{"id":38601,"date":"2025-07-02T19:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T19:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/gnr-rehearse-black-sabbath-cover-days-before-ozzys-farewell\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T19:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T19:12:07","slug":"gnr-rehearse-black-sabbath-cover-days-before-ozzys-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/gnr-rehearse-black-sabbath-cover-days-before-ozzys-farewell\/","title":{"rendered":"GN&#8217;R Rehearse Black Sabbath Cover Days Before Ozzy&#8217;s Farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/guns-n-roses\/\">Guns N&#8217; Roses<\/a> are getting into spirit of <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/black-sabbath\/\">Black Sabbath<\/a>&#8216;s upcoming &#8220;Back to the Beginning&#8221; show, reportedly sound checking a song by the metal giants ahead of their own show in Norway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/axl-rose\/\">Axl Rose<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/slash\">Slash<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/duff-mckagan\">Duff McKagan<\/a> and Co. will take the stage on Wednesday at the Dahls Arena in Trondheim.\u00a0SFP Magazine reported on Facebook that Guns N&#8217; Roses ran through the Sabbath classic &#8220;Sabbath Bloody Sabbath&#8221;\u00a0ahead of the show.<\/p>\n<p>No audio or video of the rehearsal has emerged at the time of this writing. You can see SFP Magazine&#8217;s post below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong><b>\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/black-sabbath-final-show-who-covers-what-songs\/?utm_source=tsmclip&amp;utm_medium=referral\">Who Will Cover Which Black Sabbath Songs at Their Farewell Show?<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Guns N&#8217; Roses Part of Star-Studded &#8216;Back to the Beginning&#8217; Show<\/h3>\n<p>Guns N&#8217; Roses will take part in the Back to the Beginning show this Saturday at Villa Park in Black Sabbath&#8217;s hometown of Birmingham, England. The all-day, star-studded event will feature other rock and metal titans such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/metallica\/\">Metallica<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/slayer\/\">Slayer<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/pantera\/\">Pantera<\/a>, Gojira, Halestorm,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/alice-in-chains\/\">Alice in Chains<\/a>, Lamb of God,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/anthrax\">Anthrax<\/a>\u00a0and Mastodon.<\/p>\n<p>The Back to the Beginning concert will double as <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/ozzy-osbourne\/\">Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>&#8216;s final bow and a reunion of Black Sabbath&#8217;s original lineup, comprising Osbourne, guitarist <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/tony-iommi\">Tony Iommi<\/a>, drummer <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/bill-ward\">Bill Ward<\/a> and bassist <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/geezer-butler\">Geezer Butler<\/a>. Ward last played with Black Sabbath in 2005, and he did not participate in the band&#8217;s 2013 reunion album\u00a0<em>13<\/em> or the ensuing tour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s doing great. He&#8217;s doing really great,&#8221;\u00a0Sharon Osbourne <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/black-sabbath-reunion-ozzy-full-stop\/\">told the BBC<\/a> when the show was announced earlier this year. &#8220;Ozzy didn&#8217;t have a chance to say goodbye to his friends, to his fans, and he feels there&#8217;s no been no full stop. This is his full stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Back to the Beginning concert will be available to watch via <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/black-sabbath-farewell-show-streaming\/\">livestream<\/a>. It begins at 3 p.m. BST on July 5, and those who purchase the livestream will have exclusive access to the entire concert for an additional 48 hours.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photogallery-wrapper blog-photogallery \">\n<h2 class=\"photogallery-title\">Black Sabbath Albums Ranked  <\/h2>\n<div class=\"photogallery-description\">\n<p>From Ozzy to Dio and beyond, we look at all of the band&#8217;s studio LPs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Eduardo Rivadavia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/rest\/carbon\/api\/scripts.js?mver=159&#038;gver=6&#038;bid=295&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fbtloader.com%2Ftag%3Fo%3D5642230212591616%26upapi%3Dtrue&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.p-n.io%2Fpushly-sdk.min.js%3Fdomain_key%3DmxuuNIMSzp6MHphJEoAGlLFQ3qmwQguzkGZl&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Ftownsquare.media%2Fpublic%2Fresources%2Fjs%2Fpubcid.min.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fplatform.twitter.com%2Fwidgets.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fapis.google.com%2Fjs%2Fplatform.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.facebook.net%2Fen_US%2Fsdk.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.pinterest.com%2Fjs%2Fpinit.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer data-osano=\"ESSENTIAL\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/guns-n-roses-black-sabbath-cover\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guns N&#8217; Roses are getting into spirit of Black Sabbath&#8216;s upcoming &#8220;Back to the Beginning&#8221; show, reportedly sound checking a song by the metal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rock","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}