Some Cool Acoustic Fan Video

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 […]

The “one” US Date has been announced

..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

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

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

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 […]

Sabbath to play US in August?

The “will he or won’t he” saga with Bill Ward carries on.  Tony Iommi’s cancer treatments carry on..   Yet the business of Black Sabbath doesn’t. Word popped up today that Black Sabbath might be playing a lone date in the US in August.  Where?  Who knows?  Who’s on drums?  Who knows?   But a […]

Black Sabbath 2012 Update

Well, today’s been an interesting day.   Earlier this morning, we got another statement from Bill Ward about his drumming situation with Black Sabbath.  Which appeared to be good news, that they’re still talking. Then a few hours after that, we got a rather large and somewhat ominous update from Black Sabbath regarding the European […]

A Message from Bill Ward

Bill posted another update today over on his site regarding his contract situation with Black Sabbath.  I’ll get right to the point – here’s what he had to say. In case the server is down when you go to look at it, here’s the text.  I particularly like the bit where he calls out the […]

Ozzy Interview on XM

Today, the XM Satellite radio re-branded their “Boneyard” metal channel to be called “Ozzy’s Boneyard“.   As part of the initial launch, there was an interview with Ozzy where he talks about the Black Sabbath reunion now, as well as Tony Iommi’s cancer.  While I was unable to listen due to a personal comittment, a friend was […]

Thoughts about Current Events [ UPDATED 2 ]

A week or so ago when Bill Ward dropped that bombshell online about his contract situation and the Black Sabbath reunion, I was privy to it about 5 minutes before it was put online.  As you probably remember, I handle Bill’s website, and his manager sent me that, asked me to put it on his […]