BASSIST GEEZER BUTLER CONFIRMS “SLAPBACK” IS AN UNRELEASED BLACK SABBATH SONG

Bassist Geezer Butler has confirmed that he is featured on a previously unreleased Ronnie James Dio-era Black Sabbath song titled Slapback which was uploaded to YouTube several days ago. Gary Rees, the stepson and executor of the estate of Black Sabbath’s longtime keyboardist Geoff Nicholls, shared the tune last Friday (March 5th), writing in an accompanying message that he had found it on a cassette […]

LOU OTTENS, CREATOR OF CASSETTE TAPES AND COMPACT DISCS, PASSES AT AGE 94

According to the NY Post, the inventor of the CD and cassette tapes has passed away. Lou Ottens, who is credited with not only inventing the cassette tape but also helping develop the CD, died at his home in the Netherlands village of Duizel this month. He was 94.  “We are very sad to have […]