“I wrote some songs with Ozzy that were really cool but you’d never know, one day he likes the song, and the next day he doesn’t and he doesn’t remember that he liked it, and then six months later he loves it and goes ‘Why didn’t you show me the song before?’ You’re constantly battling with which Ozzy you’re going to get when you’re putting your ideas together, but it was a wonderful experience.” It would put Trujillo in good stead for his next job: a few years later, he’d rock up in Metallicaworld with the metal megaweights at the shakiest point in their history. The bassist said working with Ozzy made for a creatively topsy-turvy time. Ozzy didn’t hold it against them though, inviting the band on to the Theatre Of Madness tour in 1991 and then, eight years later, asking Trujillo to join his band. ‘You got any cocaine?’ No, Ozzy! ‘You guys are boring!’” Then suddenly he would never leave – he’d come in and go, ‘Let me hear the song, that’s what I want to play!’ and we’d dance and we’d do all this crazy stuff and he’d go, ‘Have you got any beer?’ No. He came into the studio one night and surprised us all and went ‘Uh, hullo’ and we were in the middle of a mix. “Ozzy would be running down the hallway, completely out of his mind doing a lot of stuff back then, I can’t tell you what but pretty much anything. ![]() “We were basically roommates, or studiomates, for a while,” he said, reminiscing about how a crazed Ozzy took over the recording complex.
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