MMMM

To you - which of these stands out?

Ozzy - the entire High School talked about it.
He bit off the head of a dove too....not sure if it was before or after.
Everyone thought he was a lunatic - who stepped it up a notch -
Imagine - stepping it up - after Sabbath !
Those 2 releases, with Randy, and then Randy died.
Seeing him in concert, those years, was a spectacle.

Ozzy - back when he had mystique and a sense of danger.

I would have to go with Ozzy also. Although I personally like hearing about him biting the dove better. He meant to bite the doves head off but the bat was an accident. Biting the dove was much more metal to me than biting the my head off of a bat.

Doro Pesch at a gig in Riverside, California when Warlock was still a thing. Fates Warning was the opener. I gave her a Pantera button just after the tour bus pulled up and she came out front to take a picture of the marquis. She said it was her birthday and that is why I gave her the button. She mentioned it from the stage, saying thanks to the guy with long ass red hair.

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Doro Pesch at a gig in Riverside, California when Warlock was still a thing. Fates Warning was the opener.  I gave her a Pantera button just after the tour bus pulled up and she came out front to take a picture of the marquis. She said it was her birthday and that is why I gave her the button. She mentioned it from the stage, saying thanks to the guy with long ass red hair.

Killer!

I went with other...back in 1980 something I saw Twisted Sister in Amarillo Texas and after the show Dee Snider was arrested and booked into Jail on the charge of indecent foul language (to many F**k)... In Amarillo Texas using foul language in front of Children in public is against the law and several church lady's there protesting the show filed the charges...(interestingly enough no more shows came to Amarillo for at least 6 months...

Also in Amarillo the massive protest that occurred when Metallica (And justice for all tour) came through town  was interesting...I had to push my way through the protesters to get to the door and once inside the security made each of us go through a metal detector and dog sniff before entering the Arena....

Well, if we are telling personal MMMM, then mine would be the first Ozzfest. I was in Phoenix at the time, and it was a sunny hot normal summer day in the desert. Slayer was the main headliner before Ozzy hit the stage. Right when Slayer was about to come on stage, the sky's got really dark from some heavy clouds coming in. The winds started picking up. Lightning and thunder came next. I look behind me and up in the general admission lawn area, there are three bonfires lit, perfectly placed across the lawn. You could feel a certain buzz in the crowd, almost a little fear, like Satan himself was overseeing the show. The timing of everything couldn't have been scripted any better if hollyweird wrote it for a movie.

Gotta go with Ozzy. There was so much buzz going around about it. It really brought a lot if attention to the genre.

Another vote for Ozzy.

I'm going with Axl and his shenanigans. The unpredictability and near-riots of GnR shows at the time had my mother in a tizzy as I was going to said shows. It was also around that time when Sebastian Bach hit that girl in the face with a bottle.

"Is this the kind of thing that goes on at these shows? I don't know that I want you to be a part of that".

Thanks, mom.

Write-in vote for Bobby Blitz of Overkill suffering a stroke while onstage in Germany. Mind you, that was after he received treatment for cancer a few years earlier. Nothin' stops that guy. Respect!!

Out of what's listed I have to go with Ozzy.