The Black Sabbath FAQ v1.00 [large] pt 4
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27. Tony Iommi Profile
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Date Of Birth - 19th February 1948
Place Of Birth - Aston, Birmingham, England
Starsign - Aquarius
Height - 6'2"
Weight - 13.5 stone
Colour Of Hair - Black
Colour Of Eyes - Green
Place Of Residence - Warwickshire, England
Cars Owned - Mercedes
Pets - Two Rottweiler Dogs
Hobbies - Cars, Watching Films, Walking
Likes - Having Peace Of Mind
Dislikes - Smoking And Arguing
Favourite Food - Japanese, Indian And Curry
Favourite Drinks - Guinnes, Lager, Vodka and Orange
Favourite Countries - USA & Hawai for visiting & UK for residing
Favourite Cities - Los Angeles
Favourite TV Programmers - Get Smart & Rockford Files
Favourite Films - The Exorcist and most good horror films
Favourite Actor - Roger Moore and Clint Eastwood
Favourite Actress - No one in particular
Favourite Cars - Ferrari and Lamborghini
Favourite Form Of Travelling - Driving myself otherwise flying
Favourite Sports - Boxing and Wrestling
Favourite Books - Lob San Rampa and Nostradamus
Favourite Animal - Elephant
Favourite DJ's - Alan Freeman and Tommy Vance
Happiest Moments - When I'm getting the communication and feedback
from fans at concerts, it's difficult to
describe
exactly.
Worst Moments - The problems with my ex-management and the
divorce from my last wife.
Pet Hates - Getting up too early and having to travel.
If you weren't a Guitarist
what would you have been - Boxer or Wrestler
Early Influences - The Shadows & later on Django Reinhardt
Favourite Bands - Most good 70's bands like Zepplin, Purple and
The Moody Blues etc.
Favourite 80's Bands - No particular favourites although there are
some good ones around
Favourite Guitarists - Brian May, Eddie Van Halen & Joe Pass
Favourite Drummers - Cozy Powell & John Bonham
Favourite Male Singes - Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin
Favourite Female Singers - Anne Wilson of Heart & Barbara Streisand
Favourite Rock Singers - Tony Martin, Ronnie James Dio, Ian Gillan &
David Coverdale
Favourite Instrument other
than Guitar - Piano
3 All Time Favourite
Sabbath Songs - Heaven And Hell, Black Sabbath and Sabbath
Bloody Sabbath
Favourite Acoustic
Sabbath Song - Laguna Sunrise
Favourite News Sabbath Songs - Devil & Daughter and Headless Cross
3 All Time Favourite
Sabbath Albums - Black Sabbath, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and
Heaven And Hell
Favourite Own Guitar Solos - Heart Like A Wheel and at the time Lonely Is
The Word
Favourite Riffs - Too many to name
Favourite Sabbath Album
Covers - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath then Heaven And Hell
Worst Sabbath Album Covers - Sabotage and Born Again
Favourite Country to
Perform In - Most Countries
Most Memorable Years for
Sabbath so far - 1973 and 1980
Why - '73 because of the general vibes at the time
and it saw us at a good peak
'80 because it was a new beginning. However,
this excludes the present situation which
is very exciting.
Remaining Goals To Archive - For the band to be back where it should be
which
is in the top bracket.
Tony Iommi in "Black Sabbath Appreciation Society Newsletter Volume 2, 1989".
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28. Mysterious track on Sabotage
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The song appears at the end of "The Writ" on the album 'Sabotage'. The Song
is about 20 seconds long and a little Sgt.Pepper like. The text is:
Blow on the Jug
Everybody come on and blow on the jug
Be like me and blow on the jug
I want you to blow on the jug
Everybody singin' blow on the jug
Tonight
If you are blowin' . . .
Sadly enough the song doesn't appear on every 'Sabotage' version. You can hear
him only on the US and UK vinyl version! Mark Jones (the secretary of Bill
Ward)
wrote the following: "Blowing On A Jug" was a little bit that was added to the
end of one of the albums ['Sabotage']. It was Bill singing and playing the
piano
and was just something that the engineer caught during a session and it was
put into the album. I'm not sure if it was the first time Bill had been caught
singing on an album. He has sung "Swining The Chain" and "It's Alright".
The song is originally done by Nitty Gtritty Dirt Band.
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29. Who is doing the singing on "Swinging The Chain"
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The vocals on "Swinging The Chain" ('Never Say Die', 1978) are definitely
done by Bill Ward. That is mentioned by Mark Jones (the secretary of Bill
Ward) in a french Black Sabbath Fanzine "Thanks God It's Sabbath Volume 6"
and by Tony Iommi in "Guitar World", Volume 13 No.8, August 1992 (look at
'Prime Cuts With Tony Iommi').
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30. Tony Iommi's fingers of his right hand
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When Tony Iommi used to work in a factory of some kind, his job was to pass
hunks of metal to someone who used a machine to punch holes in the metal
or cut it up or something like that... One day when the other guy didn't
turn up, Tony tried to use the machine and cut the ends off his fingers -
he took the bits to hospital where they said they couldn't do anything fory
him. Not dismayed, Tony went home and repaired his fingers with molten
plastic from an old washing-up liquid bottle, in true Blue Peter spirit.
He had to do so because playing without the ends of his finders was to
painful.
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31. Sideprojects and guest appearance of Black Sabbath members
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DIAMOND HEAD - Death And Progress
Tony Iommi plays a guitar solo on the first track.
FORCEFIELD - Forcefield (1987, Vemsa, VLP-267 [E-30.1479], President)
Drums: Cozy Powell, Guitar: Ray Fenwick, Lead Vocals: Pete Prescott,
Bass: Mo Foster, Keyboards: Nick Magnus and Ray Fenwick, Backing
Vocals: Barry St. John
Guest appearance: Neil Murray (bass) and Chris Cozens (keyboards)
FORCEFIELD II - The Talisman (1988, Vemsa, VLP-330 [E-30.1756],
President)
Drums: Cozy Powell, Guitar: Ray Fenwick and Jan Akkerman, Keyboards:
Chris Cozens, Bass: Lawrence Cottle, Vocals: Tony Martin and Barry
St. John
GUITAR SPEAK ('No Speak' Label, Cat No EIRSA 1025)
An instrumental sampler only with gitarrists. Tony Iommi appears with
one track called 'Miranha' which means 'Goddess Of Death'.
KERMIT - Kermit Unpigged
Ozzy Osbourne recorded together with Miss Piggy the classic Steppenwolf
track 'Born To Be Wild' for that sampler.
LITA FORD - Lita
Lita Fords comeback album from 1988 includes a duet with Ozzy Osbourne
and the beautiful ballade 'Close My Eyes Forever'. This song was also
released as single which reach the US Top 10 Single Charts.
MOTOEHEAD - March Or Die
Lemmy and Ozzy Osbourne are singing together the track 'Ain't No Nice
Guy'.
BILL WARD - Ward One: Along The Way
Bill Wards first solo album includes guest appearance by Ozzy Osbourne
on two tracks.
BIOHAZARD - After Forever
The video for that song shows Bill Ward together with Biohazard.
QUEEN - Freddy Mercury Tribute Concert
Tony Iommi had a small guest appearcance on that conert. He played the
main riff for one song.
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32. Did you know?
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(by Pete Sarfas)
That Sabbath planned to do an opera based on "Iron Man".
That for a joke, Tony once squirted lighter fuel over Bill Ward's legs
and set fire to them.
That Tony was attacked on stage in Memphis with a knife.
That "Blood God" was a possible albu title that was considered for use
instead of "The Eternal Idol".
That Toony Iommi used to manage several bands during the '70s including
Judas Priest and Medicine Head.
That ex Jesus Christ Superstar Geoff Fenolt was auditioned by Tony Iommi
before Glenn Hughes for the 'Seventh Star' vocals.
That Geoff Nicholls wrote the the bass lines to the song 'Heaven And Hell'
and also wrote most of the lyrics to the songs on the 'Seventh Star'
album.
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33. Thanks list
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I like to thank for help:
S300...@nickel.laurentian.ca
Joseph Michael Mallon, jmma...@mercury.sfsu.edu
Pete Sarfas (ex-Black Sabbath Appreciation Society)
Andreas Lange, Berlin
Tapio Keihanen, d...@snakemail.hut.fi
Michael Sullivan, sabbath...@fa.disney.com
Robert Bartz, rba...@nyx.cs.du.edu
Leonid Makarovsky, leo...@mer-mail.ctron.com
Alain M. Gaudrault, al...@mars.dgrc.doc.ca
Jo...@vsdec.nl.nuwc.navy.mil
Norman R. Nithman <clampett!n...@uunet.uu.net>
Steven Aric Weinberg <wst...@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Moonshine <moon...@cyberspace.com>
Pete Scott <cn...@cnbc.demon.co.uk>
Hilmar Ransch, Germany
Charlie Setzwein, Germany
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