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Born: 1948 02 19
iSound Site: www.isound.com/tony_iommi
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Influenced By
Django Reinhardt, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton
Member Of
Black Sabbath
Tony Iommi is synonymous with heavy rock, having more or less invented the genre single-handedly with the dark and doom of Black Sabbath.
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Influenced By
Django Reinhardt, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton
Member Of
Black Sabbath
Tony Iommi is synonymous with heavy rock, having more or less invented the genre single-handedly with the dark and doom of Black Sabbath.
Born on February 19, 1948, in Birmingham, England, Iommi picked up the guitar after being inspired by the likes of Hank Marvin & the Shadows as a teenager. By 1967, Iommi had played with several blues-based rock bands, and formed a group (Earth) with three old acquaintances from his school days — bassist Terry "Geezer" Butler, drummer Bill Ward, and singer John "Ozzy" Osbourne.
But Iommi's musical career was nearly derailed prematurely when he suffered a horrible accident at a sheet metal factory, when a machine sliced off the tips of the fingers on his right hand. Depressed and figuring that his guitar playing days were behind him, a friend turned him onto guitarist Django Reinhardt (who lost use of two fingers in a gypsy caravan campfire accident), inspiring Iommi to give the six-string another go, with soft plastic tips attached to the ends of his fingers.
Shortly thereafter, Iommi received a tempting offer to join Jethro Tull's band in 1968, which he reluctantly accepted. After only a single performance with Tull (playing the track "Song for Jeffrey" on the Rolling Stones' never-aired TV special "Rock & Roll Circus"), Iommi split from Tull to return back to his pals in Earth.
With another band already playing around England by the name of Earth, Iommi & co. were forced to change their name, taking "Black Sabbath" from the American title of the classic Italian horror movie “I Tre Volti Della Paura”.
With the name switch came a change in musical direction — the band would explore dark lyrical subjects, while the music would be repetitive, plodding and heavy. In the process, Sabbath created the blueprint for heavy metal with such incredibly influential, all-time classic releases as their 1969 self-titled debut, 1971's Paranoid and Master of Reality, 1972's Vol. 4, and 1973's Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, becoming one of the world's top hard rock bands in the process. Iommi's guitar playing propelled such metal standards as "Black Sabbath," "N.I.B.," "Paranoid," "Iron Man," "War Pigs," "Into the Void," and "Children of the Grave," which boast some of the most recognizable guitar riffs in rock history.
But by the mid- to late '70s, constant touring and drug abuse began to fracture the band, leading to Osbourne’s exit in 1979. After keeping the Sabbath name alive with several inspired non-Osbourne releases, including the Ronnie Dio albums - 1980's “Heaven & Hell” and 1981's “The Mob Rules” – which re-established the band’s commercial success, Iommi then shifted the band’s focus to Europe and recorded a number of albums with Tony Martin, including “Headless Cross”, and undertook ground-breaking tours to Russia and all parts East.
The original Sabbath line-up reunited for highly successful tours in the late '90s, making new Sabbath fans out of a whole legion of people too young to have caught the band in their '70s heyday. A Grammy Award followed the “Reunion” tour when the track “Iron Man” (recorded at the Birmingham NEC and taken from the tour’s live album) won in the Best Metal Performance category in 1999.
And although a few Sabbath albums from the '80s and '90s could have arguably been considered Tony Iommi solo albums (1986's Seventh Star was labelled a Sabbath album at the last moment by Warner Bros.), he issued his first true solo release in the form of 2000's “Iommi”. The ten-track disc, which was very warmly received by both the press and the public, featured many of rock's top names lending their vocal talents including Henry Rollins, Dave Grohl, Billy Corgan, Phil Anselmo and Ozzy Osbourne, among others.
The following year Iommi returned to touring, with Black Sabbath as the headline act at 2001’s Ozzfest. The band earned a second Grammy nomination for the track “The Wizard” from the live album “Ozzfest 2001: The Second Millennium” that followed the tour.
On 3rd June 2002, he joined Ozzy to perform “Paranoid” in front of the Queen, the Royal Family and 12,000 members of the public on the lawn of Buckingham Palace at a concert to celebrate the Queen’s Golden Jubilee.
As one of the writers of “Changes”, Iommi received his first Ivor Novello nomination when the song competed in the category Best Selling UK Single following the 2003 cover released by Ozzy & Kelly Osbourne.
The early part of 2004 was spent in the studio working on solo projects, including putting the finishing touches to material recorded with Glenn Hughes in Birmingham in 1996, which was picked up by Sanctuary Records for an autumn release under the title “The 1996 DEP Sessions”. In between this, Tony and the 3 other members of the original Black Sabbath line-up reunited as the headline act for summer 2004’s Ozzfest in the USA.
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Iommi (2000)
1. Laughing Man (In The Devil Mask)
[featuring Henry Rollins]
Laughing man in the devil mask
Laughing man in the devil mask
Laughing man in the devil mask
Laughing man in the devil mask
You ripped yourself to shreds
While I stood laughing
You'd like to see me pay
For the time you're having
You'll walk that line again
You'll try to die again
You'll waste your nights just thinking of
me
As the needle finds the vein
As the bullet goes through the brain
As your city meets the sea
As you're drowning, think of me
Laughing man in the devil mask
Laughing man in the devil mask
Laughing man in the devil mask
Laughing man in the devil mask
I am the lord of crime
The laughing man in a devil mask
I am the birth of crime
The laughing man in a devil mask
Drop to your knees again
The laughing man in a devil mask
Tie off and die again
The laughing man in a devil mask
Push the rock back up the hill
You start to feel like you're standing
still
Your life lies broken for all to see
You'll hear the laughter, then you'll
see me
Laughing man in the devil mask
Laughing man in the devil mask
Laughing man in the devil mask
Laughing man in the devil mask
Tender flock, led astray
You always knew it would be this way
You just go now, no need to ask
You are the face behind the devil mask
The laughing man in the devil mask
Laughing man in the devil mask
I'm laughing, I'm laughing
You're burning, you're burning
The laughing man in the devil mask
The laughing man in the devil mask
Burn, burn
Burn while I'm laughing
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2. Meat
[featuring Skin]
You taste what you want from me
You taste all of the gristle from the bones I
need
To stand up to you
To live up to fools
It's too troubling
Can't take what you like from me
Can't take all of the vision that your
money thieves
Don't be careless now
Just a pretty babe
A cool covering
You can't hide, no
You can't hide the way you feel
You're just dead inside this meat
That you're smothering
You can't run, no
You just stumble, crash and cry
Without asking questions why
It's all crumbling
Dark eyes, beauty's never cheap
Dark hair, dark lips maybe that I want to
cheat
See my sorry face
In this love that fails
It's all good for me
Slick baby that ain't worrying
Slick rage, strong is the ego that I want to
test
In your head of lies
Cut me down to size
It's all credible
You can't hide, no
You can't hide the way you feel
You're just dead inside this meat
That you're smothering
You can't run, no
You just stumble, crash and cry
Without asking questions why
Pure fear that you're falling for
These tears, thick in the sadness that was
running before
Welling up in dread
For a softer bed
I'm not worrying
You're so sane, all the lines you shed
So cool, so good, the picture for those crazy
hoods
Got this gun for keeps
Stick it in this meat
I'm not hurrying
You can't hide, no
You can't hide the way you feel
You're just dead inside this meat
That you're smothering
You can't run, no
You just stumble, crash and cry
Without asking questions why
It's all crumbling
You can't hide, no
You can't hide the way you feel
You're just dead inside this meat
That you're smothering
That you're smothering
That you're smothering | riff_master |
3. Goodbye Lament
[featuring Dave Grohl]
Say a prayer for me
In my memory
Have a taste, another one is through
Damn this place in me
Damn this destiny
I will be the one who cries when you go
Hello misery
You're the best of me
Hey, someone got the best of you
Come and sleep with me
For infinity
We'll spend some time and find the rest of
you
Break down, break down
Reeling in your head
Rain down, rain down
Innocence is dead
Goodbye lament, goodbye lament
Goodbye faith, I swear I won't believe
Pray for me
Fading memories
Give me time and I will fade into you
Come and dance with me
I will always be sleeping behind the eyes
That I'm bleeding through
Break down, break down
Reeling in your head
Way down, way down
Innocence is dead
Goodbye lament, goodbye lament
Goodbye faith, I swear I won't believe
Goodbye lament, goodbye lament
Goodbye faith, I swear I won't believe
Break down, break down
Reeling in your head
Way down, way down
Innocence is dead
Break down, break down
Reeling in your head
Way down, way down
Innocence is dead
Goodbye lament, goodbye lament
Goodbye faith, I swear I won't believe | riff_master |
4. Time Is Mine
[featuring Philip Anselmo]
Lift me up
Lift me up
Put me above jail
But put me below skies, below crimson skies
Undress me from these rags
Shake me and watch me glow
Foundations cracking under the wisdom of our
steps
Lift me up and shake me low
Shake and glow and life will be saved
Time is mine, ignore the blind
It won't be long till the writing is gone
And time will fly
A burden on life lifted high and precisely
through wisdom and war
Wisdom and war
Braided veins
Can turn to gold
Smoke and stone
Will claim the skies and open all whose eyes
are blind
The tempter is behind thee, and cowers
through the throes
The sands that drank from blood, to rivers
that flow beyond
Time is mine, ignore the blind
It won't be long till the writing is gone
And time will fly
The tied hands of man and you will understand
through the pains of rebirth
Time is mine, the choking of seas
I won't be wrong when the scriptures are
gone
And time will fly
A burden on life lifted high and precisely
through wisdom and war
Deplete the eyes
Walk through the skies
In the memories of old
We'll blow it all away
Time is mine, ignore the blind
It won't be long till the writing is gone
And time will fly
The tied hands of man and you will understand
through the pains of rebirth
Time is mine, the choking of seas
I won't be wrong when the scriptures are
gone
And time will fly
A burden on life lifted high and precisely
through wisdom and war | riff_master |
5. Patterns
[featuring Serj Tankian]
Life is a story
Go ahead and find your sight
Life is your glory
Go ahead and live the night
But to live means to be here
In the present now
Do try to bow for the gift of your day
Then you cede to the morning sun
Pretending that we live doesn't make us
alive
Life is a story
Go ahead and find your sight
But to live means to be here
In the present now
Do try to bow for the gift of your day
Then you cede to the morning sun
Pretending that we see doesn't give us the
sight
Pretending that we live doesn't make us
alive
What is it that makes us lose sight
True sight, of what is real and essential
I'll take organized patterns of chaos
Over the chaotic organizations of man, any
day
Pretending that we see doesn't give us the
sight
Pretending that we live doesn't make us
alive
Pretending that we see doesn't give us the
sight
Pretending that we live doesn't make us
alive | riff_master |
6. Black Oblivion
[featuring Billy Corgan]
You ask me why
I'll tell you die
My head is full of lies
And I am beyond high
You don't know just what I'm waiting
for
Acid burns my skull as blind as snow
Black oblivion drags me ever towards
I dream tomorrow till tomorrow is nevermore
Voices tell me strike the match and burn it
all to hell
Voices tell me I could watch if I promise not
to tell
You don't know just where I want to go
The cross won't save you from your fallen
soul
Drive slow motion firewall
Candy apple fuse
Emotions are unattached as demons are amused
Family spins the circle
Nerves are growing cold
Shotgun to the temple
Nausea down below
No more talking backwards
Or fists to the heart
Blacklight tries to capture
One more superstar
No more lines to cross
No more lines, I'm lost
No more lines, I'm lost
You don't know just where I want to go
Acid burns a hole right through my soul
Black oblivion, my long lost friend
Lord forgive me for I have sinned | riff_master |
7. Flame On
[featuring Ian Astbury]
I am one, one that shines
Yeah, I was born of a scorpion's mind
I am one, so alive
Don't try to teach me what your lips
can't decide
I'm the sun, so alive
A simple breath's all I need to get by
Words you speak are like dirt in my mind
I'm gonna burn till all the stars die
Flame on
I used to bleed like a suicide mother
Flame on
And now I breathe in this dirty black summer
Flame on
I bought the truth in the mouth of my
brother
Flame on
I used to bleed like a suicide motherfucker
As it is, thought divine
A diamond seed in the heart of all mind
All is truth, truth it shines
Don't hesitate for the world it divides
Flame on
I used to bleed like a suicide mother
Flame on
And now I breathe in this dirty black summer
Flame on
I bought the truth in the mouth of my
brother
Flame on
I used to bleed like a suicide motherfucker
Flame on
I used to bleed like a suicide mother
Flame on
And now I breathe in this dirty black summer
Flame on
I bought the truth in the mouth of my
brother
Flame on
I used to bleed like a suicide motherfucker
Flame on
I used to bleed like a suicide mother
Flame on
And now I breathe in this dirty black summer
Flame on
I bought the truth in the mouth of my
brother
Flame on
I used to bleed like a suicide motherfucker | riff_master |
8. Just Say No To Love
[featuring Peter Steele]
Jealous black and envy green
No one died and left you queen
Rotted flesh and broken bones
Place your ass upon the throne
Just say no to love
Just say no to love
Multihued transparency
Of the girl you'd like to be
A special frozen place in hell
Preserved for those who love themselves
Left is right and right is wrong
None for all and all for none
I've had enough, say no to love
No to love
Jon Lord said that you were killed
Not possibly be more thrilled
A party thrown, I'm so excited
Since you're dead, you're not invited
On your grave I made a wish
You beneath me is such bliss
A fitting end for a phony
You dumped me for Tony Iommi
Left is right and right is wrong
None for all and all for none
I've had enough, say no to love
No to love
Left is right and right is wrong
None for all and all for none
I've had enough, say no to love
No to love
Left is right and right is wrong
None for all and all for none
I've had enough, say no to love
No to love
Left is right and right is wrong
None for all and all for none
I've had enough, say no to love
No to love
Just say no to love
Just say no to love | riff_master |
9. Who's Fooling Who
[featuring Ozzy Osbourne]
Is the end beginning
Apocalyptic thoughts of doom
They tell us not to fear
It's far too soon
Addicted to predictions
Were the tarots wrong or right
Will I wake tomorrow
And see the light
Watch your mother die, and then tell us not
to fight
Don't you realize, they're just a bunch
of fools
Speak the truth and lie, and expect us to
believe
Tell me who is fooling who
Watch the soldiers marching
They don't march for you or me
They're just there to kill the enemy
Watch your mother die, and then tell us not
to fight
Don't you realize, they're just a bunch
of fools
Speak the truth and lie, and expect us to
believe
Tell me who is fooling who
Will they ever wake up
Will they ever see the light
Give me one good reason people fight
Watch your mother die, and then tell us not
to fight
Don't you realize, they're just a bunch
of fools
Speak the truth and lie, and expect us to
believe
Tell me who is fooling who
Who's fooling who... | riff_master |
10. Into The Night
[featuring Billy Idol]
And you say you wanna live forever
And you've got all the time to kill
And you're living in the dark forever
In your own little private hell
I wanna rule this world
I wanna walk the night
I wanna bleed this girl
Gonna take it all night till the morning
light
I wanna lead this world
I wanna wake the dead
And all the undead souls who walk the night
They can suck my dick
Are you sure you're so clean and pure
As you lie here in front of me now
And you're tempting the lord of darkness
As you see what's forbidden to see
I wanna rule this world
I wanna walk the night
I wanna bleed this girl
Gonna do it all night till the morning light
I wanna rule this world
I wanna wake the dead
And all the undead souls who walk the night
They can suck my dick
Oh yeah, you know it's true
Yeah, you, yeah
When people say I'm from the underworld
Every kind of sin, you best believe it, girl
You come on over here from the other side
Come back to hell, it's so warm inside
I sleep through the day 'cause I'm into
the night
I wanna sleep through the day 'cause I
live through the night
I sleep through the day 'cause I'm into
the night
I wanna sleep through the day 'cause I
live through the night
Yeah, you
I wanna rule this world, yeah
I'm gonna walk the night
I wanna rule this world
I wanna rule the night
And all the undead souls
I wanna wake the dead
I wanna get you, girl
I'm gonna rule this world, babe
It's gonna be alright
Oh yeah | riff_master | | | |
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