The Official Geezer Butler Website http://www.geezerbutler.com Wed, 16 May 2012 17:04:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Ronald http://www.geezerbutler.com/2012/05/ronald/ http://www.geezerbutler.com/2012/05/ronald/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 17:04:36 +0000 admin http://www.geezerbutler.com/?p=556 Ronald – 2 years – still missing you

]]> http://www.geezerbutler.com/2012/05/ronald/feed/ 3 Warmup Gig in Birmingham http://www.geezerbutler.com/2012/04/warmup-gig-in-birmingham/ http://www.geezerbutler.com/2012/04/warmup-gig-in-birmingham/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:17:16 +0000 admin http://www.geezerbutler.com/?p=550 Black Sabbath will play a warmup gig in Birmingham on Saturday May 19th at the O2 Academy.  Tickets go on sale this Friday.   More info on tickets here.

]]> http://www.geezerbutler.com/2012/04/warmup-gig-in-birmingham/feed/ 15 RIP Bert Weedon http://www.geezerbutler.com/2012/04/rip-bert-weedon/ http://www.geezerbutler.com/2012/04/rip-bert-weedon/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:15:19 +0000 admin http://www.geezerbutler.com/?p=548 Hello Readers,

I had stopped commenting on deaths and disasters, because my “journal” was starting to resemble an obituary column. However, I cannot ignore the passing of Bert Weedon. Some of you won’t have heard of him, but I can safely say that many UK and Ireland guitarists from John Lennon onwards throughout the 1960′s and 70′s, would probably have never learned to play without Bert Weedon’s Play In A Day book. He produced a book with pictures of chords, rather than musical notation, making it possible for those of us who couldn’t afford music lessons, or didn’t read music, to gradually learn basic chords on the guitar. I know Black Sabbath wouldn’t exist without his book, since both Tony Iommi and myself learned to play guitar chords from it. RIP Bert!

Geezer

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— Geezer

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

A complete version of the video is available here at the ustream site.  Additionally, more photos can be viewed here.

]]> http://www.geezerbutler.com/2012/04/metal-masters/feed/ 3 Lollapolooza 2012 http://www.geezerbutler.com/2012/04/lollapolooza-2012/ http://www.geezerbutler.com/2012/04/lollapolooza-2012/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:09:38 +0000 admin http://www.geezerbutler.com/?p=535

]]> http://www.geezerbutler.com/2012/04/lollapolooza-2012/feed/ 6 Tony http://www.geezerbutler.com/2012/01/tony/ http://www.geezerbutler.com/2012/01/tony/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:21:20 +0000 admin http://www.geezerbutler.com/?p=531 Greetings Earth people,

Today [Jan19th] we got the engines back up and running @ Tony’s home studio. Far from being down and depressed about his lymphoma diagnosis, Tony had already written the music for two new songs, and I must say it has given us all a kick up the rump- it’s great to hear him churning out those riffs again, assuaging the Demon C. Takes more than that to stop Tony. Can’t wait for you all to hear our workings, it has been great working on this stuff.

I want to thank the lovely encouraging emails sent to this site giving Tony love and encouragement and great vibes. It really does help, not only Tony, but us as a band- it raises up our spirits and restores our faith in this tarnished world. Sabb fans are good people, time and again you have proven your faith in us and boosted our endeavour.

Thanks, love, peace.

Geezer

]]> http://www.geezerbutler.com/2012/01/tony/feed/ 84 Congratulations, Metallica http://www.geezerbutler.com/2011/12/congratulations-metallica-2/ http://www.geezerbutler.com/2011/12/congratulations-metallica-2/#comments Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:55:01 +0000 admin http://www.geezerbutler.com/?p=527 I had the pleasure and honour of jamming Sabbra Cadabra / A National Arobat, and then Iron Man / Paranoid (with Ozzy) with Metallica at their 30th Anniversary Met Club gig last night (Dec 10th) in San Francisco at the Fillmore.  Great bunch of guys, and of course one of the world’s greatest bands.  They did their fan club proud.  The late, great Cliff Burton was definitely in the house with us, and smiling……

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

]]> http://www.geezerbutler.com/2011/12/congratulations-metallica-2/feed/ 11 Never Say Never http://www.geezerbutler.com/2011/11/never-say-never/ http://www.geezerbutler.com/2011/11/never-say-never/#comments Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:46:15 +0000 admin http://www.geezerbutler.com/?p=509
BLACK SABBATH
REUNITES TO RECORD FIRST NEW STUDIO ALBUM IN 33 YEARS
AND LAUNCH MASSIVE WORLD TOUR IN 2012
 
OZZY OSBOURNE, TONY IOMMI, GEEZER BUTLER AND BILL WARD
UNVEIL PLANS ON 11/11/11
AT A LOS ANGELES PRESS CONFERENCE
AT THE WHISKY A GO-GO,
WHERE THE BAND PERFORMED THEIR FIRST LOS ANGELES DATE EXACTLY 41 YEARS AGO

After much speculation, the original four members of BLACK SABBATH–OZZY OSBOURNE (vocals),TONY IOMMI (guitar), GEEZER BUTLER (bass) and BILL WARD (drums)–have reunited to record their first studio album in 33 years with producer Rick Rubin (seven-time Grammy winner, two of those as Producer of the Year) and to embark on an extensive world tour in 2012.

OSBOURNE, IOMMI, BUTLER and WARD as well as Rubin gathered yesterday on (11/11/11) to announce the news at a Los Angeles press conference at the legendary club, the Whisky A Go-Go, the site of the groundbreaking and influential band’s first L.A. concert exactly 41 years ago (Nov 11, 1970).  The event was hosted by the revered musical and spoken word artistHenry Rollins who has said that “Any band worth their weight in napalm wishes they had written ‘War Pigs.’”

Selling over 70 million albums together, the Grammy-winning, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees have signed a new record deal; worldwide with Vertigo and Vertigo/ Universal Republic in the U.S.,the band’s original label.  BLACK SABBATH is now in the studio recording the as-yet-untitled new album for release in the fall of 2012 (exact date TBA).  It will mark their ninth studio album together and their first since 1978’s Never Say Die!

Next summer, BLACK SABBATH will headline the mammoth multi-day UK Download Festival in the U.K. on June 10.  The new album will then be supported with a worldwide headlining tour (Dates TBA).

BLACK SABBATH also announced today the launch of www.blacksabbath.com, the first-ever official BLACK SABBATH website for all authorized BLACK SABBATH news.  Expect to see more coming from the band by way of Facebook and Twitter.

BLACK SABBATH released their self-titled debut album in 1970. “Black Sabbath is credited with creating heavy metal,” according to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  “The success of their first two albums–Black Sabbath and Paranoid–marked a paradigm shift in the world of rock. Not until Black Sabbath upended the music scene did the term ‘heavy metal’ enter the popular vocabulary to describe the denser, more thunderous offshoot of rock over which they presided.”

In 1998, BLACK SABBATH released Reunion from their 1997 concerts in Birmingham, England, a two-CD live set.  The band periodically got together to perform shows from 1999-2005; headlining Ozzfest in 1999, 2001, 2004, & 2005.  They’ve now enthusastically reformed to record and release a long awaited; long overdue full length album.

]]> http://www.geezerbutler.com/2011/11/never-say-never/feed/ 16 Countdown http://www.geezerbutler.com/2011/11/countdown/ http://www.geezerbutler.com/2011/11/countdown/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:30:19 +0000 admin http://www.geezerbutler.com/?p=507 Go visit http://www.blacksabbath.com to watch a cool countdown.

]]> http://www.geezerbutler.com/2011/11/countdown/feed/ 8 Lee Child http://www.geezerbutler.com/2011/11/lee-child/ http://www.geezerbutler.com/2011/11/lee-child/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:48:23 +0000 admin http://www.geezerbutler.com/?p=503 If anyone out there enjoys a good read, by one of the world’s best selling authors, read Lee Child’s book “The Affair.” You’ll find a sheriff with a familiar sounding name in there.

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