Black Sabbath Fade To Black Part 21
Scott Ian
“I’ve been flipping out. It’s hard to believe it’s real”
Scott Ian on stage with Anthrax at the 2005 Download Festival in the U.K.
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CONSIDERING THAT THEY’RE old pals, Scott Ian wasn’t surprised to get a random text from Tom Morello. The surprising part was the text’s content: “Do you want to come jam a Sabbath song at the final Black Sabbath show in Birmingham on July 5?” Obviously, Ian — a lifelong Sabbath devotee — was in. Soon the rest of Anthrax was in too. “It’s mind-blowing,” Ian says. “I’ve been flipping out. It’s hard to believe it’s real. It’s not hard for me to think back to my childhood discovering them — and the earliest days of Anthrax. We were a bunch of kids in Queens [New York], doing our best to emulate the bands we loved, thinking, ‘Could you imagine if we ever got to do this?’”