>Iommi is the debut solo album by Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, released on Priority Records October 27, 2000. It was a collaboration between Iommi and various other musicians, featuring different vocalists singing songs written by him, other than Black Oblivion which was a collaboration with Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan.[3]
>>127974403Time is Mine is great, some killer riffs on this album.
Seventh Star was technically a Iommi solo album although the record label didn't market it as such.
>>127974426gave him a chance to try different kinds of riffs since each track had a completely different singer with different vocal abilities.
Iommi [Divine, 2000] *bomb*
>>127974485Many are saying this.
>>127974485does anyone care what this old fuck thinks?
>>127974485Who seriously cares what this low test fag thinks about rock?
>>127974485but the label was Priority?
>>127974485lmao this fag reads the village voice
>>127974446yeah if you've been in a band you know the vocalist is a huge part of what you can and can't do with the instrumentals
>>127974403He was smarter than Glenn Tipton on his solo album since Glenn...thought he could sing himself. It was not pretty.
>>127974556Divine was the European distributor. Sometimes he had Euro versions of an album.
>>127974507>>127974554>>127974561Bots
I love Iommi and he WAS Sabbath, but I'm not interested at all in that album. If I wanna listen to his "solo" shit, I go to picrel.
>>127975292Iommi was alright, same with the DEP Sessions. Seventh Star is fantastic though. Would've rather had another album like that instead of Eternal Idol (which was just ok)
Decent songs on there, but it has one of the worst opening tracks I've heard.
>>127976430it's Henry Rollins, of course it's going to be cringe
I remember in his (now pulled) Gibson YT interview a few years back when they released his SG Special signature model, he was talking about this collaborative album and he was naming what were, to us, big names in heavy rock, and he was like "I had no idea wtf he was, but we recorded a track anyway." Incredibly based.
>>127974485Yes it was da bomb
>>127977440at minimum i assume Iommi didn't know Ian Astbury or Skin since they were pretty much literallywhos compared to some of the other singers
>>127974576i think Tipton's solo album was basically laughed out of the building
>>127977440He would have definitly known Astbury who was well known in the 80s UK. I think he may have been talking about the Limp Biscuit guy or some other numetal singer or someone similar from post y2k. I'm still curious why they pulled the interview, but it was kino. He told the story about lacquering Bill Ward gold in the DuPont family manse and the bambulance driver chastising them. JFC was that funny.
>>127977602 meant for >>127977487
>>127977602>I think he may have been talking about the Limp Biscuit guy or some other numetal singer or someone similar from post y2k.Fred Durst wasn't on the album, lol. Maybe you mean Serj Tankian?
>>127977487Geezer's first solo album was with the dude from Fear Factory. You never know
>>127977623No, it was definitely somebody douchier. It could have been some other collaboration or maybe a track/tryout that didn't make the cut. Maybe Rollins or Anselmo? fml, I wish they didn't remove that video. It was in the GibsonTV Icons series about 3-5 years ago, but it's gone now.
>>127977723>No, it was definitely somebody douchierhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iommi_(album)#Personnel>track 3I think I know who it was.
>>127974507Of course not
>>127974403According to Iommi's book, he was originally recording demos with Jorn Lande (a kind of Coverdale-Dio hybrid from Norway, who later worked with Heaven and Hell), but the label thought they sounded dated and wanted more modern guys. Bad move in retrospect.
>>127977731lel maybe so. What made it funny was that the guy was in a band that anyone under 55 would have known--and probably called their fav band at one time--but he's so boomer & old that he had not idea who tf it was. He just records an album with him anyway.
>>127977740Priority was a cutting edge label in the 90s so yes they probably didn't want to have a dadrock-sounding album.
>>127977753>Priority was a cutting edge label in the 90s soCuckgau also shit on them but what does he know about anything?
>>127977740bad move? only for Jorn lmfao. 1/1billion ain't bad odds
>>127974403>>127974403
>>127977907that reminds one of Sinatra trying to do contemporary pop at various points in his career when it never worked as well as when he just stuck to the GASB stuff
>>127977907it's hilarious Geoff thinks saying hes out of touch, when each guy on there except maybe Rollins has studied and memorized over 10+ hours of different Sabbath material. Im sure the dusty keyboardist who got left out knows what the fans want (heres a hint: the fans want ozzy, whos on the record lmfao)
>>127978143>except maybe Rollins has studied and memorized over 10+ hours of different Sabbath material.That was Greg Ginn's job to memorize every Sabbath recording in existence.
at least they didn't listen to Christgau and memorize every New York Dolls tune instead. although maybe the album would have gotten a B plus if they did that.
>>127974948Projection.
>>127978143Priority were sure convinced the kids wanted Serj Tankian and Phil Anselmo, so...
>>127975292You walk into the club and these guys slap your gfs ass, wat do?
>>127978199They're still correct. Remind me whos headlining the biggest tours in the world right now?
>>127978217Buy em a beer.
>>127978173the only bands the Dolls influenced are ones you'd rather not remember existed
>>127977907Reminder that Forbidden was the result of Phil Banfield getting in Iommi's ear and convincing him that he could make the Aerosmith-Run DMC of the '90s.
>>127975292>>127976291The '96 DEP sessions is great, but for absolute kino, listen to the original "Eighth Star" demos that had Dave Holland before he got caught noncing and Don Airey on keyboards. Probably the best thing Iommi ever did post-Dehumanizer: Hughes' vocals are huge and his bass playing is way groovier than the stuff Neil Murray rerecorded to go with the new drums tracks on the final version.https://youtu.be/OCu0DqQWSGI?si=JCyiIv8YArZl_sbt&t=823
>>127974576>>127977575There's some decent songs and great musicians (Cozy Powell, Billy Sheehan, John Entwistle) on those Tipton solo albums, just that his vocals are so laughably awful they ruin the whole thing.https://youtu.be/2dzleQQ7AYI?si=pOXADixh2pN5jZ1D
>>127978676Glenn was far too much of an egotist to let actual singers perform on there.
Big tunes Billy made a great song in that album. True Black Sabbat style.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ys11euf3q8
Ozzy carried him. Literally falls off when Ozzy left the band and doesnt come relevant again until the Reunion tour and album
>>127977777Checked and correct.
>>127980326>singerfag speaks about riff-based music
>>127978676lmao was he taking the piss?
>>127978143I'm sure Rollins has absorbed enough Sabbath, he just can't implement it.
JUST SAY NO TO LOVE
>>127978217does that dude in the white have a grateful dead tatoo on his arm
