These guys announced an unexpected Adelaide date on their upcoming (and long-announced) Australian tour today. Though I know they're ancient and Bill Ward's not going to be there, I'm still unreasonably excited at the prospect of witnessing Geezer and Tony grind out those classic, brain-smashing riffs at maximum volume in person.
Been on a massive Sabbath kick for the past year. I love these guys.
Self wrote:Every time I get to be a bachelor, I order Chinese. Twice a year, I gorge on broccoli 'n beef and crab rangoons. The guilt reminds me of masturbation. So does the rice.
So it’s Brad Wilk of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave who stepped up to fill Ward’s place on the recording of the new album.
It has however, been confirmed that Wilk will not to be joining Black Sabbath on tour. Butler had little to say of the Rage drummer’s involvement with the band, simply replying to questions surrounding his potential presence on the tour with, “I don’t get involved in that side of things.”
Oh, bummer.
I was never particularly thrilled that Wilk was playing drums, but he was better than this bozo from the first run of reunion shows:
The coolest thing about Sabbath is that Iommi lost the tips of his middle and ring fingers working in a factory. Probably has a lot to do with his unique sound, actually. To compensate for his injury Iommi attempted to learn to play right-handed,but eventually returned to left-handed playing and strung his guitars with lighter strings and made thimbles to extend his fingers.
verb_to_trust wrote:The coolest thing about Sabbath is that Iommi lost the tips of his middle and ring fingers working in a factory. Probably has a lot to do with his unique sound, actually. To compensate for his injury Iommi attempted to learn to play right-handed,but eventually returned to left-handed playing and strung his guitars with lighter strings and made thimbles to extend his fingers.
A little crazy that there's been zero discussion of their final concert around here. Even crazier that all four founding members of Black Sabbath are still alive. God bless them.
Was great to see them together one last time, especially with Bill Ward. The four guys who started metal got their due in a beautiful way. My only real complaint about their set is that it really should have closed with their eponymous song. Seems like the proper way to close the circle.
