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LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 19, 2019…1982 SAW OZZY AND THE “DIARY OF A MADMAN” TOUR INVADE OAKLAND. THIS WAS OZZY’S SECOND TOUR AS A SOLO ARTIST AND WAS IN SUPPORT OF HIS SECOND ALBUM ‘DIARY OF A MADMAN’
THIS WAS ALSO GUITARIST RANDY RHOADS LAST TOUR. ON MARCH 19,1982 HE DIED IN A PLANE CRASH AT A SMALL AIRPORT IN FLORIDA AS A KNUCKLEHEAD PILOT TOOK RHOADS ON A JOYRIDE IN A SMALL PLANE AND CRASHED THE AIRCRAFT ATTEMPTING TO BUZZ THE BAND’S TOUR BUS.
THE BAND TOOK A TWO WEEK BREAK AFTER HIS DEATH. OZZY AND HIS WIFE SHARON RESTARTED THE TOUR WITH GUITARIST BERNIE TORME. HE ONLY LASTED A FEW SHOWS BEFORE HE WAS REPLACED WITH THE BAY AREA’S BRAD GILLIS.
HERE’S THE SETLIST FROM THE SHOW AT THE OAKLAND-ALAMEDA COUNTY COLISEUM ARENA:
- Taped Introduction
- Diary of a Madman
- Over the Mountain
- Mr. Crowley
- Crazy Train
- Revelation (Mother Earth)
- Play Video
- Steal Away (The Night)
- Suicide Solution
- Brad Gillis Guitar Solo
- Drum Solo
- Goodbye to Romance
- I Don’t Know
- Believer
- Flying High Again
- Iron Man
Children of the Grave - Encore:
- Paranoid
HERE’S OZZY WITH A LIVE VERSION OF “OVER THE MOUNTAIN’
