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to reform our old band, Axis.
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So, we left Rick Derringer.
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produced by Andy Johns, great album.
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Didn't go anywhere, but it was a great
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And that album is what Tony Iommi
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when I met Tony Iommi, he had the album.
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Woah. And he told me it was really good.
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So, he liked my drumming, and that's how
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uh the audition with Black Sabbath.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And
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when you auditioned for for Sabbath, you
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were right away on the spot, right?
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I guess so. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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They didn't have anybody come in after
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me. They only had 4 days before a big
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And the first song I played with them
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was Neon Knights. I didn't really know
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the Sabbath catalog. I didn't know the
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songs. Uh-huh. I heard it I heard them,
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but I wasn't a big Sabbath fan. Yeah.
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But I did hear Neon Knights on the radio
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the other a week before.
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And I knew I First of all, I thought it
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was great with Ronnie singing. So,
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that's the new singer from Sabbath. Wow.
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So, when they said, "What do you want to
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play?" I said, "Neon Knights." Cuz it's
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The song starts and it keeps going and
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going, and there's a breakdown
1:24
before the guitar solo. Then it goes
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So, it was kind of an easy song.
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So, I chose that, and that's the first
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song we played together. Woah, awesome.
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>> And And incidentally, it was the last
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song we played together in 2009.
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The last show we did with Ronnie, that
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was the last song as the encore, one of
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song took us on a journey, you know. God
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bless him. I almost saw you on that
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You were scheduled to play Do you
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remember the that big four Sonisphere
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Festival that that was supposed to
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You were scheduled to play with Ronnie
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And it was cancelled because
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it happened after his
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It was Metallica and Slayer and
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What what year was that? 2010? 2010, I
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think. Yeah. Yeah, well, Ronnie got sick
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and then we cancelled. Yeah. Cancelled.
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>> It was scheduled scheduled and
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So, you had a few albums with with Black
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Sabbath. I mean, it's like three or four
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studio albums and a live album. Uh
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How did you and Ronnie decided to go out
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of Sabbath and and and make
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Ronnie, Tony, and Geezer, they wouldn't
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they weren't getting along very good.
