“We were only about twenty-two years old, but we were already pretty much veterans,” Ward told me. When Ward was then diagnosed with serum hepatitis, they knew they were in real trouble. I thought: ‘I’m cracking up here,’ you know?” The others weren’t happy but there was nothing I could do.
Until one day I knew I’d had enough – and had to stop. ‘Take these pills, they’ll keep you going.’ It was about keeping going on the road. “It was: ‘Here, have a line of this’ or a smoke of that. “The trouble was in them days it wasn’t: ‘Oh, have a few weeks off until you feel better,’” he said, frowning. “He was very surprised,” Iommi deadpanned. Guitarist Tony Iommi, meanwhile, who had also caught a shark, managed to hurl it through Bill Ward’s hotel room window, where it landed on the hapless drummer’s bed. When he returned several hours later and found the shark dead, he began disemboweling it with a knife, leaving blood and fish entrails all over the walls. Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne took the shark he caught and hauled it into his bathtub, filled it with water, then forgot about it and left for the gig. The Edgewater was also scene of the now infamous Led Zeppelin ‘mud shark’ episode, where a willing groupie reputedly agreed to be tied-up and pleasured with a fish for the amusement of various wasted band members and roadies.Įvery band that stayed there since wanted their own shark adventure. Now they were at the Edgewater Inn in Seattle – famous for being built on stilts by the water’s edge, making it an ideal spot for fishing from your hotel room window. A hundred shows into an eight-month tour, four nights earlier they had watched Joe Frazier become the first man to beat Muhammed Ali in a boxing ring.
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