Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler has a feeling the band’s current tour will be their last.
He’s still enjoying life on the road as they support acclaimed album 13 – but admits he’s starting to find it difficult to keep going.
Butler tells the Chicago Sun-Times, “I just got a feeling. It’s getting tough, it really is. I can’t lie about that. I’m old now; it really is tough going on every night. You wake up next day will pains you never had before.
I don’t want to go onstage for the sake of the money. You have to have pride in yourself. I honestly think I’m coming to the end of the top of my job.”
He isn’t sure when his final show will be, but asserts “I’ll know when the day comes I can’t do this any more, can’t play to my usual standards. That’s when I won’t go out any more.
I just love playing with the band. It probably will be the last time, probably the last tour. I want to go out on a high – the band is playing really well at the moment.”
Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, who’s continuing to receive treatment for cancer, recently said he hoped they’d be able to play 13 in full at some point in the future, and perhaps make another album. Frontman Ozzy Osbourne has stated their future is entirely down to Iommi’s health.
additional source: classicrockmagazine.com
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Saw the Philadelphia show, it was a moment for me. a fan for 35+ year and of hundreds of concerts it was the same as 3 shows in recent years with Dio (Sabbath/Heaven and Hell): I cried at the joy of hearing them play. And they were AWESOME while obviously having a good time. A 2 hours lesson to make “instant fad, 2 albums” bands go back to their garage and learn to play. Was a privilege to be there.
Its interesting to read your comments. I haven’t seen them yet and accept the fact that Bill isn’t there – doesn’t really bother me. So many people are saying Ozzy is sounding like crap and the live shows haven’t been as good. Then I read comments like your’s (and others) who say how great it was. Makes me wonder if some people just have the blinders on and won’t accept this version of the band, or if its a simple case of ‘to each his own’. Glad to hear you enjoyed the show. Its always the best when a band you’ve loved for years don’t disappoint.
Slow ticket sales = last tour rumor. So obvious.
They never saw the Sabbath on their last tour with Ozzy decades ago, trust me, they are better now even without Ward. Don’t believe Geezer, the tour is making big loot….another LP & tour soon.
If I had to pick my favorite album buying experience aside from breaking my heavy metal cherry with BARK AT THE MOON ( Harmony Records PARKCHESTER NY 1984 ) it has to be as a 40 year old downloading 13 onto my IPOD on a Monday evening this past June. I (excuse me Daniel Murphy hit a 2 Run shot) again I turned my computer on at like 9:30 to have it ready for midnight if 13 would be available but it was already there. It was like a bootleggers inside my computer/cat room. TOTALLY AWESOME SURREAL STUFF. It was there, my own after 35 years. My intro to SABBATH was BORN. AGAIN (shit in the 80s but now a cult classic). This is real SABBATH man. Whatever they release I m
buying. BLUE RAY leftover songs whatever….HEADLESS CROSS DELUXE EDITION who cares this is where it started. Ask me when I was born, I ll say the year VOLUME 4 came out(not STPs). My only beef with this tour is I’m a SABOTAGE guy and it got shut out.(AGAIN and HOW?.) SABOTAGE is a masterpiece with a hideous cover that’s all. The genious of that album will always be overlooked. As far as I’m concerned SABOTAGE beats ZEPPELIN 4 head to head.
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Bark At the Moon is the first album I ever bought. Sabbath is my fav band ever. Even though my fav Sabbath album is Sabbath, Bloody, Sabbath my three fav Sabbath tunes are all from Sabotage, namely The Writ, Megalomania, and The Thrill of it All. That said: Sabotage is not my fav album because of the track Am I Going Insane (Radio), and the pseudo-songs Supertzar and Don’t Start (Too Late)