My Big Fat Greek Shredding
Gus G. (via Photobucket.com)
I promised no more posts about Ozzy Osbourne for a while, but I guess I should talk about this. If you haven’t heard already, Gus G. of over-hyped Firewind fame is apparently the Geriatric of Darkness’ new lead guitarist. He is scheduled to make his onstage debut tomorrow at Blizzcon, according to a Facebook post by Randall Amplifiers. Many are wondering if Zakk Wylde knows anything about this, and my initial thoughts are that he does. I think he’s known for a while now that he was officially getting the axe (or getting the axe taken from him, as it were) and has been trying to win the old man over ever since. Is this the final nail in the coffin? Nobody has a clue. But fuck it – Gus is the new guy now. Never heard of him? Watch this:
In my opinion, I don’t know if there’s any guitarist that can make a new Ozzy album worth buying. At the very least, Gus should be a welcome change from Zakk’s dirtier, grittier style. We’ll see.
Video Game Soundtrack Review: Brutal Legend
Brutal Legend (via TeamXbox.com)
Damn, I’m really scraping the bottom of the topic barrel with this one. Don’t I have anything better to review?
Wylde at Heart
Zakk and "Dad" (via RealOne.com)
This is another one of those stories that I paid plenty of attention to but neglected to blog about for one reason or another. I think I’m just sick and tired of all the recent Osbourne drama and subconsciously repressed the will to waste my time on another steamy addition to the bullshit mound. Unfortunately, things went from bad to worse pretty quickly with this one. Let’s start peeling off the orange rinds with a little recap so we can save all the juice for later.
Walt Disney Presents: Fangaysia
Demi Lovato (via JuniorCelebs.com)
NOTE: I also thought about “The Hunchfuck of Notre Damn” for the title, but it honestly didn’t fit the subject matter. What a waste.
If for some reason you happened to catch “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” last night , and I don’t know why you would (you might as well have watched “Late Night with Craig Ferguson” while you were at it), you may have seen one of Disney’s newer teen slut role models (Miley’s old news) getting interviewed by the SNL reject. Her name is Demi Lovato, and no, she isn’t legal until next August. I’m sure someone will start a countdown before then.
So everything’s going fine until Jimmy asks Demi about her musical tastes, which he meekly describes as “pretty heavy”. He then struggles to stammer out the word “metal” like a little kid saying “heck” around his parents for the first time, ready and waiting for the network spanking to come at the first iteration of music not starting with “N” or ending in “ickelback”. Fortunately for him, Demi doesn’t listen to metal much anymore aside from a few bands.
Weird News on Wednesday
Awesome Guy (via TheChive.com)
I ran into a bunch of stories today that are so short they don’t really warrant separate posts, but because of how weird they are, I feel compelled to do something. I think I’ll just dump them all here like leftover pasta salad in a tupperware bowl and let you sift through the mayonnaise.
An Update on the Dio Debacle
Brutal Legend (via WordPress)
Kotaku.com has an official statement from Brutal Legend’s producer, Tim Schafer, on why Dio was yanked from the game:
- “Ronnie James Dio is an amazing singer and truly one of the great figures of metal, but as the character of Doviculus evolved, we realized that Tim Curry was a better fit for the part,” Schafer said in a statement to Kotaku. “Anyone who has seen his amazing performance as the Lord of Darkness in the movie Legend knows why we cast him in the role of Doviculus, Emperor of the Tainted Coil.”
So now everyone’s saying, “well that settles it, it’s an official statement – it must be true!” Bullshit. Schafer answered this question like any intelligent person dealing with the press would. He gave an answer that danced around the real issue and put heavy emphasis on how good Tim Curry is and much of a better fit he will be for this character, instead of giving any kind of facts as to why Dio is no longer part of a game that features Lemmy, Halford, and Ozzy.
Ozzploitation, Addendum
The Gauntlet (via TheGauntlet.com)
A while back I posted about Ozzy getting whored out by Sharon to all sorts of different corporate entities. Well, thanks to a post on The Gauntlet, we now know that it is much, much worse than what I presented. Take a look at this and get ready to cringe.
I’ve seen a few of those things before, but a lot of them are brand new to me. Pretty fucking sad.
Lawsuit, Bloody Lawsuit
Tony Iommi & Ozzy Osbourne (via StallionSoftware.com)
Ready for something out of left field?
Ozzy Osbourne is suing Tony Iommi for illegally claiming ownership of the “Black Sabbath” name.
Ozzploitation
Ozzy Osbourne (via YorkBlog)
Yesterday I read a story on Blabbermouth about a new Ozzy documentary. The trailer looks promising and I can pretty much guarantee that I will see this whenever it comes out in 2010. It’s supposed to be a very introspective film, with Ozzy looking back on his life and communicating to people who he really is beyond the bumbling idiot they saw on “The Osbournes”. It looks touching and well deserved for a man who has done so much for a genre that no one thought would survive.
STOP THE PRESSES!
Ozzy Osbourne (via Nerve.com)
You won’t believe me when I tell you this, but…remember The Osbournes? You know, the mildly popular reality show starring Ozzy, Sharon, and their weird kids? Turns out the Ozzman was stoned every single day of filming. He’d smoke a pipe and drink a whole case of beer every day! Shocking, no?
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