Geezer Butler
Geezer Butler
Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butleris an English musician and songwriter. Butler is best known as the bassist and primary lyricist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He has also recorded with Heaven & Hell, GZR, and Ozzy Osbourne...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMetal Singer
Date of Birth17 July 1949
boys band poison
If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.
player bass saws
Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.
roots band heavy
To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.
song rehearsal knocking
Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.
son doubt mets
Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.
play guitar want
What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence
uncles aunt night
I'd sort of dabbled in Black Magic, not practicing it, but I was interested in it. All these horrible things kept happening to me - a lot of my aunts and uncles started dying and I was seeing all these bloody things visiting me during the night.
musical frustrated lasts
I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in
trying sound sabbath
I never try and sound like Sabbath
reality deals reality-of-life
I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that.
nice years married
I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me
soccer play watches
I love soccer. That's all I ever watch. I'll watch it all day if I can. But I'm too bloody old to play now.
feelings too-much polish
If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling
bass sabbath
I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started