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Site Revision History for 1997
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December 17, 1997
  1. Updated the news page with the announcement of a web site I designed for Cozy Powell now online.
December 8, 1997
  1. Updated the tourdates page with the two NEC gigs that just passed. This update includes the set list for the shows, as well as a picture of the backstage pass and a ticket on there (thanks to Pete Scott for those).
  2. Updated the Band Personnel by Lineups page with information about the December NEC gigs (where Geoff Nicholls played with them).
December 7, 1997
  1. Updated the news page with news about the next Black Sabbath Record.
December 3, 1997
  1. Updated the lineups page with some new information. First is a picture of a version of the band from 1987 I didn't know about, and the other is some up to date situation about the band as it is now (in December 1997).
November 25, 1997
  1. Updated the News Page with info that Bill Ward will be playing the reunion shows with Black Sabbath in December!
November 15, 1997
  1. Updated the News Page with info on the rehearsals in the UK with the original band w/Bill Ward.
November 10, 1997
  1. Updated the News Page with info on Bill Ward's trip this week to England to "try out" for the December Black Sabbath gigs.
  2. Updated the Discography slightly in regards to Bill Ward's upcoming albums.
  3. Updated the discography page for When the Bough Breaks with some sound bytes from Bill Ward talking about the album.
  4. Put a preliminary discography page online for Ozzy's Ozzman Cometh Greatest Hits package, with links to buy the CD, and listen to the entire extra track "Back On Earth" as a Real Audio File.
October 30, 1997
  1. Rearranged the look of the front page a bit.
  2. Updated the Band Personnel By Lineups page with a newer (and a bit more clearer) picture of Rob Halford with Black Sabbath. Thanks Alexander Rack.
  3. Updated the Band Lineup by Position page with info about Bill Ward's "return" in November/December of 1997.
  4. Updated the Band Personnel by Lineups page with same.
  5. Updated Bill Ward's Bio Page with same.
  6. Added a bio page and picture for Mike Bordin.
  7. Added a new page. The Miscelleanous Items Page.
  8. Edited the text on the Guitar Tabs page slightly.
  9. Added a page detailing Tony Iommi's articles for Guitar World magazine.
  10. Added a page showing how Ozzy appears on the Mob Rules album.
  11. Added info about a French Fanzine, "Sabbath Stones", to the Fanzines Page.
  12. Updated Neil Murray's Bio Page with an Email he sent me regarding all of the bands he has ever been in.
  13. Added a concert review to the site. It's from 1976 on the Technical Ecstasy Tour!!
  14. Added a concert review to the site. It's from June 14th 1997.
  15. Updated the Tabs Page to also include MIDI files.
  16. My site won another award. It was added to the Awards Page.
October 20, 1997
  1. Updated the News Page with info about a few things. (Tony Martin Home Page, Tony Iommi appearance in LA, etc..)
September 27, 1997
  1. Updated the news page with information regarding the official announcement of Black Sabbath playing some gigs in England in Dec of 1997.
  2. Updated the main page with a link to Tony Iommi's new edition of his online column for Guitarworld magazine.
August 29, 1997
  1. Updated the news page a bit. It hadn't been updated in awhile. :)
August 19, 1997
  1. Found out that Headless Cross is still available as an import. I've changed the link for purchasing it on my discography to point to the new purchase site. As a reminder, if you want to buy Black Sabbath CD's at CD-Now, do it from the links from my discography. Thanks.
August 18, 1997
  1. Updated the discography page for Heaven + Hell.
  2. Added a link to Tony Iommi's new monthly column in Guitar World Magazine to the front page.
August 6, 1997
  1. Updated the bio pages for Bob Daisley (added a picture), and Bobby Rondinelli (updated band list). (Thanks to Liz for the Bob Daisley Picture.)
  2. Updated the Band Personnel by Lineups Page with a more updated picture of the Ozzfest 97 Sabbath, as well as a few minor text changes.
  3. Updated the Images + Sounds Page with a few more pictures from Ozzfest '97. Thanks to Alexander Rack for sending them in!
  4. Replaced the Netscape logo on the front page with a new one. (Really important news item, eh? :)
August 1, 1997
  1. Did the two Badlands albums (Badlands & Voodoo Highway) for the discography.
  2. Started on the Ozzy section of the Discography (did Ozzmosis + Live & Loud)
July 31, 1997
  1. Added a discography page for Live At Last.
  2. The ability to link directly to the import albums has been completed. This superceedes the remark in the first entry of the July 30th updates.
July 30, 1997
  1. Added the ability to purchase CD's directly from the discography. This is in conjunction with CD-Now. All the billing and shipping will come from them, I don't have anything directly to do with it. Problems? Ask CD-Now, not me. Check it out! It's pretty cool, I think! The US releases have direct links, but the imports & the remasters link to a generic Black Sabbath page, from which you have to manually pick the imports/remasters. I'm working on that to make it easier.
  2. Removed the Internet Resources Page. Most of it was outdated anyway.
  3. Removed the ability to search the old newsletters. Didn't get much use, and I can save a lot of hard drive space by not having it online.
  4. Removed the Downloadable Files page. The only thing on it was the Windows Icons for Black Sabbath anyway. You still want 'em? Download them here. However, you should do it soon, as I won't keep 'em online forever.
  5. Massive site reorganization. Several things got done. One thing didn't get done, though. The lyrics pages aren't properly converted. They're there, but if you link to them, you'll get a bunch of non working graphics and links. :)
    • Organization of the files on the server. It's much easier for me to deal with now.
    • Because of the above, most every file name has been renamed or moved. If you were linking directly to pages on my site, I probably just broke them pretty good. :)
    • Font control. I attempted to equalize the fonts across the site. There's still a few here and there that still need to be worked on.
  6. There shouldn't be any broken links within my site, but if you find any, please let me know!
June 27, 1997
  1. Changed the fonts on the revision history page.
  2. Split up the revision history files, as this one was getting a bit large.
  3. Updated the picture on Rob Halford's Bio Page.
  4. Added several pictures (around 20 or so) to the Sounds & Images Page. Some of my favs from this group that I added was Tony Martin with his pre-Sabbath band, The Alliance, two pictures of Black Sabbath with Van Halen from 1978, and a few shots of the original band in 1970. Thanks to Pete Scott for the Alliance Picture.
  5. Added a Real Audio 3.0 file of Junior's Eyes with Dave Walker on Vocals to the Sounds & Images Page.
  6. Added a concert review of a show from England in 1989 to the Concert Reviews Page.
  7. Joined the Black Sabbath WebRing, and put the picture for that on the front page.
  8. Added bio pages for the following members: Laurence Cottle, Bob Daisley, and Gordon Copley. However, I don't have pictures of any of these guys. If you have one, please let me know.
  9. Updated the bio pages (mainly with other bands the people have been in) for: Bobby Rondinelli, Eric Singer, Ian Gillan, Ray Gillen, Don Airey, Geoff Nicholls, Cozy Powell, and Ronnie James Dio.
  10. Added lyrics for Evil Woman to the Black Sabbath (The Album) Page.
June 19, 1997
  1. Updated the Ozzfest '97 Tourdates with an additional show on July 1st.
June 4, 1997
  1. Fixed a few inconsistancies in the Band Personnel by Position page vs. the Lineups page.
June 3, 1997
  1. Added Black Sabbath Concert Reviews from June 1, 1997 in Dallas Texas by Steve Quarrella and myself, Joe Siegler.
May 28, 1997
  1. Updated the Band Personnel By Lineups Page with a picture of the band in 1970, as well as updating the current material from the end of the Forbidden tour till now.
  2. Added Mike Bordin to the list of Band Members.
  3. Did some font & colour rearrangement on the various Lineups pages (By Lineup, By Position, and by Surname).
May 7, 1997
  1. Updated the Neil Murray Bio Page after Neil himself contacted me with updated information.
April 30, 1997
  1. Bill Ward's "When the Bough Breaks" was released yesterday, and I updated the discography entry for it.
April 28, 1997
  1. Swiped a logo for the Ozzfest tour from Ozzy's site and added it to my Tourdates Page.
  2. Fixed the (broken) link for the HTML version of the Black Sabbath FAQ on the main page.
April 27, 1997
  1. Updated the Tour Dates '97 Page with more accurate tour dates, as well as adding an advert from my local newspaper to the page.
April 11, 1997
  1. Updated the Tour Dates Page to include the recently released OzzFest '97 Tour Dates, where Black Sabbath will be playing a 30 minute set.
  2. Moved the Forbidden Tour Dates Page off onto their own page.
March 24, 1997
  1. Updated the discography page for Bill Ward's When the Bough Breaks album. The text was updated slightly, and I added three sound files from the album in Real Audio 3.0 format. If you want to hear some of Bill's as of yet unreleased album, go to the page for this!
  2. Updated the News Page with an interview with Bill Ward regarding "OzzFest 97".
March 14, 1997
  1. Added a comment to the Main Menu Page about linking to graphics on this site. Please folks, I need your help with this.
  2. Added a link to the Tablature Links Page.
  3. Updated the Site Accolades Page.
  4. Verified and updated all links on the Other WWW Sites for Black Sabbath Page.
  5. Updated the News Page with the official confirmation that the "Reunion" 97 at Ozzfest is happening.
March 13, 1997
  1. Updated the Lineups Page and the News Page with the rumours currently swirling about Black Sabbath making an appearance at Ozzy's OzzFest 97 Festival shows.
  2. Removed the JavaScript experiment on the "Sabbath Stones" & "Forbidden" Discography pages, as it doesn't work right with Netscape Communicator PR2.
  3. Updated Ray Gillen's Bio Page.
  4. Updated Cozy Powell's Bio Page.
  5. Updated Jo Burt's Bio Page.
  6. Added a concert review for November 9, 1995.
  7. Updated the Site Accolades Page with a few more awards I've gotten for this site.
March 7, 1997
  1. Joined the Metal Ring on the Internet. Changed the front page to add the ring script. Also rearranged a few of my notes on the main page.
February 26, 1997
  1. Updated the entries for Bill Ward's two new studio albums in the Discography to include his band, and a track listing for When the Bough Breaks.
  2. Also updated the Tony Iommi Solo Album page with some more info.
February 25, 1997
  1. Radically changed the look of the main page. Hope you like it. :)
  2. Updated the web links for the two Black Sabbath Fan Clubs listed on the Fan Clubs Page.
February 11, 1997
  1. Added a press release from Mungus Shine Entertainment (Bill Ward's Company) regarding the new record deal Bill Ward has with Cleopatra Records to the news page.
  2. Added info about the two new Bill Ward solo albums to the Discography.
  3. Removed the non-frame version of the Discography. Quite frankly, I hadn't updated it since last August, and I've not received one E-Mail about it. It's somewhat time consuimg to maintain two of them, so you'll now need a frames capable web browser to see it. This is 1997 folks, if you don't have a web capable browser, get with the times!
February 10, 1997
  1. Updated the Fanzines Page with updated information about Alexander Rack's Official Black Sabbath Fan Club Deutchland. Alexander, I'm sorry I didn't get the update online when I said I did. :(
  2. Added Pete Scott's "Black Sabbath Fan Club Info Page" to the site at http://www.black-sabbath.com/bsfc/. The reason for adding it here is that the server it used to be on could no longer provide the space that Pete was using for it.
February 6, 1997
  1. Real Audio v3.0 provides for the capability of streaming Real Audio files w/o having the server software. I just found this out today, and due to this, made a change to the Sounds Page. The Real Audio links there are now streaming links. However, you MUST have v3.0 of the Real Audio Player. If you don't have it, get it!
January 24, 1997
  1. Changed the picture on the front of the page. The image was taken by Sean E. Denomey, and his web site (has more Sabbath pictures) can be reached at: http://www.magmacom.com/~sedenome/photos.htm.
January 9, 1997
  1. Updated the Main Menu slightly (changed Internet Stuff to Guitar Tabs).
  2. Updated the Ray Gillen Bio Page.
  3. Added some Guitar Tabs to the Guitar Tabs Page.
  4. Added a concert review of the August 1, 1995 gig by Peter Kasnestis.
  5. Added a article from the Los Angeles Times in June 1992 to the Interviews page.
  6. Added a article from the Los Angeles Times in March 1994 to the Interviews page.
  7. Updated the Who Am I? Page with more info about Denise Crosby.
January 2, 1997
  1. Added another picture to the Sounds & Images Page. It's a scan of a concert ad for a July 1995 gig.
  2. Added some info about Bill Ward's new solo album and other Bill Ward happenings to the News Page.