Legendary guitarist Tony Iommi was asked by Total Guitar magazine what the guitar means to him, 49 years after forming BLACK SABBATH. “It’s a way of expressing your inner self,” he said. “But I don’t sleep with the guitar now, when I did in the early days, mind! It has always meant something very special to me, and it brought out parts of me that you couldn’t bring out normally from within.
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“Being able to write music, being able to play an instrument releases something in you that you wouldn’t normally be able to do… that I wouldn’t normally be able to do. And the guitar did that for me. It taught me a lot, really.
“When I feel like it, I go and play now. And at the moment I’m really far away from it because there’s so many other things going on, the last thing I want to do is pick up a guitar! But when I do pick it up, I really enjoy it. And I liked it when I could sit with the band and come up with ideas and come up with riffs. Or at home I come up with riffs. Then I’m in my element.”
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BLACK SABBATH brought its farewell tour to an end this past February in the band’s hometown of Birmingham, England.