Metallica’s Rob Trujillo was among the many choose few who attended Ozzy Osbourne’s small non-public funeral held on July thirty first on the Osbourne’s Birminghamshire property.
Earlier than becoming a member of Metallica, Trujillo performed bass in Ozzy’s solo band within the late Nineteen Nineties, co-writing materials on the 2001 album All the way down to Earth. The bassist was joined by quite a few musical colleagues of Ozzy’s on the July thirty first service, together with the three surviving members of Black Sabbath — Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Invoice Ward — in addition to Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, Zakk Wylde, Marilyn Manson, and extra.
Trujillo opened up in regards to the funeral and his recollections of the day in a brand new interview on SiriusXM’s “Trunk Nation with Eddie Trunk.”
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“It was a small group of individuals, however it was very, very lovely,” he advised Trunk [as transcribed by Blabbermouth]. “And ultimately, the speeches have been truly… I imply, it was very unhappy, however on the similar time a few of the speeches have been — as you can think about — fairly humorous. And there have been loads of tears… Geezer broke down into tears. He had a tough time, clearly, talking, after which he got here again up and he delivered a tremendous eulogy.”
Trujillo continued, “It had been raining originally of the service… after which because it kind of progressed by means of the service, the climate would change and various things would occur. When Kelly [Osbourne] was singing, her lyrics flew — the wind blew her lyrics away. It was virtually like Ozzy was having enjoyable together with her. After which when Geezer spoke, truly spoke, the solar got here out. I’m not kidding. The solar truly got here out, after which it was lovely from that second on — a really magical second.”
Trujillo went on to say that the funeral felt like “closure.”
“Folks [were] sharing tales,” he added. “And hastily, there was laughter, and ‘I bear in mind this’, ‘I do not forget that’. There have been so many tales. … And I’m glad that we went — my spouse Chloe and I went — and shared that and have been capable of have that second with the household and every little thing. So it was very lovely. And once more, heartfelt phrases from so many individuals and form of reconnecting with completely different musicians and bandmates, crew members, all that.”
As beforehand reported, a procession by means of Birmingham preceded the non-public service the day prior, with hundreds of followers gathering alongside the streets to pay their remaining respects to the Prince of Darkness. It was later revealed that Ozzy’s official reason behind demise was an out of hospital coronary heart assault.