Ozzy Osbourne päätöksestä lopettaa Black Sabbath: ”Et voi tehdä sitä ikuisesti”

Black Sabbathin legendaarinen laulaja Ozzy Osbourne sekä basisti Geezer Butler ovat antaneet hiljattain haastattelun AZCentral.com:lle, jossa heiltä on kysytty päätöksestä lopettaa keikkailu meneillään olevaan ”The End” -kiertueeseen. Basisti Geezer Butler kertoi haastattelussa yhtyeen päätöksestä lopettaa seuraavaa:

”We just all decided that we wanted to do one last tour. We’re all getting up there in age, and while we’re still at the top of our profession, both musically and aesthetically, we wanted to go out on the top and we feel that this is the right time to do it. So the natural thing to do is to all agree on one last tour. And once we agreed on one last tour, that was it. We just set it up. And we all agreed that there won’t be any more Sabbath after this. It’s like a natural progression kind of thing; a natural end to the band.”

Ozzy Osbourne kertoi haastattelussa aikovansa jatkaa soolona kiertueiden tekemistä. Hän kertoi seuraavaa:

”I’m not going to stop entirely. I’m not going to sit with my slippers on and going, ’I’m retired.’ We’re just going to go in different directions.”

”BLACK SABBATH, it’s been up and down. And it’s good that we’ve come back together at the end, more or less, to finish on a high note. It’s a good way to do it. To come back and be friends with my buddies who I started up with all those years ago, it’s a closure for me to have a chapter of my life which I can say, ’Well we came, we saw, we had a good time, and now it’s over.’ And so it’s like any relationship. I’m glad we ended up having more or less whatever has gone on between us over the years. We’ve got rid of all that. And we are friends again. So, I mean, it’s good that, at the end of my days on this planet, I can say, ’Well, we ended okay,’ you know?”

”I mean, you can’t do it forever. If you’re not careful, you’d become, ’Oh, it’s them again,’ you know? It just felt right for me.”