![]() And Iommi talks quite candidly, at least about the drugs and rock and roll. That old trifecta: "Sex, drugs, and rock & roll"? Yeah, it's the real deal. The accounts of him and the others spray-painting Bill Ward with gold paint (with Ward's doped-up consent) and the other pranks that the band members played on each other were 2 parts hilarious, 1 part terrifying. Yes, there is a great deal of craziness in there. Iommi's writing style is much the same as I discovered in talking with him and in watching countless interviews with him - casual and candid. This isn't a beautiful, meaningful book by any means. I'm not much of one for biographies, honestly - my wife is the biography reader in the family - but I had to eventually pick this one up. So when this biography came out, I added it to my TBR list. This made me very happy, and I was delighted when, quite a few years later, they did reunite as the band "Heaven and Hell". I then asked him if he'd ever get back together with Ronnie James Dio,and his response was "never say never". I asked him about the rumor that I had heard that he had a stint with Jethro Tull, which he affirmed, noting that he had recently gone to Ian Anderson's wedding. I thanked him for his music and let him know that he might have saved my life as a teen. The conversation was brief, but he was a very pleasant man to talk to. I took a long lunch break and spoke to one of my childhood idols. There was a call-in-question period in the middle of the day. ![]() While touring in support of this album, he came up to Madison, not for a concert, but as a guest of the local hard rock station (which has gone downhill in the meantime, I must say), WJJO. In 2000, Iommi released his first (official) solo album. Rather than driving me toward suicidal thoughts as an admittedly depressed teenager, they drove me away from such thoughts. I'll admit that their music, Dio-era Black Sabbath, that is, pulled me through some hard times. I remained a Black Sabbath fan, especially after Ronnie James Dio, one of the all-time great singers of any genre, let alone heavy metal, joined the band. There was no need for technical prowess - his guitar simply SEETHED.Įventually, I became older, though I never grew up. I loved the power and simplicity of what Iommi played. Tony Iommi became a bit of a guitar idol, okay, more like my Guitar God, as a young man plunking away on an old $25 Sears and Roebuck electric P.O.S. But I leaned into it and did my best to damage my hearing with that little record player. Not that the equipment *could* be played loudly. I just knew that if I wanted to listen to it, I had to do so at a low volume on my little red and white candystriped record player. ![]() I had the money, so I bought it.īut she didn't do anything rash about it. I had heard about Black Sabbath and was intrigued when I saw the album, I think at a K-mart. I had somehow developed a liking for rock music, maybe through my dad's penchant for '60s surf-music, I don't know. ![]() The song was also used in Monster Jam for the Iron Man truck's theme.Black Sabbath's Master of Reality was the third album I ever bought. Despite the title, the song has no connection to the Marvel Comics character of the same name, although it was used in the end credits of the 2008 movie Iron Man, and the trailer for the 2010 sequel, Iron Man 2 the superhero also wears a Black Sabbath T-Shirt during the events of The Avengers. Osbourne sang behind a metal fan to get the sound effect in its first line, 'I am Iron Man!'. The title became "Iron Man", with Geezer Butler writing the lyrics around the title. Upon hearing the main guitar riff for the first time, vocalist Ozzy Osbourne remarked that it sounded "like a big iron bloke walking about". This causes Iron Man to become furious, and drives his revenge on mankind, causing the apocalypse seen in his vision. His attempts to communicate are ignored and mocked. He is rendered mute, unable verbally to warn people of his vision of impending destruction. In the process of returning to the present, he is turned into steel by a magnetic storm. The lyrics tell the story of a man who time travels into the future and sees the apocalypse. "Iron Man" is a song written and performed by the English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released on their 1970 album Paranoid. ![]()
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