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“But we’ve been coping with the situation by doing lots of road trips to places like Utah. “We haven’t seen him since Christmas and I’m not sure when we will,” he sighs. He misses England or, more specifically, his youngest son James who lives in London.

Each album represents distinctive facets of Geezer’s own personality, with 1995’s Plastic Planet being the angriest, his vitriol being directed at a specific source.“I really wasn’t happy with the way that Sabbath was going,” he states bluntly, reflecting on the band he’d formed in Birmingham in 1969 with guitar player Tony Iommi, frontman Ozzy Osbourne and drummer Bill Ward back. His is killed after.Music groups: Quiet RiotThis enforced creative spurt coincides with the reissue of three of Geezer’s solo albums – Plastic Planet, Black Science and Ohmwork – all of which were originally released between 19, and have now also been issued on vinyl for the first time. Yep, this is the house from the show36 years ago today (3/19/82), guitarist Randy Rhoads, lead guitarist Ozzy Osbournes band and formerly of Quiet Riot died at age 25. A tad over 2 years later, MTV launched The Osbournes on March 5, 2002, and the world fell in love with Ozzy and his family.

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We really worked well together and we got the album written in no time,” he recalls.Blessed with a similar sanguine sense of humour as Butler, Howse has proved to be the mainstay of Geezer’s solo endeavours, and provided the bass player with a strong song-writing foil throughout.“Pedro just gets what I’m trying to do,” explains Butler. He turned to a familial source to help marshal the material, his nephew Pedro Howse.“Pedro was in a thrash band called Crazy Angel at the time and I really liked what he was doing. When Sabbath completed their Cross Purposes World Tour, the bass player finally quit and began working on a solo project. Instead, Butler – who was about to turn 45 — had found himself re-energised by the new wave of heavy bands that had begun to emerge in the U.S., Californian industrial outfit Fear Factory among them. I also wanted the music to be heavier.”As Sabbath released their seventeenth studio album, Cross Purposes, in February 1994, he felt disillusioned by their particular brand of polished hard rock. We still went out as Black Sabbath, which I wasn’t into.

Repairing to Long View Farm Studios in Massachusetts, the four-piece finished routining the 11 tracks that would make up Plastic Planet, Butler contributing the album’s worth of lyrics, just as he had done back in Sabbath’s early days.“I wrote the lyrics all in long-form before we’d even got Burt in the band. The latter had played with Geezer in Ozzy Osbourne’s band on the sessions that made up the Ozzmosis album (set to be released in October 1995) and was an obvious choice, while Bell was Butler’s favoured singer. Bell and drummer Deen Castronovo. I don’t have to be great but I can just put an idea across and he’s great at picking that up.”Having worked up drafts of a collection of hard-driving songs, the duo contacted Fear Factory frontman Burton C. Playing with Pedro is relaxing. I always felt weird writing on guitar and playing songs to Tony so I’d always write stuff on the bass because I was intimidated trying to play a riff to greatest riff master ever.

It was very real and people were killing members of their own family in some cases,” Geezer remembers.Another key tune on the record is Giving Up The Ghost – a track widely viewed at the time as being directed at Butler’s former Sabbath band mate, Tony Iommi.“A lot of people thought it was a straight dig at Tony but it wasn’t. “At the time when I wrote that, there was a lot of gang culture and initiation involving guns. It’s just terrible that it’s become accepted.”Equally trenchant is the pile-driving Drive Boy, Shooting, a track that tackles the scourge of gun culture in the U.S. They’ve even gone so far as to put toilets in and wash-downs for people.

I was doing it for me.”Today, Plastic Planet still sounds fantastically ferocious, Burton C. “A lot of people didn’t like what I was doing at the time but I wasn’t doing it for them. I deliberately veered away from that,” he says. Giving up the ghost in every way, really.”Choosing the project name of G/Z/R rather than releasing the record as a pure solo project, Butler co-produced what was a contemporary sounding and decidedly intense record that eschewed classic rock in favour of groove metal and neo-industrial stylings.“I wanted it to be heavy and not to sound like just my version of a Sabbath record. Giving up what I felt I’d built up in Sabbath too.

I hadn’t done it since Sabbath had first come to America and we’d started out in the clubs, so it felt good. He laughs like Muttley at the thought of that now.“Actually, it was good going back to clubs. For Butler, the album’s release in October 1995 also presented him with the opportunity to reconnect with an audience on a grass-roots level, the bass player telling this journalist at the time that he aimed to head back to the clubs and “get jiggy with it”.

I started hallucinating at one point and Pedro just called an ambulance and rushed me to hospital. I was leaning up against the amps and I think people just thought I was pissed off playing there. I was really sick, and I had a gig to do that night. I was in New York at the time. “I was rushed into hospital to Intensive Care and by the time I was allowed out the tour was cancelled. I got this food poisoning and it got so bad I nearly died,” states Butler, a man who embraced veganism from an early age.

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I got back into Captain Scarlet, Stingray, Dr Who, Dan Dare, and all these old toys. Butler, however, was in a rich vein of form and, following his near-death experience, he returned to England and began working on some new music with Howse.While Plastic Planet had been a forward-looking album, this time around Geezer found himself in nostalgic form and harking back to the British TV shows that he’d watched in the late ’ 60s – most specifically a number of science fiction series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson.“At the house I had in England I had this massive vintage toy collection. Bell’s success with Fear Factory – riding high at the time on the back of the release of their second album, Demanufacture – meant that he was unable to commit full-time to the project. By the time I recovered, the tour had been scrapped so that was that.”G/Z/R WAS never intended as an ongoing project.

And then in the ‘ 60s and ‘ 70s he became America’s national treasure,” shrugs Geezer. I remember when Elvis came out everybody said he was Satan. The most intriguing of song titles written during that time is Unspeakable Elvis – a lithe track that also harks back to Butler’s teenage discovery of rock’n’roll.“That’s really about the fact that whatever new music comes out, it’s viewed as the devil’s music. “That song is actually about walking to watch The Villa,” laughs Butler, a lifelong supporter of his local football team, Aston Villa. Despite their fanciful titles, the lyrics penned by Butler reflected a sense of lost innocence and a deep desire for escapism.Thunderous album closer, Trinity Road, continued that theme despite boasting lyrics that read ‘Sex! Death! Satan! Jesus save us!’ – words that can easily be misconstrued. The toys inspired that,” he says.The songs that Butler began to write included Among The Cybermen (in reference to Dr Who’s square-headed, cyborg enemies), Mysterons (named after Captain Scarlet’s extra-terrestrial opponents) and opener Man In A Suitcase (titled after the ‘ 60s crime thriller of the same name).

Viewed as an empowering feminist anthem by some and gratuitously offensive by others, the track pulls very few punches in terms of its subject matter. It’s disgusting! But there you go.”Butler’s outrage at Cardi B’s 2020 summer smash revolves specifically around the impact of the single’s sexually explicit lyrics (sample line: ‘Bring a bucket and a mop for this wet-ass pussy’). I have to say, though, that Cardi B pisses me off with that WAP song. And then when rap came about, people were up in arms about that and certain words that rappers were using. The Christians were going mental when Sabbath came about.