Mike Snider of USA Today recently conducted an interview with Ozzy Osbourne. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow.

USA Today: Anything new you can tell me about your upcoming Osbournes' TV project (a six-episode hourlong variety show on Fox)?

Ozzy: There's a word that scares me a little (used to describe the new show), the word "variety." If we do a Christmas show, believe me, I'm not going to be sitting at a cozy fire with a scarf on and singing, "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas." I'm making that perfectly clear right now. I'm not singing any (crappy) little f---ing Christmas songs. It's kind of like an unscripted (thing). I hope it turns out because Mama, Sharon, is kind of the TV person. She said it would be great if we could all get back together and put this thing on. You know what? OK. We nearly lost her a few years ago when she had cancer. So her passion is for TV. She loves it, so we all love it with her, you know. But I'm not going to become the weatherman or the next Larry King. I'm just going to check it out.


Can you say anything about next year's Ozzfest? (This year's is a one-off concert with Metallica and Serj Tankian Saturday in Dallas).

I guess my wife has a plan up her sleeve. There will be something next year. I think it will be the Ozzfest again, back to normal (a multi-date tour). But I don't know at this point.

Anything else in the works?

I am recording another album soon. I've got a ProTools machine downstairs in my house now, which I record from home now. I can't turn the f---ing thing on. (Laughs). It's like the brain of the house. But when you have somebody who knows what they are doing, it's so easy to make records now, it's not even funny. The art of making records is somewhat diminishing. It's taking the passion out of it. But I will try to give it as much real me as I can. There's so many tricks I can use. I want to make two albums. Make one and go out on that one, and make another one and go out on that. Time is very valuable to me now. I'm 60 this December. It does not seem 10 years since I was 50. It really doesn't. My mission now is to do as much as I can

Well, I'm getting a new guitar player as we speak, and everyone has been saying to me for a long time, 'Get Johnny 5!' And I tried him at one time and I didn't really give him a chance. We'll see, I don't know. I haven't fallen out with Zakk, but Zakk's got his own band, and I felt like my stuff was beginning to sound like BLACK LABEL SOCIETY. I just felt like I wanted a change, y'know?

I've got a guy from Greece coming in - not the musical, the country of Greece - but I'm not going to say too much about it, cos I don't know myself at this point. I've got a new album, I'm working on it as we speak. I've got a studio at my house and I've got a guy called Kevin Churko, the guy that did the last album - he's great to work with.

And it's great to have your own studio. On one hand it's great and on the other it's not, cos when you're at the studio you can go, "Sorry darling, I can't get home for dinner, I'm stuck at the studio...' But she can fucking come down stairs now! But I'm just enjoying my life now...

metalfist schreef:
Ik vind het gitaarspel van Wylde nog redelijk (alleen veel te veel pinch harmonics) maar die stem vind ik verschrikkelijk.

metalfist schreef:
Hé, ik wist niet dat hij bij Ozzy zat?

Germ schreef:
Waar is Zack Wylde heen dan?