I THINK ZAKK WYLDE IS HAVING A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
Friday, July 31st, 2009 at 12:00pm by Axl Rosenberg
Metal’s First Couple, in happier times.
Okay. I’m starting to feel bad for Zakk Wylde. And I hate feeling bad for Zakk Wylde, ’cause then I can’t poke fun at him.
But according to Blabbermouth, The Only Southerner Ever to be Born in New Jersey called into another radio station – this one in Kansas City – and went on a rant ever more hostile towards Ozzy than the one from yesterday. Here’s a transcript:
Q: I need a statement from you. What is going on with all the rumors and all the crap with the Boss.
Zakk: “I really have no idea. ‘Cause I call up and go, ‘What’s going on here?’ I was just like, ‘That ain’t cool, dude.’ I go, ‘If you’re gonna can my ass, say it to my face. Don’t be doing this shit behind my back; that ain’t cool.’”
Q: So there was a tense moment there with you and the Boss?
Zakk: “I have no idea. I guess we’re supposed to hook up in August and do this goddamn [BlizzCon].”
Q: The last time they tried this was “Down The Earth”, and that record [wasn't that great], so I’m guessing if Zakk’s not involved, it’s not a good Ozzy record.
Zakk: “I have no idea. I’m just like… You could play with anybody you want. Put it this way… It’s like my wife… You can be with any guy you wanna be with. But you know what?! If you’re gonna be banging a guy in our bed, at least let me watch so I can enjoy it. Let me in on the skinny… what’s going on here. That’s just not… I don’t give a [bleep] what anyone says, it ain’t [bleep]ing cool. It’s like, hey, you know what?! You’re just [bleep]ing on me in a back [bleep]ing alley right now and [I'll] rip your [bleep]ing head off if you’re gonna pull this shit. We’ll [bleep]ing find out.”
For a moment I’m going to ignore the interviewer’s assertion that a Zakk-less Ozzy record is a bad Ozzy record, since it is my firm belief that Black Rain sucked just as bad as Down to Earth, and concentrate on the Zakk part.
- Would he really enjoy watching his wife fuck another dude? I know there are guys who get off on that, but I’ve never really understood it myself. What a bizarre metaphor to use. Again, the dude sounds like a scorned lover. And it’s twice as funny when you consider what a homophobe Zakk is.
- Zakk is right, Ozzy should say it to his face, especially now that it’s out in the open.
- I would pay very good money to watch Zakk rip Ozzy’s [bleep]ing head off. And I believe he could do it, too.
Anyways, while we wait for this drama to get resolved, you can listen to audio of Zakk’s latest completely-warranted outburst here.
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The last solid Ozzy album with Zakk was ‘No Rest for the Wicked’ although some people will say ‘No More Tears.’
I’d like to see Zakk biting Ozzie’s head off on stage.
By the way, Jake E. Lee was always a better fit for Ozzy so how amazing would it be if he returned?!
I thought I heard that Ozzy was just as classless when he fired Lee. I believe the story was that Jake woke up and found his gear left on the curb outside his hotel room, and that the band had gone on to the next venue without him. If that is true, then I doubt that we’ll see Lee back in Ozzy’s band.
Is he drunk?! That is the stupidest metaphor I have ever heard! So he doesn’t mind that Ozzy is working with other people as long as Zakk gets to watch?! That makes no sense.
Yeah, the whole rant doesn’t make any sense. Zakk is losing his shit for real.
“It was a slap in the face how quickly I was replaced, Are you thinking of me when you fuck her?” Give Alanis a call Zakk, she’s been there dude.
I smell a Iron Maiden/Black Label Society “Fuck Ozzy” tour.
sounds great except for the “Black Label Society” part.
Ditto.
Me likes BLS
Should you add Dio?
Heaven and Hell would also probably like to be part of the “Fuck Ozzy” tour, since Ozzy is suing Tony Iommi.
Ozzy fucked Zakk’s wife?
Zakk always makes goofy sexual jokes like that. they’re funny.
You know what I hope comes out of this? Anger beyond the boiling point so Zakk gets off his lazy ass and writes the heaviest, most badass BLS album ever.
Agreed
I would pay good money to not see Ozzy fuck Zakk.
So…is Zakk’s wife hot?
Well… Moderately. And beer helps.
Well, Zakk doesn’t seem to have a breakdown, I mean, he’s joking about this … and Ozzy seems so f**ing old and paranoid. Why the f**k doesn’t he tell the guy that he doesn’t want him anymore? Is it that hard to make a very simple english sentence ? Oh, I forgot, Ozzy has speech problems … such a retard.
Really .. “we begins to sound more la Black Label Society” … fu***ing lame excuse. Maybe Ozzy sounds more like Black Label Society because the only guy who really works around there is Zakk Wylde …
I’ll just grab another beer and curse Ozzy once again.
As I’ve said countless times before if Ozzy wrote his own songs like the old days they would sound like Ozzy and not BLS but since Ozzy is too fucked to write anything anymore he needs a guy who can write shit that will sell and apparently Zakk isn’t profitable enough to be in in the “Sharon Osbourne Presents Ozzy Osbourne on lead vocals band!”.
For some odd reason, Wylde likes wife-fucking analogies.
If Zakk bites Ozzy’s head off it better be in Little Nicky 2.
surprised ozzy or sharon hasn’t learned to play guitar yet, so they don’t have to pay a guitar player and they’d have more money to swim around in. does this mean they’ll go back and re-record his entire wylde-era catalog so he doesn’t have to give zakk royalties like they did with bob daisley and lee kerslake? fuck ozzy, that incoherant babbling old bastard.
Can you show proof Zakk is a homophobe?
what i don’t understand is why ozzy won’t just talk to zakk staight up. i mean, it’s not like zakk is a 19 year-old kid anymore, and getting dropped from ozzy’s band would put right back on his ass with nothing to show.. zakk is popular enough now among enough people (and is currently garnering enough sympathy) to be just fine after that. and he owes BOTH of those things to ozzy. ozzy gave zakk his “big break,” and since then they have been working together for a long time. i think zakk just feels hurt because ozzy had given him what he needed to succeed in the music world and he thought that they were great friends because of their history, but now ozzy is just ditching him like a one-night stand.
i agree with the guy/girl somewhere up above in saying that i hope this motivates zakk to write some seriously kickass music again.