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| And then he walked along the edge of the Circle
This is the place where we will post your stories about the Green's Playhouse, The Glasgow Apollo and Satelitte City (The Wee Apollo). As it develops we will break the stories up into sections such as Myths, Gigs I missed, Meeting the Bands, Where are they now etc. No story too trivial and we will only edit out bad language!
New Forum structure on Apollomemories soon.
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| I STILL HAVE MY TICKET IN FULL BECAUSE THE SHOW WAS CANCELLD BECAUSE OF OZZY
BITING THE HEAD OFF OF A BAT BACK IN THE STATES.
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| I take it it's not the 1980 gig you're referring to. I went to the gig (Ozzy's first
gig as Blizzard of Oz), I don't have the ticket but I still have the programme
somewhere, and I moved down south not long after and didn't get to many more gigs at
the Apollo.
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| no andy it was not the 1980 gig. this would have been 1982,but the oz man made good
on it on a later date.
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| 1980 was his first tour as a solo artist, when he unleashed Randy Rhoads on us, what
a player, still sadly missed. I think it was the next tour that he cancelled. I
remember standing in line waiting to get in when we where told it was cancelled. Very
disappointed to say the least.
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| The gig in 1982 was in Dec...the next 2 nights Whitesnake played...3 nights in a
row...deaf and broke for Xmas...sweet.
I remember that Brad Gillis was playing
gutar on that tour and Ozzy had a midget as part of his show...basic show with little
special effects but brilliant none the less, just the band on stage playing music and
it was great....I have since seen him in the US on bigger stages with all the effects
but does not come close to the Apollo gig for atmosphere and crowd
participation.
I did meet Ozzy in Rochester NY at the famous House of Guitars
for a meet and greet during the mid-eighties ( in his booze and cocaine excess days),
they only allowed us 1 autograph and off as I think he wanted back on the bus to do
some more lines..lol
But I stopped him in his tracks that day.Before I
presented my ticket stub from the Apollo to be signed, I asked him where he had
played his first gig as a solo Blizzard of Oz band.He just looked up at me as I gave
him the stub ( my accent probably gave it away anyway), and he said the Glasgow
Apollo ( quite a feat in those days if he could remember anything), he looked at
ticket and was taken aback...he asked me if i was there and I said yes ( course he
thought it was 1980 gig but who cares)...so we had a moment of Karma there, not to
mention a moment of clarity on Ozzy's part ...LOL
Big shout out to my best pal
Davey Loudon, with whom we shared many a great show at the Apollo
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| Got my ticket stub for 12.09.80. row GG 30 in the stalls. The crowd were incredidle
Was my third gig at the Apollo, the two before were, The Clash(Jan 1980) and then
Black Sabbath(May 1980) with Dio(the crowd were chanting OZZY OZZY just before they
came onstage oops. What a year....
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