Well, they don't, at least in the case of Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi. The guitar deity has elected to donate his old guitar strings to Wear Your Music, a charity that takes musician-used strings and ...

Black Sabbath founder Tony Iommi has donated his old guitar strings to Wear Your Music, a charity that turns the strings into jewellery. Wear Your Music donated proceeds from its sales to the ...

Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, otherwise known as “the god father of heavy metal,” has just released his first piece of new music since Black Sabbath’s final album, 13 (2013).

Tony Iommi almost launched Black Sabbath's heavy metal crusade with a Fender Stratocaster. Phil Weller. Wed, February 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM UTC. ... “I couldn't use heavy strings anymore.

Tony Iommi spoke with Ryan J. Downey for an exclusive Conversation Series at the Musicians ... The standard gauge strings also proved to be troubling and he then went in pursuit of lighter ...

Then we added the strings. I’d worked with string sections on Sabbath albums before, but this was a whole new experience.” Read this: “It broke down barriers”: Tony Iommi on how Black ...