Black Sabbath<\/a> recordings but now, having doubtless endured unimaginable punishment at the hands of Osbourne and his bandmates over the years, has decided to take the rest of its life off.<\/p>\nYou may like<\/p>\n
And while it\u2019s certainly a surprise that Osbourne, of all people, has a large vintage synth in his den, what\u2019s perhaps less so is the fact that he can\u2019t get it to work properly.<\/p>\n
Read the f__king manual?<\/p>\n
\u201cCome on you motherf__ker! Why are you f__king doing this?\u201d Osbourne ponders, recreating a moment that every music producer will have experienced more than a few times: Keys are pressed, knobs are turned but\u2026 all you get in silence.<\/p>\n
Or, in Osbourne\u2019s case, worrying, crackly fuzz that suggests that his prize possession may be about to go up in hellfire any minute\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cCome on you f__king thing,\u201d he implores, before going off to get help. \u201cI had it when I was in Sabbath. I forgot how to use the f__king thing. I haven\u2019t used it for about 20 years,\u201d he explains before \u2013 with the aid of a little help \u2013 the machine magically stirs into life, issuing forth deafening unholy sounds completely befitting the Prince of Darkness.<\/p>\n
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You may remember him as a charismatic (and more than a little unhinged) frontman but it appears an alternative career as a sound designer was once well within his expert grasp.<\/p>\n
Sleep well, Ozzy. Thanks for the memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t worry. It\u2019s not just you. Every musical genius can occasionally be completely floored by the tools of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-28890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}