Today, bro,
today is the 30th--
and like, I was watching Metallica--
the 35th anniversary of One
came out fucking today. You know that, right?
[Kirk Hammett] [on phone] Holy shit, no,
I don't fucking know this!
Dude, Metallica--
Dude, your-- your fucking Metallica,
the-- the Instagram thing posted, 35 years ago,
I was nine fucking years old.
-And... -[Kirk] Uh-huh?
And it came out and it fucking changed--
not only did it change everyone's goddamn life,
it changed my fucking life.
-[Kirk] Yeah. -Can I sit-- can I sit down with you
and just talk about the Vs and the Explorer?
-Like, I just-- -[Kirk] Absolutely, bro.
-Absolutely. -Because if you're cool with it,
we'll do maybe something in Hawaii.
[Kirk] Absolutely, bro.
Thanks, Kirk. Thank you very much.
-[Kirk] Alright, Jason. -Alright, okay, take care.
-Alright, aloha. Aloha, bye. -[Kirk] Aloha, okay, bye.
-[Kirk] Love you. -Love you. Alright, aloha.
Bro, what the fuck?!
[yelling]
Oh, my God. [groaning]
[camera operator] That's motherfucking On The Roam.
[Jason groaning]
[exhales sharply]
[sighs]
I don't... [exhales sharply]
That's what it's all about.
[♪ "Wherever I May Roam" by Metallica playing]
♪♪
♪ And the road becomes my bride ♪
♪ I have stripped of all but pride ♪
♪ So in her I do confide ♪
♪ Off the beaten path I reign ♪
♪ Rover, wanderer, nomad, vagabond ♪
♪ Call me what you will ♪
♪ Wherever I may roam ♪
♪ Wherever I may roam, yeah ♪
[Jason Momoa] The Gibson Flying V and the Explorer.
That look, the way that they're shaped,
that's seared into my childhood.
[Mark Agnesi] If you put a bunch of guitars out
and you asked 100 kids to point at the coolest one,
I guarantee you, like 95 out of 100 kids
are gonna point at the Flying V.
[Jason] All the heavy metal bands love the shape of it.
It looked fast, it looked scary, it looked pointy.
Flying Vs are the perfect rock heavy metal machine.
Just the feel and the-- and the look of it.
Those are the shapes, that's what every metal guitar
looks like, a V or an Explorer.
These are the unicorns of Gibson history.
[Jason] These are the rarest guitars.
[Mark] They're so rare because
they really did shock the industry,
and there wasn't a whole lot of demand for 'em originally.
[David Davidson] It was such a commercial flop
they could barely sell them when they were new.
You know, in 1958 we only shipped 81 Flying Vs,
which was a huge success in comparison to the Explorer.
We only did 19 of these.
You know, if you fast forward 20 years, say it's 1978,
and you got hard rock at the top of the charts
and this heavy metal thing is starting to become a thing,
all of a sudden, these two guitars
become very, very popular.
Today they're the two rarest,
most collectible, most desirable,
most expensive guitars on the face of the planet.
-The smell of good guitars, man. -[Jason] I know, bro.
Season Two, bigger and better.
I just wanted to do something that would outdo Season One.
What could be bigger, what could be better?
It doesn't get any rarer than the Flying V
and the Explorer, so I love them,
and I wanted to talk about them, and I wanted to meet the bands.
[ocean waves lapping]
Hmm.
Hi, how do you get into the compound? [chuckles]
Okay.
-How are you? Jason. -Good. [indistinct]
[Jason] Who led me to Metallica?
So, it was my babysitter's cousin,
and we were over at his house.
I think his name was Kris. We walked into his room.
And it was like, from-- to this day,
it's still the coolest room in the world.
You know, when you're a kid and you just got like,
the people that you look up to, he was a skater,
he was a rock-and-roller,
and he just had posters everywhere.
So, that's when I first saw Master of Puppets,
and it was just like... ♪ Ahh ♪
[♪ guitar tuning]
Oops.
Perfect.
[tuning continues]
[indistinct chatter and laughter]
[♪ guitar playing]
[Kirk] I'm never gonna stop being a musician, bro,
because for me, music just gets better and better.
Guitar playing is a way of life, bro.
I slaved at Burger King.
[both laughing]
I slaved tossing fries, man,
for like six months just to get-- get one of these.
And I was so damn happy when I got it.
Damn, I was happy.
And-- and when I first got it, I was like, man!
And it's just like, I had to get used to the shape of it.
-[Jason] Yeah. -You know, when you first get a Flying V,
you're like, this is kinda like, you know, it's a weird shape.
And I was used to the round bottoms.
But after a while, I just came to love it all, man.
This is-- Yeah, this is a really special guitar.
[Jason] The whole episode is just about the V and the Explorer.
And to me, the V and Explorer is you guys.
-[Kirk] Mm. -That was my childhood.
-Yeah, yeah. -'Cause I had never seen anything like that.
-[Kirk] Mm-hmm. -That is a lot of people's--
-who they look to. -[Kirk] Yeah.
[Jason] And what metal is. So, it's so crazy
to know that they came-- this wild idea came out in '58.
-Yeah. -And then no one fucking liked 'em.
-No one. -They couldn't give 'em away.
Yeah.
And now, it is the iconic shape of metal.
Mm. And when they made 'em in the '50s,
that didn't even exist.
That type of music didn't even exist.
Gibson were ahead of their time, bro.
You know, the design was ahead of their time,
because, what, 10, 15 years later?
Look how-- look how great they are for that kind of music.
[Jason] It's so bizarre that now it's like the most, you know,
sought after and the hardest one to get, and...
-[Kirk] Yeah. -[Jason] At the same time, I'm like, that is my Metallica.
Like, just seeing, whether it's the old one,
you know, '80s, '90s, whatever,
it's just that V and that Explorer is you guys, man.
Bro, I have a couple other rare ones.
Should I break 'em out? They're in the back.
-[Jason] No, no, we shouldn't. -[laughing] Yeah, okay.
Yeah, bro, let's break these motherfuckers out!
Alright, I'll be-- I'll be right back.
[Jason] Becoming buddies with Kirk Hammett,
he's just like cool as can be, talk about everything,
hanging out with his family, pops out the rarest this,
the rarest that, the rarest-- it was-- it was insane.
-[Kirk] Bro. -[Jason] Bro.
-[Kirk] This is like... -So, this is-- hold on.
Is this the prototype?
It's either number two or number three.
-That's number two. -You know, I-- I don't wanna say
it's number one, 'cause I--
I can't confirm that's number one.
-It's '57. -'57.
[Jason] The prototype, I think there's two prototypes
of the V, and it has like this little diamond,
like in the-- in the crotch of the V
that they didn't do in any of the other Vs when they went to line.
[Kirk] None of 'em had this sexy little thing right there.
-[Jason] What the fuck is that? -Yeah, they didn't--
It's a stinger, and they didn't put it.
-They didn't put it. -[Jason] That is so cool.
I've never even seen that before.
[Kirk] I don't understand why they didn't do that
to all of 'em, bro.
You're just holding onto, like, the first baby,
and-- and he's just got it in his house.
How I kinda look at guitars, it's just like,
how great they are in getting what's in here
and in here out-- out of the pickups,
through the amp, and into-- into the world.
-Aren't guitars the best, bro? -They're so the best, bro.
-Aw, they're the fucking best. -Music, man.
-Music, it's magic, man. -Music, it's universal magic.
-It's fucking... -It's fucking magic.
Magic, baby, hey.
[♪ soft, driving music playing]
[groaning] Alright.
Well Strung Guitars is probably one of the best guitar stores
in our country with some of the rarest stuff,
so it's-- it's a good week.
I never been here before.
Here we are.
Well Strung, baby.
The best part about this is, like,
getting a little bit of history,
passing it down, just kinda understanding, like,
the importance of these vintage guitars.
God, you are one big bastard, aren't you?
-You're a lot taller in person. -[laughing]
-That's Paige. -Hi.
-Hi, beautiful. -It's very nice to meet you.
-Go in and get the whole experience. -Hold on, hold on.
Let me get-- pay my respects to...
guitar gods.
Oh, my God.
Bro!
I'm sorry, I got fucking whiplash right now, I'm just like...
Everything at Well Strung is just like-- it's like a church.
I mean, it's just-- it's-- you're kind of in awe.
He's got everything in every color.
I've never seen this guitar in my life.
It's like my childhood.
The V and the Explorer, like, this is it.
-It's Metallica, so... -This is it.
This is a '58/'59, or this one came out later?
[David] Yeah, this is-- this came out in '63,
but its serial-- serial number is '58.
-Okay. -Which is the way they did it.
-Yeah. -This is the only Explorer I have.
They're not exactly falling off the tree.
I know, but I'm looking at you smile like that, I'm like...
-Yeah. Yeah. -Okay, cool.
So, they-- they made-- they made about 18 of these guitars,
and then, uh, they were such a commercial flop,
this and the Flying V, that they could barely sell them
-when they were new. -Isn't that crazy?
They were called the futuristic guitars.
There were a few models, and this being one of them.
[Jason] I think that's one of the cool things
about also doing this show.
You're meeting collectors, you're meeting luthiers,
you're meeting all these different people who make them, distress them.
And that's when you get to sit with your-- your fellow friends
and players and just appreciate these fine instruments.
This is more expensive than the Vs?
[David] Yeah, they're more expensive than the Vs.
'Cause there's only 19 of 'em.
Wow.
The hardest thing to do on this whole episode
was be able to acquire two guitars
that we could then take to Gibson
so that we could reproduce those,
and then make, maybe say like 10 of 'em,
and then sell those, but also auction off a couple.
So, let's talk about Big Ed. So Cesar's a very dear friend
and we spent the last season building a lot of stuff.
We built-- rebuilt Slash's guitar,
-we rebuilt Billy Gibbons' guitar. -Mm-hmm.
He had just bought Big Ed.
Tell me a little bit about it. Basically, it's an Explorer,
but he picked it up from you.
Um, and you-- it's probably one of the most expensive guitars...
-Yeah, um... -...in the world.
Yeah, so there were--
Uh, there was a blues band in Cincinnati,
Big Ed Thompson band.
You know, obviously Big Ed was Ed Thompson's guitar.
I bought the guitar, and it really had no history
that followed the guitar.
We kind of found out about it after the fact.
[Mark] So, I mean, the guitar is named "Big Ed."
It's named after its original owner, Big Ed Thompson,
who was a blues guitar player in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He bought the guitar brand new in 1958,
and it was his main ride through his entire career.
Ed had a-- a brother named Ople.
Ople played guitar as well,
and Ople bought the Flying V in 1958.
These guys had really good taste.
So, these two guitars had been discovered by Rick Vito.
[Mark] Who at that time
was the new guitarist in Fleetwood Mac.
Rick made the trip out to the club.
The guitar nerd and collector that he was,
he sees Ed on stage with this guitar.
He wound up finding the original family and got both guitars.
For, you know, Rick Vito to walk into this tiny dive bar
in Cincinnati on, you know, a Wednesday night
and end up walking out with a Korina set
from the original owner, um, is as good as it gets.
[Jason] Well, I'm pretty excited
'cause we're gonna go down to Gibson.
-We're gonna see Big Ed. -Yeah.
-It's-- -I love guitars!
Everyone should have a fucking guitar.
[♪ calm guitar music playing]
[door creaking]
-[Cesar Gueikian] Hey. -Hey.
-How you doing, hermano? -Hi, baby.
[Cesar] How you doing? Welcome back.
Wow. Wow.
Oh!
-[Cesar] You know what that is? -[Jason] Oh!
-There's something special... [indistinct] -Holy shit.
Wow.
Pictures don't do it justice, does it?
This is not only a Korina Explorer.
To me, this is the Korina Explorer.
This is the one.
Obviously, first you look at it, you fall in love.
-[Jason] Yeah. -Right? You fall in love with your eyes.
But then you plug it in, and it just blows your mind.
Oh, my God, bro.
-Oh, my God, that's him. -That's Big Ed.
Oh, he's a big boy.
Look at that, man.
[Mark] It's beyond a guitar at this point.
I mean, it's somebody's entire career in music
is on this guitar, and you can see it everywhere you look.
Here's the thing, it's like, some people love to find 'em
just pristine and beautiful.
Like, i-it's wabi-sabi,
like, how-- how do you describe beauty?
I mean, is it in full bloom?
Is it perfect when it's all green?
Is it in the decay of fall? Is it the dead of winter?
Is it the blooming of spring? Like, what is your--
What is-- What is beautiful?
So, I mean, for me, I like seeing the mojo.
Like, Big Ed, literally, its neck
has his thumbprint in it.
That feel.
Put your thumb here on the third fret.
-Oh, my God! -Do you see how--
He's got a dent on the wood there.
-Holy shit. -See?
Dude, look at this. There's like this--
It's totally dented.
[Mark] '59 Les Pauls or Sunburst Les Paul standards
from the late '50s are kinda the holy grail.
I mean, there's 1,600 of those floating around.
There's 19 of these. Even if you had the money,
if you were walking around with $2 million cash in a bag,
you can't buy one, 'cause they're not for sale.
[exclaiming]
Oh, man, it's so beautiful.
And the thing is, is we couldn't get the V
that his brother played, but we found Landfill.
[Tom Murphy] The Landfill V.
It-- it's crazy how it has some of the same characteristics.
-[Jason] It's very close. -I mean, yeah.
-[Jason] They look like sisters. -But when you see
this staining and stuff, that's...
that's really sweat and dirt.
And that's-- it's on Big Ed also.
There's a-- a lot of history there.
And there's a similarity at the neck joint
of both these guitars,
where you can actually see very distinctly the joint
and the line around it has collected dirt and stain.
It's not broken.
It's just, uh...
[chuckles] It's just been touched a lot.
It's really cool.
[Jason] Putting those-- that Landfill and Big Ed together,
they almost had like the same--
like they were-- they were just played at the same time.
They were super distressed and sweaty.
And so, we're like, let's make these
'cause they just look like-- they look like twins.
And that-- that was our decision to make those two.
So, Landfill, Big Ed.
Those are our boys.
Kris!
Bro, this is insane. It's an absolute pleasure.
Dude, let's see her.
-Walk me over. -Alright. Come on.
[Jason] The hardest guitar and one of the most beautiful Vs
that I think I've ever seen in my life was the Landfill,
and that was Kris Blakely's.
Holy shit.
[Kris Blakely] Rarely do I sell a guitar.
These are my babies.
[laughing] Oh, my God!
-It is so light. -Yeah, it is.
It is so light.
Holy shit.
We're not considered just collectors, per se.
We're preservists.
We-- We want to honor these guitars for what they are.
The thing is, is you see these pictures and you go,
"Oh, wow, there's no way it's..." [scoffs]
It just doesn't even-- They don't even do it justice.
-Like four years ago... -All this right here, you can't even--
...I put this part in my mouth just for fun.
-Yeah. -I still have the taste in my mouth.
-[laughing] -I don't know what it is.
I-- I have no clue.
This is the pinnacle of what I've amassed
over 30 years of collecting.
When, uh, you did first approach me about it...
I was enjoying talking to you
and listening to what you had to say, but then you said,
"And I'm gonna buy the Landfill V,"
and I tuned you out. [chuckles]
I shut down. I just went, huh?
And so, everything you were saying from that point forward
was really more of a blur.
It still hurt, it felt like I was losing a child almost.
You'd get knots in your stomach actually thinking about it.
But I also realized...
that it's for a greater purpose.
[sighs] These are the unicorns.
-Yeah. -That's the--
one of the greatest Explorers of all time.
[Kris] Mm-hmm.
This is with-- without a doubt.
These are the two greatest Explorers and Vs
-the world's ever seen. -I-- I agree.
-Yeah. -Scan 'em,
do whatever you guys do, but the idea of you
building these, these two unicorns.
-That's a big deal. -[sighs]
-It's massive. -That is a big deal.
It's a massive, like, crazy idea, that I'm like,
I can't think of anything cooler just to be able to...
Can you get started?
-Right now? -[laughing]
For Tom Murphy to-- to put that much time and energy
into Big Ed, which is the most distressed guitar
that I've ever seen, and--
and that goes the same for Landfill.
So, for him to put all that work into it
and then be able to auction this off,
I mean, you really wanna bring the money
because you wanna get, like--
Gibson Gives is something that we really wanna give
the money to for those in need.
And so, I-- I just feel like all the hours,
all the love, the passion, where this thing has been,
-it's a beautiful little thing that we can do. -Yeah!
So, we can showcase that, the spirit of that...
give it to the world.
-Mwah! -[laughter]
[Tom] Well, f-from my perspective as someone
who's supposed to be able to add the concept
and the treatment of aging,
this is the ultimate test, really.
[Jason] Have you already heard talks of, uh, Cesar
wanting to do the Big Ed at some point?
Yeah, and that sorta scared me when I heard that.
But, uh, once again,
it'll be a really cool challenge for us in the lab
because these guitars very specifically
are so important historically,
and, uh, and rare.
Wow, that-- that's a lot of paint, dude.
-Look at that, it's like-- -No, that's sweat right there.
I know, but it's, like, it's crazy how it's...
[Tom] It's awesome.
[Jason] You can smell 'em coming, too.
You can just smell it.
Little bit-- smell Big Ed.
[laughing] Disgust-- It's like, he's smoking. [sniffs]
[exhales sharply]
Dirty crotch.
It's unbelievable.
[Tom] So, I-I'm gonna make this look like this.
You're gonna make this look like that,
and you're gonna make this...
-Look like that. -...look like that.
We'll just have to figure out where to get all the sweat.
[Jason] [chuckles] I love it.
That's all it is.
Beautiful.
-Artist, that's your paintbrush. -That's it.
[Jason] Rusty Nail.
Man, I got chicken skin right now, dude.
[exhales sharply]
Fucking wild, man.
Damn. Look at that.
[Kirk] How do you guys take your coffee?
Uh, I'm-- Yeah, black and metal.
-Black. Black... [indistinct] -For sure. Heavy, hard black.
-[growling] -[Kirk] Alright, man.
Turkey bacon, huh?
[Kirk] Yeah. Oh, bro, it's the-- it's the best.
And I love cooking it that way in-- in the oven...
-because it's just like... -Huh!
I-It's great. I don't have to freaking
constantly fucking turn it all the time.
-Mm. -Yeah, well,
here's your rocket fuel, boys.
Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir.
-There you go. [sighs] -Thanks, bro.
I called Kirk up and I'm like,
never in a million years did I think we'd be waking up.
He's like, "Bro, come over. I'm up at 5:30.
"I'm gonna make you eggs and bacon,
turkey bacon, we'll hang out."
I'm like, what the fuck are you doing up at 5:30, dude?
He's like, dude-- He's like, "I spent my whole life
being a nocturnal vampire."
-He's like, "I check the surf. I just want to surf." -[Kirk] Yeah.
You know, the whole thing is like when I--
when I discovered surfing,
I discovered that getting up early
and-- and attacking the surf in the morning
is the only way to go.
I've been, you know, in the last 10 years,
I've really just, like, focused
on simplifying my life, you know, for the better.
And you know, really focusing on things
-that matter to me. -Yeah.
Just so you know,
and a lot of people don't know this,
but I'll tell you, 'cause you'll probably gonna want to be there.
In July, in Birmingham.
Do you know about this?
Is it fucking Ozzy? No, is it, uh...
-Black Sabbath. -Black Sabbath is getting back--
-[exclaiming] -The l-last show.
The very, very last show, bro.
-With the originals. -With the originals.
And we're opening.
It is a special--
That's gonna be a special show.
For me, it's gonna mean so much to me
'cause, you know, it's Sabbath.
-I mean... -They freaking wrote the book.
They literally wrote the book on--
-on what we do, bro. -Yeah.
And for me, it's just my last time
to just say thank you, you know, show gratitude.
Show thanks.
Dude, I would do any-- like, that is fucking God.
-Yeah, whatever you need, bro. -Yeah.
I mean, with Oz-- any of those guys and Sharon,
-whatever they need. -Yeah.
You know, they've done so much for what we love and what we do.
-You know. -[Jason] It's just like that first album,
when you hear Black Sabbath, "Black Sabbath."
-[bell tolls] -And the bell hits, and the rain,
and you're just like...
-[Kirk] You're there. -[Jason] Boom.
[Kirk] First time I heard Sabbath,
I got actually scared.
You know, provided we're out camping around a-- a campfire,
and it's all dark, you know, and out in the woods and shit.
-[Jason] Yeah. -[Kirk] And then hearing Sabbath.
I was-- I got a little spooked.
It was like fucking Blair Witch or something, man.
-[laughing] -I'm telling you.
You want some more? I can fry up some more stuff.
-[crew] Oh, no, I'm good. -Oh, my God.
[crew] That was so good.
[Jason] That was perfect.
[distant traffic noise, car horns honking]
-On the Roam! -Yes.
-We're at Louis Vuitton right now. -Oh, my God.
-This is-- -So, welcome. Welcome.
So, my-- I had this weird,
-crazy fascination my whole life. -Okay.
I've been collecting trunks my whole life.
I don't know what it is, like, I love backpacks and trunks.
So, I'm gonna freak out when we go in here.
-'Cause I'm like-- -Yeah, you are.
Brace yourself. [chuckles]
[Jason] I've never even seen an Explorer case,
but the idea of, like, hand-crafting something
for these sculptures and these masterpieces of music and art.
To be able to be welcomed into Louis Vuitton
and then go see all the master builders,
it was an honor.
Whoo!
Oh!
[speaker] Wow! Oh! Look at the...
Ooh-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo.
Bravo.
Wow.
Alright. Can I-- yeah?
Someone else wanna come over here and open it? No? Me?
And that's kind of what Louis has always done, you know?
They make things to protect the things that you love
and they do it with class, and they-- they make
these wonderful-- these wonderful art pieces.
Wow, this is so beautiful.
Oh!
Wow, dude, that's On the Roam.
Oh, it's so beautiful, look at that.
The cases that came with those guitars
were really special and they look like the, um...
-[speaker] Vuittonite. -Vuittonite!
They look-- they're-- But they're like orange leather
and they're very rare... Vuittonite.
And they didn't have the cases because the cases
don't really survive.
And I was like, what a great idea.
Make the best trunks in the world.
They'll just kind of age over time, so hopefully,
they kinda go that orange and they-- and they take on
all the sweat, and time, and touring.
It's a little-- they'll get all battered up.
And so, I think that was kind of the idea
is to like-- makes them as super clean so that we can--
it'll-- it'll take on the soul of, you know,
what was taken on tour, I guess.
Guitar has also inspired like a whole style of music,
-which my mother disapproved of. -[laughter]
-What do you think, Ma? -[Jason's mother] I love it.
This is what Metallica played, Mom.
-[Jason's mother] What? -Metallica.
[Jason's mother] Leave me out of your movies.
[laughter]
I remember seeing a, uh, a picture.
It's so crazy when you see, like, advertising,
you see little pictures that just remain with you forever.
But there's a picture of Keith Richards.
It was a Louis Vuitton ad, and it was so cool.
He's, like, sitting on a bed and his skull rags right there,
and it's just a Louis Vuitton case.
I was like, oh, my gosh, a Louis Vuitton guitar case.
It's amazing.
This is unreal. Beautiful, huh?
Bravo, everyone. [clapping]
-Whoo! -[applause]
[line ringing]
[Kirk] [on phone] Hey, bro, how-- how's it?
-[Cesar] How is it, bro? -[Jason] What's up, bro?
I'm sorry you're sick, man.
[Kirk] Hey bro, how's it going? Yeah, you know...
It sucks, bro, I always get sick.
I don't know what the fuck's going on.
-[Cesar] Well... -Well, you were play-- you were playing in the--
[Cesar] You had a gig in the rain, and that'll do it.
Yeah, you were playing in the rain last night, homie.
[Kirk] Yeah, fuck it, you know, whatever.
[Jason] It looks like, man, the guitars are here,
we're gonna make the-- we're gonna make
the '57 prototype, bro, it's a-- it's a go.
[Kirk] Oh yeah, you've seen it before.
That's right, you've seen it before at my house.
-Yeah, man. -[Kirk] Yeah, bro.
Yeah, I'm super excited about it.
You know, hopefully we'll make 50 of 'em, maybe more,
but it's just being able to make that prototype
for all the people that just love it,
you know, that are just, you know,
uber-fans and geeks like myself,
and, uh, be able to show people, like, you know,
I've never even see--
heard of that, if it wasn't for Kirk.
So, him just kind of opening that up and, like,
sharing it with the world, you know, it's beautiful.
And then Gibson being able to make it.
We get to do all the handcrafted artisan, and, uh, yeah.
[Kirk] And bro, I am so-- you know why
I'm so super motherfucking stoked?
'Cause I'll have copies to take on tour...
-[Cesar] Oh yeah. -...and I won't have to friggin' worry about it.
I'm gonna have it replicated now
before the Sabbath show in Birmingham
so that I can-- we can have it there
and-- and then you can decide if you want to use it or whatever.
But at least we have it made before the show.
[Kirk] Yep, that would be amazing, bro.
Next time we see you is gonna be Sabbath, bro.
[Kirk] Wow, that's gonna be pretty, uh, pretty special.
-Well, hell. -[Cesar] Oh yeah.
[Kirk] I'll see you on the day of the Sabbath.
Alright. Alright, baby. Love you.
-[Kirk] Alright, love you guys. -Okay.
-[Kirk] You guys take care. -Alright, rest up, brother.
-Aloha. -[Kirk] Aloha, see you.
-Bro, he's so fucking cool. -Yeah.
-[Jason] Alright. -[roadie] I'll put it on this side.
Put it on top. Yeah.
Here we go. Back to the Beginning.
We just arrived. We're getting ready
to, uh, show something special.
It took us a long time to make it, but here,
-I feel like it's the ark right now. -[crew chattering]
[Jason] Oh, it's been a long journey for these bad boys.
Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
[people chattering]
Nuno vocal. Nuno vocal.
-Nuno vocal. -[Jason] Here we are, baby.
-Nuno vocal. Nuno vocal. -Yeah!
Two-two. Nuno vocal.
[Jason] There's no way that I ever thought
that I would ever get invited to Back to the Beginning.
I actually-- when the-- when the news came out,
I saw it on Instagram, I instantly called Kirk.
I was just like, "Guys, can you get me a ticket? Can you get me a ticket?"
A couple days later, like, Ross Halfin calls.
And he basically says that Sharon Osbourne
wants me to host, and I'm like, what are you talking about?
He's like, yeah, "She wants you to--"
I've never hosted in my life.
[♪ guitar playing]
[Jason] Thank you very much. Holy shit.
[♪ guitar playing]
[crew] [over speakers] Check-check, two-two. Yep.
To top it off, like, every week,
just more bands are coming on and getting added and added.
And it's-- At that point, it's like everyone that I love,
every-- it's like my whole childhood's there.
And I'm gonna be on stage hosting,
and then, that was just like, it's terrifying.
-[♪ guitar playing] -[people chattering]
-Of Birmingham. Brother! -[Steven Tyler] Jason!
[Jason exclaiming]
The demon of scream, baby.
Yeah, I've never been in a place where so many bands,
like, the greatest bands in the world, are there
supporting our hero.
Give it up as we share in the history of Black Sabbath
and Ozzy Osbourne. The history of great musicians.
Oh, my God, thank you so much.
-Hi, beautiful. -Hi.
It's nice to meet you.
Mommy, you look like a peanut next to Jason.
[photographer] Right, come here, you two.
-Come here. Ready? -Come here.
At the same time, we're making this.
We're making the V. We're making the Explorer.
And, like, we move everything over there.
Be able to take these,
bring 'em on stage, show everyone.
So, just to be there with those...
to celebrate, you know, celebrate Sabbath.
Celebrate Ozzy.
Ozzy.
[indistinct chatter]
-How you doing, bro? -You look amazing, bro.
-Alright. So, holy grails. -Damn!
-We got some surprises for you. -Look at that.
Remember how I was at your house in Hawaii,
eating your amazing break-- You're actually a good chef.
-Hey, thank you, man. -[Jason laughing]
That was during the egg shortage.
[laughing] That was during the egg shortage.
-Yep. -We wanted to call him.
He was on a plane. We couldn't get in touch with him,
-but then I was with him trying to call you. -[Kirk] Oh, yeah.
And you finally made it come true.
So, here we go, bro.
Your 1957.
Oh, my God!
Yeah! Yeah!
Oh, my God! So great!
Woo-hoo!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, bro!
Man, this is crazy.
So, however you-- many you want to make.
-Mm! -We're gonna put 'em out there in the world.
-At least 50. -At least?
-Yeah, at least 50. -At least?
So, gonna make these. It'd be really cool
-to auction one off and maybe-- -[Kirk] Absolutely.
Maybe carve in what you did for me and we'll put it up
at the auction and it can go to All Within My Hands.
[Kirk] Let's do it, man.
Has anyone got a switchblade anywhere?
[Jason] Anyone got a knife?
Anyone got a, a pocketknife or something?
-Maybe you guys just have-- -[Jason] I don't know, a screwdriver?
Has anyone-- An awl?
-[Jason] Input. -Ice pick?
We just gotta make so many different things...
and that we can auction off, that's gonna go to Gibson Gives.
And it just-- it kinda just fits with everything we love to do.
They wanna do epic shit, we wanna do epic shit,
and we also wanna help.
You know, whoever buys that, they'll have the '57 prototype
that was at Back to the Beginning,
and signed by Kirk, so that's pretty cool.
I think that's pretty cool.
[♪ gentle music playing]
This episode is just kind of like an amalgamation
of all the things that are just the rarest.
The most wild-out ideas that I've had is in Season Two,
and I hope everyone, you know, hope you dig it.
But then, to top it off with, you know,
being at Back to the Beginning, hosting it,
being there with all these bands and...
It's-- It's-- I'm like a little kid.
I can't believe I got to do this,
and I can't believe we got to record it and...
Dream come true. Thank you for watching.
I love you. Mwah.
[stadium clapping rhythmically]
[cheering and applause]
I fucking made it, baby!
[shouting indistinctly]
[continues shouting indistinctly]
Welcome Back to the Beginning,
the final show ever for Ozzy Osbourne
and the final show for Birmingham's own Black Sabbath.
[cheering and applause]
I'm not gonna lie to you. When this concert was announced,
I knew it was gonna be the greatest night of music ever.
I fucking freaked out, I called everyone I knew,
I called Kirk, I called Phil, I called Ian,
I was just like, dude, please, I gotta get here,
and I gotta bring my kids, can anyone help me?
'Cause I'm not-- I'm more than just a fan, man,
I am obsessed with Sabbath
and the bands that are here tonight.
Metal is in all of our DNA.
[cheering and applause]
Every character that I've ever played
has been inspired by this music and built by this music.
It's in everything that I am.
So, when the Osbournes called me and asked me to host,
I was fucking scared as hell. I've never done this in my life.
I belong out there in the audience with you.
But if this is how I get an exclusive ticket
to be the luckiest of 40,000 people in the world,
I said, Ozzy, pardon my British, but let's fucking go!
[cheering and applause]
So, let's tear this motherfucker down!
[cheering and applause]
-[Ozzy Osbourne] Are you ready? -[cheering and applause]
I can't fucking hear you!
Are you ready?
[stadium roaring]
All aboard!
[♪ "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne begins playing]
Let me see those hands in the air.
[♪ music continues playing]
[Jason] There's nothing in my life that I've ever done
that will ever come close to hosting that.
I was terrified, it was exciting,
I was jealous of the crowd, I jumped in.
I just gotta be with everybody and celebrate the man
that I-- that I love with all my heart.
And he's-- you know, Sabbath gave all of us that.
[♪ "Crazy Train" continues playing]
[Ozzy] Come on!
Let me see your hands, come on!
♪ Crazy ♪
♪ But that's how it goes ♪
♪ Millions of people ♪
♪ Living as foes ♪
[Jason] We were in the stands and we were watching Ozzy.
When Sabbath came on, we kinda went forward.
And I was like, let's just walk up front.
And we walked up front and no one stopped us.
We walked through, and they're like,
"Oh, hey-- Uh, hey, Jason."
I'm like, "Oh, hey, thanks, guys."
♪ Mental wounds not healing ♪
♪ Life's a bitter shame ♪
[crowd] ♪ I'm going off the rails on a crazy train ♪
♪ I'm going off the rails on a crazy train ♪
Let me see your fucking hands!
[Jason] I got all my hooligan friends, my kids,
my lady, and we're in-- and they're just like,
"Yeah, yeah, you guys just tuck in right here."
I'm like...
I just was right there, and I just filmed it.
I-- I tried to film as best I could.
I was just so enamored.
I'm-- I'm closer to Ozzy...
than anyone in the whole place.
Geezer's not even close enough to him.
There is no one in the world closer to Ozzy right now
or Black Sabbath than I am. What the hell?
It's the greatest moment.
It's fucking top five moments of my life.
I mean, two kids being born, you know.
Watching Ozzy, Black Sabbath, last show right there.
It's insane.
Last song of Sabbath ever, baby, this is it.
-[crowd roaring] -[Ozzy indistinct]
[♪ "Mama, I’m Coming Home" by Ozzy Osbourne playing]
[crowd continues roaring]
♪ Times have changed and times are strange ♪
♪ Here I come, but I ain't the same ♪
♪ Mama, I'm coming home ♪
♪ Times go by, it seems to be ♪
-[fireworks booming] -♪ You could have been a better friend to me ♪
♪ Mama, I'm coming home ♪
It was perfect.
And I gotta tell the Prince of Darkness...
I love you. Aloha. Thank you very much
for everything that you've done
and everything that you've given us.
[singing guitar riff]
[laughing]
[fireworks booming]
♪ You made me cry, you told me lies ♪
Dude, that's it, man.
Fucking everything.
Birth of metal, we're in Birmingham,
and that's the last time we'll ever see Sabbath.
My babies gotta be here.
All my favorite bands, my friends.
And no one was closer than me. I was right there, man.
This is heaven.
♪ Selfish love, yeah, we're both alone ♪
♪ The ride before the fall, yeah ♪
♪ But I'm gonna take this heart of stone ♪
♪ I've just got to have it all ♪
♪ I've seen your face a hundred times ♪
♪ Every day we've been apart ♪
♪ I don't care about the sunshine, yeah ♪
♪ 'Cause mama ♪
♪ Mama, I'm coming home ♪
♪ I'm coming home ♪
[♪ guitar solo plays]
[♪ music fades out]
Yeah, baby!
Woo-hoo!
-[crew laughing] -[Jason exclaiming]
The most expensive stunt ever.
[laughing]