Behind the Lens: Lost 80’s Concert 35mm Negatives

Part 2 — Ozzy Osbourne’s Ultimate Sin Tour 1986

Michael Young
Artist Waves
4 min readApr 6, 2018

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Part 1 — Behind the Lens: Blast from the Past — Discovering Lost 80’s Concert 35mm Negatives

Please keep in mind that I did not have a professional photo pass for these shows. Literally just a kid smuggling in a 35mm Canon A1 with a preloaded roll of film and my friend smuggling in a lens for me.… seriously. If I got one decent shot, I was lucky!

Part 2 — Ozzy Osbourne’s Ultimate Sin Tour

June 13, 1986 — Long Beach Arena — Long Beach, Ca

The Band- Ozzy Osbourne — Vocals, Jake E. Lee — Guitar, Phil Soussan — Bass, Randy Castillo — Drums, John Sinclair — Keyboards

Top to Bottom- Jake E. Lee (Guitar) Ozzy Osbourne (Vocals) — Phil Soussan (Bass)
Anyone remember “SEATTLE FILM WORKS” ?

Tour Timeline — February 6, 1986 through February 23, 1987

128 Shows

North America 97
Europe 24
Asia 7
128 total

Opening Band for Ozzy that night? … Metallica . NO, I don’t have any images of them that night… fail…!!!! Hey I had one pre-loaded roll … can’t use that on an opening band!

Taken with Canon A1 35mm film camera

Setlist — Long Beach June 13, 1986

  1. Bark at the Moon
  2. The Ultimate Sin
  3. Suicide Solution
  4. Mr. Crowley
  5. Shot in the Dark
  6. I Don’t Know
  7. Killer of Giants
  8. Thank God for the Bomb
  9. Flying High Again
  10. Secret Loser
  11. Iron Man(Black Sabbath song)
  12. Crazy Train
  13. Paranoid (Black Sabbath song)

Fun Facts….

— Ultimate Sin was Ozzy’s Osbourne fourth studio album after the break-up of Black Sabbath. It reached #6 on the Billboard top 200.

Ozzy’s music video for the song “Lightning Strikes” from ‘The Ultimate Sin’ album. The video is contained the ‘Memoirs of a Madman’ 4.5 hour double dvd set

— Opening band Metallica had just released the metal classic album— “Master of Puppets”

35mm images from found negatives — Left — Jake E Lee (Guitar) — Randy Castillo — Drums

— This would be guitarist Jake E. Lee’s last tour with Ozzy. He would be replaced by Zakk Wylde — Rumor has it Jake was given his walking papers by Sharon Osbourne in a telegram

Jake E Lee
Jake E. Lee

The shots that didn’t come out as planned…

For More Ozzy Info — https://ozzy.com

To be Continued …

Next On : Behind the Lens — Lost 80’s Concert 35mm Negatives — Part III”

Billy Idol’s Whiplash Smile Tour

May 08, 1987 — The Forum, Inglewood, CA —

Special Guest Appearance by Eddie Van Halen

Billy Idol at Los Angeles Forum 1987 — w/ Eddie Van Halen

Photos By: Michael Young

See ya on the road — — Safe Travels!

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Michael Young
Artist Waves

Escaped Corporate America. I now use the shutter to capture the world I enjoy! PhotoJournalist/Music Photog — ArtistWaves.com