Oh, wow.

But we worked our way up rather quickly.

Anyway, we...

We had a place in Long Beach, an apartment, and we moved to Hollywood in this little dumpy studio.

And we slept on the floor and showered in the parking lot.

Oh, man.

Just, you know, the super big gulp cups.

yeah

the guy's a great great underrated talent in the world of keyboarding everybody knows who he is but you should put some respect on this man's name you know throw him up there with the all-time greats in my opinion we talked about that on the last episode that he was on like a lot of the all-time classic organists and keyboardists in rock and roll like John Lord but Dizzy was a big fan of Ozzy and Sabbath so let's hear what Dizzy Reed has to say

Ozzy was, to me, he was like the patriarch of metal and music.

It's just there was something about knowing that he was out there doing that and kind of on behalf of all the great rockers and stuff, it seemed like.

He was...

A huge influence.

Black Sabbath was a huge influence on me.

So, and Ozzy especially.

man, I

Whoa, you were at that one?

I was there.

I was freezing my butt off.

But, you know, the thing about Red Rocks is if you ever experienced a, a concert there without any f- ice, like, freezing Colorado rain, you were lucky.

It, it always, it rained for at least some point.

You know, you, we used to be able to camp out in your seats.

You'd go there the night before, and you could camp out where you were gonna sit.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah [laughs].