Ozzy sues Tony Iommi

braindead2000 · Subject: Ozzy sues Tony Iommi Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:51 am

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=121016

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Tony, I am so sorry it's had to get to this point by me having to take this action against you. I don't have the right to speak for Geezer and Bill, but I feel that morally and ethically the trademark should be owned by the four of us equally."

Iommi and Geezer Butler have both said some less than kind things about working with Osbourne in a new interview with Decibel magazine. The pair recently completed a new studio album as HEAVEN & HELL, the post-Ozzy version of SABBATH featuring vocalist Ronnie James Dio, and Butler said that working with Dio was much easier than Osbourne. He explained, "Ronnie's a songwriter in his own right — he's got tons of ideas. Whereas Ozzy . . . in the old days, he'd come up with a vocal line and I'd write the lyrics. Ronnie is 100 percent involved in both the musical side and the vocal side, and he writes his own lyrics as well."

Butler added that Osbourne didn't take him seriously as a songwriter, saying, "If we were with Ozzy and I came in with the killer riff of all time, Ozzy wouldn't even think of doing it because I'm not the guitarist and that's the way he thinks . . . That's why it was so bloody hard to write anything."

Butler said about HEAVEN & HELL's debut CD, "The Devil You Know", "If we'd written this album with Ozzy, we'd still be working on the first track."

Hahahaha. Oh, Ozzy.

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Neon · Subject: Re: Ozzy sues Tony Iommi Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:37 am

Holy diver you've been down too long in the midnight sea.

ThingrueIstKRIEG · Subject: Re: Ozzy sues Tony Iommi Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:44 pm

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"With Ronnie, we're able to churn out **** material for our deaf fans to gobble up at a much faster rate!"

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