IRON MAN

 - My Journey Through Heaven & Hell W/ Black Sabbath
By: Tony Iommi

with: T.J. Jammers

DA Capo Press

Through his birthplace in Birmingham, UK to restless nights and booked solid flights throughout his geographical music career, Tony Iommi takes us on a trip of a lifetime; His very own astral-traveling  trip. With his father and Italian mother relocating in England to prosper and provide an upbringing for him, Tony's prevailing story of life's hard and earned guitar lessons started Feb. 19th, Nineteen hundred and forty eight, and continues 369 pages up until now, while we are honored to still have his presence available and well-acknowledged along modern day, Heavy Metal's descending dateline.  From up and down his cross-country, 4-star hotel balconies and walls, to backseats of Rolls Royces and fast cars, Iommi zips us through his roller coaster, R N'R career, safely, vitally, and with an impact that will motivate even the slowest, deadlock of lanes and wall-crashed metal collision victims. This book alone could be desribed as a fastpace, inspirational tutorial to tackle any tramatic experience or failed endeavor as an aspiring, artistic musician may have their ownself from time to timeline. Many, in fact, almost all within the heavy rock richter scales, claim without him, Heavy Metal wouldn't have been molded, but from this complexed, cynical skeptic's input, one learns he is every bit subjective as intellectual while crediting Geezer as the brains of Black Sabbath's lyricography instances, and no affiliation with withcraft, at least that he wont jokingly admit to. Now embracing the age of retirement with grace and satire, Iommi reflects on the pranks, plots, plans, flops, rewards and acheivements of playing since the Mid Sixties to founding  International,-chart-topping British acts, such as, Black Sabbath originally named, Earth that went forth to claim worldwide fame. The journey through the heaven and hell of the record-making processes gives an in-depth standpoint view, of how much the lead guitarists has endured to hold the strands of the hand of Doom while alcoholism, attention deficit disorders and drug addictions tore his band apart on more than several occasions. Follow along on the earlier Sabbath material and work your way up through entertaining, comical chapters; 90 Chatpers to be exact. In the end, we appreciate all his success for the struggles and genuine essence of the man who is unafraid to face in front of any size of an audience. I can hardly count chuckles and chills this book brought me from the time I picked it up, to the time I couldnt put it down. "Riffmaster", icon, legend, leader, band mate, and unacquitted arsonist, Iommi acknowledges every past and present band member along with or without him every inch of each page, as if his enire intentions for writing this wasnt of self, but what he has been about his entire existence; music.