TONY IOMMI - Air Date Change For CSI Episode Featuring Music From BLACK SABBATH Guitar Legend

October 30, 2014, 10 years ago

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TONY IOMMI - Air Date Change For CSI Episode Featuring Music From BLACK SABBATH Guitar Legend

Music from legendary Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi will now be featured on the November 9th episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, the American crime drama television series that airs on CBS on Sunday nights at 10 PM.

Iommi previously stated: “People have been asking what exactly I’m doing at the moment, we’ll I’m getting back in the studio having tried to make myself rest after the tours. I’m writing, mostly just putting ideas down rather than complete songs. I like to create all sorts of moods with my music and then decide later how they might be used.

One specific piece though is for the CSI TV (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) series that will be aired in the US on November 2nd. I was asked if I’d be interested so I had a look at the footage and came up with an idea they seemed to like. It’s not very long but it was different working with images rather than just music, I’d certainly be up for doing more.”

In an update, Tony reveals: "After posting this story, the episode with my music has been changed to November 9th. Here is the update we received from the show’s producer: 'Due to an NFL football game Sunday that went long, they pushed our schedule a week later. No big deal but the show airs November 9th here in the States.'”

Black Sabbath made a cameo appearance on CSI's season finale on May 15th, 2013 - prior to the release of their reunion album, 13.

Black Sabbath's official video for "End Of The Beginning", which was filmed on set of the season finale of CSI in front of a poorly directed crowd (!) can be seen below:

In other Black Sabbath news, Esquire.com recently spoke with Ozzy Osbourne about his plans for next year, and he reflected on his troubled past, expressed his desire to have Bill Ward return as Sabbath's drummer, and shared his feelings about Miss Piggy. An excerpt follows:

Esquire: So you've gotten back with Black Sabbath again and you're doing Ozzfiesta, but putting the solo career on hold?

Ozzy: "I'm not one of these guys to do my solo stuff one night and Black Sabbath the next. I can't do that, you know. It's too much to handle. So with the Black Sabbath thing, the record company wants us to do one more record, and we've decided to do one more tour, and at the end of the tour we just disband and I go back to doing my solo stuff. And that's why I released Memoirs Of A Madman, to let people out there know I'm still functioning as a solo artist."

Esquire: And you will go back to recording as a solo artist in the future?

Ozzy: "Absolutely! What I'm really happy about is, if this is Black Sabbath's last hurrah, then we'll have ended it on an up note rather than when I left in 1979 and everybody was fucked up on one thing or another and I was marked out as being the worst, you know. It ended on a bad note, so... The only thing sad about it is I hope Bill Ward can get his stuff together to do this because... one of the biggest things I'm proud of in my life was that Black Sabbath wasn't a band that was created by some business mogul in London or New York. That we were four guys who had a great idea and it worked from record one, and we still... Would you believe that it took 45 years to get our first number-one album in America? It was amazing to me."

Esquire: And you deserve all the accolades that came with 13. Do you think that you'll repeat that success on this next album?

Ozzy: "You know what? We never thought it could with the last one. But you know, Rick Rubin, who produced it, for years he would see me and say, "Don't forget, if you ever get back with Black Sabbath, I want to produce the album." And when we did that album, he said, "Just forget the word 'heavy metal.' Just remember the first album." I go "What the hell's he on about, the first album?" 'Cause the first album, for us, well for me, was like a live album."

Esquire: What was the process like for the first 1970 album?

Ozzy: "We'd never recorded in a recording studio before. We pulled up, took our gear in, played. Twelve hours it was done. Lo and behold, January comes around, the record comes out, and it's like a major hit. From that moment on my life forever changed. And so I'm really proud of the way it happened because it was no hype. Black Sabbath wasn't like the Bon Jovis of the time. We were just a bunch of guys that were against the grain of society. And we sung about things that people thought back then. But now everyone knows the drugs and war and all that shit, you know?"

Esquire: Have you started writing songs for the new Black Sabbath album?

Ozzy: "No. Although I texted [guitarist] Tony [Iommi] the other day. I said, "It would be a great idea if you could send me some musical ideas so I can try and work some melodies around so we don't have to go searching for the song structure." So I'm not starting from a cold block, you know?"

Read the complete interview at Esquire.com.

 

 

 


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