Metal Anarchy

Prior to Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne’s final show in Birmingham, England, Sharon Osbourne revealed that one band was removed from the event. Now, during an appearance on Jamie Kennedy‘s “Hate To Break It To Ya Podcast,” Jack Osbourne further discussed the incident, saying the booted act demanded “high hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

Jack said the following:

“Here’s what I will say, ’cause a lot of stuff online was about ‘Oh, it’s um…’ I cannot say the band. I cannot. I cannot. But what I will say is this. Everyone’s online speculating who it is, and I have not seen a single accurate [guess,] Not even close. Like I saw something that it was Wolfgang Van Halen and it was absof*ckingutely not.

Like Wolf wanted to be there so badly and it was just a clash in schedule [Wolfgang Van Halen withdrew due to a scheduling conflict with his tour with Creed] and hey, he was getting a paid gig versus an unpaid gig. Go do the paid gig. You know?”

“Here’s the caveat [about ‘Back To The Beginning‘,] it was like listen, we’ll pay for your crew, we’ll pay your hard costs, but no one is, no one’s getting paid, like individually, like the band. But what ended up happening was a lot of crew donated their time. So, they were like, ‘No, we’re not charging for this.’ Because you know, a lot of the crews we’d all worked with for years anyway.”

“And the one band, I will say at this point, it’s like it was in the high hundreds of thousands of dollars what they said their hard costs would be… For them just to show up without any talent fee. It was… It was very frustrating.”

“…But here’s the thing, it was like, ‘Are you f*cking serious?’ And then you know and then you start… Here’s what, I will give the band the benefit of the doubt, and I will say it was probably the manager, but I don’t know, you know? I don’t know.”

He continued when asked if the band or manager wanted to pocket the money:

“Yeah, ’cause there’s no way… My mom has worked in touring since the 1960s. So like since the 60s she’s worked, you know, in some capacity in the music industry. She knows what hard costs are and what things… what the real is. And when you start saying… they were like, ‘well, all our crew flies business class’. And you’re like, ‘excuse me?’

And so this person was just like saying all this sh*t and like I was just like, ‘You f*ckin… like you motherf*cker.’”

He also commented on the show as a whole:

“It was just, it was amazing. It was like the most perfect. And here’s the cool thing about it. Some people were like only playing for like 10 or 15 minutes. But at first I was like, ‘Are people going to be bummed at only seeing like three songs from a certain artist?’ But we had the spinning stage, so the longest you were waiting between music was like five minutes. So it was just like this epic playlist all day long.”

He then circled back when pressed about the band that was removed from the concert:

“I can’t [reveal the band] because there’s like the fallout.”

He also confirmed that Ozzy helped or toured with band. He also ruled out a number of artists including Mötley Crüe, Foo Fighters, etc. He went on to say he won’t name the band “because the fallout from it would like, I don’t think would be helpful to anyone.”

Jack also revealed that the group later apologized:

“They were like, ‘Please tell us what happened, we want to know the whole story.”

[via The PRP]