THE END Brought the Beginning Once More: A Personal Note on Black Sabbath’s Final Tour

And here’s the genius: In The End, it makes us feel happy. We feel purged of our fears and failings. We feel as if we are understood and accepted from the inside out. When we looked up at the stage or the screen at The End, we were all-Black Sabbath included-looking up, experiencing the most salient symptom of the universe: the beauty waiting for us.

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The Perfect Riff Paradox (or Sought Music Hypothesis)

What it means to be a song writer is different for Tony Iommi. He is not a typical metal composer. I’m suggesting that he possesses a vision of music itself. He isn’t making it up. Many artists do that. They make new music by making more old music. Iommi seems to be searching for the ideal form of music itself.

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The Iommic Second

Analysis: The Iommic Second - Tony Iommi’s use of the Major Second (in three solos from across his career)

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The Iommi Paradox

Tony reached out to the universe and moved its beauty and grandeur onto his fretboard in a kind of novel familiarity that-in another paradoxical moment-warms our hearts with chilled blood.

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Great Lefty: Live Forever! Tribute to Tony Iommi Godfather of Metal

First ever Pals & Fans tribute to the Inventor of heavy metal genre, heart and soul of Black Sabbath - Tony Iommi.

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Tony Iommi's Lamborghini Miura SV

It was perhaps his ancestry of Italian vineyard owners that warmed Iommi to Lamborghinis, particularly as he could relate to Ferruccio’s rebellious background story: “He and I had a personal conversation about getting this specific one for me at the time. I still have a letter from him, which I have framed. We were mutual fans, so to say – he liked our music, and I liked his cars!”

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Iron Man? - If You Say So!

Great story from Tony's friend!

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Black Sabbath's Spiral Architect

“There is only one Sabbath guitarist, and he is the architect for everything: Tony Iommi.” Zakk Wylde

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