Black Sabbath final gig

Philly_Q

DefaultM said:

https://i.postimg.cc/FKkv9JbJ/IMG-3248.jpg

Did he know it was his last day before he got there, or was it a direct result of getting there and chopping his fingertips off?

He knew before he got there, it really was going to be his last day.

Edit:  Do you know what, maybe that's wrong and I'm believing the myth. I've got his book somewhere and I can't remember what he actually said in that, but this is a quote from an interview:

“I’d be on a line and they’d pass stuff down to me and I’d weld it, and then it’d go on to somewhere else,” Iommi sets up the scene. “One day, the person that would be sending me the thing to weld never turned up, so they put me on this giant, huge press — a guillotine-type press. I don’t know what happened, I must have pushed my hand in. Bang! It came down. It just took the ends off [my fingers]. I actually pulled them off. As I pulled my hand back, it sort of pulled them off. It was left with two stalks, the bone was sticking out the top of the finger.”

Iommi continues, “I went to the hospital and they cut the bones off and then they said, ‘You might as well forget playing.’ God, I was just so upset. I wouldn’t accept that there wasn’t some way around it, that I couldn’t be able to play.”

https://loudwire.com/black-sabbath-tony-iommi-chopping-fingers-off/

DefaultM

Philly_Q said:

DefaultM said:

https://i.postimg.cc/FKkv9JbJ/IMG-3248.jpg

Did he know it was his last day before he got there, or was it a direct result of getting there and chopping his fingertips off?

He knew before he got there, it really was going to be his last day.

Edit:  Do you know what, maybe that's wrong and I'm believing the myth. I've got his book somewhere and I can't remember what he actually said in that, but this is a quote from an interview:

“I’d be on a line and they’d pass stuff down to me and I’d weld it, and then it’d go on to somewhere else,” Iommi sets up the scene. “One day, the person that would be sending me the thing to weld never turned up, so they put me on this giant, huge press — a guillotine-type press. I don’t know what happened, I must have pushed my hand in. Bang! It came down. It just took the ends off [my fingers]. I actually pulled them off. As I pulled my hand back, it sort of pulled them off. It was left with two stalks, the bone was sticking out the top of the finger.”

Iommi continues, “I went to the hospital and they cut the bones off and then they said, ‘You might as well forget playing.’ God, I was just so upset. I wouldn’t accept that there wasn’t some way around it, that I couldn’t be able to play.”

https://loudwire.com/black-sabbath-tony-iommi-chopping-fingers-off/

Thanks. That’s vile haha.

DefaultM

Has anyone got the Just Say Ozzy EP? It’s the only thing I never bought on CD and I can’t find it on YouTube or Apple Music or anything.
Wondering if someone will upload Shot In The Dark for me, it’s meant to have a really good Zakk Wylde solo.

BertMassive

@DefaultM PM me your email address and I’ll sort it out when I’m home later this evening. Rob.

DefaultM

Brilliant thanks.

RocknRollDave

I was sure that Iommi had previously said the accident happened on what had already been planned to be his final day working at the factory in question, and, sure as eggs is eggs, I watched another interview this week where he repeated the fact.

Edit: can’t find the clip right now. You’ll have to take my word for it.

Philly_Q

I guess even his own versions of the story have varied over time.  Just as there are slightly different versions of how they chose the name "Black Sabbath" although it was certainly inspired by the Mario Bava film.  That's how memory works...