Tony is the reason I started playing. Pretty much any metal band that writes a gloomy riff owes a debt to the master.

Sabbath. so wonderful.

I agree with StrangeGuitar


listening to the first 6 SABBATH albums, its incredible how Iommi pretty much wrote every single riffs that were to be stolen, raped and "borrowed" for metal bands , for decades to come

he is the greatest metal riff machine that ever walked the earth

Regardless of what "mood" or "phase" I've been in for the last few decades, this has always been at or near the top of my playlist:



...always will be, I bet.

just a side question:
has Ozzy Osborne ever played an instrument or written music to a song [i mean... besides lyrics... i know he writes lyrics].

sbs, master of reality, sabotage, and paranoid. thread over?

Third_Uncle_Eno: just a side question:
has Ozzy Osborne ever played an instrument or written music to a song [i mean... besides lyrics... i know he writes lyrics].

Harmonica on The Wizard, and synth on Who Are You, off the top of my head. Wrote and played both parts on the album, and still plays harmonica live during The Wizard. I'm too young to have seen Sabbath live back in the day but I don't think Who Are You was played much if ever so I can't comment on him playing that live.

Not to threadjack, but what does Ozzy say to his therapist in the new cell phone commercial?

Iommi's guitar tone on Master of Reality is all like BWOWWWWWwowwwwWOOOOOWWWWwooooowWOOOOOOOOWWW

If a guitar could smoke a bowl, that's what it would sound like.

FlyingPig: Iommi's guitar tone on Master of Reality is all like BWOWWWWWwowwwwWOOOOOWWWWwooooowWOOOOOOOOWWW

If a guitar could smoke a bowl, that's what it would sound like.

wow i know exactly what you mean... i want to listen to that and smoke a bowl now... that is what the weekend is for.

WHAT?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUgktr_bjgo (new window)

Geezer Butler wrote Sabbath's lyrics.

that is all.

And, he did it all with the ends of his left fingers missing from a punch-press accident, using prostheses he made himself.

/will never be convinced to run a punch-press because of this.

Aside from Lemmy, Tony may be the coolest man on the planet. Wasn't he poking Lita Ford back in the 80s when she was a mega-hottie? That increases his coolness by a factor of 14.

I've seen Sabbath probably 50 times over the years, easily the best show was on Halloween in '83 with Ian Gillan on the Born Again tour. I was blown away by how tight the bad was, Tony was completely on that night. At least that's how I remember it.

Isn't one of his fingers missing a section?

The first 2 BS albums are some of the hardest rock ever made.

Check out the Live In Paris series on YouTube for a really hard set.

Mirrorz: Isn't one of his fingers missing a section?

He cut off the tip of a finger (ring?) in a carpentry accident or something.

And he still managed to be the God of the Riff. \m/

"Eht wa a abzoluhh honnar tobea woarkin' wee diss mayt all teaz yurzs"
Oh Ozzie, you use your tongue better than a ten dollar whore

Third_Uncle_Eno: n:
has Ozzy Osborne ever played an instrument or written music to a song [i mean... besides lyrics... i know he writes lyrics].

He doesn't even write the lyrics a lot of the time.
Most of the coolest Sabbath lyrics were written by Geezer Butler.

seveword: Mirrorz: Isn't one of his fingers missing a section?

He cut off the tip of a finger (ring?) in a carpentry accident or something.

And he still managed to be the God of the Riff. \m/

He cut off the tips of two fingers.

he lost the tips of his right index and pointer fingers, i believe, in an accident while working in industrial birmingham. i could be wrong, but blue-collar industrial accidents are metal.

/and iommi knows metal
//i mean, he did farking birth it

OrangeDuster: Aside from Lemmy, Tony may be the coolest man on the planet. Wasn't he poking Lita Ford back in the 80s when she was a mega-hottie? That increases his coolness by a factor of 14.

I've seen Sabbath probably 50 times over the years, easily the best show was on Halloween in '83 with Ian Gillan on the Born Again tour. I was blown away by how tight the bad was, Tony was completely on that night. At least that's how I remember it.
I saw that tour as well. The band was really tight, but Ian didn't really know the words to the songs. He voice really isn't suited for either Ozzy's or Dio's stuff. It was still a thrill to see him though.

strangeguitar:
I saw that tour as well. The band was really tight, but Ian didn't really know the words to the songs. He voice really isn't suited for either Ozzy's or Dio's stuff. It was still a thrill to see him though.

That I don't remember. But I do recall that on the songs from the Born Again album, his voice was killer. I think that at that time, maybe just on that one album, he had the best voice in metal.

I remember when they came out for the encore and Tony started playing Smoke on the Water. The whole place went silent for a few seconds while everybody tried to figure out what song it was... then when they realized it they went nuts. The big crosses everwhere were cool too... especially the big red one under the drum riser that the two monks came out and opened.

Rev. Skarecrow
He doesn't even write the lyrics a lot of the time.
Most of the coolest Sabbath lyrics were written by Geezer Butler.

oh whoops.
i meant regarding ozzy solo career....
that he wrote some lyrics for that, i assume.

but i totally didn't know who wrote the lyrics for Black Sabbath songs, so now i know!! thanks dude! :-)

A musical genius.