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Ozzy Osbourne sadly passed away last July 22 at the age of 76, just a few weeks after playing one final show with his band and with Black Sabbath at the Villa Park in Birmingham, England. His longtime Sabbath bandmate Geezer Butler, who was also part of Osbourne's solo band for a few years, praised him in an interview with Uncut. The Sabbath lyricist said he was always amazed with the ability the singer had to come up with vocal lines and melodies. Geezer Butler praises Ozzy's vocal lines and melodies “Ozzy was the ultimate entertainer, one of the best frontman ever, if not the best. He knew how to work the fans into a frenzy. His skills as a singer were remarkable, his vocal lines and melodies always amazed me. Sabbath riffs aren’t the easiest to write melodies to, but he knew exactly how to do it. He interpreted my lyrics as if they came from his soul and heart. I was always astonished to hear how he interpreted them." “He was amazing to work with. He always knew how to make us laugh – even on stage he would be pulling silly faces at Tony and myself, unseen by the fans. We’d be playing these heavy, doomy riffs and he would do his best to crack us up laughing. There were so many moments of madness, such as when he stole someone’s motorbike when we were recording in Miami and took it for a joyride. The police called us around midnight and told us they had a Mr Osbourne in their jail and would someone come and bail him out. We said, ‘Nah, keep him in for the night.’ Luckily, the guy who owned the motorbike didn’t press charges." “When he went solo, he didn’t have the restraints of being in Sabbath. He was his own boss, so that era was when he was at his wildest: the Alamo incident, bat biting, dove head biting, snorting ants. He just seemed to let loose and he quickly gained the reputation of the wild man – his fans loved it," Geezer Butler said. Ozzy and Geezer played together in Sabbath from 1968 to 1979, until the singer was fired. From 1988 to 1989 and from 1995 to 1996, Butler was part of Ozzy's band, reuniting in Sabbath from 1997 to 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD3jeUq7sm0The post Geezer Butler praises Ozzy’s vocal lines and melodies appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

Slash and Duff McKagan returned to Guns N' Roses in 2016 and since then the band released a few "new songs", that are actually rework of songs left from the "Chinese Democracy" (2008) album. The two new tracks are "Nothin'" and "Atlas", which are quite different from the previous released ones like "Hard Skool". Besides Axl Rose, Duff McKagan and Slash, the band is formed by Dizzy Reed (Keyboards - Since 1990), Richard Fortus (Guitar - Since 2002), Melissa Reese (Synthesizers, keyboards - Since 2016) and Isaac Carpenter (Drums - Since 2025). Guns N' Roses releases new songs "Atlas" and "Nothin'" "Nothin'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVImctrWwHc "Atlas" https://youtu.be/jmrbPEEi0tk During their career, Guns N' Roses released six studio albums: "Appetite for Destruction" (1987), "G N' R Lies" (1988), "Use Your Illusion I" (1991), "Use Your Illusion II" (1991), "The Spaghetti Incident?" (1993) and "Chinese Democracy" (2008), the only one without Slash and Duff. Next tour dates March 28 – Monterrey, Mexico – Tecate Pa’l Norte April 1 – Porto Alegre, Brazil – Estádio Beira Rio 4 – São Paulo, Brazil – Monsters Of Rock 7 – São José do Rio Preto, Brazil – Alberto Bertelli Lucatto 10 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Engenhão 12 – Vitoria, Brazil – Estádio Estadual Kleber José de Andrade 15 – Salvador, Brazil – Arena Fonte Nova 18 – Fortaleza, Brazil – Arena Castelão 21 – Sao Luiz, Brazil – Estádio Governador João Castelo “Castelão” 25 – Belém do Para, Brazil – Estadio Olimpico do Para “Mangueirão” May 5 – Hollywood, FL – Hard Rock Hollywood 7 – Daytona Beach, FL – Welcome To Rockville June 4 – Gliwice, Poland – PreZero Arena Gliwice 6 – Gliwice, Poland – PreZero Arena Gliwice 10 – Dublin, Ireland – 3Arena 12 – Donington, UK – Download 18 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Ziggo Dome 20 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Ziggo Dome 23 – Berlin, Germany – Uber Arena 25 – Berlin, Germany – Uber Arena 28 – Antwerp, Belgium – AFAS Dome July 1 – Paris, France – Accor Arena 3 – Paris, France – Accor Arena 23 – Raleigh, NC – Cater-Finley Stadium 26 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center 29 – Tinley Park, IL – Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre August 1 – Hershey, PA – Hersheypark Stadium 5 – Toronto, ON – Rogers Stadium 8 – Shakopee, MN – Mystic Lake Amphitheater 12 – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium 16 – St. Louis, MO – Busch Stadium 19 – Kansas City, MO – Morton Amphitheater 22 – Las Vegas, NV – Allegiant Stadium 26 – Edmonton, AB – Commonwealth Stadium 29 – Vancouver, BC – BC Place September 2 – San Diego, CA – Snapdragon Stadium 5 – Pasadena, CA – Rose Bowl 9 – Arlington, TX – Globe Life Field 12 – Ridgedale, MO – Thunder Ridge Nature Arena 16 – San Antonio, TX – Alamodome 19 – Atlanta, GA – Truist Park The post Guns N’ Roses releases new songs “Atlas” and “Nothin'” appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

The British Punk and Post Punk band The Damned released a cover of Pink Floyd's "See Emily Play", which is part of their upcoming covers studio album "Not Like Everybody Else", which will be out next January 23. The band said it is a celebratory and personal record dedicated to the memory of Brian James, their founding guitarist who passed away earlier this year. The album also has versions of songs by The Yardbirds and The Stooges. The band is currently formed by David Vanian (Vocals), Captain Sensible (Guitar), Monty Oxymoron (Keyboards), Paul Gray (Bass) and Rat Scabies (Drums). The Damned releases a cover of Pink Floyd's "See Emily Play" https://youtu.be/BEDKhqPyZ8A Tracklist There's A Ghost In My House Summer In The City Making Time Gimme Danger See Emily Play I'm Not Like Everybody Else Heart Full Of Soul You Must Be A Witch When I Was Young The Last Time Next tour dates January 28 - Manchester, United Kingdom - Albert Hall @ 7:00 PM February 1 - Paris, France - Bataclan @ 7:00 PM 3 - Köln, Germany - Essigfabrik @ 7:00 PM April 5 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Melkweg @ 7:00 PM 6 - Leuven, Belgium - Het Depot @ 7:00 PM 11 - London, United Kingdom - OVO Arena Wembley @ 7:00 PM May 20 - Walton-on-Trent, United Kingdom - Bearded Theory Festival 2026 @ 7:00 PMThe post The Damned releases a cover of Pink Floyd’s “See Emily Play” appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

Nicknamed the “air-raid siren,” Bruce Dickinson has one of the most powerful voices in the history of Heavy Metal. When he joined Iron Maiden in the early 80s, he elevated the band to a new level of success and expanded their songwriting possibilities, becoming a fundamental part of their rise to prominence as one of the biggest bands in the world. He remains a major influence on Metal artists worldwide and over the years many renowned singers who preceded him have shared their opinions about his work, including the late Ronnie James Dio. What was Ronnie James Dio's opinion on Bruce Dickinson and Iron Maiden Ronnie James Dio was a big fan of Iron Maiden and admired Bruce Dickinson as a singer, considering him one of the greatest singers in the world. "There are so many types of vocalist these days. I think Chris Cornell from Audioslave is a great singer , really excellent, I really love his voice, I think he's top notch. Bruce Dickinson is a really good singer as well, you know. I'm sure there are others out there but those are some of the people," Dio told Alternative Zine in 2005 when asked who was the best vocalist in the world back then. The legendary singer had a lot of respect for Iron Maiden and said that they were one of the bands that made him proud to say he was a Heavy Metal musician. He mentioned them when explaining why he was bothered by new artists who were not dedicated to their music. "What I don't like about (Heavy Metal), I sometimes don't like how easy it seems for musicians to say 'I'm gonna be a Heavy Metal musician' and not do it well. I think that bothers me the most. That it seems such an easy route to go because the Marshalls gonna be turned up to 10 and what goes out of it is normally a rhythm first, anyway and then an attitude." Ronnie continued: "But you know, what happened to the guitar players? What happened to the singers? I found that it has become too easy (for people) to just go out and flail away your instrument and screech away at your voice or mumble away. That bothers me, because I came from a place where my peers, guys from Zeppelin, Deep Purple and then later on from Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. All people that I respect, who can sing, play and think. (People who) have a good social conscience or people that make me proud to do this," Ronnie James Dio told Sam Dunn in 2004 (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage). Dio can be seen hanging out backstage at Iron Maiden's show at the Forum in Los Angeles in their famous documentary "Flight 666" (2009). Dio was Iron Maiden’s opening act during the Bruce Dickinson and Blaze Bayley eras Ronnie was a good friend of Maiden and he had the chance to be the band's opening act multiple times. In 1998 he was the band's opening act when was promoting the live album "Inferno: Last In Live" and Maiden had just released "Virtual XI", their second and final album with Blaze Bayley. Bayley recalled the experience of touring with Dio, saying: "The toughest part (touring that era) was when Ronnie James Dio was supporting Iron Maiden. I’m the lead singer of Iron Maiden, and Ronnie James Dio is literally God of heavy-metal singing. I’ve loved him. He’s my inspiration to be a heavy-metal singer." "I’ve got everything he’s done on vinyl. I’ve seen him in concert four or five times, and he’s supporting me? God is supporting me? Ahh!! I watched him every night on the tour. I would be in the back with fans watching Ronnie with the fans. Then I’d run back and get ready for our set. It was fantastic," he told Rolling Stone in 2022. In 2000, in a show in Belgium, Dio received Bruce and Nicko on stage to play "Rainbow in the Dark". Then in 2003, Dio alongside Motörhead were Iron Maiden's opening act during a tour in the United States and Canada. During the conversation with Alternative Zine in 2005, Dio explained that a Heavy Metal band mascot should have a silly name just like Eddie from Iron Maiden. "(I named mine Murray) because it sounded silly. I think something that is supposed to be so evil and so dark deserves a silly name, just like Eddie from Iron Maiden," he said. Dio, Bruce Dickinson and RobHalford considered forming a supergroup Curiously, Bruce and Dio almost were in a band together. They considered creating the project The Three Tremors with Judas Priest's Rob Halford. They wanted it to be a Metal version of the Three Tenors, which was an operatic singing trio formed by Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingos and José Carreras. Ronnie has always been one of Bruce's favorite singers ever since he first heard his voice on the radio when Rainbow was being played. He recalled the idea for that project, saying:  "We were gonna do this thing with three metal singers. Myself, Ronnie James Dio and Rob Halford. However, for reasons that (didn't make much sense). (It was) managerial bullshit or whatever. There was some opposition, not from me, to having Ronnie there, which I thought was crazy. So the suggestion was that we would have Geoff Tate instead. So Roy (Z) and I wrote a tune. We thought we'd have a go at writing an album that would be sung by three singers." Bruce Dickinson continued: "We only got as far as one song, and that song was 'Tyranny Of Souls'. And the idea was that had we done the project, the chorus would have been all three singers (singing together). But the beginning of it would have been kind of one line me. Then one line Geoff, one line Rob, and so on, through the song. Each line would have been written so it would suit the delivery. It would suit the vocal characteristic of whoever was singing it." "So it was quite a tall order. It (would have been) quite difficult to do. I thought, 'Shit, it's gonna be pretty difficult to do a whole album of this stuff' and, of course, we never did. But 'Tyranny Of Souls', the demo of it was designed to illustrate how that would have worked," he said during his spoken-word tour in 2022. Bruce's favorite Ronnie James Dio song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXnkJkw_sFE&pp=ygUccm9ubmllIGphbWVzIGRpbyBsb3ZlIGlzIGFsbA%3D%3D Although Bruce loved Dio's work in Rainbow, Black Sabbath and solo, his favorite stuff was from a side project. An album called "Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast" (1974), which was produced by Roger Glover. "One of my favorite tenors is Ronnie [James] Dio. Ronnie was kind of a hybrid. As he got older his voice was much more robust. But if you hear him on some early stuff, in particular some of the stuff he did pre-Rainbow… There was an album he did called Butterfly Ball." "He was a guest on it and Roger Glover from Deep Purple wrote a lot of it and produced it. There’s a song on there called 'Love Is All' and his voice is like glass. It’s so transparent and it’s just amazing. I’ve always wanted to cover that song. Not necessarily on an album, but live," Bruce Dickinson said in an interview with Loudwire in 2021. Trivium's vocalist Matt Heafy once told a funny story involving Bruce and Dio. According to him, the Iron Maiden frontman told him in the beginning of his career that his voice would probably develop "to be something like Ronnie James Dio. One year later, Trivium was the opening act of Heaven & Hell, Sabbath's spin-off band. Heafy had the chance to talk a lot with Dio and told him what Bruce said. He answered saying: "You know, Bruce finally admitted I'm one of his heroes."The post Ronnie James Dio’s opinion on Bruce Dickinson and Iron Maiden appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

At one point or another, most of us fantasize about having a different life. This could range from trying out that dream career to living in an entirely different time period. Whether it’s through our social media feeds, movies, television shows, or books we read, there are certain things that have become romanticized tropes that frankly aren’t as great as one imagines.There are folks out there who have experienced the things you have fantasized about and brought up concerns you may have overlooked while wearing the rose-tinted glasses. Upon hearing their experiences, you might reconsider what you perceive as a better life for yourself and find you're better off where you currently are. @healwithbritt Stop romanticizing their life, and start living yours!! #romanticizeyourlife #encouragement #fulfillment #comparison Here are eleven situations that people and the media tend to romanticize, but shouldn’t:1. “Being a farmer”“Farming is difficult. It's back braking. It's risky. These are the reasons my boomer parents, who were raised on farms, did not stay on them. I believe small and independent farms and local food production is extraordinarily important. We do need to help sustain the back-to-farm movement. But we shouldn't romanticize it.”2. “Freelancing”“1. Instead of working for a boss, you work for several bosses.2. Doing taxes is a mess (if you’re an U.S. citizen)3. Fluctuating income.”3. “Owning and operating a bed and breakfast”“I worked in one for a few years. It’s like being a prisoner in your own home. Guest requests early breakfast, cool. Other guest had a flight delayed, ok. Left me with a sweet four hours to sleep. That’s before cooking and cleaning. Unbelievable amount of work.” @innkeepercaroline It’s rare that all the units on property have to be cleaned in just a few hours but when it happens…it’s a bit overwhelming. #bedandbreakfast #foryoupage #dayinthelife #minivlog #vlog #dreamjob 4. “Wedding debt”“I know a couple who almost got divorced because of this. Two years after the wedding they were still paying for it.”5. “A majority of history”“Being Black and hearing people talk about how it may have been like living in an era before the 90s always makes me have a headache. I like having the rights my grandparents fought for.”6. “Working in healthcare”“Not even considering the grossness that is just part of your job, being in any role that truly is about ‘saving lives’ also means you will inevitably have to face the experience of being there when someone loses their life.”7. “Overworking/hustle culture”“I know someone who puts ‘no days off’ in their social media bio and it's so annoying because I know it’s a lie. It’s always well-off people who romanticize overworking.” @nessnitty Find out how you can achieve success on your own terms. We have Nicole Walters giving us the real on entrepreneurship. Do you really want to get up at 4am everyday? I know @officialkaepernick7 does, but I couldn't do it!!! Lol, hence he is the over achiever between us. I think I'm ok though right? Nicole is a New York Times Best Selling Author, NAACP Image Award Nominee and amazing business expert!! You can get her, best selling memoir, "Nothing Is Missing" out now! Full convo #NessaOFFair #podcast link in bio❤️ PS: should I be drinking wheatgrass? #SuccessTips #EntrepreneurLife #ProductivityHacks #HustleHard #WorkLifeBalance #isthatreal #Podcast 8. “Being married to a celebrity”“Could you imagine being in that much of the limelight all the time, how horrible and criticized over everything in the media?”9. “Living any time in the past that didn't have running water or toilet paper”“People imagine, if there was a time travel option, they'd be able to take modern knowledge with them. Guess what, no internet, no international trade, tell your blacksmith how to build a generator and he wouldn't have much clue, or the resources if he did. Modern society is us standing on the shoulders of giants.”10. “Also, war”“Nobody who's been on a bloody front line will ever tell you it was great.”Why do we romanticize?So, why do we tend to fall into romanticizing traps or think that the grass is always greener on the other side? Well, it’s multifaceted. In terms of changing a career or a lifestyle, many of us only see the positives that are shown on social media. It’s the same with the entertainment we consume in film and television, too. Because we only see the “thriving” parts, we’re not privy to the struggles or consequences of those life choices—many of which are similar to or worse than what you’re currently experiencing. @empoweredachievers I know “romanticizing your life” is all the rage right now… but here’s how romanticizing your career is a big mistake. #escapism #startafarm #corporateburnout #highachiever #overachiever #careerfulfillment #careerempowermentcoach #careerdoubts #careerempowerment #lostmyspark #existentialcrisis This also goes for reminiscing or wishing you lived in a different time period. Through nostalgia, selective memory, or seeing a well-edited documentary about a time period, one can easily think that life then would be better. Many, including Bill Gates, thinks this is untrue. There is data that shows that, even though the world is still a mess, experts say the present day is the best time to be alive in terms of mortality, economics, human rights, and general comfort compared to the past. Romanticizing certain situations and time periods in life tend to rob you of what’s good in your present. If a person takes a moment to enjoy the good things in their current life alongside the challenges, they may have better satisfaction with where they are and what currently “is.” If you try this and notice that there still needs to be change, you may want to seek professional advice from either a vetted licensed therapist, career counselor, or life coach to see what is keeping you from enjoying the good in the now. With time and effort, it’s possible to find the balance of progressing towards change without discarding the good, the stable, and the known of "now."

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