Iron Men.

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  • Author(s): Toung, Charles M.
  • Source:
    Rolling Stone. 5/13/2004, Issue 948, p76-76. 1/2p. 1 Color Photograph, 1 Black and White Photograph.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      BLACK Sabbath (Performer); GUITARS; IOMMI, Tony; ROCK music; ROCK musicians; ENTERTAINERS
    • Abstract:
      Nobody has ever wallowed in pure, unadulterated, overdriven guitar with the orgiastic abandon of the performer Black Sabbath. They didn't have a lot of choice in the matter. Musician Tony Iommi may had been a third of the pyrotechnic ability of contemporary musicians such as Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. In an era when guitar virtuosity was the measure of everything, Iommi pioneered mostly with his astounding sense of riff and the courage to reassert one of rock's eternal verities. That's what Black Sabbath did, and it sounds even better again and again in a eight-CD/one-DVD set than it did on vinyl.