Rock 50 Preview
Posted on Feb.28, 2011 under Rock 50
H! Everyone.
Our next radio show airs Saturday, March 5,2011. We play the very best of today’s Metal Hardcore bands. This month, we’ll be playing Exodus, Heaven Shall Burn, Arch Enemy, Slipknot, The Dream Is Dead and Hatebreed, as well as many more bands.
In the second hour of the show, in our segment “Great Hard Rock and Metal Bands and Artists,” The Who will be featured. “Baba O’Riley,” “My Generation” and more will prevail.
If you like Metal and Hard Rock, check this show out.
Stay strong,
Bill Ward
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Hi Everybody.
It’s Bill here. First off, I want to thank you all for the support you’ve given me throughout the years. I love to play– whether it’s playing drums in Black Sabbath, making music with my own band or working with other musicians, period. Being able to do what I love for my whole life, pretty much, has been an honour and privilege.
When I started playing in Sabbath, there was an energy of truth about us. We believed in what we were saying, the music we were making and the lives we were living. As time has moved on, I’ve nurtured and tried to save a lot of what I learnt playing in Sabbath. During the more recent years at the Ozzfest concerts, I’ve found myself immersed in the musical rewards of playing in such a unique and devastatingly, powerfully effective Metal band. Sabbath have been, and are, my greatest teachers, and I am forever grateful for the musical journey so far.
Today, I love what’s happening in music. I’ve been given the rare opportunity to play bands I like – Classic and newer Metal – on our Rock 50 radio show. These bands energize me.
I am humbled to know many of you. Music lives and brings and maintains life. Music has always brought me through.
Stay strong, safe and live. Enjoy the site.
Long Live Metal.
--Bill Ward
March 13th, 2011 on 9:12 pm
Love ya Bill! Joe Morello passed away the other day … Saturday March 12, 2011. I know he was an influence of yours, and definitely one of mine. God Bless Him!
I have started studying your methods under the microscope for some time now. Phenomenal! Your era, what you did, is such a piece of gold in rock music history. Thank you!
I’ve learned from lots of artists over the years …. but I gotta say you are the most dynamic. The old recordings are difficult to deconstruct, but I do my best from experience. I wish more people could hear the percussive nuances you accomplish. For example, the original version of The Wizard … I have played it about 500 times in the last few months, dialing it in. You are a blast man!
I am hoping to form a tribute someday that does your style purist justice. There are bands out there covering Black Sabbath and they groove, but I got to amp it up proper if I get it together. You guys – Black Sabbath – grew up listening to blues and jazz and it shines like a star in your methods. I pick it dry like a soup bone, to find every click, every flam, every everything you’ve done on recordings. The intricacies are so over the top …. I don’t think modern drummers hear it, let alone take it to another evolving level as an integration of their own style. Maybe I am wrong there. IN any case, you are great man!
I really been working on it! Really!
Peace Bill! Please live a long long long time man! We love ya!
Marc
June 4th, 2011 on 8:36 pm
Hello Bill~I just got a computer, about a yr. ago, and got on Myspace, FB, BON, so I wasn’t Tweeting…I got on tonight, and wanted to Rock out! What a coincidence…T-Bone Terry, (Back Sabbath Tribute) is kick ass too! I miss the good ole’ days! I love your music..Ttys..;D