- Born
- Birth nameTerence Butler
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Geezer Butler was born on July 17, 1949 in Birmingham, England, UK. He is an actor and composer, known for Iron Man (2008), Blue Beetle (2023) and Gran Turismo (2023). He is married to Gloria Butler.
- SpouseGloria Butler(? - present)
- Melodic playing and innovative down-tuning of his bass
- Lakland basses
- Is often credited as Black Sabbath's principal songwriter.
- Was Black Sabbath's main lyricist throughout the 1970s.
- Bassist for the legendary heavy metal band, Black Sabbath.
- He occasionally played bass for former Black Sabbath bandmate, Ozzy Osbourne, during Ozzy's solo career; appears on the live album, "Just Say Ozzy" (1990), and on Ozzy's 1995 album, "Ozzmosis".
- Originally played guitar but, when Black Sabbath formed, they needed a bass player, so he switched to bass.
- [on the issue of a new 'Black Sabbath' recording, 2013] It's like the old saying - you do what you know best. You sort of forget all the keyboard bits and all the multi-instruments and just get back to the basics, like on the first three or four albums, and just keep that live feel. We had the sort of philosophy that if it wasn't done in four takes, then forget it.
- [Jack Bruce] was my god. Like Jack, I used to shadow the riff with me bass, which is what gave Sabbath that heavier sound.
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