{"id":8558,"date":"2009-07-10T12:22:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T17:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=8558"},"modified":"2009-07-10T13:34:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T18:34:40","slug":"zakk-wylde-fired-from-ozzy-osbourne-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=8558","title":{"rendered":"Zakk Wylde Fired From OZZY OSBOURNE Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y55\/RSCODY\/oz.jpg\" alt=\"o\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn a move that has shocked the heavy metal world, legendary BLACK SABBATH vocalist Ozzy Osbourne has  decided to replace Zakk Wylde, the lead guitarist of Osbourne&#8217;s solo band. Classic Rock caught up with Ozzy Osbourne last week at the Slash &#038; Friends gig in Norway, where the whispers backstage had guitarist John 5 (ex-Marilyn Manson, currently with Rob Zombie) lined up as a possible replacement for Zakk Wylde.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y55\/RSCODY\/ZakkWylde.jpg\" alt=\"z\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s an excerpt from the interview:<br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u201cWell, I\u2019m getting a new guitar player as we speak,\u201d said Ozzy, \u201cand everyone has been saying to me for a long time, \u2018Get Johnny 5!\u2019 And I tried him at one time and I didn\u2019t really give him a chance. We\u2019ll see, I don\u2019t know. I haven\u2019t fallen out with Zakk, but Zakk\u2019s got his own band, and I felt like my stuff was beginning to sound like Black Label Society. I just felt like I wanted a change, y\u2019know?&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozzy.com\/\">http:\/\/www.ozzy.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that has shocked the heavy metal world, legendary BLACK SABBATH vocalist Ozzy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}