🎵 Ozzy Osbourne - Flying High Again REACTION

[@brianhowell3713]

You can’t kill rock-n-roll. You have to hear that song!!

[@IZZY_EDIBLE]

Randy Rhoads was such an amazing guitarist.

[@decadentdevil]

The best ever

[@MrMelvinSchlock]

“Knuckleheads just can’t read a book.” It’s for these kind of comments I keep coming back. My two favorite reactors.

[@adrianbolster9951]

This is great, but the live version from the album Tribute is sensational. Randy Rhodes was a guitar genius, RIP.

[@geneticrex]

Randy absolutely KILLS it in this track......

[@loristone9242]

One of Ozzy's best! Long Live Randy Rhoads! 🤘

[@Cadinho93]

"If you could be inside my head, you'd see that black and white is red." Always loved that line! Also, Randy Rhoads was an amazing guitar player, who died too soon after this second album "Diary of a Madman" of Ozzy Osbourne's solo career. An example of how precise Randy Rhoads was, his solo was triple tracked (played three separate times) to give it a fat sound.

[@paulrogers4483]

The line is actually Black and White is READ....As In I actually read and am intelligent.

[@terrylandess6072]

@@paulrogers4483 Just like the old joke: What is black and white and red (read)? A newspaper.

[@paulrogers4483]

@@terrylandess6072 Yeah sorta like that lol

[@playbassken]

Long live the memory of Randy Rhoads and the legacy of Ozzy Osbourne!

[@charlesking699]

@@paulrogers4483 exactly, glad somebody pointed that out

[@steadfastneasy26]

@Brad & Lex The actual lyric from the album is "black and white is read", which is a play on words about ink and paper, like a newspaper. It gets read.

[@markwilliams6394]

Thank you, I get tired of people getting that line wrong and thinking it's red.

[@justinbrown4670]

Thank you thank thank you... i sooo wanted to comment this but didnt want to start an argument

[@terrylandess6072]

When Ozzy split with Sabbath, many of us old rockers were holding our breath. Then Ozzy forms up with amazing musicians and Sabbath finds Ronnie James Dio. We all began to breath easier - what seemed like disaster evolved into 2 new musical options. This album was that beginning.

[@Volunteerfan8082]

Actually this album wasnt the beginning, it was the second solo album, the beginning for Ozzy solo was Blizzard of Ozz not Diary of a Madman and Heaven and Hell was the beginning of Sabbath with Dio.

[@raymo6795]

Ozzy was kicked out of Sabbath(justifiably) and had something to prove...and he did, 2 of the best ever metal albums ever...but I also really dug Mob Rules and Heaven and Hell

[@Chris.Davis.2]

Ronnie James Dio is the greatest rock vocalist ever. Top Five in all polls, number one for me.

[@ericsierra-franco7802]

Ozzy was kicked out of Sabbath.

[@raymo6795]

@@ericsierra-franco7802 … that is what I said. Apparently. Ozzy had a bit of drinking and drug problem.. go figure. The rest of the band deemed him as unreliable… so legend has it.

[@metalmark1214]

Another great Ozzy Osbourne song in the great Randy Rhoads guitarist era. R.I.P. Randy Rhoads.

[@ronrotz2879]

Lex is so enjoyable to watch listening to this music....

[@flannelguydiy6458]

The lyrics to this song are under my high school picture in the yearbook

[@jamesnewell7686]

One of my all time favorite Ozzy songs!!!!

[@BROU-bb2uc]

This whole album was the shit🤘

[@aks4204]

This song is the BOMB!! Love Ozzy!!!

[@EarthWalker2023]

RANDY RHOADS FOREVER! You can't kill rock and roll or tonight or diary of a madman, goodbye to romance

[@donstuard2546]

This song is one of my favorites of Ozzy's. I saw them in concert in Birmingham, Alabama in February 1982 . It was the tour for this album, Diary of a Madman. This was 2 weeks before the ane crash that took the life of Randy Rhoades. This song was great live!

[@mitchelperkins6723]

I was at that same concert!

[@jvdpdx]

It is INSANE to me that they resumed the tour April 1 only 2 weeks after the accident and losing Randy and that I still saw him June 17 in Portland. I was 13, and my youtube profile pic was taken around that time. Lol🤘🤘

[@donstuard2546]

@@mitchelperkins6723 Did you like UFO? I didn't realize at that time Michael Shenker was in that group. I knew UFO but not him. Great show all around.

[@donstuard2546]

That was a great feat in itself. I did not know the guy that replaced Randy went on to play in Night Ranger. I do not remember his name right now, but I know who he is. I was 21 at that concert.

[@metalogical5131]

I love the "Killers " t-shirt :)

[@tommaxfield6039]

Flying High Again, Over The Mountain, and Crazy Train are the trifecta of headbanging!!

[@juanramirez-wk8ty]

Ya had to be there at the right time and place , the right mind set at the right age to really get something like Ozzy in the Randy Rhoads years, for those of us who lived it there will never be anything like it again. You young folks nowadays will just never know.

[@klaws32]

yep

[@itsmedrooms6071]

I always appreciate the first couple of solo albums with Randy playing. You have to give it up for Ozzy in leaving such a huge band, Black Sabbath, then reinventing himself and becoming even more successful in many ways. I’m sure Sharon played a big part in that as well.

[@ericsierra-franco7802]

I they are the very best of Ozzy's solo work.

[@matthewcampbell8720]

Well he was kicked out, so he didn’t really have a choice about leaving

[@justinbrown4670]

It was ALL Sharon... if not for her, he wouldnt have been anything and would have died from the drugs

[@itsmedrooms6071]

@@matthewcampbell8720 whether voluntarily or involuntarily,,he did leave the band. I didn’t specify which and it’s not the point. He did leave and reinvented himself as somewhat of a phenomenon as a solo artist and Randy being a guitar phenomenon was a huge part of that. Would it have been as successful if Randy wasn’t there is a better point of speculative debate.

[@Evl_1]

My Favorite part of this song is when Randy does the sound like Godzilla's Roar. I sure miss when I first heard these songs. That was a fun time. I miss the 80's

[@michaelbarr3039]

Now that you mention it, I think maybe that is part of the draw to these reaction videos. We can't go back to when we first heard them but we do get to enjoy watching others first time hearing them.

[@tattoodude8946]

@@michaelbarr3039 Spot on! I would give anything to go back and hear Ozzy, Billy Idol, or Michael Jackson for the first time (or to see Michael dance in one of his videos - totally mind blowing). I had Thriller and Bark at the Moon on vinyl and used to bring it in to my music class for the teacher to play. He would just look at me and say, "You like this stuff?" 🤣Sad that he was a music teacher with such a closed mind.

[@stanleydavidlepretre4241]

Agree with you miss the 80's but grateful that I grew up at that time. From the second British invasion: Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Def Leppard, etc. Movies like The Outsiders, The Karate Kid, Terminator, etc. I love the decades that came before like 70's Led Zeppelin, Bad Company, Fleetwood Mac, especially 1979's The Warriors (I'll shove that bat up your ass and turn you into a popsicle) The 80's for me were overall special moments in my life that I'll always remember with a smile.

[@michaelbarr3039]

@@tattoodude8946 I remember my friend and I sitting in his mom's car outside of Catholic Sunday School listening to Blizzard of Oz. It had the same feel as entering into a haunted house. Not one of those cheesy halloween fake haunted houses, I mean a legit out in the middle of the forest abandoned haunted house. lol

[@mikeswanson9086]

Featuring one of the most influential, and greatest guitarists of all time. Randy Rhodes!!!

[@argonwheatbelly637]

Phaser, Chorus, and Flanger.

[@galenstone9097]

Randy Rhoads was the original Neo classical guitarist. Diary is a great album.

[@randallrhoads3271]

just a absolutely beautiful guitar solo...great phrasing ,emotion.....fits the song perfectly. Randy was a great great composer. Absolute best ever.

[@rogercoles3973]

Randy Rhoads was the G.O.A.T. If you listen closely, Randy was such a perfectioist he could layer his parts perfectly. very few guitar players can do that. Listen again and you'll hear him play his parts multiple times. I think the leads are recorded three times and just layered on top of each other \mXm/

[@HocusPocusFocus69]

He is the GOAT IMO

[@calebclunie4001]

It's a riddle. Q: What's Black◼️, and White ◻️, and Red♦️ (Read) All Over? A: A Newspaper. 📰 🗞️

[@tiggerwoods100]

I grow up an Elvis freak until like 12 years old. Elvis was a special type of talent and I put Ozzy in that group. Ozzy can never be replaced or imitated. Plus i find Ozzy's mind to be amazing.

[@tattoodude8946]

I love that Ozzy got into music because of his love of the Beatles. One icon looking up to others and he went is a completely different direction for sure!

[@brettkenschaft4239]

@@tattoodude8946 He's been doing a lot of collaborations on his last 2 albums. Could one with Sir McCartney be next? 🤞

[@brettkenschaft4239]

I've always thought that if aliens came to earth to collect specimens of us from different aspects of life (doctor, lawyer, athlete, etc.) that their choice for rock star would HAVE to be Ozzy!

[@tattoodude8946]

@@brettkenschaft4239 That would be awesome. His song with Elton John was damn good! I actually just watched a video of him singing Paranoid with Phil Collins on drums which was pretty cool too.

[@vinniedixon1140]

Elvis didn't write a song of his own so not that special.

[@mikecomstock1602]

One of the best songs on one of the best albums of all time!!!!!! This is the stuff that make's me happy to have lived as a young American man in the 80's. Rock on!!!!

[@kennethgoin628]

Played this in a cover band some 30 years ago. Always loved the groove of this tune, with the bass playing on the upbeat. Great rhythmic contrast!

[@rickj9163]

I saw Ozzy during his Shot In The Dark tour in the 80's and the thing that shocked me the most during the performance was seeing people run on stage to give him a hug. People really loved him and I think it's because he has spoken so honestly about his mental health struggles throughout his life. He is a very relatable rock star.

[@jimmyc3755]

Fingers up, head bopping, Randy going nuts, what a great vibe. Flying high again, was a way of life, and a anthem! Ozzy is completely and totally unapologetic. Great reaction Lex. Brad there are a lot of ways to find meaning in life.

[@jimw2564]

For many of us 70's and 80's metal heads OZZY was the epitome of the metal movement and the mantra "sex, drugs, and rock and roll" OZZY will live forever in the music he made and living the lifestyle of the rebellious generation that he helped create.

[@Mr.Event501]

The bass play in this is one of my favorites.

[@argonwheatbelly637]

Randy was bloody brilliant on this. 🎶

[@johnkelly2663]

Swallowing colors of the sound I hear. Fughetaboutit, been there, 3 hits of 4 way green triangle. WHEW, gone for 3 days.

[@Easy_Skanking]

One of Ozzy's songs that really is different and shows Randy's style is the song "S.A.T.O.". It's one that flies under the radar a lot and you must hear.

[@MrCBTman]

Facts!

[@brettkenschaft4239]

Great song!!

[@raymo6795]

...one of my favorites, but there are no bad songs on first 2 Ozzy solo albums, hell, I enjoy most all Ozzy tunes

[@christullmann7666]

Amen ..doesn't get any better than Randy ...

[@Easy_Skanking]

@@donnysarian That's awesome! He was a big influence on my playing early on.

[@johntrickey4188]

Nice, rockin the Killers Tee🤘

[@brandimodrak9915]

RIP RR ,he has been my favorite guitar 🎸 genius since 1979. Love Randy Rhoads. Thanks for reacting to RR and Ozzy.

[@markbaker3013]

Thank you for sharing this with me 😊

[@ericsmith6615]

Wife here.. He totally has a different way of seeing things..Perfectly Stated You Guys!!..

[@davehaney4875]

LEX I LOVE YOUR IRON MAIDEN TSHIRT!..LOVE YOU TWO!

[@labrat311]

My favorite song of all time. Randy Forever!!!

[@danieljohnston1798]

Randy Rhoads, Bob Dailsley and Lee Kerslake killed it on this. Bob and Randy writing all the music and Bob writing the lyrics. Great song.

[@jimmark8065]

OMG! Fell off my couch laughing at, “Knuckleheads can’t just read a book.”

[@rhondaanderson2515]

When I was a teenager, I went through 3 walkmans listening to this song and the song Suicide Solution. Randy Rhoads was the shit!!! I had Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoads posters all over the walls and ceiling in my bedroom. Best memories ever...

[@shanebrown4146]

one of my fave Ozzy tracks , I dont know,Crazy Train & for later Perry Mason

[@TerryEHill]

This is my personal favorite from Ozzy…

[@davehess1019]

there is no one like Ozzy.

[@jeffreyflint6286]

Man now this is rock and roll creme de la creme.🤟🤟🤟🤟

[@redstate502]

Reading a book will never compare to experiencing different levels of drug induced consciousness. Good ol' MEU! Mind Expansion University! 😆

[@billtaylor3382]

Ozzy was tearing it up back then!

[@ShreddFly]

Hey guys what's up! Ozzie's first two albums are just incredible. Randy Rhoads is amazing. You guys rock! God bless you! Peace!

[@jon21770]

S.A.T.O and Little Dolls are amazing also

[@stevethomas7986]

Great song, three absolute favourites of mine are Over the Mountain SATO and Diary of a Madman, really worth a listen

[@myownchannel247]

Randy Rhoads on guitar 🎸

[@sumonjamal1653]

Randy Rhoads, the legend 🤘🤘🔥🔥on guitar... That's it!

[@bradwarren5380]

I'm not sure who put the lyrics on here. I can understand the mistake. What they have written is " That black, and white are red". The lyrics on the album sleeve is written this way, and would make sense. It is as follows. " That black and white is read ". Sorry but my ocd kicked in a little.

[@josephgonzales9169]

Listen to this song cranked too 10 on your headphones.. and then listen to the next song "You Can't Kill Rock n Roll." Randy is a fuckin BEAST... 🤘

[@Frankincensedjb123]

Overa a fifty-year career of consistent production, Ozzy has played with two of the greats in Tony Iommi and Randy Rhoads, among many other great musicians. He's of that rare < 1% who's been blessed with a long, productive career. Love him or leave him, he's one of the greats.

[@andrewyoung2796]

Loved this in the 80s A younger mans song 💚

[@argonwheatbelly637]

I still play this on bass. Love this song.

[@joebarrera9741]

Great to see this reaction RANDY RHOADS MONSTER GUITARIST....literally one of the best ever up there with EVH

[@joemartins3478]

Merry Christmas guys. I wish you the best. And Lex looks like mom when she was young. Bless you guys

[@kassandrariemersma7902]

I've been lucky I have seen him 4 times in concert it's so great!!!!

[@user-gz9jp3fj2d]

Love this song....over the mountain is great too!!! 💙💙💙

[@BROU-bb2uc]

You can't kill ROCK AND ROLL fucking awesome 🤘

[@genebarker3624]

Ozzy with randy is the best. Try you can't kill rock and roll, it's one of my favorites.

[@lynchmob72]

I think Randy Rhodes was classically trained and probably why Lex likes him.

[@patches6309]

Ozzy is an amazing experience to hear live? He sings & sounds like he does in studio but with so much emotion and personable connection with the audience. Check him out with Black Sabbath & his solo work live!

[@chuckwhite3176]

Randy's guitar solos are sensational, what a talent he was.

[@robertyates7242]

Man oh man this brings back some memories!! 😂 I think it was fifth sixth grade in Cali, after school we all walked home and this one kid Timothy had this at the time called 'boom box' and he would blast this tape as we walk home from school smoking some crappy leaf weed that he got from his parents.. 😂

[@TritoneChris]

Brad got a metaphor!!!!! Oh how far he has come....good job Brad, good job...LOL

[@dagrizz-ek4ih]

When my friends were experimenting with drugs I went into full scale research. Love Ozzie and love you guys!!! Thanks for sharing and Happy New Year! This one and Crazy Train are two of my favorites in his catalog!!

[@NDE239]

Black Sabbath/Under the Sun

[@samkeepintherockalive]

Killer song! Randy Rhoads was a beast at the guitar!🎸🎸🔥🔥

[@thunderspike1892]

Listen to S.A.T.O. from the same album. One of the best Randy Rhoads solos ever and superb rhythms by Lee Kerslake and Bob Daisley. And you totally have to react to the title track Diary Of A Madman

[@profanepersonality]

The "black and white is red (read)", was a play on words. Written in black and white.

[@operasinger2126]

Thanks, Brad and Lex!

[@Skiddaloo]

Was in a car wreck back in '86--this tune was blasting as we sailed through a fence into a cow field...no people or cows were injured

[@mourad2229]

Great song on a great record. That line up is to be mentioned a long side Ozzy! Remember the actual line up that recorded the 2 original albums "Blizzard of Oz" & "Diary of a Madman" were Randy Rhodes, Lee Kerslake & Bob Daisley! Then filled by equally amazing Tommy Aldridge & Rudy Sarzo! R.I.P. Randy. Such a wonderful musician & person. He left this World too soon but memory will never be forgotten!

[@markleon7127]

Randy!!! Killed it . Man the main riff and courses are more impressive then that bad ass solo

[@robertyates7242]

Rip Randy Rhoads!! Anything and everything was a go back in the 80s

[@MS-ro9dm]

Bob Daisley and Randy wrote these songs.

[@LOKISlog7]

The Ozzy albums that saved my life in high school - I wouldn't have made it through without immersing myself into headphones and Ozzy, to make the problems go away. Thank you Ozzy

[@tonyjackson229]

This is definitely my favorite Ozzy tune. 👌

[@jamesmyrick9083]

Killers T is bad ass.

[@mattthomas3207]

Randy Rhoads is often overlooked and doesn't get the credit due to him. The guy was an insanely talented songwriter and guitarist and told ozzy the day he died that drugs and alcohol are gonna kill him then got into a plane and got killed by a pilot high on cocaine and ozzy has never forgotten was.randy told him that day.

[@tomrogerrennemo936]

Love you❤. You got to hear SMOKIE, a chill 70’band lot of hits..

[@Skurian_krotesk]

I hear this song for the fist time now and the moment i whittnessed the line "black and white is red" i threw my phone on my bed and started laughing. My entire closet is filled with clothes in the colors black, white and red. I swear i am not making this up. Think about it this way. Black and white are extremes. Like good and bad. Chaos and order. Red is symbolic of both of those things. Red like roses red like hearts and elegant aswell as soft, warm, dark wine red. But then the other side red like fire and blood. Agressive, alarming, dominant, Scharlach-red. No other color is able to encapsulate this dynamic between good and bad as well as the color red.. I have even written a poem about the color red. This line made way too much sense to me. I am shocked. Honestly this feels like a joke.

[@MrJoeyZaZa]

Diary of a Madman! The best Ozzy release. What makes this special is the work by the legend Randy Rhodes. You should do every song off this album.

[@C_mao]

Have y'all done 'Over the mountain' by Ozzy, crazy guitar work by Randy

[@samuelgirard1407]

Yeah, they've reacted to it. It's a good one.

[@terrydavis7389]

Lex, i love that shirt, i had one just like it in high school.. my favorite maiden shirt ...

[@Angelina-ot8rx]

One of my faves!! Hell yeah killer!!😎💜🤘🤘

[@jameswheeler2265]

In reality OZZY is just a sweetheart who loves his fans and loves living the life of a rock star, sometimes getting in trouble by going further than intended for example " the legendary BAT incident" that will follow his name forever.

[@StevenMichals0812]

Jack Kerouac wrote a book called On the Road. That's what set off that whole exploration thing.

[@wadehamlin]

love your hoodie Lex.

[@MrScottsearles]

There will never be another Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads (RIP) or Ronnie James Dio (RIP)!

[@jasonpool9530]

With black sabbath ozzy invented metal with his solo career he reinvented it along the way he influenced punk and grunge his influence spans generations of musicians as well as fans and had a big album this year that's up for four Grammy awards u should check it out

[@brettjones4300]

Children love Ozzy because of his voice ! 😎 Seen it cross 3 generations.

[@Valorius]

What a great album this was.