Former BLACK SABBATH Keyboardist GEOFF NICHOLLS Dies After Battle With Lung Cancer

[recgord27]

What more can one say. RIP Geoff

 

[Vader]

RIP Geoff Nicholls.

Will be playing some Quartz later in his honor.

 

[Speed King]

Was this the guy that did the keyboard parts for Sabbath Bloody Sabbath? Namely "Who Are You"?

 

[Riff Raff]

Was this the guy that did the keyboard parts for Sabbath Bloody Sabbath? Namely "Who Are You"?

Nope

Nicholls, who played keyboards on all of SABBATH's albums between 1980 and 1995 and toured with them, was reportedly in remission from cancer at the time of his death but succumbed to the side effects of chemotherapy.

 

[Vader]

Was this the guy that did the keyboard parts for Sabbath Bloody Sabbath? Namely "Who Are You"?

Rick Wakeman of Yes fame did the keys for Who Are You. Tony and Geezer ran into him at a bar next to the recording studio where they were recording SBS and told him they were having problems with a keyboard part they wanted to do for WAY. Wakeman went back to the studio with and said " What ? Something like this ?" .... to which both Tony & Geezer responded with a very enthusiastic YES.

 

[Speed King]

Rick Wakeman of Yes fame did the keys for Who Are You. Tony and Geezer ran into him at a bar next to the recording studio where they were recording SBS and told him they were having problems with a keyboard part they wanted to do for WAY. Wakeman went back to the studio with and said " What ? Something like this ?" .... to which both Tony & Geezer responded with a very enthusiastic YES.

I always found that song to be really, really creepy.

 

[Vader]

I always found that song to be really, really creepy.

I always thought it was a song about worshipping Lucifer or the Devil or whatever and how he mocks his followers and uses them up.

Creepy cool.

 

[Sweaty]

Yet another rock star gone