If any of you were on the old mailing list – going way back to 1997.. I was wondering if perhaps you might remember this.. Back then we were bemoaning the fact that every tribute or compilation album was full of just tracks from the Ozzy era, and we were looking to push some of […]
Some Cool Acoustic Fan Video
April 21, 2012 by
In my travels running this site, I see a lot of videos of people playing Black Sabbath songs. Some are good. Some are crap. Every once in awhile one pops up that is to me head and shoulders above the rest. Ran into the latter tonight. This guy posted one of his videos on the […]
Quartz cover of “Heaven & Hell”
April 17, 2012 by
A week ago I got an email from one of the guys in Quartz about a video they posted from their reunion show late last year. This one is their tribute to Dio, they played the track “Heaven & Hell”. What’s interesting about that is that Geoff Nicholls was one of the originators of the […]
Miranha
April 17, 2012 by
A few weeks ago, I posted a Tony Iommi tribute video, and I was asked what the song on there was. As was noted in the comments, the track is called “Miranha”, and it was recorded around 1990 during the time of the Tyr sessions. It’s a track that was created for a compilation […]
1986 Metal Mix Tape
April 11, 2012 by
When I started this new site format, one of the things I intended on doing was putting a few more personal kinds of posts on here. Ones that have some sort of relevance to the site. That’s what this is. A non Sabbath post that I thought would be of interest. Anyway, tonight I […]
The “one” US Date has been announced
April 11, 2012 by
..at least I’m pretty sure it’s that one. When Tony got sick, and they had to cancel the European dates, they said they’d still play the Download Festival, and one (then) unannounced US date. About an hour ago from this post, it was announced that Black Sabbath will play the Lollapolooza (WTF) festival on August 3-5 in […]
Tony Iommi Issues a Health Update
March 26, 2012 by
Just a day or so after I posted my “non update update”, Tony Iommi goes and issues an update on his situation over on his own website. Just posted tonight (or tomorrow morning in the UK), there’s this message from Tony, which sounds promising. As someone who has had a family member go through the EXACT […]
A Non Update Update
March 22, 2012 by
I’ve seen a lot of posts and messages asking for some sort of update on Tony Iommi. Some of them beliggerant – that he “owes” Sabbath fans an update. Bah. I wanted to post this in response to all of that. There is no update. If you know anyone who has ever gone through […]
Bill Ward’s Tribute to Tony Iommi
February 27, 2012 by
This past Saturday was the most recent episode of “Rock 50” with Bill Ward. Rock 50 is a show on college radio station WPMD in Cerritos, CA. Once a month, Bill comes in and is the DJ, picks the tunes, and occasionally dispenses some nuggets from his past. Most of the tunes he plays are […]
Fans irritate me sometimes
February 24, 2012 by
Generally, I don’t go off on stupid things people say, but sometimes it just irritates the heck out of me. Take this for example. About half an hour ago or so, I posted the story about Sabbath playing a lone gig in the US in August. Given the state of Tony Iommi’s health, one would […]
