During a recent appearance on SiriusXM’s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk” aired on May 22, Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi addressed Ozzy Osbourne’s desire for a final Sabbath concert featuring original drummer Bill Ward.
Tony’s response, as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET, was: “It’s a funny old thing, really. I mean, God, we’ll be 90 by the time we do that.
[Laughs] It’d be a nice idea, but you’re gonna get everybody going, ‘Oh, they’re doing it for the money. They’re doing it for this, they’re doing it for that, they’re doing it…’ Well, it wouldn’t be.
I mean, it’d be something that’d be a nice thing to actually do, but whether it happens will be another thing. But we’ll see. I mean, who knows?”
Reflecting on live performances, Tony shared: “It’s great to see the audience. I love to play live. But I have been playing.
You obviously know about the Black Sabbath ballet. And it was great for me to go on at the end — I was playing on the end of the show, which was really good to get out and play live again.
And then I did a gig with Johnny Depp when he came over with Hollywood Vampires; I played on one of their shows, which was great. It’s really good to be able to do that.
But, yeah, for me, I’ve always loved playing live. But I have to look at it realistically at my age. I can’t go out and do a two-year tour like we were doing before.
And to put something together like the original Sabbath or this or that or the other, you’ve gotta do it a long time because of the cost of everything. But it would be nice, yes, to do a one-off, if that ever happens, yeah.”
Ozzy Osbourne recently reflected on his time working with the “best” guitarist, Tony Iommi, one of his old bandmates from Black Sabbath.
Speaking exclusively to The Madhouse Chronicles with Billy Idol guitarist Billy Morrison, Osbourne looked back on his career, noting:
“That’s the thing about a band like Black Sabbath: we came from the streets and we knew our stuff, and Tony Iommi was, and is, the best f****** guitar player I’ve ever played with.”
“It’s like the Beatles, they wouldn’t have been the same if any one of them had played [in another band], or the Rolling Stones if Mick Jagger left,” he added.
Heaping praise on the artist, Osbourne said that although he has played iconic Black Sabbath songs, including Paranoid, Children of the Grave, and War Pigs with other guitarists over the years, it’s just very different with Iommi.
He gushed: “They do the notes, but it’s not the same,” he stated plainly. “Tony Iommi, for whatever reason, is f****** great!”
For the unversed, Osbourne and Iommi’s companionship dates back to the band’s formation in 1968 until the musician’s departure in 1977.
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