OZZY GUITARIST UPDATE: WYLDE’S HEALTH PROBLEMS CONTINUE, AND IOMMI GETS FANS EXCITED OVER NUTHIN’
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 at 2:00pm by Axl Rosenberg
I made a joke earlier this week about Zakk Wylde taking the news of Ozzy’s new guitarist so hard that he wound up in the hospital for blood clots – but this has turned into some apparently serious shit. Not only has Wylde and Black Label Society been forced to drop off the Pedal to the Metal tour with Mudvayne, Suicide Silence, and some band where the dude has a stupid hair cut and is married to an ex-porn star, but he has to visit the hospital every 48 hours. A statement from Zakk (by way of the always helpful Blabbermouth):
“To all our BLACK LABEL family worldwide, thanks for all the ‘get-wells. Every 48 hours [I have to get myself to] the [hospital] ER [emergency room] to check my blood. Had a CT scan [a painless, sophisticated x-ray procedure which obtains images of parts of the body that cannot be seen on a standard x-ray — Ed.] today and have blood clots in each of my lungs as well as my leg. [I] can’t sing because pushing can cause an embolism.”
Despite my mother’s wishes, I’m obviously not a doctor, so I don’t know how serious this – but it certainly sounds serious. Serious enough that I’m not gonna make any jokes about how Zakk is just using this as an excuse not to have to do the Pedal to the Metal tour anymore. Serious enough that I won’t make any cracks about how Zakk brought this on himself through years of partying. Serious enough that I won’t make any glib remarks about how Zakk might be the second guitarist Ozzy outlives.
I know we give Zakk a lot of shit here, but the guy falls distinctly in the “Heroes that Have Failed Us” category, not the “Fuck You, You Untalented Cocksucker” category. In other words: even though I haven’t enjoyed Zakk’s work in quite some time, I don’t actually wish him any harm. I hope the dude is okay and he comes out of this with a newfound vigor that leads him to start making kick-ass music again. Because that would really be the best revenge against Ozzy: to make a record which blows Mr. Osbourne’s right the fuck out of the water.
Speaking of Ozzy guitarists and revenge – there’s been some hoopla over this recent quote from Tony Iommi:
“We love ‘War Pigs’ and ‘Iron Man’ and ‘Paranoid’ but we’ve played those for 40 years so it’s been a nice change… Maybe next year [Heaven & Hell will] do some of the old stuff.”
I’ve gotten some e-mails about this, and people seem excited at the prospect of H&H (the band, not the bagelry) doing Ozzy-era material. And that would be a giant middle-finger to Ozzy, especially considering he’s in the process of suing Iommi. But I think the key word here is “maybe” – Iommi said “Maybe we’ll do some of the old stuff.” So let’s not turn this into a case of “Oh, Don Piano!” people. I’d actually be surprised if they got Dio to sing Ozzy’s shit at this point in history.
-AR
Oh Long Johnson! I cant believe this! Oh My Dog!
Zakk Wylde… what a tool.
GET WELL ZACK AND FORGET ABOUT ALL THE DUMBASESS WANNNA BE’S RULE YOUR THING AND WE HOPE UR RECOVERY, U DONT NEED OZZY U DONT NEED METALSUCKSUPURASS. JUST KEEP ROCKING, YEAH AND U THAT ARE READING THIS I WILL KILL U :)
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i seriously hate people that type in all caps.
Foreigners and Juggalos= caps lock
Do you mean that foreigners who are jugallos always write in caps? Or is it either/or? Because if so – I’m Polish and all I have to say to your comment is fuck you, dear sir. With no unnecessary caps.
On topic though – the quality of mr Wylde’s work may have not been stellar for some time, but you have to give the man props for the good shit he did produce, and I agree with Axl that we should wish him well, and we all me may gain on him regaining health.
I bet you intended to write all in caps until you saw my post.
BTW Vader kills you dead.
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WOW. OBVIOUS TROLL IS OBVIOUS.
/\ What he said.
Wow that cat can fucking talk
Where has there been hoopla over that comment? On blabbermouth? Does anybody take any of their commentators seriously? They argue like a bunch of 4-year-olds. If you haven’t heard Dio do the Ozzy-era Sabbath songs justice, then pick up “Live Evil” and do yourself a favor. I don’t think there’d be anything wrong with H & H playing those songs, but it’s been nice that they haven’t had to rely on them either.
Holy Diver.
Fail.
GHOULS ATTACKING THE CHURCH.
It’s a shame Zakk Wylde got drafter into Ozzy’s band like some kind of weird orphaned war victim into genetic super soldier program. Who knows what he could have done otherwise.
God that was fucking funny!!
Ronnie James Dio will throw a shit fit if he has to sing any Ozzy songs
A friend of mine had a bout with blood clots several years back. Mostly in her legs, not sure about the lungs. A few months and a bunch of doctors appointments later, she’s fine. Hopefully It’ll be the same for Zakk. Although, since he just got canned, is he still covered as Ozzy’s Dependent? Is this being brought up at the town hall meeting?
Saying a lifetime of alcohol abuse usually leads to health problems is far from shit-talking.
I think what Axl meant was he wasn’t goin to rub it in his face. We all know Zakk’s partying is partly/mostly to blame for this and deep down Zakk probably knows it too, so it’s a show of respect to simply NOT bring up the obvious.
Disagree with ya on Zakk but hell no one agrees on everything. That fucking cat is wylde! Hahaha get it? Wylde?!?! Oh well fuck it.
If Zakk were to die, he would be forever immortalized as one of the greatest guitar players that ever lived and would sell MILLIONS of BLS discs.
Because death in the music world is serious business.
Look at all the sheep who went bezerk over Cobain, Dimebag, or even Micheal Jackson.
Cobain and Jackson were both infinitely more popular than Wylde during their lives.
Yeah, and a couple of years after Zakk kicks the bucket they will say the same thing about him.
Unfortunately you are absolutely right. Firstly you have the assholes buying it all up for their sentimental purposes. Then there’s the other assholes who’ll buy up all that shit and try and make a fast buck off the aforementioned group of assholes. In the end who win? Mainly the assholes making the fast buck. The families rarely see much money after a star dies. The record companies clean up pretty good. Better than the fast buck asshole I’d imagine due to the long term sales and property rights etc.
There is also that group of people who will jump on the bandwagon after he kicks off, buying albums and pretending to be life long fans even though most of them have never even heard of the artist.
You know, the social whores who need to “belong”.
These are some of the same people who made Dimebag the superstar he is today.
Concurred.
I hope Zakk gets better, but on teh H&H note, blah. Every video I’ve seen of Dio singing Ozzy songs is sad, and I prefer Dio to Ozzy.
That would be like Di’anno trying to do Dickison era Maiden material.
It’s just not going to work.
Dickinson*
Oh crazy talking cat. Your words strike at the spot truest to my heart, giving me hope for the world.
Oh Long Johnson indeed.
@ All MetalSuckers who read this:
First things first: This is my first post at MetalSucks since like 2008, I went under the names “AWB” or “Azzan” so like…yeah, I used to be a regular from 2007-2008 but I see most everyone I used to fight with in meaningless comment wars has left [or are using different names, hopefully the latter, because I'd like to waste my time arguing with them again...Nostalgia - from like a year ago - I know it doesn't make sense, but you get the idea].
Second, and the real reason I posted:Is Zakk wearing Panty-Hose type socks, or are those medical thermal/diabetic socks?
I ask this because while I was never really into Zakk Wilde (’Blood is thicker than water’ seemed nice) but I always thought he was one of those bad-ass-ish, tough-looking big guys (Dispite the fact I don’t listen to Disturbed I think Dan Donegan to be another one of those guys, and of course Johan Hegg of Amon Amarth and Gaahl from Gorgoroth) and there had better be a good reason for him to wear socks that the average guy would expect his grandmother to wear.
Don’t get me wrong, Marilyn Manson got away with it, but he was one of those ‘tall, weird, and skinny-freaks’ (plus extra points because he ripped the panty-hose and wore it improperly on his arms). Zakk Wylde is one of those guys quietly drinking in the corner at the bar, cross him and you’d better be Chuck Zito, Kurt Russel or a fake TV wrestler like Steve Austin – cuz you’re bout to start a bar-brawl.
Finally, I have I blog (that I almost never update) which I’ll be updating again soon (click my name).
What a tool you are. Please don’t post here anymore. And don’t reply to this post. You are no longer allowed to be here.
Sorry, I know you said not to reply, but I just couldn’t help it…hehehe!
Ugh… you are an ass, good sir.
Ad hominem, ad hominem…No substance, no point, some potential idle threats with no guarantee of delivery, but plenty more ad hominem…I would have left, but I was waiting for your mouth to let go of my scrotum.
Also regarding the…
“Please don’t post here anymore. And don’t reply to this post. You are no longer allowed to be here.”
I want to thank you for the very warm and lovely ‘welcome home’ (I miss my old MetalSucks friends and enemies, but it’s always nice to make new friends and enemies). That being said, I felt just the slightest urge to say ‘or else what?!’ (i.e. If you saw Team America: World Police, where Hans Blix goes “Let me see your whole palace, or else…” and then Kim Jong Il replies “Or else what?!” before he asks him to step to his left and opens the trap door underneath and he gets torn to pieces by the sharks in his aquarium…Kim Jong Il is soooooo cute in that movie! Hard to believe he’s a blood-thirsty tyrannical dictator after watching that – perhaps the movie won him more fans).
See Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b49Iwfp8U-U
…But I figure I’d let you go on your little power trip and continue banning people indiscriminately from MetalSucks because after all, posting Anonymous comments automatically gives you administrative access to ban users left-right-and-center.
Enjoy choking on my semen most kind sir/madame! But clean up after you’re done.
Oh…And I love you too!
In regards to the below comment, You sir and or madam are the reason I love this site. Good retort. I love Team America…America, Fuck Yeah!
Spot on, Axl. This could all work out for Zakk. The best thing he could do is recover and write the most bad ass BLS album he’s ever done which would be a huge personal win for him as well as his fans. Shot to Hell was crap and the sales were bad enough for them to get kicked off Roadrunner. He’s been spreading himself too thin trying to write for Ozzy, BLS, and ESPN (some of the crazy instrumental shredding you hear on Sportscenter).
As far as H&H doing old Ozzy songs? I doubt it. I’ve heard Dio is not very interested in doing them and besides, between the new H&H album, Dio era Sabbath, and Dio’s solo albums, there’s plently of good material to work with.
…”Spot on”… So so contrite.
His condition is exactly what killed an uncle of mine at 34 years old. So yeah, it’s pretty serious. The closer the clot is to the heart the faster it can kill him. In fact, the likelihood of him dying from this is very very high. Good luck Zakk.
Yeah Zakk buddy ol’ pal, this is your good friend Metal Fuckin’ Dave talkin’. You remember me right ol’ buddy it’s me Metal Fuckin’ Dave! I don’t spell the ending “G” in fuckin’ ’cause that wouldn’t be very metal now would it? Get better ol’ friend and keep bustin’ out those same ol’ pick squeels and dusty fuckin’ riffs we already heard on ‘No Rest for the Wicked’. You know like the song Cage the Elephant covered.
@ Hey Fuck Yeah Zakks’ Blood Clots is the Shit!
Wow, man! I thought it was just with me, but you really are quite the shit disturber! (That might be a good thing, because it allows us both to go on lengthy meaningless rants, taking ‘pot-shots’ at each other – which is fun so keep it up).
I agree that there should be a ‘G’ at the end of ‘Fuckin’ and that it’s probably a waste of time for ‘Dave’ here to think that Zakk Wylde will actually read his post (I haven’t heard ‘No rest for the wicked’ so I’ll take your word for it because I’m not interested enough to investigate it) but seriously, do you actively search for errors in phone-books or something?
I mean, I’d probably point out the same things you did to ‘Metal Fuckin’ Dave’ (arguing effectively) but that’s probably only if he shot at me first (which he didn’t, so I’m not returning fire). But since he’s just wishing the guy a ‘get well soon’ I don’t think he really set you up for that ‘WAAHHHN!’ tactic.
Pre-emptive strike, huh?
Whatever.
Just a warning:
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There is no doubt about it, I enjoy a good verbal exchange. To future exchanges AWB…Cheers and Slainte
To future exchanges!!! Lad(y – whatever applies)
But wait, are you Irish? Scottish? Welsh? Or some breed of Celt? (’Slainte’ got me thinking that).
Whatever, Skaal (Svenska: ‘cheers’) mate!
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SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION:
(By the way my blogsite is a wee bit more off-the-wall and on-my-face as I am here).
As much as we think Zakk’s quality of work has gone downhill, that is no reason to wish for his health to go downhill.
No matter how much I hate any particular band/artist, I would never wish them ill. (except Michael Jackson.)
Get well soon Zakky!
@ MetalMatt:
I’m no fan of ZW, I think he’s kinda tough-looking (very much missing in metal these days) but I’ve heard some things of his I like and others that don’t particularly register on my radar. That being said, I – much like you and ‘Super Fuckin’ Dave’ – wish the man a ‘get well soon’.
Enough about ZW and more on to Michael Jackson:
I’m sure everyone who does, has their reasons – but I’m curious as to why you would wish MJ ill?
Is it because of the chi-mol allegations? The music? Or all the silly antics (baby-dangling-over-balcony, surgeries that made him look like a black-metaller, PJ’s in court, etc.)
If it’s the music that bothers you, well I don’t really think it should. I presume you listen to metal right? (You’re probably thinking “No Einstein, I’m on MetalSucks.Net because I listen to Country-Western music.”)
I mean if ‘Blind Guardian’ made a bad record (G-D forbid, and damn near impossible, please don’t try to ruin my fantasy of having a perfectly decent progressive-power-metal band, PLEASE?) I’d complain, but that’s because it’s metal – something I listen to.
But not only do I not listen to MJ’s music (I’ve heard ‘Beat it’, ‘Bad’, ‘Billie Jean’ and all the radio-played classics like everyone else, but I don’t have his records…YET) I don’t even listen to the same genre (YET).
Again, I’m just taking a stab in the dark, so I might be totally off on this one, but – IF – you hate MJ for his music – then it’s tantamount to someone who listens to ‘Gangsta-Rap’ criticizing/wishing ill to bands like Tool, Dream Theater, Meshuggah, Cradle of Filth, Dimmu-Borgir, Sonata Arctica, Rhapsody, etc. Or hell; why don’t we throw in Led Zeppelin, Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, Scorpions, Uli Jon Roth, Rush, and Pink Floyd…Except in this case it would be a metaller criticizing a Popper (or King of Poppers).
It seems like everyone’s got a story to tell, and even though each one is slightly different – I think I’ve nailed down the primary reasons.
Still I’m curious, what’s your reason?
you two should go out some time
i can really see this working out
AWB
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zakks fuckin blood clots…
wtvr
@ Yanky:
I couldn’t agree more!
I know it’s been such a short time (we met literally like yesterday on this very site) but I figure since we fight like an old married couple (albeit on-line like all the other key-board warriors) why not just take the plunge?
So we’re both getting married tomorrow…Unfortunately you weren’t invited (if we knew in advance, we’d-a sent out more invitations). But it would have been great to have you around, we’da had a mighty gay day!…Now we’ll just have a normal gay day.
I presume we’ll have trouble naming our kids.
I mean my name is “AWB” his is “Hey Fuck Yeah Zakks’ Blood Clots is the Shit!” so I’m not sure whose last name we’ll swap (I’ll keep mine, cuz I’m the man – but I presume he is too).
Wow! Congratulations ‘Yanky’. In 3 lines, you successfully converted me to gaydom (not that I have anything against gays). I’m a hetero guy marrying a potentially other hetero guy (or girl, after all this is a metal site, so it can have it’s unpredictable moments)…making us homo guys.
Very powerful.
As a side note, don’t you think that ‘you two should get a room’ type joke is a little dated? (Do mind the pun, since you were encouraging us to date).
I think it would be cool to hear Dio sing them, then flip it around and have ozzy try to sing some Dio shit. That would be a mess.
Meh, if he’s in the hospital that means he can’t torture an audience with his act. I see nothing wrong with this. That, or maybe it’s payback for designing such a shitty looking guitar.
I dropped by this site to read up on Zakk’s condition. This will be the last time I drop by. I have never read such a bunch of useless, uninformed and meaningless crap in my life. The talking cat was cute but 99% of you here have but one clue and even that’s fucked up. Cya. ,,l,.
Oh and P.S. SDMF motherfuckers.
You know what man……I dunno who’s writing this shit, A. R.-, whoever that is, what the fuck have you ever done man, you start saying how serious Zakk’s health is and then you go on to say how Zakk is another guitar hero who let “us” down. I dunno who “us” is but it doesn’t include me pal. You see the beauty of music and I mean all types, not just metal, is that when you stop enjoying one band or artist who can listen to another. If you wish you don’t have to continue to listen to the music that doesn’t turn your crank anymore. You don’t have to go on the internet to bitch about said “hero” who let you down, and what a dick he is…..so on and so on. I dunno if this is a little power trip for you so you can throw out a little scrap of news to die-hard metal fans (although judging from the posts on here some of them have their heads up their asses too) and then throw down this holier than though opinion full of Bullshit! You’re (A.R.) probably the type of pussy who’d be scared to say anything even close to what you said in your column to Zakk’s face. Say something classy in your column for a change like, “Zakk’s in the hospital with blood clots and we all hope he has a speedy recovery. Regardless how you feel about the man or his music show some fucking class. How tough is that?Anyway, fuck you! Oh and you probably think I’m just some brainwashed BLS fan, well………whats wrong with that? Dime’s probably rollin over in his grave. SDMF you pussy……get well soon Zakk!
Bravo! SDMF Brother. Thanks for saying what I was to tired to type. Get well Zakk. Stay Strong Barbrianne. God bless Dime. Oh and Oz… John 5 … he’s great … but you know Zakk can’t be replaced. My autographed Les Paul Bullseye hangs on the wall until Zakk has recovered. Better get well soon Bro… I am getting itchy to play. ;^)
For the haters? ,,l,. Slide on that.
Thanks man….I hate this internet nerd rant blog shit but fuck that guy……he had it comin
SDMF
I know this is late but a blot clot in your lung (PE) can kill you fast! It is the number one reason of unexpected deaths. I’m a RN if you want to know…
After that, get well Zakk
type-o, blood clots, I worked the last 3 nights…
Ozzy sucks now. Zakk sucks now. Dio has always sucked. What we need is for Tony Iommi to either make an album with a singer who actually respects him (Phil Anselmo/Serj Tankian immediately come to mind), or go back in time to 1979, never make the mistake of firing Ozzy and proceed to make like ten more excellent Sabbath albums with him.