GEEZER BUTLER looks back on BLACK SABBATH’s album “Cross Purposes”: “TONY MARTIN is a great singer”

In a new interview with Full Metal Jackie‘s nationally broadcast radio show, legendary BLACKSABBATH Bassist Old Butler was asked about his opinion on the music he heard during the Tony Martin era of the band. He said: “There was only one album that I recorded with Tony Martin. That was – God, I can’t even remember – it’s called “Conflicting purposes”. Tony Martin‘s a great singer and it was good to work with him. There were no big egos or anything. He would go for it when he needed to. And that was a good album for me because half of it, the musical side, was probably written by me. I went around to Tony‘S (Iommi, BLACKSABBATH guitarist) and played it all to him because I was doing a solo thing at the time. And I had a lot of material. And I went around to Tony‘s house and played him some of the stuff I had written and he really liked a lot of it. I think about half of it ended up on the album.”

“Conflicting purposes” is included in the “Year of the Lord 1989-1995” Box set of Martin era BLACKSABBATH Recordings available on May 31 via rhino.

“Conflicting purposes” Was BLACKSABBATH‘s seventeenth studio album, released by IRS Records in January 1994. The album marked the return of Martin as lead singer of the band, after the second departure of Ronnie James Dio.