TONY IOMMI And GLENN HUGHES Talk About 'DEP Sessions' CD: Audio Available

October 6, 2004

BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi's official web site, Iommi.com, has posted an audio interview with Tony and singer Glenn Hughes (ex-DEEP PURPLE, BLACK SABBATH) about the pair's just-released collaborative CD, entitled "The 1996 DEP Sessions". The 10 questions that are answered in the interview are as follows:

01. Why did "The 1996 DEP Sessions" remain unreleased until now?

02. Was this originally intended to be a BLACK SABBATH album?

03. Were you satisfied with the music at the time? How did the songwriting come together?

04. The style of "The 1996 DEP Sessions" is stripped-down, blues-oriented rock. Was this a natural approach given the style of DEEP PURPLE during your (Glenn) tenure and the solo work you were doing around that time, and Tony's early influences and the early days of BLACK SABBATH when it was a blues-based band known as EARTH?

05. You had both stayed in touch personally in the 10 years since the "Seventh Star" album. Had you two done anything musical together in that time, even dabbling in songwriting?

06. "Seventh Star" had a sleek, contemporary sound and feel at the time and has since been re-evaluated by many and referred to as an underrated album. The story about the record company's insistence at billing it as "BLACK SABBATH featuring Tony Iommi" is well known. Did that hurt the album's reception at the time because the name resulted in preconceived notions of what the music would or should be like? How do you look back on that album and compare it to the different musical direction taken on "The 1996 DEP Sessions"?

07. Were there any musical ideas left over from "The 1996 DEP Sessions" that reappeared in some way on the 2000 album "Iommi", which featured a number of special guests?

08. Are there any touring plans — either a full tour, a handful of performances or a one-off performance?

09. Are there plans for you both to record again in the future?

10. Anything you would like to add?

Listen to all the answers in Windows Media format at this location.

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