Sharon Osbourne told Billboard an unknown band “wanted to make a profit” from the Black Sabbath final show event. “And it’s not the time to make a profit,” she added. “After the show, I’ll let everybody know who it was. I think people will be shocked.”
While speaking to Guitar World in a new interview, Tool’s Adam Jones (who will be performing at Black Sabbath’s final show on July 5th) explained that legendary Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi served as a major inspiration for him.
“Learning later in life that he’s missing parts of his fingers was inspiring because when you’re a kid, and you’re playing guitar, you go, ‘I could never be as good as a real rockstar,’ and here’s a guy that is a professional, a rockstar and amazing, and he’s missing parts of his fingers. It’s inspiring. It makes you feel like, ‘I can do that,’” Jones said
He continued, revealing just how much of an impact Iommi has had on how he approaches his own guitar playing.
“It’s why I’m obsessed with drop D. The stuff he did – the tone, the playing the notes and then pulling off, you know, the open D, or whatever tuning they had that’s comparable – it was just haunting, and the riffs were so good. I could play them, but there’s a vibe, and it’s wonderful,” he said, before adding that Iommi’s influence can be unmistakably heard in his work with the Maynard James Keenan fronted band Tool. “And if you don’t hear it in Tool, you probably aren’t really into Black Sabbath.”
Jones went on to theorize as to why he thinks Iommi’s guitar playing is unmatched:
“It’s his emotion and his approach. Maybe there’s stuff he can do with his handicap that other people can’t. It’s fascinating. It just goes to those things where there’s some stuff they can’t teach in school. You have to experience it. You have to feel it. You have to do it on your own. It’s nothing that you’re gonna learn in a book.”
