had been in.
“After which they began enjoying ‘Battle Pigs’, and I believe immediately for all of us who had been watching, it was simply, like, ‘Okay, it’s gonna be superb. They sound nice, if not higher than ever.’ After which Ozzy got here in singing. Everyone was simply, like, ‘They’re gonna f*cking kill it.’
“No one walked away going, ‘That’s the final time we’ll see Ozzy.’ [We thought], ‘We’ll see him at some occasion, or we’ll be there to current one other award for him.’ So when he handed two weeks later, we had been all simply so shocked. That was the phrase that was being texted round to all people on the textual content chains that I used to be on: ‘That is simply so f*cking gorgeous.’
“On the identical time, he received to perform that live performance that had been in him since earlier than COVID. Perhaps it was simply the load off his shoulders that he received to perform what he wished, after which possibly he simply kind of let go. Who is aware of?”
