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, hear, 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 mentioned, ‘We predict this could occur subsequent summer time. Will you be there?’ And, in fact, we have 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 acquired to take with Ozzy and Black Sabbath forward of the present, Ulrich mentioned:
“He was there and the Sabbath guys have been there and all of us positioned ourselves round [Ozzy] and Ross [Halfin, photographer] was directing site visitors and he requested me to take a seat on the armrest of Ozzy’s throne subsequent to Ozzy.”
“That was type of like entrance row. And we hugged it out. The soundcheck was the following day.”
Ulrich continued, explaining that he and his Metallica bandmates have been among the fortunate few who acquired to look at Black Sabbath soundcheck for the present.
“I feel there was a way from all of the musicians and followers of Black Sabbath, we have been hoping for the perfect, we wished it to be the perfect, 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 have been in.
“After which they began taking part in ‘Conflict Pigs’, and I feel immediately for all of us who have been watching, it was simply, like, ‘Okay, it’s gonna be positive. They sound nice, if not higher than ever.’ After which Ozzy got here in singing. All people was simply, like, ‘They’re gonna f*cking kill it.’
“No person 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 have been all simply so surprised. 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 beautiful.’
“On the identical time, he acquired to perform that live performance that had been in him since earlier than COVID. Possibly it was simply the load off his shoulders that he acquired to perform what he wished, after which possibly he simply type of let go. Who is aware of?”