OZZY OSBOURNE Suing TONY IOMMI For 50% Interest In BLACK SABBATH Trademark

[AndyR]

I have to admit guys, that after Down to Earth, I went off the boil on Rainbow, and I'm not actually "au fait" with those albums you mention... :roll:

The main reason is because at that stage I was moving from my initial "NWOBHM" stance (I went country, pop & classical > rock > nwobhm very quickly in the late 70s early 80s, and Ritchie Blackmore featured very big in that transition) to where I ended up at: blues, rock n roll, country and 60s/70s pop.

I missed many things that you guys take as part of your influences just because there wasn't enough time to follow it all and delve back through the 70s, 60s and 50s....

Having said that, all Ritchie Blackmore output is on the list for retrospective acquisition on CD. All the original DP mk II albums are in place, all the Dio Rainbow plus Down to Earth (which I quite like now - I love Graham Bonnet's voice, and I knew about him before he joined Rainbow, he was a Bee Gees protégé in the 60s, have a listen to the Marbles :)). So I need the post DtE Rainbow and somehow I need to figure out which of the later DP albums have the MkII line up on...

I was just saying how "at the time" our little crowd of musos preferred the "Rainbowness" of Heaven and Hell to the Rainbow output at that time... it might be, D&L, that this was actually one of the albums you cite, I can't remember now, but we were all over the place musically at the time, and the polished rock thing just wasn't one of those places... our loss, I guess, but we were young... :lol:

But, back on topic(ish) - for us, Black Sabbath was Ozzy, and, though I've lost touch with most of them, probably still is...

[Denim n Leather]

My view of this whole debacle is simple:

Heaven & Hell is threatening to overshadow Black Sabbath, and more importantly, Ozzy's popularity.

This has nothing to do with money; it's a clumsy grab at the spotlight, done in true Sharon O's "any press is good press, and since it's Ozzy I can make him look like a cak and get away with it" fashion.

Ozzy doesn't need the money, the IP has gone uncontested for decades and Ozzy will not win the suit.

But that's not what this is about. This is about: For every headline Ozzy can grab, it's a by-line for H&H.

Petty? Yes. And so very Sharon!!!!

[Philly Q]

Having said that, all Ritchie Blackmore output is on the list for retrospective acquisition on CD. All the original DP mk II albums are in place, all the Dio Rainbow plus Down to Earth (which I quite like now - I love Graham Bonnet's voice, and I knew about him before he joined Rainbow, he was a Bee Gees protégé in the 60s, have a listen to the Marbles :)). So I need the post DtE Rainbow and somehow I need to figure out which of the later DP albums have the MkII line up on...

Sorry for going off-topic again (although we've probably done the Ozzy discussion to death now), but....

No love for Deep Purple MkIII, Andy?  I don't think they ever realised their potential (maybe because Blackmore was already losing interest, maybe because the personalities didn't gel), but the Coverdale/Hughes vocal team was awesome.  I wish they'd carried on a bit longer.

I've been working my way through all the original '60s/'70s DP releases, waiting for each one to be remastered.  Just Come Taste The Band and Made In Europe to go now.  I'm not sure if I'll then move on to the reunion albums or all the different live albums... there are so many, it's a bit overwhelming.  :?

[AndyR]

No love for Deep Purple MkIII, Andy?

Not enormously Philly - nearly bought Burn a while back, but I listened to my old vinyl and went... "nah, can't be @rsed..."

I don't know what it is, something about Coverdale just doesn't grab me anymore. It used to, I thought those early Whitesnake albums were superb at the time. But last year while I was digitizing my vinyl, I recorded Love Hunter and Ready n Willing... after the run through to record them, I realised it will be another 10 years before I want to hear them again! :lol:

My view of this whole debacle is simple:

Heaven & Hell is threatening to overshadow Black Sabbath, and more importantly, Ozzy's popularity.

This has nothing to do with money; it's a clumsy grab at the spotlight, done in true Sharon O's "any press is good press, and since it's Ozzy I can make him look like a cak and get away with it" fashion.

Ozzy doesn't need the money, the IP has gone uncontested for decades and Ozzy will not win the suit.

But that's not what this is about. This is about: For every headline Ozzy can grab, it's a by-line for H&H.

Petty? Yes. And so very Sharon!!!!

Yeah, that makes perfect sense. (I still don't hold it against her though :D)

[Ian Price]

This has nothing to do with money; it's a clumsy grab at the spotlight, done in true Sharon O's "any press is good press, and since it's Ozzy I can make him look like a cak and get away with it" fashion.

Ozzy doesn't need the money, the IP has gone uncontested for decades and Ozzy will not win the suit.

Definitely a grab to keep him in the news. Have you seen the awful ad on TV? I think it's for Warcraft or some other on line game. Desperation stamped all over it.

Also, I've just bought The Devil You Know - I hope it's good! Interestingly in HMV (not sure if other shops do it) it is listed under H for Heaven and Hell (obviously) but in brackets next to H&H it says Black Sabbath.  :?

[Johnny Mac]

She's a f*cking nightmare of a woman. I can't stand her. Most of the X factor plebs who worship her probably wouldn't know who Ozzy is let alone Black Sabbath and he was one lucky f*cker to be in that, lets have it right, but he has made some great music. The poor old thing is not in good shape but she won't stop flogging him to death the greedy f*cking tart.
Her Dad Don Arden was Sabbaths manager and sacked him. Then set a dog on her cos' she was seeing Ozzy.The brothers a loony too, her whole family are mental.

Ozzy try to stab her back in the 80's. It's not hard to see why!  :lol:

[murraymurray]

Ozzy try to stab her back in the 80's. It's not hard to see why!  :lol:

If only he wasnt too wasted to finish the job.