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plays a character in wrestling, so he’s pre- ozzy’s current album ‘Do You line-up changes and the reason we’ve had
tending to be something that he’s not, and FWanna Start A War’ is filled with an- line-up changes is because we wanted to
now we’re telling the fans that this is real. themic offerings delivered with equal bouts create an environment where we all could
It’s very difficult and the only way you can of melody and angst, covering topics from be around like-minded people who have the
overcome those types of adversity is to just bad relationships to the darker side of same type of culture and mind-set. I can’t
do it over and over again and do it well, do human nature. One of the tracks – ‘Lights speak for other people and what they see
it with integrity and do it with pure motives, Go Out’ – is based on the notion that when as immoral and what they see as moral, but
which is for the love for the music and for nobody is looking you’ll do things that you you don’t have to be religious to have a
appreciation for your fans. It takes much wouldn’t necessarily do when the lights are moral code and to be able to differentiate
more time to prove than if we had just on you. We ask Rich what influences his how we treat each other. You could always
started from scratch. We spent three or four decision when faced with a choice between look to Christ, Martin Luther King, Gandhi,
years just undoing all that we had done be- right and wrong. “I think we are all innately Mother Teresa, or whoever, those people
fore because we didn’t change names, we aware of the difference between right and throughout history have laid down the path
just carried on, but we changed who we wrong, it’s kind of encoded in us and what’s for us to look to…what is a great way to
were. It was quite confusing even to us,” not encoded in us we’ve been taught,” Rich walk. Obviously answering to our own self-
Rich laughs. Now, with six studio albums answers. “Doing wrong is a choice, be- interest is the foundation to what we con-
under their belt Fozzy - including Billy Grey cause we see that there is something in it sider happiness, as long as that doesn’t
(guitar) and newest recruit Randy Drake for us doing the wrong, whatever that is. impede on someone else’s happiness.”
(bass) - have proved that they are for real. We all as individuals will make that decision Rich tells us about the concept of the
on what our moral code is. The five guys in song ‘Scarecrow’ which features the lyrics,
this band are good people. We’ve had some ‘Today I saw the scarecrow die / never

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