Former Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward turns 72 today. The song “War Pigs” came out of a an on stage jam. The band came up with the anti-war anthem’s riffs during onstage jam to a sparse audience. The song became one of their most well known. Guitarist Tony Iommi explains how it happened.
“We used to play a lot of places in Europe seven three-quarter hour spots a day, which was a lot of work every night of the week for however long you were there. And it was so boring, ’cause you’d have like two people in in the
