Born Again

Question two goes to our friend Ray.

In 1983, Bill Ward quit Black Sabbath for the second time following the recording of the Born Again album.

For the tour, he was replaced by the drummer of this band.

So it's

Phil Ward looks around and says, what are we doing

here?

He listens to Born Again and says, I can't take it.

I agree.

If your heart's there, if it's real for you and you love the guys you work with, it can last, and you can do it all the way into your old age, and it can be real still, you know?

Dude, I saw Ian Gillan, speaking of Black Sabbath, I saw the Born Again tour.

Wow.

Yeah.

And, and, and, and that, that Born Again record, uh, uh, Ian Gillan for me, man, the Perfect Strangers Deep Purple album, oh, my God.

[laughs]

And the Born Again album.

Those albums, which by the way, somebody found some old clip of Ian Gillan singing on the Born Again, uh, Sabbath tour.

Yeah, that's my favorite Ozzy Sabbath song is Fairies Wear Boots.

My third song, which might surprise some people, but I'm a big Ian Gillan of Deep Purple fan, and I love the Born Again album that he did with Black Sabbath.

So my third song is Trashed, which is the first cut on the Born Again album.

It sounds more like Deep Purple maybe than it does Black Sabbath actually, but that's probably just because Ian

Gillan's a singer.

whatever okay my number four is turn up i guess i should i usually go in reverse order but whatever i skipped it my number four is turn up the night which is also a deal song on i think that's on heaven and hell also or it could be on the mob rules sure i didn't write that down My number five is Black Sabbath song that we talked about on this album.

And number six is Neon Knights, which is another Dio one.

Number seven is Zero the Hero, which is also from the Born Again album with Ian Gillan.

[laughs]

And, um, on this episode, we're gonna be playing songs from the last album before a band breaks up.

Now, when I say that, I don't necessarily mean it's the band's last album ever, because sometimes a band will break up, some years will go by, and then they'll reunite and put out more albums.

So it doesn't have to be final albums, just last album before a breakup, and that could be final or not, you know, in, in any case.

So, um, and yeah, you know, you know, sometimes these bands, like you said with, with Dragon Gate units breaking up for whatever reason, sometimes these bands break up at, with, with a bang and go out strong.

Other times it's with a whimper, and you realize, yeah, it's, it's over for a reason, Mike, you know? [laughs]

[laughs]Oh, oh, oh yeah.

And I think that it's such, like, a interesting kind of thing, e- e- e- especially contrasting this with, like, my wrestling work as of lately, where I feel like I, at least in the year 2026, that being a Dragon Gate reporter is more and more being a gossip monger [laughs] than anything else, with just crazy things kind of happening.

And same with, like I said, power play.

Is Black Sabbath born again? You know, does that fit in the rod of the bone Abominog thing a little bit? I think so.

It promises maybe something more evil than what you get.

It's kind of a typical... playful Ian Gillan set of lyrics.