Remember the Alamo
November 6, 2015 10:45 AM   Subscribe

Watch Ozzy Osbourne Tour the Alamo 33 Years After Urination Arrest.

Osbourne also visited the state Capitol.

According to mySanAntonio:
Ozzy Osbourne will visit the Alamo Thursday to tape a History Channel show where the rock legend will apologize for urinating on the Alamo Cenotaph in 1982, District 1 Councilman Roberto Trevino revealed at a downtown forum Wednesday night.

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According to the San Antonio Express-News archives, Osbourne urinated at the monument while in town for a concert.

"He was drunk. Ozzy was super drunk and he had a bladder problem. You know, I don't think anyone would have even noticed what he was doing except that he was doing a photo shoot with the English music magazine Melody Maker and he was dressed in pink tights and ballerina shoes. He wandered over to the side of the statue and there he went, " concert promoter Greg Wilson told the Express News in 1992.
33 Years Ago: Ozzy Osbourne Arrested for Urinating on (Well Really, Near) the Alamo:
Over the years, the story has taken on mythic proportions, stating that Osbourne urinated on the walls of the Alamo, the mission that was the site of a famous battle during the state’s War of Independence in 1836, and is considered to be sacred ground and a symbol of Texas pride.

“It’s just not true,” an unnamed guide at the Alamo told Chris Rodell of the Boston Herald in 2003. “If he had, the police wouldn’t have arrested him. They would have beaten him to within an inch of his life.”
In a somewhat related matter, Osbourne recently stated there is no final Black Sabbath album in the offing.
posted by mandolin conspiracy (14 comments total) 5 users marked this as a favorite
 
Considering the sorts of things the people in the Alamo were fighting for...
posted by NoxAeternum at 10:49 AM on November 6, 2015 [3 favorites]


" You know, I don't think anyone would have even noticed what he was doing except that he was doing a photo shoot with the English music magazine Melody Maker and he was dressed in pink tights and ballerina shoes."

Can we just stop and appreciate that sentence for a moment?
posted by I-baLL at 10:51 AM on November 6, 2015 [8 favorites]


33 years ago Osbourne took advantage of Texans' enduring (and arguably unseemly, as NoxAeternum points out) veneration of the Alamo to get publicity and promote his carefully constructed image.

Now he's doing it again, with the full blessing of Texan political leaders. Nice work if you can get it, I suppose..
posted by Nerd of the North at 11:06 AM on November 6, 2015


I wonder if he'll see the basement.
posted by OHenryPacey at 11:30 AM on November 6, 2015 [12 favorites]


I remember bringing some albums into the house when I was in my teens and somehow We Sold Our Souls for Rock n Roll was on the top of the pile. Mom was shitting bricks for the rest of the evening. Good times.

I could care less if Sabbath doesn't record again. 13 was only so-so and I can't imagine a followup being a world beater. We'll always have that run from the Black Sabbath album through Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, when Iommi was a riff machine and the rhythm section sounded like an armored division rolling into battle.
posted by Ber at 11:59 AM on November 6, 2015 [2 favorites]


It's hard to remember now how demonized Mr. Osborne was back in the early eighties. It pissed me off back then when I was a teenager but now it just seems silly.
posted by octothorpe at 12:02 PM on November 6, 2015


I learned to love Ozzy shortly before No More Tears dropped. I was a teen. It didn't feel super edgy to me, but I loved it and I was perfectly happy that other people thought it was something dangerous.

Not too long ago, I heard an Ozzy song while in a Safeway. I felt SO. OLD. But it's also a window on how so many things really aren't controversial at all once we have a little distance.
posted by scaryblackdeath at 12:20 PM on November 6, 2015 [4 favorites]


What remains usually not noted about the Alamo is that it was a white man's fight to maintain slavery when it became outlawed by Mexico...the Alamo stood for defense of slavery!

THE REAL STORY OF THE ALAMO
posted by Postroad at 1:04 PM on November 6, 2015 [3 favorites]


I love the idea that Ozzie urinated as an act of self-promotion. I don't believe it, but I love it.
posted by maxsparber at 2:48 PM on November 6, 2015


so, um, where did the stalwart and honorable defenders of the alamo go to the bathroom, anyway?
posted by pyramid termite at 2:54 PM on November 6, 2015


He was younger then — a whiz kid, if you will.
posted by a lungful of dragon at 4:15 PM on November 6, 2015


This is a thirsty country
posted by thelonius at 5:17 PM on November 6, 2015 [2 favorites]


It's no country for old men and their prostate problems, that's for sure.
posted by um at 6:39 PM on November 6, 2015


Cowboy #1: What's your name?
Pee-wee: I can't remember.
Cowboy #2: Where are you from?
Pee-wee: I can't remember.
Cowboy #1: Can you remember anything?
Pee-wee: I remember... the Alamo.
[Texans cheer]

posted by ovvl at 9:14 PM on November 6, 2015 [3 favorites]


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