An additional live show has been announced this morning. Black Sabbath will play what’s being called “A Warmup Gig” on May 19th in Birmingham, England at the O2 Academy. The warmup being for the Download Festival in early June. They’re playing the O2 Academy. At this time, there’s no word as to whether there […]
The Southern Cross Band Info
April 26, 2012 by 9 Comments
In about two and a half weeks, it will be the two year anniversary of the death of Ronnie James Dio. Ronnie’s life has touched numerous musicians and fans. A lot of people continue to mourn the loss of Ronnie. Some of his final band members toured under the moniker of “Dio Disciples” late […]
Some Cool Acoustic Fan Video
April 21, 2012 by 6 Comments
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
April 11, 2012 by 40 Comments
..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 73 Comments
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 10 Comments
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 33 Comments
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?
February 24, 2012 by 29 Comments
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
February 17, 2012 by 59 Comments
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
February 17, 2012 by 19 Comments
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 […]
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