Tommy Aldridge sanoo, ettei häntä kutsuttu soittamaan Ozzy Osbournen viimeisessä konsertissa: ”En aio tunkea toisten juhliin”
Legendaarinen hard rock -rumpali Tommy Aldridge (Whitesnake) on selittänyt, miksi hän ei ollut mukana Ozzy Osbournen ja Black Sabbathin Back To The Beginning -jäähyväiskeikalla, joka järjestettiin viime heinäkuussa Birminghamissa, Isossa-Britanniassa.
Hiljattain julkaistussa ääniklipissä, joka tuli saataville Aldridgen virallisen YouTube-kanavan kautta, rumpali korosti, ettei hänen poissaolonsa taustalla ollut mitään pahaa tahtoa.
Tommy Aldridge kertoo, ettei häntä kutsuttu Ozzy Osbournen viimeiselle keikalle, mutta painottaa, ettei taustalla ole katkeruutta tai epäkunnioitusta. Hän korostaa arvostavansa Ozzya suuresti eikä aio ”tunkea toisten juhliin”.
”Well, I don’t wanna cast dispersions. I don’t want to shade anyone. I wasn’t invited to be at Ozzy’s last show. That’s as much as I need to say. I wasn’t invited. And I’m not gonna crash someone else’s party. I will say, but that has no reflection on Ozzy. I have so much admiration and love for Ozzy. Ozzy was someone I spent a lot of time with, and it was by no means any disrespect intended on my part — certainly not — and the powers that be. I pay my highest regards and respects to Ozzy Osbourne on any opportunity I get to do that.”
Aldridgen mukaan hänen suurin motivaationsa liittyä aikoinaan Ozzyn yhtyeeseen oli mahdollisuus soittaa Randy Rhoadsin kanssa. Rhoadsin traaginen kuolema lento-onnettomuudessa teki ajasta sekä uran huippuhetken että henkilökohtaisesti raskaimman kokemuksen.
What motivated me to start with Ozzy was a gentleman by the name of Randy Rhoads and being able to go on stage with that gentleman every night and be in close proximity to his guitar playing. That was my motivation in working with Ozzy. Unfortunately, that was very short lived, ’cause Randy was tragically taken from us and the plane crash, and the trauma of that and everything, that was a very bittersweet time in my career. The high watermark from a musical perspective was working with Randy, and the low watermark, from a personal perspective, was Randy. So it was a ’damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ time in my career. Working with Randy was indescribably inspirational and devastatingly depressing at the same time with his loss.”
Hän kertoo tunteneensa Ozzyn jo ennen tämän suurta soolomenestystä, ja jopa ennen tämän avioliittoa, ja olleensa mukana tämän uran varhaisissa vaiheissa Black Sabbathin jälkeen. Aldridge kokee, että heidän suhteensa ulottui pitkälle menneisyyteen, ja hän arvostaa syvästi Ozzyn vaikutusta niin omaan uraansa kuin koko rock-musiikkiin.
”I was pretty much established before I ever worked with Ozzy, from previous bands. In fact, Ozzy was interested in extending the offer to me from having heard me play when I was in bands that supported Ozzy. My first tour, actually, abroad, first internationally known band, was a band called Black Oak Arkansas, and the first dates that I did internationally were supporting Black Sabbath. That’s when I met Ozzy. And that was … a long, long time ago. He shared some of his success with me. I would like to think that I, in some small way, participated, especially in the early, early times when he was unceremoniously dispatched from the only band he’d ever played in, Black Sabbath, I can imagine. Well, I know firsthand the trauma that was for him; I was there. I was living in England when all that was coming around. I was working with Gary Moore at the time, who was signed to the same label that Ozzy was ultimately signed to. So, yeah, I had some experiences with Ozzy that no one really knows anything about. I knew Ozzy before other people knew Ozzy, so I met Ozzy way before he met his wife, and so forth and so on. So we had a relationship that superseded Randy Rhoads, and I have a lot of respect and appreciation for what Ozzy has done, not just in my career, but what he’s done musically.”
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