Dehumanizer Rehearsals with Cozy Powell, Geezer Butler and Tony Iommi. Tony Iommi tells about it in his biography: When I saw Ronnie again we started talking about doing a line-up. Vinny wasnt playing with him any more at the time and Ronnie went: Ive got a really good drummer, Simon Wright. I went: Well, we are thinking of uisng Cozy. That was a bit awkward because Ronnie and Cozy had played in Rainbow together and didnt really get on that well. Eventually we went with Cozy anyway and started writing for what was to become Dehumanizer. It was a difficult time because we had already rehearsed with Tony Martin, who now had to leave band. It wasnt really fair on him. We had made a few great albums with Tony, but everybody was excited about the idea of getting Ronnie back, certainely the people at the record company and our managements as well. In the way we got the old line-up back, except for the fact that we now had Cozy on drums. But it was just awful. There was real friction between our singer and our drummer. Ronnie wasnt mad abou having Cozy in the band and I remember Cozy going: If that little cunt says anything to me, Im going to smash him in the face! Ronnie went back to LA and so we brought Tony Martin in and rehearsed a bit with him. Ronnie returned once again, replacing Tony; it was just one big mix-up between these rehearsals. Then Cozys horse had a heart attack and fell on him, breaking his hip and knocking him out of action for a long time. If it wasnt such a horrible thing to say, you could call his accident a blessing in disguise. I loved Cozy and he was a great friend, but you have to have the right combination in a band. We already had enough friction going on with everything anyway, so we needed to have something stable. Getting Vinny back was the obvious answer to all our problems. - Tony Iommi - Iron Man, My journey through heaven and hell with Black Sabbath. Pages: 281 to 282 in the British edition or 308 to 309 in the Brazilian edition.
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