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\n \u201cOzzy was so bowled over that someone would use his whole life for something so specific and different.\u201d
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Ozzy Osbourne was always able to chuckle at himself. He also raised hell<\/a>, sure, but try naming another titan of metal who would relish a performance of a \u201cfast-food metal\u201d parody band that was forged in his name. That\u2019s exactly what transpired in a 2018 episode of Ozzy & Jack\u2019s World Detour, a three-season show that followed Osbourne and his son, Jack, as they traveled the world to learn more about history that interested them. A pit stop in Los Angeles changed up the format a bit: Accompanied by Jack\u2019s daughter Pearl, the trio find themselves in a warehouse filled with twisted imagery that evokes a certain drive-through chain. (\u201cIt\u2019s a really good surprise,\u201d Pearl tells her \u201cpapa\u201d in the car.) The curtains drop and the effect is supersize. Mac Sabbath emerge to play their rousing hit \u201cFrying Pan\u201d \u2014 don\u2019t get it confused with Black Sabbath\u2019s \u201cIron Man\u201d \u2014 with Ronald Osbourne on vocals, Grimalice on bass, Slayer MacCheeze on guitar, and Catburglar on drums. Osbourne thinks it\u2019s hilarious, and the rest is Birminghamburger history with a side of fries. \u201cFunny as fuck, that,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n Mac Sabbath, whose members maintain anonymity behind their characters, formed in 2014 and are an active touring band on the festival circuit. While they lean heavily into their onstage \u201cclownery,\u201d as Osbourne put it, their lyrics are meant to provoke and encourage listeners to think about the dangers of fast food. (A sample stanza from \u201cFrying Pan\u201d goes, \u201cEverybody wants it on gluten bleached flour bread \/ Everybody needs it till they\u2019re fat and dead.\u201d) Mike Odd, the band\u2019s manager and \u201cspokesperson\u201d for front man Ronald Osbourne, still can\u2019t believe their hero gave enough of a damn to watch them perform. \u201cOzzy was so bowled over,\u201d he says, \u201cthat someone would use his whole life for something so specific and different.\u201d<\/p>\n How on earth did this concept of fast-food metal come to fruition? I had previously written something in the press about Black Sabbath being underrated \u2014 they didn\u2019t just invent heavy metal, but punk, goth, and every alternative form of music that went against the mainstream. It was honest, crazy, wild, and spooky. Or for all of us weirdos, any of the music that we hold dear is owed to that band. One of Mac Sabbath\u2019s earliest shows was an elementary-school Halloween party in Silver Lake. Then I booked them for the Zombie Walk in Long Beach. I had that filmed, edited a little video, and put it on YouTube. It blew up so big that the national news covered it. And then Black Sabbath posted it<\/a>. Once that happened, we went absolutely crazy. We got an offer to play Download Fest in England with Judas Priest, Kiss, and Slipknot, then did a proper U.K. tour. After all of that happened, I was like, Oh, wow. Maybe this isn\u2019t going to be a short thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n Jack says in the episode that people adopt Ozzy\u2019s music \u201cas a part of their culture.\u201d What\u2019s the culture at the heart of Mac Sabbath? Who reached out to you to gauge your interest in doing this for Ozzy? Did you think you were at all being pranked? How long did you have to prepare? Is \u201cFrying Pan\u201d kind of like Ronald\u2019s signature song? Why choose that one and not \u201cPair-a-Buns\u201d? You knew Ozzy was coming and, at the very least, his son believed this would be a terrific idea. Still, how nervous was Ronald to do this? Did the \u201cnever meet your heroes\u201d idiom scare him? Within ten seconds Ozzy gave the camera this gigantic grin. Do you find that the metal community generally has a good sense of humor? I always assumed that Mac Sabbath was going to be for the heavy-metal people. What I quickly realized is that wasn\u2019t true. It\u2019s for everyone who\u2019s a weirdo. It\u2019s for everyone that has a sense of humor. It\u2019s for everyone that appreciates a spectacle and isn\u2019t satisfied by a band walking up there in cargo shorts and tennis shoes, and not putting in a lot of effort. What I\u2019m finding is the band is very, very popular with high-school kids that didn\u2019t even necessarily have any knowledge of Black Sabbath. I can\u2019t tell you how many kids have told me that they got into Black Sabbath through Mac Sabbath. But hearing and seeing Mac Sabbath before Black Sabbath? The thought of that, at first, disturbed me and I didn\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n But now I realize that it\u2019s probably, dare I say, the band that\u2019s helped turn most people on to Black Sabbath over the past decade. On Instagram, TikTok, or whatever the kids are looking at, they see these amazing, bright-colored, furry creatures that are popping off the screen and lighting up their little brains. They\u2019re in, not even knowing what the music is yet. And it leads them onto the path of the band that started it all.<\/p>\n \n Ronald Osbourne (left) walking onto the stage with a frying pan; Ozzy (right) once he realized what was transpiring. ATX TV.\n <\/p>\n \n Ronald Osbourne (left) walking onto the stage with a frying pan; Ozzy (right) once he realized what was transpiring. ATX TV.\n <\/p>\n
I specialize in oddities and I used to have an oddities shop on Sunset Boulevard. When you put yourself into that strange world, the weirdness just follows you and you don\u2019t have to seek it out anymore. I would get these calls like, \u201cCome out to my shed in Pacoima and look at my two-headed otter skeleton and make me an offer.\u201d Or, \u201cCome out to Chatsworth to this burger franchise to hang out, it\u2019s going to change your life.\u201d So I went out there and it was more of a trap. They had this kind of underground fight-club meeting in the basement to protest upper management, which was unbeknownst to them. All these people who had worked for this fast-food organization, and were protesting it, regularly made this meeting and it had a performance-art aspect to it. The curtain dropped and all of a sudden there\u2019s these food mutants, playing these Black Sabbath riffs and screaming about Monsanto, GMOs, and the evils of fast food. That\u2019s when I first met Ronald. He said, \u201cIt\u2019s going to be your job to be the manager and bring this above ground, because we\u2019ve only been doing this in secret.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ronald asked him, \u201cOzzy and Black Sabbath have been here to warn the world about evil, correct?\u201d Ozzy said, \u201cYes.\u201d And Ronald responded, \u201cMac Sabbath is here to warn the world about the evils of fast food.\u201d At some point Ozzy asked, \u201cBut why Black Sabbath?\u201d And Ronald said, \u201cWell, Black Sabbath is the best delivery system for any message.\u201d\u00a0I actually went to Birmingham and saw the Back to the Beginning show<\/a>. Black Sabbath was my whole life. It\u2019s hard to even talk about. It was so emotional, being there, breaking into tears, and then realizing it wasn\u2019t just me. I was surrounded by all of these Vikings who were also crying. It already feels like childhood trauma that\u2019s going to affect me later.<\/p>\n
I knew it wasn\u2019t a prank. I had already been told by some of Jack\u2019s mutual friends that he was a fan and that he wore the band\u2019s T-shirt all the time. When the producers called our \u201cpeople,\u201d as scary as it was, it made sense.<\/p>\n
Oh, no time at all. It was all very ragtag and scary.<\/p>\n
That was the hot thing. In the video that Black Sabbath shared, \u201cFrying Pan\u201d was the performance. So that was the one they wanted.<\/p>\n
Ronald handled it so well. All of us were shocked at how the two of them got on like a house on fire. But, yeah, the nerves were really high. I remember having a conversation with one of the show\u2019s producers and he said, \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a surprise. Ozzy\u2019s not going to know until the curtain drops. He genuinely has no idea.\u201d And I said, \u201cThat\u2019s a terrible idea.\u201d And he went, \u201cWhat do you mean? He\u2019s going to love it.\u201d But I was still nervous. I told him, \u201cWell, what if he doesn\u2019t? That\u2019s all fine and good for you guys and the drama of your reality show, because I know that\u2019s what you folks are like, but what happens to us if he doesn\u2019t like it and he\u2019s offended?\u201d He looked me straight in the eyes and said, \u201cDon\u2019t worry about it. Trust me.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the struggles Mac Sabbath had coming up was there were a lot of metalheads who would say, \u201cThis is disrespectful.\u201d I would get into arguments with people because it wasn\u2019t enough to say, \u201cWell, Black Sabbath posted it.\u201d People would argue, \u201cNo, they didn\u2019t.\u201d I would show them screenshots and they would still be like, \u201cYou Photoshopped it.\u201d Some metalheads just couldn\u2019t handle it. Even if Ozzy is their god, and Black Sabbath is their band, metalheads are very serious most of the time. A surprising amount of them don\u2019t possess that humor. The funny thing is Ozzy has always been a clown. He\u2019s always had more of a sense of humor than anybody in heavy metal or anybody on the planet. So we all knew that he would love the performance, but we still have this tiny, little worry.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/22531f556b227f317ca38e0f92f4433966-25-fryingpan.rhorizontal.w700.png\")
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