Black Label Society - Mafia

Tehhaxorr · Post by **Tehhaxorr** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 7:36 pm

philipnz wrote:I hear Ozzy has parkinsons disease. Should be a hoot watching him trying to shake hands with Muhamed Ali.

Ozzy has Parkins Syndrom, its completely different but strains from the same ilness. All the time people thought he was fucked up on drugs and alcohol, turns out this mental condition has about 1/4 to do with his shakes and agressive bursts.

DBM Music · Post by **DBM Music** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 9:05 pm

So that leaves 3/4 of the shakes caused by drugs
! thats a big margin,

Zakk Wylde · Post by **Zakk Wylde** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 11:08 am

ash wrote:I just discovered that current Metallica and ex Ozzy, Infectious Grooves and Suicidal Tendencies bass player Robert Trujillo was/is in BLS.

Any other 'names' in that band? Who does the singing?

Yeah, Rob Trujillo is in the band

or was, I think he has been replaced.

Basically, the other members of the band are:

Zakk- Guitar/vocals - Yeah does all the singing, and records all the Guitar, bass, piano, and vocals in the studio. Writes all the songs (on the spot in the studio I should add)

Nick Cantanese - Guitar/backing vocals (live) - Nick is known as the Evil Twin, and although he has a different stage presence he has similar chops to Zakk.

Craig Nunemacher - Drums - Does some of the studio work on drums too, although I think Zakk has a diff drummer for the mafia album/tour.

>Tsuken - Yeah its a concert DVD, from the '1919 Eternal' Era. It also has a live show in japan (2 songs), as well as a guitar lesson, a couple of interviews (one serious, one not), and a small segment of Zakk playing piano at his home with his daughter?(not sure, could be his niece).
Bloody awesome DVD, I managed to find it over in Zurich.

Sanctuary · Post by **Sanctuary** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 12:18 pm

Tehhaxorr wrote: Ozzy has Parkins Syndrom, its completely different but strains from the same ilness. All the time people thought he was fucked up on drugs and alcohol, turns out this mental condition has about 1/4 to do with his shakes and agressive bursts.

Hmmm, I heard that after they took him off the medications, his shakes ceased. The Doctor was prescribing medication that actually made him worse

Tsuken · Post by **Tsuken** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 1:50 pm

ash wrote:I just discovered that current Metallica and ex Ozzy, Infectious Grooves and Suicidal Tendencies bass player Robert Trujillo was/is in BLS.

Any other 'names' in that band? Who does the singing?

Zakk sings.

The current bass player is James Lomenzo - ex-White Lion

Tsuken · Post by **Tsuken** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 1:54 pm

Tehhaxorr wrote:
philipnz wrote:I hear Ozzy has parkinsons disease. Should be a hoot watching him trying to shake hands with Muhamed Ali.
Ozzy has Parkins Syndrom, its completely different but strains from the same ilness. All the time people thought he was fucked up on drugs and alcohol, turns out this mental condition has about 1/4 to do with his shakes and agressive bursts.

Parkinson's Disease is a specific degenerative disease where you lose the dopamine-producing cells in part of the brain. What you end up with is a specific type of tremor, a mask-like face, decreased and slowed movements, and a really impaired gait - among other things. You can get those symptoms without actually having Parkinson's Disease, per se; we tend to refer to that as "parkinsonism".

Ozzy was indded prescribed an horrendous cocktail of meds by his private physician, but he was pretty well buggered before that - check out the first season of "The Osbournes"; which was before he was put on all the pills.

Sanctuary · Post by **Sanctuary** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 2:22 pm

Actually, check out "Decline of Western Civilization 2: The Metal Years" (1993). He's shaking while making bacon & eggs for breakfast

Tsuken · Post by **Tsuken** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 3:09 pm

I really must see that - I've been meaning to find it for years

Sanctuary · Post by **Sanctuary** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 4:24 pm

Tsuken wrote:I really must see that - I've been meaning to find it for years

It's great (and funny). They feature Megadeth doing "In My Darkest Hour". There's a whole bunch of gay hair bands that I really don't care for though

Polar Bear · Post by **Polar Bear** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 5:42 pm

I was always uner the impression that hair bands were in it for the pussy. Gay? Unlikely.

Zakk Wylde · Post by **Zakk Wylde** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 10:50 pm

Game, set, and match to Polar Bear.

Sanctuary · Post by **Sanctuary** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:29 am

Polar Bear wrote:I was always uner the impression that hair bands were in it for the pussy. Gay? Unlikely.

You obviously haven't seen the freaks in DoWCP2

Red Fred · Post by **Red Fred** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 9:05 pm

My deep dark secret is that I like 80s hair metal. It's a depressing situation.

Tsuken · Post by **Tsuken** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:04 pm

Heh - no secret for me