We did like two shows together in Rare Breed. Tony had bullied him at school, so it was me one day, Tony the next day, so Ozzy decided he’d go with me because he didn’t want to play with Tony. "Ozzy had been to school with Tony, and they hated each other. It had his address and I went down there, and the next day Tony and Bill Ward went round. I saw this advert, ‘Ozzy Zig wants a Gig’ with the magic words: ‘has own PA’. I was always hanging out at guitar shops. I was 13 or 14 and playing other people’s stuff but we were getting heavier and heavier and then the singer left. You were the first person to play with Ozzy, in Rare Breed, before Sabbath… I was like, ‘Yes, thank you!’ My hero was John Lennon so I learned rhythm guitar, but then Cream came along and Jack Bruce’s style of bass playing blew me away.” I didn’t have something that was my own and then The Beatles came along. I had three brothers who were into Elvis and Buddy Holly. They looked like Batman.”Ĭream’s Jack Bruce inspired you to play bass, right? They’d be shouting at me, ‘The Devil’s gonna get ya!’ It seemed their robes were blowing in the wind and they used to scare the hell out of me. “Catholic priests used to scare me more than Satan! We used to get visits from these missionaries back from Africa to get money they’d have these long robes and they scared the hell out of me. Black Sabbath in 1970 (Image credit: Getty)
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