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Geezer Butler Bio
Terence "Geezer" Butler was born on July 17, 1949 in Birmingham, England. As a teenager, Geezer established his own band called, Rare Reed, as per All Music. Geezer established this band with his schoolmate, John "Ozzy" Osbourne, during the fall season of 1967. Not too long afterwards, Osbourne and Butler's working relationship was rekindled in their coordinated formation of a blues quartet group called, Polka Tulk. Polka Tulk is also inclusive of other members, namely, guitarist, Toniy lommi and drummer, Bill Ward.
How Geezer Butler Started His Music Career in Black Sabbath
After reforming as a group called Earth for a short time, the four men officially changed the name of their band to Black Sabbath in the initial part of 1969. The group adopted the new name for their band from a song that Geezer wrote. Black Sabbath's self-titled debut album was released in 1970. Word has it that this album was known for its defeaning, sludgy, and hard rock appeal.
Geezer Butler and Black Sabbath Hits, Accomplishments, and Accolades
Black Sabbath's sophomore album,"Paranoid", laid the foundations for the band's creative and music industry career peak. The said album sold four million copies in the United States at the time. A couple of songs off the group's second album had become hits, too. Among of these songs were ""War Pigs" and "Iron Man," just to name a few.
Osbourne was the vocalist of the band. Geezer, on the other hand, was in charge of writing the songs' lyrics. Word has it that Geezer utilized his admiration for black arts as he took on the concepts of repetitive cycles of existence of death and destruction in his creation of music materials.
In between 1970 and the latter part of the 1990's, Black Sabbath's dwindling popularity coincided with the on-and-off formation of the band. 1998 was the year, though, when all four original members of Black Sabbath gathered together for the performance in the concert LP, "Reunion." This LP was the key to paving the way for Black Sabbath to win its first Grammy award.
Geezer Butler's Thought on Black Sabbath's Present Music and Fan Appeals
In an interview in Sirus XM's "Trunk Nation with Eddie Trunk" on June 28, Geezer Butler admitted that over time, he had gotten used to Black Sabbath depicting as generating heavy metal band beats as music source and fan appeals. Geezer revealed that Black Sabbath was the only band with a heavy metal music distinction that was formed during the 1970's, as per Blabbermouth.net. Hence, Black Sabbath has been living up to its original reputation in the music industry until the present day.
