guitarist Tony Iommi has reflected on writing a song with Eddie Van Halen for the band’s 1994 album . Van Halen helped compose the track but was blocked from receiving a writer’s credit on the record by his label, Warner Bros. “[Eddie Van Halen] had a day off, and I said, ‘We’re rehearsing, do you want to come?’,” Iommi remembers in a new video interview (transcribed by ).

“He said, ‘Oh yeah,’ and that’s what he’d done, really. “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 or something, I can’t remember. Sign up below to get the latest from Metal Hammer, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! “But anyway, that’s the sort of relationship we had.

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