While the Grammy Awards‘ tribute to Ozzy Osbourne with Post Malone, Slash, Duff McKagan, and Chad Smith made headlines on Sunday, it wasn’t the only high-profile tribute to the Prince of Darkness this week. On Wednesday night in Burlington, VT, Phish drummer Jon Fishman helmed an encore of “War Pigs” for Ozzy at Jazz Mandolin Project‘s tour kickoff at the Higher Ground.
Last night marked Fishman, bandleader Jamie Masefield, bassist Danton Boller, and trumpeter/multi-instrumentalist Michael âMad Dogâ Mavridoglou‘s first show as Jazz Mandolin Project since reuniting at Nectar’s (RIP) just over a year ago. Though JMP is more known for its jazz and world-influenced compositions, that didn’t stop the band from getting heavy for the encore. Masefield applied some distortion to his mandolin and, as the band kicked into the Black Sabbath classic, the group was hardly identifiable as anything jazz or mandolin-related.
Jon Fishman, aka Jon Sullen Meloncholy, aka Bob Weaver, aka Henrietta, has been known to emulate iconic vocalists when playing with Phish. Over the years, he’s stepped into the shoes of Prince (“Purple Rain“), The Who’s Roger Daltrey (“Love Reign O’er Me“), Jim Morrison (“Touch Me“), Paul Simon (“50 Ways to Leave Your Lover“), Foreignor’s Lou Gramm (“Cold As Ice“), and even Will Smith (“Gettin’ Jiggy With It“). To close out Phish’s 2012 Runaway Golf-Cart New Year’s Eve show, the band debuted a cover of Sabbath’s “Iron Man”, but gave vocal duties to keyboardist Page McConnell.
Check out a snippet of Jon Fishman taking lead vocals on Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” in tribute to Ozzy Osbourne. Jazz Mandolin Project’s tour continues this week with shows in Boston (2/5), Brooklyn (2/6), and Kingston, NY (2/7, early and late shows), ahead of a voyage aboard Jam Cruise. All shows except the Kingston matinee performance and Jam Cruise are sold out. Find tickets here.
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