Guns N’ Rosesin Duff McKagan vastaili fanien kysymyksiin muun muassa Ozzysta

Guns N’ Roses -basisti Duff McKagan vastaili fanien esittämiin kysymyksiin julkaisemassaan 19-minuuttisessa YouTube-videossa. Yksi kysymyksistä koski hänen osallistumistaan Ozzy Osbournen ja Black Sabbathin viimeiselle Back To The Beginning -keikalle. Kun McKaganilta kysyttiin, mitä Ozzy hänelle merkitsee, hän kertoi Ozzyn olleen osa elämäänsä jo noin kuusivuotiaasta asti, jolloin McKagan kuunteli vanhempien sisaruksiensa kanssa radiosta muun muassa Black Sabbathin ”Iron Mania”.

McKagan kertoo:

”Well, that’s a pretty big question. Ozzy’s been a constant — I mean, since I was, I’m gonna say, about six years old, because when I was a little kid, FM radio started and I had all these older siblings. And we had a stereo in the living room of our house, and they would play FM radio. And what FM radio did then was play a whole side of a record, and it was rock — rock and roll music. So it’d be Hendrix and whatever. And I remember hearing BLACK SABBATH’s ’Iron Man’ for the first time, whatever year that was, and however old I was — young — thinking ’Iron Man’ was, ’Wow.’ It was like a cartoon thing. And ’What is this song?’ And was kind of accessible for me. And a few years later when I started playing guitar, I could figure that song out. And SABBATH and Ozzy just remained a constant.”

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Reilut viisi vuotta sitten McKagan auttoi Ozzya kirjoittamaan ”Ordinary Man” -albumin.

McKagan kertoi Jonesy’s Jukebox -radio-ohjelmassa:

”This guy Andrew Watt called. He said, ’Do you have some days this week in the daytime? I need to write an Ozzy record. We have four days to do it.’ So we showed up at Andrew’s studio. Everything was kind of set up — Chad’s drum kit was set up — and it was basically one of those things: ’Who’s got a riff?’ It was really inspired. The three of us — Andrew Watt and Chad Smith and myself — we’d never written together, and you know that can go sideways in a hot second. But it didn’t.

”Ozzy came, and Ozzy just loved it. He just came in and started writing words and laid down the vocals. And it was kind of like that. There was definitely urgency to the whole situation. We had so much time to do it, which was only four days. … I think the record is really, really good.”

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