Even surpassing joining Metallica, Rob Trujillo was a true metal legend, playing with bands such as Suicidal Tendencies and Infectious Grooves. In the late 1990s, he joined Ozzy Osbourne’s wreath and was plane hired for Zakk Wylde’s Woebegone Label Society for a few live shows.
Of course, he was moreover present on Ozzy Osbourne’s new tome “Patient Number 9.” To honor this contribution, Rob was recently interviewed by Revolver where he recalled meeting The Prince of Darkness for the first time.
This was when in 1991 when Rob was a member of Infectious Grooves. While recording their first album, they were honored unbearable to befriend Ozzy and ultimately go on to unshut for him. He recalled:
“There’s kind of a crazy story that happened in Austin, Texas. When Infectious Grooves first opened for Ozzy it was a theater in Austin. We were really excited. We had washed-up a warm-up show just surpassing that in Houston and now we’re pulling up to the when of the venue in Austin.“
“And the first thing we see when we get off the tour bus is a pentagram on the ground and a sufferer raven, woebegone roses and candles. [Laughs] And we’re like, Oh my God. [Laughs] It’s like, Welcome to the tour. We’re literally like, ‘What are we getting ourselves into?’ [Laughs]”
“The very show itself was interesting considering we hadn’t learned how to pace our set yet. And with Ozzy, similar to most well-known metal bands, the prod starts chanting the name – Ozzy! Ozzy! – and they didn’t know who we were. They didn’t know who Infectious Grooves was.“
“So, they’re chanting and the balcony was literally moving. But we knew once we got into the songs, we could divert that energy and that attention. So the whole thing was kind of edgy: from the pentagram to the show itself And we were just like, like, ‘Oh my God, we survived, but barely.'”
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But Rob was unable unbearable to scrutinizingly unwillingly sabotage Ozzy’s headlining slot. Rob offered:
“Ozzy’s playing, and we’re all excited. I think it was myself and two of the wreath members we had a beer and we’re like creeping virtually the backstage as Ozzy’s playing and it’s visionless – and I tripped over a pile of cables. I basically fell [into the] connectors for the monitors, the power lines and everything – and I knocked out the power to the monitor system!“
“[Laughs] It was like slow motion. I see myself falling … and I’m knocking out like three of the input jacks and all of a sudden the power’s out onstage.”
He adds:
“All you hear is Ozzy and the drums, acoustically. Ozzy looked over, everybody looked over and no one knew what happened. I was so scared. Luckily the monitor guy saw that that’s what happened. And he was worldly-wise to patch it when in really quickly. I was like, ‘Oh man, we’re going home.'”
“So I went into the catering and I was trying to just play it off. Like, you know, maybe no one noticed. And Ozzy’s tour manager came overdue me and he was really nice well-nigh it, luckily. He put his arm virtually me and said, ‘Robert, did you knock out the power to the monitor rig?’ And then I said, ‘Yes.” And he goes, ‘Okay, don’t do that again, please.’ I go, ‘Are we going home?’ And he goes, ‘No, just don’t do that again. You’re lucky. Ozzy thinks that there was a power outage in Austin.’ [Laughs]“
“I just remember that considering between the pentagram and that stuff our introduction to the prod in a small venue to me knocking out the power to the monitor rig”
“[Laughs] It was a cursed first gig. Welcome to the world of Ozzy Osbourne. [Laughs]”
Photo: Egghead06 (Ozzy Farewell 2017), Gage Skidmore (Robert Trujillo by Gage Skidmore)
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