I was born in 68, which made me a kid in the 70's and a teenager in the 80's. Growing up in a small rural farm town in Indiana with 14 churches and 1 tavern. All my reletives being very religious I had to listen to my music in hiding. I realized that by putting tape over the little holes on the top edge of the cassette tapes, you could record over store bought tapes, then remove the tape. No one would ever know. So I took some cassettes of Linda Ronstadt, Osmond Brothers, Oakridge Boys and other "safe" music I recorded Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Iron Butterfly and my metal bands right over the top.
@@joeantonelli5533 Same here, but it hid my music. My only fear was someone actually playing one of my cassettes and hearing Black Sabbath instead of The Oakridge Boys. Stealth was my MO.
Born in 67 but grew up in Los Angeles . Though my parents hated what I listened to. Still to this day I find Sabbaths music thought provoking. One of my top 5 bands. Really can’t name a number one changes with my mood.
@@youtoo2233that was before people like RANDY, Lynch, and Eddie took it to the stars....I'll take TONY over Page ANY DAY. ROY CLARK was Better Tony And Page put together but you would have to be a player to know whos technically brilliant and who is more like lil Wayne 😂.UA-cam it. TONY was having fun because he and Jimmy had a friendly rivalry when he said that because we ALL know who started Metal, Sabbath!!!!! 😦 Zeppelin and the annoying whine of Robert Plant was R&R and a good band. Just a little light for me.....Just sayin. My OPINION and apparently Brian May's too (who was out of his league here) 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
That is great man. Tony is just an inspiring figure that we all love. The fact that he chopped two fingertips off during his last day at work and he just plowed on. An amazing man .
It would seem so, right? But if you read Toni's book, and it's him not some ghost writer, he had quite a wicked streak. But, I suppose, after surviving ....a LOT, he has mellowed and gotten less defensive and angry with time. But yes, it'd be great to hear them pull some magic out of Geezers hat.
@@dustyscryptI just got done listening to every album you're talking about . F****** everything. All the Dio albums. The Born again album. The Glenn Hughes and the ray gillen years . I pulled up those Jeff Fenholt demos . And all the Tony Martin lps . And they are all what I would call excellent metal . Tony knows how to pick em . 😊
Ive epilepsy and i can remember picking up an original vertigo swirl copy of Black Sabbath and having a seizure when i looked at the swirl!!! Now when i listen to a vertigo swirl i cover the middle!!!!
13:52 "Fortune's looked kindly on both Brian and I, and between us, we've raked up a fair few riffs that have stuck around" Love the understatement. Tony, you're a gentleman and a legend. The music of Black Sabbath...and Queen......will live forever!
Boxes of unheard Iommi riffs…..can you imagine. Now I won’t be able to sleep till I hear all of them. Please guys, make an album. Take your time, we can wait. I think.🤘
That first Sabbath album is a minor miracle. It really does sound like they banged it out in one day, but it was a great day. Tony going off on an extended jazzy blues solo to fill up some time... and then coming back to crushing heavy riffs. Other bands were also playing some extra hard rock at the time, but that album really seemed to be the start of metal music.
😎🎶👍 my first concert was 1978 Long Beach, California Black Sabbath tickets $13 the best show I ever saw-thank you Tony Iommi for keeping the music alive is the best 👍👍👍👍👍
VERY EXPENSIVE! I'm in Canada so the money is even cheaper. First concert was Genesis on july 13, 1978 in Montreal. Don't remember the price but it was under 10 CANADIAN cheap dollars. My second show was YES on april 18, 1979 in Quebec CITY and i remember very well the price of the ticket! 7.50 CHEAP CANADIAN dollars with taxes or fees. 7.50 STRAIGHT and it was for any part-seat of the arena. So 13 AMERICAN dollars in 1978... IN GOD WE TRUST... ONLY IN USA...
Tony’s the reason I picked up an electric guitar at 13 and spent countless hours learning to play those riffs and the pentatonic blues scales for solos. I’m 58 now and still go back them.
I think it's like the one comes along that just does it where you just have to do what you feel that is the best thing you ever heard that changed your hole way of thinking about you want to play that guitar as good as what you have heard that sets you on fire. Iam69 year's old and at 15 Tony has set me on fire till today I will all ways know where I have been and it never left. Check me out on this show You Tube BLACK SABBATH PIZZA STORY . I think you will like it ' it's about me and Sabbath take care.
I'm 67 and I caught Sabbath in real time, when the first album came out. I was a 14 year old budding guitar player just starting, and after a good introduction to the pentatonic scale learning John Fogerty riffs, I was studying Tony Iommi's riffs full time with the needle on the turntable over and over.
Summer of 1980, a friend took me down into his basement, sat me down and said, "You are going to listen to Black Sabbath until you like it!" He put on Vol. 4 and when Supernaut started, I was hooked (having only liked The Beatles, ABBA and Oldies up to that point). There will never be another Tony Iommi. I will mourn for a long time, with his passing.
Mr. Iommi is such a sweet gentleman. He was so humble and forthcoming when he described his hand accident, and wasn't ashamed to hide the outcome from the film crew.
tony is responsible for the genre that almost all the bands i listen to play today. infinite gratitude to him and the rest of black sabbath. proud to be born and raised in birmingham because of them.
Hearing Toni live at ground shaking volume is something else. Magic, pure black magic. One of my favourite guitarists, who just happened to be in a band with one of my favourite drummers, bassists and singers. Love Sabbath!
I began listening music of Beatles and Bee Gees, the campus "white and safe music" until 21 years and a friend like an angel madre me listening Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, Grand Funk Railroad, Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly, Led Zeppelin among others monsters of rock and nothing was the same. My mother ans father were glad, happy by my excelent election.
One of the greatest thrills of my entire life was to meet black Sabbath at a meet and greet before a concert in Connecticut..Tony has always been one of my idols,and when I got to talk to him for about 15 or 20 minutes,I told him I have been a black Sabbath fan since I was about 9 years old...and he says to me" how old are you now"?and I said,"well, I'm 48"...and he got a big grin on his face and laughed and said "hah, you're just a young lad",and he laughed so hard,and smiled and said"thank you for being so devoted to the band, shook my hand.. he's so down to earth,very nice guy...ROCK ON,TONY!!!! 🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟
It does my heart well to see Tony up and out doing things and being active . There is so much to say ,but I will make it as short as I can. It is so great to see Tony and Brain in good health. I met Tony in 1971 I was 16 teen he was 22 I believe . And numerous times through out the years . He has been so good to me over the year's and he did not have to be that way with me . I looked up to him as a big brother one way or another about everything in our talk's about music and life. I am 69 year's of age and I have been playing guitar for 61 year's. I wish Tony and Brian nothing but the best in health , happiness and joy in there life's and there endeavors . I just can't imagine my life without meeting Tony through out all these year's . From age of 16 till now he as friend , a person and a guitarist will all way's be part of my life. Just have to say Brain and Tony have a nice friendship that mean's a lot in that rock world realm ,2 of my most admired guitar player's. I did a You Tube show where I play guitar 4 year's ago call Cooking With Frankie meatball Black Sabbath Pizza story and I open up with we will rock you using a Brain guitar then playing some Tony I think you will like it. Take care.
Awesome story, thanks for sharing...i have also reached that ripe age of 69 and still have aspirations of creating New and fresh music from all my inspirations. Black Sabbath was my second concert ever... The Association was my first. Been a big music fan watching the Ed Sullivan show as a kid before the Beatles appeared. All the safe music, don't show Elvis with his hip gyrations... James Brown was the baddest screamer.... Wow, we came a long way in a short time, multi tracking and synthesizers...Toni and Brian living legends...i really miss Jeff but got to see him many times and his instrumental legacy is full. 🎶👣🌲💚
@@GilesMcRikerI think it’s really hard to tell since without Sabbath and/or Queen, music as we know it today would most likely be very different. Not saying better or worse, just different. Artists such as these have had an immense impact on popular music, so removing them from history would surely change things drastically
I know this video is just supposed to be about Tony but I love you both so much that I have to write to both of you here. Queen was the first rock band I ever listened to and Sabbath wasn't far behind. I was a child and didn't know what it was, but I knew I wanted to hear more. You both inspired my love for music of many genres. Both of you guys should be incredibly proud because you're both innovators. Up and coming guitarists will idolize you as long as guitars exist. I wish I could have one lesson from each of you. I tried to learn guitar as a child but stupidly didn't take it seriously. I love the work you've both done and all the joy you've brought into the world. Thank you so much for sharing your music with us!
I realized later in life that I never could match the tone or NOTES with Tony Iommi because he was tuning his strings differently because of the implants on his fingers. It is really poetic that metal came from an instrumental occurrence like this. The story is cutting-edge metal.
With the recent passing of the likes of Eddie Van Halen, Gary Moore, Prince etc., we, the folks today have the immense blessing of being alive to witness and be in the presence of these LEGENDS IN THE FLESH !!! Rock Music of the 70's - the 90's and the gods who gave them to the World will forever live on, so long as the human race doesn't annihilate itself and all other living things. So, lets all give thanks to God and pray that these Amazing Music ICONS shall continue to Graces us with their music and their priceless Wisdoms and Stories for many more years !!! 🎶🙏🤘🎸😍
When I was like 19, band I was in needed a practice place. One of the guys said I can get us in the catholic church. So first time playing on this empty catholic church on like a Thursday night. We were jamming away, and we were amazed at how loud it sounded at a low volume, and we turned all the reverb off because it echoed so much was no point in reverb. A priest walks in and I guess he wanted to make us feel at ease and starts talking about how much he loves black Sabbath. He walks in some back room and we start jamming iron man or something and we were never allowed to practice there again. 😀 Looking back I think the priest worried that is playing what he said he liked might be heard by someone outside and lead to a scandal. 😀 Heck if he told us he liked Johnny cash we would of played that. But he liked Sabbath.
The Paranoid album recorded in days at most is a true classic. Between Iommi’s classic riffs, a rhythm section that was an insane mix of heavy metal power and drive combined with jazz level proficiency, Ozzy’s iconic vocals and Geezer’s singular lyrics, these 4 musicians both created a genre and set the bar at Mount Olympus levels for any bands that dared to follow.
The bands are quite different but I’ve always loved them both and if you’re selective with the song you choose, you can play them next to each other on a mixtape 😊
This video is actually a very nice one. Things I didn’t know about the history of Black Sabbath. The finger tips of Tony Iommi is a result of luck after misfortune. He is a living legend 🤩👍🤩🤩🤩👍👍👍🤟
I used Tony as an example to cheer up a teenager I met, who was born with partial hearing loss. I told him about this young lad who had his fingers chopped off in an accident and he only went on to become the greatest hard rock/metal guitarist ever.
Two Rock Gods!!! WOW!! I was born in 1960 in Leamington, Ontario, but i was living in Lambeth, Ontario outside of London by 1970. During the 70s, I was blown away, first by Sabbath, and Purple, then Queen by the early- mid 70s. Iommi, and May were two of my earliest influences, along with Blackmore, and Page. What a glorious period for British rock legends. Can't tell you how fortunate I was to just be alive during this amazing era!!
I hear ya, same here, so fortunate to grow up in the 60's and 70's with all the amazing music of the era. I was in a club circuit band in the early 80's and one of the clubs we played was in Leamington, I can't remember the name, but it had a bowling alley as well. We stayed in rooms upstairs during the week gig.
Mentioning deep purple and Blackmore gives me great memories hearing Ian Gillian for the first time, thinking that he was the best rock vocalist ever and was super blown away when he did a Sabbath album. Born again was heaviest heavy of all heavy, after Dio didn't think Sabbath could hit another musical Pinnacle... this video will inspire me to set up my turntable and listen to my album collection again. Atomic Rooster and Captain Beyond... yikes, i do have albums that were given to me...wow 🎶⏳
Yet they are known for there sound from customised or custom guitars. Saracsim aside, I do agree. Players always sound like themselves regardless of gear, it's more like the right gear to enhance your sound
I got "Hand Of Doom" collection of first Black Sabbath 4 albums in 1982 i guess, biggest music influence for me. Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath still incredibly heavy and doomy even today. for 1969 really, IMO the real first metal song.
You put it just right, and from what I can see it's a real good friendship . It's just right. 4 years ago I did a You Tube show Cooking with Frankie meatball BLACK SABBATH PIZZA STORY, that I play guitar and open up with We will rock you with a Brian May guitar then Tony through out the show check it out I think you will like it. Take care my friend.
Grew up with black sabbath as a slightly scary band in the background. Only came to rock music late in my teen years. Loved the heaven and hell album but never been able to get into early stuff. Tony iommi will always be a guitarist i admire especially learning late of how he overcame his accident. his modesty is just so endearing. And he has such a great presence on stage.
They're saying when they first heard Sabbath it scared the shit out of them. Same here but the first song I heard was Under the Sun. This will have been about 1978 when I was 13 years old. Kids today probably wouldn't feel the same but for us back then discovering Sabbath was like opening the door into the other side.
I was 14 in 1970 just learning to play guitar and a neighbor buddy brought over the first Black Sabbath album. I had been listening to CCR and learning John Fogerty licks. It was like WTF, wow! Taking the pentatonic scale to the dark side and more! 😅
I remember listening to their first album when it came out. I loved Black Sabbaths first 4 albums Fairies wear boots! I always thought that they wasted too many riffs in each song - one was enough but they gave them 2 or 3.
Piece of heavy metal history. Amazing. And back then they had imagination...you can even tell from the movies. Wish i could send myself and live back then.
Love you Tony Iommi in a inspirational way. Thank you for being you and creating what was missing in music until you did your thing ..! Thank you for everything you have gave us. ( I was a drummer also turned on to guitar. Like you and Eddie. But you had a much greater influence on me personally, truthfully)
I was drawn to sabbath at the age of 15 in 1975. They were never mainstream , it was a stoner band. I saw them live twice in the 70 s, the last time Van Halen opened for them. This was the beginning of the decline until RJD arrived. I did like technical ecstasy and never say die. It’s crazy that their existence is as influential as it is , and the song paranoid , a last minute addition to the album , seems to be the song third parties go to . Their catalogue is deep. Every song on Sabbath bloody sabbath is worth a listen , and Sabotage is an unclassifiable masterpiece that gets very little attention . Great job, great story. It’s always annoyed me that Bill ward and Geezer do not get the accolades they deserve, it’s always about Tony and Ozzy , look at Tony’s work without Ward and butler, not the same.
We're on about the same timeline, I got into these guys when I was about 14, that would've been '75. I enjoyed the hell out of this video and of course love Tony - but you are so damn right about Geezer and Ward, one of the great rhythm sections ever, those dudes so totally nailed the whole thing down!
Tony's work without Geezer and Ward is great too. His work with Ozzy without those 2 is the same. At least it is Black Sabbath for me thought it still calls Iommi.
I wrote a lot of words here first, and deleted again, and again. Cant seem to find the right words to describe what Tony Iommi means to us .. its not possible. How I would like to shake this mans hand someday and thank him for all he has done for us who are still enjoying his riffs since we were kids. I´m born in 64. Peace and a happy life to you Mr Tony. Godfather of heavy metal. Your Legacy.
I was around 12 when i discovered Black Sabbath. I remember buying magazines like Total Guitar and Guitar Techniques, youd get a cd with it so you could play along etc.. the first one was war pigs on the cd that is and i had to learn it, the next was paranoid . I nailed it, i was well chuffed with myself and now theyre one of my favourite bands of all time.. you tend to respect music more when you see how much effort goes into it. The 70s was the time of awesome metal.. sabbath, zeppelin etc. When folks say rock is dead they dont mean that its actually dead what they mean is is that bands like those will never be seen again, well they will but without so much recognision
It sounds like Classical music for a Gothic Horror film. That Devils riff sounds Dark and Ominous like a Warning that something Evil is coming around. Something Wicked this Way Comes. His riffs are Not Blues based. That was Led Zeppelin who created heavy Blues based Rock. Led Zep sounds like lighter Heavy Metal compared to Sabbaths darker and heavier music. I think Iomni created a new Genre. Gothic Heavy Metal. Now there’s Speed metal (Motörhead) , Thrash metal and Death Metal. And he even overcame a nasty injury from a factory job. Amazing how he created his own tips for his fingers so he could play. So he didn’t allow it to stop him. That’s great!
I was born in 68, which made me a kid in the 70's and a teenager in the 80's. Growing up in a small rural farm town in Indiana with 14 churches and 1 tavern. All my reletives being very religious I had to listen to my music in hiding. I realized that by putting tape over the little holes on the top edge of the cassette tapes, you could record over store bought tapes, then remove the tape. No one would ever know. So I took some cassettes of Linda Ronstadt, Osmond Brothers, Oakridge Boys and other "safe" music I recorded Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Iron Butterfly and my metal bands right over the top.
me too, but i would buy quality blank recording tapes. Didnt like the quality of recording over tapes
@@joeantonelli5533 Same here, but it hid my music. My only fear was someone actually playing one of my cassettes and hearing Black Sabbath instead of The Oakridge Boys. Stealth was my MO.
The most metal thing ever haha 🫡🫡
Born in 67 but grew up in Los Angeles . Though my parents hated what I listened to.
Still to this day I find Sabbaths music thought provoking.
One of my top 5 bands. Really can’t name a number one changes with my mood.
Born in 63 SF.
Heard this as life was very different..
Beatles to Sabbath..
_"I usually phone up Jimmy Page and ask him."_
I fucking love Tony for saying that.
Tony is better With 3 fingers than Pages sloppy whole hand 👌🏻
@@AmericanPatriot4-19-95nice try
N 1:11 @@AmericanPatriot4-19-95nah, when Page was at his peak no one was better
@@youtoo2233that was before people like RANDY, Lynch, and Eddie took it to the stars....I'll take TONY over Page ANY DAY. ROY CLARK was Better Tony And Page put together but you would have to be a player to know whos technically brilliant and who is more like lil Wayne 😂.UA-cam it. TONY was having fun because he and Jimmy had a friendly rivalry when he said that because we ALL know who started Metal, Sabbath!!!!! 😦 Zeppelin and the annoying whine of Robert Plant was R&R and a good band. Just a little light for me.....Just sayin. My OPINION and apparently Brian May's too (who was out of his league here) 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
That is great man. Tony is just an inspiring figure that we all love. The fact that he chopped two fingertips off during his last day at work and he just plowed on. An amazing man .
All metalheads must bow down to the severed fingertips of Master Iommi.
Not just all metalheads... ALL should bow down! :)
Black Sabbath should get royalties from every metal band that came after.
@@tillitsdonevery funny
it's remarkable how he played with those prosthesis in the past, without the technology available now!
The hand of doom!
Tony is such a great story teller, i could listen to him for hours.
What a treat. Just wonderful to have a glimpse of Tony and Brian May's enduring friendship. Both such classy human beings. Both legends.
What a treat, indeed.
It would seem so, right? But if you read Toni's book, and it's him not some ghost writer, he had quite a wicked streak. But, I suppose, after surviving ....a LOT, he has mellowed and gotten less defensive and angry with time. But yes, it'd be great to hear them pull some magic out of Geezers hat.
@@antrygis1agreed. I think Tony by all accounts may not have always deserved the title classy. This older, mellowed, Tony seems more likeable.
I better could have not put it myself.
👍, meanwhile on the flip side, "all the 80s hair band lead guitarist" opening up a can of Spam at a wooded trailer park.
I hope everyone realises that yes, Tony is essential, but Geezer is just as important for the invention of Metal.
Lyrics yes. And he was an amazing bass player. But if it wasn't for Tony's limitations because of the accident, he would of never developed the sound.
Agreed 100%
Geezer's lyrics are goofy and childish at times... He's just copying Tony's riffs so everything still goes down to Tony...
@@tannermulford2033Childish? Hahaha that was a good joke, what's next?
Brilliant analysis @@mozdaboz
Hearing Brian May and Tony Iommi just jamming together? That would never chase me away.
Check out Tony Iommi's solo album, the eponymous Iommi.
It's got May and many more all over it.
🤘🏼 *I wish there was a video of them playing for hours! I would consume ALL of it!* 🤘🏼
"He is playing it wrong!"
Tony is just a gem!
Brian May did an AWESOME solo on Black Sabbath’s “When Death Calls” which was featured on their ‘89 Headless Cross
@@dustyscryptI just got done listening to every album you're talking about . F****** everything. All the Dio albums. The Born again album. The Glenn Hughes and the ray gillen years . I pulled up those Jeff Fenholt demos . And all the Tony Martin lps . And they are all what I would call excellent metal . Tony knows how to pick em . 😊
Yes indeed. Glad you mentioned it. Love the Tony Martin material. Every other non-Ozzy album holds up too!
It brings me enormous amounts of joy to know that Brian May and Tony Iommi are best friends.
Ive epilepsy and i can remember picking up an original vertigo swirl copy of Black Sabbath and having a seizure when i looked at the swirl!!! Now when i listen to a vertigo swirl i cover the middle!!!!
The amounts of pressure the guitarist at the ballet must be feeling when Tony comes walking in.
😅👍
13:52 "Fortune's looked kindly on both Brian and I, and between us, we've raked up a fair few riffs that have stuck around"
Love the understatement. Tony, you're a gentleman and a legend. The music of Black Sabbath...and Queen......will live forever!
Boxes of unheard Iommi riffs…..can you imagine. Now I won’t be able to sleep till I hear all of them. Please guys, make an album. Take your time, we can wait. I think.🤘
Me too,,, I truly truly would like to listen all of them,, I wish that he releases them for all of the fans
They cant
@@silentm999 Explain.
If they can afford to, let them rest, they’ve done enough for us fans.
@@TiptronicsIt's their passion.
Praise Iommi! Obey The Riff!
Tony is such a great narrator, besides harvesting millions of souls with his guitar playing.
Brian May and Tony Iommi, PLEASE make can album together. Oh yes, oh yes. The world needs it, PLEASE!
On my lates 40’s and just discovering the music world of Tony Iommi 🤩😍🤯
That first Sabbath album is a minor miracle. It really does sound like they banged it out in one day, but it was a great day. Tony going off on an extended jazzy blues solo to fill up some time... and then coming back to crushing heavy riffs. Other bands were also playing some extra hard rock at the time, but that album really seemed to be the start of metal music.
To this day it never bores me. Ozzy’s uniqueness, Ward’s boozy swing style drumming, and Geezers percussive bass style, really ties it all together.
😎🎶👍 my first concert was 1978 Long Beach, California Black Sabbath tickets $13 the best show I ever saw-thank you Tony Iommi for keeping the music alive is the best 👍👍👍👍👍
VERY EXPENSIVE! I'm in Canada so the money is even cheaper. First concert was Genesis on july 13, 1978 in Montreal. Don't remember the price but it was under 10 CANADIAN cheap dollars. My second show was YES on april 18, 1979 in Quebec CITY and i remember very well the price of the ticket! 7.50 CHEAP CANADIAN dollars with taxes or fees. 7.50 STRAIGHT and it was for any part-seat of the arena.
So 13 AMERICAN dollars in 1978... IN GOD WE TRUST... ONLY IN USA...
Watching Tommy and Brian have fun made me smile ear to ear. Talent !!!
Tony’s the reason I picked up an electric guitar at 13 and spent countless hours learning to play those riffs and the pentatonic blues scales for solos. I’m 58 now and still go back them.
I think it's like the one comes along that just does it where you just have to do what you feel that is the best thing you ever heard that changed your hole way of thinking about you want to play that guitar as good as what you have heard that sets you on fire. Iam69 year's old and at 15 Tony has set me on fire till today I will all ways know where I have been and it never left. Check me out on this show You Tube BLACK SABBATH PIZZA STORY . I think you will like it ' it's about me and Sabbath take care.
Tony is the reason for a lot of many other guys too
He is the grandmaster! Created metal.
I'm 67 and I caught Sabbath in real time, when the first album came out. I was a 14 year old budding guitar player just starting, and after a good introduction to the pentatonic scale learning John Fogerty riffs, I was studying Tony Iommi's riffs full time with the needle on the turntable over and over.
@@doninmichigan you're very lucky to get them in real time
Only a true legend can rock the same look for 50 years
We really need an album from these 2 legends!
There are small collaborations by Sir Brian in Tony's solo album and Headless Cross. But we do definitely need a whole album with these two.
Briony Mayommi 😁
Hoooooo!….Nnnnooooo! We don’t…….
@@benjaminleiva5763 nice
Summer of 1980, a friend took me down into his basement, sat me down and said, "You are going to listen to Black Sabbath until you like it!" He put on Vol. 4 and when Supernaut started, I was hooked (having only liked The Beatles, ABBA and Oldies up to that point). There will never be another Tony Iommi. I will mourn for a long time, with his passing.
Mr. Iommi is such a sweet gentleman. He was so humble and forthcoming when he described his hand accident, and wasn't ashamed to hide the outcome from the film crew.
Such an honour to hear the 2 greats together
tony is responsible for the genre that almost all the bands i listen to play today. infinite gratitude to him and the rest of black sabbath. proud to be born and raised in birmingham because of them.
Brian and Tony.... my two favorite guitar players...such legends! I would love it if they made a record together!
Brian did contribute a guitar solo on Black Sabbath's Headless Cross album
If only! For two guys who have been mates forever, like jamming together ... and who are both pushing it age-wise. You'd think they's 'get to it'.
Goodbye Lament and Flame On featuring Brian May on the solo album IOMMI
And both are close friends of Rick Wakeman. Should have him in the Moog. :-)
@@richardhincemon- *Yes! That album just doesn't get the notoriety it deserves!* 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
What a inspiration Tony was on me i got my first SG a copy because of him i was ten years old am 63 now Tony is a legend 🍺🎵🎶🎸😀
Seeing Tony play Tie your Mother down
...priceless
Iommi had a super fast trill! Underrated player, not just a riff lord his leads were great too!
May and Iommi playing together was something effortlessly juicy
An album of Iommi rifs with May's lead + vice versa would be great!
Hearing Toni live at ground shaking volume is something else. Magic, pure black magic. One of my favourite guitarists, who just happened to be in a band with one of my favourite drummers, bassists and singers. Love Sabbath!
I began listening music of Beatles and Bee Gees, the campus "white and safe music" until 21 years and a friend like an angel madre me listening Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, Grand Funk Railroad, Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly, Led Zeppelin among others monsters of rock and nothing was the same. My mother ans father were glad, happy by my excelent election.
They started it all.. Tony is a god
One of the greatest thrills of my entire life was to meet black Sabbath at a meet and greet before a concert in Connecticut..Tony has always been one of my idols,and when I got to talk to him for about 15 or 20 minutes,I told him I have been a black Sabbath fan since I was about 9 years old...and he says to me" how old are you now"?and I said,"well, I'm 48"...and he got a big grin on his face and laughed and said "hah, you're just a young lad",and he laughed so hard,and smiled and said"thank you for being so devoted to the band, shook my hand.. he's so down to earth,very nice guy...ROCK ON,TONY!!!! 🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟
"He's playing it wrong."
Gotta love Tony's wit 😂
It does my heart well to see Tony up and out doing things and being active . There is so much to say ,but I will make it as short as I can. It is so great to see Tony and Brain in good health. I met Tony in 1971 I was 16 teen he was 22 I believe . And numerous times through out the years . He has been so good to me over the year's and he did not have to be that way with me . I looked up to him as a big brother one way or another about everything in our talk's about music and life. I am 69 year's of age and I have been playing guitar for 61 year's. I wish Tony and Brian nothing but the best in health , happiness and joy in there life's and there endeavors . I just can't imagine my life without meeting Tony through out all these year's . From age of 16 till now he as friend , a person and a guitarist will all way's be part of my life. Just have to say Brain and Tony have a nice friendship that mean's a lot in that rock world realm ,2 of my most admired guitar player's. I did a You Tube show where I play guitar 4 year's ago call Cooking With Frankie meatball Black Sabbath Pizza story and I open up with we will rock you using a Brain guitar then playing some Tony I think you will like it. Take care.
Awesome story, thanks for sharing...i have also reached that ripe age of 69 and still have aspirations of creating New and fresh music from all my inspirations.
Black Sabbath was my second concert ever... The Association was my first.
Been a big music fan watching the Ed Sullivan show as a kid before the Beatles appeared.
All the safe music, don't show Elvis with his hip gyrations... James Brown was the baddest screamer.... Wow, we came a long way in a short time, multi tracking and synthesizers...Toni and Brian living legends...i really miss Jeff but got to see him many times and his instrumental legacy is full. 🎶👣🌲💚
You can tell how proud Iommi is of the Black Sabbath riff
Where would we be without musicians like these two?
We probably would have gotten to The music of 2023 a lot sooner :(
@@GilesMcRikerI think it’s really hard to tell since without Sabbath and/or Queen, music as we know it today would most likely be very different. Not saying better or worse, just different. Artists such as these have had an immense impact on popular music, so removing them from history would surely change things drastically
We'd be screwed
We are screwed, the war pigs are taking over 🚧🔧🙏🎸
I learnt to love the diminished 5th because of Tony Iommi. One of the greatest and most influential guitarists ever >3
I know this video is just supposed to be about Tony but I love you both so much that I have to write to both of you here. Queen was the first rock band I ever listened to and Sabbath wasn't far behind. I was a child and didn't know what it was, but I knew I wanted to hear more. You both inspired my love for music of many genres. Both of you guys should be incredibly proud because you're both innovators. Up and coming guitarists will idolize you as long as guitars exist. I wish I could have one lesson from each of you. I tried to learn guitar as a child but stupidly didn't take it seriously. I love the work you've both done and all the joy you've brought into the world. Thank you so much for sharing your music with us!
Two of the greatest Rock guitarists of all time! 😮😊
His tone is distinct + perfect riffs. Inventor of metal guitar riffs😊
I realized later in life that I never could match the tone or NOTES with Tony Iommi because he was tuning his strings differently because of the implants on his fingers. It is really poetic that metal came from an instrumental occurrence like this. The story is cutting-edge metal.
Just like a perfectly written script... 🤟
With the recent passing of the likes of Eddie Van Halen, Gary Moore, Prince etc., we, the folks today have the immense blessing of being alive to witness and be in the presence of these LEGENDS IN THE FLESH !!! Rock Music of the 70's - the 90's and the gods who gave them to the World will forever live on, so long as the human race doesn't annihilate itself and all other living things. So, lets all give thanks to God and pray that these Amazing Music ICONS shall continue to Graces us with their music and their priceless Wisdoms and Stories for many more years !!! 🎶🙏🤘🎸😍
When I was like 19, band I was in needed a practice place.
One of the guys said I can get us in the catholic church.
So first time playing on this empty catholic church on like a Thursday night. We were jamming away, and we were amazed at how loud it sounded at a low volume, and we turned all the reverb off because it echoed so much was no point in reverb.
A priest walks in and I guess he wanted to make us feel at ease and starts talking about how much he loves black Sabbath.
He walks in some back room and we start jamming iron man or something and we were never allowed to practice there again. 😀
Looking back I think the priest worried that is playing what he said he liked might be heard by someone outside and lead to a scandal. 😀
Heck if he told us he liked Johnny cash we would of played that. But he liked Sabbath.
The Paranoid album recorded in days at most is a true classic. Between Iommi’s classic riffs, a rhythm section that was an insane mix of heavy metal power and drive combined with jazz level proficiency, Ozzy’s iconic vocals and Geezer’s singular lyrics, these 4 musicians both created a genre and set the bar at Mount Olympus levels for any bands that dared to follow.
I'm not even a fan of Black Sabbath or Queen, but watching these two Legends jamming together gives me so much joy.
What the fuck do you like then?
What the fuck do you like then?
Well, to be fair, not many people liked both bands. They were not even remotely the same, which makes their friendship even more interesting.
The bands are quite different but I’ve always loved them both and if you’re selective with the song you choose, you can play them next to each other on a mixtape 😊
This video is actually a very nice one. Things I didn’t know about the history of Black Sabbath. The finger tips of Tony Iommi is a result of luck after misfortune. He is a living legend 🤩👍🤩🤩🤩👍👍👍🤟
I used Tony as an example to cheer up a teenager I met, who was born with partial hearing loss. I told him about this young lad who had his fingers chopped off in an accident and he only went on to become the greatest hard rock/metal guitarist ever.
Black Sabbath just makes me wanna wear a cloak, tune down to C# and crank the amp up to "Angry Neighbor"
😅 Reminds me of 1970 when I was trying to learn the licks off the first album in my bedroom.
Come on Tony …..give us some more music 🤘
Two Rock Gods!!! WOW!! I was born in 1960 in Leamington, Ontario, but i was living in Lambeth, Ontario outside of London by 1970. During the 70s, I was blown away, first by Sabbath, and Purple, then Queen by the early- mid 70s. Iommi, and May were two of my earliest influences, along with Blackmore, and Page. What a glorious period for British rock legends. Can't tell you how fortunate I was to just be alive during this amazing era!!
I was born in st.thomas in 64. Growing up in the tobacco fields of tillsonburg listening to the hippies music. Great Era and I'm still a hippie.
I hear ya, same here, so fortunate to grow up in the 60's and 70's with all the amazing music of the era. I was in a club circuit band in the early 80's and one of the clubs we played was in Leamington, I can't remember the name, but it had a bowling alley as well. We stayed in rooms upstairs during the week gig.
Mentioning deep purple and Blackmore gives me great memories hearing Ian Gillian for the first time, thinking that he was the best rock vocalist ever and was super blown away when he did a Sabbath album. Born again was heaviest heavy of all heavy, after Dio didn't think Sabbath could hit another musical Pinnacle... this video will inspire me to set up my turntable and listen to my album collection again.
Atomic Rooster and Captain Beyond... yikes, i do have albums that were given to me...wow 🎶⏳
Tony and Brian...that is something to see
All hail the king of metal guitar
He really is 👏🏻
An Iommi/May album would be great!
People always talk about Tony's riffs, but the man made some fucking good leads as well.
It's very cool to hear how much their signature tone is actually in their fingers vs any gear!
Yet they are known for there sound from customised or custom guitars. Saracsim aside, I do agree. Players always sound like themselves regardless of gear, it's more like the right gear to enhance your sound
I'm 64 yrs old and I was riding a bicycle listening to Sabbath damn it! Haha! Badass!
That was great and then seeing Brian and Tony together is the Christmas present I never knew I was getting!!!!
I got "Hand Of Doom" collection of first Black Sabbath 4 albums in 1982 i guess, biggest music influence for me. Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath still incredibly heavy and doomy even today. for 1969 really, IMO the real first metal song.
Two of the best and most influential guitarists of all time! And they both seem like such cool guys.
You put it just right, and from what I can see it's a real good friendship . It's just right. 4 years ago I did a You Tube show Cooking with Frankie meatball BLACK SABBATH PIZZA STORY, that I play guitar and open up with We will rock you with a Brian May guitar then Tony through out the show check it out I think you will like it. Take care my friend.
It’s always so nice seeing people who have literally seen a million faces and rocked every one be genuinely chill guys.
Tony put the HEAVY in HEAVY METAL!! Nobody played with such a core of the earth sound as... Tony. The father of Heavy Metal.
Grew up with black sabbath as a slightly scary band in the background. Only came to rock music late in my teen years. Loved the heaven and hell album but never been able to get into early stuff. Tony iommi will always be a guitarist i admire especially learning late of how he overcame his accident. his modesty is just so endearing. And he has such a great presence on stage.
I could watch hours and hours of this.
Who else wants to see the Black Sabbath ballet?
They're saying when they first heard Sabbath it scared the shit out of them. Same here but the first song I heard was Under the Sun. This will have been about 1978 when I was 13 years old. Kids today probably wouldn't feel the same but for us back then discovering Sabbath was like opening the door into the other side.
I was 14 in 1970 just learning to play guitar and a neighbor buddy brought over the first Black Sabbath album. I had been listening to CCR and learning John Fogerty licks. It was like WTF, wow! Taking the pentatonic scale to the dark side and more! 😅
"you can sell it to aerosmith" was painful funny and true
Tony is one of my guitar heroes.
BRITISH ROCK LEGENDS 🇬🇧🎸🎵
Tony Iommy: GOD Heavy Metal
Bryan May: Master Of Rock
The tone in this documentary is better than anything recorded in the past 10 years 🤣
Now i want to see that Tony Iommi and Brian May Riff LP .. that would be legendary!
I remember listening to their first album when it came out.
I loved Black Sabbaths first 4 albums
Fairies wear boots!
I always thought that they wasted too many riffs in each song - one was enough but they gave them 2 or 3.
History kiddies, History! ✌🏽♥️🎶🇦🇺
I heard that Tony Lommi is a rock and roll man 😅
Soundgarden's cover of Into the Void is amazing. We have Tony Iommi and Buzzo to thank for the drop D revolution that was a crucial part of grunge.
Drop D revolution
😂
Piece of heavy metal history. Amazing. And back then they had imagination...you can even tell from the movies. Wish i could send myself and live back then.
Brian can still rock out as he did on Queen 2. So impressive. I say he held back after 76.
To record that album in ONE DAY. My god, top professionals
I would love to hear a project with these two guys.
That would be a world event , it just might happen.
Tony and Brian could do this every week and I’d watch!!
Into The Void always gives me goosebumps.
great video im a guitar player for 45 years thanks to tony iommi
I would absolutely love to see Brian May and Tony Iommi record an album together, I reckon it'd rock.
May played on Iommi's solo album
Thanks For All Black Sabbath.. In My Hart You Will Always Be The Best Band Ever For Me 😊
Love you Tony Iommi in a inspirational way. Thank you for being you and creating what was missing in music until you did your thing ..! Thank you for everything you have gave us. ( I was a drummer also turned on to guitar. Like you and Eddie. But you had a much greater influence on me personally, truthfully)
Tony makes me proud to be a Brummie.
I was drawn to sabbath at the age of 15 in 1975. They were never mainstream , it was a stoner band. I saw them live twice in the 70 s, the last time Van Halen opened for them. This was the beginning of the decline until RJD arrived. I did like technical ecstasy and never say die. It’s crazy that their existence is as influential as it is , and the song paranoid , a last minute addition to the album , seems to be the song third parties go to . Their catalogue is deep. Every song on Sabbath bloody sabbath is worth a listen , and Sabotage is an unclassifiable masterpiece that gets very little attention . Great job, great story. It’s always annoyed me that Bill ward and Geezer do not get the accolades they deserve, it’s always about Tony and Ozzy , look at Tony’s work without Ward and butler, not the same.
We're on about the same timeline, I got into these guys when I was about 14, that would've been '75. I enjoyed the hell out of this video and of course love Tony - but you are so damn right about Geezer and Ward, one of the great rhythm sections ever, those dudes so totally nailed the whole thing down!
13...71
Tony's work without Geezer and Ward is great too. His work with Ozzy without those 2 is the same. At least it is Black Sabbath for me thought it still calls Iommi.
@@user-fv6rt5lq4k about the same here, 14 in '70
I wrote a lot of words here first, and deleted again, and again. Cant seem to find the right words to describe what Tony Iommi means to us .. its not possible. How I would like to shake this mans hand someday and thank him for all he has done for us who are still enjoying his riffs since we were kids. I´m born in 64. Peace and a happy life to you Mr Tony. Godfather of heavy metal. Your Legacy.
I was around 12 when i discovered Black Sabbath. I remember buying magazines like Total Guitar and Guitar Techniques, youd get a cd with it so you could play along etc.. the first one was war pigs on the cd that is and i had to learn it, the next was paranoid
. I nailed it, i was well chuffed with myself and now theyre one of my favourite bands of all time.. you tend to respect music more when you see how much effort goes into it. The 70s was the time of awesome metal.. sabbath, zeppelin etc. When folks say rock is dead they dont mean that its actually dead what they mean is is that bands like those will never be seen again, well they will but without so much recognision
I’ve seen snipits of Brian talking before , but never Tony; so nice to hear, having been a fan of both their bands for years! 🙏👍
that last riff never heard before is outstanding .. i would like to hear glenn hughes or tony martin singing on it
That last Riff played is the song called "Naivete In Black" sung by Ozzy Osbourne and it's a bonus song off of the "13" album. Kicks Ass !!
Their styles are so different yet each so easily identifiable.
Tony really IS the GODFATHER of HEAVY METAL!!! Period! 😎
My god I loved this. My very first single as a kid was Paranoid.
well, what can you say about these legends. icons.
At least 30 minutes worth.
It sounds like Classical music for a Gothic Horror film. That Devils riff sounds Dark and Ominous like a Warning that something Evil is coming around. Something Wicked this Way Comes.
His riffs are Not Blues based. That was Led Zeppelin who created heavy Blues based Rock. Led Zep sounds like lighter Heavy Metal compared to Sabbaths darker and heavier music. I think Iomni created a new Genre. Gothic Heavy Metal.
Now there’s Speed metal (Motörhead) , Thrash metal and Death Metal.
And he even overcame a nasty injury from a factory job. Amazing how he created his own tips for his fingers so he could play. So he didn’t allow it to stop him. That’s great!
Excellent thanks so much for posting this.
A great insight for sure.. Respect 👍😎💭🎸💜✨🎶
A couple of legendary riffs and kids.