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Zakk Wylde has lots of memories during his decades-long career with Ozzy Osbourne, and in a recent interview the guitarist was asked to recall the most "wholesome" of them all. If you can't imagine the Prince of Darkness doing anything wholesome, you're on the right track because Wylde's anecdote was about a time they sneakily drank beer together in a bathroom.
“I remember we played the Budokan [Arena] in Tokyo. I’d always have a bag of beer with me, just in case anywhere we were going didn’t have beer," Wylde reminisced. “So, Oz comes in the room after the gig. He goes ‘Zakky, Zakky… you got any beers?’ I go, ‘Yeah, but I’m not giving you one here. You’re going to get us fired! Mum’s [Sharon Osbourne] right across the hall – she’s going to come and see the two of us drinking, is that going to be good?’"
Ozzy came up with a plan to drink without his wife spotting them. “[Ozzy] goes, ‘Alright, tell you what, I’ll meet you in the bathroom,’" Wylde continued. "So I go in the bathroom, I’m waiting. All of a sudden, I hear the door open. He comes in the stall right next to me, and I push a Kirin or Asahi under there. I hear the ‘psssst’ of the can, then ‘glug, glug, glug!’ He downs it in one, puts the can down, pushes it back under and goes, ‘Thanks, Zakk. I’ll see you at dinner.’”
“We were like a couple of naughty school kids!" he quipped. "It was hilarious!”
Wylde also recently spoke about Black Sabbath's upcoming final concert, revealing that Ozzy might perform from a flying throne. The concert is set to take place at Villa Park in Black Sabbath's hometown of Birmingham, and the band will consist of its classic lineup, with Ozzy joining guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward. The concert is being billed as Back To The Beginning and is set to take place July 5. The all-day event will also feature sets from Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Alice in Chains, TOOL, and many other rock and metal icons.