Metal Anarchy

During a charity fundraiser at the Opus Restaurant in Birmingham, Tony Iommi was asked if Black Sabbath would ever play together again. He responded by saying “it’s highly unlikely, but [they] may.”

Here’s what Iommi had to say:

“It’s highly unlikely, but we may. You can never say never, because we’ve done it [before] … So many times, you say, ‘Oh, that’s it now,’ with different singers and this and that, and all of a sudden we’re playing together again. I would hope we could do some one-offs, but we’ll never tour the world again as we did, because it is really exhausting.”

He continued:

“People think, ‘What a great life,’ and it is a great life, but it has its toll on your body. All the traveling at different hours of the day and night. You finish a show at 11 o’clock. What we’d normally do is we’d base ourselves in one place, like New York or wherever we were, and then we’d stay in New York for 10 days, fly out and do a show and fly back in the night. So by the time you get to the hotel, it’s four o’clock or five o’clock [in the morning]. And you don’t pass the time, you can’t sleep. And that’s the difficult part. Even though you travel the best way you can. You could never fault the service. We had a great plane, we had great hotels — everything was marvelous — but it’s still tiring.”

After some laughter from the crowd, Iommi added: “I think when you get to our age, it changes from when we’re 20. We could stay up all night, but now I’m 30 and it’s a different thing.” He also said “Ozzy’s going on, which is great. And one day we may [reunite onstage]. It’d be nice to do a few one-offs, but not another two years.”

[via Loudwire]