For awhile now, Bill Ward has been doing a monthly radio program out of WPMD (a college radio station at Cerritos College in California). This morning comes word that Bill Ward’s previous programs will be rerun in a special programming block. WPMD.org’s “alternative stream” presents a Bill Ward Marathon. Every “Rock 50” show that the […]
Tony Martin Update on “Scream”
January 15, 2005 by
I was pretty backlogged with email this past week, and neglected to get this online. It was sent to me by Tony Martin, and is an update on his solo album “Scream”, which was due to be released early in 2005. It’s been delayed a bit. Here’s what Tony has to say about it…
Paranoid up for Top Album of All-Time
January 15, 2005 by
The TV station Channel 4 in the UK is currently putting together a show about the 100 Greatest Albums of all time, and ‘Paranoid’ has been nominated. There are currently 125 albums on the Channel 4 website, which will be whittled down to the final 100. If you guys want Paranoid to make the cut, […]
LunarMile Gigs
January 15, 2005 by
Short note here. LunarMile, which is the band fronted by Tony Iommi’s daughter Toni-Marie, has some confirmed gigs on the Glenn Hughes tour on two of his UK dates: Friday 11th February – JBs, Dudley Tuesday 15th February, Mean Fiddler, London You can get more info about LunarMile at their website, and you can get […]
What are they up to now?
January 12, 2005 by
In all the years of Black Sabbath, there’s been a lot of folks that have been in the band in some capacity. There’s quite a few of them to keep track of, and it occurred to me during the month of December that I should take stock of everyone, and see what they’re all up […]
Black Box Promo Sampler CD
January 12, 2005 by
This past week, I was made available of something I didn’t know existed before. It’s a “Black Box Promo Sampler CD”. It’s basically something that appears to be not available for sale to the general public. It’s a really slick looking CD which has 8 songs on it. One each from each of the Ozzy […]
New News Format Now Online
January 12, 2005 by
Hey gang. Here’s a news update which is a little different. I’ve changed the news format. Previously, I had flat files with everything on one page, and when I wanted to break things off, I had to do it all by hand. Well, I went and have installed blogging software for me to keep the […]
Happy New Year – Sort of
January 3, 2005 by
I didn’t bother much with “Happy New Year”, because I as to bummed out over the loss of life in the Asian Tsunami disaster. As I wreot elsewhere online.. “Happy New year, eh? Not for everyone it isn’t. Hell of way to start the new year. I emphasize the word hell. ” I’ve donated some […]
Bill Ward Speaks Out – Sort Of
January 3, 2005 by
On december 31st, Bill Ward had me post something over on his website from him. It’s a Happy New Year’s letter from him to his site visitors. In it, he talks about a lot of things. His family, other musicians, Sabbath, his long delayed third solo album, etc.. It’s a good read, go check it […]
Ray Gillen Interview
December 3, 2004 by
The late Black Sabbath singer Ray Gillen wasn’t in Sabbath long. He wasn’t on any officially released albums as the lead singer, and he is an unknown to most Sabbath fans. However, those who knew him and knew his work will appreciate this new interview that’s online with Ray. It’s over at rockdetector, and talks […]
