Don't know if this has been posted before, but I just had to because it's just so dam funny.
GameSpot: So, how's it going? How was the show?
Ozzy Osbourne: It was fun. I had a lot of fun. It's the first time I got to play with my new guitar player, and, gosh, he's a really good player. He's come at the right time, because I've got to go out on tour, and I'm thinking s*** I've got to get another f****** guitar player. But the band played well. It was good fun. Audience, to be honest with you, [Ozzy's wife and manager] Sharon said, "No interviews at BlizzCon," but I says to Sharon, "But they like me."
I was thinking they'd all be wearing spectacles the size of f****** Coca-Cola bottles, like curly white hair and f****** rimmed glasses, you know, the scientist types. But they were f****** great, man. The vibe was there. The kids had a great time. That's the best part of my job, giving them the best time.
GS: How did you hook up with Blizzard in the first place?
OO: You know what? I have not the f****** faintest.
GS: You were in their commercial, yeah?
OO: Was that the one for, what was it?
GS: Wrath of the Lich King. Where they have the Prince of Darkness, and you're kind of the Prince of Darkness...
OO: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. I did a few adverts. It's fun doing adverts.
GS: And that's not even your only gaming involvement recently. You've got the Guitar Hero cameo, and you've done work for Double Fine's Brutal Legend.
OO: Well, yeah, Sharon goes, "I want you to go here." And I go, "OK, what do I got to do." It's weird because you meet another kind of world, and I feel like a f******...I'm going to have to do some kind of research on what I'm doing because people come up to me and say, "You are the f****** guy that caused my son to [indiscernible] with that f****** guitar thing." What I can't understand, my son [Jack Osbourne]...I can't even turn the f****** TV on half the time. My son, he plays that Warcraft game, and he sits there for f****** three days playing. I say, "You going to get to bed?" and he's, "Oh, no man."
I've got a very highly addictive personality, and I'm afraid that if I do start playing, I'll get sucked in. I mean, [indiscernible] AA for f****** computer kids. Mind you, whatever the technology is, someone's always going to take it overboard, you know?
GS: So you weren't expecting any similarities between the gaming community and the people who normally come out to your shows?
OO: When I first came in to do a stage test on Thursday, there were seats everywhere, and I'm thinking, "This ain't going to be a f****** sit-down audience, is it?" And before I went on stage, the band before me [The Artists Formally Known as Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftain] went on there, and it sounded like they revved up the audience. So I thought, I'll have a good time. That's why I came here, to have a good time. Sometimes they're up, sometimes they're down. I had a great time tonight.
That little kid from Japan, f******-a. He's nine years of age, and he played "Crazy Train" like we f****** play it on the record.
GS: So, let's see, you don't have any experience with games yourself?
OO: Not really. I used to play them in bars. It's been a long time. I don't drink. I haven't drunk in a long time. [Indiscernible] space f****** game.
GS: Space Invaders?
OO: Yeah, I mean, I've got to get into it. My son is [indiscernible]..."Yeah, dad, OK OK OK." He's in another f****** world.
GS: Do you think that's a bad thing?
OO: You know what? The bad thing about it...I don't know what the f*** I'm doing with them. I can't make a comment without knowing what the f*** I'm talking about. I mean, it's a world that...I'm just lazy. I don't want to take the time to learn how to use a f****** cell phone or a [indiscernible]. It's just my own fault. I mean, I'm dyslexic, I've got attention deficit disorder, so if I don't understand it within the first five minutes, I don't use it again.
GS: Yeah, it's kind of interesting because people have begun using games for teaching different ways to learn.
OO: I've got to do it. I was talking to a friend of mine, Elton John, and he says to me, "Do you have a cell phone?" And I says, "No." And he goes, "[indiscernible]." And my kids are talking to me [indiscernible] have any brains. And my wife has got one of them iPhones. It's f****** unbelievable. [Indiscernible] There was some music playing on the radio, and I thought, "[indiscernible]," and she goes, "Well, I'll tell you," and presses the iPhone, puts it up to the f****** music, and she says, "Yeah, it's this." It could f****** tell what was playing.
GS: Oh, right. I've actually got that on my phone as well. Well, I'm getting the signal from your man here. Is there anything else you want to say to our readers?
OO: I don't know. I feel like a f****** dummy sitting here. I don't know what the f*** I'm talking about. I'm just trying to fill the time here. When it comes to the computer, I am so f******...did anyone ever tell you, you look a bit like Steve Martin?
GS: Well, no actually.
OO: Well, you don't!
GS: OK, thanks!
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