PAST LIVES GIVEAWAY WINNERS

Picked the winners of the Past Lives giveaway trivia contest. Posted here are the answers to the questions, as well as the winners: What previously released (unofficial) Sabbath album contained the same material that is on Disc 1 of Past Lives? Live at Last – the unofficial album released in 1980, which legend has it […]

BIG CD GIVEAWAY

I was looking through my materials sent to me by various places, and discovered a bunch of CD’s I did not know I had. A total of 19 of them. There’s several different titles, and instead of my usual doing a giveaway for each, I’m doing one BIG giveaway. It will be a trivia contest […]

MOTHER’S ARMY

Just a quick note to say that Bob Daisley was kind enough to send me a review copy of the Mother’s Army albums. Mother’s Army is a band that should be of some interest to folks who like Sabbath / Purple / Rainbow as the band is made up of several folks who were in […]

NEW SABBATH COMPILATION DUE

Got this press release in about another Sabbath compilation due in October. Here’s the PR… WARNER BROS./RHINO TO OBSERVE THE SABBATH WITH SYMPTOM OF THE UNIVERSE: THE ORIGINAL BLACK SABBATH (1970-1978) Twenty-Nine Track, Two-CD Package Roars Into Stores October 15 LOS ANGELES – What is this that stands before you? Warner Bros. Records/Rhino Entertainment is […]

INTERVIEWS WITH BASSISTS

Noticed I had a few emails in my inbox that I missed somehow which were links to two VERY GOOD interviews with former Sabbath & Ozzy bassist Bob Daisley. They mostly talk about the reissue of Ozzy’s two first solo albums with the re-recorded bass & drum tracks, but there’s other stuff there, too. Either […]

TONY MARTIN INTERVIEW ONLINE!

A few months back, I had put out a call for questions you’d like to ask former Black Sabbath vocalist Tony Martin. Well, mostly due to my own delays in getting it coordinated, it never got dealt with until now. However, Tony got sent the questions finally on August 23rd, and he answered them back […]

PAST LIVES PACKAGING

Quick note to let you know I’ve updated my Past Lives page with info on where the live tracks came from, as well as some digital pictures I took of both the standard & "limited edition" packaging. How limited edition that version really is, I don’t know. Anyway, check out the page for more.

IT’S REISSUE DAY!

In addition to the Black Sabbath Oral History book below that’s being reissued, I’ve got some updates on some other reissues. BLACK & BLUE First up is the old Black & Blue Black Sabbath/Blue Oyster Cult concert film from 1980. I reported below on it’s being re-released, and it’s now available for pre-order. You can […]

PAST LIVES GIVEAWAY

Today, the new Black Sabbath album, "Past Lives" is out in the US/Canada (it comes out everywhere else Sep 9th). To commemorate the release of the new album, I’m here with one of my contests to win a free copy of the CD. I’ve got several copies to give away, and I’m running one of […]

MAILING LIST PROBLEMS

Here’s a msg I tried to send out to the mailing list today (and an update to it). Please forgive the additional test message. I’m having a little difficulty getting this software up and running. Once it is, it’ll be able to handle the mailing list fine – and given I was told not to […]