Ozzy Osbourne Shares Shreveport Memory Online

The music history of Shreveport is very, very rich. Not just the artists who are from the Shreveport area, like Lead Belly, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Kix Brooks, Jordan Davis, Hurricane Chris, and others. Or artists who got a start/boost to their career in Shreveport, like James Burton and Elvis, or a post-David Lee Roth Van Halen.

But the rich history of legendary artists who have performed in Shreveport, that's the big piece we want to look at today. Because over the weekend, a reminder of a different time was posted on the social media account for one of the most legendary rockers of all time...Ozzy Osbourne.

This weekend, Ozzy's social media accounts posted a memory of a 43-year-old show from Shreveport's past. A night where the Ozzman brought his "Diary of a Madman Tour" to Shreveport, and pulled it into the legendary Hirsch Coliseum.

At the time, this was probably a wild night, with Ozzy leading a ruckus concert. But in hindsight, this night might have actually been one of the best nights of music in Shreveport's history. Lets take a look at why...

The setlist for that night includes, what is essentially, a "best of" compilation. The songs performed that night may have been "hits" at the time, but are now legendary tracks revered by thousands of professional musicians that they went on to inspire.

Check out this reported setlist from March 2nd, 1982 in Shreveport:

Over the Mountain
Mr. Crowley
Crazy Train
Revelation (Mother Earth)
Steal Away (The Night)
Suicide Solution
Guitar Solo
(Randy Rhoads)
Drum Solo
(Tommy Aldridge)
Goodbye to Romance
I Don't Know
No Bone Movies
Believer
Flying High Again
Iron Man
(Black Sabbath song)
Children of the Grave
(Black Sabbath song)

Encore:
Paranoid
(Black Sabbath song)

Just imagine telling someone that the first three songs Ozzy rips that night on stage will be three of the biggest songs in the history of rock and roll. But then you're going to get a guitar solo from the late and great Randy Rhoads, before the night is ended with another run of songs that will last forever in the halls of rock.

That March night in Shreveport, those tunes rung out into the walls of the historic Hirsch Coliseum.