Black Sabbath Odeon Birmingham Ticket
Acquired from Merv Williams Age: 44 Black Sabbath ticket stub - Odeon Theatre Birmingham 24/05/80 Rear Stalls £3.50
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Sabbath T-shirts
Note: This isn't much of a collection yet, unfortunately Black Sabbath T-shirts are pretty scarce around here. Anyway, the first one I bought was the Vol 4 one (can't remember the year), latest is the "World Tour 1978" one, which I got a coupla months ago.
Black Sabbath eight track cartridges.
I have never knowingly seen a UK Vertigo copy of TECHNICAL ECSTASY or NEVER SAY DIE. Would love to know of if they exist, or if they don't!
NEVER SAY DIE VIDEO
here’s the wikipedia entry for this item: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Say_Die_%28video%29 Interesting to note that it was originally released on Betamax and VHS.
vintage badge
vintage badge - probably early 80's...
BLACK SABBATH ‘BLACK HAVEN’ LP
DOUBLE ALBUM RECORDED BETWEEN 1975-78
Levi’s 501s with patches
These were the jeans I'd always wear to gigs in Manchester in the mid/late 80s, and over time I added patches, bleach, safety pins, etc. Eventually, my mum complained about "the state of them!" and insisted I threw them out. I would go out wearing other jean,s with these jeans in a plastic bag, and would change into them on the train. There are four Black Sabbath patches, one Led Zeppelin, and one Kerrang. I added the beer towel to cover a massive hole I accidenally created with the over-enthusiastic use of bleach.
Shaking The Hand Of Doom
None More Black!
Diary of a Madman
Signed album and print production items including notes from record company.
‘Killing Yourself to Die’ zine vol.6
'Killing Yourself to Die' Black Sabbath zine vol.6
Grapevine
Pages from Grapevine. This monthly publication detailed cultural happens in Birmingham. A listings magazine very much of the time. These pages are from both the early A5 version and later A4, more professionally printed editions. The listings sections have enabled us to compile a list .
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Tony Iommi Jaydee 'Old Boy' Custom Guitar
By John Diggins "I was first introduced to Tony back in 1970 when working with John Birch, who was a pioneer of custom made pick-ups making them in such a way that they were mechanically noiseless. In those days Tony used a beautiful Gibson cherry red SG special that had been fitted with some of John’s early pick-ups in the stainless steel covers. It was this guitar that I used as the blueprint for the contours on our own SG. In the following years Tony and I became good friends as I was able to solve some of the niggling intonation problems that he had suffered for many years. He aslo had some of the early prototype John Birch guitars, such as a 24 fret Les Paul shape (pictured) and the first 24 fret black SG with crucifix inlays and stainless steel scratchplate, which he used up until about 1980. I couldn’t make the guitar in John Birches time so I made it at home. It was made on the kitchen table and was completed in about 2 weeks. The lacquer was still soft when it was taken to the US, and it was this factor combined with severe changes in temperature and humidity that caused the paint to crack and flake off, giving the ‘Old Boy’ the well worn look that it has today. The guitar was not given a proper unveiling until I had produced the pick-ups that could deliver the sound that Tony was happy with.The Jaydee ‘Old Boy’ SG has become one of Tony’s favourites and it is still used today.
Black Sabbath live in 1972
Philip Osborne describes seeing Black Sabbath at Town Hall, Birmingham on 24th January 1972. He had his camera with him.
BLACK SABBATH ‘HEAVEN AND HELL’ LP FULLY AUTOGRAPHED
I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Ronnie, Tony and Geezer several times and collected their autographs on my original vinyl copy of Heaven and Hell. I never met Bill but a friend’s uncle is Paul Clark who was Sabbath’s road manager in the early 80s .
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