False report

[Andrew]

The Shaw/Blades & Daryl Hall thing appears to be false. Update when available, but cancel that news for now.

[bugsymalone]

So I guess the parts about "Lady" and "Roboto" being two of his big hits was incorrect as well?

Bugsy

[froy]

So I guess the parts about "Lady" and "Roboto" being two of his big hits was incorrect as well?

Bugsy

I wonder if he was on coke now
Is Dennis really out ?
Was Gowan just a bad dream ?
Either way he is .

[Monker]

The Shaw/Blades & Daryl Hall thing appears to be false. Update when available, but cancel that news for now.

LOL! Toldya not to assume is was real! Reminds me of the thing where Perry was sposed to have joined Black Sabbath!

It will be interesting to know who did it and the REAL motive behind it.

[SuiteMadameBlue]

Monker says:

LOL! Toldya not to assume is was real! Reminds me of the thing where Perry was sposed to have joined Black Sabbath!

It will be interesting to know who did it and the REAL motive behind it.

LOL, I thought you were joking about the Perry & Black Sabbath rumor, but you weren't. LOL That's one of the funniest things that I read.

I just can't imagine Steve Perry coming out on stage and singing "Iron Man"!!

Here's the rumor information - LOL



A STRANGE JOURNEY

Within the last 3 days or so, I've gotten about half a dozen emails about a rumour that Steve Perry, the former lead singer of Journey was to be the new singer in Black Sabbath. Here's the text I was sent...

In a move that has some fans excited, and many dismayed, Sharon Osbourne has released Black Sabbath from the deal she had made with Tony Iommi. The old deal, which enabled the reunited Black Sabbath to tour and record again, with only Ozzy as the front man, is now null and void. Black Sabbath is now free of the "Ozzy only" clause of its contract. This in the wake of negotiations between between former Journey vocalist Steve Perry, the Osbourne camp, and Iommi. Although the Osbournes will retain more than a bit of the purse from the "new" super group, which will feature Steve Perry as Black Sabbath's new lead vocalist, Iommi is determined to move forward. When reached for comment, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward original members of Black Sabbath released this statement: "It's been a strange and rocky road being in this band, but this might be the weirdest thing to happen to us yet. This truely is the Black Sabbath." Tony Iommi, founder and lead guitarist of Black Sabbath made this comment, " In the fine tradition of lead vocalists to front Black Sabbath, Steve Perry now joins the ranks of Ronnie James Dio, Tony Martin, and Ozzy Osbourne. We could think of no other way to put one of our records back on the charts, other than soliciting Steve to be the front man for the band who put the heavy into metal." Although Steve Perry's camp as made little comment on this new stage of Perry's career, Perry himself made this small statement, "I have been known as the VOICE, now I guess I'll be the Iron Man as well."

First off, I checked with Sharon's office, and they laughed at the rumour. Second, Tony Iommi owns the legal rights to Black Sabbath. I've said this before, but if he wanted to put out a band with himself of guitar, myself on bass, Christina Aguilera on vocals, and George W. Bush on drums, then it's his legal right to do so. I'm not aware of any "Ozzy only" clause, besides it conflicts with Tony owning Sabbath, anyway.

Second, Steve fuckin' Perry? Are you kidding me? You know, even knowing what I know about the Sabbath contractual situation (which isn't much, but I know some of it), I was buying this story up until they started talking about Steve Perry. Before that, I was thinking WTF, but the comments about "putting our albums back on the charts".. Well, Sabbath hasn't MADE an album since 1995. They first need an album to be on the charts.

Thirdly, I'm surprised people were suckered in by this. Probably the same people that believed Kerrang's old joke in the mid 80's about Tom Jones being the new Sabbath singer. THIS GETS CLASSIFIED AS A JOKE - there's nothing in here that even makes me want to remotely believe this.

[Monker]

I just can't imagine Steve Perry coming out on stage and singing "Iron Man"!!

Why not? He has the hip for it...which is part of the joke.

Well, this was originaly posted on the Journey digest as a joke. Some took it serious and asked about it on a Sabbath forum and a couple other Journey forums. Then things just bloomed from there. It was actualy went as far as being talked about on MTV news.

So, no, don't believe all 'press releases' are real...especially when they have such OBVIOUS 'errors'.

So, as I said, it would be interesting to know the motive behind why this Shaw/Blades/Hall thing was written.