In a recent conversation with Waste Some Time with Jason Green, drummer Vinny Appice explained the reason he turned down the offer to join Ozzy Osbourne’s band.

Here’s what Appice said:

“I got a call from Sharon Osbourne. Sharon asked me if I want to go fly to England and meet Ozzy because they are going to put a band together and they heard about me. I don’t know where, I don’t know where she got the number either but she said Ozzy is in England. You go and hang out. If it works out, we will take it from there so I actually turned it down.

”I have never been out of the country and I was like 19 years old, maybe going on 20. I’m like I don’t know’ and then I heard Ozzy, it was crazy and I asked Carmine, ‘What about playing with Ozzy, is he nuts?’ Carmine goes ‘Oh, yeah’ so I was like ‘Whoa.’ I didn’t do it, and then a month later, I got a call from Sabbath and this was right in LA, it was easy so it was meant to be.”