Ozzy and Lita, Part 2: The Ongoing Odyssey
By david ~ February 17th, 2009. Filed under: Music, religion.
A quick update - I spoke with another couple of friends this past weekend, and they, too, did not know the song I was talking about. Ozzy Osbourne. Lita Ford. “Close My Eyes Forever.” It’s like someone I went to high school with not knowing, I don’t know… “More Than Words” by Extreme (yikes; I shudder just at the thought of it…), or Mr. Big’s “To Be With You” (another nightmare scenario, it is true!)… you know, the songs that plagued you at the time, but you sort of liked them, and you sort of still do, but you know these songs really actually are written by Satan, or at least by some mean guy named Stan, or maybe just by sensitive rocker types who play the “crazy rocker” just to hide their deeply, profoundly felt emotions, which make them cry late at night, hugging their pillows, wishing the pillow was You instead of it just being a pillow… with a, you know, face drawn on it… and a hole cut in the back…
So anyway, Scott and Carson - my friends I spoke with this past weekend - they didn’t know what the hell I was talking about. How can people not know this song? I guess I have an odd relationship with Ozzy Osbourne, but I find it confusing. It’s like the flip side of finding out that all your friends know about and have known about some band, or person, or concept, or something, for a long time such that they now just assume its known existence, but you’ve never heard of it. “Oh yeah, The Shaggs? Sure, I been listening to them since I was like 5! Crazy shit, man!” Yeah, um… the who? Wha? Oh, Shaggs… uh… ok. Sure, got it. Shaggs. Check. Now I understand. That’s what people have been referencing all this time.
When I had my wisdom teeth out, the Ozzy Osbourne song “Mama I’m Coming Home” was on the radio as I lie in bed all doped up and confused. And it made me feel so, so awful. To this day, that song just makes me feel kind of queasy, though in a curious way - I still sort of want to hear the song. Though it is not a good one. It’s like staring into a really, really boring sun.
So Ozzy. I guess I have a weird relationship to Ozzy. Though “Crazy Train” and I are solid. That song rocks big time. But otherwise, I don’t know. Seems Ozzy and I maybe don’t get along.
But still - somebody has to know the Ozzy/Lita joint. Don’t they? Is it possible it’s just me and the internet who know this song?
In entirely unrelated news, the recording process is going well. We have pretty solid takes of most of what we’re trying to get down. Just need to keep going; 2 more studio sessions and then we’ll be on to over-dubs, huzzah! Over-dubs: where it’s at. Well, sort of. They’re fun, though. All except over-dubbing rhythm guitar; that can be a pain. But you gotta do what you gotta do, if you gotta do it. And we might gotta do that. We’ll see! Stay tuned to find out! My goodness!
David, continuously, out.
