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Topic: Black Sabbath reunites with Dio
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schroeder
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posted September 27, 2006 23:26
    
Just got this bulletin on My Space sent from the Gods of Doom TROUBLE :
www.bravewords.com
RONNIE JAMES DIO To Reunite With TONI IOMMI, GEEZER BUTLER And BILL WARD Under The Banner HEAVEN & HELL
Posted on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 12:27:57 Even though their respective managements have not officially released any information, Rafabasa webzine in Madrid, Spain is reporting exclusively that starting in June, 2007 there will be a reunion tour of a group going by the name HEAVEN & HELL. At this time, there are no dates confirmed, but the tour booking agent is offering the band to the promoters of the most important heavy metal festivals taking place next year. Under the name Heaven & Hell you will find TONI IOMMI, RONNIE JAMES DIO, GEEZER BUTLER and BILL WARD. Evidently if everything is confirmed, they will be playing a set consisting of music from every single CD that Ronnie James Dio performed with BLACK SABBATH, to include Heaven & Hell, Mob Rules, Live Evil and Dehumanizer. The reunion cannot tour under the name Black Sabbath, or BLACK SABBATH WITH DIO, due to the fact that the copyright of the name is the property of OZZY OSBOURNE and his wife/manager Sharon Osbourne.
interesting how Osbourne now owns the name of the band he got kicked out of. How the fuck did Iommi let this happen? He musta been hard up for $$$. Granted, Ozzy was in the golden days of Sab and the years they are most famous for but there were many great albums released after his firing; furthermore, there were more years post-Ozzy than years with Ozzy. I'm not saying anything the classic line up wasn't the greatest, it just wasn't the only one in the history of Black Sabbath.
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Tangento
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posted September 28, 2006 21:26
I see no problem at all with the name change. Infact, Sabbath should have changed their name after Ozzy left the FIRST TIME. </die-hard Ozzy-era Sab fan rant> -------------------- "You have the option to drill additional holes in the label,
causing the record to rotate off the side of the turntable" -Tom Ellard - Severed Heads
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Maldororz
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posted September 29, 2006 07:45
They could have gone the Yes/Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe way, and call themselves Dio, Ward, Iommi and Butler. Or DWIB, if you wanna make short."- Hey, did you go to the DWIB show last night?
- Oh, yeah, I saw DWIB last night. They played their classic War Pigs!
- Ah yes, War Pigs from DWIB's classic album Paranoid!"  I wonder if they'll play the song Black Sabbath... Anyway, it's a good news. The Black Sabbath name will gater dust and spider webs in a corner. Just like Ozzy.
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anthony
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posted September 29, 2006 14:06
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Originally posted by Maldororz:
I wonder if they'll play the song Black Sabbath...Anyway, it's a good news. The Black Sabbath name will gater dust and spider webs in a corner. Just like Ozzy.
They played it and a few other Ozzy classics on the Dehumanizer tour, but AFAIC they should follow the current trend and play Heaven and Hell in it's entirety. Also I think that Dio's current stuff is as good as his old albums are. Magica, Killing The Dragon and Master Of The Moon are all awesome. The guy is the same age as my dad and is still recording and touring.
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Syl Disjonk
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posted September 29, 2006 15:38
It's fucked up that Ozzy own the name of the band. I absolutely think it's their best period but hell it's like if Paul Dianno was owning Maiden's name. I don't even understand how it can be legal. I saw Dio live in Quebec city for the Killing the Dragon tour, because Voivod were opening for them in the Snake return area. I'm far from being a big fan but live with a few beer and some good will about nostaligia about the 80s it can be fun. He had a great voice for sure. I've heard other comments about the Holy Diver live album wrecking big time. Now I want to hear it ! DIO drowning in the cold lake of the mystic dragon. OZZY and Dio are the best friend in the world as we can see on this picture:  Who said the heavy metal is cheesy ? WHO SAID THAT ???  
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to the DEATH...... et à l'INFINI
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Ethereal Chrysalis VOIVOD tribute video We Are Connected VOIVOD: Kluskap O' Kom music video ETHEREAL CHRYSALIS - Lovecraftian fantastic short film directed by Syl Disjonk
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schroeder
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posted September 29, 2006 21:33
DIO was also my first concert and was one of the first metal singers I obessed with collecting. Everything from Elf, Rainbow. Sabbath, solo stuff, guest appearances on Kerry Livgrens album, whatever RJD sang on I tried tracking it down... that was a long time ago. I still listen to most of what he's don'e past and present, but I have yet to hear the live Holy Diver, although a good friend (not you Mez) said it was damn good but maybe it was for nostalgic reasons.Ronnie's a fuckin living legend no IF, ANDS, or BUTS about it.  I was always waiting for a new Sabbath classic lineup album ever since the Reunion album with Selling My Soul & Psychoman, but they obviously couldn't write an entire album for some reason or another... damn shame. I would love to hear new material from HEAVEN & HELL, because I thought Dehumanizer was great and on par with the other 2 studsio albums Dio released with Sabbath. time will tell I do wonder if they would even be aloud to perform anything that Ozzy sang on originally... Sharon might have some kind of contract forbidding it!!!! -------------------- yawn
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Paulie 88
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posted September 30, 2006 14:15
Hi all!For the best weeding out of FACTS from the many RUMORS, please see the practically-official site run by the great Joe Siegler at www.black-sabbath.com . Here's the quick rundown as I see it, based on www.black-sabbath.com: - Tony owns the name Black Sabbath, not Ozzy or that sheckel-hoarding twat Sharon. So, if he wanted to, he *could* call virtually anything he wanted "Black Sabbath."
-There WILL be a Sabbath w Dio box set coming out, and it will have two new songs that Tony and Dio worked on together. So far, there is no confirmed information as to who else is on the tracks, Geezer? Bill? We'll see...
- Someone mentioned that they should have changed the name when Ozzy left. First off, Ozzy didn't leave, he was kicked out. This was a big part of Bill Ward's eventual nervous breakdown, by his own admission - He loves Ozzy like a brother, and was the one to deliver the message that he was out. Secondly, Tony was persuaded on a couple occasions to use the name Black Sabbath when it wasn't going to be: The "Seventh Star" album was recored as a Tony Iommi album, they convinced him to keep the name for obvious ($) reasons. Another time was with the "Forbidden" album. It was either to be a Tony Iommi album, or released under a different name, it hadn't been solidified at the time of recording - Geezer quit when it was confirmed that it would be released as "Black Sabbath," it was RECORDED as a non-Sabbath album, interviews w Geezer say so.
-Nothing is confirmed in terms of this Heaven & Hell thing, but no one has actively denied it either. As far as I'm concerned, the "source" on this is one single site, from friggin Spain, and everything is UNCONFIRMED. So all of this talk is basically taking the ball and running with it.
-I think the WORST possible thing to happen would be to have so many rumors floating around, because both sides will get pressed for confirmation, and no one wants to be painted into the corners of YES or NO. Whatever is going to happen is what's going to happen, don't rock the boat!
-Rumor-spreading is a waste of time, leave the gossip for housewives and the clucking women who comment at Blabbermouth. Get the facts. That being said, I'm GREATLY looking forward to seeing what develops. Dehumanizer is a fucking incredible album, much overlooked! All the best,
PAULIE PS Voivoooooooooooooood!
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X-D
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posted September 30, 2006 16:50
I dunno know if rumors like this are really all that bad.As Paulie pointed out though, there are some things about this rumor that most definitly ring false. The most glaring of those being the name change and Bill Ward's potential involvement (though IMO it would be awsome). Iommi and Butler are certainly still in top form and seem more than capable of putting together some mighty new Sabbath material with either Ozzy or Dio. Like Nuke, I'd love to hear at least one more new Ozzy/Sabbath album but if he (or his wife) are not willing to participate in this, then it would be great if the band moved forward with Dio. They really opened the gates with Dehumanizer in '92 and I'll bet they could do it again. Basically, I just fucking love Black Sabbath and I think they could still show this whole metal genre (that they spawned) a thing or two. man, I do go on and on... I need to get out of the house today  -------------------- I am a robot... bleep blop bloop
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yeah, you're cute young man. hahaha 
