It sounds like everyone in Black Sabbath is up for one final show. Last month, Ozzy Osbourne told “The Madhouse Chronicles” that he wanted to do a final show with original drummer Bill Ward. Guitarist Tony Iommi didn’t dismiss the idea when he talked with SiriusXM DJ Eddie Trunk saying: “It’d be a nice idea, but you know, you’re gonna get everybody going, ‘Oh, they’re doing it for the money, they’re doing it for this, they’re doing it for that.’ Well, it wouldn’t be, I mean, it’d be something that… it’d be a nice thing to actually do, but whether it happens will be another thing. But we’ll see. I mean, who knows?”
Now, bassist Geezer Butler has echoed the sentiment by telling Eddie Trunk: “Of course there’s an interest, but there’s a big ‘but’ — you’d have to speak to Bill about it.” Butler was then asked if he thought Ward was physically capable of doing a show or at least a few songs in one final Sabbath hurrah. “I don’t think so … maybe, I don’t know,” he said. “I mean, the way technical things happen these days, maybe a couple of songs, but who knows? There wouldn’t be any traveling involved. We wouldn’t be actually all in the studio at the same time together. So it could be done that way — maybe.”
Butler continued: “Ozzy was hoping to finish it all off next year back in Aston, at the Aston Villa. I’m definitely up for it, to finish the whole thing off. Me and Ozzy have agreed, but I’m not sure about anybody else. I’d love to do it,” he added. “I’d absolutely love to do it.”
