Black Sabbath influenced by Django!

gypsyjazzer

I saw this piece in this month's edition of the UK guitar magazine "Guitar Buyer", on the influence of Django on Black Sabbath's guitarist Tony Iommi.

It describes how Django acted both as an inspiration following Iommi's accident at work, and influenced the development of his improvisational style.

I've never met him, but a gypsy jazz playing friend of mine who lives in Birmingham knows Tony, although he's never mentioned the Django influence before.

Stu

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i think you can hear a lot more of django in van halen's playing.

Stackabones

Wow!

The first time I ever read about Django was in a interview with Peter Frampton!

jmcgann

Frampton, Steve Howe...the English rock guys of the 70's mentioned Django quite a bit, which is what led me to seek out his recordings- my first was the budget reissue (GNP Crescendo) of the '38 stuff with Honeysuckle Rose, etc. and I was instantly hooked...

...discovered Charlie Christian, Tal Farlow and Wes from following the Rock Guitar Trail as well!

nwilkins

the Django-Iommi story is pretty well known and has been around for a while. It's been mentinoed in every mini-bio of Iommi's I've ever read, and I've also come across it in a number of Django bios.

EmmettRay

It was through Tony Iommi that I 1st heard of Django. He mentioned him in an early 90s Guitar World issue...

the influence isn't in the music as it was in finding the courage to continue playing after suffering injury to his finger tips! (Iommi lost 2 fingertips at age 18 in a factory accident)