These were my childhood friends growing up, we had a lot of good times and played downstairs at Jack's house as a makeshift studio/practice hall. I just found out today that Jerry (the bass player) passed away Dec 12. Crying my eyes out, they were more family to me then my own family
Stuff like this makes you realize that the friends you make in life you need to cherish and stay in contact with because they can be gone tomorrow. He was only 52 QUOTE]
Wow, I'm so sorry Ron. You must have a lot of great memories with them. Nice tight sound in that jam!
Yeah, those vids are 5 years old. The band never got off the ground and yet was compared favorably as one of the best Black Sabbath cover bands never to make it. Just a lot of shit went down, the singer you see in that vid replaced the original singer who was more interested in drugs more then singing and practicing. The rest of the guys were straight, maybe smoked a bone or drank a beer occasionally at most. Jack is a real family guy, Jerry never got married, he loved music too much. The other guitar player who took my spot in the vids is a good dude. Somewhere on youtube is the original lineup with me playing lead guitar. I could not make the almost 3hr one way commute 4 times a week up there for practice so I did not want to hold anyone back and it still ended up not working out. When it came to Sabbath, everything was nailed perfect, we took pride in paying tribute to Sabbath