My friend too had lost someone close to him, and he too was going through changes. Ozzy lost his guitarist and best friend when Randy died, and it seemed so appropriate to sing “Changes,” since after all that was what Ozzy was going through. He told me about how Ozzy sang it in tribute to Randy Rhoads after he died. The metaphor of his choice was a song, Black Sabbath – “Changes.” He told me about how Ozzy Osbourne’s live version of the song is the much more popular version and how that live version got a lot more radio play than the original studio version.

The night did not seem unique at the time, we treated it like any other, but there was one thing my friend said that stood out to me.Īs if to sum up the evening’s purpose my friend gave me a quick synopsis of his situation. That something was beer, that someone was me. This was the night that my friend's first love had left him, and he wanted something to distract him and someone to talk to. I believe the year was 2003 I got a phone call from my friend who was looking for someone to drink with. Songs can take on radical new meanings if they come into your life at unique times, and speaking of Black Sabbath whenever I hear “Changes,” I think about a very specific moment in time.

Up until a then I only possessed two Black Sabbath CDs, the self titled “Black Sabbath,” and “Paranoid,” I have since rectified that situation by purchasing “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath,” and “Black Sabbath Volume 4.” It is a wonderful thing that after so many years I can still look deeper into bands I have known for years and learn so much more about them. A few months back that Craig Kemery told me to dig deeper into Black Sabbath.

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