The Buzz and Coors Light want to take you to see Ozzy in Puerto Rico. All you have to do is text the word “COORS” to 20899. They’ll send you the song to listen for, on what day and which show…Be caller #6 and you’re a finalist for Ozzy’s San Juan Show!!!
Listen below for some comedic relief. It’s this morning’s lucky #6, and the first to be in the drawing.
On this day in 1982, the wild man of rock, whose life was threatening to run out of control, did something at a concert in Des Moines that would turn into one of the great rock and roll tales of all time.
Ozzy Osbourne was touring America in support of the Diary of a Madman album with his Night of the Living Dead tour. The album title was strangely apt since stage shows had become more and more outrageous. At the end of a gig Ozzy would catapult meat (mostly intestines from a butchers shop) into the crowd. Naturally, Ozzy fans started to get into the spirit of the event and started bringing their own meaty offerings to shows. One fan was turned away from a concert for bringing in a whole Ox’s head. On top of that, word was out that at a meeting with his record company in Los Angeles, Ozzy had bitten the head off a dove and fans were now beginning to bring small creatures of their own to gigs.
But that was the tone of relations between Ozzy and fans. So on this otherwise unremarkable night in Iowa, someone at the Des Moines concert threw a bat on stage. The bat, stunned by the bright lights, lay seemingly dead on the ground. Ozzy, always the showman of course, picked up the animal and bit into it. When the bat reacted by flapping its wings, Ozzy knew it was alive and, more importantly, a real bat (he later said he had presumed it was made of rubber). Ozzy was immediately rushed to hospital for rabies shots – not the best end to an evening.
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has blamed his addiction to prescription pills for his devastating stage fall in South Dakota in 2009 – revealing he was snorting sleeping pills at the time.
The singer stunned fans during a performance at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally when he fell off the stage and broke his shoulder, forcing the rockers to cancel the remainder of their North American tour.
Tyler previously put the accident down to a mis-timed dance move, but he’s now come clean about the real reason behind the incident.
He tells talk show host David Letterman, “I guess it’s not any news about my drug use and addictions in the past… So a couple of years ago I was doing Lunesta (sedative) because I had some problems with my feet… That’s the tip of the iceberg. I was snorting that, I fell off the stage… That shows you what kind of a drug addict I was.”
“Only the finest for me… I was looking for any excuse to get high and I should have been using my band because my band is the strongest drug I’ve ever had.”
Tyler checked into rehab four months after the accident to kick his addiction for good.
1 My Chemical Romance “Sing”
2 Cage the Elephant “Shake Me Down”
3 Papa Roach “Burn”
4 Kings of Leon “Radioactive”
5 My Darkest Day “Move Your Body”
6 Kopek “Cocaine Chest Pains”
7 Florence & the Machine “Dog Days Are Over”
8 The Black Keys “Tighten Up”
9 Linkin Park “Waiting for the End”
10 Maroon 5 “How”
This Friday and Saturday night with Hells Bells, an epic tribute to AC /DC!
“The Best AC/DC Tribute on the Planet” according to Rolling Stone Magazine is at Club 54 on St. Croix Jan 14th and at Caribbean Saloon on Jan 15th.
Shows start at 10:30. $2 Presidente and Presidente Lights will be on special both nights, all night.
Special thanks to the Galleon House, Club Comanche and Seaborne Airlines.
10) Vampire Weekend “Cousins”
9) Linkin Park “The Catalyst”
8) The Black Keys “Tighten Up”
7) Pearl Jam “The Fixer”
6) Paper Tongues “Ride to California”
5) Cage the Elephant “In One Ear”
4) Florence and the Machine “Dog Days are Over”
3) Trevor Hall “Volume”
2) Neon Trees “Animals”
1) My Darkest Day “Porn Star Dancing”
