markdawursk:

Hey $haron Osbourne-keep your grubby mitts outta my Black Sabbath reunion. Bill Ward dropped out because you were offering him a shitty contract. Pay the man his fair share, and let him do his thing. Do you really have to turn everything into The Ozzy Osbourne Show ? Stop it. I’ll even go so far as to beg. Please, stop it. He was as much a part of the original convergence of Black Sabbath as the other 3.

Black Sabbath with 3 out of 4 members does not constitute “original lineup”. I want to see Ozzy & Tony & Geezer & Bill, not Ozzy & Tony & Geezer and some 20 year old gun for hire in weird pants with super hip haircut. Bah, now I’m riled up.

For reals… out of all the bands reuniting these days, one of the few that I’d love to see would be Sabbath. A real Sabbath reunion… like, those 4 guys in a studio making awesome riffs, with no management or labels around getting their opinions in the way. Leave the music to the musicians.

I wonder what would come out if they just were out in the British countryside at a nice studio with a really good engineer or two, and a mountain of gear.No auto tune, no Pro-Tools beat matching, Dr Rhythm, or do dads and nonsense. Make music the way a band is supposed to-someone has an idea for a song that they think is cool. They bring to practice, and the band fleshes it out. They work on it for a while, and then record it. I don’t need to hear sonic perfection, or precisely harmonized back up vocals. It’s the little imperfections that really stand out in my mind. And Sabbath had plenty of those on those early ( and completely mind blowing) records.

PS.

All you other bands that are thinking “Hey, maybe we should get back together”  Stop it. No you shouldn’t. It’s not the same, time has passed. Start a new band, or do something else. Or don’t break up. Shellac can take 8 years off, and do 9 shows and I totally back it, because they never made a big stink about “final show, final tour, final merchandising opportunity, etc”