I was born in 68, which made me a kid in the 70's and a teenager in the 80's. Growing up in a small rural farm town in Indiana with 14 churches and 1 tavern. All my reletives being very religious I had to listen to my music in hiding. I realized that by putting tape over the little holes on the top edge of the cassette tapes, you could record over store bought tapes, then remove the tape. No one would ever know. So I took some cassettes of Linda Ronstadt, Osmond Brothers, Oakridge Boys and other "safe" music I recorded Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Iron Butterfly and my metal bands right over the top.

_"I usually phone up Jimmy Page and ask him."_ I fucking love Tony for saying that.

All metalheads must bow down to the severed fingertips of Master Iommi.

Tony is such a great story teller, i could listen to him for hours.

What a treat. Just wonderful to have a glimpse of Tony and Brian May's enduring friendship. Both such classy human beings. Both legends.

It brings me enormous amounts of joy to know that Brian May and Tony Iommi are best friends.

Hearing Brian May and Tony Iommi just jamming together? That would never chase me away.

The amounts of pressure the guitarist at the ballet must be feeling when Tony comes walking in.

Brian May did an AWESOME solo on Black Sabbath’s “When Death Calls” which was featured on their ‘89 Headless Cross

I hope everyone realises that yes, Tony is essential, but Geezer is just as important for the invention of Metal.

On my lates 40’s and just discovering the music world of Tony Iommi 🤩😍🤯

"He is playing it wrong!" Tony is just a gem!

13:52 "Fortune's looked kindly on both Brian and I, and between us, we've raked up a fair few riffs that have stuck around" Love the understatement. Tony, you're a gentleman and a legend. The music of Black Sabbath...and Queen......will live forever!

Ive epilepsy and i can remember picking up an original vertigo swirl copy of Black Sabbath and having a seizure when i looked at the swirl!!! Now when i listen to a vertigo swirl i cover the middle!!!!

Praise Iommi! Obey The Riff!

😎🎶👍 my first concert was 1978 Long Beach, California Black Sabbath tickets $13 the best show I ever saw-thank you Tony Iommi for keeping the music alive is the best 👍👍👍👍👍

An Iommi/May album would be great!

Boxes of unheard Iommi riffs…..can you imagine. Now I won’t be able to sleep till I hear all of them. Please guys, make an album. Take your time, we can wait. I think.🤘

What a inspiration Tony was on me i got my first SG a copy because of him i was ten years old am 63 now Tony is a legend 🍺🎵🎶🎸😀

That first Sabbath album is a minor miracle. It really does sound like they banged it out in one day, but it was a great day. Tony going off on an extended jazzy blues solo to fill up some time... and then coming back to crushing heavy riffs. Other bands were also playing some extra hard rock at the time, but that album really seemed to be the start of metal music.

An album of Iommi rifs with May's lead + vice versa would be great!

Brian May and Tony Iommi, PLEASE make can album together. Oh yes, oh yes. The world needs it, PLEASE!

Tony Iommy: GOD Heavy Metal Bryan May: Master Of Rock

Tony is such a great narrator, besides harvesting millions of souls with his guitar playing.

Tony’s the reason I picked up an electric guitar at 13 and spent countless hours learning to play those riffs and the pentatonic blues scales for solos. I’m 58 now and still go back them.

You can tell how proud Iommi is of the Black Sabbath riff

And Brian is an awesome guitarrist!

Hearing Toni live at ground shaking volume is something else. Magic, pure black magic. One of my favourite guitarists, who just happened to be in a band with one of my favourite drummers, bassists and singers. Love Sabbath!

Watching Tommy and Brian have fun made me smile ear to ear. Talent !!!

Summer of 1980, a friend took me down into his basement, sat me down and said, "You are going to listen to Black Sabbath until you like it!" He put on Vol. 4 and when Supernaut started, I was hooked (having only liked The Beatles, ABBA and Oldies up to that point). There will never be another Tony Iommi. I will mourn for a long time, with his passing.

I learnt to love the diminished 5th because of Tony Iommi. One of the greatest and most influential guitarists ever >3

We really need an album from these 2 legends!

When I was like 19, band I was in needed a practice place. One of the guys said I can get us in the catholic church. So first time playing on this empty catholic church on like a Thursday night. We were jamming away, and we were amazed at how loud it sounded at a low volume, and we turned all the reverb off because it echoed so much was no point in reverb. A priest walks in and I guess he wanted to make us feel at ease and starts talking about how much he loves black Sabbath. He walks in some back room and we start jamming iron man or something and we were never allowed to practice there again. 😀 Looking back I think the priest worried that is playing what he said he liked might be heard by someone outside and lead to a scandal. 😀 Heck if he told us he liked Johnny cash we would of played that. But he liked Sabbath.

History kiddies, History! ✌🏽♥️🎶🇦🇺

I know this video is just supposed to be about Tony but I love you both so much that I have to write to both of you here. Queen was the first rock band I ever listened to and Sabbath wasn't far behind. I was a child and didn't know what it was, but I knew I wanted to hear more. You both inspired my love for music of many genres. Both of you guys should be incredibly proud because you're both innovators. Up and coming guitarists will idolize you as long as guitars exist. I wish I could have one lesson from each of you. I tried to learn guitar as a child but stupidly didn't take it seriously. I love the work you've both done and all the joy you've brought into the world. Thank you so much for sharing your music with us!

Only a true legend can rock the same look for 50 years

Mr. Iommi is such a sweet gentleman. He was so humble and forthcoming when he described his hand accident, and wasn't ashamed to hide the outcome from the film crew.

Such an honour to hear the 2 greats together

Black Sabbath just makes me wanna wear a cloak, tune down to C# and crank the amp up to "Angry Neighbor"

With the recent passing of the likes of Eddie Van Halen, Gary Moore, Prince etc., we, the folks today have the immense blessing of being alive to witness and be in the presence of these LEGENDS IN THE FLESH !!! Rock Music of the 70's - the 90's and the gods who gave them to the World will forever live on, so long as the human race doesn't annihilate itself and all other living things. So, lets all give thanks to God and pray that these Amazing Music ICONS shall continue to Graces us with their music and their priceless Wisdoms and Stories for many more years !!! 🎶🙏🤘🎸😍

Brian and Tony.... my two favorite guitar players...such legends! I would love it if they made a record together!

Seeing Tony play Tie your Mother down ...priceless

tony is responsible for the genre that almost all the bands i listen to play today. infinite gratitude to him and the rest of black sabbath. proud to be born and raised in birmingham because of them.

One of the greatest thrills of my entire life was to meet black Sabbath at a meet and greet before a concert in Connecticut..Tony has always been one of my idols,and when I got to talk to him for about 15 or 20 minutes,I told him I have been a black Sabbath fan since I was about 9 years old...and he says to me" how old are you now"?and I said,"well, I'm 48"...and he got a big grin on his face and laughed and said "hah, you're just a young lad",and he laughed so hard,and smiled and said"thank you for being so devoted to the band, shook my hand.. he's so down to earth,very nice guy...ROCK ON,TONY!!!! 🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟

May and Iommi playing together was something effortlessly juicy

All hail the king of metal guitar

Tony put the HEAVY in HEAVY METAL!! Nobody played with such a core of the earth sound as... Tony. The father of Heavy Metal.

I heard that Tony Lommi is a rock and roll man 😅

"He's playing it wrong." Gotta love Tony's wit 😂

Tony and Brian...that is something to see

It does my heart well to see Tony up and out doing things and being active . There is so much to say ,but I will make it as short as I can. It is so great to see Tony and Brain in good health. I met Tony in 1971 I was 16 teen he was 22 I believe . And numerous times through out the years . He has been so good to me over the year's and he did not have to be that way with me . I looked up to him as a big brother one way or another about everything in our talk's about music and life. I am 69 year's of age and I have been playing guitar for 61 year's. I wish Tony and Brian nothing but the best in health , happiness and joy in there life's and there endeavors . I just can't imagine my life without meeting Tony through out all these year's . From age of 16 till now he as friend , a person and a guitarist will all way's be part of my life. Just have to say Brain and Tony have a nice friendship that mean's a lot in that rock world realm ,2 of my most admired guitar player's. I did a You Tube show where I play guitar 4 year's ago call Cooking With Frankie meatball Black Sabbath Pizza story and I open up with we will rock you using a Brain guitar then playing some Tony I think you will like it. Take care.

I got "Hand Of Doom" collection of first Black Sabbath 4 albums in 1982 i guess, biggest music influence for me. Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath still incredibly heavy and doomy even today. for 1969 really, IMO the real first metal song.

I'm not even a fan of Black Sabbath or Queen, but watching these two Legends jamming together gives me so much joy.

I realized later in life that I never could match the tone or NOTES with Tony Iommi because he was tuning his strings differently because of the implants on his fingers. It is really poetic that metal came from an instrumental occurrence like this. The story is cutting-edge metal.

I'm 64 yrs old and I was riding a bicycle listening to Sabbath damn it! Haha! Badass!

Where would we be without musicians like these two?

Two Rock Gods!!! WOW!! I was born in 1960 in Leamington, Ontario, but i was living in Lambeth, Ontario outside of London by 1970. During the 70s, I was blown away, first by Sabbath, and Purple, then Queen by the early- mid 70s. Iommi, and May were two of my earliest influences, along with Blackmore, and Page. What a glorious period for British rock legends. Can't tell you how fortunate I was to just be alive during this amazing era!!

Iommi had a super fast trill! Underrated player, not just a riff lord his leads were great too!

Anthony Frank Iommi, conocido como Tony Iommi (19 de febrero de 1948 en Aston, Birmingham) es un músico y compositor británico, reconocido por haber sido uno de los fundadores de la banda de heavy metal Black Sabbath,​ y el único miembro fundador que estuvo presente en todos los álbumes de la misma. Es considerado uno de los guitarristas más importantes e influyentes en la historia del rock y el padre de muchos de los riffs utilizados en el hard rock y el heavy metal. 76 AÑOS.

Two of the greatest Rock guitarists of all time! 😮😊

"you can sell it to aerosmith" was painful funny and true

The tone in this documentary is better than anything recorded in the past 10 years 🤣

This video is actually a very nice one. Things I didn’t know about the history of Black Sabbath. The finger tips of Tony Iommi is a result of luck after misfortune. He is a living legend 🤩👍🤩🤩🤩👍👍👍🤟

People always talk about Tony's riffs, but the man made some fucking good leads as well.

The Paranoid album recorded in days at most is a true classic. Between Iommi’s classic riffs, a rhythm section that was an insane mix of heavy metal power and drive combined with jazz level proficiency, Ozzy’s iconic vocals and Geezer’s singular lyrics, these 4 musicians both created a genre and set the bar at Mount Olympus levels for any bands that dared to follow.

They're saying when they first heard Sabbath it scared the shit out of them. Same here but the first song I heard was Under the Sun. This will have been about 1978 when I was 13 years old. Kids today probably wouldn't feel the same but for us back then discovering Sabbath was like opening the door into the other side.

I was around 12 when i discovered Black Sabbath. I remember buying magazines like Total Guitar and Guitar Techniques, youd get a cd with it so you could play along etc.. the first one was war pigs on the cd that is and i had to learn it, the next was paranoid . I nailed it, i was well chuffed with myself and now theyre one of my favourite bands of all time.. you tend to respect music more when you see how much effort goes into it. The 70s was the time of awesome metal.. sabbath, zeppelin etc. When folks say rock is dead they dont mean that its actually dead what they mean is is that bands like those will never be seen again, well they will but without so much recognision

Tony really IS the GODFATHER of HEAVY METAL!!! Period! 😎

BRITISH ROCK LEGENDS 🇬🇧🎸🎵

His tone is distinct + perfect riffs. Inventor of metal guitar riffs😊

First concert was Black Sabbath Never Say Die tour with Van Halen opening summer of '78. Still in my top 10 shows i've ever seen.

I could watch hours and hours of this.

Brian can still rock out as he did on Queen 2. So impressive. I say he held back after 76.

Who else wants to see the Black Sabbath ballet?

Into The Void always gives me goosebumps.

Ok. I was 7 in 1971when I was played paranoid (album) and let me tell you the dawn of Heavy metal was not accepted by the music establishment especially by Sabbaths contemporaries . Sabbath was hated by critics and written off by other guitarists. But we the first fans knew something great was happening here. Tony has been my musical idol ever since .. This man will be studied for years to come his influence is so severe on hard rock he really is the Godfather of Heavy Metal Hard Rock. Global Black Sabbath Convention …

Tony makes me proud to be a Brummie.

It's very cool to hear how much their signature tone is actually in their fingers vs any gear!

Awesome great times 🎉❤❤❤😊😊😊

I want to be just like these two guys when Im old 😊

Two of the best and most influential guitarists of all time! And they both seem like such cool guys.

that last riff never heard before is outstanding .. i would like to hear glenn hughes or tony martin singing on it

Grew up with black sabbath as a slightly scary band in the background. Only came to rock music late in my teen years. Loved the heaven and hell album but never been able to get into early stuff. Tony iommi will always be a guitarist i admire especially learning late of how he overcame his accident. his modesty is just so endearing. And he has such a great presence on stage.

I remember listening to their first album when it came out. I loved Black Sabbaths first 4 albums Fairies wear boots! I always thought that they wasted too many riffs in each song - one was enough but they gave them 2 or 3.

That was great and then seeing Brian and Tony together is the Christmas present I never knew I was getting!!!!

Tony and Brian could do this every week and I’d watch!!

Sabbath, and specifically Tony, indeed INVENTED A GENRE. Very, very few musicians in history can claim to have done this. The Beatles didn't, the Stones didn't, even those jazz legends they mention didn't actually invent jazz, as innovative as they were. Tony is the legend's legend.

Now i want to see that Tony Iommi and Brian May Riff LP .. that would be legendary!

To record that album in ONE DAY. My god, top professionals

EXCELLENT Tony Iommi la grande classe , toute ma jeunesse , Black Sabbath je suis plein de nostalgie 🙂🎸

Love you Tony Iommi in a inspirational way. Thank you for being you and creating what was missing in music until you did your thing ..! Thank you for everything you have gave us. ( I was a drummer also turned on to guitar. Like you and Eddie. But you had a much greater influence on me personally, truthfully)

Soundgarden's cover of Into the Void is amazing. We have Tony Iommi and Buzzo to thank for the drop D revolution that was a crucial part of grunge.

I would love to hear a project with these two guys.

The biggest band in the world..... Hello from Greece

Come on Tony …..give us some more music 🤘

Piece of heavy metal history. Amazing. And back then they had imagination...you can even tell from the movies. Wish i could send myself and live back then.

Tony is one of my guitar heroes.

I wrote a lot of words here first, and deleted again, and again. Cant seem to find the right words to describe what Tony Iommi means to us .. its not possible. How I would like to shake this mans hand someday and thank him for all he has done for us who are still enjoying his riffs since we were kids. I´m born in 64. Peace and a happy life to you Mr Tony. Godfather of heavy metal. Your Legacy.

One time I heard good music when I was 2 years old. Ever since I've been playing heavy metal.

I would absolutely love to see Brian May and Tony Iommi record an album together, I reckon it'd rock.