{"id":41755,"date":"2025-07-23T17:15:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/mammoth-wvh-pay-tribute-to-ozzy-osbourne-with-mama-im-coming-home\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T17:15:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:15:34","slug":"mammoth-wvh-pay-tribute-to-ozzy-osbourne-with-mama-im-coming-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/mammoth-wvh-pay-tribute-to-ozzy-osbourne-with-mama-im-coming-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammoth WVH Pay Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne With &#8216;Mama, I&#8217;m Coming Home&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;That fucking sucks that we\u2019re in a world that doesn\u2019t have Ozzy Osbourne anymore,&#8221; Wolfgang Van Halen says at Hartford show hours after Prince of Darkness&#8217; death<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/mammoth-wvh\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mammoth-wvh\" data-tag=\"mammoth-wvh\">Mammoth WVH<\/a> paid tribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ozzy-osbourne\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ozzy-osbourne\" data-tag=\"ozzy-osbourne\">Ozzy Osbourne<\/a> with a rendition of his classic \u201cMama, I\u2019m Coming Home\u201d at a concert Tuesday, hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ozzy-osbourne-black-sabbath-dead-obituary-1227265\/\">the heavy metal legend\u2019s death<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cThat fucking sucks that we\u2019re in a world that doesn\u2019t have Ozzy Osbourne anymore,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/wolfgang-van-halen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wolfgang-van-halen\" data-tag=\"wolfgang-van-halen\">Wolfgang Van Halen<\/a> said during the band\u2019s gig in Hartford after leading the crowd in a chant of \u201cOzzy.\u201d \u201cIt was right before soundcheck that we found out [about Osbourne\u2019s death]. I said we have to do something, because just mentioning it isn\u2019t enough. We\u2019ve played through this like three times so please bear with us and sing the fuck along with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe band then launched into the <em>No More Tears<\/em> standout:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mammoth playing Ozzy Osbourne Hartford, CT 7\/22\/25 and Mammoths The End\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X_bKdj1Ihcs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cLegend. Thank you for everything, Oz,\u201d Van Halen wrote earlier in the day on social media alongside a photo of him and Osbourne. <span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">In a separate post, Van Halen\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMbRjTlvLx8\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow\">shared a picture<\/a>\u00a0of his late father, Eddie, embracing the Black Sabbath singer.<\/span><\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"\/>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWolfgang Van Halen was initially among the dozens of artists that were announced for Osbourne\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-live-reviews\/ozzy-osbourne-black-sabbath-back-to-the-beginning-concert-1235379405\/\">Back to the Beginning farewell concert<\/a> in Birmingham, England, on July 5. However, just days before the gig, Van Halen was forced to drop out due to scheduling conflicts with Mammoth WVH\u2019s current tour with Creed. \u201cThe tour starts the day after, and I [wouldn\u2019t] be able to pull it off, unfortunately,\u201d Van Halen said at the time. \u201cI\u2019m very excited to watch it, but I, unfortunately had to back out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn the hours after Osbourne\u2019s death, a handful of artists who were slated to take the stage Thursday deviated from their setlists to honor the Prince of Darkness: Both Coldplay and Dave Matthews Band, at separate concerts, covered Black Sabbath\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/coldplay-ozzy-osbourne-tribute-black-sabbath-changes-1235391968\/\">Changes<\/a>,\u201d while Lady Gaga danced to Osbourne\u2019s \u201cCrazy Train\u201d at Tuesday\u2019s Mayhem Ball show in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/mammoth-wvh-ozzy-osbourne-tribute-mama-im-coming-home-cover-1235392003\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That fucking sucks that we\u2019re in a world that doesn\u2019t have Ozzy Osbourne anymore,&#8221; Wolfgang Van Halen says at Hartford show hours after Prince&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":41756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}