Not much else you can say other than this. Today is Ozzy’s birthday. Tony & Bill are already 50. Geezer is 49. He turns 50 next July 17th. Tony will be 51 on Feb 19th. Since it’s Ozzy’s birthday, I’ll put this little tidbit online. It’s a 207k Zip file which contains a 22 second […]
REUNION TOUR REHEARSALS TO BEGIN
December 3, 1998 by
On Sun December 6th, Bill Ward will be flying to England to begin rehearsals for the Reunion tour. The rehearsals are in England, and the tour itself starts on December 31st in Phoenix Arizona. I’ve been told there are no plans for more dates after the listed ones, there’s no "secret second leg", no plans […]
RAY GILLEN
December 3, 1998 by
Today is the 5th anniversary of the death of Ray Gillen. Ray was a vocalist in Black Sabbath for a little over a year from 1986-1987. He sang the majority of the dates on the Seventh Star Tour, and recorded the 1987 album "The Eternal Idol", but left before it was finished (Tony Martin was […]
BLACK SABBATH NOT IN HALL OF FAME AGAIN
November 10, 1998 by
Much to no one’s surprise (I’m sure), Black Sabbath was not inducted with this year’s inductees into the Hall of Fame. The list of people who were are: Bruce Springsteen, Bill Joel, Paul McCartney, Del Shannon, Curtis Mayfield, Dusty Springfield, & The Staples Singers (who the hell are they?) There’s a news story about this […]
MONDAY MASS WITH BLACK SABBATH!
October 29, 1998 by
In support of the newly released album Reunion, Ozzy Osborne and original members of Black Sabbath Bill Ward and Geezer Butler (Tony Iommi won’t be there due to a prior committment.) are coming to Vancouver to enjoy an evening with their fans, take some pictures, and speak to the masses as 99.3 The Fox broadcasts […]
DAVID LETTERMAN DATE CONFUSION
October 27, 1998 by
In the Mailing List issue I sent out today, I had a remark about the David Letterman appearance. The newsletter email that got sent out from Sony Records today with the tour dates mentions this, but they list the appearance as Thursday the 28th. I didn’t bother to pay that much attention to the date, […]
REUNION TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED!
October 27, 1998 by
Sabbath has released the tour dates for the 1999 Reunion Tour. I’ve got ’em online on my Tour Dates Page.
REUNION UPDATE
October 23, 1998 by
The band is out on "tour" autographing copies of Reunion. Once the tour is over, I’ll post some stories here that have been submitted to the Mailing List. Anyway, I was sent five pictures of the band at the Philadelphia signing by Damian Muziani. If you’d like to see what the band looked like in […]
RANDOM STUFF
October 19, 1998 by
Reunion is in stores tomorrow. Make sure and pick up a copy, or if you want to order it over the internet, you can do so here. The first of the in-store signing is technically tonight at midnight. From what I’m finding out, most stores seem to be having a policy where you have to […]
