Ozzy Osbourne‘s No More Tears just marked its 30th anniversary last month, but the way Zakk Wylde remembers it, it should have been called No More Farts.
Wylde reminisced about recording the album with Metal Hammer, and he said that Ozzy would just let out the worst farts while they were working. “Ozzy had these stink bombs he just kept letting off. You could use them to clear buildings, not rooms. Ozzy would be there at the back, ‘Sorry…’ and we’d be gagging, ‘Ozzy what the [heck]!’ They were worried he wouldn’t be able to finish the record.”
Wylde decided to get his revenge by unleashing the only thing worse — his own crap. “Every day Oz had this couch that he’d sit on to watch World War 2 videos or whatever. So I take my enormous [crap] in this bag and cut a tiny little hole, sliding it in until it’s properly hidden up the back of the couch. Meanwhile, [drummer] Randy [Castillo] goes and takes a crap in some Tupperware, which he then stores in the fridge for later.”
The guitarist says that the smelly revenge was sweet. “Ozzy bellows down, ‘I was just trying to watch my World War 2 videos, thinking what is that horrendous stench?! I went to get something to eat, thinking we’d got some leftovers… They were leftovers alright!’”
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