Crawdaddy! The Magazine of Rock

Originally published in UCLA Daily Bruin, June 30, 1972

“For the best coke, just ring three-eight-nine-oh-nine-eight, only one hundred dollars!” exclaimed a very stoned Ozzy Osbourne as he grinned stupidly from behind a microphone in studio “B” at Hollywood’s Record Plant, where Black Sabbath were finishing up their fourth LP. “I’m so stoned,” Ozzy moaned while gesturing like Frank Sinatra.

Aside from Ozzy’s ridiculous presence, the studio was more an avant garde artist’s view of a room than a musician’s. A smoky-burned American flag hung on one wall while parachutes were draped on the opposite wall. The room as a whole was composed of gentle combinations of orange and red, including red tie-dyed baffles surrounding the drums.

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