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Ep. 3393 Here's Why Ozzy Osbourne Was an Absolute LEGEND!!! · Turley Talks

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  [SPEAKER_00]: The liberal globalist order is on its brink and awakening a new conservative age.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Dr. Steve Turley joined me every day as we discover answers to today's toughest challenges and explore the re-bondalization of conservative civilization.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is Turley Talks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hey gang, it's me, Dr. Steve, your Patre Professor, a bit of a sad Patre Professor tonight.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you are a heavy metal fan like I am, I don't know how many of you know that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a guitar player and heavy metal guitar playing was very influential on my technique, at least back in the day.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But today is definitely a very sad day for all heavy metal fans.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The one and only Aussie Osborne has passed away.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He was seventy-six years old.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And this death truly represents the end of an era.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If ever there were a heavy metal icon in the fullest sense of the term,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was without question Aussie.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he literally had a major worldwide music festival named after him, right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Auss Fest, an annual music festival tour of the United States, Europe, Japan, featured some of the biggest names in metal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: No one embodied the fullness of the heavy metal genre quite like.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Aussie Osborn.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He was there from the very beginning.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He hooked up with Tony Ayomi and the other members of the band Black Sabbath back in nineteen sixty-eight.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The year I was born.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And metal was just starting primarily through Black Sabbath.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So many respects Aussie helped forge the very beginnings of the sounds of heavy metal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Fun fact, if you don't know the orange origin of the term heavy metal appears to go back to the Toronto lead singer
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  [SPEAKER_00]: John K of the band Steppenwolf, whose credit is the first person to use the term in the classic, nineteen sixty-eight song born to be wild.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a line in that song that mentions heavy metal thunder.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And since then, again, going back to sixty-eight, that term heavy metal was thought to adequately describe the kind of loud grinding machine-like pounding of drums and
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Electric guitars combined with oftentimes dramatic commanding, yes, piercing vocals, which by the way Aussie never had.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Aussie always had a very lyrical tenor voice.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But what's so interesting is that the instrumental tamper of heavy metal is actually quite akin to the tamper of a string orchestra, particularly a cello.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If a cello gets miced up and it's playing on its lower strings, it's lower register,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It can be hard to distinguish between a cello and an electric guitar playing on its lower strings.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, there's a finish band called Apocalyptic.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There are a cello quartet.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You might want to check them out on YouTube.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They made a career out of transcribing heavy metal music.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: for cello ensemble and it sounds amazing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So that's the nerdy, that almost orchestral like sound that heavy metals actually capable of mimicking, lends itself to often sounding very classical.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So you can go on YouTube and watch
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  [SPEAKER_00]: tons of electric guitar players playing Beethoven sonatas or revolving contriores.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The electric guitar one is playing rhythm sounds a lot like a cello, but when it's playing solo and high registers, it sounds a lot like a violin.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so that's how you get guitar players like the Swedish virtuoso, Ying-ya, Ing-be-Malmstein.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: sounding very much like the nineteenth century, violin virtuoso, Nicolot Pugginini.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, Mao Msteena playing with an orchestra.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's the magic of heavy metal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Metal is a modern form of music that lends itself to very traditionalist sound and sorority.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And Aussie tapped into that sort of archio-modern sound when he went solo.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: After he left Black Sabbath back in nineteen seventy-nine.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so in many respects, Ozzy not only forged the beginnings of metal on the late sixties, the more hard rock sounding form of metal, but he also forged that more arqueo future sounding, that more goth that classical sounding metal when he went solo in the eighties.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, he loved to begin his concerts before he came out on stage when the lights didn't.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He loved to begin by blaring classical music through the PA system.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: particularly Carl Orce, Carmina Barana, have you, I'm sure you've all heard of it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: but it's styled up to this medieval Gregorian chant.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's glorious piece.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In many ways, it's sort of the classical version of Aussie's music, which was both very ancient.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You love medieval, modal sounding melodies.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But of course, those medieval, modal sounding melodies were played through modern technology, electric guitar as amplifiers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Mike so Aussie's music was in many ways the very essence of our Q modern and this is where I came in contact with Aussie I discovered Aussie back in the early eighties thanks to my cousin Patrick we were hanging out together California somewhere one summer my mom's from the west coast we often spend several weeks in the summers in California and he and I were goofing around a basketball court outside and he brought a boom box set it down
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  [SPEAKER_00]: popped into cassette tape and it was the first track of Blizzard of Oz and it was the song I don't know and that's the name of the song but it's a perfect you know who's on first joke what's the name of the song I don't know I guess I'll ask someone else no I told you tell me what the name of the song what's the name of the song I don't know well that's I'm gonna ask somebody else no but I told you what's the name of the song I don't know but that's what I'm saying
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It would be a perfect set up for an odd and castello gag, but I digress.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When my cousin hit the play button, my freaking life changed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was like I was made for that music.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I was already playing guitars intermediate at the time, but when I heard that guitar player, the one and only Randy Rhodes, I was absolutely transfixed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And for me, that's the legacy of Ozzy Osborn in my life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He was the bridge to Randy Rhodes, and Randy Rhodes, who ended up dying tragically in a prop plane accident, stupid, careless, stunt,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Like somebody thought it could fly a plane, not Randy, but the guy was trying to fly the plane.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Randy was only twenty-six years old.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But he only ended up recording two albums, Aussie's first two.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And in those sixteen or so songs he established himself to be one of the greatest metal players of all time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But at the end of his life, he got into towards the end of his life, he got into classable guitar.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He was taking a classable guitar lessons as one of the greatest metal guitarists in the world.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And he inspired me to take classable guitar lessons.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And those of you who know, I ended up auditioning and getting acceptance of people to conservatory music back in nineteen eighty eight.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And my first degree was in classable guitar performance, where I started with the great guitarist, Manuel Veroico.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: it was Randy Rhodes that got me started on that classical guitar journey precisely because of this archie of modern aesthetic that Aussie's music helped forge the beginnings of.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So for me, that is the real significance of Aussie.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He was the bridge to Randy Rhodes and Randy Rhodes was the bridge to my early classical guitar world in career and it was at that conservatory where I met my wife of the last what almost thirty years
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And at Archeof Future aesthetic that blending together traditional modes and melodies with modern technology has been a passion of mind.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In all of its social and cultural and political applications ever since, in many ways, it shapes my political and cultural analysis today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So there you go.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I could go on and on, obviously, Ozzy Osbourne had enormous influence in my life, however indirectly.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Another interesting tidbit there is that when I was actively playing heavy metal guitars a teenager, I grew up in Connecticut in the greater New York area, and after Randy Rhodes died, and after Jake E. Lee, who replaced Randy left the band.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Ozzy was looking for a new guitar player.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And among all the auditions across the nation, it came down to two guitar players.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: An amazing, heavy metal player by the name of Jimmy Bell, in Middletown, Connecticut.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I actually saw him playing in the nightclub once and he blew my mind, he changed my whole way.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was possible in the electric guitar.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And another pretty impressive guitar player from Jersey named Zach Wilde.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And what was some amazing was, is that that Zach Wild had a guitar teacher named Dave to Petra, the guitarist for the band T.T.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Quick.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know Dave, but I knew his brother, the lived in Connecticut, and was a singer in a number of bands.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So the two finalists for Randy Rhodes Replacement were both in my proverbial backyard, Jimmy Bell in Connecticut, and Zach Wild in Jersey.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And of course, Aussie went with
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Zach, but I actually got to witness as it were Aussie chooses next guitar player firsthand.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was an amazing privilege.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But his career was stunning.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's span decades.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He never stopped making music.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, he performed his final concert just a few weeks back with Black Sabbath in Birmingham, England where it all started.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So it was a fitting end to an astonishing
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  [SPEAKER_00]: unprecedented career that impacted more lives than anyone could ever imagine, including mine.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So may God bless John, Michael Osborn, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God bless.
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