In a brand new interview with Australian Musician, Sebastian Bach spoke about Ozzy Osbourne’s latest passing and his response to listening to the information that he had died.
“I used to be nonetheless recuperating from the live performance, [Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell show] ‘Again To The Starting,’ [when I found out Ozzy had died],” Bach mentioned. “I by no means pay for streaming or no matter, however I noticed, the day after that live performance, there was some footage on YouTube from the pro-shot [livestream of the event], and I cried watching it ’trigger I really like Black Sabbath and I really like seeing them, at their age, get collectively and play one final time.
“So I watched it and I used to be blown away. And so I invited my mates over… So I had this packed home… and I had paid the cash for the stream, and we watched as a lot as we might. And it was simply so heavy watching them that I wasn’t ready for him to die. I used to be nonetheless recuperating from watching that live performance, which was just one week or per week and a half earlier than he left us. So the day that he died, I used to be not ready. I don’t assume any of us had been ready, as a result of we had simply seen that live performance actually days earlier than.”
He continued, opening up about grief and what it’s prefer to lose your heroes:
“I’ve this factor… I discovered this when my dad died in 2002. I cried a lot that I had no extra tears left. For months, I used to be so harm that my dad died on the age of 57, which is how previous I’m proper now — knock on wooden. In any case, so all of us undergo that. That’s life. Each considered one of us has to take care of that. However what I did be taught is that typically I’ve to compartmentalize issues in an effort to get by the day.
“And since my dad died, typically now when a member of the family dies or considered one of my heroes dies, like Ozzy or Gregg Allman or Eddie Van Halen or Neil Peart, typically I faux that it by no means occurred. I do know that’s form of a awful factor.
“I simply misplaced my cousin Kevin — he was 52 — from most cancers, and a part of me refuses to just accept that. In my mind, I’m, like, ‘F*ck most cancers. F*ck you. I’m not gonna let myself actually really feel that.’ In fact, I do really feel it, and typically it hits me, however when my dad died, I had no compartmentalization. In order I grow old, possibly it’s chilly, possibly it’s not proper, however typically I simply faux that this by no means occurred. And I nonetheless haven’t accepted that Ozzy Osbourne is lifeless, as a result of part of my childhood dies with Ozzy, and I’m not a baby. [Laughs] So I’d higher get used to that.”