| Metal God of the Month |
| Name: Zakk Wylde Band: Ozzy |
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| This was taken from an interview with RoughEdge.com Rough Edge: And you were playing bars and clubs in Jersey and then this Ozzy thing comes up. How would you describe that? It must have been life-changing. Zakk Wylde: Totally, man, I shit my pants when I fuckin' first met him, man. It was like a dream come true. I was a huge Sabbath fan and we all loved Ozzy when he started his solo career and the rest is history. Rough Edge: What was the auditioning process? Zakk Wylde: Well, I had to do an ounce and a half of crack cocaine and drank four shots of my own piss and a gallon of fuckin' beer (laughs). People ask me how I wound up getting the gig with Ozzy and I go, "Well, you know, I was his crack cocaine dealer and I told him, 'you know, dude, I play guitar on the side.'" Actually, these guys saw me playin' in a club or something like that, this guy Dave Feldon, he knew Mark Weiss, the rock photographer. And Mark was working in the city at the time and Mark was like, "Dude, Ozzy's gonna be in town. You oughtta fuckin' try and hook up with Ozzy." I said, "Man, that would be amazing." So I went up to the city but Ozzy had already gone out drinking - he went out drinking with Andre the Giant. I thought, this sucks - I just wanted to get his fuckin' autograph. But then later on, Sharon called my folks' house, they flew me out to L.A. and the rest is history, man. |