daniel wrote:"Too good for Sabbath", never said anything ridiculous like that did he...
Too good, not good enough, as good as usual, who cares. How old are you, twelve?
ION BRITTON wrote:The way Prowler wrote it implied that Iommi's contribution to the music was so little that even if he didn't write anything the result would more or less sound the same as it actually does now. He even implied that Iommi paid someone else to compose the whole thing.
I'm sorry but it sounds like you're making this up. Or jumping to conclusions too fast perhaps? What you're describing has little to no bearing on what he actually wrote.
To me it sounded like he was under the not so uncommon assumption that Tony Iommi was the sole supreme composer in Black Sabbath at least since Geezer left, which may not be that far fetched since he was the only original member, and with how Tyr sounded compared to other works he found it hard to believe Iommi wrote it alone (his exact words). Which is true, Iommi didn't
write it alone.
In fact Tyr is a perfect example to bring up this issue. The album is more of a band team effort than any other album since Geezer left. Bear in mind it was the first time since Mob Rules that the same lineup (save Murray) did two albums in a row (Mob Rules was except Appice). The five of them created Tyr from scratch, nobody was replaced along the way and nobody came in late.
How much of the music Iommi created is not really the question at hand and to know a rough percentage we would have had to be present in their rehearsal room and studio. From what members have told about the writing sessions for this and other Sabbath projects we can safely assume he came up with most, possibly all, guitar riffs, but certainly no lyrics and almost certainly no vocal melodies.
