NOTE: The tour advert here on the right used the same font for the Black Sabbath logo that was used for the 1989 Headless Cross album cover.

Mike Bordin had this to say about the 1997 dates and Bill Ward in January of 2004..

“I’ve been really, really into music since I was about eight years old, but when I first heard a BLACK SABBATH record, that was it – there was nothing else,” Bordin said. “The very next week, on April 6, 1974, I saw them on TV on the ‘California Jam’. It was the most compelling, the most exciting, the most physical thing that I had ever seen – it was a revelation. I remember Bill as this big, crazy, giant hairy dude with red tights and no shirt. By the middle of the first song, you couldn’t see him – it was just hair and flailing arms. “When you look at Bill’s style of playing, you have to look at it in the context of the giants around him. Geezer, Tony and Ozzy are like forces of nature, and to balance in between them and not be squished, you have to be a giant as well. “Bill’s playing is phenomenally individual and completely unique – nobody can play those songs like him. I was raised on BLACK SABBATH music and it was hugely important to me even before I started playing drums. “Bill Ward is a prince of a human being and I feel honored to have had a chance to play in BLACK SABBATH with Ozzy, Tony and Geezer. It was my tribute to the man that wasn’t onstage, but should have been.”

Date	Location	Venue	Other Bands / Openers	Notes
May 24 1997	First gig on Ozzfest ’97 Tour
May 24 1997	Bristow, VA	Nissan Pavillion at Stone Ridge		Billed as Washington, DC
May 26 1997	West Palm Beach, FL	Coral Sky Amphitheater
May 28 1997	Charlotte, NC	Blockbuster Pavillion
May 31 1997	San Antonio, TX	The Alamodome
Jun 01 1997	Dallas, TX	Coca Cola Starplex Amphitheater		[ Concert Reviews ]
Jun 03 1997	Cuyahoga Falls, OH	Blossom Music Center		Billed as Cleveland, OH
Jun 04 1997	Noblesville, IN	Deer Creek Amphitheater		Billed as Indianapolis, IN
Jun 06 1997	Camden, NJ	Tweeter Center		Billed as Philadelphia, PA – 2nd Show after Jun 8 sold out
Jun 07 1997	Burgettstown, PA	Post-Gazette Pavilion		Billed as Pittsburgh, PA
Jun 08 1997	Camden, NJ	Tweeter Center		Billed as Philadelphia, PA
Jun 10 1997	Maryland Heights, MO	Riverport Amphitheater		Billed as St. Louis, MO
Jun 12 1997	Clarkston, MI	Pine Knob Music Theater		Billed as Detroit, MI
Jun 14 1997	Mansfield, MA	Great Woods Center		[ Concert Reviews ]
Jun 15 1997	East Rutheford, NJ	Giants Stadium
Jun 17 1997	Columbus, OH	Polaris Amphitheater		Rescheduled to July 1
Jun 19 1997	Tinley Park, IL	World Amphitheater		Billed as Chicago, IL
Jun 21 1997	East Troy, WI	Alpine Valley Music Theater		Billed as Milwaukee, WI
Jun 22 1997	Minneapolis, MN	Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome
Jun 24 1997	Denver, CO	Mile High Stadium
Jun 26 1997	Phoenix, AZ	Desert Sky Amphitheater
Jun 28 1997	Las Vegas, NV	Sam Boyd Silverbowl / “Thomas & Mack Center”?		Rescheduled to Jun 30
Jun 29 1997	San Bernardino, CA	Blockbuster Pavillion
Jun 30 1997	Las Vegas, NV	Sam Boyd Silverbowl		Last gig with Mike Bordin
Jul 01 1997	Columbus, OH	Polaris Amphitheater	Just Ozzy Osbourne band, no Ozzfest bands	Only gig with Shannon Larkin on Drums
Jul 01 1997	Last gig on Ozzfest portion of 1997 tour
Sep 22 1997	Cleveland, England	Odeon Concert Club		Unconfirmed?
Dec 04 1997	Birmingham, England	Birmingham NEC	Fear Factory	Bill Ward on Drums Pro-shot and recorded for Reunion
Dec 05 1997	Birmingham, England	Birmingham NEC	Fear Factory	[ Concert Reviews ] Bill Ward on Drums Pro-shot and recorded for Reunion
Dec 05 1997	Last gig on the 1997 Tour

Black Sabbath: Home At Last
The Original Reunites!

On two nights in December of 1997, the original heavy metal band, the founders of all that is good music, the ORIGINAL BLACK SABBATH reunited for two full length shows. These two shows (on the 4th & 5th) were both video taped and recorded for the first official live album ever from the original Black Sabbath that was released in the fall of 1998 as “Reunion”.