Tag: Geezer Butler

  • Black Sabbath: 13 Review and The Post-It Note-gate Controversy

    Black Sabbath: 13 Review and The Post-It Note-gate Controversy

    With Black Sabbath’s album out tomorrow, it is time to dust off your black cloak, wizard’s hat and faded copy of Alistair Crowley‘s Big Book of Magic (Vol. 1: Card Tricks), throw them in the bin, and make some space for some new Sabbath vinyl in your collection. Sabbath have always courted controversy, from the…

  • Things You Don’t See Anymore #4: The Flexi Disc

    Things You Don’t See Anymore #4: The Flexi Disc

    Many hundreds of years ago (well, in the 1960’s and ’70s) and in the days before the Internet, if you can imagine such a thing, record companies tried many ways to get music heard. They tried bribing DJs. This was frowned upon. They tried fixing the charts by bulk buying or giving away records to…