The Offspring paid musical tribute to Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath during a set at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View. Lead guitarist Noodles performed a noodled take on "Electric Funeral" from Paranoid, and the full band delivered an abbreviated rendition of the album's title track. Dexter Holland led a largely faithful cover of Ozzy's solo hit "Crazy Train," with Jonah Nimoy handling Randy Rhoads' guitar passages. The band followed with a performance of Edvard Grieg's 1875 orchestral piece "In the Hall of the Mountain King" before returning to its punk-rock material.
The tribute began with a short bit by lead guitarist Noodles (aka, Kevin Wasserman), who living up to his name nicely noodled his way through a short take on Electric Funeral from Sabbath's landmark second studio album, 1970's Paranoid. The rest of the quintet vocalist Dexter Holland, bassist Todd Morse, multi-instrumentalist Jonah Nimoy and drummer Brandon Pertzborn then joined in for a rocking (yet, sadly, abbreviated) take on that same album's legendary title track.
Everybody here over 12 is stoked right now, remarked Holland, adding that the rest of the crowd was bored by that early 70s rock tune from Osbourne and his Sabbath bandmates So, Holland decided to zoom forward a full decade to 1980 and lead the band through the Ozzy solo hit Crazy Train. The version was pretty spot-on, with Holland doing a great take on those well-known vocal parts from Osbourne, who died at the age of 76 in July.
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