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He quickly came back to Earth.“I learned quite a lot from [Anderson], I must say,” Iommi said. I was the only one at the time that could drive. I used to go and pick them up. Please refresh the page and try again.©Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury,BathBA1 1UA. We’re always rocking online, keep stopping by to listen online, and learn about our current promotions. Jethro Tull – Ian was the one who said how it goes. “He said, ‘Don’t go, don’t go.’ I said, ‘I can’t do it - there’s all these other guitar players.’ He said, ‘Sit in the cafe, and when they’re all gone, I’ll come and get you.’ So that’s what we did. You have to rehearse. Could you do it?’ I said, ‘Yes, I’d do that.’”He eventually accepted an invitation from Tull’s management to attend a tryout in London. He eventually accepted an invitation from Tull’s management to attend a tryout in London. We were just mutually exploring the possibility of doing something together. I’d start playing something and everybody going, ‘Oh, I like that.’“And then we’d build the song up from there. “I learned that you have got to work at it. And then they offered me the job.”Iommi described the situation as “good and bad” because he “felt really sad” for the hopefuls who weren't given the position. Before Black Sabbath began to refine the distinctive sound that would make them famous, Tony Iommi spent two weeks as a member of Jethro Tull – but even that brief tenure almost didn’t happen. He was the band's primary composer and sole continual member for nearly five decades. Even if you’re not a fan of early “heavy metal”, you’ve probably familiar with … I used to have to drive the bloody van and get them up at quarter to nine every morning; which was, believe me, early for us then. He was lead guitarist and one of the four founding members of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath. By the end of 1968, Jethro Tull‘s Ian Anderson was going through conflicts with his then blues guitarist Mick Abrahams. The River broadcasts in Beckley, Fayetteville, & Lewisburg and the surrounding area. What if Tony Iommi had stayed in Jethro Tull? Read what he said at Whitley Bay Film Festival: “We weren’t [called] Sabbath [yet], we were called Earth. Tony Iommi’s Brief Stint In Jethro Tull & How It Changed Black Sabbath Tony Iommi is best known as the guitarist of English rock band Black Sabbath, whose greatest hits include “Paranoid”, “Iron Man” and “War Pigs”. Tony Iommi remembers the moment when he had to decide between his then-new group Black Sabbath and taking over as guitarist in Jethro Tull. “I went, ‘Oh God, what’s going on?’ Because I thought it was just me. He didn't have the time to record anything with Tull. I got really nervous and walked out.” But someone from Anderson’s team followed him out. "I kept saying to him, ‘I don’t feel comfortable about it.’ When I told them, ‘It’s not for me,’ they said, ‘We’ve got this movie and we can’t get anybody else quickly enough. “When I went down to play with them, I took Geezer with me,\" he recalled. And off we went for lunch, and I went and sat with Ian.“But it just didn’t feel right to me. Because I’ve been with Jethro Tull, they knew I had that offer and turned it down.”“And we realized then that we need to do something that is different to what a lot of other people were doing. news rock hard jethro tull tony iommi Guitar International's Robert Cavuoto has issued an interview conducted with JETHRO TULL leader Ian Anderson. What if Tony Iommi had stayed in Jethro Tull?In the bottom video, you can hear more of Iommi’s comments about his brief time with Jethro Tull.