BLACK SABBATH’S GEEZER BUTLER TO BE HONORED ON BIRMINGHAM WALK OF STARS Venue: VILLA PARK Date: SUNDAY 3rd FEBRUARY 2018 Time: 15:00 -19:00 Q & A HOSTED BY CARL CHINN POST MATCH
30 Years An Idol
November 23, 2017 by 25 Comments
Those of you who follow me on social media have noticed that I’ve started marking albums’ birthdays a lot. In some ways, it is because I like bringing light to albums that never rGot the attention they should have. Mostly I just like marking the passage of time. Plus I like hearing from people who […]
Forums Back Fully
October 20, 2017 by 1 Comment
Well, I’m back online. As has been noticed the last few weeks, there’s been an issue with Google Chrome (and some other browsers) flagging my site has “possibly hacked”, “with malware”, or just simply “Dangerous”. Here’s the deal. Awhile back Google started putting priority on pages using SSL, they wanted to push security. Which is […]
Quiet Riot’s Road Rage
August 5, 2017 by 3 Comments
Quiet Riot has a total of 13 studio albums. The first being 1977’s “Quiet Riot I”, and the most recent being 2017’s “Road Rage”. The majority of that output in that 40 years was with their most well known vocalist, Kevin DuBrow. But DuBrow died in late 2007, and at the time, was thought to […]
Update on Tour Date Updates
July 13, 2017 by 15 Comments
Those of you who have been around online Black Sabbath fandom for some time will know the name Rob Dwyer. Rob ran Sabbathlive.com for a long time, and was the repository of tour date info for ages. His site was the place to go for that. I had my own info, but it wasn’t nearly […]
Bill Ward’s Merch
June 29, 2017 by 5 Comments
Bill Ward is selling a lot of his old drum kit and merchandise going way way back. Some of it pre-dating even Black Sabbath to his then band Mythology. There’s not a lot of sell here to make – that’s the extent of the story. haha. Anyway, check out the stuff at this link: http://bit.ly/BWreverbshop […]
The Ten Year War Box Set
June 22, 2017 by 37 Comments
Today another new box set was announced, this one called “The Ten Year War”. It is a vinyl box set, and due out later this year. If you’re a vinyl collector, then this will definitely be of interest. I have a lot of detail to discuss, but there’s one I want to get out […]
New Tony Martin Solo Album Info
June 13, 2017 by 7 Comments
Ex BLACK SABBATH singer TONY MARTIN has confirmed that the making of his long awaited third solo album has begun. Teamed with drummer Danny Needham of Tony Martin’s Headless Cross and Venom, and American guitarist Scott McClellan, Tony says this collection of songs is currently under the working title of THORNZ. It was previously going […]
Snakecharmer Second Skin
April 2, 2017 by 4 Comments
Back on December 2012, I wrote about the then pending release of the first Snakecharmer album. At the time I rather liked it, but in the few years that have passed since I wrote that, I’ve come to bloody love the album. The first Snakecharmer album is for me one of my favorite albums released […]
Reflections on Geoff Nicholls
January 28, 2017 by 5 Comments
Today has been an odd day for me. I woke up to an email from Tony Iommi’s management telling me that Geoff Nicholls had died. After I got the word out there, I started contacting others. Former Black Sabbath band mates, and other people I knew that knew Geoff. One of which was Jamie Mallender. […]
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