TONY IOMMI, IAN GILLAN To Collaborate
On New Music
Legendary heavy metal guitarist Tony Iommi
(BLACK SABBATH, HEAVEN &
HELL) has revealed to U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine that he will collaborate
on new music with his former SABBATH bandmate,
singer Ian Gillan (DEEP PURPLE).
Iommi tells the magazine, "Ian
was at [my place] a few weeks back, and we put a couple of tracks
down, just to try and raise some money for Armenia.
"We raised some money 20 years ago and we wanted to do it again, to
be able to buy stuff.
"We went over a few months ago because they gave us an Order Of
Honor from the president and so Ian and I went over and Pat
Cash came. They showed us what the money had bought. They
showed us this old music school; it was freezing and the kids had
no instruments so we bought them some new instruments — drums and
guitars — and we want to build a new school for the kids.
"We're going to do a few songs and, hopefully, we can raise the
money to afford to buy them a new school.
"The plans are quite open at the moment.
"We've talked about doing a couple of shows out there, but it's
about working round what we are both doing — because we
[HEAVEN & HELL] hope touring will start again
soon."
In October 2009, Gillan and Iommi
were awarded the Orders Of Honor — which were delivered to them by
Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan — for
the Armenia Grateful To Rock program (see video
below). The objective of the program, was to express gratitude to
those musicians who 20 years ago participated in the Rock
Aid Armenia.
In 1989, within the framework of Rock Aid Armenia,
the British rock stars recorded DEEP PURPLE's
classic "Smoke On The Water" and also released a
disc called "Rock Aid Armenia".