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June 30, 2006
Black Sabbath Autographed Drumhead up for Auction!
In addition to the Summer Sale program, Bill is also starting a series of ebay auctions. The first item up for auction at Ebay is an authentic Black Sabbath drumhead autographed by Bill Ward.
This drumhead is a Remo Snare Drumhead played by Bill Ward from 08-06-05 in East Troy, WI and retired after the Cynthia Woods Pavilion concert in Houston, TX on 08-27-05. The drumhead was autographed by Bill Ward on 05-31-06. Here is a picture of the drumhead (click on it for a larger picture):
This auction starts this evening (Fri, June 30th) at 8PM Eastern Time (in the US). Here is a link to the Ebay auction page. Please note it will generate an error until the auction has actually started.
Finally, if you are the winner of this auction, Bill will personalize the drumhead for you!
Posted by Joe Siegler at 3:46 PM
Bill Ward Summer Garage Sale is On!
As Bill mentioned in the latest audio diary a few weeks ago, he's having a Summer Garage Sale. Several new items are now available to order, plus the items that were already in the merchandise page have had their prices dropped. Here's a list of the details:
Existing Item Price Drops
- When the Bough Breaks CD, price dropped from $10 to $5.
- When the Bough Breaks Poster, price dropped from $7 to $4.
- Ward One Poster, price dropped from $7 to $4.
- Straws Charities minimum donation dropped from $35 to $10.
New Items for the Summer Sale
- Snakes & Ladders Radio Promo CD - $5
- When the Bough Breaks "Naked" CD - $5
- Snakes & Ladders T-Shirt (M, L, XL) - $10
- Animals T-Shirt (M, L, XL) - $10
- Hate T-Shirt (M, L, XL) - $10
- Tall Stories T-Shirt (M, L, XL) - $10
Pictures of all of these items are available right now on Bill's Merchandise page, so go check 'em out, and help Bill clean out his garage! Please note however, that orders will not ship until July 10th, so if you place an order right now, that is when they will commence shipping.
Posted by Joe Siegler at 3:22 PM
June 13, 2006
Audio Diary #14 Online!
Bill has sent in the the 14th edition of his Audio Diary series. This new edition, totaling 33:56 in length is available right now. It was recorded on Saturday June 3rd, but due to some technical problems was not placed online until June 13th. Here's some of the highlights of what Bill has to say in this edition:
- Updates on his radio show on what's coming, including some music from LunarMile; the band fronted by Toni-Marie Iommi
- Update on his column for Hails & Horns magazine
- Updates on Beyond Aston, including some track specifics. One is named "Where You Are Is Not Forever". Bill does play drums on one song, that being "Poppies".
- Working on creating Beyond Aston from a technical and drumming aspect as well as going into some heavy detail on drumming issues.
- Bill's attempts at staying fit
- Talks about a summer garage sale he's planning on selling some memorabilia off, and some special items that will be going on ebay. (Details on this will be posted in the next day or so).
- Talks briefly about Straws (which will is also on sale under the garage sale).
There's plenty more to hear as well, so make sure to check it all out. Here's the link to the audio diary:
http://www.billward.com/sounds/diary060306.m4a
(Right click and select "Save As" or "Save Link As" and save the file to your hard drive, don't just click this)
You need one of any number of free audio players (Winamp, iTunes, or Musicmatch Jukebox) to play this file. Don't forget about Bill's Podcast for the diaries, you can get more info on that here.
You can discuss the audio diary in this thread on Bill's forums here on billward.com. A short note, if you have Windows Media player, you may have to rename the file extension from m4a to mp4 to get the file to play right in that player.
Posted by Joe Siegler at 2:40 PM
June 6, 2006
Bill debuts column in Hails & Horns Magazine
Beginning this month, Bill will contribute a regular column, titled "Forte, Please" to new Metal magazine, Hails & Horns. The June 2006 issue is arriving in stores now and can be purchased at major music retail outlets, including Tower, Hot Topic, Borders, Barnes and Noble, Virgin, Newbury Comics, FYE, Strawberries, and Coconuts. Hails & Horns is a quarterly publication with the second issue due in September 2006.
Here is an excerpt from Bill's first column:
From the childhood influences of Rock-n-Roll, Jazz and Blues, to Black Sabbath's embryonic stirrings, past the mayhem of the 70's to the Sgt. Pepper triumph of the 90's, Metallica's "Black Album", and more recently, to the enlightening "Vol.3: The Subliminal Verses" by Slipknot, I have been immersed in music and, in saying that, I feel incredibly humbled and fortunate to still be a part of all of this momentum. My peers, and there are a lot of them, they too are still above ground, devouring the future with broad strokes of loud guitars, critical drumming and risking their very souls in the harshness and joys of life. I say again, I'm fortunate and delighted. I am a fan - a great place to be at 58 - and based on the above, I guess I qualify on some level as a person who could share something about Metal.
I'll begin...
Posted by Joe Siegler at 8:09 AM