In light of the recent petition that was placed online to “Fire Ozzy” from Black Sabbath and replace him with another singer that turned out to be a joke, I thought it might be interesting to actually poll people and see what they think about this issue. I’ve changed the poll on the front page […]
Dio to release live CD in February
January 19, 2005 by
I just read this morning that Spitfire Records will be releasing a Live Dio CD on Feburary 22nd. The title is Evil or Divine: Live in New York City. If that title sounds familiar, it should, as this recording is culled from the same concert that produced the Evil or Divine DVD that was released […]
Update on the new news system
January 18, 2005 by
I finished up my work on getting the new news system looking right. If you had used the search before now, you know what I’m talking about. Here’s what I fixed/added: The search page now looks like the rest of the site The monthly archive pages are now properly linked I settled on having the […]
Buy Cozy Powell’s Drums
January 18, 2005 by
Ran across this item tonight over on ebay. Apparently, someone is selling what they claim to be Cozy Powell’s drum kit when he was in Black Sabbath and Brian May’s band. You can view the auction here. I have no information as to the legitimicy of this auction, I’ll try and look into it, but […]
Psycho Man Video
January 18, 2005 by
The last full studio album Black Sabbath has released was 1995’s underrated Forbidden. However, the last studio output the band put out were the two tracks on 1998’s Reunion. These two tracks were titled “Selling My Soul”, and “Psycho Man”. Neither of these got a music video made for them, however that has changed now. […]
Bill Ward’s Radio Show Reruns
January 17, 2005 by
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 […]
