Tom Morello is “honoured” to be the musical director for Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s last live performance.
Tom Morello is the person accountable for Ozzy Osbourne’s epic last live performance this summer season
The Rage In opposition to The Machine rocker, 60, has been chosen by the Prince of Darkness and his spouse and supervisor Sharon Osbourne to move up the epic ‘Again to the Starting’ gig at Birmingham’s Villa Park on July 5 and described it as a “salute” to heavy steel.
Talking on the Chicago radio station WBEZ, Morello mentioned: “Heavy steel is the music that made me love music, and Black Sabbath is the band that invented heavy steel. So, when Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne requested me to be the musical director of what is going on to be the final Black Sabbath present — the final Ozzy Osbourne present within the soccer stadium that is like a half-block down from the place Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler, the bass participant of Black Sabbath, grew up — I used to be honoured to do this.
“Proper now, we now have, like, 14 bands. You already know, it is Metallica, Weapons N’ Roses. It is, like, all the largest bands within the historical past of heavy steel. The present is gonna be about 10 hours lengthy, however it’s gonna be a salute to a style that folks all world wide love. You already know, it has been the music that has actually made me love music. I am serious about quite a lot of completely different sorts of music now, however I by no means would have been serious about any type of music had it not been for steel.”
Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Gojira, Halestorm, Alice in Chains, Lamb of God, Anthrax and Mastodon space among the many steel heavyweights set to take to the stage.
A supergroup together with Weapons N’ Roses’ Slash, Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, Korn’s Jonathan Davis, Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst, and Wolfgang Van Halen and Morello will even carry out.
Teasing his involvement, Morello mentioned: “Oh, after all, I will probably be up there. Talking of Northern Illinois, this can be a bit little bit of a spoiler alert, however Adam Jones, the guitarist of Software, he and I went to Libertyville Excessive Faculty collectively and performed in a band. Billy Corgan, the singer of Smashing Pumpkins, grew up a couple of suburbs over. The three of us are going to play collectively for the primary time ever on the present. So, there will be an 847 connection.”
Osbourne, 76, was identified with Parkinson’s illness in February 2019 and has misplaced his skill to stroll, owing to a longstanding spinal harm and the illness impacting his mobility, and requires a strolling aide to get about.
Nevertheless, forward of the live performance, he is miraculously been build up his health ranges within the health club.
That is in line with producer and pal, Andrew Watt, who informed ‘The Howard Stern Present’: “He is [Ozzy] okay. It is simply his physique just isn’t doing what he needs it to do on a regular basis.
“However I talked to him a pair days in the past, and he is, like, beginning to get within the health club once more a bit bit by little, get himself prepared for this final live performance. He’s the real-life Iron Man. And nothing has occurred to his voice — his voice is pretty much as good because it has ever been.”
Proceeds from the occasion will go to Remedy Parkinson’s, Birmingham Youngsters’s Hospital and Acorn Youngsters’s Hospice.
Tickets are bought out and lots of followers had been left surprised by the eye-watering costs.
