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Notes
- Toby Wright produced this
album - some other bands he's worked with are Slayer, Alice in Chains,
Primus, Jerry Cantrell, & Sevendust.
- The band is being marketed as
"gzr". On the first album it was "g//z/r", and for the second
album it was "geezer". There probably will be some new
combination of that for his next album. :)
- During recording, the track
Misfit used to be called ph Balance
- During recording, the track
Alone used to be called Dooms Day.
- The female vocal intro to the
song Pseudocide is done by Lisa Riefell from the LA band Killola.
- Geezer's son Biff sings
harmony vocals on "I Believe" and "Don't You Know".
- The Ohmwork cover art was done
by Lawrence Azerrad of LADesign.
- Geezer says the band name is
pronounced "gee zed R or gee zee R depending where in the world I am"
Here is a press release about the
album that came out a couple of weeks before release:
GZR, FEATURING BLACK SABBATH'S
GEEZER BUTLER, TO RELEASE 'OHMWORK' ON MAY 10, 2005, VIA SANCTUARY
RECORDS
'OHMWORK' IS THE THIRD SOLO BAND PROJECT FROM THE LEGENDARY BASS
GUITARIST AND LYRICIST
GZR, the quartet led by legendary Black Sabbath bass guitarist and
lyricist Geezer Butler, will release its new studio album Ohmwork
through Sanctuary Records on May 10, 2005. Ohmwork is Butler1s first
album in eight years.
The 10 songs on Ohmwork are "Misfit," "Pardon My Depression," "Prisoner
103," "I Believe," "Aural Sects," "Pseudocide," "Pull The String,"
"Alone," "Dogs Of Whore" and "Don't You Know." "I Believe" is the first
single.
Butler is joined by vocalist Clark Brown and guitarist Pedro Howse, his
longtime collaborators, and new drummer Chad Smith. Ohmwork is Butler's
third solo band release. His first project under the GZR banner was
1995's Plastic Planet while 1997's Black Science was credited to Geezer.
Howse has worked on all three albums. Brown performed on Black Science.
"I feel that this album is more like our first album, Plastic Planet. On
this album I wanted to strip everything down to the bare essentials, so
every song would have a live band feel, which I think we achieved.²
The band went hurtling into the studio with a hectic 10-day recording
schedule. 3There1s a spirit of spontaneity and freshness that can only
be achieved when you approach a record in that manner,² recalls Geezer.
3It1s the way the first two Sabbath albums were done. Black Sabbath was
recorded in two days and Paranoid took a week and that1s what I wanted
with my new record - 10 days done ?n1 dusted.²
A potent, tangible band dynamic is crucial for Butler. He does not ever
want an album credited to "Geezer Butler" when it is a true band effort.
"It's important to me that we have a band identity, because the album is
a band collaboration. Everyone brings their own specialties to the
songs, and we all know our capabilities, and we all work extremely hard
together," Butler says.
Butler is proud of the fact that GZR's music appeals to both young metal
fans as well as Black Sabbath fans. He attributes this fact about
cross-generational appeal to heavy metal's very essence.
GZR touring plans are being put together for Fall 2005.
www.gzrmusic.com
www.geezerbutler.com
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