Van Halen's Michael Anthony recalls watching Ozzy Osbourne set Bill Ward on fire: "He didn't even flinch. He just kept drinking his beer"

Michael Anthony, Ozzy Osbourne, Bill Ward.

Van Halen's Michael Anthony has recalled the time his former band went on tour with Black Sabbath.

While in conversation with Sirius XM’s Eddie Trunk, the bassist declared that “there was a lot of shenanigans that went down” on Van Halen’s early tours, and delved into a particular memory from 1978, during which time headliners Sabbath were in the troughs of alcohol and substance abuse. In spite of their excess, Anthony notes how the band “still knew how to have fun offstage.”