As regular Bill Ward site visitors know, Bill has been doing a monthly radio programme over the Internet. Well, with 2005 being the 35th anniversary of Black Sabbath’s first album release, Bill wants to do something special with his programme. To this, he wants to collect your questions via email and will read and answer […]
2005 Tour Update
January 28, 2005 by
Well, it looks like Sabbath is gearing up for more touring in 2005. Aside from my story the other day, there was a second festival mentioned, as well as a tour of the US and Europe (link). It appears that Sabbath will be touring both Europe and the United States this summer. Whether this is […]
Black Sabbath & 2005 European Festivals
January 26, 2005 by
Overnight I got about 20-25 emails telling me about a news story on Blabbermouth saying Black Sabbath is “confirmed” to play Denmark’s Roskilde festival on June 30 to July 3 of this year. Additionally, there was a second article speculating that Sabbath also might play the UK Download festival. Whenever I get news like this […]
Listen to audio samples for new Dio Live CD
January 25, 2005 by
As reported on a week ago, the next Dio release will be a live CD. The recording was culled from the gig in New York in December of 2002. The band then included guitarist Doug Aldrich, who left after the tour to join Whitesnake. However, the gig is now being released as a live album […]
New Iommi Album Update
January 25, 2005 by
It appears that the new Tony Iommi / Glenn Hughes album is progressing faster than I had previously anticipated. The following update appeared over the weekend on Tony’s Website: Tony is making great progress with his new album which, as we reported previously, features Glenn Hughes (www.glennhughes.com) on vocals and Kenny Aronoff (www.kennyaronoff.com) on drums. […]
What Should Sabbath do in 2005?
January 19, 2005 by
In light of the recent petition that was placed online to “Fire Ozzy” from Black Sabbath and replace him with another singer that turned out to be a joke, I thought it might be interesting to actually poll people and see what they think about this issue. I’ve changed the poll on the front page […]
Dio to release live CD in February
January 19, 2005 by
I just read this morning that Spitfire Records will be releasing a Live Dio CD on Feburary 22nd. The title is Evil or Divine: Live in New York City. If that title sounds familiar, it should, as this recording is culled from the same concert that produced the Evil or Divine DVD that was released […]
Update on the new news system
January 18, 2005 by
I finished up my work on getting the new news system looking right. If you had used the search before now, you know what I’m talking about. Here’s what I fixed/added: The search page now looks like the rest of the site The monthly archive pages are now properly linked I settled on having the […]
Buy Cozy Powell’s Drums
January 18, 2005 by
Ran across this item tonight over on ebay. Apparently, someone is selling what they claim to be Cozy Powell’s drum kit when he was in Black Sabbath and Brian May’s band. You can view the auction here. I have no information as to the legitimicy of this auction, I’ll try and look into it, but […]
Psycho Man Video
January 18, 2005 by
The last full studio album Black Sabbath has released was 1995’s underrated Forbidden. However, the last studio output the band put out were the two tracks on 1998’s Reunion. These two tracks were titled “Selling My Soul”, and “Psycho Man”. Neither of these got a music video made for them, however that has changed now. […]
