Toni Martin underrated and needlessly hated .

froman5150 said:
The guy carried the sabbath torch between ozzy being fired and dio coming and going and still managed to do justice to every part of sabbath's history and even added a couple classics of his own , IMO truly underrated .
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Yeah you were the guy who turned me onto the Tony Martin era with the Cross Purposes album and video. Still an awesome era and it gave them a kick in the ass.

I remember we would blast that across the auditorium ( mostly Children of the Grave) while were supposed to be stage hands in Drama class and just generally ruining other people's serious attempts to act lol
 
Clockworkmike said:
Yeah you were the guy who turned me onto the Tony Martin era with the Cross Purposes album and video. Still an awesome era and it gave them a kick in the ass.

I remember we would blast that across the auditorium ( mostly Children of the Grave) while were supposed to be stage hands in Drama class and just generally ruining other people's serious attempts to act lol
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Queef!
 
Tony Martin was great in Sabbath. I think he has lost a bit of his voice recently though.

Him leaving after Tyr was more about Dio. They had the chance to reunite with Dio and they unceremoniously dumped Tony. Then they had to be nice to him again to get him back for Cross Purposes. Cross Purposes was a great album, with Bobby Rondinelli (another ex-Rainbow member) on drums. Cozy came back for Forbidden but that was terrible due to the production by Ernie C from Body Count (and the track with Ice T as guest), which was more a case of Tony and Geezer trying to be 'relevant' in 1995 rather than the fault of Tony Martin or Cozy Powell.

Tony was brought in after a disastrous drug-addled marathon recording session for Eternal Idol on Monserrat. Various issues happened, resulting in Ray Gillen being let go as vocalist and Tony Martin hired. Some of the stuff was re-recorded (mainly the vocals) but the drums by Eric Singer were kept from the first session. Not sure about the bass. Dan Spitz was definitely on bass for the Monserrat experience. Eric had left by then but they kept the drum recordings. This was also around the time that they received a :poo: in a box from Sharon Osbourne. She had a habit of doing that. She claims that she got the kids to do it but Tony Iommi always had this image in his mind of Sharon squatting over the box. Not sure how it got through mail. Maybe she used a courier. I hope they charged her extra.
 
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Dave Sloven said:
Tony Martin was great in Sabbath. I think he has lost a bit of his voice recently though.

Him leaving after Tyr was more about Dio. They had the chance to reunite with Dio and they unceremoniously dumped Tony. Then they had to be nice to him again to get him back for Cross Purposes. Cross Purposes was a great album, with Bobby Rondinelli (another ex-Rainbow member) on drums. Cozy came back for Forbidden but that was terrible due to the production by Ernie C from Body Count (and the track with Ice T as guest), which was more a case of Tony and Geezer trying to be 'relevant' in 1995 rather than the fault of Tony Martin or Cozy Powell.

Tony was brought in after a disastrous drug-addled marathon recording session for Eternal Idol on Monserrat. Various issues happened, resulting in Ray Gillen being let go as vocalist and Tony Martin hired. Some of the stuff was re-recorded (mainly the vocals) but the drums by Eric Singer were kept from the first session. Not sure about the bass. Dan Spitz was definitely on bass for the Monserrat experience. Eric had left by then but they kept the drum recordings. This was also around the time that they received a poop in a box from Sharon Osbourne. She had a habit of doing that. She claims that she got the kids to do it but Tony always had this image in his mind of Sharon squatting over the box. Not sure how it got through mail. Maybe she used a courier. I hope they charged her extra.
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Spot on assessment! The stuff with Sharon was beyond petty and makes her that much more hateable. Some say she saved Ozzy and his career ( which is true in revitalizing him as a solo artist) but at the same time her shitty attitude has reflected back on Ozzy negatively.

Back on the 2005 Ozzfest tour, she had Jack, Kelly and some other random paid kids, bring in eggs thru security since they would never be checked and they infamously tossed them at Iron Maiden during the San Bernadino show before constantly cutting their power and sound. Why? Because Bruce Dickinson had called out Ozzy for cancelling shows on the tour with Sabbath that Maiden co-headlined, saying it was ripping off their fans and he was more worried about The Osbournes MTV show ( which Ozzy himself later admitted to somewhat).

She came out on stage bashing Bruce and the fans ripped her apart. To Maiden's credit: They took the vandals head on and Bruce called them out onstage while waving the Union Jack
 
Dave Sloven said:
Tony Martin was great in Sabbath. I think he has lost a bit of his voice recently though.

Him leaving after Tyr was more about Dio. They had the chance to reunite with Dio and they unceremoniously dumped Tony. Then they had to be nice to him again to get him back for Cross Purposes. Cross Purposes was a great album, with Bobby Rondinelli (another ex-Rainbow member) on drums. Cozy came back for Forbidden but that was terrible due to the production by Ernie C from Body Count (and the track with Ice T as guest), which was more a case of Tony and Geezer trying to be 'relevant' in 1995 rather than the fault of Tony Martin or Cozy Powell.

Tony was brought in after a disastrous drug-addled marathon recording session for Eternal Idol on Monserrat. Various issues happened, resulting in Ray Gillen being let go as vocalist and Tony Martin hired. Some of the stuff was re-recorded (mainly the vocals) but the drums by Eric Singer were kept from the first session. Not sure about the bass. Dan Spitz was definitely on bass for the Monserrat experience. Eric had left by then but they kept the drum recordings. This was also around the time that they received a :poo: in a box from Sharon Osbourne. She had a habit of doing that. She claims that she got the kids to do it but Tony always had this image in his mind of Sharon squatting over the box. Not sure how it got through mail. Maybe she used a courier. I hope they charged her extra.
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Yeah, not a fan of sharon shes a money grubbing troll , after the way they treated maiden on the ozzfest tour pretty much sealed it for me .
 
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