Black Sabbath Interviewed By Henry Rollins For MTV Birmingham 05.12.1997
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00:00Hello friends, this is Henry Rollins, the face you've come to know so well.
00:13Actually watching MTV, you wouldn't know my face because you people never play my god
00:16damn videos.
00:17On a much more wonderful note, I'm backstage in wonderful, cosmopolitan, throbbing Birmingham,
00:25England with the one and only Bill Ward, drummer in Black Sabbath.
00:29Historically, when was the last time this lineup did a complete set?
00:34Oh yeah, okay, me and Oz were trying to figure that out the other day.
00:37I think it was...
00:38You mean the Never Say Die tour?
00:39Yeah.
00:40And that was...
00:41Was that 79 to 80?
00:42Yes, 1979 I believe that was, yeah.
00:45Could be wrong, probably am, but I think 79's a good guess.
00:48What was it like to revisit this music?
00:51As in, did you have to, was a lot of memorization, or were you able to bring musical experience
00:58you've learned over the years to these older songs?
01:01A little bit of both.
01:03It's incredibly nostalgic.
01:06It's very warm.
01:07I mean, you know, whenever we're playing these things, I get a lot of warm memories.
01:29Your love for me has just come to be real
01:38Before you turn away, I'm going to be old
01:47I'm going to be old
01:52I'm going to be old
01:58I'm going to be old
02:03Hello, I'm Tony, the guitar player.
02:09He's out of tune anyway, so...
02:11Go on, carry on.
02:12Have you been thinking at all today about the idea of doing more gigs?
02:16You know, going out into the continent, or stateside, or whatever?
02:20I think we'd like to.
02:21I think we'd like to go out and do...
02:23Well, I think we will.
02:25Go out and do more shows.
02:26It was better than it ever was, I think, before.
02:29We got on a lot better.
02:31Personalities were a lot easier to deal with.
02:34It was really good.
02:35We had a good time.
02:37Playing in different line-ups that I've had,
02:40within Black Sabbath as well, different members.
02:42Good players, great players coming in.
02:44But it's never been quite the same as Bill and Guy's were played.
02:50There's that unique thing that, when we're all together, it sort of creates that sound.
02:56I think that's nice.
03:01And not only I got a fright.
03:08Yeah, I look through a window and surprise what I saw.
03:15Bury your boots and let the birds unclog.
03:19All right now.
03:23Tonight was a very special night for me.
03:26This is the one that I'm proud of, anyway.
03:31Tonight, I just want to take this gig and wrap it up in a bundle,
03:36put it in my mind's eye.
03:38When I'm on my dying deathbed, I'll go,
03:41Yeah, that was a great feeling.
03:44If I had a last thought to have
03:47before I departed from this earthly domain,
03:50that would be the thought that I would love to have that gig.
03:53That's how much I feel about that gig.
03:55It was just a wonderful feeling.
03:59It was a great show. Everyone had a good time and we got it on tape.
04:02God bless you.
04:03Go to bed a happy man. You did great.
04:05I am a happy man. More than a happy man.
04:07Absolutely.
04:08God bless you.