During a recent appearance on the Lipps Service podcast, Andrew Watt claimed he almost got to produce a final Black Sabbath album. However, drummer Bill Ward “wasn’t able to do it.”
Watt said the following:
“So what happened there was we had made these two Ozzy [Osbourne] albums [‘Ordinary Man’ and ‘Patient Number 9’], and Ozzy wanted to make another album. [He] didn’t wanna do exactly the same thing that we had done before, so he was into the idea of doing a Sabbath album. So [Ozzy’s wife and manager] Sharon and him said I had to call and talk to each guy and see if they were into it. So I called Tony [Iommi], talked to him, and he said he was into it, as long as Bill [Ward] was there. That was everyone’s thing. Ozzy was, like, ‘If Bill does it, we’ll do it.’ And Geezer [Butler] said, ‘If the other guys are in it, I’m in to do it.’ So I had this 40-minute call with Bill, which was one of the weirdest and funniest phone calls just ever, of all time. It was on the phone. But it was personal things that were talked about on that phone call that made Ozzy and Sharon crack up. It’s, like, an inside joke. Long story short, it ended up that Bill was not gonna be able to make the record. Like, he wasn’t able to do it for a multitude of different reasons. So that’s why that didn’t happen. But the other guys were all into doing it. And then Bill sent us all this long e-mail, and then it was over.”
This news comes after Iommi previously claimed he “didn’t like the idea” of a new album.
[via Blabbermouth]
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