As I’ve mentioned below, I’ve been playing catch up with a seven month backlog of emails and submissions. Several things have taken a slide due to this. This post will have several things I’ve run across in the email pile I thought are worth a look. Eric Singer Interview: A cool interview posted in January […]
Cool Map on the BBC Website
April 27, 2008 by
I’m making a major attempt at getting caught up with all of my backlogged Black Sabbath email tonight. In doing that, I ran across this cool link which was sent to me back in September 2007 from someone at the BBC. Here’s what they said: We’re a BBC site, and we’ve just produced an interactive […]
Rules of Hell Box Set Update
April 24, 2008 by
A couple of days ago I posted the news that there will be a box set based on the four Dio era Black Sabbath releases. I posed some questions of band management regarding some details on the set, and I can now bring you an update based on what I found out. Individual Releases: The […]
Website question
April 22, 2008 by
UPDATE: This has been fixed. Thanks to Adam Alexander for pointing me in the right direction. Turns out it was the “Gallery” templates and using a strict doctype. Changed it to transitional, and it worked fine. ——— I have a strange question that I can’t seem to find an answer to, so I thought I’d […]
New Tour Dates & “Black Box 2” Announced
April 21, 2008 by
Today brings a major announcement from band management. I was just emailed a press release which folks will find very interesting. The entire press release is listed below, but I’ll get to the bullet points of the thing here: Tour announced: First up is a tour dubbed “The Metal Masters Tour”. This is an 18 […]
Bill Ward remembers Cozy Powell
April 18, 2008 by
Below is the text of an email I received from Bill Ward regarding the recent anniversary of the death of Cozy Powell.. H! Everyone. Thanks, Joe, for reminding us it’s been ten years since Cozy died. I think about him from time to time. I’ve always been grateful that our last phone conversation ended on […]
Cozy Powell
April 4, 2008 by
Tomorrow (Saturday the 5th) is the 10th Anniversary of the death of Cozy Powell. There’s no good words to discuss that, so I’ll just put a short remark up here.. Cozy sought me out in 1997 to do a website for him. The shock of sitting at work and getting a phone call from England […]
Rumors
March 28, 2008 by
I heard a few interesting rumors in the last few days or so, and wanted to pass them on. What I’ve read tells me that there’s going to be a big cool tour in the fall, that being Heaven & Hell will be touring with Judas Priest & Motorhead. When I read about this, I […]
Heaven & Hell Artwork
March 27, 2008 by
I received this email awhile back from Sabbath fan Eric Goldberg, and it’s sat in the dark recesses of my inbox for ages. In going through email tonight, I saw it, and thought I’d bring it up now. Thanks Eric, and sorry for the delay. I’m not sure if you know or are interested, but […]
Black Sabbath: The Dio Years MVI Version now available
March 11, 2008 by
I got some info sent my way today for something I didn’t even know existed. It’s an MVI version of “Black Sabbath: The Dio Years”. Since I’ve never heard of this until today, I’ll copy straight from the Rhino website on the release. They describe it better than I could. :) I do have a […]
