![]() Ozzy’s reaction was, ‘What the hell is that?’ I was attempting to get a sound I liked to listen to, but it didn’t fit my playing style.” I remember trying to sound like Chris Squire. “At times I’ve hated my sound, and I’ve tried to dial in whatever sounded modern at the time. “It was by accident! I had a 70-watt Laney guitar amp and a Park 4x12 cabinet with only three speakers in it-and two of them were wrecked, That’s how I got that really distorted sound. ![]() “So many people ask me how I got the bass tone on the first record,” Geezer said in his July 2004 Bass Player cover story. On the band’s early records, the Birmingham bass brawler’s brawny sound came courtesy of a detuned Fender Precision bass played through a stack of semi-blown speakers. If Ozzy Osbourne is worthy of his title as the Godfather of Heavy Metal, Ozzy’s Black Sabbath bandmate Geezer Butler is certainly the Godfather of Heavy Metal Bass. ![]() (Image credit: Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images) ![]()
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