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Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has reflected on writing a song with Eddie Van Halen for the band’s 1994 album Cross Purposes. Van Halen contributed to composing the track “Evil Eye,” but his label, Warner Bros., prevented him from getting a writer’s credit on the record. According to Guitar.com, Iommi remembers in a new video, “[Eddie Van Halen] had a day off, and I said, ‘We’re rehearsing, do you want to come?” Eddies response simply came down to two words, ‘‘Oh yeah,’’ and that’s what he did. The two had a series of conversations, eventually ending with a conversation on who correctly played it. “I picked him up in Birmingham, at the hotel, and then we drove via a music shop, and I said, ‘Do you want to pick a guitar up’, and we did – one of his Eddie Van Halen ones, they had got one in. Then we went down to the rehearsal.”
“I said, ‘We’re working on this song,’” he continues, “and we started playing it. He started playing a solo.
“We played a couple of old Sabbath songs first, and I said, ‘You’re playing that wrong’ [laughs]. ’Cause they used to play Sabbath stuff, before they [Van Halen] were known. It was Into The Void or something, I can’t remember.
In the coming time, Iommi, joined by former Black Sabbath singer Tony Martin, did the video interview to promote the new box set Anno Domini. Martin was the frontman for Sabbath from 1987 to 1990, but he was dismissed to make way for the return of former vocalist Ronnie James Dio. Martin rejoined the band from 1992 to 1997. Still, he was removed once more to allow Iommi to reunite the original Sabbath lineup, which included vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, bassist Geezer Butler, and drummer Bill Ward.
