Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi describes awkward time that Trump attended band’s gig

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Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has revealed that Donald Trump is a fan - and has described the brief encounter his band had with Donald Trump when the President-elect attended one of their gigs.

And when asked as to whether or not the heavy metallers are to release a new album in 2017, Iommi replied: "Maybe."


Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi describes awkward time that Donald Trump attended band’s gig

Luke Morgan Britton
Jan 17, 2017
NME



Black Sabbath‘s Tony Iommi has described the brief encounter his band had with Donald Trump when the President-elect attended one of their gigs.

The guitarist, 68, recently spoke to The Birmingham Mail when he said: “We have a lot of people come to our show you wouldn’t think. Donald Trump came a few years ago.”

Detailing the awkward sounding incident, Iommi continued: “We were leaving because we had to get the flight.

He came backstage with his daughter but we couldn’t stay to talk to him. We couldn’t miss the slot for our plane. It was a bit ‘hello, hello’ and gone.”

Iommi went on to say that Trump isn’t his band’s only famous fan: “Bruce Willis and all sorts of people have been to see us.”

Back in November, it was rumoured that Black Sabbath might consider releasing new music in 2017. While Iommi has ruled out future touring for the band, the guitarist recently answered “maybe” when the notion of recording new Black Sabbath material was posed to him.

Iommi has also revealed that a lump recently found in his throat wasn’t cancerous. The news came just a few months after Iommi had stated that his cancer was in remission.


Iommi is recovering from the early stages of lymphoma

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A 3 second meeting was awkward? This is Black Sabbath who is only a bit less weird than Alice Cooper.

The slant would be he was taking his daughter (young daughter) to a cultist band, alone. I'm betting it was the daughter's idea but it was her dad who could swing the tickets and the backstage pass.
 
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A 3 second meeting was awkward. This is Black Sabbath who is only a bit less weird than Alice Cooper.

Nothing weird about Black Sabbath. Ozzy has had a few mad moments over the years, like biting heads off bats, snorting ants and wearing Sharon's dress but, other than that, they're just a group of blokes from Birmingham.