Saying goodbye to Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath was never going to be easy. Still, the musical artists, with some great organization from Sharon Osbourne and others, managed to pull off a minor miracle and put on a brilliant farewell concert.
Most of the bands were great, and the supergroups were excellently put together and played well. A huge credit should go to Tom Morello for that. But the event wasn't perfect, though none of the fault lies with Ozzy or Sabbath.
We will get to the best bits in a different article, but what follows are three things that detract from the otherwise glorious concert. These are forgettable, hopefully, and the lasting memory will be how fantastic Ozzy and Sabbath were.
3 worst parts of the otherwise fantastic Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath farewell concert
Slayer wearing their own merch
The concert was put together for reasons such as being a fundraiser for different charities, but ultimately it was to pay homage and say goodbye to two different icons: Ozzy Osbourne and Ozzy's former band, Black Sabbath. That last part isn't breaking news. Everyone involved knew that.
This explains why so many bands performed on stage while wearing T-shirts or other merch that featured Ozzy or Sabbath. Not Slayer. The speed metal boys decided to be self-serving and wear their own merch as if they missed the entire point of the show.
It also didn't help that they came on two bands before Metallica, a band that was always Mozart to Slayer's Salieri. They paled in comparison to the real thrash metal gods and might have done better just skipping the event altogether.
Sammy Hagar's signing his own old song
Every performer had a duty to do at least one Ozzy Osbourne or Black Sabbath tune, and concert music director Tom Morello did a fantastic job of making sure no song was done 10 times. The performers also likely had a right to play some of their own tunes, too, but Hagar's choice had to be the most self-important.
When he began his career, in the years before he had one hit song and then ruined Van Halen, he was in a forgettable band called Montrose. Hagar's bit of the farewell show was being part of Supergroup B, and he somehow managed to get Montrose's terrible "Rock Candy" played.
Few people care about the song, so it seemed as if Hagar was trying to sell his own stuff at the Ozzy and Sabbath farewell. Maybe he should have been original for once and got everyone to do a cover of "Big Rock Candy Mountain." That would have been terrible, too, but at least entertaining.
Ozzy seemingly being left on stage
This was probably certainly not the case, but at the end of the concert and after Black Sabbath had played their last note, the band members left the stage, only Ozzy was stuck in his chair and couldn't leave. The live-streaming camera appeared to catch him asking for someone to come get him.
Perhaps, the plan was to have Ozzy out there on his own to get the final cheers, but it came off strangely with a person suffering from Parkinson's unable to stand up and walk away. The hope is that in reality the moment only seemed odd because of the direction of the film crew.