“It’s an out-of-body experience to be up there with legends like Nuno Bettencourt and Jake E. Lee”: Lzzy Hale on Black Sabbath’s final show
Five months have passed since the final Black Sabbath gig, and it’s still being talked about by those who took part – including Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale, who likened her time on stage to an “out of body experience”.
The Back To The Beginning concert took place on 5 July, and featured a huge line up of rock and metal’s greatest acts. It raised millions for charity, and marked the final time that Sabbath played together, with Ozzy Osbourne sadly passing away just weeks later.
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Halestorm got to perform Osbourne’s Perry Mason, and Lzzy also got to perform The Ultimate Sin alongside a supergroup of stars including Nuno Bettencourt and Jake E. Lee.
In an interview with …, she looks back on the day fondly and recalls how the entire city of Birmingham was “in celebration”: “Backstage everybody is just hanging out. Even Axl [Rose]. Probably at any other show he’d be carted back and forth and we’d never see the guy. But we’re sat next to each other, and it’s funny, because there’s all these photographers, and he says to me: ‘Girl, you come with a lot of cameras!’ And I’m like: ‘I don’t think they’re here for me, man!’”
She adds, “I think Sharon [Osbourne] said it best – it was like rock ‘n’ roll summer camp. I’m talking to Steven Tyler, and he’s like, ‘You’re from Pennsylvania. I’m good with accents.’ Then he starts telling me this story about when the Aerosmith guys were in Doylestown in the seventies and they got pulled over for having weed in the car.
“But it’s intense back there too. Everybody is nervous. Even the Metallica guys. Like: ‘We want to do good by these dudes.’ And everybody’s really emotional because we know it’s the last time. So we go out there and play, and after we walk off we’re like: ‘That was just a blur. Did we black out? Did we pass the audition?’ Then I went back out to sing The Ultimate Sin, and it’s an out-of-body experience to be up there with legends like Nuno Bettencourt and Jake E Lee.”
Bettencourt himself also recently looked back on the mighty day of metal, and shared just how immense the pressure was: “If you go down in flames on that stage with Ozzy there and all your peers watching, your career is over!” he said during an episode of Steve and Rik’s POTcast.
“I ended up playing 12 fucking songs,” he continued. “I just wanted to respect the songs [and] fucking go all in… I was in here for weeks for fucking like four or five hours a day standing up, performing the fuckers.”
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