Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning gig will features a Who’s Who of the rock world from Metallica to Guns N’ Roses but Tony Iommi probably won’t be watching them
Retiring legends Black Sabbath don’t want to end up as “scary” holograms like ABBA.
Ozzy Osbourne’s band sign off with a farewell show at Birmingham’s Villa Park on July 5. Guitarist Tony Iommi recently visited the impressive ABBA Voyage show but found the experience strange.
He spilled: “It’s fantastic and surreal to see [ABBA] there and yet they’re not. It left a strange feeling in me. Whether that’s the direction people are going, I don’t know, but I’ve always been into the thing of having the live element. I don’t play the exact same stuff every night, so if I had to mime to what we did, I’d be all over the place!”
Next month’s Back To The Beginning gig will features a Who’s Who of the rock world from Metallica to Guns N’ Roses … but Iommi probably won’t be watching them.
He explained: “I’m amazed and honoured they’re all doing it. It’s gone out of all proportion, with so many coming on board. I will be interested to see what some of the bands are going to do with Sabbath’s stuff, but then again I don’t think I’m going to be there all day – I’ll probably collapse.
“I think it starts quite early and goes on until I-don’t-know-what-time.” Ozzy and the boys are currently rehearsing their own set for the gig, but even Tony is uncertain how Ozzy will fare with all his health issues.
“You’re used to Ozzy running around, but he certainly won’t be doing that for this show,” Iommi told Music Week confirming this really is the last show. “I don’t know if he’s going to be standing or sitting on a throne or what.
“[The show] being for charity drew me into it. It’s not just to get out and play again with the band, because we would never be able to do a full show because of everybody’s condition now.”
They’ve had their spats over the decades – after all Iommi chucked Ozzy out of the band in 1979, but they’re still close..ish. Iommi – who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2012 – said: “I think we have a good relationship.
“It’s like a family. You have arguments, but at the end of the day, if something happens, they’re always there. Certainly, when I was taken ill, everybody was there for me. It’s just been that way. You might have disagreements over the years, and slag each other, but it’s a unit and you always come back to that.”
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