Now available on billward.com, Bill has Straws CDs available for purchase. If you make a donation to one of the defined charities, you will receive a “Straws” CD autographed by Bill. Full details are available on Bill’s site, but for now you can read the press release about it below, or you can download this […]
Cross Purposes Live Re-Released?
November 4, 2003 by
Over the weekend, someone pointed this out to me. Over on Amazon.com, they list a “Black Sabbath – Cross Purposes” DVD as being released on November 25, 2003. As you may know, back on March 1, 1995 – a VHS/CD box set was released, called “Cross Purposes”. There was a VHS video culled from the […]
Black Sabbath: Never Say Die Book
October 31, 2003 by
I have received my copy of the Garry Sharpe Young Book on Sabbath’s turbulent history between 1979-1997. It’s nothing short of phenomenal. I was hoping this period of the band (including the hyper confusing year of 1987) would be covered well, and it is. This book lived up to all my expectations of it. No […]
Changes is Changed
October 4, 2003 by
The old Black Sabbath chestnut, “Changes” from the Volume 4 album has been covered by none other than Ozzy’s daughter Kelly. He first solo album was released a year ago or so under the name “Shut Up!”. It’s now been re-released under the name “Changes”. It’s mostly the same album, but with some extra tracks […]
Lost Song Surfaces
October 4, 2003 by
I’ve had a gob of emails about this, but I try not to post wild rumours until I can verify that things like this are real. As far as I can tell, it’s real, so here goes… According to this month’s edition of Record Collector magazine, a two-track BLACK SABBATH acetate 45 rpm record was […]
Never Say Die Book
October 4, 2003 by
I have a few notices about the Garry Sharpe-Young book, “Black Sabbath: Never Say Die 1979-1997”. First off, I haven’t gotten a copy yet, when I do, expect I’ll have a big review of it online. From what I’ve read of it already, it looks phenomenal. There is already a chapter online over at the […]
Black Box is delayed
October 3, 2003 by
This past week I was out of town on vacation, and this email came in during that time. It’s from the record label that is putting out the Black Box set. Here’s what they had to say.. NOTE: DUE TO PRODUCTION DELAYS, BLACK BOX: THE ORIGINAL BLACK SABBATH (1970-1978) PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED FOR RELEASE NOVEMBER 4, […]
Geoff Nicholls and Cats
September 24, 2003 by
Turns out longtime Black Sabbath keyboardist Geoff Nicholls is a big cat person (for the record, so am I). The October issue of Cat Fancy magazine has a piece entitled “Cats Rock!” which is an article about various rock folks and their cats. Well, in this issue is an article about Geoff Nicholls. In it, […]
Iommi in Guitar One Magazine
September 24, 2003 by
Also in the magazine front comes word that Guitar One has Tony Iommi featured on the front cover of their November 2003 issue. Here’s a blurb about the issue.. “Check out the November Guitar One magazine: The Metal Issue. It’s a blow-out celebration of metal, a full-on tribute to its founders, its flamekeepers, and it’s […]
Black Sabbath Books
September 24, 2003 by
There are two new Black Sabbath books that you should be paying attention to. Book #1: First is “How Black was our Sabbath: A View from the Crew” by David Tangye & Graham Wright. This book is written from a road crew that followed Sabbath around in the 1970’s. In it, they tell stories (most […]
