GEEZER BUTLER - "It'd Be Just Nice To Do One Final, Big BLACK SABBATH Tour"
August 24, 2010, 14 years ago
The Canadian Press recently caught up with HEAVEN & HELL / BLACK SABBATH bassist Geezer Butler. An excerpt from the story is available below.
Even as Black Sabbath celebrates the 40th anniversary of their first two landmark releases, the members of the groundbreaking heavy metal outfit are still eyeing their future.
And it seems as though another tour with the original lineup — vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward — might not be out of the question.
"It'd be just nice to do one final, big Sabbath tour because we didn't really play that many places when we got together for the last reunion (in 2005)," Butler said in a telephone interview from California."We've never played Japan as the original band and we haven't played Australia since the '70s. There's a lot of places in eastern Europe that didn't even exist when we were going the first time around, so there's loads of places we'd like to play as the original band. So hopefully we'll do it. It'd be nice to do the tour while we're still alive."
This summer marked the release of Classic Albums: Paranoid, a DVD/Blu-ray that examines the backstory of Sabbath's influential 1970 disc through newly unveiled live footage and fresh interviews with the group.
Those interviews proved challenging for the affable Butler, who admits he "can't remember anything about" those early days.
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