Tony Iommi
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label: توني أيومي @ar
label: Τόνι Αϊόμι @el
label: Тоні Айоммі @uk
label: 토니 아이오미 @ko
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label: Tony Iommy @eu
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subject: Category:20th-century English guitarists
subject: Category:British blues rock musicians
subject: Category:Italian British musicians
subject: Category:Heaven & Hell (band) members
subject: Category:English people with disabilities
subject: Category:Musicians from Birmingham, West Midlands
subject: Category:People from Aston
subject: Category:British musicians with disabilities
subject: Category:Jethro Tull (band) members
subject: Category:People of Marchesan descent
subject: Category:Black Sabbath members
subject: Category:English heavy metal guitarists
subject: Category:21st-century Roman Catholics
subject: Category:People from Handsworth, West Midlands
subject: Category:Living people
subject: Category:20th-century Roman Catholics
subject: Category:English Roman Catholics
subject: Category:English people of Italian descent
subject: Category:English lead guitarists
subject: Category:English male songwriters
subject: Category:English rock guitarists
subject: Category:1948 births
subject: Category:English autobiographers
subject: Category:21st-century English guitarists
subject: Category:People of Sicilian descent
subject: Category:Grammy Award winners
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birth name: Anthony Frank Iommi Jr.
birth place: Birmingham
birth date: 1948-02-19
birth year: 1948
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birth date: --02-19
birth place: Birmingham, England
occupation: Musician
occupation: songwriter
source: Tony Iommi
quote: "It was the same with 24-fret necks. I put money into a company because I couldn't get guitars built the way I wanted them. I had to prove it to the manufacturers. So I put money into John Birch guitars, and he built my guitars. I had to prove it worked. All of this was done by experimenting and trial and error. I paid for that myself in the early days to show it could be done. And I paid for all these companies to get the benefits nowadays. Back then they all said it couldn't be done. I also used locking nuts years and years ago without a tremolo, before locking nuts were the norm."
quote: "I also came up with a guitar with interchangeable pickups you could slot in from the back. It was a John Birch guitar. We only sold one, and Roy Orbison bought it. I came up with that years ago and the first one was made for me to use in the studio. At the time I had a lot of problems tuning guitars because of the neck and the light strings on the Gibson. I decided to come up with a guitar that I could use in the studio with different sounds so that I didn't have to keep changing guitars. You could slot a pickup in it and get a Fender sound, then slot a different pickup in it and get a Gibson sound. That was the idea. I did use it for a while, but they were too expensive to mass-produce."
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