Crazy Train Aside

Wow. I'm sitting here watching VH-1 Classic, waiting for my dinner of bangers and mash to finish cooking. It's a recipe I picked up in Australia, and it's great game food. So I'm watching the VH-1 Rock Honors special, and they have the classic Black Sabbath lineup (Randy Wilde on guitar) with Ozzy wailing "Crazy Train".

This is the late 80s lineup that brought us such instant classics as "Bark at the Moon" and "No More Tears". I remember this because "No More Tears was the first Ozzy Osbourne single that I truly loved. The video was dark and sinister, with a woman drowning in her own tears. It was a beautiful site at midnight on Friday for a late-teenaged young man without a date and with an extraordinary sense of the artistic.

The most striking image from the video was a shot from below hip level showing Randy Wilde treating his guitar like a summer lover. She was a black and white target paint job on a flying V six-string (not Target as in cheap Chinese merchandise, target as in bulls eye), and she danced like a rabid wolf under the trance of the syncopated strobe. It's the same guitar he is playing right now on VH-1 Classic Rock Honors, and it's Ozzy singing "Crazy Train".

And now dinner is done, the Simpsons is on, and all I have my trusty Red Rider BB gun with a compass in the stock and this thing, which tells time.

*Update:

I'd like to thank JK-1 for correcting my misinformation on the Oz. I like learning, so that was really cool of him. Thanks, mate.