But I must say, we’re getting on better than ever now. “He’s always thought I was nuts and we didn’t get on for a while. Essentially, if we’re talking heaviosity, then Page was a sledgehammer, but Iommi was a piledriver, minting a whole new sound that. Anvil-heavy and shiver-up-the-spine evil, it’s a haunted hinterland where Iommi’s SG scythes like the Grim Reaper and stomps like a dinosaur in diving boots. Even now I go ‘I don’t know where you get them from!’ He goes ‘oh, do you like this one?’”Īsked by Loz if he’d like to work with Tony again, Ozzy replied: “Yeah. Black Sabbath is the real line slashed in the sand. "Tony Iommi - I’ve said this through the good years and the bad years, whatever - Tony Iommi, he can’t stop coming up with these incredible riffs. Lavishing Tony Iommi with praise later in the interview, Ozzy said: “Tony Iommi is the finest guitar player. “It’s amazing that Tony Iommi and I have come from Aston, Birmingham and all the things we’ve done. Revealing that the Commonwealth Games venue Alexander Stadium is just down the road from the school he attended with Tony Iommi, Ozzy said: “I remember driving past it and I remember thinking to myself ‘If you’d have told me when I was 14 we would be playing up the road, I’d have thought you were mad!’
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