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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Check out 10 choice moments from the life and career of the Lord of Riffs.
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Tony Iommi is such a legend. He is second to none.
And a legendary prankster!
@@onerandombruh As a good Aquarius.
@@onerandombruh I wonder if he played pranks on Bryan May.
@@barryledgister4496 Probably left the plunger in the toilet.
That time he invented metal was pretty unforgettable
Had to check if he was still alive when this popped in my feed
Exactly!
Facts
Same!
Same
Same holy shit I got scared.
I’m proud to have gotten to see Sabbath at the ‘99 reunion. It was absolutely epic!
Saw them in Massachusetts that year, amazing show by the original 4!
i havent watched a loudwire video in a while. when this popped up in my feed i was like IS TONY OK?
I do the same. Sometimes I see these and I have to rush to google to make sure they’re good.
Why?
He is Iron Man.
Absolute legend, it’s great to see him alive and well. 🎸🤘
Gosh Loudwire, don’t scare us like that!
Epic and talented gentleman, if it wasnt for him we wouldnt have that fuzzy doomy beautiful tone
Don't forget he's also a master of the prank. Before Johnny Knoxville made it in Jackass, we had Tony Iommi.
Hey Tommy, loved your playing since 68. I was still in high school when your first Sabbath album came out. I was like firing a gun in church, which woke the establishment up.
I was fighting a war in the early 70's and your music was a big part of the sound track of those times. With your riffs and lead breaks heading the enjoyment.
A most enervating moment was watching you and Ozzy doing Paranoid at Buckingham palace, you guys had come full circle to the full backing of popular culture and establishment approval, not really sure how I feel about that ;-) .
58 years of pleasure and some of your music is on every playlist in my life, including the 15 hours of USB music in my cars.
I was in Nigeria on the 50th anniversary of Paranoid and my Ops Manager came to tell me that the escalator had stopped working overnight. I got them to open up the working parts and there it was, a decapitated giant fruit bat, which had roosted there, jamming up the works.
How appropriate.
I survived the wars and have made a good life for myself. Sending love and light and more power to your magic fingers and wishes for nothing but joy for you mate.
Sahle Gahle....that's Zulu for "stay safe"
Beautiful words!!!!!!!
I am very grateful to Tony, because through his unfortunate story of his fingers, where he did not give up but rather continued to play the guitar with his invention, I too have a similar story, I have a problem with the phalanx of the index finger of my left hand Thanks to a protection placed on my finger I can still play, Congratulations Tony and all the other members of Black Sabbath you are wonderful!
Tony is one of the best guitarist's out there period!
When James Hetfield was asked how he came up with the Inamorata riff from 72 Seasons he said something like "Idk I was channeling Toni Iommi or something like that". Everyone bows to the godfather of heavy metal🤘🤘🤘
I'm glad Tony seems to finally be getting the full amount of appreciation and respect he deserves
Damn, for a moment I thought he was gone... FOR REAL!!!
Doesn`t Bryan May have a Phd in Astrophysics? And there he is with Tony Iommi, who worked in the sheet metal factory. That must have been a meeting of minds.
Tony got an honorary doctorate some years back. I forgot where he got it (Coventry, maybe?). I think his was for music.
They're best of friends as well!
They are best friends.
@@armlovesmetal1036 Oh, I didn`t know that. Tony would probably loosen Bryan May up a bit...always seems a bit uptight that guy. I certainly wasn`t trying to say Iommi is uneducated...he`s a very clever guy...as long as it`s about guitars.
Not only are they best friends, but Tony let Brian May play a solo on one of Black Sabbath's songs, I believe it was from their Cross Purposes album.
It's in Tony's autobiography.
This is absolute GOLD!
OMG- two of my all time favorite guitarists playing “Apache”, one of my all time fave surf pieces.
I love Tony Iommi man🤘🏻, no heavy metal without him
With all the drama that's gone on between them, I always love seeing them having fun together
REALLY enjoyed that. Thanks.
Thanks to this 🐐 for being arguably the most important part in the creation of metal 🥹
The Guy freaking MADE his fingers ! What an inspiration ! Thank you Tony !
Great man. Ultimate moment? The first three notes of the song Black Sabbath.
Entire career is unforgettable
I was fortunate enough to see play in Heaven and Hell in 2007. It was not only the first and last time I saw them, but it was the first and last time I saw Tony use that red Gibson custom shop SG. That thing was powerful on Shadow of The Wind. A light reflected off the neck of that guitar and got me directly in the eye (I wasn't gonna complain).
Tony is my absolute favorite guitarist of all time. I tried to learn how to play guitar because of him (left-handed, too), but I can't play to save my life.
Tony always seems to get overlooked when it comes to guitar players. It's always Hendrix and Page this, Clapton and Rhodes that. Its really a shame.
0:17 Tony's noodling "Apache" by The Shadows. 😁👍
Ya, so cool
Tony and Brian played Apache together. Check the documentary video of Smoke On The Water for Rock Aid Armenia
Rock legend forever! 🩷
3:50 - That's amazing!!!
Most people don't know this, but that band "Coven" was heavily into the occult and dark arts, but there's a strange twist to it. Somehow, the actor and civil rights activist Tom Laughlin who wrote, directed and acted in the famous movie "Billy Jack" had heard the female singer in "Coven" and liked her enough to choose her to sing the song "One Tin Soldier" aka the main soundtrack of the movie.
It totally blew me away when I found that out back in the 70's, because we had to sing that song in school choir. 🤯
Huts off!!! Here is the master of the riffs 🤘🤘🤘
Is the interviewer @3:50 secretly a member of Coven? Like RELAX 😂
I`ve heard the Coven story...it`s just Americans trying to claim they invented Heavy Metal. Pathetic.
No kidding. I felt bad for Tony there, she was frankly being a bitch about it.
That girl was an early sign of pretentious assholes who think they invented the wheel.
Martha Quinn was the gal interviewing him . And Iommi really knew about them. Lol.
@@Mike-aka747 bands have the same ideas, borrow from each other, and outright steal. She acts like she caught him or something lol. Nobody cares. Sabbath 🤘🏾🤘🏾
The riff master
Don't scare us like that!!! I was about to skip work for Lord Iommi
If it wasn't for Tony Iommi, I wouldn't have picked up guutar, and I probably wouldn't be alive 🤘
It's a crime that he (and all of Sabbath, really) hasn't been knighted
According to Tony Iommi's book (Iron Man), they changed from Earth to Black Sabbath in 30th august, 1969, not 1968 as Tony says on this vídeo. Cover first album was released in June 15, 1969, almost 3 months before.
The Godfather of metal riff
Thank You
Legend
Needed this thank u
They should have included Tony and Brian May playing at the Freddy Mercury Tribute Concert instead of that other clip. They played the Heaven and Hell riff together.
The man who started the first Heavy metal band Black Sabbath 1968 mm
That Coven album is absolutely fucking BANGING!!! IOMMI🤘🤘
In the beginning, Tony and Brian are playing "Apache" by The Shadows.
Just a class act.
Tony est une légende. 🎸🤘👍
I swear wherever Brian goes Tony goes
Best Guitarist of the Best Band
The best!
The G.O.A.T.
1 thru 22: Being the God Of All Things Metal
This guy chopped his fingers and then went ahead and invented metal.
Black Sabbath's 80s/90s stuff with Tony Martin is underrated.
No it's not.
@@ChrisShortyAllenyes it is. It’s far better than the crap they released with Ozzy
No, it's not. I second ChrisShortyAllen. Nice albums, all five, but only Sabbath's third best.
@@AlexanderArsov lol better than the Ozzy crap
Well at least he wasn’t bitter about Ozzy getting even bigger and more popular after he sacked him…
Sabbath was HIS band. Period. Yes, Really.
GUITAR GOD. TONY IOMMI. . CRANK IT UP LOUD. HORNS UP. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
I wonder if Lita Ford can still feel the sting of the back of his hand?
God bless Tony Iommi
My dad looked like Tony Iommi, put them side by side at the same age and they could be mistaken for brothers, not quite twins but close, well, at least the facial features, my dad wore glasses, was a bit taller, 187 cm/6'2" and built like Bruce Lee.
🎸
The Pontiff of Heavy Metal 🤘🏻
So it's Iommis mother started the whole heavy metal thing!
!IOMMIC LIFE!
Even though I prefer the Stratocaster, Tony why I got an SG
How have you included a 2024 Christmas message?? Has there been a time slip I’m not aware of?
GO GO GODZILLA 🐲
🤘❤️🔥
the king of doom/metal. and not a man to be trifled with in his younger days.
Tony is one of my favorite guitarists ever and a major influence on me and my bands however, it's not Ukraine and russia fighting it's russians invading Ukraine, Ukrainian never wanted to fight, while russians want to destroy, invade and steal. That's a big difference, Ukrainians are not killing someone else's kids and not stealing from eldery peopel and not destroying hospitals. It's said that stuff like that still has to be explained.
wait, Coven? Isn't that the band with the song that goes "... kill all your neighbors... "?
02:05
"So... later"
Coven??? Goddamn
Coven sucked. Lol noting more than Jefferson Airplaine imitators.
Left out Tony's finger tips. Wtf.
Coven's Witchcraft and Sabbath's debut albums were release only about 8 months apart from each other. That Witchcraft happened to have came first is irrelevant, as I doubt the bands knew about each other. "Black Sabbath" came from the 1963 Boris Karloff movie. It's realistic to say they both got it from that.
The REAL issue is whether or not they threw up the horns before Dio did as show on the back of the Witchcraft album. 🤘
Why do people get his wrong all the time?
Harris Dorothy Jones David Robinson Frank
I don’t consider Queen rock n roll. They are Pop. As Pop as it gets. Was never a fan.
On early albums they were described a `Led Zeppelin meets Bowie` and could definitely rock out. I think Bryan May solo after Queen as a band became more `pop-rock` (I wouldn`t call them `pop`) did harder rock, that`s his thing.
@@J450NRS11 Maybe not a metal band, but it`s hard to think of US `hair metal` without British glam rock...which of course included Queen. And in what I assume people mean their `pop` period they came up with a riff to `One Vision` which is as rocking as you can get! The softer end of US metal wishes they could riff up like Bryan May and Queen.
I agree 100% that they are pop, but listen to some of their early stuff which is cool. Like "Great King Rat" or "Son and Daughter"