The Black Sabbath Reunion Tour is progressing. Bill’s not having any problems at all health wise on the tour, and is enjoying the tour immensely. Thanks to all that have seen Bill so far, your enthusiasm for his return to the drumkit in Black Sabbath means the world to him.

For the latest tour reports, please visit Joe Siegler’s Black Sabbath site at http://www.black-sabbath.com for all kinds of tour reports, phots, and other things.

Vinny Appice: Also along on the Black Sabbath tour is Vinny Appice. Vinny is not playing, he’s been brought along by Sabbath management just in case something (god forbid) would happen to Bill again. Vinny has several tour photos online at his web site. Make sure and check them out at his site! The shot of Bill here was one taken by Vinny Appice backstage at the Minneapolis, MN Black Sabbath show on January 17, 1999.

To commemorate the first album released by the original lineup of Black Sabbath in twenty years, the band is on a short multi-city in store record signing tour. Bill Ward (shown here to the right sporting his new buzz cut) is along with Tony, Geezer, & Ozzy signing copies of Reunion. Here is a listing of the cities he is at (contact the record store in your local city for more info):

• Oct. 19 – Virgin Megastore (Times Square), New York, N.Y. (midnight to 3 a.m.)
• Oct. 20 – The Wall (Neshaminy Mall), Philadelphia, Pa. (4 to 8 p.m.)
• Oct. 21 – Tower (Newbury Street), Boston, Mass. (4 to 8 p.m.)
• Oct. 22 – Camelot (Mentor Mall), Cleveland, Ohio (4 to 8 p.m.)
• Oct. 24 – Tower (Downtown), Chicago, Ill. (2 to 6 p.m.)
• Oct. 25 – Tower (Sunset), Los Angeles, Calif. (7 to 10 p.m.)
• Oct. 27 – Blockbuster (Plano), Irving, Texas (4 to 8 p.m.)
• Oct. 28 – Musicland, Minneapolis, Minn. (5 to 8:30 p.m.)

If you are interested in purchasing a copy of the new Black Sabbath album, which is the first official live album by the original Black Sabbath, as well as the first new studio recordings by the original lineup in 20 years, you can click here to order it from CD-Now!

Bill is also scheduled to go out on tour with the guys in support of Reunion. The tour is going to start on December 31st, 1998 in Phoenix Arizona at the Bank One Ballpark. More tour dates will be added here once they are officially released by Black Sabbath.

On December 8th, Bill Ward returned to Los Angeles, Ca, after playing two concerts with Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Ozzy Osbourne, at the National Exhibition Centre near Birmingham, England, 4th and 5th of December.

Bill enjoyed playing the concerts and was happy to be a part of the Sabbath shows.

The question of a new album and some tour dates in 98 seems now to be the question everyone is asking.

Bill Ward doesn’t know if he would be included in either of those plans if they were to happen. Bill, however, is saying he’d be willing to have an open mind if an opportunity to play with Sabbath came again.